Usage / Role
17%
Rotational offensive role
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Player Dossier
2022-2025Marshall
Toby Payne
TE • 6'4" • 232 lbs • Poca, WV, USA
Reliable chain-moverPossession profile
Toby Payne reads as a reliable chain-mover based on recent role and receiving efficiency.
Impact Production
41
Developing production for a tight end
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Reliability
28
Sporadic game-to-game production
lowhigh
Star Power
57
Useful peak profile
limitedstar
Career Arc
Value trend by season
Best season by Season Value: 2025 Regular Season · Marshall
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Snapshot
- Career Teams
- 1
- Unique Seasons
- 4
- Program Path
- Marshall
- Peak Game
- Peak game by takeover score: Georgia State
Player Story
Toby Payne built his college career from 2022 through 2025 as a tight end from Poca, WV wearing No. 81, spending time with Marshall. The clearest part of Toby Payne's career was his receiving role: 55 catches, 582...
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- Committed To
- Marshall
- Commit Date
- Jan 1, 2021
Toby Payne, TE. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2025 Regular Season · Marshall. Toby Payne reads as a reliable chain-mover based on recent role and receiving efficiency.
Stat Footprint
Career production snapshot
- Receiving yards
- 582
- Receptions
- 55
- Touchdowns
- 10
Quick Answers
Toby Payne quick answers
- Latest team and position
- Marshall · TE
- Career Receiving Yards
- 582
- Tracked sample
- 4 unique seasons · 4 entries · 23 games
- Best season
- 2025 Regular Season · Marshall
- Top game
- Georgia State
- Recruit profile
- 2-star · Poca · Marshall
- High school pipeline
- Centennial · 59 FBS recruits · 3 drafted players
- Latest roster
- No. 81 · Junior
- 2025 Receiving yards rank
- 387 receiving yards · TE 42nd (top 9%) · Sun Belt 34th (top 17%) · National 344th (top 16%)
Season Ledger
Crawlable season-by-season stats
| Season | Team | Games | Rec | Rec Yds | TD | Overall |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 Regular Season | Marshall | 2 | 2 | 27 | 1 | 43.2 |
| 2023 Regular Season | Marshall | 0 | - | 0 | 0 | - |
| 2024 Regular Season | Marshall | 10 | 17 | 168 | 6 | 43.8 |
| 2025 Regular Season | Marshall | 11 | 36 | 387 | 3 | 68.9 |
Related Context
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Toby Payne played TE for Marshall. Across 4 tracked seasons, Toby Payne recorded 582 receiving yards, 1 tackles, and 10 touchdowns. His top tracked season came in 2025 with Marshall.
Player insights
Lead takeaway
Best season by value score: 2025 Regular Season
Marshall paired 387 primary output with 62.9 efficiency.
Supporting note
2025 Regular Season role shape
target-driven usage with 62.9 efficiency.
Supporting note
Career value is trending up
2025 Regular Season improved on the prior stop by season value score.
Supporting note
Peak game by takeover score: Georgia State
Win with an explosive receiving profile. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.
Analysis workspace
Season Workbench
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Season Explorer
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2025 Regular Season · Marshall
Games
11
Receiving Yards / G
35.2
Efficiency
62.9
Usage
17.7
Consistency
53.6
Best Game by takeover score
Georgia State
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Game-by-Game Trend
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Chronological game order.
Game by game trend chart. Missouri State: 43. Eastern Kentucky: 18. Middle Tennessee: 46. Louisiana: 29. Old Dominion: 31. Texas State: 46. Coastal Carolina: 26. James Madison: 14. Georgia State: 110. App State: 18. Georgia Southern: 6
Volume vs Efficiency
Each dot is a game. Farther right means the player carried more of the workload, and higher means they were more efficient with those chances.
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Volume on the x-axis, quality on the y-axis.
Volume versus efficiency scatter chart. Missouri State: 4 by 71.7. Eastern Kentucky: 1 by 100. Middle Tennessee: 4 by 76.7. Louisiana: 3 by 64.4. Old Dominion: 3 by 68.9. Texas State: 5 by 61.3. Coastal Carolina: 3 by 57.8. James Madison: 3 by 31.1. Georgia State: 5 by 100. App State: 3 by 40. Georgia Southern: 2 by 20
Split Comparison
Compare how this player performed across different situations. "Games" shows how many matchups are included in each split.
Wins50.2 · Games = 5 · +27.5 vs Losses
Losses22.7 · Games = 6 · -27.5 vs Wins
Game Log
Dense stat lines with inline explanations and season-linked highlights.
11 games
Featured metric
Receiving Yards
Top game by takeover score
Georgia State
Best efficiency game
100 vs Georgia State
| Result | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sat 11/29 | vs Georgia Southern | L 19-24 | — | 2 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| Sat 11/22 | @ App State | L 24-26 | — | 3 | 18 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 9 |
| Sat 11/15 | @ Georgia State100 receiving yards | W 30-18 | — | 5 | 110 | 22 | 22 | 1 | 48 |
| Sat 11/8 | vs James Madison | L 23-35 | — | 3 | 14 | 4.7 | 4.70 | 0 | 8 |
| Thu 10/30 | @ Coastal Carolina | L 27-44 | — | 3 | 26 | 8.7 | 8.70 | 0 | 15 |
| Sat 10/18 | vs Texas State | W 40-37 | — | 5 | 46 | 9.2 | 9.20 | 0 | 16 |
| Sat 10/11 | vs Old Dominion | W 48-24 | — | 3 | 31 | 10.3 | 10.30 | 0 | 21 |
| Sun 9/28 | @ Louisiana | L 51-54 | — | 3 | 29 | 9.7 | 9.70 | 0 | 14 |
| Sat 9/20 | @ Middle Tennessee2+ TD | W 42-28 | — | 4 | 46 | 11.5 | 11.50 | 2 | 20 |
| Sat 9/13 | vs Eastern Kentucky | W 38-7 | — | 1 | 18 | 18 | 18 | 0 | 18 |
| Sat 9/6 | vs Missouri State | L 20-21 | — | 4 | 43 | 8.6 | 10.80 | 0 | 26 |
Player Story
Toby Payne story
Toby Payne built his college career from 2022 through 2025 as a tight end from Poca, WV wearing No. 81, spending time with Marshall. The clearest part of Toby Payne's career was his receiving role: 55 catches, 582 receiving yards, and 10 touchdowns across 23 career games in the available record. His largest box-score season came in 2025 with Marshall. Those numbers show where he fit, how often the ball or action found him, and how his role developed over time.
The value of the career arc is that it connects production to role, not just a name on a roster. His career also includes 1 tackle, giving the story more than a single-category snapshot. With 23 career games in the available record, his career has enough shape to show both opportunity and production across Marshall.
The arc is straightforward: Toby Payne moved through the depth chart, found a larger role, and turned that opportunity into production that can be understood through standard football numbers.
Career Arc
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Marshall
2022-2025
Opening stop
Season Value Progression
2022202320242025
| Season | Team | Primary | Efficiency | Usage | Delta |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 Regular Season | Marshall | 27 | 90 | 7.7 | — |
| 2023 Regular Season | Marshall | 0 | — | — | -27 |
| 2024 Regular Season | Marshall | 168 | 52.4 | 11.6 | 168 |
| 2025 Regular Season | Marshall | 387 | 62.9 | 17.7 | 219 |
Signature Performances
Top Games
#1 Featured game
vs Georgia State
Week 8 · W 35-20 · Conference game
Win with an explosive receiving profile.
53
Receiving Yards
96.1 takeover
53 receiving yards with a 88.3 efficiency score.
#2
@ No. 133 Georgia State
Week 12 · W 30-18 · Conference game
110
Receiving Yards
91.9 takeover
Win with an explosive receiving profile.
110 receiving yards with a 100 efficiency score.
#3
vs Norfolk State
Week 1 · W 55-3
27
Receiving Yards
71.9 takeover
Win with an explosive receiving profile.
27 receiving yards with a 90 efficiency score.
#4
vs No. 108 Missouri State
Week 2 · L 20-21
43
Receiving Yards
70.3 takeover
Loss with an explosive receiving profile.
43 receiving yards with a 71.7 efficiency score.
#5
@ Southern Miss
Week 11 · W 37-3 · Conference game
34
Receiving Yards
68.6 takeover
Win with an explosive receiving profile.
34 receiving yards with a 100 efficiency score.
Top Seasons
#1 Season by Season Value
2025 Regular Season · Marshall
387 primary output · 62.9 efficiency · 17.7 usage
68.9
#2
2024 Regular Season · Marshall
43.8
168 primary · 52.4 efficiency · 11.6 usage
#3
2022 Regular Season · Marshall
43.2
27 primary · 90 efficiency · 7.7 usage
Milestones
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100+ receiving yards
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8+ catch outings
2
2+ TD games
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