Player Dossier

2024-2025

Northern Illinois

Rickey Taylor Jr.

WR • 6'1" • 180 lbs • Chicago, IL, USA

Alpha targetExplosive finisher

Rickey Taylor Jr. reads as a alpha target based on recent role and receiving efficiency.

Usage / Role

5%

Rotational offensive role

lowfeatured

Impact Production

48

Developing production for a receiver

lowelite

Reliability

54

Useful contributor with volatile peaks

lowhigh

Star Power

44

Limited ceiling signals so far

limitedstar

Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by Season Value: 2024 Regular Season · Northern Illinois

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Snapshot

Career Teams
1
Unique Seasons
2
Program Path
Northern Illinois
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: Toledo

Rickey Taylor Jr., WR. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2024 Regular Season · Northern Illinois. Rickey Taylor Jr. reads as a alpha target based on recent role and receiving efficiency.

Stat Footprint

Career production snapshot

Receiving yards
134
Receptions
9
Touchdowns
1

Quick Answers

Rickey Taylor Jr. quick answers

Latest team and position
Northern Illinois · WR
Career Receiving Yards
134
Tracked sample
2 unique seasons · 2 entries · 4 games
Best season
2024 Regular Season · Northern Illinois
Top game
Toledo
Latest roster
No. 3 · Freshman
2025 Receiving yards rank
134 receiving yards · WR 561st (top 52%) · Mid-American 70th (top 37%) · National 837th (top 39%)

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesRecRec YdsTDOverall
2024 Regular SeasonNorthern Illinois1-00100
2025 Regular SeasonNorthern Illinois39134186.6

Related Context

Rickey Taylor Jr. played WR for Northern Illinois. Across 2 tracked seasons, Rickey Taylor Jr. recorded 134 receiving yards, 1 tackles, and 1 touchdowns. His top tracked season came in 2025 with Northern Illinois.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2024 Regular Season

Northern Illinois paired 0 primary output with — efficiency.

Supporting note

2025 Regular Season role shape

target-driven usage with 75.6 efficiency.

Supporting note

Career value cooled off

2025 Regular Season fell back from the prior stop by season value score.

Supporting note

Peak game by takeover score: Toledo

Loss with an explosive receiving profile. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.

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Season Explorer

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2025 Regular Season · Northern Illinois

Games

3

Receiving Yards / G

44.7

Efficiency

75.6

Usage

42.4

Consistency

71

Best Game by takeover score

Toledo

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Game-by-Game Trend

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123

Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. Toledo: 69. Massachusetts: 12. Western Michigan: 53

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. Toledo: 3 by 100. Massachusetts: 3 by 26.7. Western Michigan: 3 by 100

Split Comparison

Compare how this player performed across different situations. "Games" shows how many matchups are included in each split.

Wins12 · Games = 1 · -49 vs Losses
Losses61 · Games = 2 · +49 vs Wins

Game Log

Dense stat lines with inline explanations and season-linked highlights.

3 games

Featured metric

Receiving Yards

Top game by takeover score

Toledo

Best efficiency game

100 vs Western Michigan

Result
Wed 11/19vs Western MichiganL 19-3535317.717.70121
Thu 11/13@ MassachusettsW 45-33124406
Thu 11/6@ ToledoL 3-423692323041

Career Arc

Track team changes, role shifts, and season-to-season movement.

  1. 1

    Northern Illinois

    2024-2025

    Opening stop

Season Value Progression

20242025
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2024 Regular SeasonNorthern Illinois0
2025 Regular SeasonNorthern Illinois13475.642.4134

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

@ No. 48 Toledo

Week 11 · L 3-42 · Conference game

Loss with an explosive receiving profile.

69

Receiving Yards

97 takeover

69 receiving yards with a 100 efficiency score.

#2

vs No. 78 Western Michigan

Week 13 · L 19-35 · Conference game

53

Receiving Yards

92.3 takeover

Loss with an explosive receiving profile.

53 receiving yards with a 100 efficiency score.

#3

@ No. 136 Massachusetts

Week 12 · W 45-3 · Conference game

12

Receiving Yards

48 takeover

Win with an explosive receiving profile.

12 receiving yards with a 26.7 efficiency score.

#4

@ Miami (OH)

Week 13 · L 9-20 · Conference game

0

Receiving Yards

takeover

Loss with an explosive receiving profile.

0 receiving yards with a — efficiency score.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2024 Regular Season · Northern Illinois

0 primary output · efficiency · usage

100

#2

2025 Regular Season · Northern Illinois

86.6

134 primary · 75.6 efficiency · 42.4 usage

Milestones

0

100+ receiving yards

0

8+ catch outings

0

2+ TD games