Player Dossier

2024-2025

Old Dominion

Dawson Johnson

TE • 6'3" • 230 lbs • Denver, CO, USA

Vertical playmakerExplosive finisher

Dawson Johnson reads as a vertical playmaker based on recent role and receiving efficiency.

Usage / Role

5%

Rotational offensive role

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Impact Production

18

Developing production for a tight end

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Reliability

11

Sporadic game-to-game production

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Star Power

34

Limited ceiling signals so far

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Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by Season Value: 2025 Regular Season · Old Dominion

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Snapshot

Career Teams
2
Unique Seasons
2
Program Path
Florida • Old Dominion
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: Virginia Tech
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Recruit Profile

Class 2023 · Rating 0.948

Wharton · Tampa, FL

Committed To
Florida
Commit Date
Jan 1, 2023

Dawson Johnson, TE. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2025 Regular Season · Old Dominion. Dawson Johnson reads as a vertical playmaker based on recent role and receiving efficiency.

Stat Footprint

Career production snapshot

Receiving yards
99
Receptions
10
Touchdowns
1

Quick Answers

Dawson Johnson quick answers

Latest team and position
Old Dominion · TE
Career Receiving Yards
99
Tracked sample
2 unique seasons · 2 entries · 7 games
Best season
2025 Regular Season · Old Dominion
Top game
Virginia Tech
Recruit profile
4-star · Wharton · Florida
High school pipeline
Wharton · 15 FBS recruits · 1 drafted player
Latest roster
No. 19 · Freshman
2025 Receiving yards rank
99 receiving yards · TE 195th (top 42%) · Sun Belt 98th (top 47%) · National 1,001st (top 46%)

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesRecRec YdsTDOverall
2024 Regular SeasonFlorida0-00-
2025 Regular SeasonOld Dominion71099169

Related Context

Transfer Portal History

Matched portal movement

SeasonPathMovementValueDate
2026Old Dominion to TulaneG5/FCS to G5/FCS9Jan 10, 2026
2025Florida to Old DominionP4 to G5/FCS75.4Jan 6, 2025

Dawson Johnson played TE for Florida and Old Dominion. Across 2 tracked seasons, Dawson Johnson recorded 99 receiving yards and 1 touchdowns. His top tracked season came in 2025 with Old Dominion.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2025 Regular Season

Old Dominion paired 99 primary output with 68.1 efficiency.

Supporting note

2025 Regular Season role shape

target-driven usage with 68.1 efficiency.

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Career value is trending up

2025 Regular Season improved on the prior stop by season value score.

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Multi-stop career journey

Production spans 2 team stops, with role shifts visible across Florida, Old Dominion.

Supporting note

Peak game by takeover score: Virginia Tech

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 · Old Dominion

Games

7

Receiving Yards / G

14.1

Efficiency

68.1

Usage

9.2

Consistency

77.1

Best Game by takeover score

Virginia Tech

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Game-by-Game Trend

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Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. North Carolina Central: 12. Virginia Tech: 24. Coastal Carolina: 4. Marshall: 11. James Madison: 17. UL Monroe: 15. Georgia Southern: 16

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. North Carolina Central: 2 by 40. Virginia Tech: 2 by 80. Coastal Carolina: 1 by 26.7. Marshall: 1 by 73.3. James Madison: 2 by 56.7. UL Monroe: 1 by 100. Georgia Southern: 1 by 100

Split Comparison

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

Wins14.2 · Games = 5 · +0.2 vs Losses
Losses14 · Games = 2 · -0.2 vs Wins

Game Log

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

7 games

Featured metric

Receiving Yards

Top game by takeover score

Virginia Tech

Best efficiency game

100 vs Georgia Southern

Result
Sat 11/22@ Georgia SouthernW 45-101161616016
Sat 11/1@ UL MonroeW 31-61151515015
Sat 10/18@ James MadisonL 27-632178.58.50116
Sat 10/11@ MarshallL 24-481111111011
Sat 10/4vs Coastal CarolinaW 47-7144404
Sat 9/13@ Virginia TechW 45-262241212017
Sat 9/6vs North Carolina CentralW 54-62126608

Career Arc

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

  1. 1

    Florida

    2024

    Opening stop

  2. 2

    Old Dominion

    2025

    Final stop

Season Value Progression

20242025
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2024 Regular SeasonFlorida0
2025 Regular SeasonOld Dominion9968.19.299

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

@ No. 105 Virginia Tech

Week 3 · W 45-26

Win with an explosive receiving profile.

24

Receiving Yards

73.9 takeover

24 receiving yards with a 80 efficiency score.

#2

@ No. 103 Georgia Southern

Week 13 · W 45-10 · Conference game

16

Receiving Yards

63.5 takeover

Win with an explosive receiving profile.

16 receiving yards with a 100 efficiency score.

#3

@ No. 131 UL Monroe

Week 10 · W 31-6 · Conference game

15

Receiving Yards

63.4 takeover

Win with an explosive receiving profile.

15 receiving yards with a 100 efficiency score.

#4

@ No. 27 James Madison

Week 8 · L 27-63 · Conference game

17

Receiving Yards

59.6 takeover

Loss with an explosive receiving profile.

17 receiving yards with a 56.7 efficiency score.

#5

@ No. 86 Marshall

Week 7 · L 24-48 · Conference game

11

Receiving Yards

47.1 takeover

Loss with an explosive receiving profile.

11 receiving yards with a 73.3 efficiency score.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2025 Regular Season · Old Dominion

99 primary output · 68.1 efficiency · 9.2 usage

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#2

2024 Regular Season · Florida

0 primary · efficiency · usage

Milestones

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100+ receiving yards

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8+ catch outings

0

2+ TD games