Efficiency & Role
EPA = expected points added per play. Compared with every FBS WR/TE who qualifies
2025 charting · Cincinnati
2025 season. ESPN's play-by-play only has throw and catch spots for part of 2025 (1 of Jones’s games here), so treat the maps as a sample.
Where he's targeted1 targets charted
Career
2 seasons since 2014 · box-score totals, snap share estimated from play-by-play
| Season | Team | G | Snaps |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 so far |  Cincinnati#55 · 4-2 | 3 | 8% |
| 2025 | Cincinnati#58 · 7-6 | 2 | 4% |
Past seasons are summed from ESPN box scores; success rates and snap shares come from the play-by-play. Elijah Jones's team rank is that season's final TDC rank. A dash means the stat wasn't recorded.
Game Log
Elijah Jones's box score, game by game, from ESPN, with a 0–10 game score for each (hover it for how it works). Click a result for the full game
| Receiving | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk | Opponent | Result | Game score | Rec | Yds | Y/R | TD | Long |
| 1 |  Boston College | W 34–15 | — | no stats recorded | ||||
| 2 |  Western Carolina | W 62–10 | 3.6 | 1 | 5 | 5.0 | 0 | 5 |
| 3 |  Miami (OH) | W 35–31 | — | no stats recorded | ||||
| 4 |  Kansas State | W 31–26 | — | no stats recorded | ||||
| 5 | @ Arizona | L 7–34 | 4.7 | 1 | 12 | 12.0 | 0 | 12 |
| 7 | @ West Virginia | L 42–45 | — | no stats recorded | ||||
| 2026 · 2 games | 4.2 | 2 | 17 | 8.5 | 0 | 12 | ||
2026 Season Stats
FBS rank among qualifying players
| Receiving | 2026 | FBS rank |
|---|---|---|
| Receptions | 2 | 1401st / 1995 |
| Yards | 17 | 1504th / 1981 |
| Yards / catch | 8.5 | — |
| Touchdowns | 0 | — |
| Long | 12 | — |
Snaps by Game
Estimated snaps from a model trained on real NFL snap counts. Ranges in brackets are where the real number lands 80% of the time: wide for a single game, tighter over the season. How it works
| Game | Team plays | Est. snaps | Plays involved | Snap share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 2 · Western Carolina | 78 | ~8 (2–13) | 1 | 10% |
| Wk 5 · Arizona | 57 | ~7 (2–11) | 1 | 12% |
| Wk 7 · West Virginia | 70 | ~18 (6–25) | 1 | 26% |
| Season | 394 | 33 (10–54) | 3 | 8% |
Position Room
15 WRs on the Cincinnati roster, ordered by rec
| # | Player | Pos | Class | Rec | Yds | TD | Tgt share | EPA/play |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11 | JV Gibson | WR | SR | 25 | 342 | 4 | 21% | +0.73 |
| 0 | Isaiah Johnson | WR | JR | 24 | 227 | 1 | 19% | +0.53 |
| 2 | Larenzo Fenner | WR | SR | 10 | 124 | 0 | 8% | +0.69 |
| 9 | Malachi Henry | WR | SR | 8 | 266 | 1 | 8% | +1.55 |
| 18 | Giyahni Kontosis | WR | SO | 5 | 39 | 0 | 5% | -0.07 |
| Cade Wolford | WR | 4 | 18 | 0 | 8% | -0.23 | ||
| 14 | Elijah Jones | WR | JR | 2 | 17 | 0 | 3% | +0.16 |
| 16 | Flynn Schiele | WR | SR | — | — | — | — | — |
| 17 | H'eij Jackson | WR | FR | — | — | — | — | — |
| 19 | Dadrien Waller | WR | FR | — | — | — | — | — |
| 20 | Joshua Smith | WR | FR | — | — | — | — | — |
| 27 | Taizaun Burns | WR | SO | — | — | — | — | — |
| 37 | Ryan Taleb | WR | JR | — | — | — | — | — |
| 39 | Christian Moulton | WR | SO | — | — | — | — | — |
| 89 | Pierce Ayers | WR | SO | — | — | — | — | — |
Stats, EPA and usage come from CollegeFootballData.com and refresh daily. FBS ranks only count players with enough volume for the stat to mean something. Qualifying for EPA takes 4+ plays per team game. Cincinnati depth chart →