Efficiency & Role
EPA = expected points added per play. Compared with every FBS WR/TE who qualifies
Advanced
Computed from every play, garbage time excluded. FBS rank among players with enough volume
| Receiving | Value | FBS rank |
|---|---|---|
| Targets | 24 | — |
| Target share | 12.1% | 429th / 523 |
| Catch rate | 62.5% | 306th / 523 |
| Success rate per target | 45.8% | 299th / 523 |
| Yards per target | 8.0 | 268th / 523 |
| Explosive catches | 12.5% | 216th / 523 |
| Deep-target rate | 16.7% | — |
| 3rd-down targets | 6 | — |
| Red-zone targets | 0 | — |
Charting
Where Shanks's plays went: throw and catch spots, air yards and yards after the catch, read from the play-by-play
Where he's targeted26 targets charted
2025 charting · Arkansas
2025 season. ESPN's play-by-play only has throw and catch spots for part of 2025 (3 of Shanks’s games here), so treat the maps as a sample.
Where he's targeted6 targets charted
Career
4 seasons at 3 schools since 2014 · box-score totals, snap share estimated from play-by-play
| Season | Team | G | Snaps | Rec | Rec yds | Rec TD | Tgt share |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 so far |  Wake Forest#22 · 6-1 | 7 | 42% | 17 | 241 | 1 | 12.1% |
| 2025 |  Arkansas#55 · 2-10 | 10 | 22% | 9 | 101 | 1 | 5.9% |
| 2024 |  UAB#115 · 3-9 | 12 | 74% | 62 | 656 | 6 | 17.6% |
| 2023 | UAB#107 · 4-8 | 3 | — | — | — | — | — |
Past seasons are summed from ESPN box scores; success rates and snap shares come from the play-by-play. Kam Shanks's team rank is that season's final TDC rank. A dash means the stat wasn't recorded.
Game Log
Kam Shanks'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 | Returns | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk | Opponent | Result | Game score | Rec | Yds | Y/R | TD | Long | KR | KR yds | PR | PR yds | TD |
| 1 |  Akron | W 38–16 | 7.7 | 5 | 55 | 11.0 | 1 | 27 | · | · | 1 | 26 | · |
| 2 | @ Purdue | W 38–36 | 6.2 | 3 | 39 | 13.0 | 0 | 17 | · | · | · | · | · |
| 3 |  Miami | L 20–33 | 5.3 | 2 | 17 | 8.5 | 0 | 17 | · | · | · | · | · |
| 4 | @ Louisville | W 30–27 | — | no stats recorded | |||||||||
| 5 |  Stanford | W 57–3 | 6.5 | 2 | 51 | 25.5 | 0 | 40 | · | · | · | · | · |
| 6 | @ NC State | W 38–14 | — | no stats recorded | |||||||||
| 7 | @ California | W 41–7 | 7.2 | 5 | 79 | 15.8 | 0 | 34 | · | · | 1 | 0 | · |
| 2026 · 5 games | 6.6 | 17 | 241 | 14.2 | 1 | 40 | · | · | 2 | 26 | · | ||
2026 Season Stats
FBS rank among qualifying players
| Receiving | 2026 | FBS rank |
|---|---|---|
| Receptions | 17 | 297th / 1995 |
| Yards | 241 | 264th / 1981 |
| Yards / catch | 14.2 | 150th / 461 |
| Touchdowns | 1 | 346th / 825 |
| Long | 40 | — |
| Punt returns | 2026 | FBS rank |
|---|---|---|
| Returns | 2 | — |
| Yards | 26 | — |
| Average | 13 | — |
| Touchdowns | 0 | — |
| Long | 26 | — |
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 | Start | Team plays | Est. snaps | Plays involved | Special teams | Snap share |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 · Akron | ✓ WR | 67 | ~40 (26–49) | 6 | 1 | 60% |
| Wk 2 · Purdue | ✓ WR | 68 | ~42 (28–51) | 6 | · | 62% |
| Wk 3 · Miami | ✓ WR | 63 | ~22 (7–30) | 3 | · | 35% |
| Wk 4 · Louisville | — | 61 | ~14 (4–23) | 1 | · | 23% |
| Wk 5 · Stanford | — | 66 | ~16 (5–22) | 2 | · | 24% |
| Wk 6 · NC State | — | 70 | ~8 (2–13) | 1 | · | 11% |
| Wk 7 · California | — | 62 | ~49 (32–60) | 7 | 1 | 79% |
| Season | 3 GS | 457 | 191 (119–232) | 26 | 2 | 42% |
Position Room
16 WRs on the Wake Forest roster, ordered by rec
| # | Player | Pos | Class | Rec | Yds | TD | Tgt share | EPA/play |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | Carlos Hernandez | WR | SR | 49 | 720 | 4 | 32% | +0.91 |
| 10 | Jack Foley | WR | FR | 20 | 373 | 4 | 14% | +0.66 |
| 5 | Kam Shanks | WR | JR | 17 | 241 | 1 | 12% | +0.44 |
| 14 | Antonio Meeks | WR | SR | 10 | 184 | 1 | 10% | +0.34 |
| 18 | Drayden Dickmann | WR | JR | 10 | 70 | 0 | 6% | +0.18 |
| 88 | Bryce Kania | WR | FR | 4 | 53 | 1 | 6% | +1.50 |
| 38 | Walker Bryson | WR | FR | 2 | 15 | 0 | 4% | +1.42 |
| 28 | Hugh O'Brien | WR | FR | 1 | 6 | 0 | 3% | +0.52 |
| 82 | Devin Goldston | WR | FR | 1 | 51 | 0 | 3% | +3.05 |
| 7 | Wondame Davis Jr. | WR | SO | — | — | — | — | — |
| 11 | Ny Carr | WR | SO | — | — | — | — | — |
| 20 | Elijah Otieno | WR | FR | — | — | — | — | — |
| 23 | Zeek Jackson | WR | JR | — | — | — | — | — |
| 25 | Eli Potts | WR | JR | — | — | — | — | — |
| 83 | Kobe Adeleke-Hokes | WR | FR | — | — | — | — | — |
| Chase Tyler | WR | — | — | — | 3% | -0.87 |
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. Wake Forest depth chart →