Efficiency & Role
EPA = expected points added per play. Compared with every FBS WR/TE who qualifies
2025 charting · Virginia
2025 season. ESPN's play-by-play only has throw and catch spots for part of 2025 (2 of Newton-Short’s games here), so treat the maps as a sample.
Where he's targeted2 targets charted
Career
2 seasons since 2014 · box-score totals, snap share estimated from play-by-play
| Season | Team | G | Snaps |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 so far |  Virginia#47 · 4-5 | 1 | 2% |
| 2025 | Virginia#30 · 11-3 | 3 | 7% |
Past seasons are summed from ESPN box scores; success rates and snap shares come from the play-by-play. Dillon Newton-Short's team rank is that season's final TDC rank. A dash means the stat wasn't recorded.
Game Log
Dillon Newton-Short'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 |  NC State | W 34–8 | — | no stats recorded | ||||
| 2 |  Norfolk State | W 59–3 | — | no stats recorded | ||||
| 3 | vs West Virginia | L 27–38 | — | no stats recorded | ||||
| 4 |  Delaware | W 42–3 | — | no stats recorded | ||||
| 5 | @ Florida State | L 7–38 | — | no stats recorded | ||||
| 6 |  Syracuse | W 28–25 | — | no stats recorded | ||||
| 7 | @ SMU | L 13–23 | — | no stats recorded | ||||
| 8 |  Duke | L 16–19 | — | no stats recorded | ||||
| 9 | @ Wake Forest | L 7–51 | 3.9 | 1 | 6 | 6.0 | 0 | 6 |
| 2026 · 1 game | 3.9 | 1 | 6 | 6.0 | 0 | 6 | ||
2026 Season Stats
FBS rank among qualifying players
| Receiving | 2026 | FBS rank |
|---|---|---|
| Receptions | 1 | 1711th / 2089 |
| Yards | 6 | 1884th / 2074 |
| Yards / catch | 6 | — |
| Touchdowns | 0 | — |
| Long | 6 | — |
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 9 · Wake Forest | 64 | ~12 (4–20) | 1 | 19% |
| Season | 606 | 12 (4–20) | 1 | 2% |
Position Room
17 WRs on the Virginia roster, ordered by rec
| # | Player | Pos | Class | Rec | Yds | TD | Tgt share | EPA/play |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18 | Da'Shawn Martin | WR | JR | 26 | 372 | 6 | 15% | +0.34 |
| 5 | Kameron Courtney | WR | JR | 18 | 204 | 2 | 13% | +0.53 |
| 4 | Jacquon Gibson | WR | SR | 14 | 176 | 2 | 7% | +0.52 |
| 11 | Rico Flores Jr. | WR | SR | 12 | 158 | 1 | 13% | +0.61 |
| 8 | Ty'Lyric Coleman | WR | SR | 10 | 89 | 1 | 5% | +0.53 |
| 13 | Josiah Abdullah | WR | SO | 8 | 139 | 1 | 7% | +0.23 |
| 84 | Isaiah Robinson | WR | SO | 7 | 112 | 1 | 7% | +0.21 |
| 15 | Dillon Newton-Short | WR | SO | 1 | 6 | 0 | 2% | +0.36 |
| 26 | Jack Rhodes | WR | FR | 1 | 6 | 0 | 2% | -0.44 |
| 81 | TeKai Kirby | WR | SR | 1 | 16 | 0 | 3% | +0.11 |
| 22 | Tyson Davis | WR | SR | — | — | — | — | — |
| 27 | Kyle Alt | WR | — | — | — | — | — | |
| 45 | Brand Morgan | WR | SO | — | — | — | — | — |
| 80 | Trevor Ladd | WR | JR | — | — | — | 4% | -0.33 |
| 82 | DaMari Carter | WR | FR | — | — | — | — | — |
| 85 | Dylan Cope | WR | FR | — | — | — | — | — |
| CJ Spence | WR | — | — | — | 8% | -0.68 |
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. Virginia depth chart →