Efficiency & Role
EPA = expected points added per play. Compared with every FBS WR/TE who qualifies
2025 charting · App State
2025 season. ESPN's play-by-play only has throw and catch spots for part of 2025 (6 of Mbake’s games here), so treat the maps as a sample.
Where he's targeted37 targets charted
Career
2 seasons 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 |  App State#104 · 5-3 | 1 | 1% | 1 | 5 | 0 | 2.6% |
| 2025 | App State#115 · 5-8 | 7 | 31% | 24 | 207 | 1 | 13.2% |
Past seasons are summed from ESPN box scores; success rates and snap shares come from the play-by-play. Sam Mbake's team rank is that season's final TDC rank. A dash means the stat wasn't recorded.
Game Log
Sam Mbake'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 |  Maine | W 55–3 | — | no stats recorded | ||||
| 2 | @ East Carolina | W 27–24 | — | no stats recorded | ||||
| 3 |  Charlotte | W 26–21 | — | no stats recorded | ||||
| 4 | @ NC State | L 31–41 | 3.6 | 1 | 5 | 5.0 | 0 | 5 |
| 6 |  Old Dominion | L 3–10 | — | no stats recorded | ||||
| 7 | @ Coastal Carolina | W 35–32 | — | no stats recorded | ||||
| 8 |  James Madison | W 34–31 | — | no stats recorded | ||||
| 9 | @ Georgia Southern | L 3–19 | — | no stats recorded | ||||
| 2026 · 1 game | 3.6 | 1 | 5 | 5.0 | 0 | 5 | ||
2026 Season Stats
FBS rank among qualifying players
| Receiving | 2026 | FBS rank |
|---|---|---|
| Receptions | 1 | 1711th / 2089 |
| Yards | 5 | 1936th / 2074 |
| Yards / catch | 5 | — |
| Touchdowns | 0 | — |
| Long | 5 | — |
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 4 · NC State | 61 | ~7 (2–11) | 1 | 11% |
| Season | 533 | 7 (2–11) | 1 | 1% |
Position Room
16 WRs on the App State roster, ordered by rec
| # | Player | Pos | Class | Rec | Yds | TD | Tgt share | EPA/play |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | Sam Pickett III | WR | SO | 36 | 560 | 4 | 22% | +0.66 |
| 1 | Nate Branch | WR | JR | 34 | 364 | 0 | 18% | +0.19 |
| 6 | Chris Lofton | WR | SR | 23 | 310 | 2 | 14% | +0.73 |
| 16 | Alexander Sanchez | WR | SO | 10 | 156 | 1 | 6% | +1.27 |
| 13 | Jackson Grier | WR | SR | 6 | 47 | 1 | 6% | +0.88 |
| 12 | Sam Mbake | WR | SR | 1 | 5 | 0 | 3% | +0.06 |
| 22 | Semaj Fleming | WR | SO | 1 | 8 | 0 | 6% | +0.12 |
| 83 | Daz James | WR | SR | 1 | 9 | 0 | 2% | +0.22 |
| 18 | Kamauri Austin | WR | FR | — | — | — | — | — |
| 28 | Cash Brown | WR | FR | — | — | — | — | — |
| 80 | Doopah Coleman | WR | SO | — | — | — | — | — |
| 81 | Derick Brazil | WR | JR | — | — | — | — | — |
| 82 | Zalin Ingram | WR | JR | — | — | — | — | — |
| 84 | Ryan Morrison | WR | JR | — | — | — | — | — |
| 88 | Kabran Paul | WR | FR | — | — | — | — | — |
| 89 | Zach Taylor | WR | JR | — | — | — | — | — |
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. App State depth chart →