Colt Lyerla at Oregon, 2013
Photo: Travis Alden, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Tight end, Oregon, 2011–⁠13

Colt Lyerla

Number
No. 15
Height
6′5″
Hometown
Hillsboro, OR
Born
Nov 13, 1992, in Hillsboro, Oregon

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Colt Lyerla played tight end at Oregon (2011–⁠13).

Career highs

2receiving touchdowns, career highthree times; last at California, 2012

Team titles: Pac-12 champions, 2011

Receiving

Receiving yards, season by season, with his team’s record
SeasonTeamRecYdsAvgTDLong
2011*Oregon714721.0539
2012Oregon2539215.7648
2013Oregon22613.0013
Career3456516.61148

Season lines from CollegeFootballData, regular season and bowls. * That team-season’s player lines are missing part of the team’s yards in our source, so these numbers may be short.

Defense before 2016

SeasonGSoloAstTkl
20118718
201212224
On file9312

Our box scores carry tackles, tackles for loss and sacks from 2016 only, so these come from other sources: cfbstats.com (Open Data Commons Attribution License), its game lines summed (G: the games he has a line in). A dash: the source has no number for it.

On the roster

SeasonTeamNo.PosHt
2011Oregon15TE
2012Oregon15TE
2013Oregon15TE6′5″

As each season’s roster listed the player (CollegeFootballData). Classes before the latest listing are counted back from it; “Yr 1” is the year on file where that count can’t place a season he played (a redshirt, transfer or 2020 year); height and weight as last listed.

Per play

SeasonTeamPlaysEPA/playPctileMedianTotalUsage
2013Oregon40.70––2.8–

Expected points added: how much the player’s plays moved the team’s expected score, per play and in total. Plays: total EPA divided by EPA per play, the plays the source credits to him (for a receiver roughly his catches and runs, not every target; for a passer, not every attempt), so it can differ from attempts plus carries. Percentile: against the position’s regulars that season across all divisions on file (quarterbacks with 150+ plays, backs 60+, receivers and tight ends 30+), with how many there were (n) and their median; a dash means too few plays to rank. A season in progress uses the full-season bar scaled by games played, never below 75 plays for quarterbacks, 30 for backs and 20 for receivers. The cohort grows or shrinks with the source’s coverage each season (2025 lists far more players), so compare percentiles rather than raw EPA across years. FCS seasons are marked. Usage: the share of the team’s plays the player was part of (shown from 20 plays). From CollegeFootballData, 2013 on.

Game by game

2013 Oregon 2 games, 2 catches, 26 yards
DateOpponentResultRecYdsTDLongRush
Aug 31vs.NichollsW 66–⁠311301317
Sep 7atVirginiaW 59–⁠10113013–
2012 Oregon 12 games, 25 catches, 392 yards, 6 TD
DateOpponentResultRecYdsTDLongRush
Sep 1vs.Arkansas StateW 57–⁠34218012–
Sep 8vs.Fresno StateW 42–⁠25226122–
Sep 15vs.Tennessee TechW 63–⁠1421016–
Sep 22vs.ArizonaW 49–⁠025303563
Sep 29atWashington StateW 51–⁠2611101110
Oct 6vs.WashingtonW 52–⁠213712484
Oct 18atArizona StateW 43–⁠21––––0
Nov 3atUSCW 62–⁠51113013–
Nov 10atCaliforniaW 59–⁠17358234–
Nov 17vs.StanfordL 14–⁠17454020–
Nov 24atOregon StateW 48–⁠24226021–
Jan 3 ✦vs.Kansas StateW 35–⁠17352023–
2011 Oregon 5 games, 7 catches, 147 yards, 5 TD
DateOpponentResultRecYdsTDLongRush
Sep 10vs.NevadaW 69–⁠20120120–
Sep 17vs.Missouri StateW 56–⁠7233226–
Nov 19vs.USCL 35–⁠38135035–
Nov 26vs.Oregon StateW 49–⁠21252139–
Dec 2vs.UCLAW 49–⁠311717–

Box scores from CollegeFootballData, 2004 on. ✦ postseason; ★ a career high on file.

Before the draft

DrillCombine 2014Combine or pro day 2014
Height6′3⅞″
Weight242 lb
Arm length32¾″
Hand size10¼″
40-yard dash4.61 s
10-yard split1.61 s
Vertical jump39″
Broad jump10′8″
Bench press15 reps

Combine or pro day: the source doesn’t say which. Combine and pro day results compiled by array-carpenter (nfl-draft-data).

Other pro football

YearsLeagueTeam
2016ArenaArizona Rattlers *
2016ArenaPortland Steel

Leagues other than the NFL, from the infobox of his Wikipedia article (CC BY-SA), as it names the teams. * Off-season roster or practice squad only.

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