Receiver, North Texas, 2012–⁠16

Kenny Buyers

Number: No. 31
Height: 5′11″
Hometown: Hurst, TX

Kenny Buyers played receiver at North Texas (2012–⁠16).

6catches, career highvs. Middle Tennessee, 2016 102receiving yards, career highat Rice, 2016

Receiving

Season	Team	Rec	Yds	Avg	TD	Long
2016	North Texas	32	324	10.1	1	75

Defense

Season	Team	Tkl	Solo	TFL	Sacks	Int	PD	Hur
2013	North Texas	–	–	–	–	3	–	–
2014	North Texas	–	–	–	–	2	–	–
2016	North Texas	4	3	0	0	0	0	0
Career		4	3	0	0	5	0	0

Season lines from CollegeFootballData, regular season and bowls. A dash: the source has no number for that season (often an FCS season), and career totals count only the numbers on file.

Defense before 2016

Season	G	Solo	Ast	Tkl	TFL	Sacks	Int	PBU
2012	9	10	5	15	0	0	0	1
2013^N	13	55	23	78	4.5	2	3	5
2014^E	9 of 12	24	16	40	–	–	–	–

Our box scores carry tackles, tackles for loss and sacks from 2016 only, so these come from other sources, marked by season: unmarked, cfbstats.com (Open Data Commons Attribution License), its game lines summed (G: the games he has a line in); N, NCAA statistics, via octonion/football, the season’s official lines (G: games played); E, ESPN play-by-play participants, via SportsDataverse: tackles only, counted in the games whose play-by-play names tacklers (G: those games, of his team’s), so part of the season, not its total. A dash: the source has no number for it.

On the roster

Season	Team	No.	Pos	Ht
2012	North Texas	31	WR
2013	North Texas	31	WR
2014	North Texas	31	WR
2015	North Texas	31	WR
2016	North Texas	31	WR	5′11″

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

Season	Team	Plays	EPA/play	Pctile	Median	Total	Usage
2016	North Texas	48	0.29	14th (n=489)	0.52	13.7	7%

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

2016 North Texas 12 games, 32 catches, 324 yards, 1 TD

Date	Opponent	Result	Rec	Rec yds	Rec TD	Tkl	Sacks	Int	PD
Sep 3	vs.SMU	L 21–⁠34	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
Sep 10	vs.Bethune-Cookman	W 41–⁠20	2	8	0	1	0	0	0
Sep 17	atFlorida	L 0–⁠32	1	4	0	–	–	–	–
Sep 24	atRice	W 42–⁠35	4	102	0	–	–	–	–
Oct 1	vs.Middle Tennessee	L 13–⁠30	6	27	0	–	–	–	–
Oct 8	vs.Marshall	W 38–⁠21	2	43	0	–	–	–	–
Oct 29	atUTSA	L 17–⁠31	5	30	1	–	–	–	–
Nov 5	vs.Louisiana Tech	L 24–⁠45	5	23	0	1	0	0	0
Nov 12	atWestern Kentucky	L 7–⁠45	3	9	0	–	–	–	–
Nov 19	vs.Southern Miss	W 29–⁠23	2	62	0	–	–	–	–
Nov 26	atUTEP	L 24–⁠52	1	6	0	1	0	0	0
Dec 27 ✦	vs.Army	L 31–⁠38	1	10	0	1	0	0	0