Receiver, Western Kentucky, 2010–14
Willie McNeal
- Number
- No. 10
- Height
- 5′10″
- Hometown
- Bradenton, FL
Willie McNeal played receiver at Western Kentucky (2010–14).
Career highs
7catches, career highthree times; last vs. UTSA, 2014155receiving yards, career highvs. Central Michigan, 20142receiving touchdowns, career highthree times; last vs. Bowling Green, 2014Receiving
| Season | Team | Rec | Yds | Avg | TD | Long |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010* | Western Kentucky | 26 | 360 | 13.8 | 2 | 28 |
| 2012 | Western Kentucky | 43 | 556 | 12.9 | 6 | 36 |
| 2013 | Western Kentucky | 46 | 599 | 13.0 | 5 | 56 |
| 2014 | Western Kentucky | 56 | 666 | 11.9 | 8 | 67 |
| Career | 171 | 2,181 | 12.8 | 21 | 67 | |
Returns
| Season | Team | KR | Yds | TD | PR | Yds | TD |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010* | Western Kentucky | 44 | 968 | 1 | 5 | 10 | 0 |
| 2012 | Western Kentucky | 6 | 91 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| 2013 | Western Kentucky | 1 | 28 | 0 | 4 | 11 | 0 |
| 2014 | Western Kentucky | 14 | 303 | 0 | 5 | 21 | 0 |
| Career | 65 | 1,390 | 1 | 16 | 44 | 0 | |
Rushing
| Season | Team | Car | Yds | Avg | TD | Long |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010* | Western Kentucky | 17 | 70 | 4.1 | 0 | 10 |
| 2012 | Western Kentucky | 3 | 5 | 1.7 | 0 | 4 |
| Career | 20 | 75 | 3.8 | 0 | 10 | |
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
| Season | G | Solo | Ast | Tkl | FF |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 12 | 5 | 1 | 6 | 2 |
| 2012 | 13 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 2013N | 12 | 9 | 5 | 14 | 0 |
| 2014E | 12 of 13 | 5 | 0 | 5 | – |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | Western Kentucky | 10 | WR | |
| 2011 | Western Kentucky | 10 | WR | |
| 2012 | Western Kentucky | 10 | WR | |
| 2013 | Western Kentucky | 10 | WR | |
| 2014 | Western Kentucky | 10 | WR | 5′10″ |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | Western Kentucky | 48 | 0.85 | 57th (n=341) | 0.81 | 40.9 | 6% |
| 2014 | Western Kentucky | 80 | 0.47 | 42nd (n=496) | 0.52 | 37.3 | 9% |
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
2014 Western Kentucky 12 games, 56 catches, 666 yards, 8 TD
| Date | Opponent | Result | Rec | Rec yds | Rec TD | KR | Yds | PR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 29 | vs. | W 59–31 | 5 | 70 | 2 | – | – | – |
| Sep 6 | at | L 34–42 | 4 | 39 | 0 | 1 | 17 | – |
| Sep 13 | at | L 47–50 | 6 | 31 | 0 | 3 | 82 | 2 |
| Sep 27 | at | W 36–27 | 5 | 42 | 1 | 4 | 86 | 3 |
| Oct 4 | vs. | L 39–42 | 5 | 49 | 0 | – | – | – |
| Oct 18 | at | L 38–45 | 5 | 56 | 1 | – | – | – |
| Nov 1 | at | L 10–59 | 2 | −3 | 0 | 4 | 83 | – |
| Nov 8 | vs. | W 35–27 | 5 | 41 | 1 | – | – | – |
| Nov 15 | vs. | W 52–24 | 3 | 57 | 1 | – | – | – |
| Nov 22 | vs. | W 45–7 | 7 | 105 | 1 | – | – | – |
| Nov 28 | at | W 67–66 | 4 | 24 | 0 | 1 | 15 | – |
| Dec 24 ✦ | vs. | W 49–48 | 5 | 155 | 1 | 1 | 20 | – |
2013 Western Kentucky 12 games, 46 catches, 599 yards, 5 TD
| Date | Opponent | Result | Rec | Rec yds | Rec TD | KR | Yds | PR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 31 | vs. | W 35–26 | 6 | 57 | 0 | – | – | – |
| Sep 7 | at | L 20–52 | 3 | 43 | 0 | – | – | – |
| Sep 14 | at | L 24–31 | 3 | 22 | 0 | – | – | – |
| Sep 21 | vs. | W 58–17 | 3 | 85 | 0 | 1 | 28 | – |
| Sep 28 | vs. | W 19–7 | 1 | 8 | 0 | – | – | – |
| Oct 3 | at | W 31–10 | 2 | 47 | 1 | – | – | – |
| Oct 15 | vs. | L 20–37 | 1 | 42 | 0 | – | – | – |
| Oct 26 | vs. | L 26–32 | 6 | 38 | 0 | – | – | – |
| Nov 2 | at | W 44–28 | 4 | 62 | 0 | – | – | – |
| Nov 9 | at | W 21–17 | 6 | 101 | 2 | – | – | 1 |
| Nov 23 | at | W 38–7 | 6 | 37 | 0 | – | – | 2 |
| Nov 30 | vs. | W 34–31 | 5 | 57 | 2 | – | – | 1 |
2012 Western Kentucky 13 games, 43 catches, 556 yards, 6 TD
| Date | Opponent | Result | Rec | Rec yds | Rec TD | KR | Yds | PR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 1 | vs. | W 49–10 | 2 | 23 | 1 | – | – | – |
| Sep 8 | at | L 0–35 | 1 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 9 | – |
| Sep 15 | at | W 32–31 | 3 | 26 | 1 | – | – | – |
| Sep 22 | vs. | W 42–17 | 1 | 36 | 1 | 2 | 45 | – |
| Sep 29 | at | W 26–13 | – | – | – | 2 | 26 | – |
| Oct 11 | at | W 31–26 | 6 | 68 | 0 | – | – | – |
| Oct 20 | vs. | L 42–43 | 7 | 120 | 1 | – | – | 1 |
| Oct 27 | at | W 14–6 | 3 | 27 | 0 | – | – | 1 |
| Nov 1 | vs. | L 29–34 | 7 | 119 | 1 | – | – | – |
| Nov 10 | vs. | L 28–37 | 4 | 23 | 1 | – | – | – |
| Nov 17 | at | L 27–31 | 4 | 56 | 0 | 1 | 11 | – |
| Nov 24 | vs. | W 25–24 | 2 | 2 | 0 | – | – | – |
| Dec 26 ✦ | vs. | L 21–24 | 3 | 50 | 0 | – | – | – |
2010 Western Kentucky 12 games, 26 catches, 360 yards, 2 TD
| Date | Opponent | Result | Rec | Rec yds | Rec TD | KR | Yds | PR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 4 | at | L 10–49 | 1 | 8 | 0 | 6 | 132 | 3 |
| Sep 11 | at | L 28–63 | 2 | 36 | 0 | 7 | 204 | – |
| Sep 18 | vs. | L 21–38 | – | – | – | 4 | 92 | – |
| Sep 25 | at | L 12–24 | 3 | 55 | 0 | 4 | 80 | – |
| Oct 9 | at | L 21–28 | 2 | 48 | 0 | 2 | 46 | – |
| Oct 16 | vs. | L 30–35 | 4 | 46 | 1 | 6 | 114 | – |
| Oct 23 | at | W 54–21 | 5 | 88 | 0 | 3 | 54 | – |
| Oct 30 | vs. | L 6–33 | 3 | 24 | 0 | 4 | 82 | – |
| Nov 6 | vs. | L 16–17 | – | – | – | 3 | 69 | – |
| Nov 13 | at | W 36–35 | 4 | 32 | 1 | 4 | 71 | – |
| Nov 20 | vs. | L 26–27 | 1 | 8 | 0 | – | – | 2 |
| Nov 27 | at | L 14–28 | 1 | 15 | 0 | 1 | 24 | – |
Box scores from CollegeFootballData, 2004 on. ✦ postseason; ★ a career high on file.
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