Trey McBride

Arizona Cardinals·#85

Pos TEHt 6'4"Wt 246 lbExp 4 yrCollege Colorado State

Updated September 21, 2026

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Model Score

91.7 MODEL

2022

77.3

2023

85.0

2024

86.7

2025

91.7

How good he is at what he is supposed to be doing, out of 100. Not a projection of what he will do next, and not a read on his contract. Median is about 70, and a 95 is rare. How it is built →

Trey McBride Injury StatusNot listed

Trey McBride is not on the injury report as of Sep 20. Source: the official NFL injury report, refreshed daily.

Trey McBride Stats This Season · 1 games

Rec

Rec Yds

Rec TD

Targets

95.0

Yds/Gm

24.5

Fantasy PPG

Advanced Metrics EPA & Next Gen Stats

0.789

EPA / target

2.8 yd

Avg separation

5.4 yd

Avg cushion

0.7

YAC over exp

69.2%

Catch %

Draft & College

Round 2, pick 55 · Arizona Cardinals · 2022

Colorado State (Mountain West)

Taken

#55

where he actually went

Our college model

#28

among TE in our college data

In college · 2018-2021 · 32 games

152 rec, 2,007 yds, 9 TD, 13.2 yds/rec

Covers the college seasons in our data, which does not always reach back to a player's first year.

Comps

College career

his college career vs theirs

Caleb Wilson58%Michael Mayer58%Harrison Bryant57%

STM Take

McBride at STTM #3 tier 1 in 2025 set the NFL single-season tight end receptions record (126) en route to first-team All-Pro honors and his second Pro Bowl. The career trajectory has climbed every year (tier 3 → tier 2 → tier 1). The Cardinals' QB ecosystem (Kyler Murray's tier-7 finish) capped the upside; the 126 catches happened anyway, which says everything about the talent.

McBride was born in Greeley, Colorado, played at Fort Morgan High, and was the 2021 John Mackey Award winner and unanimous All-American at Colorado State. Arizona took him 55th overall in the 2022 NFL Draft. He was first-team All-Pro in 2025, has made two Pro Bowls (2024, 2025), and set the NFL single-season record for receptions by a tight end (126 in 2025).

Strengths

NFL single-season record for receptions by a TE (126 in 2025); the volume case has no parallel.
First-team All-Pro 2025 at age 26; back-to-back Pro Bowls and tier improvements every year.

Concerns

Career 6 TDs across the four-year tenure has not matched the volume; the TD rate is modest for a 1st-team All-Pro.
Kyler Murray's MIN move means McBride enters 2026 without his career-long QB; system change is real.

What to watch: Whether McBride's volume holds with a new QB room in 2026; the record-setting 126 was tied to Murray's late-career air-share.