A look at TE usage under ARod:

Dec 3, 2024
11:27:44am

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In the 2024 regular season, BYU ranked 13th in TE usage in the Big 12.

Team	TE Receiving Yards	Net Passing Yards	TE Passing Yards Share
Utah	744	2393	31.1%
Cincinnati	561	2838	19.8%
WVU	466	2406	19.4%
UCF	454	2396	18.9%
K State	473	2553	18.5%
Iowa State	551	3096	17.8%
Kansas	391	2505	15.6%
Arizona	453	2975	15.2%
Baylor	442	2952	15.0%
TT	528	3577	14.8%
Houston	240	1832	13.1%
ASU	305	2698	11.3%
BYU	248	2856	8.7%
TCU	328	3811	8.6%
Oklahoma State	111	3147	3.5%
Colorado	65	3926	1.7%

In the Big 12, the average team's TEs accounted for 14.6% of their receiving yards, so BYU was pretty far below average in TE usage.

Big 12 Average

398

2873

14.6%

In ARod's four years as the BYU OC, BYU TEs are accounting for 14.5% of BYU's passing yards, pretty much exactly at the 2024 Big 12 average.

Team	TE Receiving Yards	Net Passing Yards	TE Passing Yards Share
2024 BYU	248	2856	8.7%
2023 BYU	476	2465	19.3%
2022 BYU	462	3246	14.2%
2021 BYU	544	3433	15.8%
Arod Average	433	3000	14.5%

If you compare that to the three years that Jeff Grimes was our OC, TE usage is down. However, I think a lot of that can be attributed to Matt Bushman being awesome, and BYU's WRs being worse under Grimes than ARod.

Team	TE Receiving Yards	Net Passing Yards	TE Passing Yards Share
2020 BYU	666	3985	16.7%
2019 BYU	843	3701	22.8%
2018 BYU	631	2753	22.9%
Grimes Average	713	3480	20.8%

It's also worth pointing out that while ARod wasn't the OC from 2018-2020, he obviously had a role in the offense.

My conclusion: BYU's 2024 TE usage was quite a bit level than that of our peers, but TE usage under ARod is at worst average compared to other Big 12 teams. If someone wants to argue that we don't use our TEs enough, that is obviously something I can't really argue against with data. BYU isn't Utah with our TE usage, but we also definitely aren't Colorado either.