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Deebo Samuel Sr.

Wide Receiver, San Francisco 49ers · #19.

Player facts

Team: San Francisco 49ers
Position: Wide Receiver
Number: 19
Born: Jan 15, 1996 (age 30)
Birthplace: Inman, SC, USA
Height: 6' 0"
Weight: 215 lbs
College: South Carolina
Experience: 8 seasons
Status: Active

Stats

2026 Offense

	REC	TGTS	YDS	AVG	TD	LNG	FD	CAR	YDS	AVG	TD	LNG	FUM	LST
Regular Season	16	20	206	12.9	3	80	6	9	78	8.7	0	22	2	1
Last 5 Games	16	20	206	6.8	3	80	6	9	78	7.9	0	22	2	1
Career	422	629	5,725	13.6	30	83	227	228	1,296	5.7	21	51	17	7

Advanced stats

2026 season through week 6. EPA per play is the points a play added to the team’s expected score; success rate is the share of plays that kept the offense on schedule; CPOE is completion percentage over what the throws’ difficulty predicted. Rank is by EPA per play.

	Plays	EPA/play	Success	CPOE	League rank
Rushing	9 carries	-0.30	44%		fewer than 36 plays
Receiving	20 targets	+0.39	50%		fewer than 24 plays

NFL data: nflverse, CC BY 4.0.

Recent games

			Receiving							Rushing					Fumbles
Date	Opponent	Result	REC	TGTS	YDS	AVG	TD	LNG	FD	CAR	YDS	AVG	TD	LNG	FUM	LST
Sun, Oct 11	@ SEA	W 32-29	2	3	21	10.5	0	14	0	2	4	2.0	0	4	1	1
Sun, Oct 4	vs DEN	W 24-14	5	6	26	5.2	1	8	1	3	44	14.7	0	22	1	0
Sun, Sep 27	vs ARI	W 36-30	0	0	80	0.0	1	80	1	2	14	7.0	0	11	0	0
Sun, Sep 20	vs MIA	W 35-13	3	4	31	10.3	0	21	1	1	4	4.0	0	4	0	0
Thu, Sep 10	vs LAR	W 27-7	6	7	48	8.0	1	15	3	1	12	12.0	0	12	0	0

Last 5 games. Click a game for its box score.

About

Tyshun Raequan "Deebo" Samuel Sr. (born January 15, 1996) is an American professional football wide receiver for the San Francisco 49ers of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the South Carolina Gamecocks, earning first-team All-American honors in 2018. Samuel was selected by the 49ers in the second round of the 2019 NFL draft. With San Francisco, Samuel received Pro Bowl and first-team All-Pro honors in 2021 after leading the league in average receiving yards. He was traded in 2025 to the Washington Commanders before rejoining the 49ers the following year. Samuel holds the NFL record for rushing touchdowns by a wide receiver and is the only wide receiver in league history to have at least 20 receiving and 20 rushing touchdowns.

From Wikipedia’s article on Deebo Samuel, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.¹

Background

Early life

Samuel played football at Chapman High School in Inman, South Carolina. As a senior, he led his team to the semifinals of the AAA playoffs. During his career, Samuel had 166 catches for 2,751 yards and 36 touchdowns; he rushed 133 times for 898 yards and 13 touchdowns. He finished with a school-record 53 career touchdowns, 94 tackles and 12 interceptions. He won the High School Sports Report Class AAA Offensive Player of the Year, and played in the Shrine Bowl of the Carolinas, a high-school all-star game with players from North and South Carolina.

Coming out of high school, Samuel was rated as a three-star recruit in the 2014 college football recruiting class. He committed to the University of South Carolina to play college football for the Gamecocks over offers from Appalachian State, Charlotte, East Carolina, Maryland, NC State, North Carolina, Old Dominion, and Vanderbilt.

2014 season

Samuel redshirted in his true freshman year of 2014.

2015 season

Samuel played in five games, making three starts while struggling with injuries. He suffered a hamstring injury in the season opener against North Carolina. Samuel finished the season with 12 receptions for 161 yards.

2016 season

In his sophomore season, Samuel played in 10 games, led the team with 59 receptions for 783 yards, and rushed 15 times for 98 yards and six touchdowns. In the Birmingham Bowl against USF, he had 14 receptions for 190 receiving yards.

2017 season

In the first game of the season against NC State, Samuel returned the opening kickoff for a touchdown and had five catches for 83 yards for two touchdowns. In Week 2 against Missouri, Samuel once again returned a kickoff for a touchdown, and finished with five catches for 45 yards, and also ran the ball two times for 30 yards and a touchdown. In Week 3 against Kentucky, on the first play from scrimmage Samuel caught a 68-yard touchdown pass from Gamecock quarterback Jake Bentley. After suffering a season-ending injury later in the game, Samuel would finish the season having not even played three full games, yet accumulated 250 yards receiving for three touchdowns, two carries for 30 yards and a touchdown, and two kickoff returns for two touchdowns for a combined 194 yards.

Injury

In Week 3 against Kentucky, with 2:27 left in the third quarter, Samuel caught a pass from Jake Bentley and was awkwardly tackled by Derrick Baity Jr. of Kentucky, bending his leg back. It was announced after the game by head coach Will Muschamp that Samuel had broken his right fibula and would miss the rest of the season. Despite the injury, it was announced that Samuel could possibly return later on in the season, but during his rehab he suffered a sprained foot and would not return.

2018 season

On November 5, 2017, Samuel announced that he would be returning for his senior season. Samuel finished the 2018 season with 882 yards receiving and 11 touchdowns. His best game of the season came against Clemson, where he caught 10 passes for 210 yards and three touchdowns. He chose not to play in the Gamecocks' bowl game, the 2018 Belk Bowl. He was later selected to play in the 2019 Senior Bowl.