Konata
Mumpfield.
Konata
Mumpfield.
Pittsburgh· 5'11"· 186 lb· 4.59s 40
"Four years, two conferences, one identity: a slot technician whose hands never wavered, drafted at 242 on the bet that route detail and reliability outlive a 4.59 forty."Pre-draft read
Slot-flexible possession receiver who lived on the Z and in the reduced split at Pitt, winning with pace-changing route detail rather than separation burst. He stems defenders vertically, sinks his hips late and comes out of breaks flat, and the hands are genuinely reliable — a plucker away from the frame who finishes through contact on hitches and digs.
The 2024 tape added a vertical dimension he never got at Akron: 15.6 yards per catch on posts and go balls where he tracked the deep ball and adjusted mid-flight. He is not a long-strider who runs away from Power Four corners, and the athletic ceiling is average, but the release package against press and the willingness to work the middle of the field are the traits that separate him.
Timing-based play-action offense that lives on route detail — McVay/Shanahan-tree spacing concepts where the slot receiver wins with tempo and leverage rather than athletic separation.
Year 1: fourth or fifth receiver and third-down chain-mover from the slot. Ceiling: dependable WR3 in a rhythm passing game that manufactures spacing for him.
A vertical, isolation-heavy offense that asks its outside receivers to beat press man on the boundary and block in the run game — his frame and play speed cap him there.
Best deployed off the ball with a free release; give him a two-way go and he manipulates leverage as well as anyone in his draft range.
Konata Mumpfield | Wide Receiver
Game film cut-up of Konata Mumpfield's Pittsburgh tape.
Konata Mumpfield 2024 Regular Season Highlights | Pitt Wide Receiver
Game film cut-up of Konata Mumpfield's Pittsburgh tape.
Konata Mumpfield Rookie Highlights | 2025 - 2026 NFL Season - Rams
Game film cut-up of Konata Mumpfield's Pittsburgh tape.
A four-year college receiver with a clean football identity: reliable hands, mature route craft, and no drop-off in production across two conferences. Mumpfield produced 217 catches for 2,691 yards and 19 touchdowns between Akron and Pittsburgh, leading the Panthers in receptions and yards as a senior.
The context matters. He was Second-team All-MAC as a true freshman with 63 catches for 751 yards, transferred into a Pitt offense that cycled through quarterbacks, and still finished with 813 yards and a career-best 15.6 average in 2024 as Eli Holstein's most trusted target. The flags were athletic rather than technical — a 4.59 forty at 5-11, 186 pounds, ordinary play speed, and a frame that limits him against physical boundary corners.
Boards had him as a late-Day 3 depth flier: a receiver whose floor was scout-team polish and whose ceiling was a fourth or fifth wideout who could be trusted on third down. Taking him at 242 was a low-cost bet on hands, route detail and four years of unbroken production.
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Hands
Plucks cleanly away from the frame and finishes through contact at the catch point; drops were never part of his tape at either stop.
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Route detail
Stems defenders vertically and sinks late into breaks, creating the throwing window with tempo and body lean instead of pure burst.
- 03
Ball tracking
The 2024 tape shows real comfort locating deep balls over either shoulder and adjusting mid-flight on posts and back-shoulder throws.
- 04
Production floor
217 career catches across the MAC and the ACC with no dip when the level of competition and the quarterback play changed.
- 05
Toughness over the middle
Willing target on digs and crossers who takes the hit and holds the football in traffic.
- 01
Play speed
A 4.59 forty shows up on tape; he does not pull away from Power Four corners once he gets past the stem.
- 02
Frame
At 5-11 and 186 pounds he can be re-routed by physical press corners and is a liability as a perimeter blocker.
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Contested volume
Wins with separation and timing, not size; his catch radius shrinks when the throw is late or off-platform.
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After the catch
Functional but not dynamic with the ball in his hands; not a receiver who turns a hitch into a chunk play.
— — — positional median (p50)
- 40 yd
- 4.59sp50
- Vertical
- 36inp50
- Broad jump
- 124inp50
- Three-cone
- —s
- Shuttle
- —s
- Bench
- —rep
| Yr | Team | G | Rec | Yds | TD |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | Akron | 12 | 63 | 751 | 8 |
| 2022 | Pittsburgh | 12 | 58 | 551 | 1 |
| 2023 | Pittsburgh | 12 | 44 | 576 | 5 |
| 2024 | Pittsburgh | 12 | 52 | 813 | 5 |
| Career | — | 48 | 217 | 2691 | 19 |
A dash means the figure is not published by a source we trust — never a zero we invented.
- Eli HolsteinQB18%
- Julian DuggerQB15%
- Desmond ReidRB10%
#4 of 19 tracked contributors · Produced well above his snap share · Offense explosiveness 1.35 (p88) · CFBD — usage x PPA per tracked player
Roster-sticking fourth receiver with special-teams value and situational offensive snaps.
Slot technician who turns route detail and reliable hands into a real target share.
Camp-body slot who never carves out a stable role beyond the practice squad.
Everything above is the pre-draft evaluation. This section is what actually happened — updated year over year.
The Rams kept him. Mumpfield survived cutdowns as the No. 5 receiver behind Puka Nacua, Davante Adams and Tutu Atwell's replacement group, and Sean McVay used him sparingly in three-receiver looks and on special teams. He finished his rookie year with 10 catches for 92 yards and a touchdown on 23 targets, and dressed for the Rams' run to the NFC Championship Game, adding three postseason catches for 22 yards.
That is roughly the outcome a seventh-round receiver is drafted for: a roster spot, a defined role, and enough trust from the staff to be on the field in January rather than in a hotel. The ceiling question is still open — nothing in his usage suggests a starting job is coming while Nacua and Adams are healthy, and his 9.2 yards per catch reflects the short, spacing-route diet he was given rather than the vertical work that lifted his senior tape. But the hands and the route detail travelled exactly as advertised, and he has not been the reason a play failed. Too early to grade the outcome; surviving year one with a real role is the win.