Grant
Dubose.
Grant
Dubose.
Charlotte· 6'2"· 201 lb· 4.57s 40
"Two years of Division I football after starting at Miles College, an 8.79 athletic score, and a career that ended not because of talent but because of a helmet-to-helmet hit in Houston."Pre-draft read
DuBose wins above the rim. At 6-2 with a 35-inch vertical and genuinely reliable hands, he attacks the ball at its highest point and finishes through contact, which is how a Division II transfer put up 62 and 64 catch seasons in two years at Charlotte. He also blocks with real effort on the perimeter, which matters for a receiver whose roster case was always going to be about the margins.
The separation is the issue. A 4.57 forty with a 1.52 ten-yard split is functional, not scary, and corners who get hands on him early can ride him out of routes. Charlotte also asked him to run a narrow route tree, so he arrived in the league with more athletic testing than technique.
Offense that uses a big outside receiver on back-shoulder throws, fades and red zone isolation rather than asking him to separate underneath
Year 1: practice squad development; ceiling: WR4 who wins contested throws near the goal line
Timing-based quick game that requires immediate separation off the line versus press
Miami was beginning to use him in exactly this role before the December 2024 head injury.
The path was unusual. DuBose caught eight passes for 104 yards and a touchdown as a freshman at Miles College in Division II, lost the 2020 season to the pandemic cancellation, and then transferred to Charlotte and produced immediately: 62 receptions for 892 yards and six touchdowns in 2021, then 64 for 792 and nine scores in 2022.
The combine backed up the production. An 8.79 Relative Athletic Score built on a 35-inch vertical, a 125-inch broad jump and a 6.89 three-cone, all on a 6-2, 201-pound frame with 9½-inch hands. That is a legitimate NFL body and a legitimate athletic testing profile from a Conference USA program.
Boards still had him late seventh round to priority free agent. The reasons were the level of competition, the limited route tree and the absence of a separation gear against NFL corners. Green Bay took him with the 256th pick and immediately stashed him. The bet was simple: give a big, athletic receiver a developmental year and see whether the route detail catches up to the frame.
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Contested-catch ability
High-points the football and finishes through contact, the trait that carried him from Division II to a draft pick.
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Large catch radius
Six-foot-two with 9½-inch hands and a 35-inch vertical, giving quarterbacks a real margin for error.
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Athletic testing profile
An 8.79 Relative Athletic Score, including a 6.89 three-cone that suggests untapped route quickness.
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Willing perimeter blocker
Competes in the run game with effort and technique, a genuine roster differentiator for a WR5.
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Immediate production after transferring
Back-to-back 60-catch seasons in his first two years of Division I football.
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No separation gear
A 4.57 forty means he rarely wins with speed and has to earn every catch at the point of attack.
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Struggles against press
Physical corners can jam and reroute him because his release package is underdeveloped.
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Narrow route tree
Charlotte asked for a limited menu of routes, leaving him raw on option and intermediate concepts.
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Level of competition
Two Conference USA seasons after Division II football meant limited evidence against NFL-caliber corners.
Relative Athletic Score (Kent Lee Platte) benchmarks combine/pro-day numbers against every measured prospect at the position since 1987. 10.00 is elite; 5.00 is average.
— — — positional median (p50)
- 40 yd
- 4.57sp50
- Vertical
- 35inp50
- Broad jump
- 125inp50
- Three-cone
- 6.89sp50
- Shuttle
- 4.32sp50
- Bench
- —rep
| Yr | Team | G | Rec | Yds | TD |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | Miles College | — | 8 | 104 | 1 |
| 2021 | Charlotte | 12 | 62 | 892 | 6 |
| 2022 | Charlotte | 12 | 64 | 792 | 9 |
| Career | — | 24 | 126 | 1684 | 15 |
Charlotte lines verified against cfbstats. The 2019 line was recorded at Miles College in Division II and is flagged separately; the 2020 Miles College season was canceled due to the pandemic.
A dash means the figure is not published by a source we trust — never a zero we invented.
Honors
- Back-to-back 60-catch seasons at Charlotte
- Fifteen receiving touchdowns in two Division I seasons
- 8.79 Relative Athletic Score
Big-bodied depth receiver bouncing between rosters and practice squads.
Physical outside receiver who blocks and wins contested throws long enough to hold a starting job.
Great testing numbers, no separation, out of the league inside three years.
Everything above is the pre-draft evaluation. This section is what actually happened — updated year over year.
DuBose spent his 2023 rookie season on the Green Bay practice squad and signed a reserve/future contract in January 2024 before being waived on August 27, 2024. Miami claimed him off waivers the next day. In Week 15 of the 2024 season he suffered a serious head injury on a helmet-to-helmet hit from Texans safety Calen Bullock, was carted off the field on a stretcher to a Houston-area hospital and was placed on injured reserve. Buffalo signed him on August 19, 2025 and waived him with an injury designation after a preseason shoulder injury. He signed with the UFL DC Defenders in January 2026 and the Columbus Aviators in April 2026, was waived in May, and is a free agent as of September 2026.
It was going somewhere. DuBose spent his rookie year on the Green Bay practice squad, signed a future contract in January 2024, and got waived on August 27 that summer. Miami claimed him the next day and started giving him real preseason and regular season looks as a size-and-hands option on the perimeter.
Then Week 15 of 2024 in Houston. A helmet-to-helmet hit from Texans safety Calen Bullock left him motionless on the field, and he was carted off on a stretcher to a Houston-area hospital before being placed on injured reserve. It was the kind of injury that changes a career and does not care about depth charts.
He tried to come back. Buffalo signed him on August 19, 2025 and waived him with an injury designation after a shoulder problem in the preseason. He moved to the UFL in 2026, signing with the DC Defenders in January and the Columbus Aviators in April before being waived in May, and he is a free agent as of September 2026. The talent was real and the athletic profile was a genuine seventh-round bargain. Health, not ability, is what closed the door.