What's the latest focus for record-setting UCF tight end Dylan Wade?
Dylan Wade set three UCF single-season receiving records for a tight end in 2025, catching four touchdowns in the team's final three games.
ORLANDO — Returning home after spending two years at Maryland, Dylan Wade shattered UCF 's single-season receiving records for a tight end. The 6-foot-2, 240-pound Orlando native caught 43 passes for 523 yards and five touchdowns — all top marks since the Knights made the leap into the Football Bowl Subdivision in 1996. He earned an All-Big 12 honorable mention and established himself as an offseason retention priority for Scott Frost and his staff.
"It wasn't something that changed me. After the season, it didn't make me move a different type of way. I'm still the same person, still the same guy," Wade said.
"There's no pressure. It's a privilege, though. " Four of those scores came in the Knights' final three games, including a pair against Oklahoma State .
That day, he racked up a career-high 120 yards on four grabs, doing so in front of his future position coach, Cooper Bassett. "First play of the second half, seeing (UCF) flood for eligibles to the boundary and you see No. 0 streak up the field and break everybody's heart if you were wearing orange that day," said Bassett, previously an assistant for the Cowboys under Mike Gundy.