Jakobi Meyers keeps building a résumé that already looks unusual even by NFL standards.
As he heads into his eighth season, the former NC State wide receiver has a real shot to keep climbing two different record books: the all-time list for undrafted players and the numbers posted by former Wolfpack receivers in the league. Through seven seasons, Meyers has stacked up 468 catches for 5,427 yards and 23 touchdowns, production that puts him in rare company for a player who was not selected in the NFL Draft.
He is one of only four undrafted players in league history to post at least 700 receiving yards in six of his first seven seasons, alongside Antonio Gates, Drew Pearson and Rob Moore. Among undrafted players who entered the NFL since Meyers arrived in 2019, he leads in receptions, receiving yards and receiving first downs.
That kind of climb has already pushed Meyers into the top 20 all-time among undrafted receivers. His 5,427 receiving yards rank 20th on that list, just behind Malcom Floyd at 5,550 and Cole Beasley at 5,744. The names ahead of him include some of the most productive undrafted pass-catchers ever, with Antonio Gates at the top at 11,841 yards.
The next step could come quickly if Meyers stays anywhere near last season’s pace. He finished 2025 with 75 receptions for 835 yards and three touchdowns, splitting the year between the Raiders and Jaguars. In nine games with Jacksonville, he caught 42 passes for 483 yards and all three scores.
If he simply repeats that 835-yard season, Meyers would reach 6,262 career receiving yards and move ahead of Malcom Floyd, Cole Beasley, Steve Watson and Danny Amendola, landing 16th all-time among undrafted players. That would leave him only five yards shy of Alfred Jenkins for 15th.
If he gets back to the 1,000-yard level he hit in 2024, the math gets even more interesting. A season like that would leave him with 6,427 career yards, enough to pass Jenkins and Stephone Paige and move into 14th place. His career 17-game average is 862 receiving yards, so another steady season would not be a surprise.
Meyers is also moving up the NC State ledger. Among former Wolfpack players in NFL receptions, he sits fourth with 468, behind Torry Holt’s 920, Haywood Jeffires’ 535 and Jerricho Cotchery’s 524.
He needs 57 catches to pass Cotchery and 68 to pass Jeffires. If he matches last year’s total of 75 receptions, he would finish with 543 and jump into second place behind Holt.
The receiving yards list gives him another clear target. Meyers enters 2026 with 5,427 yards, trailing Jeffires’ 6,334 by 908.
He has already cleared that mark once, when he posted 1,027 yards in 2024. If he merely matches last season’s 835 yards, he would finish at 6,262 and sit just 72 yards behind Jeffires.
A 1,000-yard season would move him past Jeffires and leave him only 37 yards behind Mike Quick for third.
Touchdowns are the toughest climb. Meyers has 23 career touchdown receptions, and he would need 12 this season to pass Cotchery for fourth among former NC State players. Holt leads that list with 74, followed by Quick at 61 and Jeffires at 50.
What makes Meyers’ rise stand out is how it started. He arrived at NC State as a quarterback, switched to wide receiver and became an All-ACC player.
He finished his Wolfpack career with 168 catches for 1,932 yards, numbers that rank seventh and tenth in school history. Without the extra COVID-19 eligibility granted to Thayer Thomas and Emeka Emezie, Meyers would sit fifth in receptions and ninth in receiving yards at NC State.
Then came the draft, or rather the lack of one. He went undrafted. Seven NFL seasons later, he has 468 catches and 5,427 yards on his ledger, and 2026 gives him a chance to keep pushing higher on both the league’s undrafted lists and NC State’s all-time NFL rankings.
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