Dakota Twitty holds the TE · Starter spot in Virginia Cavaliers’s tight end room. Where he sits among the room’s front-line roles:

Dakota Twitty logged a 4.6% overall usage rate in 2025.

Dakota Twitty is a 6'5" tight end from Columbus, NC who attended Thomas Jefferson Classical High School as a four-star recruit in the 2022 class. He missed his freshman season due to injury before transitioning to tight end and appearing in seven games in 2023, recording his first career reception in a win over then-No. 10 North Carolina. In 2024, Twitty appeared in 11 games and finished with 10 receptions for 78 yards while earning his first career receiving touchdown at No. 10 Clemson, finishing second among team tight ends in catches. During the 2025 season, he has recorded 11 receptions for 129 yards with a long reception of 26 yards, including a career-high five catches for 29 yards in Virginia's double-overtime victory over No. 8 Florida State.

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