- Position
- LB
- Jersey
- #22
- Height
- 6' 1"
- Weight
- 218 lbs
- Experience
- Senior
- Hometown
- Monticello, MS
About Matt Wells
American football player and coach (born 1973)
Matt Wells is a LB for Mississippi State Bulldogs, from Monticello, MS. The reported career dataset covers 4 seasons, from 2011 to 2014. Season rows below preserve the source’s team assignments and stat categories.
Matthew Scribner Wells is an American college football coach and former quarterback who serves a senior offensive consultant for Mississippi State Bulldogs. Wells previously served as offensive coordinator and then head coach at Utah State University, where he was named Mountain West Conference coach of the year in 2013 and 2018. Wells was named head football coach at Texas Tech University on November 29, 2018, and led the team until his firing midway through the 2021 season. He also served as an offensive analyst at the University of Oklahoma under head coach Brent Venables during the 2022 and 2023 seasons and as the associate head coach, offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach at Kansas State University in 2024 and 2025.
- Born (Wikidata)
- 1973-08-10
Compare the reported seasons.
The defense dataset reports 0 yards in 2014, compared with 0 in 2013. That is a change of 0 yards between these two reported seasons.
These are season totals rather than a forecast or a measure of ability. A current season may still be in progress, and changes in playing time, role, team or available games can affect the comparison. Inspect the career table before drawing a conclusion.
Career defense
| 2011 | mississippi state bulldogs | 31 | 12 | 19 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2012 | mississippi state bulldogs | 35 | 15 | 20 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 22 | 1 |
| 2013 | mississippi state bulldogs | 50 | 28 | 22 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2014 | mississippi state bulldogs | 46 | 26 | 20 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Career | All teams | 162 | 81 | 81 | 0 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 22 | 1 |
Career scoring
| 2012 | mississippi state bulldogs | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 |
| Career | All teams | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 |
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