CFB Zeitgeist Score
70
Solid starter in the position cohort. Carried by yards / catch at the 98th percentile.
Ashton Bethel-Roman
Below the discourse floor — the honest stats-only state.
503 REC YDS · 24 REC · 5 REC TD
2026 Outlook
Returning to Texas A&M for 2026
2026 Depth chart
Projected starter
Wide receiver · Texas A&M
Returning around him
- 75% of 2024 offensive production back (Strong continuity)
- 10 Texas A&M players drafted to NFL
- Transfer portal: -2 net (19 in / 21 out)
2026 Award watch
No preseason watch lists yet (most drop June 15 – July 15)
Texas A&M · Last season: 11-2 (AP #7) · Talent rank #8 · 2026 recruiting class #9
WR · TEXAS A&M · SEC
Ashton Bethel-Roman
- 1
- #3
- 6-0 | 185 lb
- Missouri City, TX
Heisman Heat
#3210
<1% win probability
Fan Belief
Awaiting
Player-specific FI not yet ingested. Falls back to team mood below.
Respect Gap
Awaiting
Coming online with player-level FI.
Reality Gap
Awaiting
Coming online with player-level FI.
ACCOLADE PROBABILITY
Heisman
<1%
TOP WR AWARD
Biletnikoff
—
CONSENSUS
All-American
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Player Standing · 17 rungs
Tier 2 · StarterR05 · Part-time starter
Part-time starter. Splitting first-team reps.
Not on team2-deepStarterRecognizedEliteApex
Career Arc
HS
Recruit
★★★★
CFB
College
Texas A&M
NFL
NFL Draft
—
Identity & Role
The durable bio layer: position, size, hometown, and roster role.
Recruiting Pedigree
How big the prospect was before college, and whether the later career arc beat that expectation.
| Class | Profile | Context |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 4-star | 0.9167 | No. 229 recruit | HighSchool | Texas A&M |
Transfer Arc
Portal movement changes role, context, and perception. This keeps that path in one place.
| Season | Move | Context |
|---|---|---|
| No transfer portal moves on file for this player. | ||
Heisman Lens · 2024 Season · Final
Where the player landed at the end of the listed season — final nowcast rank, win/finalist/ballot probabilities, and the cleanest official Heisman placement on file.
HIGH CONFIDENCE· through week 16Heisman Futures
Not yet listed on major futures markets.
No achievements unlocked yet this season.
Selector Grid · 2025
AP—
FWAA—
AFCA—
WCFF—
SN—
SI—
Selector recognition fills in once the major honors lists (AP, FWAA, AFCA, Walter Camp, Sporting News, SI) are scraped and ingested.
NIL · Recruiting · NFL Draft
Market value, pedigree & pro outcome
Recruit stars
★★★★☆
to Texas A&M
Composite
0.9167
#229 national
Today’s Hot-Take
The Hot-Take engine fires when this player’s percentile profile crosses a defensible threshold (top 10% in a cohort, 100+ snap sample). When it’s quiet, the model is honoring its “must be defensible” rule.
Anti-Take
PENDINGThe contrarian read fires when the rules-engine detects a stat that complicates the Hot-Take. Quiet here means the model hasn’t found a defensible counter yet — not that one doesn’t exist.
The Room on Ashton Bethel-Roman
Fan sentiment · Awaiting signal
The Room reads fan conversation around a player — who’s talking, what they believe, and how that shifts. It publishes once weekly volume rebuilds; for most players that’s in-season, when game-week chatter spikes.
Cohort divergence map
Cohort divergence reads how different fanbases talk about this player. Returns once weekly mentions clear the publish floor.
Rival Radar
How rival fanbases talk about Ashton Bethel-Roman
No rival-bucket mentions in the current season.
2025 Signature · 2025 season
Yards per reception
21.0
yds
All FBS WRs, min 20 receptions
Best by a Texas A&M WR since Ainias Smith 2022.
National rank #6 of 531
Percentile vs All FBS WRs, min 20 receptions 99th
Why it matters
#6 of 531 All FBS WRs at 21.0 yards per reception (24 catches).
Vs cohort
This player 21.0 (99th)
MODERATE · n=24 cohort 531
- Also strong
- Receiving TDs#98 / 531
- Receiving yards (total)#218 / 531
Signature Moment
Week 12 vs South Carolina — 139 ypr
Result W 31-30
The week the volume broke through — put up 139 yds vs South Carolina.
Season Pace · Projection
Where the receiving totals stand
Through 10g
503Rec yards
24Receptions
5Rec TDs
Per game
50.3Rec yards
2Receptions
0Rec TDs
Projected (13g)
653.9Rec yards
31Receptions
6Rec TDs
To hit 700-yard receiver (currently 503): needs 65.7/game over remaining 3.
To hit 1,000-yard receiver (currently 503): needs 165.7/game over remaining 3.
To hit 60-catch season (currently 24): needs 12/game over remaining 3.
To hit 80-catch season (currently 24): needs 18.7/game over remaining 3.
To hit 8 receiving TDs (currently 5): needs 1/game over remaining 3.
To hit 10 receiving TDs (currently 5): needs 1.7/game over remaining 3.
What made this player interesting
The fast read on the thing that makes this player more than a generic stat line.
Ashton Bethel-Roman's story is about how role and output meet each other. For Texas A&M, the card already shows enough current-season production to explain why he is on the serious-player board, and the next layer is determining whether the profile is just very good or actually distinctive.
2025 Season · Final
Traditional stats first. Advanced context underneath.
Last season
WR season snapshot
2025 season snapshot | final
2025 season snapshot | finalData: CFBD player stats + local Heisman modelPeer context: same position + same level
Player identity What kind of player is this?
30-second read
What kind of player is this?
Big-play receiver against FBS receiving peers.
2025 Season · Final
2025 season snapshot | final
Receiving
REC
24 68th
YDS
503 80th
YPR
21.0 95th
TD
5 91st
Game Log · Week-by-week
2025 season · 10 games
| Wk | Opp | REC | YDS | AVG | TD | LONG | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | W 42-24vs UTSA | 1 | 20 | 20.0 | 0 | 20 | |
| Wk 2 | W 44-22vs Utah State | 3 | 48 | 16.0 | 0 | 25 | |
| Wk 5 | W 16-10vs Auburn | 1 | 18 | 18.0 | 0 | 18 | |
| Wk 8 | W 45-42@ Arkansas | 4 | 83 | 20.8 | 1 | 37 | |
| Wk 9 | W 49-25@ LSU | 1 | 47 | 47.0 | 0 | 47 | |
| Wk 11 | W 38-17@ Missouri | 2 | 26 | 13.0 | 1 | 22 | |
| Wk 12 | W 31-30vs South Carolina | 4 | 139 | 34.8 | 1 | 76 | Season-high 139 yds |
| Wk 13 | W 48-0vs Samford | 2 | 61 | 30.5 | 2 | 58 | 2 TD catches |
| Wk 14 | L 17-27@ Texas | 2 | 17 | 8.5 | 0 | 11 | |
| Bowl | L 3-10vs Miami | 4 | 44 | 11.0 | 0 | 15 | |
| Total | 24 | 503 | 22.0 | 5 | 76 |
Season-by-season tables Career rows + per-season box score
Traditional history
Traditional Stats
Season rows up top, career context at the bottom.
Season context · Team result + system
2025Texas A&M11-2HC: Mike Elko · Run-leaning
| Season | Team | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Texas A&M | 24 | 503 | 21.0 | 5 | -- |
| Career | 1 loaded season | 24 | 503 | 21.0 | 5 | -- |
Advanced layer Usage, value, and context
Advanced metrics second
Advanced Metrics
Usage, value, and opponent-adjusted context.
The player's share of a team's passing-game involvement. It is the fastest way to see whether the receiver is a true focal point or more of a complementary piece.
A blended workload view that accounts for catches, designed touches, and any return-game involvement that shapes the overall profile.
Every percentile is compared against players at the same position and level, so an FBS quarterback is judged against FBS quarterbacks, not the whole sport.
The top tables stick to the stats fans already know from broadcasts and box scores. Advanced context is pushed underneath instead of replacing the basics.
Open full stat explorer
| Group | Metric | Value | Rank | Pct | Why it matters |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Receiving | Receptions | 24 | #358/1110 | 68th pct | Volumevs FBS WR |
| Receiving | Receiving yards | 503 | #222/1107 | 80th pct | Volumevs FBS WR |
| Receiving | Receiving TD | 5 | #96/1111 | 91st pct | Scoringvs FBS WR |
| Receiving | Yards / catch | 21.0 | #61/1106 | 95th pct | Efficiencyvs FBS WR |
| Usage | Pass share | 10.5% | #464/1137 | 59th pct | Air-game usagevs FBS WR |
| Receiving | Receiving LONG | 76 | #44/1105 | 96th pct | Metricvs FBS WR |
| Usage | 3rd-down usage | 7.5% | #419/1137 | 63rd pct | Money-down loadvs FBS WR |
| Usage | Passing-down usage | 5.9% | #603/1137 | 47th pct | Known-passing sharevs FBS WR |
| Usage | Role share | 5.0% | #482/1137 | 58th pct | Share of team offensevs FBS WR |
| Usage | Standard-down usage | 4.6% | #440/1137 | 61st pct | Base-situation sharevs FBS WR |
| Usage | 2nd-down usage | 4.4% | #594/1137 | 48th pct | Middle-down loadvs FBS WR |
| Usage | 1st-down usage | 4.3% | #509/1137 | 55th pct | Early-down loadvs FBS WR |
| Usage | Rush share | 0.0% | #391/1137 | 66th pct | Ground-game usagevs FBS WR |
| Ball Security | Fumbles lost | 1 | #131/302 | 57th pct | Turnoversvs FBS WR |
Player Standing
Universal 17-step ladder. Tier pills below; accolade streams nested.
AWAITING CLASSIFICATION
On-team2-deepStartingRecognizedEliteApex
AWAITING CLASSIFICATION · Rung None of 16
Why he’s here
Standing classification populates when honors, Heisman, and roster signals all align.
What moves him up
What moves him down
Accolade streams
Status—Awaiting tracker
Heisman model tracks the top FBS contenders weekly; this player hasn't entered the watch list yet.
Splits · Per-game
2025 season · 10 games
Home vs Road
| REC/g | YDS/g | YPR | TD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home6g | 2.5 | 55.0 | 21.7 | 0.5 |
| Road4g | 2.2 | 43.2 | 22.3 | 0.5 |
Win vs Loss
| REC/g | YDS/g | YPR | TD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wins8g | 2.2 | 55.2 | 25.0 | 0.6 |
| Losses2g | 3.0 | 30.5 | 9.8 | 0.0 |
First half vs Second half
| REC/g | YDS/g | YPR | TD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-74g | 2.2 | 32.5 | 16.2 | 0.0 |
| Weeks 8+6g | 2.5 | 62.2 | 25.8 | 0.8 |
Pocket and defense-quality (clean vs. pressure) splits are coming soon.
Savant · Box-rate percentiles
Where this profile ranks vs the WR cohort
70Solid starter
Elite: yards / catch (98th). Strength: long catch (92nd).
Percentiles versus same-position peers with enough snaps this season, based on box-score rates.
Advanced Savant · WR · 2024
Percentile Card
Advanced opponent-adjusted percentile bars are coming soon for this player.
P4G5All FBS
Advanced Savant
Opponent-adjusted advanced metrics with a cohort filter.
Advanced opponent-adjusted metrics are coming soon for this player. Selected cohort: P4.
Peer Comparator · Fingerprint match
Three closest profiles by box-rate percentile
Ashton Bethel-RomanTexas A&MAnthony SmithEast Carolina· 71% simChris Dawn Jr.Texas State· 71% simHarrison Wallace IIIOle Miss· 70% sim
Yards / catch
Long catch
Rec TDs
Rec yards
Fumbles lost
Receptions
Closest peers by overall box-score percentile profile at the same position.
Player DNA
The Deep Threat
Stretches the field vertically. Every snap is a potential big play.
WR
His 2025 production profile sits closest to Shae Wyatt’s 2022 season.
Shae Wyatt
70%match
#2
Jeff Foreman
61%
#3
Cyrus Allen
NFL Rd 5
67%
#4
Jordyn Tyson
NFL Rd 1 · Pk 8
66%
#5
Eddie Lewis
65%
Matches Shae on
Total EPA (college ability)
Height
Reception volume
Differs from Shae on
Class year (lower)
Yards / reception (higher)
Through 2 college seasons, his career arc tracks closest to Dennis Houston’s path through Western Illinois.
Dennis Houston
96%match
#2
Micahi Danzy
90%
#3
Marvin Mims
All-Big 12NFL Rd 2 · Pk 32
88%
#4
Dez Fitzpatrick
NFL Rd 4
84%
#5
Tayvian Cunningham
82%
Matches Dennis on
Yards per reception
As a sophomore, his production profile tracks closest to Malcolm Simmons's sophomore season at Auburn (2025).
Malcolm Simmons
61%match
#2
Micahi Danzy
57%
#3
Jsi Hatfield
57%
#4
Collin Dixon
57%
#5
Dannis Jackson
57%
Matches Malcolm on
EPA / play (adj)
Total EPA (college ability)
Yards / reception
Differs from Malcolm on
TD rate (higher)
Class year (lower)
Supporting Cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Mike Elko
Pass share
45.8%
407 pass / 482 run
Plays / game
68.4
13 games
OL sack rate (allowed)
3.8%
286 dropbacks · PBP
Scheme: Run-leaning.
Coaching Lineage · 2025
1 coach2025
Mike Elko
Texas A&M
Played his entire career under Mike Elko.
Bio · Recruiting · Transfer · Roster
Off-field context — switch tabs to drill into recruit profile, transfer arc, or roster timeline.
HometownMissouri City, TX
Height6'0"
Weight185 lb
Class1
PositionWR
Jersey3
No fields populated yet.
No fields populated yet.
Current teamTexas A&M
ConferenceSEC
Joined2025
Career arc2 season(s)
Trophy Case · Detail
Every honor on the ledger, broken out by stream and selector.
No formal honors on the ledger yet
All-America, all-conference, player-of-the-week, watch-list, and postseason awards land here when they're earned. The absence is the signal: most players never collect formal honors, and that's its own kind of context.
Honors Timeline
Season-end distinction and week-by-week recognition on one timeline.
| Season | Honor | Scope | Team / Selector | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| No formal honors on the ledger yet. All-America, all-conference, weekly awards, watch lists, and postseason trophies land here when they’re earned. | ||||
Heisman By Year
Modeled rank and official finish by season.
| Season | Team | Role | Latest Model | Forecast | Win | Finalist | Official Finish | Points | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Texas A&M | WR1 | #3210 | #2913 | 0.0% | 0.0% | -- | -- | W16 snapshot | SEC |
Roster Timeline
Team, conference, and class by season.