CFB Zeitgeist QB Score
Awaiting
Byron Young
Limited signal — not enough coverage for a story yet.
Where He Ended Up · NFL
Las VegasEntering 4th NFL season
#70Rd 3 · Pick 7
Las VegasEntering 4th NFL season
QB · ALABAMA · SEC
Byron Young
- 3
- #9
- 6-0 | 194 lb
- Pasadena, CA
Heisman Heat
#4
7% 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
7%
TOP QB AWARD
Davey O'Brien
In contention
CONSENSUS
All-American
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Player Standing · 17 rungs
Tier 5 · ApexR15 · POTY finalist
Position-of-the-Year finalist. Among the nation's elite at the position.
Not on team2-deepStarterRecognizedEliteApex
Career arc · Season-by-season Standing
2 seasons on the ladder
★
2021
Alabama · QB
R15 · POTY finalist
Apex
2022
Alabama · QB
R15 · POTY finalist
Apex
NFL Draft 2023 · Rd 3, Pick 7 · #70 overall · Las Vegas
Development Trajectory · passing yards
2021–2022-32%
Sharp dropoff (-32%) — career inflection point.
Career Arc
HS
Recruit
★★★★
CFB
College
Alabama
NFL
NFL Draft
R3 · #70
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 |
|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 4-star | 0.9647 | No. 77 recruit | HighSchool | Alabama |
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 · 2022 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 20Heisman 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 Alabama
Composite
0.9647
#77 national
NFL Draft
2023 · Rd 3, Pick 7
#70 overall · Las Vegas
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 Byron Young
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 Byron Young
No rival-bucket mentions in the current season.
Signature Story
Awaiting candidate metric
He hasn't written his page yet — we'll start filling it in when there are enough snaps to rank against his peers.
Signature Moment
No signature moment on the ledger yet.
Returns once this player puts together a multi-game body of work — single-game flashes alone don't clear the bar.
Scenario Explorer
Available for players with a qualifying signature metric (passing yards, rushing yards, receiving yards, sacks, etc.). The slider projects how a season finishes if the current pace holds.
Why the pedigree actually matters here
The fast read on the thing that makes this player more than a generic stat line.
Byron Young was a real recruiting acquisition, not an out-of-nowhere name, and that matters when a Heisman case starts to form. The card shows a 4-star profile with a No. 77 recruit national ranking lane, which helps explain why voters and media were ready to notice fast once the production showed up.
2022 Season · Final
Traditional stats first. Advanced context underneath.
Last season
QB season snapshot
2022 season snapshot | final
2022 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?
High-volume passer | Vertical threat | Dual-threat against FBS QB peers. The quickest read is whether the profile wins on volume, efficiency, explosiveness, or rushing value.
2022 Season · Final
2022 season snapshot | final
Passing Efficiency
CMP
245 89th
ATT
380 91st
CMP%
64.5% 63rd
Y/A
8.8 86th
Passing Production
YDS
3,328 95th
TD
32 99th
INT
5 32nd
Rushing
CAR
49 69th
YDS
185 77th
YPC
3.8 63rd
TD
4 82nd
Game Log
Week-by-week box
No per-game rows for this season yet — the table fills in as box scores arrive.
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
2021Alabama12-1HC: Nick Saban · Balanced, fast tempo
2022Alabama11-2HC: Nick Saban · Balanced
Advanced layer Usage, value, and context
Advanced metrics second
Advanced Metrics
Usage, value, and opponent-adjusted context.
Opponent-adjusted passing value. Positive numbers mean the quarterback is adding more value through the air than a neutral peer would in the same environment.
How much of the offense runs through the quarterback once passing and rushing responsibility are blended together.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Passing | Passing yards | 3,328 | #21/382 | 95th pct | Volumevs FBS QB |
| Passing | Pass TD | 32 | #4/407 | 99th pct | Scoringvs FBS QB |
| Passing | Completions | 245 | #43/383 | 89th pct | Volumevs FBS QB |
| Passing | Completion % | 64.5% | #141/383 | 63rd pct | Efficiencyvs FBS QB |
| Passing | Yards / attempt | 8.8 | #56/382 | 86th pct | Efficiencyvs FBS QB |
| Rushing | Rushing yards | 185 | #93/408 | 77th pct | Volumevs FBS QB |
| Value | Passing WEPA | +0.76 | #1/200 | 100th pct | Opponent-adjusted passing value | 602 weighted playsvs FBS QB |
| Usage | Role share | 55.9% | #34/428 | 92nd pct | Share of team offensevs FBS QB |
| Passing | Attempts | 380 | #37/407 | 91st pct | Volumevs FBS QB |
| Passing | Interceptions | 5 | #276/407 | 32nd pct | Turnoversvs FBS QB |
| Rushing | Rushing LONG | 63 | #19/391 | 95th pct | Metricvs FBS QB |
| Rushing | Carries | 49 | #129/408 | 69th pct | Volumevs FBS QB |
| Rushing | Rush TD | 4 | #74/408 | 82nd pct | Scoringvs FBS QB |
| Rushing | Yards / carry | 3.8 | #153/407 | 63rd pct | Efficiencyvs FBS QB |
| Usage | Pass share | 95.6% | #18/428 | 96th pct | Air-game usagevs FBS QB |
| Usage | Passing-down usage | 79.4% | #5/428 | 99th pct | Known-passing sharevs FBS QB |
| Usage | 3rd-down usage | 74.2% | #21/428 | 95th pct | Money-down loadvs FBS QB |
| Usage | 2nd-down usage | 62.2% | #15/428 | 97th pct | Middle-down loadvs FBS QB |
| Usage | Standard-down usage | 45.8% | #60/428 | 86th pct | Base-situation sharevs FBS QB |
| Usage | 1st-down usage | 43.5% | #83/428 | 81st pct | Early-down loadvs FBS QB |
| Usage | Rush share | 8.5% | #186/428 | 57th pct | Ground-game usagevs FBS QB |
| Value | Rushing WEPA | +0.35 | #26/140 | 82nd pct | Opponent-adjusted rushing value | 45 weighted playsvs FBS QB |
| Ball Security | Fumbles lost | 0 | #1/258 | 100th pct | Turnoversvs FBS QB |
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 splits
Splits fill in once box scores from at least three games land for this season.
Advanced Savant · QB · 2022
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.
Supporting Cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Kalen DeBoer
Pass share
53.4%
523 pass / 456 run
Plays / game
65.3
15 games
OL sack rate (allowed)
6.8%
384 dropbacks · PBP
Scheme: Balanced.
Coaching Lineage · 2021–2022
1 coach2021
Nick Saban
Alabama
2022
Nick Saban
Alabama
Played his entire career under Nick Saban.
Bio · Recruiting · Transfer · Roster
Off-field context — switch tabs to drill into recruit profile, transfer arc, or roster timeline.
HometownPasadena, CA
Height6'0"
Weight194 lb
Class3
PositionQB
Jersey9
No fields populated yet.
No fields populated yet.
Current teamAlabama
ConferenceSEC
Joined2022
Career arc2 season(s)
Trophy Case · Confirmed honors
What the selectors said
🎖
ALL-CONFERENCE
All-Conf mention (2022)
All-SEC
Trophy Case · Detail
Every honor on the ledger, broken out by stream and selector.
1 all-conference honor
Conference-level recognition helps anchor whether a player is merely statistically loud or actually viewed as elite within his competitive lane.
Honors Timeline
Season-end distinction and week-by-week recognition on one timeline.
| Season | Honor | Scope | Team / Selector | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | All-SEC | all_conference | Alabama | SEC | DL |
Heisman By Year
Modeled rank and official finish by season.
Roster Timeline
Team, conference, and class by season.