CFB Zeitgeist Score
18
Below cohort in the position cohort. Carried by yards / catch at the 57th percentile.
Caleb Gossett
Below the discourse floor — the honest stats-only state.
162 REC YDS · 12 REC · 0 REC TD
2026 Outlook
Returning to Ohio for 2026
2026 Depth chart
Returning starter
Wide receiver · Ohio
Returning around him
- 65% of 2024 offensive production back (Solid continuity)
- Transfer portal: +2 net (18 in / 16 out)
2026 Award watch
No preseason watch lists yet (most drop June 15 – July 15)
Ohio · Last season: 9-4 · Talent rank #126 · 2026 recruiting class #121
WR · OHIO · MID-AMERICAN
Caleb Gossett
- 4
- #88
- 6-2 | 200 lb
- Lewis Center, OH
Heisman Heat
#1989
<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
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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
Development Trajectory · receiving yards
2024–2025+3%
Modest growth (3%) across the multi-season window.
Career Arc
HS
Recruit
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CFB
College
Ohio
NFL
NFL Draft
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| No recruiting profile is on file for this player. | ||
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.
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 Caleb Gossett
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 Caleb Gossett
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.
Season Pace · Projection
Where the receiving totals stand
Through 9g
162Rec yards
12Receptions
0Rec TDs
Per game
18Rec yards
1Receptions
0Rec TDs
Projected (13g)
234Rec yards
17Receptions
0Rec TDs
To hit 700-yard receiver (currently 162): needs 134.5/game over remaining 4.
To hit 1,000-yard receiver (currently 162): needs 209.5/game over remaining 4.
To hit 60-catch season (currently 12): needs 12/game over remaining 4.
To hit 80-catch season (currently 12): needs 17/game over remaining 4.
To hit 8 receiving TDs (currently 0): needs 2/game over remaining 4.
To hit 10 receiving TDs (currently 0): needs 2.5/game over remaining 4.
What made this player interesting
The fast read on the thing that makes this player more than a generic stat line.
Caleb Gossett's story is about how role and output meet each other. For Ohio, 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?
Receiving weapon against FBS receiving peers.
2025 Season · Final
2025 season snapshot | final
Receiving
REC
12 52nd
YDS
162 53rd
YPR
13.5 63rd
TD
0 45th
Game Log · Week-by-week
2025 season · 9 games
| Wk | Opp | REC | YDS | AVG | TD | LONG | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | L 31-34@ Rutgers | 2 | 22 | 11.0 | 0 | 11 | |
| Wk 2 | W 17-10vs West Virginia | 3 | 17 | 5.7 | 0 | 11 | |
| Wk 3 | L 9-37@ Ohio State | 1 | 6 | 6.0 | 0 | 6 | |
| Wk 4 | W 52-35vs Gardner-Webb | 1 | 15 | 15.0 | 0 | 15 | |
| Wk 5 | W 35-20vs Bowling Green | 1 | 24 | 24.0 | 0 | 24 | |
| Wk 8 | W 48-21vs Northern Illinois | 1 | 21 | 21.0 | 0 | 21 | |
| Wk 9 | W 28-21@ Eastern Michigan | 1 | 35 | 35.0 | 0 | 35 | Season-high 35 yds |
| Wk 12 | L 13-17@ Western Michigan | 1 | 8 | 8.0 | 0 | 8 | |
| Wk 14 | W 31-26@ Buffalo | 1 | 14 | 14.0 | 0 | 14 | |
| Total | 12 | 162 | 15.5 | 0 | 35 |
Season-by-season tables Career rows + per-season box score
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 | 12 | #533/1110 | 52nd pct | Volumevs FBS WR |
| Receiving | Receiving yards | 162 | #521/1107 | 53rd pct | Volumevs FBS WR |
| Receiving | Receiving TD | 0 | #615/1111 | 45th pct | Scoringvs FBS WR |
| Receiving | Yards / catch | 13.5 | #406/1106 | 63rd pct | Efficiencyvs FBS WR |
| Usage | Pass share | 8.1% | #602/1137 | 47th pct | Air-game usagevs FBS WR |
| Receiving | Receiving LONG | 35 | #527/1105 | 52nd pct | Metricvs FBS WR |
| Usage | 3rd-down usage | 3.8% | #750/1137 | 34th pct | Money-down loadvs FBS WR |
| Usage | Role share | 3.2% | #727/1137 | 36th pct | Share of team offensevs FBS WR |
| Usage | Standard-down usage | 3.2% | #647/1137 | 43rd pct | Base-situation sharevs FBS WR |
| Usage | 1st-down usage | 3.1% | #692/1137 | 39th pct | Early-down loadvs FBS WR |
| Usage | Passing-down usage | 3.0% | #906/1137 | 20th pct | Known-passing sharevs FBS WR |
| Usage | 2nd-down usage | 2.1% | #908/1137 | 20th pct | Middle-down loadvs FBS WR |
| Usage | Rush share | 0.0% | #391/1137 | 66th pct | Ground-game usagevs 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 · 9 games
Home vs Road
| REC/g | YDS/g | YPR | TD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home4g | 1.5 | 19.2 | 16.4 | 0.0 |
| Road5g | 1.2 | 17.0 | 14.8 | 0.0 |
Win vs Loss
| REC/g | YDS/g | YPR | TD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wins6g | 1.3 | 21.0 | 19.1 | 0.0 |
| Losses3g | 1.3 | 12.0 | 8.3 | 0.0 |
First half vs Second half
| REC/g | YDS/g | YPR | TD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-75g | 1.6 | 16.8 | 12.3 | 0.0 |
| Weeks 8+4g | 1.0 | 19.5 | 19.5 | 0.0 |
Pocket and defense-quality (clean vs. pressure) splits are coming soon.
Savant · Box-rate percentiles
Where this profile ranks vs the WR cohort
18Below cohort
Concern: receptions (2nd).
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.
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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
Caleb GossettOhioMichael Jackson IIIPurdue· 46% simJacquon GibsonMassachusetts· 45% simKevin Coleman Jr.Missouri· 43% sim
Yards / catch
Long catch
Rec yards
Rec TDs
Receptions
Closest peers by overall box-score percentile profile at the same position.
Player DNA
The Possession Receiver
Reliable target who converts on critical downs. Not flashy; consistently productive.
WR
His 2025 production profile sits closest to Quaterrius Tolbert’s 2022 season.
Quaterrius Tolbert
85%match
#2
Blaine Green
84%
#3
Eric Holley
84%
#4
Darren Wilson
80%
#5
Porter Rooks
78%
Matches Quaterrius on
Total EPA (college ability)
Yards / reception
EPA / play (adj)
Differs from Quaterrius on
Class year (higher)
Weight (higher)
Through 2 college seasons, his career arc tracks closest to Horatio Fields’s path through Auburn.
Horatio Fields
99%match
#2
Max Tomczak
99%
#3
Josh Pederson
All-Sun Belt
96%
#4
Osirus Mitchell
95%
#5
Bralon Brown
95%
Matches Horatio on
Height
Yards per reception
Weight
As a sophomore, his production profile tracks closest to Blaine Green's sophomore season at Oklahoma State (2023).
Blaine Green
83%match
#2
Mitch Leigber
78%
#3
Javonte Sherman
81%
#4
Darren Wilson
80%
#5
Keshawn Wicks
79%
Matches Blaine on
Reception volume
Total EPA (college ability)
Yards / reception
Differs from Blaine on
EPA / play (adj) (lower)
Supporting Cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Brian Smith
Pass share
36.6%
311 pass / 539 run
Plays / game
65.4
13 games
OL sack rate (allowed)
9.4%
278 dropbacks · PBP
Scheme: Run-heavy.
Coaching Lineage · 2024–2025
2 coaches2024
Tim Albin
Ohio
2025era →
Brian Smith
Ohio
Coaching transition mid-career: Tim Albin → Brian Smith. Worth noting in scheme + development context.
Bio · Recruiting · Transfer · Roster
Off-field context — switch tabs to drill into recruit profile, transfer arc, or roster timeline.
HometownLewis Center, OH
Height6'2"
Weight200 lb
Class4
PositionWR
Jersey88
No fields populated yet.
No fields populated yet.
Current teamOhio
ConferenceMid-American
Joined2025
Career arc4 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.
Roster Timeline
Team, conference, and class by season.
| Season | Team | Conference | Pos | Class | Bio |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Ohio | Mid-American | WR | 4 | No. 88 | 6-2 | 200 lb | Lewis Center, OH |
| 2024 | Ohio | Mid-American | WR | 4 | No. 88 | 6-2 | 200 lb | Lewis Center, OH |
| 2023 | Ohio | Mid-American | WR | 4 | No. 88 | 6-2 | 200 lb | Lewis Center, OH |
| 2022 | Ohio | Mid-American | WR | 4 | No. 88 | 6-2 | 200 lb | Lewis Center, OH |