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Cameron Rising

QB · Utah · Sr · #7

Limited signal — not enough coverage for a story yet.

CAREER COMPLETEUtah 2024 — college career complete

QB · UTAH · BIG 12

Cameron Rising

  • 4
  • #7
  • 6-2 | 220 lb
  • Ventura, CA

CFB Zeitgeist QB Score

Awaiting

Heisman Heat

#169

<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 QB AWARD

Davey O'Brien

CONSENSUS

All-American

Player Standing · 17 rungs

Tier 4 · Elite

R12 · All-American

All-American. Named to an NCAA-recognized All-America team.

Not on team2-deepStarterRecognizedEliteApex

Career arc · Season-by-season Standing

3 seasons on the ladder

Peak: R08 Watch-list name · 2022

2021

Utah · QB

2022

Utah · QB

R08 · Watch-list name

Recognized

2024

Utah · QB

Development Trajectory · passing yards

2021–2024
2,4932021
3,0342022
5552024

-78%

Sharp dropoff (-78%) — career inflection point.

Career Arc

HS
Recruit
No recruit profile
CFB
College
Utah
2021–2024
NFL
NFL Draft
Not drafted (yet)

Identity & Role

The durable bio layer: position, size, hometown, and roster role.

PositionQB
Class4
Jersey7
Measurements6-2 | 220 lb
HometownVentura, CA
Primary teamUtah

Recruiting Pedigree

How big the prospect was before college, and whether the later career arc beat that expectation.

Top pedigree Not on file No matched recruiting profile in the loaded archive
Composite rating -- Composite rating unavailable for this player
Signed with -- Commitment history unavailable
Origin -- Hometown and high school unavailable
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.

Portal moves 0 No portal entry on file
Latest destination -- --
Transfer stars -- CFBD transfer rating context
Eligibility -- Transfer date TBD
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 16
Current nowcast#169Latest modeled ballot order
Season forecast#170Where the full season sim points
Win probability0.0%Chance to actually win the trophy
Finalist probability0.0%Chance to make the finalist tier
Ballot probability0.0%Chance to appear anywhere on a ballot
Best official finish--Best completed Heisman placement on file

Heisman 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

PENDING

The 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 Cameron Rising

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 Cameron Rising

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.

A 3-act season arc returns once this player has six or more games on the ledger.

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.

What made this player interesting

The fast read on the thing that makes this player more than a generic stat line.

Cameron Rising's story is about how role and output meet each other. For Utah, 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.

Current place #169 0.0% win | 0.0% finalist
Role load 38.1% Overall usage share
Profile quirk Development arc The card should explain why this profile stands out

2024 Season · Final

Traditional stats first. Advanced context underneath.

Last season

QB season snapshot

2024 season snapshot | final

2024 season snapshot | finalData: CFBD player stats + local Heisman modelPeer context: same position + same level
Pass yards 555 7 TD | 3 INT | #176/382 (54th pct)
Completion rate 51.5% 34/66 completions | #305/383 (21st pct)
Yards/attempt 8.4 Explosiveness through the air | #71/382 (82nd pct)
Player identity What kind of player is this?

30-second read

What kind of player is this?

Balanced quarterback against FBS QB peers. The quickest read is whether the profile wins on volume, efficiency, explosiveness, or rushing value.

Balanced profile

2024 Season · Final

2024 season snapshot | final

Passing Efficiency

CMP
34 50th
ATT
66 54th
CMP%
51.5% 21st
Y/A
8.4 82nd

Passing Production

YDS
555 54th
TD
7 67th
INT
3 43rd

Rushing

CAR
8 32nd
YDS
33 49th
YPC
4.1 66th
TD
0 44th

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 rows Career row

Season context · Team result + system

2021Utah10-3HC: Kyle Whittingham · Run-leaning
2022Utah10-4HC: Kyle Whittingham · Run-leaning
2024Utah5-7HC: Kyle Whittingham · Balanced
SeasonTeam
2024Utah346651.5%5558.473148.1----
2022Utah24938564.7%3,0347.9268149.0----
2021Utah20432063.7%2,4937.8205146.7----
Career3 loaded seasons48777163.2%6,0827.95316148.0----
SeasonTeam
2024Utah8334.10--
2022Utah774666.16--
2021Utah744996.76--
Career3 loaded seasons1599986.312--
Advanced layer Usage, value, and context

Advanced metrics second

Advanced Metrics

Usage, value, and opponent-adjusted context.

Usage Value Context
Passing WEPA

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.

Role share

How much of the offense runs through the quarterback once passing and rushing responsibility are blended together.

Peer percentile

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.

Traditional first

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.

Rush impact 33 0 rush TD | #209/408 (49th pct)
Usage 38.1% 76.7% pass share | 4.8% rush share | #153/428 (64th pct)
Passing WEPA +0.27 Opponent-adjusted passing value | #99/200 (51st pct)
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Group Metric Value Rank Pct Why it matters
Passing Passing yards 555 #176/382 54th pct Volumevs FBS QB
Passing Pass TD 7 #135/407 67th pct Scoringvs FBS QB
Passing Completions 34 #194/383 50th pct Volumevs FBS QB
Passing Completion % 51.5% #305/383 21st pct Efficiencyvs FBS QB
Passing Yards / attempt 8.4 #71/382 82nd pct Efficiencyvs FBS QB
Rushing Rushing yards 33 #209/408 49th pct Volumevs FBS QB
Value Passing WEPA +0.27 #99/200 51st pct Opponent-adjusted passing value | 56 weighted playsvs FBS QB
Usage Role share 38.1% #153/428 64th pct Share of team offensevs FBS QB
Passing Attempts 66 #189/407 54th pct Volumevs FBS QB
Passing Interceptions 3 #234/407 43rd pct Turnoversvs FBS QB
Rushing Rushing LONG 25 #138/391 65th pct Metricvs FBS QB
Rushing Carries 8 #278/408 32nd pct Volumevs FBS QB
Rushing Yards / carry 4.1 #138/407 66th pct Efficiencyvs FBS QB
Rushing Rush TD 0 #230/408 44th pct Scoringvs FBS QB
Usage Pass share 76.7% #127/428 71st pct Air-game usagevs FBS QB
Usage 3rd-down usage 47.6% #153/428 64th pct Money-down loadvs FBS QB
Usage 1st-down usage 43.0% #86/428 80th pct Early-down loadvs FBS QB
Usage Passing-down usage 39.2% #186/428 57th pct Known-passing sharevs FBS QB
Usage Standard-down usage 37.5% #125/428 71st pct Base-situation sharevs FBS QB
Usage 2nd-down usage 25.8% #195/428 55th pct Middle-down loadvs FBS QB
Usage Rush share 4.8% #281/428 35th pct Ground-game usagevs 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

StatusAwaiting 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.

Box-score Savant card waits for a season-stat snapshot above the cohort floor. Returns once enough box-score volume lands.

Advanced Savant · QB · 2024

Percentile Card

Advanced opponent-adjusted percentile bars are coming soon for this player.

P4G5All FBS
EPA / dropback
awaiting
CPOE
awaiting
Success rate
awaiting
Explosive rate (20+)
awaiting
aDOT
awaiting
Deep-ball accuracy
awaiting
Pressure-to-sack
awaiting
3rd-down EPA
awaiting
Red-zone TD rate
awaiting
Play-action EPA
awaiting
Scramble EPA
awaiting
Turnover-worthy play rate
awaiting

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 returns once this player clears the Savant metric floor (4+ scored bars).
DNA Match awaiting data — similarity scores compute once season stats clear the volume gate for this position cohort.

Supporting Cast · Scheme

Staff and system around the player

2025 season

Head Coach

Kyle Whittingham

Pass share

39.8%

371 pass / 562 run

Plays / game

71.8

13 games

OL sack rate (allowed)

4.2%

289 dropbacks · PBP

Scheme: Run-heavy.

Coaching Lineage · 2021–2024

1 coach
2021
Kyle Whittingham
Utah
2022
Kyle Whittingham
Utah
2024
Kyle Whittingham
Utah

Played his entire career under Kyle Whittingham.

Bio · Recruiting · Transfer · Roster

Off-field context — switch tabs to drill into recruit profile, transfer arc, or roster timeline.

HometownVentura, CA
Height6'2"
Weight220 lb
Class4
PositionQB
Jersey7

Trophy Case · Detail

Every honor on the ledger, broken out by stream and selector.

Honors

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 Utah QB4 #169 #170 0.0% 0.0% -- -- W16 snapshot | Big 12
2023 Utah QB4 #995 #782 0.0% 0.0% -- -- W19 snapshot | Pac-12
2022 Utah QB4 #7 #7 4.7% 24.8% -- -- W20 snapshot | Pac-12
2021 Utah QB4 #35 #43 0.0% 0.0% -- -- W20 snapshot | Pac-12

Roster Timeline

Team, conference, and class by season.

Season Team Conference Pos Class Bio
2024 Utah Big 12 QB 4 No. 7 | 6-2 | 220 lb | Ventura, CA
2023 Utah Pac-12 QB 4 No. 7 | 6-2 | 220 lb | Ventura, CA
2022 Utah Pac-12 QB 4 No. 7 | 6-2 | 220 lb | Ventura, CA
2021 Utah Pac-12 QB 4 No. 7 | 6-2 | 220 lb | Ventura, CA