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Heisman / Players / Casey Thompson /Oklahoma

Casey Thompson

QB · Oklahoma · Sr · #16

Limited signal — not enough coverage for a story yet.

ALUMNUSFlorida Atlantic 2023 alumnus

QB · OKLAHOMA · SEC

Casey Thompson

  • 4
  • #16
  • 6-0 | 192 lb
  • Newcastle, OK

CFB Zeitgeist QB Score

Awaiting

Heisman Heat

#734

<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 3 · Recognized

R11 · National watch / fringe AA

National watch / fringe All-America. Knocking on the All-America door.

Not on team2-deepStarterRecognizedEliteApex

Career arc · Season-by-season Standing

3 seasons on the ladder

Peak: R08 Watch-list name · 2021

2021

Texas · QB

R08 · Watch-list name

Recognized

2022

Nebraska · QB

2023

Florida Atlantic · QB

Development Trajectory · passing yards

2021–2023
2,1132021
2,4072022
5092023

-76%

Sharp dropoff (-76%) — career inflection point.

Career Arc

HS
Recruit
★★★★
#291 national
CFB
College
3 teams
2021–2023
NFL
NFL Draft
Not drafted (yet)

Identity & Role

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

PositionQB
Class4
Jersey16
Measurements6-0 | 192 lb
HometownNewcastle, OK
Primary teamOklahoma

Recruiting Pedigree

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

Top pedigree 4-star No. 291 recruit
Composite rating 0.9021 HighSchool
Signed with Texas 2018
Origin Newcastle Newcastle, OK, USA
Class Profile Context
2018 4-star | 0.9021 No. 291 recruit | HighSchool | Texas

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#734Latest modeled ballot order
Season forecast#587Where 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.

NIL · Recruiting · NFL Draft

Market value, pedigree & pro outcome

Recruit stars

★★★★☆

to Texas

Composite

0.9021

#291 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

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 Casey Thompson

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 Casey Thompson

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.

Casey Thompson's story is about how role and output meet each other. For Oklahoma, 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 #734 0.0% win | 0.0% finalist
Role load 39.0% Overall usage share
Profile quirk Blue-chip pedigree No. 291 recruit

2023 Season · Final

Traditional stats first. Advanced context underneath.

Last season

QB season snapshot

2023 season snapshot | final

2023 season snapshot | finalData: CFBD player stats + local Heisman modelPeer context: same position + same level
Pass yards 509 5 TD | 5 INT | #177/382 (54th pct)
Completion rate 63.3% 50/79 completions | #159/383 (59th pct)
Yards/attempt 6.4 Explosiveness through the air | #233/382 (39th pct)
Player identity What kind of player is this?

30-second read

What kind of player is this?

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

Pocket-leaning

2023 Season · Final

2023 season snapshot | final

Passing Efficiency

CMP
50 55th
ATT
79 55th
CMP%
63.3% 59th
Y/A
6.4 39th

Passing Production

YDS
509 54th
TD
5 64th
INT
5 32nd

Rushing

CAR
10 36th
YDS
2 21st
YPC
0.2 19th
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

2021Texas5-7HC: Steve Sarkisian · Run-leaning
2022Nebraska4-8HC: Mickey Joseph · Run-leaning
2023Florida Atlantic4-8HC: Tom Herman · Balanced
SeasonTeam
2023Florida Atlantic507963.3%5096.455125.6----
2022Nebraska17327463.1%2,4078.81710150.1----
2021Texas16526163.2%2,1138.1249154.7----
Career3 loaded seasons38861463.2%5,0298.24624148.9----
SeasonTeam
2023Florida Atlantic1020.20--
2022Nebraska56-21-0.45--
2021Texas551572.94--
Career3 loaded seasons1211381.19--
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 2 0 rush TD | #325/408 (21st pct)
Usage 39.0% 73.8% pass share | 9.6% rush share | #147/428 (66th pct)
Passing WEPA +0.54 Opponent-adjusted passing value | #5/200 (98th pct)
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Group Metric Value Rank Pct Why it matters
Passing Passing yards 509 #177/382 54th pct Volumevs FBS QB
Passing Pass TD 5 #149/407 64th pct Scoringvs FBS QB
Passing Completions 50 #173/383 55th pct Volumevs FBS QB
Passing Completion % 63.3% #159/383 59th pct Efficiencyvs FBS QB
Passing Yards / attempt 6.4 #233/382 39th pct Efficiencyvs FBS QB
Rushing Rushing yards 2 #325/408 21st pct Volumevs FBS QB
Value Passing WEPA +0.54 #5/200 98th pct Opponent-adjusted passing value | 287 weighted playsvs FBS QB
Value Passing WEPA +0.54 #5/200 98th pct Opponent-adjusted passing value | 287 weighted playsvs FBS QB
Usage Role share 39.0% #147/428 66th pct Share of team offensevs FBS QB
Passing Attempts 79 #184/407 55th pct Volumevs FBS QB
Passing Interceptions 5 #276/407 32nd pct Turnoversvs FBS QB
Rushing Rushing LONG 14 #232/391 41st pct Metricvs FBS QB
Rushing Carries 10 #263/408 36th pct Volumevs FBS QB
Rushing Yards / carry 0.2 #331/407 19th pct Efficiencyvs FBS QB
Rushing Rush TD 0 #230/408 44th pct Scoringvs FBS QB
Usage Pass share 73.8% #134/428 69th pct Air-game usagevs FBS QB
Usage 3rd-down usage 48.4% #151/428 65th pct Money-down loadvs FBS QB
Usage Passing-down usage 46.8% #163/428 62nd pct Known-passing sharevs FBS QB
Usage 1st-down usage 37.0% #124/428 71st pct Early-down loadvs FBS QB
Usage 2nd-down usage 35.9% #162/428 62nd pct Middle-down loadvs FBS QB
Usage Standard-down usage 35.8% #134/428 69th pct Base-situation sharevs FBS QB
Usage Rush share 9.6% #165/428 62nd pct Ground-game usagevs FBS QB
Value Rushing WEPA +0.45 #5/140 97th pct Opponent-adjusted rushing value | 46 weighted playsvs FBS QB
Value Rushing WEPA +0.45 #5/140 97th pct Opponent-adjusted rushing value | 46 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

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

Brent Venables

Pass share

50.4%

429 pass / 423 run

Plays / game

65.5

13 games

OL sack rate (allowed)

7.0%

345 dropbacks · PBP

Scheme: Balanced.

Coaching Lineage · 2021–2023

2 coaches
2021
Bob Stoops
Oklahoma
2022
Brent Venables
Oklahoma
era →
2023
Brent Venables
Oklahoma

Coaching transition mid-career: Bob Stoops → Brent Venables. 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.

HometownNewcastle, OK
Height6'0"
Weight192 lb
Class4
PositionQB
Jersey16

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 Oklahoma QB4 #734 #587 0.0% 0.0% -- -- W16 snapshot | SEC
2023 Florida Atlantic QB4 #1245 #1514 0.0% 0.0% -- -- W19 snapshot | American Athletic
2022 Nebraska QB4 #185 #320 0.0% 0.0% -- -- W20 snapshot | Big Ten
2021 Texas QB4 #21 #25 1.5% 0.0% -- -- W20 snapshot | Big 12

Roster Timeline

Team, conference, and class by season.

Season Team Conference Pos Class Bio
2024 Oklahoma SEC QB 4 No. 16 | 6-0 | 192 lb | Newcastle, OK
2023 Florida Atlantic American Athletic QB 4 No. 16 | 6-0 | 192 lb | Newcastle, OK
2022 Nebraska Big Ten QB 4 No. 16 | 6-0 | 192 lb | Newcastle, OK
2021 Texas Big 12 QB 4 No. 16 | 6-0 | 192 lb | Newcastle, OK
2021 Nebraska Big Ten QB 4 No. 16 | 6-0 | 192 lb | Newcastle, OK