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Chase Roberts

WR · BYU · Sr · #2

The Hope Economyas of 2026-06-22

Chase Roberts is BYU's offseason bet — the case is potential over production.

802REC YDS54REC6REC TD

TEAM RECEIVING YARDS LEADER

803

Team leader in receiving yards (803).

BYU fans sell the ceiling harder than the résumé; the upside is the whole argument.

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Read the story so far

He lines up at WR for BYU.

On the field, the headline is 802 rec yds, with 54 rec.

BYU fans sell the ceiling harder than the résumé; the upside is the whole argument.

The number to watch: 803 — team receiving yards leader.

Why nowHe is squarely in the 2026 hype cycle — projection season.
  • season totals
  • Team leader in receiving yards (803).
  • compiled from tagged fan discourse

AI narrative · updated 2026-06-22 · compiled from CFB Zeitgeist data

2026 RETURNINGReturning to BYU for 2026

2026 Outlook

Returning to BYU for 2026

Updated May 27

2026 Depth chart

Returning starter

Wide receiver · BYU

Returning around him

  • 87% of 2024 offensive production back (Strong continuity)
  • 2 BYU players drafted to NFL
  • Transfer portal: -4 net (9 in / 13 out)

2026 Award watch

No preseason watch lists yet (most drop June 15 – July 15)

BYU · Last season: 12-2 (AP #12) · Talent rank #70 · 2026 recruiting class #55

WR · BYU · BIG 12

Chase Roberts

  • 4
  • #2
  • 6-4 | 210 lb
  • Highland, UT

CFB Zeitgeist Score

85

All-Conference in the position cohort. Carried by rec yards at the 88th percentile.

Heisman Heat

#131

<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

Player Standing · 17 rungs

Tier 2 · Starter

R06 · Starter

Starter. A locked-in starting role.

Not on team2-deepStarterRecognizedEliteApex

Development Trajectory · receiving yards

2022–2025
3572022
5732023
8032024
8022025

+125%

Up 125% from first season to most-recent.

Career Arc

HS
Recruit
No recruit profile
CFB
College
BYU
2022–2025
NFL
NFL Draft
Not drafted (yet)

Identity & Role

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

PositionWR
Class4
Jersey2
Measurements6-4 | 210 lb
HometownHighland, UT
Primary teamBYU

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#131Latest modeled ballot order
Season forecast#120Where 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 Chase Roberts

Fan sentiment · Season 2025 conversation window

Belief Meter

79

Quietly Bullish

Sample 29 mentions
Confidence HIGH

Top Take

Trajectory

Cohort divergence mapbearishbullishheatedcalmOwn fans: 30 mentions · belief +79 · "\- Jack Kelly drafted by the Giants \- Carsen Ryan drafted by the Browns \- Mo"Own fans
  • Own fans · n=30

Rival Radar

How rival fanbases talk about Chase Roberts

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.

Season Pace · Projection

Where the receiving totals stand

final
Through 13g
802Rec yards
54Receptions
6Rec TDs
Per game
61.7Rec yards
4Receptions
0Rec TDs
Final
802Rec yards
54Receptions
6Rec TDs

✓ Hit 700-yard receiver · finished with 802.

What made this player interesting

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

Chase Roberts's story is about how role and output meet each other. For BYU, 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 #131 0.0% win | 0.0% finalist
Role load 10.4% Overall usage share
Profile quirk All-purpose load The card should explain why this profile stands out

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
Receptions 54 6 rec TD | #94/1110 (92nd pct)
Receiving yards 802 14.9 per catch | #69/1107 (94th pct)
Scrimmage yards 802 Total offensive yardage | #69/1107 (94th pct)
Player identity What kind of player is this?

30-second read

What kind of player is this?

Target magnet against FBS receiving peers.

Target magnet

2025 Season · Final

2025 season snapshot | final

Receiving

REC
54 92nd
YDS
802 94th
YPR
14.9 75th
TD
6 95th

Game Log · Week-by-week

2025 season · 13 games

Box score · CFBD
WkOppRECYDSAVGTDLONGNote
Wk 1W 69-0vs Portland State144.014
Wk 2W 27-3vs Stanford58416.8041
Wk 4W 34-13@ East Carolina59719.4040
Wk 5W 24-21@ Colorado5499.82162 TD catches
Wk 6W 38-24vs West Virginia416140.3085Season-high 161 yds
Wk 7W 33-27@ Arizona22512.5017
Wk 8W 24-21vs Utah24321.5126
Wk 9W 41-27@ Iowa State812816.0045
Wk 11L 7-29@ Texas Tech66110.2114
Wk 12W 44-13vs TCU55010.0013
Wk 13W 26-14@ Cincinnati11111.0011
Wk 15L 7-34@ Texas Tech33210.7018
BowlW 25-21vs Georgia Tech7578.1118
Total5480214.6685
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

2022BYU8-5HC: Kalani Sitake · Balanced
2023BYU5-7HC: Kalani Sitake · Balanced
2024BYU11-2HC: Kalani Sitake · Run-leaning
2025BYU12-2HC: Kalani Sitake · Run-leaning
SeasonTeam
2025BYU5480214.96--
2024BYU5080316.13--
2023BYU4257313.65--
2022BYU2235716.23--
Career4 loaded seasons1682,53515.117--
SeasonTeam
2025BYU----------
2024BYU623------
2023BYU212------
2022BYU43------
Career4 loaded seasons1238------
Advanced layer Usage, value, and context

Advanced metrics second

Advanced Metrics

Usage, value, and opponent-adjusted context.

Usage Value Context
Pass share

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.

Role share

A blended workload view that accounts for catches, designed touches, and any return-game involvement that shapes the overall profile.

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.

Usage 10.4% 24.3% pass-game share | #30/1137 (97th pct)
Return yards 0 0 return TD
Touchdowns 6 Across offense and returns | #56/1111 (95th pct)
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Group Metric Value Rank Pct Why it matters
Receiving Receptions 54 #94/1110 92nd pct Volumevs FBS WR
Receiving Receiving yards 802 #69/1107 94th pct Volumevs FBS WR
Receiving Receiving TD 6 #56/1111 95th pct Scoringvs FBS WR
Receiving Yards / catch 14.9 #272/1106 75th pct Efficiencyvs FBS WR
Usage Pass share 24.3% #30/1137 97th pct Air-game usagevs FBS WR
Receiving Receiving LONG 85 #15/1105 99th pct Metricvs FBS WR
Usage 3rd-down usage 14.4% #57/1137 95th pct Money-down loadvs FBS WR
Usage Passing-down usage 12.1% #127/1137 89th pct Known-passing sharevs FBS WR
Usage Role share 10.4% #81/1137 93rd pct Share of team offensevs FBS WR
Usage Standard-down usage 9.7% #75/1137 93rd pct Base-situation sharevs FBS WR
Usage 2nd-down usage 9.4% #142/1137 88th pct Middle-down loadvs FBS WR
Usage 1st-down usage 8.9% #127/1137 89th pct Early-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

StatusAwaiting tracker

Heisman model tracks the top FBS contenders weekly; this player hasn't entered the watch list yet.

Splits · Per-game

2025 season · 13 games

Home/Road · Win/Loss · Season halves

Home vs Road

REC/gYDS/gYPRTD/g
Home6g4.066.516.80.5
Road7g4.357.612.80.4

Win vs Loss

REC/gYDS/gYPRTD/g
Wins11g4.164.515.40.5
Losses2g4.546.510.40.5

First half vs Second half

REC/gYDS/gYPRTD/g
Weeks 1-77g4.168.115.80.6
Weeks 8+6g4.254.213.20.3

Pocket and defense-quality (clean vs. pressure) splits are coming soon.

Savant · Box-rate percentiles

Where this profile ranks vs the WR cohort

85All-Conference
5 metrics · season cumulative

Elite: long catch (97th). Strength: rec yards (87th).

Long catch#13 / 558 · 98th pct
85rece
Rec yards#69 / 558 · 88th pct
802rece
Rec TDs#56 / 558 · 87th pct
6rece
Receptions#94 / 558 · 83rd pct
54rece
Yards / catch#138 / 558 · 75th pct
14.9rece

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
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 · Fingerprint match

Three closest profiles by box-rate percentile

3 peers · 5 metrics
Chase RobertsBYUIsaiah SategnaOklahoma· 93% simDenzel BostonWashington· 92% simCooper BarkateDuke· 91% sim
Long catch
98
Roberts
98
Sategna
94
Boston
93
Barkate
Rec yards
88
Roberts
95
Sategna
92
Boston
98
Barkate
Rec TDs
87
Roberts
95
Sategna
98
Boston
92
Barkate
Receptions
83
Roberts
93
Sategna
91
Boston
97
Barkate
Yards / catch
75
Roberts
72
Sategna
66
Boston
79
Barkate

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 Caleb Douglas’s 2025 season.

Caleb Douglas

84%match

Texas Tech · 2025

NFL Rd 3 · Pk 11
#2

Corey Gammage

Marshall · 2022

82%
#3

Donaven McCulley

Indiana · 2023

81%
#4

Malachi Fields

Virginia · 2023

NFL Rd 3 · Pk 10
80%
#5

Chase Roberts

BYU · 2023

79%

Matches Caleb on

Yards / reception
Reception volume
TD rate

Not enough data yet for this comparison.

As a senior, his production profile tracks closest to Caleb Douglas's senior season at Texas Tech (2025).

Caleb Douglas

88%match

Texas Tech · 2025

NFL Rd 3 · Pk 11
#2

Savion Williams

TCU · 2023

NFL Rd 3 · Pk 23
76%
#3

Shaleak Knotts

Maryland · 2025

75%
#4

Reginald Virgil

Texas Tech · 2025

72%
#5

Dane Key

Nebraska · 2025

71%

Matches Caleb on

Yards / reception
Reception volume
EPA / play (adj)

Supporting Cast · Scheme

Staff and system around the player

2025 season

Head Coach

Kalani Sitake

Pass share

43.5%

401 pass / 520 run

Plays / game

65.8

14 games

OL sack rate (allowed)

5.6%

270 dropbacks · PBP

Scheme: Run-leaning.

Coaching Lineage · 2022–2025

1 coach
2022
Kalani Sitake
BYU
2023
Kalani Sitake
BYU
2024
Kalani Sitake
BYU
2025
Kalani Sitake
BYU

Played his entire career under Kalani Sitake.

Bio · Recruiting · Transfer · Roster

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

HometownHighland, UT
Height6'4"
Weight210 lb
Class4
PositionWR
Jersey2

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 BYU WR4 #131 #120 0.0% 0.0% -- -- W16 snapshot | Big 12
2023 BYU WR4 #704 #1003 0.0% 0.0% -- -- W19 snapshot | Big 12
2022 BYU WR4 #658 #763 0.0% 0.0% -- -- W20 snapshot | FBS Independents

Roster Timeline

Team, conference, and class by season.

Season Team Conference Pos Class Bio
2025 BYU Big 12 WR 4 No. 2 | 6-4 | 210 lb | Highland, UT
2024 BYU Big 12 WR 4 No. 2 | 6-4 | 210 lb | Highland, UT
2023 BYU Big 12 WR 4 No. 2 | 6-4 | 210 lb | Highland, UT
2022 BYU FBS Independents WR 4 No. 2 | 6-4 | 210 lb | Highland, UT