CFB Zeitgeist Score
18
Below cohort in the position cohort. Carried by interceptions at the 97th percentile.
Cole Gonzales
Below the discourse floor — the honest stats-only state.
118 PASS YDS · 1 PASS TD · 1 RUSH YDS
Where He Ended Up · Transfer
Transferred to Charlotte
2025Pittsburgh
2026Charlotte
QB · PITTSBURGH · ACC
Cole Gonzales
- 4
- #9
- 6-0 | 200 lb
- Gainesville, FL
Heisman Heat
Awaiting
Not on the live Heisman board this week.
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
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TOP QB AWARD
Davey O'Brien
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CONSENSUS
All-American
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Player Standing · 17 rungs
Tier 2 · StarterR06 · Starter
Starter. A locked-in starting role.
Not on team2-deepStarterRecognizedEliteApex
Career Arc
HS
Recruit
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CFB
College
Pittsburgh
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 |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Pittsburgh -> Charlotte | Immediate |
| 2025 | Oklahoma -> Pittsburgh | 3-star | 0.8500 | Immediate |
Heisman Lens
Where the model places this player relative to the rest of the Heisman field.
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
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 Cole Gonzales
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 Cole Gonzales
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 passing totals stand
Through 3g
118Pass yards
1Pass TDs
1INT
Per game
39.3Pass yards
0Pass TDs
0INT
Projected (13g)
511.3Pass yards
4Pass TDs
4INT
To hit 3,000-yard season (currently 118): needs 288.2/game over remaining 10.
To hit 4,000-yard season (currently 118): needs 388.2/game over remaining 10.
To hit 25 passing TDs (currently 1): needs 2.4/game over remaining 10.
To hit 30 passing TDs (currently 1): needs 2.9/game over remaining 10.
To hit 35 passing TDs (currently 1): needs 3.4/game over remaining 10.
What made this player interesting
The fast read on the thing that makes this player more than a generic stat line.
Cole Gonzales's story is about how role and output meet each other. For Pittsburgh, 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
QB 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?
Pocket-leaning against FBS QB peers. The quickest read is whether the profile wins on volume, efficiency, explosiveness, or rushing value.
2025 Season · Final
2025 season snapshot | final
Passing Efficiency
CMP
11 33rd
ATT
22 40th
CMP%
50.0% 20th
Y/A
5.4 23rd
Passing Production
YDS
118 33rd
TD
1 44th
INT
1 63rd
Rushing
CAR
2 14th
YDS
1 19th
YPC
0.5 21st
TD
0 44th
Game Log · Week-by-week
2025 season · 3 games
| Wk | Opp | CMP/ATT | YDS | TD | INT | YPA | QBR | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | W 61-9vs Duquesne | 8/15 | 87 | 1 | 0 | 5.8 | 8.9 | Season-high 87 yds |
| Wk 3 | L 24-31@ West Virginia | 0/1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 3.3 | |
| Wk 5 | L 27-34vs Louisville | 3/6 | 31 | 0 | 1 | 5.2 | 44.2 | |
| Total | 11/22 | 118 | 1 | 1 | 3.7 | 18.8 |
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
2025Pittsburgh8-5HC: Pat Narduzzi · Balanced
| Season | Team | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Pittsburgh | 11 | 22 | 50.0% | 118 | 5.4 | 1 | 1 | 101.0 | -- | -- |
| Career | 1 loaded season | 11 | 22 | 50.0% | 118 | 5.4 | 1 | 1 | 101.0 | -- | -- |
| Season | Team | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Pittsburgh | 2 | 1 | 0.5 | 0 | -- |
| Career | 1 loaded season | 2 | 1 | 0.5 | 0 | -- |
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 | 118 | #257/382 | 33rd pct | Volumevs FBS QB |
| Passing | Pass TD | 1 | #228/407 | 44th pct | Scoringvs FBS QB |
| Passing | Completions | 11 | #257/383 | 33rd pct | Volumevs FBS QB |
| Passing | Completion % | 50.0% | #309/383 | 20th pct | Efficiencyvs FBS QB |
| Passing | Yards / attempt | 5.4 | #296/382 | 23rd pct | Efficiencyvs FBS QB |
| Rushing | Rushing yards | 1 | #330/408 | 19th pct | Volumevs FBS QB |
| Usage | Role share | 13.3% | #249/428 | 42nd pct | Share of team offensevs FBS QB |
| Passing | Attempts | 22 | #247/407 | 40th pct | Volumevs FBS QB |
| Passing | Interceptions | 1 | #153/407 | 63rd pct | Turnoversvs FBS QB |
| Rushing | Carries | 2 | #350/408 | 14th pct | Volumevs FBS QB |
| Rushing | Rushing LONG | 2 | #380/391 | 3rd pct | Metricvs FBS QB |
| Rushing | Yards / carry | 0.5 | #321/407 | 21st pct | Efficiencyvs FBS QB |
| Rushing | Rush TD | 0 | #230/408 | 44th pct | Scoringvs FBS QB |
| Usage | Pass share | 21.4% | #251/428 | 42nd pct | Air-game usagevs FBS QB |
| Usage | Passing-down usage | 19.7% | #240/428 | 44th pct | Known-passing sharevs FBS QB |
| Usage | 2nd-down usage | 15.0% | #237/428 | 45th pct | Middle-down loadvs FBS QB |
| Usage | 3rd-down usage | 12.8% | #284/428 | 34th pct | Money-down loadvs FBS QB |
| Usage | 1st-down usage | 11.5% | #245/428 | 43rd pct | Early-down loadvs FBS QB |
| Usage | Standard-down usage | 10.2% | #260/428 | 39th pct | Base-situation sharevs FBS QB |
| Usage | Rush share | 1.3% | #381/428 | 11th 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
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 · 3 games
Home vs Road
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home2g | 59.0 | 0.5 | 5.5 | 0.5 |
| Road1g | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
Win vs Loss
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wins1g | 87.0 | 1.0 | 5.8 | 0.0 |
| Losses2g | 15.5 | 0.0 | 2.6 | 0.5 |
First half vs Second half
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-73g | 39.3 | 0.3 | 3.7 | 0.3 |
Pocket and defense-quality (clean vs. pressure) splits are coming soon.
Savant · Box-rate percentiles
Where this profile ranks vs the QB cohort
18Below cohort
Elite: interceptions (97th). Concern: pass yards (0th).
Percentiles versus same-position peers with enough snaps this season, based on box-score rates.
Advanced Savant · QB · 2025
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.
Peer Comparator · Fingerprint match
Three closest profiles by box-rate percentile
Cole GonzalesPittsburghNick VattiatoMiddle Tennessee· 58% simLogan FifeNew Mexico State· 55% simRyan BrownePurdue· 52% sim
Interceptions
Rush yards
Rush TDs
Yards / att
Completion %
Pass TDs
Pass yards
Closest peers by overall box-score percentile profile at the same position.
Supporting Cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Pat Narduzzi
Pass share
52.3%
464 pass / 424 run
Plays / game
68.3
13 games
OL sack rate (allowed)
9.3%
365 dropbacks · PBP
Scheme: Balanced.
Coaching Lineage · 2025
1 coach2025
Pat Narduzzi
Pittsburgh
Played his entire career under Pat Narduzzi.
Bio · Recruiting · Transfer · Roster
Off-field context — switch tabs to drill into recruit profile, transfer arc, or roster timeline.
HometownGainesville, FL
Height6'0"
Weight200 lb
Class4
PositionQB
Jersey9
No fields populated yet.
No fields populated yet.
Current teamPittsburgh
ConferenceACC
Joined2025
Career arc1 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.
| Season | Team | Role | Latest Model | Forecast | Win | Finalist | Official Finish | Points | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| This player hasn’t appeared on a Heisman ballot tracked by the model. | |||||||||
Roster Timeline
Team, conference, and class by season.
| Season | Team | Conference | Pos | Class | Bio |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Pittsburgh | ACC | QB | 4 | No. 9 | 6-0 | 200 lb | Gainesville, FL |