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Heisman / Players / Collin Schlee /Virginia Tech

Collin Schlee

QB · Virginia Tech · Jr · #9

Limited signal — not enough coverage for a story yet.

ALUMNUSUCLA 2023 alumnus

QB · VIRGINIA TECH · ACC

Collin Schlee

  • 3
  • #9
  • 6-3 | 225 lb
  • Ijamsville, MD

CFB Zeitgeist QB Score

Awaiting

Heisman Heat

#929

<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 0 · Not on team

R01 · Scout team / redshirt

Scout team / redshirt. Developing behind the depth chart.

Not on team2-deepStarterRecognizedEliteApex

Career arc · Season-by-season Standing

3 seasons on the ladder

Peak: R09 All-Conference HM / 2nd team · 2022

2021

Kent State · QB

2022

Kent State · QB

R09 · All-Conference HM / 2nd team

Recognized

2023

UCLA · QB

Development Trajectory · passing yards

2021–2023
1872021
2,1092022
2172023

+16%

Modest growth (16%) across the multi-season window.

Career Arc

HS
Recruit
★★★
#2084 national
CFB
College
2 teams
2021–2023
NFL
NFL Draft
Not drafted (yet)

Identity & Role

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

PositionQB
Class3
Jersey9
Measurements6-3 | 225 lb
HometownIjamsville, MD
Primary teamVirginia Tech

Recruiting Pedigree

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

Top pedigree 3-star No. 2084 recruit
Composite rating 0.8167 HighSchool
Signed with Kent State 2019
Origin Oakdale Ijamsville, MD, USA
Class Profile Context
2019 3-star | 0.8167 No. 2084 recruit | HighSchool | Kent State

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#929Latest modeled ballot order
Season forecast#890Where 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 Kent State

Composite

0.8167

#2084 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 Collin Schlee

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 Collin Schlee

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.

Why this is a two-channel quarterback case

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

The unusual part of Collin Schlee's case is that the production comes in two channels, not one. For Virginia Tech, he has 217 passing yards and 2 touchdown passes, but he also adds 425 rushing yards and 3 rushing scores. That kind of dual-threat load tends to create a more resilient Heisman case because the offense can tilt the game in multiple ways.

Current place #929 0.0% win | 0.0% finalist
Role load 7.8% Overall usage share
Profile quirk Transfer path 0 portal moves

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 217 2 TD | 2 INT | #224/382 (42nd pct)
Completion rate 53.2% 25/47 completions | #296/383 (23rd pct)
Yards/attempt 4.6 Explosiveness through the air | #326/382 (15th pct)
Player identity What kind of player is this?

30-second read

What kind of player is this?

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

Dual-threat

2023 Season · Final

2023 season snapshot | final

Passing Efficiency

CMP
25 45th
ATT
47 49th
CMP%
53.2% 23rd
Y/A
4.6 15th

Passing Production

YDS
217 42nd
TD
2 52nd
INT
2 52nd

Rushing

CAR
42 64th
YDS
425 89th
YPC
10.1 96th
TD
3 77th

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

2021Kent State7-6HC: Sean Lewis · Run-heavy, fast tempo
2022Kent State5-7HC: Sean Lewis · Run-leaning
2023UCLA8-5HC: Chip Kelly · Run-leaning
SeasonTeam
2023UCLA254753.2%2174.62297.5----
2022Kent State15726659.0%2,1097.9135138.0----
2021Kent State162369.6%1878.110152.2----
Career3 loaded seasons19833658.9%2,5137.5167133.3----
SeasonTeam
2023UCLA4242510.13--
2022Kent State984925.04--
2021Kent State201276.33--
Career3 loaded seasons1601,0446.510--
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 425 3 rush TD | #45/408 (89th pct)
Usage 7.8% 11.1% pass share | 5.6% rush share | #293/428 (32nd pct)
Passing WEPA -- Adjusted value feed still loading
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Group Metric Value Rank Pct Why it matters
Passing Passing yards 217 #224/382 42nd pct Volumevs FBS QB
Passing Pass TD 2 #198/407 52nd pct Scoringvs FBS QB
Passing Completions 25 #213/383 45th pct Volumevs FBS QB
Passing Completion % 53.2% #296/383 23rd pct Efficiencyvs FBS QB
Passing Yards / attempt 4.6 #326/382 15th pct Efficiencyvs FBS QB
Rushing Rushing yards 425 #45/408 89th pct Volumevs FBS QB
Usage Role share 7.8% #293/428 32nd pct Share of team offensevs FBS QB
Passing Attempts 47 #207/407 49th pct Volumevs FBS QB
Passing Interceptions 2 #195/407 52nd pct Turnoversvs FBS QB
Rushing Rushing LONG 57 #35/391 91st pct Metricvs FBS QB
Rushing Carries 42 #149/408 64th pct Volumevs FBS QB
Rushing Yards / carry 10.1 #16/407 96th pct Efficiencyvs FBS QB
Rushing Rush TD 3 #94/408 77th pct Scoringvs FBS QB
Usage Pass share 11.1% #299/428 30th pct Air-game usagevs FBS QB
Usage 3rd-down usage 8.8% #324/428 25th pct Money-down loadvs FBS QB
Usage 2nd-down usage 8.2% #289/428 33rd pct Middle-down loadvs FBS QB
Usage Standard-down usage 8.2% #280/428 35th pct Base-situation sharevs FBS QB
Usage 1st-down usage 6.9% #287/428 33rd pct Early-down loadvs FBS QB
Usage Passing-down usage 6.9% #337/428 21st pct Known-passing sharevs FBS QB
Usage Rush share 5.6% #260/428 39th pct Ground-game usagevs 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 Pry

Pass share

42.0%

319 pass / 441 run

Plays / game

63.3

12 games

OL sack rate (allowed)

9.5%

296 dropbacks · PBP

Scheme: Run-leaning.

Coaching Lineage · 2021–2023

2 coaches
2021
J.C. Price
Virginia Tech
2022
Brent Pry
Virginia Tech
era →
2023
Brent Pry
Virginia Tech

Coaching transition mid-career: J.C. Price → Brent Pry. 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.

HometownIjamsville, MD
Height6'3"
Weight225 lb
Class3
PositionQB
Jersey9

Trophy Case · Confirmed honors

What the selectors said

1 entries
🎖

ALL-CONFERENCE

All-Conf mention (2022)

All-MAC

Trophy Case · Detail

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

All-Conference

1 all-conference honor

Conference-level recognition helps anchor whether a player is merely statistically loud or actually viewed as elite within his competitive lane.

Honors Timeline

Season-end distinction and week-by-week recognition on one timeline.

Season Honor Scope Team / Selector Context
2022 All-MAC all_conference Kent State | MAC QB

Heisman By Year

Modeled rank and official finish by season.

Season Team Role Latest Model Forecast Win Finalist Official Finish Points Context
2024 Virginia Tech QB3 #929 #890 0.0% 0.0% -- -- W16 snapshot | ACC
2023 UCLA QB3 #439 #407 0.0% 0.0% -- -- W19 snapshot | Pac-12
2022 Kent State QB3 #313 #494 0.0% 0.0% -- -- W20 snapshot | Mid-American
2021 Kent State QB3 #737 #844 0.0% 0.0% -- -- W20 snapshot | Mid-American

Roster Timeline

Team, conference, and class by season.

Season Team Conference Pos Class Bio
2024 Virginia Tech ACC QB 3 No. 9 | 6-3 | 225 lb | Ijamsville, MD
2023 UCLA Pac-12 QB 3 No. 9 | 6-3 | 225 lb | Ijamsville, MD
2022 Kent State Mid-American QB 3 No. 9 | 6-3 | 225 lb | Ijamsville, MD
2021 Kent State Mid-American QB 3 No. 9 | 6-3 | 225 lb | Ijamsville, MD