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Dale Martin

WR · Louisiana · Sr · #19

Below the discourse floor — the honest stats-only state.

134 REC YDS · 6 REC · 2 REC TD

2026 RETURNINGReturning to Louisiana for 2026

2026 Outlook

Returning to Louisiana for 2026

Updated May 27

2026 Depth chart

Returning starter

Wide receiver · Louisiana

Returning around him

  • 57% of 2024 offensive production back (Solid continuity)
  • 1 Louisiana player drafted to NFL
  • Transfer portal: -2 net (5 in / 7 out)

2026 Award watch

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

Louisiana · Last season: 6-7 · Talent rank #91 · 2026 recruiting class #81

WR · LOUISIANA · SUN BELT

Dale Martin

  • 4
  • #19
  • 6-2 | 202 lb

CFB Zeitgeist Score

42

Mid-pack in the position cohort. Carried by yards / catch at the 99th percentile.

Heisman Heat

#2624

<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 1 · 2-deep

R04 · Rotational

Rotational. Earning real snaps in the rotation.

Not on team2-deepStarterRecognizedEliteApex

Development Trajectory · receiving yards

2024–2025
33.02024
1342025

+306%

Up 306% from first season to most-recent.

Career Arc

HS
Recruit
No recruit profile
CFB
College
Louisiana
2024–2025
NFL
NFL Draft
Not drafted (yet)

Identity & Role

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

PositionWR
Class4
Jersey19
Measurements6-2 | 202 lb
Hometown--
Primary teamLouisiana

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#2624Latest modeled ballot order
Season forecast#2661Where 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 Dale Martin

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 Dale Martin

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

projecting to 13-game
Through 7g
134Rec yards
6Receptions
2Rec TDs
Per game
19.1Rec yards
1Receptions
0Rec TDs
Projected (13g)
248.9Rec yards
11Receptions
4Rec TDs

To hit 700-yard receiver (currently 134): needs 94.3/game over remaining 6.

To hit 1,000-yard receiver (currently 134): needs 144.3/game over remaining 6.

To hit 60-catch season (currently 6): needs 9/game over remaining 6.

To hit 80-catch season (currently 6): needs 12.3/game over remaining 6.

To hit 8 receiving TDs (currently 2): needs 1/game over remaining 6.

To hit 10 receiving TDs (currently 2): needs 1.3/game over remaining 6.

What made this player interesting

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

Dale Martin's story is about how role and output meet each other. For Louisiana, 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 #2624 0.0% win | 0.0% finalist
Role load 4.9% Overall usage share
Profile quirk Development arc 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 6 2 rec TD | #696/1110 (37th pct)
Receiving yards 134 22.3 per catch | #558/1107 (50th pct)
Scrimmage yards 134 Total offensive yardage | #558/1107 (50th pct)
Player identity What kind of player is this?

30-second read

What kind of player is this?

Big-play receiver against FBS receiving peers.

Big-play receiver

2025 Season · Final

2025 season snapshot | final

Receiving

REC
6 37th
YDS
134 50th
YPR
22.3 96th
TD
2 75th

Game Log · Week-by-week

2025 season · 7 games

Box score · CFBD
WkOppRECYDSAVGTDLONGNote
Wk 2W 34-10vs McNeese
Wk 3L 10-52@ Missouri
Wk 4L 31-34@ Eastern Michigan
Wk 5W 54-51vs Marshall23517.5124
Wk 7L 14-24@ James Madison27236.0169Season-high 72 yds
Wk 8L 10-22vs Southern Miss22713.5014
Wk 11W 42-39vs Texas State
Total613422.3269
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

2024Louisiana10-4HC: Michael Desormeaux · Run-leaning
2025Louisiana6-7HC: Michael Desormeaux · Run-leaning
SeasonTeam
2025Louisiana613422.32--
2024Louisiana4338.20--
Career2 loaded seasons1016716.72--
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 4.9% 11.4% pass-game share | #414/1137 (64th pct)
Return yards 0 0 return TD
Touchdowns 2 Across offense and returns | #281/1111 (75th pct)
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Group Metric Value Rank Pct Why it matters
Receiving Receptions 6 #696/1110 37th pct Volumevs FBS WR
Receiving Receiving yards 134 #558/1107 50th pct Volumevs FBS WR
Receiving Receiving TD 2 #281/1111 75th pct Scoringvs FBS WR
Receiving Yards / catch 22.3 #47/1106 96th pct Efficiencyvs FBS WR
Usage Pass share 11.4% #414/1137 64th pct Air-game usagevs FBS WR
Receiving Receiving LONG 69 #102/1105 91st pct Metricvs FBS WR
Usage Passing-down usage 6.9% #473/1137 58th pct Known-passing sharevs FBS WR
Usage 2nd-down usage 5.3% #466/1137 59th pct Middle-down loadvs FBS WR
Usage 3rd-down usage 5.0% #636/1137 44th pct Money-down loadvs FBS WR
Usage 1st-down usage 4.9% #435/1137 62nd pct Early-down loadvs FBS WR
Usage Role share 4.9% #497/1137 56th pct Share of team offensevs FBS WR
Usage Standard-down usage 4.0% #522/1137 54th pct Base-situation sharevs 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 · 7 games

Home/Road · Win/Loss · Season halves

Home vs Road

REC/gYDS/gYPRTD/g
Home4g1.015.515.50.2
Road3g0.724.036.00.3

Win vs Loss

REC/gYDS/gYPRTD/g
Wins3g0.711.717.50.3
Losses4g1.024.824.80.2

First half vs Second half

REC/gYDS/gYPRTD/g
Weeks 1-75g0.821.426.80.4
Weeks 8+2g1.013.513.50.0

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

Savant · Box-rate percentiles

Where this profile ranks vs the WR cohort

42Mid-pack
5 metrics · season cumulative

Elite: yards / catch (98th). Strength: long catch (82nd). Concern: receptions (0th).

Yards / catch#7 / 558 · 99th pct
22.3rece
Long catch#95 / 558 · 83rd pct
69rece
Rec TDs#276 / 558 · 42nd pct
2rece
Rec yards#532 / 558 · 5th pct
134rece
Receptions#559 / 558 · 0th pct
6rece

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
Dale MartinLouisianaNik McMillanBuffalo· 42% simHarrison Wallace IIIOle Miss· 41% simChris Dawn Jr.Texas State· 40% sim
Yards / catch
99
Martin
84
McMillan
78
III
80
Jr.
Long catch
83
Martin
65
McMillan
65
III
96
Jr.
Rec TDs
42
Martin
57
McMillan
68
III
68
Jr.
Rec yards
5
Martin
96
McMillan
94
III
96
Jr.
Receptions
0
Martin
90
McMillan
90
III
93
Jr.

Closest peers by overall box-score percentile profile at the same position.

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

Michael Desormeaux

Pass share

40.1%

341 pass / 509 run

Plays / game

65.4

13 games

OL sack rate (allowed)

7.8%

257 dropbacks · PBP

Scheme: Run-leaning.

Coaching Lineage · 2024–2025

1 coach
2024
Michael Desormeaux
Louisiana
2025
Michael Desormeaux
Louisiana

Played his entire career under Michael Desormeaux.

Bio · Recruiting · Transfer · Roster

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

Height6'2"
Weight202 lb
Class4
PositionWR
Jersey19

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 Louisiana WR4 #2624 #2661 0.0% 0.0% -- -- W16 snapshot | Sun Belt
2023 Louisiana WR4 #4620 #4585 0.0% 0.0% -- -- W19 snapshot | Sun Belt
2022 Louisiana WR4 #4308 #4206 0.0% 0.0% -- -- W20 snapshot | Sun Belt
2021 Louisiana WR4 #3772 #3417 0.0% 0.0% -- -- W20 snapshot | Sun Belt

Roster Timeline

Team, conference, and class by season.

Season Team Conference Pos Class Bio
2025 Louisiana Sun Belt WR 4 No. 19 | 6-2 | 202 lb
2024 Louisiana Sun Belt WR 4 No. 19 | 6-2 | 202 lb
2023 Louisiana Sun Belt WR 4 No. 19 | 6-2 | 202 lb
2022 Louisiana Sun Belt WR 4 No. 19 | 6-2 | 202 lb
2021 Louisiana Sun Belt WR 4 No. 19 | 6-2 | 202 lb