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Heisman / Players / Devaughn Mortimer /Western Michigan

Devaughn Mortimer

WR · Western Michigan · Jr · #9

Limited signal — not enough coverage for a story yet.

ALUMNUSUL Monroe 2023 alumnus

WR · WESTERN MICHIGAN · MID-AMERICAN

Devaughn Mortimer

  • 3
  • #9
  • 5-10 | 177 lb
  • Fort Lauderdale, FL

CFB Zeitgeist WR Score

Awaiting

Heisman Heat

#4934

<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 0 · Not on team

R01 · Scout team / redshirt

Scout team / redshirt. Developing behind the depth chart.

Not on team2-deepStarterRecognizedEliteApex

Career Arc

HS
Recruit
★★★★
#336 national
CFB
College
UL Monroe
2023
NFL
NFL Draft
Not drafted (yet)

Identity & Role

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

PositionWR
Class3
Jersey9
Measurements5-10 | 177 lb
HometownFort Lauderdale, FL
Primary teamWestern Michigan

Recruiting Pedigree

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

Top pedigree 4-star No. 336 recruit
Composite rating 0.8985 HighSchool
Signed with Louisville 2022
Origin Dillard Fort Lauderdale, FL, USA
Class Profile Context
2022 4-star | 0.8985 No. 336 recruit | HighSchool | Louisville

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#4934Latest modeled ballot order
Season forecast#5408Where 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 Louisville

Composite

0.8985

#336 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 Devaughn Mortimer

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 Devaughn Mortimer

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.

Devaughn Mortimer's story is about how role and output meet each other. For Western Michigan, 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 #4934 0.0% win | 0.0% finalist
Role load -- Role share still loading
Profile quirk Blue-chip pedigree No. 336 recruit

2023 Season · Final

Traditional stats first. Advanced context underneath.

Last season

WR season snapshot

2023 season snapshot | final

2023 season snapshot | finalData: CFBD player stats + local Heisman modelPeer context: same position + same level
Receptions 15 0 rec TD | #484/1110 (56th pct)
Receiving yards 291 19.4 per catch | #363/1107 (67th pct)
Scrimmage yards 314 Total offensive yardage | #363/1107 (67th 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

2023 Season · Final

2023 season snapshot | final

Receiving

REC
15 56th
YDS
291 67th
YPR
19.4 93rd
TD
0 45th

Rushing

CAR
3 64th
YDS
23 69th
YPC
7.7 77th
TD
0 81st

Returns

KR YDS
12 13th
KR AVG
12.0 17th
PR YDS
61 59th
PR AVG
12.2 79th

Game Log · Week-by-week

2025 season · 1 games

Box score · CFBD
WkOppRECYDSAVGTDLONGNote
Wk 1L 0-27@ Houston2-1-0.500Season-high -1 yds
Total2-1-0.500
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

2023UL Monroe2-10HC: Terry Bowden · Run-leaning
SeasonTeam
2023UL Monroe1529119.40--
Career1 loaded season1529119.40--
SeasonTeam
2023UL Monroe3231261--
Career1 loaded season3231261--
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 -- Role share still loading
Return yards 73 0 return TD | #208/238 (13th pct)
Touchdowns 0 Across offense and returns | #615/1111 (45th pct)
Open full stat explorer
0 metrics visible Showing all metrics
Group Metric Value Rank Pct Why it matters
Receiving Receptions 15 #484/1110 56th pct Volumevs FBS WR
Receiving Receiving yards 291 #363/1107 67th pct Volumevs FBS WR
Receiving Receiving TD 0 #615/1111 45th pct Scoringvs FBS WR
Receiving Yards / catch 19.4 #82/1106 93rd pct Efficiencyvs FBS WR
Returns Kick return yards 12 #208/238 13th pct Volumevs FBS WR
Returns Punt return yards 61 #93/224 59th pct Volumevs FBS WR
Rushing Rushing LONG 23 #53/346 85th pct Metricvs FBS WR
Rushing Rushing yards 23 #124/397 69th pct Volumevs FBS WR
Rushing Yards / carry 7.7 #90/393 77th pct Efficiencyvs FBS WR
Rushing Carries 3 #146/407 64th pct Volumevs FBS WR
Rushing Rush TD 0 #81/411 81st pct Scoringvs FBS WR
Receiving Receiving LONG 54 #228/1105 79th pct Metricvs FBS WR
Returns Punt return avg 12.2 #47/222 79th pct Efficiencyvs FBS WR
Returns Kick return avg 12.0 #198/236 17th pct Efficiencyvs FBS WR
Returns Punt returns 5 #122/237 49th pct Volumevs FBS WR
Returns Kick returns 1 #169/243 31st pct Volumevs 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 · 1 games

Home/Road · Win/Loss · Season halves

Home vs Road

REC/gYDS/gYPRTD/g
Road1g2.0-1.0-0.50.0

Win vs Loss

REC/gYDS/gYPRTD/g
Losses1g2.0-1.0-0.50.0

First half vs Second half

REC/gYDS/gYPRTD/g
Weeks 1-71g2.0-1.0-0.50.0

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

Box-score Savant card waits for a season-stat snapshot above the cohort floor. Returns once enough box-score volume lands.

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 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

Lance Taylor

Pass share

33.3%

304 pass / 609 run

Plays / game

65.2

14 games

OL sack rate (allowed)

9.3%

248 dropbacks · PBP

Scheme: Run-heavy.

Coaching Lineage · 2023

1 coach
2023
Lance Taylor
Western Michigan

Played his entire career under Lance Taylor.

Bio · Recruiting · Transfer · Roster

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

HometownFort Lauderdale, FL
Height5'10"
Weight177 lb
Class3
PositionWR
Jersey9

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 Western Michigan WR3 #4934 #5408 0.0% 0.0% -- -- W16 snapshot | Mid-American
2023 UL Monroe WR3 #3006 #3945 0.0% 0.0% -- -- W19 snapshot | Sun Belt
2022 Louisville WR3 #3035 #2736 0.0% 0.0% -- -- W20 snapshot | ACC

Roster Timeline

Team, conference, and class by season.

Season Team Conference Pos Class Bio
2024 Western Michigan Mid-American WR 3 No. 9 | 5-10 | 177 lb | Fort Lauderdale, FL
2023 UL Monroe Sun Belt WR 3 No. 9 | 5-10 | 177 lb | Fort Lauderdale, FL
2022 Louisville ACC WR 3 No. 9 | 5-10 | 177 lb | Fort Lauderdale, FL