CFB Zeitgeist Score
13
Below cohort in the position cohort. Carried by yards / catch at the 45th percentile.
George Burhenn
Below the discourse floor — the honest stats-only state.
94 REC YDS · 9 REC · 0 REC TD
2026 Outlook
Returning to Purdue for 2026
2026 Depth chart
Projected starter
Tight end · Purdue
Returning around him
- 54% of 2024 offensive production back (Solid continuity)
- Transfer portal: +5 net (29 in / 24 out)
2026 Award watch
No preseason watch lists yet (most drop June 15 – July 15)
Purdue · Last season: 2-10 · Talent rank #54 · 2026 recruiting class #99
TE · PURDUE · BIG TEN
George Burhenn
- 2
- #81
- 6-5 | 235 lb
- McCordsville, IN
Heisman Heat
#4222
<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 TE AWARD
Mackey
—
CONSENSUS
All-American
—
Player Standing · 17 rungs
Tier 2 · StarterR06 · Starter
Starter. A locked-in starting role.
Not on team2-deepStarterRecognizedEliteApex
Development Trajectory · receiving yards
2023–2025+27%
Up 27% from first season to most-recent.
Career Arc
HS
Recruit
★★★
CFB
College
Purdue
NFL
NFL Draft
—
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 |
|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 3-star | 0.8714 | No. 809 recruit | HighSchool |
Transfer Arc
Portal movement changes role, context, and perception. This keeps that path in one place.
| 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 16Heisman 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 —
Composite
0.8714
#809 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
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 George Burhenn
Fan sentiment ·
Belief Meter
50
Mixed Sentiment
Top Take
“”
Trajectory
Per-cohort trajectory lands when historical bucket data is aggregated.
Cohort divergence map
- Own fans · n=4
Rival Radar
How rival fanbases talk about George Burhenn
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 receiving totals stand
Through 3g
94Rec yards
9Receptions
0Rec TDs
Per game
31.3Rec yards
3Receptions
0Rec TDs
Projected (13g)
407.3Rec yards
39Receptions
0Rec TDs
To hit 700-yard receiver (currently 94): needs 60.6/game over remaining 10.
To hit 1,000-yard receiver (currently 94): needs 90.6/game over remaining 10.
To hit 60-catch season (currently 9): needs 5.1/game over remaining 10.
To hit 80-catch season (currently 9): needs 7.1/game over remaining 10.
To hit 8 receiving TDs (currently 0): needs 0.8/game over remaining 10.
To hit 10 receiving TDs (currently 0): needs 1/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.
George Burhenn's story is about how role and output meet each other. For Purdue, 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
TE 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?
Receiving weapon against FBS receiving peers.
2025 Season · Final
2025 season snapshot | final
Receiving
REC
9 58th
YDS
94 58th
YPR
10.4 57th
TD
0 46th
Game Log · Week-by-week
2025 season · 3 games
| Wk | Opp | REC | YDS | AVG | TD | LONG | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 2 | W 34-17vs Southern Illinois | 3 | 48 | 16.0 | 0 | 21 | Season-high 48 yds |
| Wk 3 | L 17-33vs USC | 4 | 26 | 6.5 | 0 | 17 | |
| Wk 4 | L 30-56@ Notre Dame | 2 | 20 | 10.0 | 0 | 14 | |
| Total | 9 | 94 | 10.8 | 0 | 21 |
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
2023Purdue4-8HC: Ryan Walters · Run-leaning
2024Purdue1-11HC: Ryan Walters · Balanced, slow tempo
2025Purdue2-10HC: Barry Odom · Balanced
Advanced layer Usage, value, and context
Advanced metrics second
Advanced Metrics
Usage, value, and opponent-adjusted context.
The tight end's share of the passing offense, which helps distinguish a featured receiving tight end from a secondary option.
A blended usage view that shows how often the offense flows through the tight end compared with other same-level peers.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Receiving | Receptions | 9 | #199/475 | 58th pct | Volumevs FBS TE |
| Receiving | Receiving yards | 94 | #200/475 | 58th pct | Volumevs FBS TE |
| Receiving | Receiving TD | 0 | #257/475 | 46th pct | Scoringvs FBS TE |
| Receiving | Yards / catch | 10.4 | #203/475 | 57th pct | Efficiencyvs FBS TE |
| Usage | Pass share | 8.4% | #128/468 | 73rd pct | Air-game usagevs FBS TE |
| Receiving | Receiving LONG | 21 | #240/475 | 50th pct | Metricvs FBS TE |
| Usage | 1st-down usage | 5.4% | #63/468 | 87th pct | Early-down loadvs FBS TE |
| Usage | Passing-down usage | 4.5% | #166/468 | 65th pct | Known-passing sharevs FBS TE |
| Usage | 2nd-down usage | 4.3% | #163/468 | 65th pct | Middle-down loadvs FBS TE |
| Usage | Role share | 4.3% | #113/468 | 76th pct | Share of team offensevs FBS TE |
| Usage | Standard-down usage | 4.2% | #106/468 | 78th pct | Base-situation sharevs FBS TE |
| Usage | 3rd-down usage | 2.4% | #273/468 | 42nd pct | Money-down loadvs FBS TE |
| Usage | Rush share | 0.0% | #58/468 | 88th pct | Ground-game usagevs FBS TE |
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
The Mackey award tracker integrates per-week probability once a dedicated scraper for this award lands. Confirmed past winners and finalists for this player will surface here.
Splits · Per-game
2025 season · 3 games
Home vs Road
| REC/g | YDS/g | YPR | TD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home2g | 3.5 | 37.0 | 11.2 | 0.0 |
| Road1g | 2.0 | 20.0 | 10.0 | 0.0 |
Win vs Loss
| REC/g | YDS/g | YPR | TD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wins1g | 3.0 | 48.0 | 16.0 | 0.0 |
| Losses2g | 3.0 | 23.0 | 8.2 | 0.0 |
First half vs Second half
| REC/g | YDS/g | YPR | TD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-73g | 3.0 | 31.3 | 10.8 | 0.0 |
Pocket and defense-quality (clean vs. pressure) splits are coming soon.
Savant · Box-rate percentiles
Where this profile ranks vs the TE cohort
13Below cohort
Concern: receptions (0th).
Percentiles versus same-position peers with enough snaps this season, based on box-score rates.
Advanced Savant · TE · 2024
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
George BurhennPurdueBryce CaufieldOregon State· 59% simLuke LindenmeyerNebraska· 56% simHayden HansenFlorida· 55% sim
Yards / catch
Long catch
Rec TDs
Rec yards
Receptions
Closest peers by overall box-score percentile profile at the same position.
Player DNA
The Complete TE
Dual-threat: blocks when needed, catches when needed. Coveted on both sides.
TE
His 2025 production profile sits closest to Preston Howard’s 2024 season.
Preston Howard
72%match
#2
Samuel Wheeler
67%
#3
Max Klare
NFL Rd 2 · Pk 29
70%
#4
Hayden Pittman
All-Conference USA
64%
#5
Elijah Queen
70%
Matches Preston on
Total EPA (college ability)
Yards / reception
Weight
Differs from Preston on
Reception volume (lower)
EPA / play (adj) (higher)
Not enough data yet for this comparison.
As a junior, his production profile tracks closest to Jake Taylor's junior season at Duke (2024).
Jake Taylor
78%match
#2
Zach Ortwerth
71%
#3
Blake Smith
70%
#4
Benji Gosnell
69%
#5
Preston Howard
69%
Matches Jake on
Total EPA (college ability)
Recruiting rating
EPA / play (adj)
Differs from Jake on
Class year (lower)
Yards / reception (higher)
Supporting Cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Barry Odom
Pass share
52.0%
404 pass / 373 run
Plays / game
64.8
12 games
OL sack rate (allowed)
4.9%
348 dropbacks · PBP
Scheme: Balanced.
Coaching Lineage · 2023–2025
2 coaches2023
Ryan Walters
Purdue
2024
Ryan Walters
Purdue
2025era →
Barry Odom
Purdue
Coaching transition mid-career: Ryan Walters → Barry Odom. 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.
HometownMcCordsville, IN
Height6'5"
Weight235 lb
Class2
PositionTE
Jersey81
No fields populated yet.
No fields populated yet.
Current teamPurdue
ConferenceBig Ten
Joined2025
Career arc3 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.
Roster Timeline
Team, conference, and class by season.