CFB Zeitgeist QB Score
Awaiting
Hajj-Malik Williams
Limited signal — not enough coverage for a story yet.
QB · UNLV · MOUNTAIN WEST
CFB Zeitgeist QB Score
Awaiting
Heisman Heat
#14
1.5% 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
1.5%
TOP QB AWARD
Davey O'Brien
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CONSENSUS
All-American
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Player Standing · 17 rungs
Tier 3 · RecognizedNational watch / fringe All-America. Knocking on the All-America door.
Career Arc
Heisman futures · live sportsbook odds
#21 in market ▼ from #18 · 6 books
The durable bio layer: position, size, hometown, and roster role.
How big the prospect was before college, and whether the later career arc beat that expectation.
| Class | Profile | Context |
|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 3-star | 0.8389 | No. 1517 recruit | HighSchool | Campbell |
Portal movement changes role, context, and perception. This keeps that path in one place.
| Season | Move | Context |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Campbell -> UNLV | 3-star | 0.8700 | Immediate |
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.
Selector Grid · 2025
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 Campbell
Composite
0.8389
#1517 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.
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 reads how different fanbases talk about this player. Returns once weekly mentions clear the publish floor.
Rival Radar
No rival-bucket mentions in the current season.
Signature Story
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.
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.
The fast read on the thing that makes this player more than a generic stat line.
The unusual part of Hajj-Malik Williams's case is that the production comes in two channels, not one. For UNLV, he has 1,941 passing yards and 19 touchdown passes, but he also adds 851 rushing yards and 9 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.
Traditional stats first. Advanced context underneath.
Last season
2024 season snapshot | final
30-second read
Steady volume | Dual-threat against FBS QB peers. The quickest read is whether the profile wins on volume, efficiency, explosiveness, or rushing value.
2024 season snapshot | final
Passing Efficiency
Passing Production
Rushing
Game Log
Week-by-week box
No per-game rows for this season yet — the table fills in as box scores arrive.
Traditional history
Season rows up top, career context at the bottom.
Season context · Team result + system
| Season | Team | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | UNLV | 150 | 252 | 59.5% | 1,941 | 7.7 | 19 | 5 | 145.1 | -- | -- |
| Career | 1 loaded season | 150 | 252 | 59.5% | 1,941 | 7.7 | 19 | 5 | 145.1 | -- | -- |
| Season | Team | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | UNLV | 161 | 851 | 5.3 | 9 | -- |
| Career | 1 loaded season | 161 | 851 | 5.3 | 9 | -- |
Advanced metrics second
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.
| Group | Metric | Value | Rank | Pct | Why it matters |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Passing | Passing yards | 1,941 | #95/382 | 75th pct | Volumevs FBS QB |
| Passing | Pass TD | 19 | #44/407 | 89th pct | Scoringvs FBS QB |
| Passing | Completions | 150 | #104/383 | 73rd pct | Volumevs FBS QB |
| Passing | Completion % | 59.5% | #222/383 | 42nd pct | Efficiencyvs FBS QB |
| Passing | Yards / attempt | 7.7 | #111/382 | 71st pct | Efficiencyvs FBS QB |
| Rushing | Rushing yards | 851 | #11/408 | 98th pct | Volumevs FBS QB |
| Value | Passing WEPA | +0.36 | #37/200 | 82nd pct | Opponent-adjusted passing value | 293 weighted playsvs FBS QB |
| Usage | Role share | 51.1% | #74/428 | 83rd pct | Share of team offensevs FBS QB |
| Passing | Attempts | 252 | #105/407 | 74th pct | Volumevs FBS QB |
| Passing | Interceptions | 5 | #276/407 | 32nd pct | Turnoversvs FBS QB |
| Rushing | Carries | 161 | #14/408 | 97th pct | Volumevs FBS QB |
| Rushing | Rushing LONG | 71 | #11/391 | 97th pct | Metricvs FBS QB |
| Rushing | Rush TD | 9 | #23/408 | 95th pct | Scoringvs FBS QB |
| Rushing | Yards / carry | 5.3 | #85/407 | 79th pct | Efficiencyvs FBS QB |
| Usage | Pass share | 91.9% | #47/428 | 89th pct | Air-game usagevs FBS QB |
| Usage | Passing-down usage | 67.9% | #58/428 | 87th pct | Known-passing sharevs FBS QB |
| Usage | 3rd-down usage | 65.9% | #64/428 | 85th pct | Money-down loadvs FBS QB |
| Usage | 2nd-down usage | 52.4% | #62/428 | 86th pct | Middle-down loadvs FBS QB |
| Usage | Standard-down usage | 44.1% | #83/428 | 81st pct | Base-situation sharevs FBS QB |
| Usage | 1st-down usage | 43.9% | #77/428 | 82nd pct | Early-down loadvs FBS QB |
| Usage | Rush share | 26.6% | #26/428 | 94th pct | Ground-game usagevs FBS QB |
| Value | Rushing WEPA | +0.50 | #3/140 | 99th pct | Opponent-adjusted rushing value | 133 weighted playsvs FBS QB |
| Ball Security | Fumbles lost | 1 | #69/258 | 74th pct | Turnoversvs FBS QB |
Universal 17-step ladder. Tier pills below; accolade streams nested.
AWAITING CLASSIFICATION
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
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.
Advanced Savant · QB · 2024
Advanced opponent-adjusted percentile bars are coming soon for this player.
Opponent-adjusted advanced metrics with a cohort filter.
Supporting Cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Dan Mullen
Pass share
46.5%
423 pass / 487 run
Plays / game
65.0
14 games
OL sack rate (allowed)
7.8%
283 dropbacks · PBP
Scheme: Run-leaning.
Coaching Lineage · 2024
1 coachPlayed his entire career under Barry Odom.
Off-field context — switch tabs to drill into recruit profile, transfer arc, or roster timeline.
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Trophy Case · Confirmed honors
What the selectors said
ALL-CONFERENCE
All-Conf mention (2024)
All-Mountain West
Every honor on the ledger, broken out by stream and selector.
Conference-level recognition helps anchor whether a player is merely statistically loud or actually viewed as elite within his competitive lane.
Season-end distinction and week-by-week recognition on one timeline.
| Season | Honor | Scope | Team / Selector | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | All-Mountain West | all_conference | UNLV | Mountain West | QB |
Modeled rank and official finish by season.
| Season | Team | Role | Latest Model | Forecast | Win | Finalist | Official Finish | Points | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | UNLV | QB4 | #14 | #15 | 1.5% | 0.0% | -- | -- | W16 snapshot | Mountain West |
Team, conference, and class by season.
| Season | Team | Conference | Pos | Class | Bio |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | UNLV | Mountain West | QB | 4 | No. 6 | 6-1 | 205 lb | Atlanta, GA |