CFB Zeitgeist Score
48
Mid-pack in the position cohort. Carried by rec yards at the 55th percentile.
Hudson Clement
Below the discourse floor — the honest stats-only state.
454 REC YDS · 36 REC · 3 REC TD
2026 Outlook
Returning to Illinois for 2026
2026 Depth chart
Projected starter
Wide receiver · Illinois
Returning around him
- 52% of 2024 offensive production back (Solid continuity)
- 3 Illinois players drafted to NFL
- Transfer portal: -8 net (19 in / 27 out)
2026 Award watch
No preseason watch lists yet (most drop June 15 – July 15)
Illinois · Last season: 9-4 (AP #23) · Talent rank #64 · 2026 recruiting class #45
WR · ILLINOIS · BIG TEN
Hudson Clement
- 3
- #13
- 6-1 | 205 lb
- Martinsburg, WV
Heisman Heat
#3521
<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
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Player Standing · 17 rungs
Tier 2 · StarterR07 · Impact starter
Impact starter. Producing measurable value above replacement.
Not on team2-deepStarterRecognizedEliteApex
Development Trajectory · receiving yards
2023–2025-5%
Down 5% — context-dependent (injury / role change?).
Career Arc
HS
Recruit
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CFB
College
2 teams
NFL
NFL Draft
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| 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.
| Season | Move | Context |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | West Virginia -> Illinois | 3-star | 0.8600 | Immediate |
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.
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 Hudson Clement
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 Hudson Clement
No rival-bucket mentions in the current season.
2025 Signature · 2025 season
Yards per reception
12.6
yds
All FBS WRs, min 20 receptions
National rank #249 of 531
Percentile vs All FBS WRs, min 20 receptions 53rd
Why it matters
#249 of 531 All FBS WRs at 12.6 yards per reception (36 catches).
Vs cohort
This player 12.6 (53th)
HIGH · n=36 cohort 531
- Also strong
- Receiving yards (total)#251 / 531
- Receiving TDs#222 / 531
Signature Moment
Week 10 vs Rutgers — 84 ypr
Result W 35-13
The week the volume broke through — put up 84 yds vs Rutgers.
Season Pace · Projection
Where the receiving totals stand
Through 13g
454Rec yards
36Receptions
3Rec TDs
Per game
34.9Rec yards
3Receptions
0Rec TDs
Final
454Rec yards
36Receptions
3Rec TDs
What made this player interesting
The fast read on the thing that makes this player more than a generic stat line.
Hudson Clement's story is about how role and output meet each other. For Illinois, 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
WR 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
36 80th
YDS
454 77th
YPR
12.6 56th
TD
3 82nd
Game Log · Week-by-week
2025 season · 13 games
| Wk | Opp | REC | YDS | AVG | TD | LONG | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | W 52-3vs Western Illinois | 1 | 5 | 5.0 | 0 | 5 | |
| Wk 2 | W 45-19@ Duke | 2 | 39 | 19.5 | 0 | 27 | |
| Wk 3 | W 38-0vs Western Michigan | 2 | 31 | 15.5 | 0 | 22 | |
| Wk 4 | L 10-63@ Indiana | 4 | 27 | 6.8 | 0 | 12 | |
| Wk 5 | W 34-32vs USC | 2 | 19 | 9.5 | 0 | 11 | |
| Wk 6 | W 43-27@ Purdue | 2 | 15 | 7.5 | 0 | 14 | |
| Wk 7 | L 16-34vs Ohio State | 6 | 47 | 7.8 | 0 | 17 | |
| Wk 9 | L 25-42@ Washington | 2 | 14 | 7.0 | 0 | 12 | |
| Wk 10 | W 35-13vs Rutgers | 5 | 84 | 16.8 | 1 | 23 | Season-high 84 yds |
| Wk 12 | W 24-6vs Maryland | 3 | 72 | 24.0 | 2 | 27 | 2 TD catches |
| Wk 13 | L 10-27@ Wisconsin | 2 | 23 | 11.5 | 0 | 15 | |
| Wk 14 | W 20-13vs Northwestern | 2 | 30 | 15.0 | 0 | 21 | |
| Bowl | W 30-28vs Tennessee | 3 | 48 | 16.0 | 0 | 24 | |
| Total | 36 | 454 | 12.5 | 3 | 27 |
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
2023West Virginia9-4HC: Neal Brown · Run-heavy
2025Illinois9-4HC: Bret Bielema · Run-leaning
| Season | Team | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Illinois | 36 | 454 | 12.6 | 3 | -- |
| 2023 | West Virginia | 22 | 480 | 21.8 | 4 | -- |
| Career | 2 loaded seasons | 58 | 934 | 16.1 | 7 | -- |
Advanced layer Usage, value, and context
Advanced metrics second
Advanced Metrics
Usage, value, and opponent-adjusted context.
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.
A blended workload view that accounts for catches, designed touches, and any return-game involvement that shapes the overall profile.
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 | 36 | #218/1110 | 80th pct | Volumevs FBS WR |
| Receiving | Receiving yards | 454 | #252/1107 | 77th pct | Volumevs FBS WR |
| Receiving | Receiving TD | 3 | #206/1111 | 82nd pct | Scoringvs FBS WR |
| Receiving | Yards / catch | 12.6 | #486/1106 | 56th pct | Efficiencyvs FBS WR |
| Usage | Pass share | 15.1% | #240/1137 | 79th pct | Air-game usagevs FBS WR |
| Receiving | Receiving LONG | 27 | #636/1105 | 43rd pct | Metricvs FBS WR |
| Usage | 3rd-down usage | 10.1% | #216/1137 | 81st pct | Money-down loadvs FBS WR |
| Usage | Standard-down usage | 7.2% | #203/1137 | 82nd pct | Base-situation sharevs FBS WR |
| Usage | Passing-down usage | 7.1% | #449/1137 | 61st pct | Known-passing sharevs FBS WR |
| Usage | Role share | 7.1% | #270/1137 | 76th pct | Share of team offensevs FBS WR |
| Usage | 1st-down usage | 6.8% | #256/1137 | 78th pct | Early-down loadvs FBS WR |
| Usage | 2nd-down usage | 6.3% | #368/1137 | 68th pct | Middle-down loadvs 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
Status—Awaiting tracker
Heisman model tracks the top FBS contenders weekly; this player hasn't entered the watch list yet.
Splits · Per-game
2025 season · 13 games
Home vs Road
| REC/g | YDS/g | YPR | TD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home8g | 3.0 | 42.0 | 13.7 | 0.4 |
| Road5g | 2.4 | 23.6 | 10.5 | 0.0 |
Win vs Loss
| REC/g | YDS/g | YPR | TD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wins9g | 2.4 | 38.1 | 14.3 | 0.3 |
| Losses4g | 3.5 | 27.8 | 8.3 | 0.0 |
First half vs Second half
| REC/g | YDS/g | YPR | TD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-78g | 2.8 | 28.9 | 10.9 | 0.0 |
| Weeks 8+5g | 2.8 | 44.6 | 14.9 | 0.6 |
Pocket and defense-quality (clean vs. pressure) splits are coming soon.
Savant · Box-rate percentiles
Where this profile ranks vs the WR cohort
48Mid-pack
Concern: long catch (11th).
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
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
Hudson ClementIllinoisTrent WalkerOregon State· 74% simMichael Jackson IIIPurdue· 73% simAsaad WaseemFlorida Atlantic· 71% sim
Receptions
Rec TDs
Rec yards
Yards / catch
Long catch
Closest peers by overall box-score percentile profile at the same position.
Player DNA
The Possession Receiver
Reliable target who converts on critical downs. Not flashy; consistently productive.
WR
His 2025 production profile sits closest to Tim Jones’s 2020 season.
Tim Jones
87%match
All-Conference USA
#2
Emeka Egbuka
All-Big TenNFL Rd 1 · Pk 19
87%
#3
Kenny Johnson
85%
#4
Jordan Whittington
NFL Rd 6
84%
#5
Justin Garrett
81%
Matches Tim on
Reception volume
Yards / reception
Weight
Through 3 college seasons, his career arc tracks closest to Tylan Wallace’s path through Oklahoma State.
Tylan Wallace
100%match
All-Big 12NFL Rd 4
#2
Baylin Brooks
98%
#3
Trevon Grimes
97%
#4
Jalen Coker
97%
#5
CJ Turner
96%
Matches Tylan on
Yards per reception
As a junior, his production profile tracks closest to Kenny Johnson's junior season at Pittsburgh (2025).
Kenny Johnson
86%match
#2
Dominick Blaylock
80%
#3
Coy Eakin
80%
#4
DeAndre Moore Jr.
79%
#5
Rodney Harris II
79%
Matches Kenny on
Yards / reception
EPA / play (adj)
Total EPA (college ability)
Differs from Kenny on
Reception volume (lower)
Supporting Cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Bret Bielema
Pass share
45.6%
372 pass / 444 run
Plays / game
62.8
13 games
OL sack rate (allowed)
11.0%
292 dropbacks · PBP
Scheme: Run-leaning.
Coaching Lineage · 2023–2025
1 coach2023
Bret Bielema
Illinois
2025
Bret Bielema
Illinois
Played his entire career under Bret Bielema.
Bio · Recruiting · Transfer · Roster
Off-field context — switch tabs to drill into recruit profile, transfer arc, or roster timeline.
HometownMartinsburg, WV
Height6'1"
Weight205 lb
Class3
PositionWR
Jersey13
No fields populated yet.
No fields populated yet.
Current teamIllinois
ConferenceBig Ten
Joined2025
Career arc4 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.
| Season | Team | Role | Latest Model | Forecast | Win | Finalist | Official Finish | Points | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | West Virginia | WR3 | #3521 | #3638 | 0.0% | 0.0% | -- | -- | W16 snapshot | Big 12 |
| 2023 | West Virginia | WR3 | #503 | #574 | 0.0% | 0.0% | -- | -- | W19 snapshot | Big 12 |
| 2022 | West Virginia | WR3 | #3942 | #4031 | 0.0% | 0.0% | -- | -- | W20 snapshot | Big 12 |
Roster Timeline
Team, conference, and class by season.
| Season | Team | Conference | Pos | Class | Bio |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Illinois | Big Ten | WR | 3 | No. 13 | 6-1 | 205 lb | Martinsburg, WV |
| 2024 | West Virginia | Big 12 | WR | 3 | No. 13 | 6-1 | 205 lb | Martinsburg, WV |
| 2023 | West Virginia | Big 12 | WR | 3 | No. 13 | 6-1 | 205 lb | Martinsburg, WV |
| 2022 | West Virginia | Big 12 | WR | 3 | No. 13 | 6-1 | 205 lb | Martinsburg, WV |