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Heisman / Players / Jaren Lewis /Kent State

Jaren Lewis

QB · Kent State · So · #13

Limited signal — not enough coverage for a story yet.

ALUMNUSKansas State 2021 alumnus

QB · KENT STATE · MID-AMERICAN

Jaren Lewis

  • 2
  • #13
  • 6-1 | 205 lb
  • Columbia, MO

CFB Zeitgeist QB Score

Awaiting

Heisman Heat

#3353

<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 QB AWARD

Davey O'Brien

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
★★★
#1664 national
CFB
College
Kansas State
2021
NFL
NFL Draft
Not drafted (yet)

Identity & Role

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

PositionQB
Class2
Jersey13
Measurements6-1 | 205 lb
HometownColumbia, MO
Primary teamKent State

Recruiting Pedigree

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

Top pedigree 3-star No. 1664 recruit
Composite rating 0.8326 HighSchool
Signed with Kansas State 2019
Origin Battle Columbia, MO, USA
Class Profile Context
2019 3-star | 0.8326 No. 1664 recruit | HighSchool | Kansas State

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 · 2023 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 19
Current nowcast#3353Latest modeled ballot order
Season forecast#3803Where 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 Kansas State

Composite

0.8326

#1664 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 Jaren Lewis

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 Jaren Lewis

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.

Jaren Lewis's story is about how role and output meet each other. For Kent State, 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 #3353 0.0% win | 0.0% finalist
Role load 23.1% Overall usage share
Profile quirk Transfer path 0 portal moves

2021 Season · Final

Traditional stats first. Advanced context underneath.

Last season

QB season snapshot

2021 season snapshot | final

2021 season snapshot | finalData: CFBD player stats + local Heisman modelPeer context: same position + same level
Pass yards 154 1 TD | 2 INT | #244/382 (36th pct)
Completion rate 52.2% 12/23 completions | #303/383 (21st pct)
Yards/attempt 6.7 Explosiveness through the air | #210/382 (45th pct)
Player identity What kind of player is this?

30-second read

What kind of player is this?

Pocket-leaning against FBS QB peers. The quickest read is whether the profile wins on volume, efficiency, explosiveness, or rushing value.

Pocket-leaning

2021 Season · Final

2021 season snapshot | final

Passing Efficiency

CMP
12 36th
ATT
23 40th
CMP%
52.2% 21st
Y/A
6.7 45th

Passing Production

YDS
154 36th
TD
1 44th
INT
2 52nd

Rushing

CAR
5 26th
YDS
3 22nd
YPC
0.6 22nd
TD
0 44th

Game Log

Week-by-week box

No per-game rows for this season yet — the table fills in as box scores arrive.

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

2021Kansas State7-5HC: Chris Klieman · Run-leaning, slow tempo
SeasonTeam
2021Kansas State122352.2%1546.712105.4----
Career1 loaded season122352.2%1546.712105.4----
SeasonTeam
2021Kansas State530.60--
Career1 loaded season530.60--
Advanced layer Usage, value, and context

Advanced metrics second

Advanced Metrics

Usage, value, and opponent-adjusted context.

Usage Value Context
Passing WEPA

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.

Role share

How much of the offense runs through the quarterback once passing and rushing responsibility are blended together.

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.

Rush impact 3 0 rush TD | #318/408 (22nd pct)
Usage 23.1% 51.1% pass share | 5.6% rush share | #204/428 (53rd pct)
Passing WEPA -- Adjusted value feed still loading
Open full stat explorer
0 metrics visible Showing all metrics
Group Metric Value Rank Pct Why it matters
Passing Passing yards 154 #244/382 36th pct Volumevs FBS QB
Passing Pass TD 1 #228/407 44th pct Scoringvs FBS QB
Passing Completions 12 #248/383 36th pct Volumevs FBS QB
Passing Completion % 52.2% #303/383 21st pct Efficiencyvs FBS QB
Passing Yards / attempt 6.7 #210/382 45th pct Efficiencyvs FBS QB
Rushing Rushing yards 3 #318/408 22nd pct Volumevs FBS QB
Usage Role share 23.1% #204/428 53rd pct Share of team offensevs FBS QB
Passing Attempts 23 #246/407 40th pct Volumevs FBS QB
Passing Interceptions 2 #195/407 52nd pct Turnoversvs FBS QB
Rushing Rushing LONG 8 #324/391 17th pct Metricvs FBS QB
Rushing Carries 5 #304/408 26th pct Volumevs FBS QB
Rushing Yards / carry 0.6 #319/407 22nd pct Efficiencyvs FBS QB
Rushing Rush TD 0 #230/408 44th pct Scoringvs FBS QB
Usage Pass share 51.1% #181/428 58th pct Air-game usagevs FBS QB
Usage 1st-down usage 27.5% #171/428 60th pct Early-down loadvs FBS QB
Usage Standard-down usage 23.9% #186/428 57th pct Base-situation sharevs FBS QB
Usage Passing-down usage 20.0% #239/428 44th pct Known-passing sharevs FBS QB
Usage 3rd-down usage 19.0% #243/428 43rd pct Money-down loadvs FBS QB
Usage 2nd-down usage 16.7% #223/428 48th pct Middle-down loadvs FBS QB
Usage Rush share 5.6% #260/428 39th pct Ground-game usagevs FBS QB
Ball Security Fumbles lost 0 #1/258 100th pct Turnoversvs FBS QB

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 splits

Splits fill in once box scores from at least three games land for this season.

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

Advanced Savant · QB · 2023

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

Mark Carney

Pass share

42.8%

292 pass / 390 run

Plays / game

56.8

12 games

OL sack rate (allowed)

9.5%

242 dropbacks · PBP

Scheme: Run-leaning, slow tempo.

Coaching Lineage · 2021

1 coach
2021
Sean Lewis
Kent State

Played his entire career under Sean Lewis.

Bio · Recruiting · Transfer · Roster

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

HometownColumbia, MO
Height6'1"
Weight205 lb
Class2
PositionQB
Jersey13

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
2023 Kent State QB2 #3353 #3803 0.0% 0.0% -- -- W19 snapshot | Mid-American
2022 Kansas State QB2 #493 #291 0.0% 0.0% -- -- W20 snapshot | Big 12
2021 Kansas State QB2 #1024 #919 0.0% 0.0% -- -- W20 snapshot | Big 12

Roster Timeline

Team, conference, and class by season.

Season Team Conference Pos Class Bio
2023 Kent State Mid-American QB 2 No. 13 | 6-1 | 205 lb | Columbia, MO
2022 Kansas State Big 12 QB 2 No. 13 | 6-1 | 205 lb | Columbia, MO
2021 Kansas State Big 12 QB 2 No. 13 | 6-1 | 205 lb | Columbia, MO