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Heisman / Players / Jaylin Noel /Iowa State

Jaylin Noel

WR · Iowa State · Sr · #13

Limited signal — not enough coverage for a story yet.

NOW IN NFLHouston — drafted 2025, Rd 3, Pick 15, #79 overall

Where He Ended Up · NFL

HoustonEntering 2nd NFL season

#79Rd 3 · Pick 15
HoustonEntering 2nd NFL season

WR · IOWA STATE · BIG 12

Jaylin Noel

  • 4
  • #13
  • 5-10 | 200 lb
  • Kansas City, MO

CFB Zeitgeist WR Score

Awaiting

Heisman Heat

#1926

<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 · Season-by-season Standing

3 seasons on the ladder

Peak: R09 All-Conference HM / 2nd team · 2023

2021

Iowa State · WR

2022

Iowa State · WR

2023

Iowa State · WR

R09 · All-Conference HM / 2nd team

Recognized

NFL Draft 2025 · Rd 3, Pick 15 · #79 overall · Houston

Development Trajectory · receiving yards

2021–2023
2652021
6092022
8202023

+209%

Up 209% from first season to most-recent.

Career Arc

HS
Recruit
No recruit profile
CFB
College
Iowa State
2021–2023
NFL
NFL Draft
R3 &middot; #79
Houston &middot; 2025

Identity & Role

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

PositionWR
Class4
Jersey13
Measurements5-10 | 200 lb
HometownKansas City, MO
Primary teamIowa State

Recruiting Pedigree

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

Top pedigree Not on file No matched recruiting profile in the loaded archive
Composite rating -- Composite rating unavailable for this player
Signed with -- Commitment history unavailable
Origin -- Hometown and high school unavailable
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.

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#1926Latest modeled ballot order
Season forecast#1647Where 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

NFL Draft

2025 · Rd 3, Pick 15

#79 overall · Houston

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 Jaylin Noel

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 Jaylin Noel

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.

Why the honors trail matters

The fast read on the thing that makes this player more than a generic stat line.

The useful clue on this card is not just the Heisman rank, but the broader honors spine. Jaylin Noel already has 1 loaded recognition item, which helps distinguish a player who is merely productive from one who is already earning selector-level validation.

Current place #1926 0.0% win | 0.0% finalist
Role load 5.6% Overall usage share
Profile quirk Honors spine 1 honors loaded

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 66 7 rec TD | #32/1110 (97th pct)
Receiving yards 820 12.4 per catch | #62/1107 (94th pct)
Scrimmage yards 819 Total offensive yardage | #62/1107 (94th pct)
Player identity What kind of player is this?

30-second read

What kind of player is this?

Target magnet | All-purpose weapon against FBS receiving peers.

Target magnetAll-purpose weapon

2023 Season · Final

2023 season snapshot | final

Receiving

REC
66 97th
YDS
820 94th
YPR
12.4 55th
TD
7 97th

Rushing

CAR
1 35th
YDS
-1 18th
YPC
-1.0 16th
TD
0 81st

Returns

KR YDS
245 80th
KR AVG
27.2 89th
PR YDS
119 79th
PR AVG
8.5 56th

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

2021Iowa State7-5HC: Matt Campbell · Balanced, fast tempo
2022Iowa State4-8HC: Matt Campbell · Pass-leaning
2023Iowa State7-6HC: Matt Campbell · Balanced, slow tempo
SeasonTeam
2023Iowa State6682012.47--
2022Iowa State6160910.03--
2021Iowa State382657.00--
Career3 loaded seasons1651,69410.310--
SeasonTeam
2023Iowa State1-1245119--
2022Iowa State34723756--
2021Iowa State----28692--
Career3 loaded seasons446768267--
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 5.6% 10.3% pass-game share | #475/1137 (58th pct)
Return yards 364 0 return TD | #48/238 (80th pct)
Touchdowns 7 Across offense and returns | #37/1111 (97th pct)
Open full stat explorer
0 metrics visible Showing all metrics
Group Metric Value Rank Pct Why it matters
Receiving Receptions 66 #32/1110 97th pct Volumevs FBS WR
Receiving Receiving yards 820 #62/1107 94th pct Volumevs FBS WR
Receiving Receiving TD 7 #37/1111 97th pct Scoringvs FBS WR
Receiving Yards / catch 12.4 #504/1106 55th pct Efficiencyvs FBS WR
Returns Kick return yards 245 #48/238 80th pct Volumevs FBS WR
Returns Punt return yards 119 #47/224 79th pct Volumevs FBS WR
Usage Pass share 10.3% #475/1137 58th pct Air-game usagevs FBS WR
Rushing Carries 1 #264/407 35th pct Volumevs FBS WR
Rushing Rush TD 0 #81/411 81st pct Scoringvs FBS WR
Rushing Rushing yards -1 #328/397 18th pct Volumevs FBS WR
Rushing Yards / carry -1.0 #333/393 16th pct Efficiencyvs FBS WR
Receiving Receiving LONG 82 #22/1105 98th pct Metricvs FBS WR
Returns Kick return avg 27.2 #28/236 89th pct Efficiencyvs FBS WR
Returns Punt returns 14 #42/237 83rd pct Volumevs FBS WR
Returns Kick returns 9 #59/243 76th pct Volumevs FBS WR
Returns Punt return avg 8.5 #99/222 56th pct Efficiencyvs FBS WR
Usage 3rd-down usage 8.2% #361/1137 68th pct Money-down loadvs FBS WR
Usage Passing-down usage 7.7% #406/1137 64th pct Known-passing sharevs FBS WR
Usage 1st-down usage 5.8% #345/1137 70th pct Early-down loadvs FBS WR
Usage Role share 5.6% #410/1137 64th pct Share of team offensevs FBS WR
Usage Standard-down usage 4.7% #420/1137 63rd pct Base-situation sharevs FBS WR
Usage 2nd-down usage 3.5% #727/1137 36th pct Middle-down loadvs FBS WR
Usage Rush share 0.0% #391/1137 66th pct Ground-game usagevs FBS WR
Ball Security Fumbles lost 0 #1/302 100th pct Turnoversvs 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 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 · 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

Matt Campbell

Pass share

42.4%

345 pass / 469 run

Plays / game

67.8

12 games

OL sack rate (allowed)

6.8%

296 dropbacks · PBP

Scheme: Run-leaning.

Coaching Lineage · 2021–2023

1 coach
2021
Matt Campbell
Iowa State
2022
Matt Campbell
Iowa State
2023
Matt Campbell
Iowa State

Played his entire career under Matt Campbell.

Bio · Recruiting · Transfer · Roster

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

HometownKansas City, MO
Height5'10"
Weight200 lb
Class4
PositionWR
Jersey13

Trophy Case · Confirmed honors

What the selectors said

1 entries
🎖

ALL-CONFERENCE

All-Conf mention (2023)

All-Big 12

Trophy Case · Detail

Every honor on the ledger, broken out by stream and selector.

All-Conference

1 all-conference honor

Conference-level recognition helps anchor whether a player is merely statistically loud or actually viewed as elite within his competitive lane.

Honors Timeline

Season-end distinction and week-by-week recognition on one timeline.

Season Honor Scope Team / Selector Context
2023 All-Big 12 all_conference Iowa State | Big 12 WR

Heisman By Year

Modeled rank and official finish by season.

Season Team Role Latest Model Forecast Win Finalist Official Finish Points Context
2024 Iowa State WR4 #1926 #1647 0.0% 0.0% -- -- W16 snapshot | Big 12
2023 Iowa State WR4 #333 #396 0.0% 0.0% -- -- W19 snapshot | Big 12
2022 Iowa State WR4 #869 #1164 0.0% 0.0% -- -- W20 snapshot | Big 12
2021 Iowa State WR4 #1500 #1499 0.0% 0.0% -- -- W20 snapshot | Big 12

Roster Timeline

Team, conference, and class by season.

Season Team Conference Pos Class Bio
2024 Iowa State Big 12 WR 4 No. 13 | 5-10 | 200 lb | Kansas City, MO
2023 Iowa State Big 12 WR 4 No. 13 | 5-10 | 200 lb | Kansas City, MO
2022 Iowa State Big 12 WR 4 No. 13 | 5-10 | 200 lb | Kansas City, MO
2021 Iowa State Big 12 WR 4 No. 13 | 5-10 | 200 lb | Kansas City, MO