CFB Zeitgeist Score
29
Below cohort in the position cohort. Carried by yards / catch at the 88th percentile.
Josh Sapp
Below the discourse floor — the honest stats-only state.
150 REC YDS · 11 REC · 0 REC TD
2026 Outlook
Returning to Clemson for 2026
2026 Depth chart
Projected starter
Tight end · Clemson
Returning around him
- 83% of 2024 offensive production back (Strong continuity)
- 9 Clemson players drafted to NFL
- Transfer portal: -4 net (11 in / 15 out)
2026 Award watch
No preseason watch lists yet (most drop June 15 – July 15)
Clemson · Last season: 7-6 (AP #12) · Talent rank #7 · 2026 recruiting class #26
TE · CLEMSON · ACC
Josh Sapp
- 3
- #5
- 6-2 | 235 lb
- Greenville, SC
Heisman Heat
#1274
<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 · StarterR07 · Impact starter
Impact starter. Producing measurable value above replacement.
Not on team2-deepStarterRecognizedEliteApex
Development Trajectory · receiving yards
2023–2025+150%
Up 150% from first season to most-recent.
Career Arc
HS
Recruit
★★★
CFB
College
Clemson
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 |
|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 3-star | 0.8467 | No. 1357 recruit | HighSchool | Clemson |
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 Clemson
Composite
0.8467
#1357 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 Josh Sapp
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 Josh Sapp
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 10g
150Rec yards
11Receptions
0Rec TDs
Per game
15Rec yards
1Receptions
0Rec TDs
Projected (13g)
195Rec yards
14Receptions
0Rec TDs
To hit 700-yard receiver (currently 150): needs 183.3/game over remaining 3.
To hit 1,000-yard receiver (currently 150): needs 283.3/game over remaining 3.
To hit 60-catch season (currently 11): needs 16.3/game over remaining 3.
To hit 80-catch season (currently 11): needs 23/game over remaining 3.
To hit 8 receiving TDs (currently 0): needs 2.7/game over remaining 3.
To hit 10 receiving TDs (currently 0): needs 3.3/game over remaining 3.
What made this player interesting
The fast read on the thing that makes this player more than a generic stat line.
Josh Sapp's story is about how role and output meet each other. For Clemson, 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?
Big-play receiver against FBS receiving peers.
2025 Season · Final
2025 season snapshot | final
Receiving
REC
11 63rd
YDS
150 69th
YPR
13.6 85th
TD
0 46th
Game Log · Week-by-week
2025 season · 10 games
| Wk | Opp | REC | YDS | AVG | TD | LONG | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | L 10-17vs LSU | 1 | 7 | 7.0 | 0 | 7 | |
| Wk 2 | W 27-16vs Troy | — | — | — | — | — | |
| Wk 3 | L 21-24@ Georgia Tech | 1 | 31 | 31.0 | 0 | 31 | |
| Wk 4 | L 21-34vs Syracuse | 1 | 13 | 13.0 | 0 | 13 | |
| Wk 6 | W 38-10@ North Carolina | 1 | 9 | 9.0 | 0 | 9 | |
| Wk 7 | W 41-10@ Boston College | 1 | 32 | 32.0 | 0 | 32 | Season-high 32 yds |
| Wk 8 | L 24-35vs SMU | 2 | 15 | 7.5 | 0 | 12 | |
| Wk 13 | W 45-10vs Furman | 1 | 11 | 11.0 | 0 | 11 | |
| Wk 14 | W 28-14@ South Carolina | 1 | 22 | 22.0 | 0 | 22 | |
| Bowl | L 10-22vs Penn State | 2 | 10 | 5.0 | 0 | 6 | |
| Total | 11 | 150 | 15.3 | 0 | 32 |
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
2023Clemson9-4HC: Dabo Swinney · Balanced, fast tempo
2024Clemson10-4HC: Dabo Swinney · Balanced, fast tempo
2025Clemson7-6HC: Dabo Swinney · 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 | 11 | #176/475 | 63rd pct | Volumevs FBS TE |
| Receiving | Receiving yards | 150 | #147/475 | 69th pct | Volumevs FBS TE |
| Receiving | Receiving TD | 0 | #257/475 | 46th pct | Scoringvs FBS TE |
| Receiving | Yards / catch | 13.6 | #74/475 | 85th pct | Efficiencyvs FBS TE |
| Usage | Pass share | 4.7% | #314/468 | 33rd pct | Air-game usagevs FBS TE |
| Receiving | Receiving LONG | 32 | #122/475 | 75th pct | Metricvs FBS TE |
| Usage | 2nd-down usage | 4.0% | #186/468 | 60th pct | Middle-down loadvs FBS TE |
| Usage | Passing-down usage | 3.2% | #262/468 | 44th pct | Known-passing sharevs FBS TE |
| Usage | Role share | 2.7% | #255/468 | 46th pct | Share of team offensevs FBS TE |
| Usage | 1st-down usage | 2.5% | #277/468 | 41st pct | Early-down loadvs FBS TE |
| Usage | Standard-down usage | 2.5% | #272/468 | 42nd pct | Base-situation sharevs FBS TE |
| Usage | 3rd-down usage | 0.8% | #335/468 | 29th 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 · 10 games
Home vs Road
| REC/g | YDS/g | YPR | TD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home6g | 1.2 | 9.3 | 8.7 | 0.0 |
| Road4g | 1.0 | 23.5 | 23.5 | 0.0 |
Win vs Loss
| REC/g | YDS/g | YPR | TD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wins5g | 0.8 | 14.8 | 18.5 | 0.0 |
| Losses5g | 1.4 | 15.2 | 12.7 | 0.0 |
First half vs Second half
| REC/g | YDS/g | YPR | TD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-77g | 1.0 | 14.6 | 16.2 | 0.0 |
| Weeks 8+3g | 1.3 | 16.0 | 13.5 | 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
29Below cohort
Elite: yards / catch (87th). 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
Josh SappClemsonLuke LindenmeyerNebraska· 57% simDecker DeGraafWashington· 54% simRiley NowakowskiIndiana· 52% sim
Yards / catch
Long catch
Rec yards
Rec TDs
Receptions
Closest peers by overall box-score percentile profile at the same position.
Player DNA
The Move TE
Lined up out wide as often as inline. Creates mismatches downfield.
TE
His 2025 production profile sits closest to Cole Cavallo’s 2020 season.
Cole Cavallo
72%match
#2
Ryan Rivera
70%
#3
Cole Cavallo
69%
#4
Princeton Fant
68%
#5
Bryce Damous
68%
Matches Cole on
Reception volume
TD rate
Yards / reception
Differs from Cole on
Class year (lower)
Height (lower)
Not enough data yet for this comparison.
As a junior, his production profile tracks closest to Ryan Rivera's junior season at Louisiana Tech (2023).
Ryan Rivera
76%match
#2
Trace Bruckler
73%
#3
Olsen Patt-Henry
71%
#4
Bru McCoy
70%
#5
Cooper Mathers
70%
Matches Ryan on
Yards / reception
Total EPA (college ability)
Height
Differs from Ryan on
Class year (lower)
EPA / play (adj) (lower)
Supporting Cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Dabo Swinney
Pass share
53.8%
474 pass / 407 run
Plays / game
67.8
13 games
OL sack rate (allowed)
4.5%
337 dropbacks · PBP
Scheme: Balanced.
Coaching Lineage · 2023–2025
1 coach2023
Dabo Swinney
Clemson
2024
Dabo Swinney
Clemson
2025
Dabo Swinney
Clemson
Played his entire career under Dabo Swinney.
Bio · Recruiting · Transfer · Roster
Off-field context — switch tabs to drill into recruit profile, transfer arc, or roster timeline.
HometownGreenville, SC
Height6'2"
Weight235 lb
Class3
PositionTE
Jersey5
No fields populated yet.
No fields populated yet.
Current teamClemson
ConferenceACC
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.
Roster Timeline
Team, conference, and class by season.