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Heisman / Players / Josh Vann /South Carolina

Josh Vann

WR · South Carolina · Sr · #6

Limited signal — not enough coverage for a story yet.

ALUMNUSSouth Carolina 2022 alumnus

WR · SOUTH CAROLINA · SEC

Josh Vann

  • 5
  • #6
  • 5-11 | 192 lb
  • Tucker, GA

CFB Zeitgeist WR Score

Awaiting

Heisman Heat

#625

<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

Development Trajectory · receiving yards

2021–2022
6792021
2962022

-56%

Sharp dropoff (-56%) — career inflection point.

Career Arc

HS
Recruit
★★★★
#146 national
CFB
College
South Carolina
2021–2022
NFL
NFL Draft
Not drafted (yet)

Identity & Role

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

PositionWR
Class5
Jersey6
Measurements5-11 | 192 lb
HometownTucker, GA
Primary teamSouth Carolina

Recruiting Pedigree

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

Top pedigree 4-star No. 146 recruit
Composite rating 0.9388 HighSchool
Signed with South Carolina 2018
Origin Tucker Tucker, GA, USA
Class Profile Context
2018 4-star | 0.9388 No. 146 recruit | HighSchool | South Carolina

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 · 2022 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 20
Current nowcast#625Latest modeled ballot order
Season forecast#636Where 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 South Carolina

Composite

0.9388

#146 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 Josh Vann

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 Vann

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.

Josh Vann's story is about how role and output meet each other. For South Carolina, 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 #625 0.0% win | 0.0% finalist
Role load 9.7% Overall usage share
Profile quirk Blue-chip pedigree No. 146 recruit

2022 Season · Final

Traditional stats first. Advanced context underneath.

Last season

WR season snapshot

2022 season snapshot | final

2022 season snapshot | finalData: CFBD player stats + local Heisman modelPeer context: same position + same level
Receptions 18 3 rec TD | #444/1110 (60th pct)
Receiving yards 296 16.4 per catch | #363/1107 (67th pct)
Scrimmage yards 296 Total offensive yardage | #363/1107 (67th pct)
Player identity What kind of player is this?

30-second read

What kind of player is this?

Big-play receiver | All-purpose weapon against FBS receiving peers.

Big-play receiverAll-purpose weapon

2022 Season · Final

2022 season snapshot | final

Receiving

REC
18 60th
YDS
296 67th
YPR
16.4 84th
TD
3 82nd

Returns

KR YDS
45 45th
KR AVG
22.5 74th
PR YDS
151 86th
PR AVG
15.1 89th

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

2021South Carolina6-6HC: Shane Beamer · Run-leaning
2022South Carolina8-5HC: Shane Beamer · Balanced
SeasonTeam
2022South Carolina1829616.43--
2021South Carolina4367915.85--
Career2 loaded seasons6197516.08--
SeasonTeam
2022South Carolina----45151--
2021South Carolina563364--
Career2 loaded seasons56348215--
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 9.7% 18.8% pass-game share | #113/1137 (90th pct)
Return yards 196 0 return TD | #132/238 (45th pct)
Touchdowns 3 Across offense and returns | #206/1111 (82nd pct)
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Group Metric Value Rank Pct Why it matters
Receiving Receptions 18 #444/1110 60th pct Volumevs FBS WR
Receiving Receiving yards 296 #363/1107 67th pct Volumevs FBS WR
Receiving Receiving TD 3 #206/1111 82nd pct Scoringvs FBS WR
Receiving Yards / catch 16.4 #183/1106 84th pct Efficiencyvs FBS WR
Returns Kick return yards 45 #132/238 45th pct Volumevs FBS WR
Returns Punt return yards 151 #33/224 86th pct Volumevs FBS WR
Usage Pass share 18.8% #113/1137 90th pct Air-game usagevs FBS WR
Receiving Receiving LONG 60 #176/1105 84th pct Metricvs FBS WR
Returns Kick return avg 22.5 #63/236 74th pct Efficiencyvs FBS WR
Returns Punt return avg 15.1 #25/222 89th pct Efficiencyvs FBS WR
Returns Punt returns 10 #65/237 73rd pct Volumevs FBS WR
Returns Kick returns 2 #132/243 46th pct Volumevs FBS WR
Usage 3rd-down usage 15.3% #44/1137 96th pct Money-down loadvs FBS WR
Usage Passing-down usage 11.5% #160/1137 86th pct Known-passing sharevs FBS WR
Usage 1st-down usage 10.0% #92/1137 92nd pct Early-down loadvs FBS WR
Usage Role share 9.7% #108/1137 91st pct Share of team offensevs FBS WR
Usage Standard-down usage 8.7% #117/1137 90th pct Base-situation sharevs FBS WR
Usage 2nd-down usage 6.9% #314/1137 72nd pct Middle-down loadvs FBS WR
Usage Rush share 1.3% #154/1137 87th pct Ground-game usagevs FBS WR
Ball Security Fumbles lost 1 #131/302 57th 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 · 2022

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

Shane Beamer

Pass share

45.5%

340 pass / 407 run

Plays / game

62.2

12 games

OL sack rate (allowed)

13.0%

316 dropbacks · PBP

Scheme: Run-leaning.

Coaching Lineage · 2021–2022

1 coach
2021
Shane Beamer
South Carolina
2022
Shane Beamer
South Carolina

Played his entire career under Shane Beamer.

Bio · Recruiting · Transfer · Roster

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

HometownTucker, GA
Height5'11"
Weight192 lb
Class5
PositionWR
Jersey6

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
2022 South Carolina WR5 #625 #636 0.0% 0.0% -- -- W20 snapshot | SEC
2021 South Carolina WR5 #502 #673 0.0% 0.0% -- -- W20 snapshot | SEC

Roster Timeline

Team, conference, and class by season.

Season Team Conference Pos Class Bio
2022 South Carolina SEC WR 5 No. 6 | 5-11 | 192 lb | Tucker, GA
2021 South Carolina SEC WR 5 No. 6 | 5-11 | 192 lb | Tucker, GA