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Heisman / Players / Joshua Simon /South Carolina

Joshua Simon

TE · South Carolina · Sr · #6

Limited signal — not enough coverage for a story yet.

ALUMNUSSouth Carolina 2023 alumnus

TE · SOUTH CAROLINA · SEC

Joshua Simon

  • 4
  • #6
  • 6-4 | 259 lb
  • Dalzell, SC

CFB Zeitgeist TE Score

Awaiting

Heisman Heat

#2297

<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 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 · 2022

2021

Western Kentucky · TE

2022

Western Kentucky · TE

R09 · All-Conference HM / 2nd team

Recognized

2023

South Carolina · TE

Development Trajectory · receiving yards

2021–2023
73.02021
2732022
2562023

+251%

Up 251% from first season to most-recent.

Career Arc

HS
Recruit
★★★
#2508 national
CFB
College
2 teams
2021–2023
NFL
NFL Draft
Not drafted (yet)

Identity & Role

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

PositionTE
Class4
Jersey6
Measurements6-4 | 259 lb
HometownDalzell, SC
Primary teamSouth Carolina

Recruiting Pedigree

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

Top pedigree 3-star No. 2508 recruit
Composite rating 0.8006 HighSchool
Signed with Western Kentucky 2019
Origin Crestwood Sumter, SC, USA
Class Profile Context
2019 3-star | 0.8006 No. 2508 recruit | HighSchool | Western Kentucky

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#2297Latest modeled ballot order
Season forecast#2084Where 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 Western Kentucky

Composite

0.8006

#2508 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 Joshua Simon

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 Joshua Simon

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. Joshua Simon 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 #2297 0.0% win | 0.0% finalist
Role load 4.9% Overall usage share
Profile quirk Transfer path 0 portal moves

2023 Season · Final

Traditional stats first. Advanced context underneath.

Last season

TE season snapshot

2023 season snapshot | final

2023 season snapshot | finalData: CFBD player stats + local Heisman modelPeer context: same position + same level
Receptions 28 2 rec TD | #63/475 (87th pct)
Receiving yards 256 9.1 per catch | #81/475 (83rd pct)
Scrimmage yards 256 Total offensive yardage | #81/475 (83rd pct)
Player identity What kind of player is this?

30-second read

What kind of player is this?

Target magnet against FBS receiving peers.

Target magnet

2023 Season · Final

2023 season snapshot | final

Receiving

REC
28 87th
YDS
256 83rd
YPR
9.1 43rd
TD
2 84th

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

2021Western Kentucky8-5HC: Tyson Helton · Pass-heavy, fast tempo
2022Western Kentucky9-5HC: Tyson Helton · Pass-leaning
2023South Carolina5-7HC: Shane Beamer · Balanced
SeasonTeam
2023South Carolina282569.12--
2022Western Kentucky2027313.77--
2021Western Kentucky37324.32--
Career3 loaded seasons5160211.811--
Advanced layer Usage, value, and context

Advanced metrics second

Advanced Metrics

Usage, value, and opponent-adjusted context.

Usage Value Context
Pass share

The tight end's share of the passing offense, which helps distinguish a featured receiving tight end from a secondary option.

Role share

A blended usage view that shows how often the offense flows through the tight end compared with other same-level peers.

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 4.9% 8.3% pass-game share | #131/468 (72nd pct)
Return yards 0 0 return TD
Touchdowns 2 Across offense and returns | #79/475 (84th pct)
Open full stat explorer
0 metrics visible Showing all metrics
Group Metric Value Rank Pct Why it matters
Receiving Receptions 28 #63/475 87th pct Volumevs FBS TE
Receiving Receiving yards 256 #81/475 83rd pct Volumevs FBS TE
Receiving Receiving TD 2 #79/475 84th pct Scoringvs FBS TE
Receiving Yards / catch 9.1 #270/475 43rd pct Efficiencyvs FBS TE
Usage Pass share 8.3% #131/468 72nd pct Air-game usagevs FBS TE
Receiving Receiving LONG 33 #111/475 77th pct Metricvs FBS TE
Usage 2nd-down usage 9.1% #18/468 96th pct Middle-down loadvs FBS TE
Usage Passing-down usage 7.7% #55/468 88th pct Known-passing sharevs FBS TE
Usage Role share 4.9% #87/468 82nd pct Share of team offensevs FBS TE
Usage Standard-down usage 4.2% #106/468 78th pct Base-situation sharevs FBS TE
Usage 1st-down usage 3.0% #224/468 52nd pct Early-down loadvs FBS TE
Usage 3rd-down usage 0.0% #339/468 28th pct Money-down loadvs FBS TE
Usage Rush share 0.0% #58/468 88th pct Ground-game usagevs FBS TE
Ball Security Fumbles lost 0 #1/55 100th pct Turnoversvs 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

StatusAwaiting 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 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 · TE · 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

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 · 2021–2023

1 coach
2021
Shane Beamer
South Carolina
2022
Shane Beamer
South Carolina
2023
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.

HometownDalzell, SC
Height6'4"
Weight259 lb
Class4
PositionTE
Jersey6

Trophy Case · Confirmed honors

What the selectors said

1 entries
🎖

ALL-CONFERENCE

All-Conf mention (2022)

All-Conference USA

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
2022 All-Conference USA all_conference Western Kentucky | Conference USA TE

Heisman By Year

Modeled rank and official finish by season.

Season Team Role Latest Model Forecast Win Finalist Official Finish Points Context
2024 South Carolina TE4 #2297 #2084 0.0% 0.0% -- -- W16 snapshot | SEC
2023 South Carolina TE4 #1369 #1640 0.0% 0.0% -- -- W19 snapshot | SEC
2022 Western Kentucky TE4 #905 #1051 0.0% 0.0% -- -- W20 snapshot | Conference USA
2021 Western Kentucky TE4 #2017 #2461 0.0% 0.0% -- -- W20 snapshot | Conference USA

Roster Timeline

Team, conference, and class by season.

Season Team Conference Pos Class Bio
2024 South Carolina SEC TE 4 No. 6 | 6-4 | 259 lb | Dalzell, SC
2023 South Carolina SEC TE 4 No. 6 | 6-4 | 259 lb | Dalzell, SC
2022 Western Kentucky Conference USA TE 4 No. 6 | 6-4 | 259 lb | Dalzell, SC
2021 Western Kentucky Conference USA TE 4 No. 6 | 6-4 | 259 lb | Dalzell, SC