CFB Zeitgeist Score
31
Below cohort in the position cohort. Carried by yards / catch at the 89th percentile.
Justin Smith-Brown
Below the discourse floor — the honest stats-only state.
117 REC YDS · 7 REC · 0 REC TD
In Portal · 2026
In transfer portal
2025West Virginia
DestinationTBD
WR · WEST VIRGINIA · BIG 12
Justin Smith-Brown
- 4
- #11
- 5-11 | 185 lb
- Port Saint John, FL
Heisman Heat
Awaiting
Not on the live Heisman board this week.
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
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TOP WR AWARD
Biletnikoff
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CONSENSUS
All-American
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Player Standing · 17 rungs
Tier 1 · 2-deepR04 · Rotational
Rotational. Earning real snaps in the rotation.
Not on team2-deepStarterRecognizedEliteApex
Career Arc
HS
Recruit
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CFB
College
West Virginia
NFL
NFL Draft
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| 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.
| Season | Move | Context |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 | West Virginia -> -- | Immediate |
| 2025 | South Carolina State -> West Virginia | 3-star | 0.8400 | Immediate |
Heisman Lens
Where the model places this player relative to the rest of the Heisman field.
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.
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 Justin Smith-Brown
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 Justin Smith-Brown
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 6g
117Rec yards
7Receptions
0Rec TDs
Per game
19.5Rec yards
1Receptions
0Rec TDs
Projected (13g)
253.5Rec yards
15Receptions
0Rec TDs
To hit 700-yard receiver (currently 117): needs 83.3/game over remaining 7.
To hit 1,000-yard receiver (currently 117): needs 126.1/game over remaining 7.
To hit 60-catch season (currently 7): needs 7.6/game over remaining 7.
To hit 80-catch season (currently 7): needs 10.4/game over remaining 7.
To hit 8 receiving TDs (currently 0): needs 1.1/game over remaining 7.
To hit 10 receiving TDs (currently 0): needs 1.4/game over remaining 7.
What made this player interesting
The fast read on the thing that makes this player more than a generic stat line.
Justin Smith-Brown's story is about how role and output meet each other. For West Virginia, 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
WR 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
7 40th
YDS
117 47th
YPR
16.7 85th
TD
0 45th
Rushing
CAR
1 35th
YDS
-10 3rd
YPC
-10.0 1st
TD
0 81st
Game Log · Week-by-week
2025 season · 6 games
| Wk | Opp | REC | YDS | AVG | TD | LONG | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | W 45-3vs Robert Morris | — | — | — | — | — | |
| Wk 3 | W 31-24vs Pittsburgh | 1 | 56 | 56.0 | 0 | 56 | Season-high 56 yds |
| Wk 4 | L 10-41@ Kansas | 2 | 19 | 9.5 | 0 | 11 | |
| Wk 6 | L 24-38@ BYU | 1 | 4 | 4.0 | 0 | 4 | |
| Wk 8 | L 13-45@ UCF | 2 | 27 | 13.5 | 0 | 19 | |
| Wk 9 | L 17-23vs TCU | 1 | 11 | 11.0 | 0 | 11 | |
| Total | 7 | 117 | 18.8 | 0 | 56 |
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
2025West Virginia4-8HC: Rich Rodriguez · Run-heavy
| Season | Team | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | West Virginia | 7 | 117 | 16.7 | 0 | -- |
| Career | 1 loaded season | 7 | 117 | 16.7 | 0 | -- |
| Season | Team | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | West Virginia | 1 | -10 | -- | -- | -- |
| Career | 1 loaded season | 1 | -10 | -- | -- | -- |
Advanced layer Usage, value, and context
Advanced metrics second
Advanced Metrics
Usage, value, and opponent-adjusted context.
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.
A blended workload view that accounts for catches, designed touches, and any return-game involvement that shapes the overall profile.
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 | 7 | #667/1110 | 40th pct | Volumevs FBS WR |
| Receiving | Receiving yards | 117 | #593/1107 | 47th pct | Volumevs FBS WR |
| Receiving | Receiving TD | 0 | #615/1111 | 45th pct | Scoringvs FBS WR |
| Receiving | Yards / catch | 16.7 | #167/1106 | 85th pct | Efficiencyvs FBS WR |
| Usage | Pass share | 6.5% | #733/1137 | 36th 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 | -10 | #388/397 | 3rd pct | Volumevs FBS WR |
| Rushing | Yards / carry | -10.0 | #389/393 | 1st pct | Efficiencyvs FBS WR |
| Receiving | Receiving LONG | 56 | #205/1105 | 82nd pct | Metricvs FBS WR |
| Usage | 2nd-down usage | 6.6% | #338/1137 | 70th pct | Middle-down loadvs FBS WR |
| Usage | Passing-down usage | 5.8% | #617/1137 | 46th pct | Known-passing sharevs FBS WR |
| Usage | Role share | 2.7% | #834/1137 | 27th pct | Share of team offensevs FBS WR |
| Usage | Standard-down usage | 1.5% | #999/1137 | 12th pct | Base-situation sharevs FBS WR |
| Usage | 3rd-down usage | 1.3% | #922/1137 | 19th pct | Money-down loadvs FBS WR |
| Usage | 1st-down usage | 0.6% | #1013/1137 | 11th pct | Early-down loadvs FBS WR |
| Usage | Rush share | 0.4% | #312/1137 | 73rd 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
Status—Awaiting tracker
Heisman model tracks the top FBS contenders weekly; this player hasn't entered the watch list yet.
Splits · Per-game
2025 season · 6 games
Home vs Road
| REC/g | YDS/g | YPR | TD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home3g | 0.7 | 22.3 | 33.5 | 0.0 |
| Road3g | 1.7 | 16.7 | 9.0 | 0.0 |
Win vs Loss
| REC/g | YDS/g | YPR | TD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wins2g | 0.5 | 28.0 | 56.0 | 0.0 |
| Losses4g | 1.5 | 15.2 | 9.5 | 0.0 |
First half vs Second half
| REC/g | YDS/g | YPR | TD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-74g | 1.0 | 19.8 | 23.2 | 0.0 |
| Weeks 8+2g | 1.5 | 19.0 | 12.2 | 0.0 |
Pocket and defense-quality (clean vs. pressure) splits are coming soon.
Savant · Box-rate percentiles
Where this profile ranks vs the WR cohort
31Below cohort
Elite: yards / catch (88th). Strength: fumbles lost (80th). Concern: receptions (0th).
Percentiles versus same-position peers with enough snaps this season, based on box-score rates.
Advanced Savant · WR · 2025
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
Justin Smith-BrownWest VirginiaHarrison Wallace IIIOle Miss· 47% simChris Dawn Jr.Texas State· 45% simQue'Sean BrownDuke· 45% sim
Yards / catch
Fumbles lost
Long catch
Rush TDs
Rec TDs
Rec yards
Rush yards
Receptions
Closest peers by overall box-score percentile profile at the same position.
Supporting Cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Rich Rodriguez
Pass share
38.7%
327 pass / 517 run
Plays / game
70.3
12 games
OL sack rate (allowed)
10.7%
272 dropbacks · PBP
Scheme: Run-heavy.
Coaching Lineage · 2025
1 coach2025
Rich Rodriguez
West Virginia
Played his entire career under Rich Rodriguez.
Bio · Recruiting · Transfer · Roster
Off-field context — switch tabs to drill into recruit profile, transfer arc, or roster timeline.
HometownPort Saint John, FL
Height5'11"
Weight185 lb
Class4
PositionWR
Jersey11
No fields populated yet.
No fields populated yet.
Current teamWest Virginia
ConferenceBig 12
Joined2025
Career arc1 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.
| Season | Team | Role | Latest Model | Forecast | Win | Finalist | Official Finish | Points | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| This player hasn’t appeared on a Heisman ballot tracked by the model. | |||||||||
Roster Timeline
Team, conference, and class by season.
| Season | Team | Conference | Pos | Class | Bio |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | West Virginia | Big 12 | WR | 4 | No. 11 | 5-11 | 185 lb | Port Saint John, FL |