CFB Zeitgeist WR Score
Awaiting
Kaden Prather
Limited signal — not enough coverage for a story yet.
Where He Ended Up · NFL
BuffaloEntering 2nd NFL season
#240Rd 7 · Pick 24
BuffaloEntering 2nd NFL season
WR · MARYLAND · BIG TEN
Kaden Prather
- 4
- #1
- 6-3 | 210 lb
- Montgomery Village, MD
Heisman Heat
#342
<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 teamR01 · Scout team / redshirt
Scout team / redshirt. Developing behind the depth chart.
Not on team2-deepStarterRecognizedEliteApex
Development Trajectory · receiving yards
2021–2024+257%
Up 257% from first season to most-recent.
Career Arc
HS
Recruit
★★★★
CFB
College
2 teams
NFL
NFL Draft
R7 · #240
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 |
|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 4-star | 0.9128 | No. 245 recruit | HighSchool | West Virginia |
Transfer Arc
Portal movement changes role, context, and perception. This keeps that path in one place.
| Season | Move | Context |
|---|---|---|
| 2023 | West Virginia -> Maryland | 4-star | 0.9200 | Immediate |
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 West Virginia
Composite
0.9128
#245 national
NFL Draft
2025 · Rd 7, Pick 24
#240 overall · Buffalo
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 Kaden Prather
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 Kaden Prather
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.
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.
Kaden Prather's story is about how role and output meet each other. For Maryland, 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.
2024 Season · Final
Traditional stats first. Advanced context underneath.
Last season
WR season snapshot
2024 season snapshot | final
2024 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?
Target magnet against FBS receiving peers.
2024 Season · Final
2024 season snapshot | final
Receiving
REC
56 92nd
YDS
624 88th
YPR
11.1 43rd
TD
4 86th
Rushing
CAR
1 35th
YDS
-1 18th
YPC
-1.0 16th
TD
0 81st
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 context · Team result + system
2021West Virginia6-6HC: Neal Brown · Balanced
2022West Virginia5-7HC: Neal Brown · Balanced
2023Maryland8-5HC: Mike Locksley · Pass-leaning
2024Maryland4-8HC: Mike Locksley · Pass-leaning
| Season | Team | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Maryland | 56 | 624 | 11.1 | 4 | -- |
| 2023 | Maryland | 42 | 666 | 15.9 | 5 | -- |
| 2022 | West Virginia | 52 | 501 | 9.6 | 3 | -- |
| 2021 | West Virginia | 12 | 175 | 14.6 | 0 | -- |
| Career | 4 loaded seasons | 162 | 1,966 | 12.1 | 12 | -- |
| Season | Team | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Maryland | 1 | -1 | -- | -- | -- |
| 2023 | Maryland | 1 | 36 | -- | -- | -- |
| 2022 | West Virginia | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| 2021 | West Virginia | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Career | 4 loaded seasons | 2 | 35 | -- | -- | -- |
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 | 56 | #86/1110 | 92nd pct | Volumevs FBS WR |
| Receiving | Receiving yards | 624 | #138/1107 | 88th pct | Volumevs FBS WR |
| Receiving | Receiving TD | 4 | #152/1111 | 86th pct | Scoringvs FBS WR |
| Receiving | Yards / catch | 11.1 | #635/1106 | 43rd pct | Efficiencyvs FBS WR |
| Usage | Pass share | 11.7% | #398/1137 | 65th 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 | 33 | #568/1105 | 49th pct | Metricvs FBS WR |
| Usage | 3rd-down usage | 10.2% | #212/1137 | 81st pct | Money-down loadvs FBS WR |
| Usage | Passing-down usage | 8.7% | #335/1137 | 71st pct | Known-passing sharevs FBS WR |
| Usage | Role share | 7.1% | #270/1137 | 76th pct | Share of team offensevs FBS WR |
| Usage | 2nd-down usage | 7.0% | #303/1137 | 73rd pct | Middle-down loadvs FBS WR |
| Usage | 1st-down usage | 6.4% | #286/1137 | 75th pct | Early-down loadvs FBS WR |
| Usage | Standard-down usage | 6.4% | #266/1137 | 77th pct | Base-situation sharevs FBS WR |
| Usage | Rush share | 0.3% | #332/1137 | 71st pct | Ground-game usagevs 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 splits
Splits fill in once box scores from at least three games land for this season.
Advanced Savant · WR · 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.
Supporting Cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Mike Locksley
Pass share
61.9%
491 pass / 302 run
Plays / game
66.1
12 games
OL sack rate (allowed)
2.3%
383 dropbacks · PBP
Scheme: Pass-leaning.
Coaching Lineage · 2021–2024
1 coach2021
Mike Locksley
Maryland
2022
Mike Locksley
Maryland
2023
Mike Locksley
Maryland
2024
Mike Locksley
Maryland
Played his entire career under Mike Locksley.
Bio · Recruiting · Transfer · Roster
Off-field context — switch tabs to drill into recruit profile, transfer arc, or roster timeline.
HometownMontgomery Village, MD
Height6'3"
Weight210 lb
Class4
PositionWR
Jersey1
No fields populated yet.
No fields populated yet.
Current teamMaryland
ConferenceBig Ten
Joined2024
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.
| Season | Team | Role | Latest Model | Forecast | Win | Finalist | Official Finish | Points | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Maryland | WR4 | #342 | #429 | 0.0% | 0.0% | -- | -- | W16 snapshot | Big Ten |
| 2023 | Maryland | WR4 | #353 | #445 | 0.0% | 0.0% | -- | -- | W19 snapshot | Big Ten |
| 2022 | West Virginia | WR4 | #1116 | #1443 | 0.0% | 0.0% | -- | -- | W20 snapshot | Big 12 |
| 2021 | West Virginia | WR4 | #1495 | #1501 | 0.0% | 0.0% | -- | -- | W20 snapshot | Big 12 |
Roster Timeline
Team, conference, and class by season.
| Season | Team | Conference | Pos | Class | Bio |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Maryland | Big Ten | WR | 4 | No. 1 | 6-3 | 210 lb | Montgomery Village, MD |
| 2023 | Maryland | Big Ten | WR | 4 | No. 1 | 6-3 | 210 lb | Montgomery Village, MD |
| 2022 | West Virginia | Big 12 | WR | 4 | No. 1 | 6-3 | 210 lb | Montgomery Village, MD |
| 2021 | West Virginia | Big 12 | WR | 4 | No. 1 | 6-3 | 210 lb | Montgomery Village, MD |