CFB Zeitgeist Score
41
Mid-pack in the position cohort. Carried by completion % at the 97th percentile.
Ken Seals
Below the discourse floor — the honest stats-only state.
282 PASS YDS · 1 PASS TD · -2 RUSH YDS
2026 Outlook
Returning to TCU for 2026
2026 Depth chart
Projected starter
Quarterback · TCU
Returning around him
- 61% of 2024 offensive production back (Solid continuity)
- 3 TCU players drafted to NFL
- Transfer portal: -2 net (12 in / 14 out)
2026 Award watch
No preseason watch lists yet (most drop June 15 – July 15)
TCU · Last season: 9-4 (AP #24) · Talent rank #32 · 2026 recruiting class #24
QB · TCU · BIG 12
Ken Seals
- 4
- #9
- 6-3 | 220 lb
- Azle, TX
Heisman Heat
#506
<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 QB AWARD
Davey O'Brien
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CONSENSUS
All-American
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Player Standing · 17 rungs
Tier 2 · StarterR07 · Impact starter
Impact starter. Producing measurable value above replacement.
Not on team2-deepStarterRecognizedEliteApex
Development Trajectory · passing yards
2021–2025-76%
Sharp dropoff (-76%) — career inflection point.
Career Arc
HS
Recruit
★★★
CFB
College
2 teams
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 |
|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 3-star | 0.8815 | No. 502 recruit | HighSchool | Vanderbilt |
Transfer Arc
Portal movement changes role, context, and perception. This keeps that path in one place.
| Season | Move | Context |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Vanderbilt -> TCU | 3-star | 0.8700 | 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 Vanderbilt
Composite
0.8815
#502 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 Ken Seals
Fan sentiment ·
Belief Meter
50
Mixed Sentiment
Top Take
“”
Trajectory
Per-cohort trajectory lands when historical bucket data is aggregated.
Cohort divergence map
- Own fans · n=1
Rival Radar
How rival fanbases talk about Ken Seals
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 passing totals stand
Through 3g
282Pass yards
1Pass TDs
2INT
Per game
94Pass yards
0Pass TDs
1INT
Projected (13g)
1,222Pass yards
4Pass TDs
9INT
To hit 3,000-yard season (currently 282): needs 271.8/game over remaining 10.
To hit 4,000-yard season (currently 282): needs 371.8/game over remaining 10.
To hit 25 passing TDs (currently 1): needs 2.4/game over remaining 10.
To hit 30 passing TDs (currently 1): needs 2.9/game over remaining 10.
To hit 35 passing TDs (currently 1): needs 3.4/game over remaining 10.
What made this player interesting
The fast read on the thing that makes this player more than a generic stat line.
Ken Seals's story is about how role and output meet each other. For TCU, 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
QB 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?
Highly efficient | Pocket-leaning against FBS QB peers. The quickest read is whether the profile wins on volume, efficiency, explosiveness, or rushing value.
2025 Season · Final
2025 season snapshot | final
Passing Efficiency
CMP
33 49th
ATT
46 49th
CMP%
71.7% 86th
Y/A
6.1 34th
Passing Production
YDS
282 45th
TD
1 44th
INT
2 52nd
Rushing
CAR
9 35th
YDS
-2 16th
YPC
-0.2 16th
TD
1 63rd
Game Log · Week-by-week
2025 season · 3 games
| Wk | Opp | CMP/ATT | YDS | TD | INT | YPA | QBR | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | W 48-14@ North Carolina | 0/1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.1 | Season-high 258 yds |
| Wk 3 | W 42-21vs Abilene Christian | 4/5 | 24 | 0 | 1 | 4.8 | 5.3 | |
| Bowl | W 30-27vs USC | 29/40 | 258 | 1 | 1 | 6.5 | 65.0 | |
| Total | 33/46 | 282 | 1 | 2 | 3.8 | 23.5 |
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
2021Vanderbilt2-10HC: Clark Lea · Balanced
2023Vanderbilt2-10HC: Clark Lea · Balanced, slow tempo
2024TCU9-4HC: Sonny Dykes · Pass-leaning
2025TCU9-4HC: Sonny Dykes · Balanced
| Season | Team | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | TCU | 33 | 46 | 71.7% | 282 | 6.1 | 1 | 2 | 121.7 | -- | -- |
| 2024 | TCU | 10 | 13 | 76.9% | 97 | 7.5 | 1 | 0 | 165.0 | -- | -- |
| 2023 | Vanderbilt | 106 | 179 | 59.2% | 1,218 | 6.8 | 11 | 4 | 132.2 | -- | -- |
| 2021 | Vanderbilt | 127 | 224 | 56.7% | 1,181 | 5.3 | 5 | 8 | 101.2 | -- | -- |
| Career | 4 loaded seasons | 276 | 462 | 59.7% | 2,778 | 6.0 | 18 | 14 | 117.0 | -- | -- |
| Season | Team | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | TCU | 9 | -2 | -0.2 | 1 | -- |
| 2024 | TCU | 4 | 12 | 3.0 | 0 | -- |
| 2023 | Vanderbilt | 39 | 39 | 1.0 | 2 | -- |
| 2021 | Vanderbilt | 38 | -28 | -0.7 | 1 | -- |
| Career | 4 loaded seasons | 90 | 21 | 0.2 | 4 | -- |
Advanced layer Usage, value, and context
Advanced metrics second
Advanced Metrics
Usage, value, and opponent-adjusted context.
Opponent-adjusted passing value. Positive numbers mean the quarterback is adding more value through the air than a neutral peer would in the same environment.
How much of the offense runs through the quarterback once passing and rushing responsibility are blended together.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Passing | Passing yards | 282 | #211/382 | 45th pct | Volumevs FBS QB |
| Passing | Pass TD | 1 | #228/407 | 44th pct | Scoringvs FBS QB |
| Passing | Completions | 33 | #196/383 | 49th pct | Volumevs FBS QB |
| Passing | Completion % | 71.7% | #56/383 | 86th pct | Efficiencyvs FBS QB |
| Passing | Yards / attempt | 6.1 | #254/382 | 34th pct | Efficiencyvs FBS QB |
| Rushing | Rushing yards | -2 | #342/408 | 16th pct | Volumevs FBS QB |
| Value | Passing WEPA | +0.22 | #130/200 | 36th pct | Opponent-adjusted passing value | 201 weighted playsvs FBS QB |
| Usage | Role share | 26.6% | #194/428 | 55th pct | Share of team offensevs FBS QB |
| Passing | Attempts | 46 | #208/407 | 49th pct | Volumevs FBS QB |
| Passing | Interceptions | 2 | #195/407 | 52nd pct | Turnoversvs FBS QB |
| Rushing | Carries | 9 | #267/408 | 35th pct | Volumevs FBS QB |
| Rushing | Rushing LONG | 8 | #324/391 | 17th pct | Metricvs FBS QB |
| Rushing | Rush TD | 1 | #151/408 | 63rd pct | Scoringvs FBS QB |
| Rushing | Yards / carry | -0.2 | #341/407 | 16th pct | Efficiencyvs FBS QB |
| Usage | Pass share | 43.8% | #195/428 | 55th pct | Air-game usagevs FBS QB |
| Usage | Passing-down usage | 40.4% | #182/428 | 58th pct | Known-passing sharevs FBS QB |
| Usage | 3rd-down usage | 39.5% | #182/428 | 58th pct | Money-down loadvs FBS QB |
| Usage | 1st-down usage | 25.0% | #183/428 | 57th pct | Early-down loadvs FBS QB |
| Usage | 2nd-down usage | 22.7% | #204/428 | 53rd pct | Middle-down loadvs FBS QB |
| Usage | Standard-down usage | 21.3% | #195/428 | 55th pct | Base-situation sharevs FBS QB |
| Usage | Rush share | 5.5% | #264/428 | 39th pct | Ground-game usagevs FBS QB |
| Ball Security | Fumbles lost | 0 | #1/258 | 100th pct | Turnoversvs FBS QB |
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 · 3 games
Home vs Road
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home2g | 141 | 0.5 | 5.7 | 1.0 |
| Road1g | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
Win vs Loss
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wins3g | 94.0 | 0.3 | 3.8 | 0.7 |
First half vs Second half
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-73g | 94.0 | 0.3 | 3.8 | 0.7 |
Pocket and defense-quality (clean vs. pressure) splits are coming soon.
Savant · Box-rate percentiles
Where this profile ranks vs the QB cohort
41Mid-pack
Elite: completion % (97th). Strength: interceptions (92nd). Concern: pass yards (0th).
Percentiles versus same-position peers with enough snaps this season, based on box-score rates.
Advanced Savant · QB · 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
Ken SealsTCUDrake LindseyMinnesota· 59% simNick VattiatoMiddle Tennessee· 59% simJalen KitnaUAB· 55% sim
Completion %
Interceptions
Fumbles lost
Rush TDs
Rush yards
Yards / att
Pass TDs
Pass yards
Closest peers by overall box-score percentile profile at the same position.
Supporting Cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Sonny Dykes
Pass share
51.9%
460 pass / 426 run
Plays / game
68.2
13 games
OL sack rate (allowed)
5.6%
340 dropbacks · PBP
Scheme: Balanced.
Coaching Lineage · 2021–2025
2 coaches2021
Gary Patterson
TCU
2023era →
Sonny Dykes
TCU
2024
Sonny Dykes
TCU
2025
Sonny Dykes
TCU
Coaching transition mid-career: Gary Patterson → Sonny Dykes. Worth noting in scheme + development context.
Bio · Recruiting · Transfer · Roster
Off-field context — switch tabs to drill into recruit profile, transfer arc, or roster timeline.
HometownAzle, TX
Height6'3"
Weight220 lb
Class4
PositionQB
Jersey9
No fields populated yet.
No fields populated yet.
Current teamTCU
ConferenceBig 12
Joined2025
Career arc5 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 | TCU | QB4 | #506 | #503 | 0.0% | 0.0% | -- | -- | W16 snapshot | Big 12 |
| 2023 | Vanderbilt | QB4 | #519 | #822 | 0.0% | 0.0% | -- | -- | W19 snapshot | SEC |
| 2022 | Vanderbilt | QB4 | #1626 | #1760 | 0.0% | 0.0% | -- | -- | W20 snapshot | SEC |
| 2021 | Vanderbilt | QB4 | #976 | #1334 | 0.0% | 0.0% | -- | -- | W20 snapshot | SEC |
Roster Timeline
Team, conference, and class by season.
| Season | Team | Conference | Pos | Class | Bio |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | TCU | Big 12 | QB | 4 | No. 9 | 6-3 | 220 lb | Azle, TX |
| 2024 | TCU | Big 12 | QB | 4 | No. 9 | 6-3 | 220 lb | Azle, TX |
| 2023 | Vanderbilt | SEC | QB | 4 | No. 9 | 6-3 | 220 lb | Azle, TX |
| 2022 | Vanderbilt | SEC | QB | 4 | No. 9 | 6-3 | 220 lb | Azle, TX |
| 2021 | Vanderbilt | SEC | QB | 4 | No. 9 | 6-3 | 220 lb | Azle, TX |