CFB Zeitgeist Score
43
Mid-pack in the position cohort. Carried by rec yards at the 53rd percentile.
Kobe Paysour
Below the discourse floor — the honest stats-only state.
438 REC YDS · 35 REC · 1 REC TD
2026 Outlook
Returning to North Carolina for 2026
2026 Depth chart
Returning starter
Wide receiver · North Carolina
Returning around him
- 16% of 2024 offensive production back (Heavy turnover)
- Transfer portal: -11 net (20 in / 31 out)
2026 Award watch
No preseason watch lists yet (most drop June 15 – July 15)
North Carolina · Last season: 4-8 · Talent rank #31 · 2026 recruiting class #41
WR · NORTH CAROLINA · ACC
Kobe Paysour
- 4
- #8
- 6-1 | 190 lb
- Kings Mountain, NC
Heisman Heat
#3035
<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 2 · StarterR07 · Impact starter
Impact starter. Producing measurable value above replacement.
Not on team2-deepStarterRecognizedEliteApex
Development Trajectory · receiving yards
2022–2025+35%
Up 35% from first season to most-recent.
Career Arc
HS
Recruit
★★★
CFB
College
North Carolina
NFL
NFL Draft
—
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 | 3-star | 0.8859 | No. 441 recruit | HighSchool | North Carolina |
Transfer Arc
Portal movement changes role, context, and perception. This keeps that path in one place.
| Season | Move | Context |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | North Carolina -> -- | 3-star | Withdrawn |
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 North Carolina
Composite
0.8859
#441 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 Kobe Paysour
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 Kobe Paysour
No rival-bucket mentions in the current season.
2025 Signature · 2025 season
Yards per reception
12.5
yds
All FBS WRs, min 20 receptions
National rank #258 of 531
Percentile vs All FBS WRs, min 20 receptions 52nd
Why it matters
#258 of 531 All FBS WRs at 12.5 yards per reception (35 catches).
Vs cohort
This player 12.5 (52th)
HIGH · n=35 cohort 531
- Also strong
- Receiving yards (total)#269 / 531
- Receiving TDs#402 / 531
Signature Moment
Week 8 at California — 101 ypr
Result L 18-21
The week the volume broke through — put up 101 yds at California.
Season Pace · Projection
Where the receiving totals stand
Through 9g
438Rec yards
35Receptions
1Rec TDs
Per game
48.7Rec yards
4Receptions
0Rec TDs
Projected (13g)
632.7Rec yards
51Receptions
1Rec TDs
To hit 700-yard receiver (currently 438): needs 65.5/game over remaining 4.
To hit 1,000-yard receiver (currently 438): needs 140.5/game over remaining 4.
To hit 60-catch season (currently 35): needs 6.2/game over remaining 4.
To hit 80-catch season (currently 35): needs 11.2/game over remaining 4.
To hit 8 receiving TDs (currently 1): needs 1.8/game over remaining 4.
To hit 10 receiving TDs (currently 1): needs 2.2/game over remaining 4.
What made this player interesting
The fast read on the thing that makes this player more than a generic stat line.
Kobe Paysour's story is about how role and output meet each other. For North 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.
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?
Receiving weapon against FBS receiving peers.
2025 Season · Final
2025 season snapshot | final
Receiving
REC
35 79th
YDS
438 76th
YPR
12.5 55th
TD
1 64th
Game Log · Week-by-week
2025 season · 9 games
| Wk | Opp | REC | YDS | AVG | TD | LONG | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 4 | L 9-34@ UCF | 1 | 8 | 8.0 | 1 | 8 | |
| Wk 6 | L 10-38vs Clemson | 1 | 10 | 10.0 | 0 | 10 | |
| Wk 8 | L 18-21@ California | 6 | 101 | 16.8 | 0 | 37 | Season-high 101 yds |
| Wk 9 | L 16-17vs Virginia | 3 | 54 | 18.0 | 0 | 26 | |
| Wk 10 | W 27-10@ Syracuse | 3 | 59 | 19.7 | 0 | 44 | |
| Wk 11 | W 20-15vs Stanford | 6 | 54 | 9.0 | 0 | 12 | |
| Wk 12 | L 12-28@ Wake Forest | 5 | 40 | 8.0 | 0 | 13 | |
| Wk 13 | L 25-32vs Duke | 5 | 63 | 12.6 | 0 | 21 | |
| Wk 14 | L 19-42@ NC State | 5 | 49 | 9.8 | 0 | 11 | |
| Total | 35 | 438 | 12.4 | 1 | 44 |
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
2022North Carolina9-5HC: Mack Brown · Balanced
2023North Carolina8-5HC: Mack Brown · Balanced
2025North Carolina4-8HC: Bill Belichick · Balanced, slow tempo
| Season | Team | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | North Carolina | 35 | 438 | 12.5 | 1 | -- |
| 2023 | North Carolina | 22 | 282 | 12.8 | 3 | -- |
| 2022 | North Carolina | 29 | 324 | 11.2 | 4 | -- |
| Career | 3 loaded seasons | 86 | 1,044 | 12.1 | 8 | -- |
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 | 35 | #230/1110 | 79th pct | Volumevs FBS WR |
| Receiving | Receiving yards | 438 | #264/1107 | 76th pct | Volumevs FBS WR |
| Receiving | Receiving TD | 1 | #396/1111 | 64th pct | Scoringvs FBS WR |
| Receiving | Yards / catch | 12.5 | #494/1106 | 55th pct | Efficiencyvs FBS WR |
| Usage | Pass share | 19.1% | #104/1137 | 91st pct | Air-game usagevs FBS WR |
| Receiving | Receiving LONG | 44 | #368/1105 | 67th pct | Metricvs FBS WR |
| Usage | 3rd-down usage | 14.3% | #61/1137 | 95th pct | Money-down loadvs FBS WR |
| Usage | Passing-down usage | 12.9% | #104/1137 | 91st pct | Known-passing sharevs FBS WR |
| Usage | Role share | 10.5% | #78/1137 | 93rd pct | Share of team offensevs FBS WR |
| Usage | 2nd-down usage | 9.5% | #135/1137 | 88th pct | Middle-down loadvs FBS WR |
| Usage | Standard-down usage | 9.5% | #82/1137 | 93rd pct | Base-situation sharevs FBS WR |
| Usage | 1st-down usage | 8.6% | #146/1137 | 87th pct | Early-down loadvs FBS WR |
| Usage | Rush share | 0.0% | #391/1137 | 66th 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
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 · 9 games
Home vs Road
| REC/g | YDS/g | YPR | TD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home4g | 3.8 | 45.2 | 12.4 | 0.0 |
| Road5g | 4.0 | 51.4 | 12.5 | 0.2 |
Win vs Loss
| REC/g | YDS/g | YPR | TD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wins2g | 4.5 | 56.5 | 14.3 | 0.0 |
| Losses7g | 3.7 | 46.4 | 11.9 | 0.1 |
First half vs Second half
| REC/g | YDS/g | YPR | TD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-72g | 1.0 | 9.0 | 9.0 | 0.5 |
| Weeks 8+7g | 4.7 | 60.0 | 13.4 | 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
43Mid-pack
Concern: rec tds (23rd).
Percentiles versus same-position peers with enough snaps this season, based on box-score rates.
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.
Peer Comparator · Fingerprint match
Three closest profiles by box-rate percentile
Kobe PaysourNorth CarolinaKevin Coleman Jr.Missouri· 76% simJacquon GibsonMassachusetts· 76% simTrent WalkerOregon State· 74% sim
Receptions
Rec yards
Yards / catch
Long catch
Fumbles lost
Rec TDs
Closest peers by overall box-score percentile profile at the same position.
Player DNA
The Possession Receiver
Reliable target who converts on critical downs. Not flashy; consistently productive.
WR
His 2025 production profile sits closest to Cameron Odom’s 2021 season.
Cameron Odom
90%match
#2
R.J. Sneed
85%
#3
Titus Mokiao-Atimalala
84%
#4
Michael Woods II
NFL Rd 6
84%
#5
Jermaine Braddock
83%
Matches Cameron on
EPA / play (adj)
Weight
Yards / reception
Differs from Cameron on
Class year (higher)
Through 4 college seasons, his career arc tracks closest to Kyndon Fuselier’s path through Lamar.
Kyndon Fuselier
99%match
#2
Senika McKie
96%
#3
Jacob Harris
94%
#4
Artie Henry
94%
#5
Lujuan Winningham
93%
Matches Kyndon on
Yards per reception
As a senior, his production profile tracks closest to Vinny Anthony's senior season at Wisconsin (2025).
Vinny Anthony
84%match
#2
Octavian Smith Jr.
82%
#3
RJ Garcia II
78%
#4
Jimmy Calloway
77%
#5
Boobie Curry
77%
Matches Vinny on
Total EPA (college ability)
Reception volume
Yards / reception
Supporting Cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Bill Belichick
Pass share
51.1%
355 pass / 340 run
Plays / game
57.9
12 games
OL sack rate (allowed)
8.4%
262 dropbacks · PBP
Scheme: Balanced, slow tempo.
Coaching Lineage · 2022–2025
2 coaches2022
Mack Brown
North Carolina
2023
Mack Brown
North Carolina
2025era →
Bill Belichick
North Carolina
Coaching transition mid-career: Mack Brown → Bill Belichick. 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.
HometownKings Mountain, NC
Height6'1"
Weight190 lb
Class4
PositionWR
Jersey8
No fields populated yet.
No fields populated yet.
Current teamNorth Carolina
ConferenceACC
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 | North Carolina | WR4 | #3035 | #3048 | 0.0% | 0.0% | -- | -- | W16 snapshot | ACC |
| 2023 | North Carolina | WR4 | #653 | #666 | 0.0% | 0.0% | -- | -- | W19 snapshot | ACC |
| 2022 | North Carolina | WR4 | #737 | #789 | 0.0% | 0.0% | -- | -- | W20 snapshot | ACC |
| 2021 | North Carolina | WR4 | #3256 | #3128 | 0.0% | 0.0% | -- | -- | W20 snapshot | ACC |
Roster Timeline
Team, conference, and class by season.
| Season | Team | Conference | Pos | Class | Bio |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | North Carolina | ACC | WR | 4 | No. 8 | 6-1 | 190 lb | Kings Mountain, NC |
| 2024 | North Carolina | ACC | WR | 4 | No. 8 | 6-1 | 190 lb | Kings Mountain, NC |
| 2023 | North Carolina | ACC | WR | 4 | No. 8 | 6-1 | 190 lb | Kings Mountain, NC |
| 2022 | North Carolina | ACC | WR | 4 | No. 8 | 6-1 | 190 lb | Kings Mountain, NC |
| 2021 | North Carolina | ACC | WR | 4 | No. 8 | 6-1 | 190 lb | Kings Mountain, NC |