CFB Zeitgeist Score
24
Below cohort in the position cohort. Carried by rec yards at the 34th percentile.
Louis Hansen
Below the discourse floor — the honest stats-only state.
194 REC YDS · 20 REC · 0 REC TD
2026 Outlook
Returning to UConn for 2026
2026 Depth chart
Projected starter
Tight end · UConn
Returning around him
- 68% of 2024 offensive production back (Solid continuity)
- 1 UConn player drafted to NFL
- Transfer portal: +8 net (53 in / 45 out)
2026 Award watch
No preseason watch lists yet (most drop June 15 – July 15)
UConn · Last season: 9-4 · Talent rank #97 · 2026 recruiting class #114
TE · UCONN · FBS INDEPENDENTS
Louis Hansen
- 4
- #81
- 6-5 | 240 lb
- Needham, MA
Heisman Heat
#507
<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 2 · StarterR06 · Starter
Starter. A locked-in starting role.
Not on team2-deepStarterRecognizedEliteApex
Development Trajectory · receiving yards
2023–2025+488%
Up 488% from first season to most-recent.
Career Arc
HS
Recruit
★★★★
CFB
College
UConn
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 | 4-star | 0.9090 | No. 257 recruit | HighSchool | Michigan |
Transfer Arc
Portal movement changes role, context, and perception. This keeps that path in one place.
| 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 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 Michigan
Composite
0.9090
#257 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 Louis Hansen
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 Louis Hansen
No rival-bucket mentions in the current season.
2025 Signature · 2025 season
Yards per reception
9.7
yds
All FBS WRs, min 20 receptions
National rank #435 of 531
Percentile vs All FBS WRs, min 20 receptions 18th
Why it matters
#435 of 531 All FBS WRs at 9.7 yards per reception (20 catches).
Vs cohort
This player 9.7 (18th)
MODERATE · n=20 cohort 531
- Also strong
- Receiving TDs#476 / 531
- Receiving yards (total)#503 / 531
Signature Moment
Week 13 at Florida Atlantic — 86 ypr
Result W 48-45
The week the volume broke through — put up 86 yds at Florida Atlantic.
Season Pace · Projection
Where the receiving totals stand
Through 6g
194Rec yards
20Receptions
0Rec TDs
Per game
32.3Rec yards
3Receptions
0Rec TDs
Projected (13g)
420.3Rec yards
43Receptions
0Rec TDs
To hit 700-yard receiver (currently 194): needs 72.3/game over remaining 7.
To hit 1,000-yard receiver (currently 194): needs 115.1/game over remaining 7.
To hit 60-catch season (currently 20): needs 5.7/game over remaining 7.
To hit 80-catch season (currently 20): needs 8.6/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.
Louis Hansen's story is about how role and output meet each other. For UConn, 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
TE 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
20 79th
YDS
194 76th
YPR
9.7 49th
TD
0 46th
Game Log · Week-by-week
2025 season · 6 games
| Wk | Opp | REC | YDS | AVG | TD | LONG | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | W 59-13vs Central Connecticut | 2 | 22 | 11.0 | 0 | 16 | |
| Wk 2 | L 20-27@ Syracuse | 1 | 15 | 15.0 | 0 | 15 | |
| Wk 3 | L 41-44@ Delaware | 5 | 50 | 10.0 | 0 | 19 | |
| Wk 9 | L 34-37@ Rice | 2 | 8 | 4.0 | 0 | 7 | |
| Wk 10 | W 38-19vs UAB | 3 | 13 | 4.3 | 0 | 6 | |
| Wk 13 | W 48-45@ Florida Atlantic | 7 | 86 | 12.3 | 0 | 16 | Season-high 86 yds |
| Total | 20 | 194 | 9.4 | 0 | 19 |
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
2023UConn3-9HC: Jim Mora · Balanced
2024UConn9-4HC: Jim Mora · Run-leaning
2025UConn9-4HC: Jim Mora · Balanced
Advanced layer Usage, value, and context
Advanced metrics second
Advanced Metrics
Usage, value, and opponent-adjusted context.
The tight end's share of the passing offense, which helps distinguish a featured receiving tight end from a secondary option.
A blended usage view that shows how often the offense flows through the tight end compared with other same-level peers.
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 | 20 | #102/475 | 79th pct | Volumevs FBS TE |
| Receiving | Receiving yards | 194 | #117/475 | 76th pct | Volumevs FBS TE |
| Receiving | Receiving TD | 0 | #257/475 | 46th pct | Scoringvs FBS TE |
| Receiving | Yards / catch | 9.7 | #245/475 | 49th pct | Efficiencyvs FBS TE |
| Usage | Pass share | 11.2% | #65/468 | 86th pct | Air-game usagevs FBS TE |
| Receiving | Receiving LONG | 19 | #267/475 | 44th pct | Metricvs FBS TE |
| Usage | 2nd-down usage | 7.1% | #41/468 | 91st pct | Middle-down loadvs FBS TE |
| Usage | Passing-down usage | 6.6% | #86/468 | 82nd pct | Known-passing sharevs FBS TE |
| Usage | Role share | 6.3% | #40/468 | 92nd pct | Share of team offensevs FBS TE |
| Usage | Standard-down usage | 6.1% | #39/468 | 92nd pct | Base-situation sharevs FBS TE |
| Usage | 1st-down usage | 5.7% | #53/468 | 89th pct | Early-down loadvs FBS TE |
| Usage | 3rd-down usage | 4.2% | #178/468 | 62nd pct | Money-down loadvs FBS TE |
| Usage | Rush share | 0.0% | #58/468 | 88th pct | Ground-game usagevs 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
Status—Awaiting 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
2025 season · 6 games
Home vs Road
| REC/g | YDS/g | YPR | TD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home2g | 2.5 | 17.5 | 7.7 | 0.0 |
| Road4g | 3.8 | 39.8 | 10.3 | 0.0 |
Win vs Loss
| REC/g | YDS/g | YPR | TD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wins3g | 4.0 | 40.3 | 9.2 | 0.0 |
| Losses3g | 2.7 | 24.3 | 9.7 | 0.0 |
First half vs Second half
| REC/g | YDS/g | YPR | TD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-73g | 2.7 | 29.0 | 12.0 | 0.0 |
| Weeks 8+3g | 4.0 | 35.7 | 6.9 | 0.0 |
Pocket and defense-quality (clean vs. pressure) splits are coming soon.
Savant · Box-rate percentiles
Where this profile ranks vs the TE cohort
24Below cohort
Concern: long catch (6th).
Percentiles versus same-position peers with enough snaps this season, based on box-score rates.
Advanced Savant · TE · 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
Louis HansenUConnBryce CaufieldOregon State· 76% simHayden HansenFlorida· 73% simLuke LindenmeyerNebraska· 73% sim
Receptions
Rec yards
Yards / catch
Rec TDs
Long catch
Closest peers by overall box-score percentile profile at the same position.
Player DNA
The Complete TE
Dual-threat: blocks when needed, catches when needed. Coveted on both sides.
TE
His 2025 production profile sits closest to Grant Misch’s 2022 season.
Grant Misch
84%match
#2
TJ Banks
82%
#3
Dante Zanders
81%
#4
Johncarlos Miller II
80%
#5
Trey Miller
73%
Matches Grant on
Height
Weight
Yards / reception
Differs from Grant on
Recruiting rating (higher)
Not enough data yet for this comparison.
As a junior, his production profile tracks closest to Josiah Johnson's junior season at Massachusetts (2022).
Josiah Johnson
88%match
#2
TJ Banks
88%
#3
Jordan Murray
87%
#4
Grant Misch
87%
#5
Jack Eschenbach
83%
Matches Josiah on
EPA / play (adj)
Reception volume
Weight
Supporting Cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Jim Mora
Pass share
53.5%
451 pass / 392 run
Plays / game
64.8
13 games
OL sack rate (allowed)
4.5%
314 dropbacks · PBP
Scheme: Balanced.
Coaching Lineage · 2023–2025
1 coach2023
Jim Mora
UConn
2024
Jim Mora
UConn
2025
Jim Mora
UConn
Played his entire career under Jim Mora.
Bio · Recruiting · Transfer · Roster
Off-field context — switch tabs to drill into recruit profile, transfer arc, or roster timeline.
HometownNeedham, MA
Height6'5"
Weight240 lb
Class4
PositionTE
Jersey81
No fields populated yet.
No fields populated yet.
Current teamUConn
ConferenceFBS Independents
Joined2025
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.
Roster Timeline
Team, conference, and class by season.
| Season | Team | Conference | Pos | Class | Bio |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | UConn | FBS Independents | TE | 4 | No. 81 | 6-5 | 240 lb | Needham, MA |
| 2024 | UConn | FBS Independents | TE | 4 | No. 81 | 6-5 | 240 lb | Needham, MA |
| 2023 | UConn | FBS Independents | TE | 4 | No. 81 | 6-5 | 240 lb | Needham, MA |
| 2022 | Michigan | Big Ten | TE | 4 | No. 81 | 6-5 | 240 lb | Needham, MA |