CFB Zeitgeist Score
16
Below cohort in the position cohort. Carried by rec tds at the 24th percentile.
Malik Phillips
Below the discourse floor — the honest stats-only state.
174 REC YDS · 18 REC · 1 REC TD
2026 Outlook
Returning to Sam Houston for 2026
2026 Depth chart
Projected starter
Wide receiver · Sam Houston
Returning around him
- 90% of 2024 offensive production back (Strong continuity)
- Transfer portal: +5 net (20 in / 15 out)
2026 Award watch
No preseason watch lists yet (most drop June 15 – July 15)
Sam Houston · Last season: 2-10 · Talent rank #123 · 2026 recruiting class #122
WR · SAM HOUSTON · CONFERENCE USA
Malik Phillips
- 4
- #11
- 5-9 | 170 lb
- Clovis, NM
Heisman Heat
#3416
<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
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CONSENSUS
All-American
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Player Standing · 17 rungs
Tier 1 · 2-deepR02 · Deep reserve
Deep reserve. In the program, working up the two-deep.
Not on team2-deepStarterRecognizedEliteApex
Development Trajectory · receiving yards
2023–2025-60%
Sharp dropoff (-60%) — career inflection point.
Career Arc
HS
Recruit
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CFB
College
Sam Houston
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 |
|---|---|---|
| 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.
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 Malik Phillips
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 Malik Phillips
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 9g
174Rec yards
18Receptions
1Rec TDs
Per game
19.3Rec yards
2Receptions
0Rec TDs
Projected (13g)
251.3Rec yards
26Receptions
1Rec TDs
To hit 700-yard receiver (currently 174): needs 131.5/game over remaining 4.
To hit 1,000-yard receiver (currently 174): needs 206.5/game over remaining 4.
To hit 60-catch season (currently 18): needs 10.5/game over remaining 4.
To hit 80-catch season (currently 18): needs 15.5/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.
Malik Phillips's story is about how role and output meet each other. For Sam Houston, 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?
All-purpose weapon against FBS receiving peers.
2025 Season · Final
2025 season snapshot | final
Receiving
REC
18 60th
YDS
174 54th
YPR
9.7 29th
TD
1 64th
Returns
KR YDS
283 85th
KR AVG
18.9 44th
Game Log · Week-by-week
2025 season · 9 games
| Wk | Opp | REC | YDS | AVG | TD | LONG | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | L 21-38vs UNLV | 3 | 28 | 9.3 | 0 | 16 | |
| Wk 2 | L 20-37@ Hawai'i | 3 | 32 | 10.7 | 0 | 22 | |
| Wk 6 | L 10-37@ New Mexico State | 5 | 44 | 8.8 | 0 | 26 | Season-high 44 yds |
| Wk 7 | L 27-29vs Jacksonville State | 1 | 1 | 1.0 | 0 | 1 | |
| Wk 8 | L 17-35vs UTEP | 2 | 26 | 13.0 | 1 | 20 | |
| Wk 10 | L 14-55@ Louisiana Tech | 1 | 12 | 12.0 | 0 | 12 | |
| Wk 11 | W 21-17@ Oregon State | 1 | 7 | 7.0 | 0 | 7 | |
| Wk 13 | L 17-31@ Middle Tennessee | 2 | 24 | 12.0 | 0 | 13 | |
| Wk 14 | L 16-56vs Florida International | — | — | — | — | — | |
| Total | 18 | 174 | 9.2 | 1 | 26 |
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
2023Sam Houston3-9HC: K.C. Keeler · Balanced
2025Sam Houston2-10HC: Phil Longo · Balanced
| Season | Team | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Sam Houston | 18 | 174 | 9.7 | 1 | -- |
| 2023 | Sam Houston | 35 | 430 | 12.3 | 1 | -- |
| Career | 2 loaded seasons | 53 | 604 | 11.4 | 2 | -- |
| Season | Team | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Sam Houston | -- | -- | 283 | -- | -- |
| 2023 | Sam Houston | 3 | 9 | 368 | -- | -- |
| Career | 2 loaded seasons | 3 | 9 | 651 | -- | -- |
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 | 18 | #444/1110 | 60th pct | Volumevs FBS WR |
| Receiving | Receiving yards | 174 | #508/1107 | 54th pct | Volumevs FBS WR |
| Receiving | Receiving TD | 1 | #396/1111 | 64th pct | Scoringvs FBS WR |
| Receiving | Yards / catch | 9.7 | #782/1106 | 29th pct | Efficiencyvs FBS WR |
| Returns | Kick return yards | 283 | #37/238 | 85th pct | Volumevs FBS WR |
| Usage | Pass share | 9.5% | #510/1137 | 55th pct | Air-game usagevs FBS WR |
| Receiving | Receiving LONG | 26 | #650/1105 | 41st pct | Metricvs FBS WR |
| Returns | Kick return avg | 18.9 | #133/236 | 44th pct | Efficiencyvs FBS WR |
| Returns | Kick returns | 15 | #30/243 | 88th pct | Volumevs FBS WR |
| Usage | Passing-down usage | 6.3% | #557/1137 | 51st pct | Known-passing sharevs FBS WR |
| Usage | 3rd-down usage | 5.7% | #572/1137 | 50th pct | Money-down loadvs FBS WR |
| Usage | 1st-down usage | 5.4% | #375/1137 | 67th pct | Early-down loadvs FBS WR |
| Usage | Role share | 5.2% | #461/1137 | 60th pct | Share of team offensevs FBS WR |
| Usage | Standard-down usage | 4.7% | #420/1137 | 63rd pct | Base-situation sharevs FBS WR |
| Usage | 2nd-down usage | 4.3% | #604/1137 | 47th pct | Middle-down loadvs FBS WR |
| Usage | Rush share | 0.0% | #391/1137 | 66th 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
2025 season · 9 games
Home vs Road
| REC/g | YDS/g | YPR | TD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home4g | 1.5 | 13.8 | 7.8 | 0.2 |
| Road5g | 2.4 | 23.8 | 10.1 | 0.0 |
Win vs Loss
| REC/g | YDS/g | YPR | TD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wins1g | 1.0 | 7.0 | 7.0 | 0.0 |
| Losses8g | 2.1 | 20.9 | 9.5 | 0.1 |
First half vs Second half
| REC/g | YDS/g | YPR | TD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-74g | 3.0 | 26.2 | 7.5 | 0.0 |
| Weeks 8+5g | 1.2 | 13.8 | 11.0 | 0.2 |
Pocket and defense-quality (clean vs. pressure) splits are coming soon.
Savant · Box-rate percentiles
Where this profile ranks vs the WR cohort
16Below cohort
Concern: long catch (10th).
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
Malik PhillipsSam HoustonMichael Jackson IIIPurdue· 58% simJacquon GibsonMassachusetts· 52% simAaron TurnerRice· 51% sim
Rec TDs
Receptions
Yards / catch
Rec yards
Long catch
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 Devin Maddox’s 2023 season.
Devin Maddox
87%match
#2
Ahmarean Brown
82%
#3
Ben Ratzlaff
76%
#4
Emmanuel Logan-Greene
80%
#5
Tailique Williams
79%
Matches Devin on
Total EPA (college ability)
Yards / reception
Weight
Differs from Devin on
EPA / play (adj) (lower)
Not enough data yet for this comparison.
As a junior, his production profile tracks closest to Ahmarean Brown's junior season at South Carolina (2022).
Ahmarean Brown
80%match
#2
Sean Tyler
All-MAC
78%
#3
Billy Kemp
78%
#4
DeAngelo Irvin Jr.
77%
#5
Reagan Ealy
77%
Matches Ahmarean on
Total EPA (college ability)
EPA / play (adj)
Reception volume
Differs from Ahmarean on
TD rate (higher)
Supporting Cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Phil Longo
Pass share
51.3%
388 pass / 368 run
Plays / game
63.0
12 games
OL sack rate (allowed)
11.1%
324 dropbacks · PBP
Scheme: Balanced.
Coaching Lineage · 2023–2025
2 coaches2023
K.C. Keeler
Sam Houston
2025era →
Phil Longo
Sam Houston
Coaching transition mid-career: K.C. Keeler → Phil Longo. 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.
HometownClovis, NM
Height5'9"
Weight170 lb
Class4
PositionWR
Jersey11
No fields populated yet.
No fields populated yet.
Current teamSam Houston
ConferenceConference USA
Joined2025
Career arc3 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 | Sam Houston | WR4 | #3416 | #3180 | 0.0% | 0.0% | -- | -- | W16 snapshot | Conference USA |
| 2023 | Sam Houston | WR4 | #2308 | #3005 | 0.0% | 0.0% | -- | -- | W19 snapshot | Conference USA |
Roster Timeline
Team, conference, and class by season.
| Season | Team | Conference | Pos | Class | Bio |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Sam Houston | Conference USA | WR | 4 | No. 11 | 5-9 | 170 lb | Clovis, NM |
| 2024 | Sam Houston | Conference USA | WR | 4 | No. 11 | 5-9 | 170 lb | Clovis, NM |
| 2023 | Sam Houston | Conference USA | WR | 4 | No. 11 | 5-9 | 170 lb | Clovis, NM |