CFB Zeitgeist Score
61
Solid starter in the position cohort. Carried by rec yards at the 64th percentile.
Malik Rutherford
Below the discourse floor — the honest stats-only state.
523 REC YDS · 46 REC · 3 REC TD
2026 Outlook
Returning to Georgia Tech for 2026
2026 Depth chart
Projected starter
Wide receiver · Georgia Tech
Returning around him
- 81% of 2024 offensive production back (Strong continuity)
- 2 Georgia Tech players drafted to NFL
- Transfer portal: -1 net (19 in / 20 out)
2026 Award watch
No preseason watch lists yet (most drop June 15 – July 15)
Georgia Tech · Last season: 9-4 (AP #24) · Talent rank #39 · 2026 recruiting class #21
WR · GEORGIA TECH · ACC
Malik Rutherford
- 4
- #8
- 5-9 | 170 lb
- Miami, FL
Heisman Heat
#3001
<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 · StarterR06 · Starter
Starter. A locked-in starting role.
Not on team2-deepStarterRecognizedEliteApex
Development Trajectory · receiving yards
2021–2025+744%
Up 744% from first season to most-recent.
Career Arc
HS
Recruit
★★★
CFB
College
Georgia Tech
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 | 0.8726 | No. 635 recruit | HighSchool |
Transfer Arc
Portal movement changes role, context, and perception. This keeps that path in one place.
| Season | Move | Context |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Georgia Tech -> -- | 3-star | Withdrawn |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 —
Composite
0.8726
#635 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 Malik Rutherford
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 Rutherford
No rival-bucket mentions in the current season.
2025 Signature · 2025 season
Receiving yards (total)
523
yds
All FBS WRs, min 20 receptions
National rank #195 of 531
Percentile vs All FBS WRs, min 20 receptions 63rd
Why it matters
#195 of 531 All FBS WRs in receiving yards — 523 yards on 46 receptions.
Vs cohort
This player 523 (63th)
HIGH · n=46 cohort 531
- Also strong
- Yards per reception#322 / 531
- Receiving TDs#222 / 531
Signature Moment
Week 12 at Boston College — 121 receiving_yards_total
Result W 36-34
The week the volume broke through — put up 121 yds at Boston College.
Season Pace · Projection
Where the receiving totals stand
Through 11g
523Rec yards
46Receptions
3Rec TDs
Per game
47.5Rec yards
4Receptions
0Rec TDs
Projected (13g)
618.1Rec yards
54Receptions
4Rec TDs
To hit 700-yard receiver (currently 523): needs 88.5/game over remaining 2.
To hit 1,000-yard receiver (currently 523): needs 238.5/game over remaining 2.
To hit 60-catch season (currently 46): needs 7/game over remaining 2.
To hit 80-catch season (currently 46): needs 17/game over remaining 2.
To hit 8 receiving TDs (currently 3): needs 2.5/game over remaining 2.
To hit 10 receiving TDs (currently 3): needs 3.5/game over remaining 2.
What made this player interesting
The fast read on the thing that makes this player more than a generic stat line.
Malik Rutherford's story is about how role and output meet each other. For Georgia Tech, 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?
Target magnet against FBS receiving peers.
2025 Season · Final
2025 season snapshot | final
Receiving
REC
46 88th
YDS
523 82nd
YPR
11.4 46th
TD
3 82nd
Rushing
CAR
7 84th
YDS
45 83rd
YPC
6.4 71st
TD
0 81st
Game Log · Week-by-week
2025 season · 11 games
| Wk | Opp | REC | YDS | AVG | TD | LONG | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | W 27-20@ Colorado | — | — | — | — | — | |
| Wk 2 | W 59-12vs Gardner-Webb | 5 | 62 | 12.4 | 0 | 26 | |
| Wk 3 | W 24-21vs Clemson | 4 | 22 | 5.5 | 0 | 9 | |
| Wk 4 | W 45-24vs Temple | 2 | 33 | 16.5 | 1 | 24 | |
| Wk 5 | W 30-29@ Wake Forest | 5 | 38 | 7.6 | 0 | 19 | |
| Wk 7 | W 35-20vs Virginia Tech | 6 | 49 | 8.2 | 1 | 16 | |
| Wk 8 | W 27-18@ Duke | 1 | -2 | -2.0 | 0 | -2 | |
| Wk 12 | W 36-34@ Boston College | 5 | 121 | 24.2 | 1 | 71 | Season-high 121 yds |
| Wk 13 | L 28-42vs Pittsburgh | 6 | 68 | 11.3 | 0 | 20 | |
| Wk 14 | L 9-16vs Georgia | 4 | 27 | 6.8 | 0 | 9 | |
| Bowl | L 21-25@ BYU | 8 | 105 | 13.1 | 0 | 28 | |
| Total | 46 | 523 | 10.4 | 3 | 71 |
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
2021Georgia Tech3-9HC: Geoff Collins · Run-leaning
2022Georgia Tech5-7HC: Brent Key · Balanced
2023Georgia Tech7-6HC: Brent Key · Run-leaning
2025Georgia Tech9-4HC: Brent Key · Run-leaning
| Season | Team | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Georgia Tech | 46 | 523 | 11.4 | 3 | -- |
| 2023 | Georgia Tech | 46 | 502 | 10.9 | 4 | -- |
| 2022 | Georgia Tech | 23 | 225 | 9.8 | 0 | -- |
| 2021 | Georgia Tech | 5 | 62 | 12.4 | 0 | -- |
| Career | 4 loaded seasons | 120 | 1,312 | 10.9 | 7 | -- |
| Season | Team | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Georgia Tech | 7 | 45 | -- | -- | -- |
| 2023 | Georgia Tech | 3 | 17 | -- | -- | -- |
| 2022 | Georgia Tech | 1 | 4 | 39 | -- | -- |
| 2021 | Georgia Tech | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Career | 4 loaded seasons | 11 | 66 | 39 | -- | -- |
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 | 46 | #137/1110 | 88th pct | Volumevs FBS WR |
| Receiving | Receiving yards | 523 | #200/1107 | 82nd pct | Volumevs FBS WR |
| Receiving | Receiving TD | 3 | #206/1111 | 82nd pct | Scoringvs FBS WR |
| Receiving | Yards / catch | 11.4 | #597/1106 | 46th pct | Efficiencyvs FBS WR |
| Usage | Pass share | 14.1% | #276/1137 | 76th pct | Air-game usagevs FBS WR |
| Rushing | Rushing yards | 45 | #67/397 | 83rd pct | Volumevs FBS WR |
| Rushing | Rushing LONG | 13 | #134/346 | 62nd pct | Metricvs FBS WR |
| Rushing | Carries | 7 | #65/407 | 84th pct | Volumevs FBS WR |
| Rushing | Yards / carry | 6.4 | #115/393 | 71st pct | Efficiencyvs FBS WR |
| Rushing | Rush TD | 0 | #81/411 | 81st pct | Scoringvs FBS WR |
| Receiving | Receiving LONG | 71 | #89/1105 | 92nd pct | Metricvs FBS WR |
| Usage | Passing-down usage | 8.8% | #326/1137 | 71st pct | Known-passing sharevs FBS WR |
| Usage | 1st-down usage | 8.2% | #174/1137 | 85th pct | Early-down loadvs FBS WR |
| Usage | 2nd-down usage | 7.7% | #243/1137 | 79th pct | Middle-down loadvs FBS WR |
| Usage | Role share | 7.4% | #246/1137 | 78th pct | Share of team offensevs FBS WR |
| Usage | Standard-down usage | 6.9% | #226/1137 | 80th pct | Base-situation sharevs FBS WR |
| Usage | 3rd-down usage | 5.7% | #572/1137 | 50th pct | Money-down loadvs FBS WR |
| Usage | Rush share | 2.0% | #101/1137 | 91st 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 · 11 games
Home vs Road
| REC/g | YDS/g | YPR | TD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home6g | 4.5 | 43.5 | 10.1 | 0.3 |
| Road5g | 3.8 | 52.4 | 10.7 | 0.2 |
Win vs Loss
| REC/g | YDS/g | YPR | TD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wins8g | 3.5 | 40.4 | 10.3 | 0.4 |
| Losses3g | 6.0 | 66.7 | 10.4 | 0.0 |
First half vs Second half
| REC/g | YDS/g | YPR | TD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-77g | 4.3 | 44.1 | 10.5 | 0.3 |
| Weeks 8+4g | 4.0 | 53.5 | 10.1 | 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
61Solid starter
Elite: long catch (84th).
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 RutherfordGeorgia TechRyan DavisUtah· 85% simDevin VoisinSouth Alabama· 85% simAnthony Evans IIIMississippi State· 85% sim
Long catch
Rush yards
Receptions
Rec yards
Rec TDs
Rush TDs
Yards / catch
Closest peers by overall box-score percentile profile at the same position.
Player DNA
The Slot Technician
Runs precise routes in tight quarters. Volume player who keeps chains moving.
WR
His 2025 production profile sits closest to Raylen Sharpe’s 2025 season.
Raylen Sharpe
83%match
#2
Yusuf Ali
79%
#3
Myles Price
80%
#4
Elijah Metcalf
All-Conference USA
78%
#5
Phillip Brooks III
78%
Matches Raylen on
Total EPA (college ability)
EPA / play (adj)
Weight
Differs from Raylen on
Recruiting rating (higher)
Through 5 college seasons, his career arc tracks closest to Antwan Davis’s path through Ball State.
Antwan Davis
99%match
#2
Neno Lemay
97%
#3
Khalil McClain
96%
#4
Jovanni Bermudez
95%
#5
Max Tomczak
94%
Matches Antwan on
Yards per reception
As a graduate, his production profile tracks closest to Elijah Metcalf's graduate season at Southern Miss (2025).
Elijah Metcalf
78%match
All-Conference USA
#2
Cam Ross
76%
#3
Ashtyn Hawkins
73%
#4
TJ Sheffield
72%
#5
Justin Williams
71%
Matches Elijah on
Total EPA (college ability)
TD rate
Yards / reception
Differs from Elijah on
EPA / play (adj) (higher)
Recruiting rating (higher)
Supporting Cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Brent Key
Pass share
46.1%
391 pass / 457 run
Plays / game
65.2
13 games
OL sack rate (allowed)
5.0%
221 dropbacks · PBP
Scheme: Run-leaning.
Coaching Lineage · 2021–2025
2 coaches2021
Geoff Collins
Georgia Tech
2022era →
Brent Key
Georgia Tech
2023
Brent Key
Georgia Tech
2025
Brent Key
Georgia Tech
Coaching transition mid-career: Geoff Collins → Brent Key. 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.
HometownMiami, FL
Height5'9"
Weight170 lb
Class4
PositionWR
Jersey8
No fields populated yet.
No fields populated yet.
Current teamGeorgia Tech
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 | Georgia Tech | WR4 | #3001 | #3014 | 0.0% | 0.0% | -- | -- | W16 snapshot | ACC |
| 2023 | Georgia Tech | WR4 | #645 | #796 | 0.0% | 0.0% | -- | -- | W19 snapshot | ACC |
| 2022 | Georgia Tech | WR4 | #2272 | #2757 | 0.0% | 0.0% | -- | -- | W20 snapshot | ACC |
| 2021 | Georgia Tech | WR4 | #1908 | #2034 | 0.0% | 0.0% | -- | -- | W20 snapshot | ACC |
Roster Timeline
Team, conference, and class by season.
| Season | Team | Conference | Pos | Class | Bio |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Georgia Tech | ACC | WR | 4 | No. 8 | 5-9 | 170 lb | Miami, FL |
| 2024 | Georgia Tech | ACC | WR | 4 | No. 8 | 5-9 | 170 lb | Miami, FL |
| 2023 | Georgia Tech | ACC | WR | 4 | No. 8 | 5-9 | 170 lb | Miami, FL |
| 2022 | Georgia Tech | ACC | WR | 4 | No. 8 | 5-9 | 170 lb | Miami, FL |
| 2021 | Georgia Tech | ACC | WR | 4 | No. 8 | 5-9 | 170 lb | Miami, FL |