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Heisman / Players / Matt Corral /Ole Miss

Matt Corral

QB · Ole Miss · So · #2

Limited signal — not enough coverage for a story yet.

NOW IN NFLCarolina — drafted 2022, Rd 3, Pick 30, #94 overall

Where He Ended Up · NFL

CarolinaEntering 5th NFL season

#94Rd 3 · Pick 30
CarolinaEntering 5th NFL season

QB · OLE MISS · SEC

Matt Corral

  • 2
  • #2
  • 6-1 | 205 lb
  • Ventura, CA

CFB Zeitgeist QB Score

Awaiting

Heisman Heat

#5

6% 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

6%

TOP QB AWARD

Davey O'Brien

In contention

CONSENSUS

All-American

Player Standing · 17 rungs

Tier 5 · Apex

R15 · POTY finalist

Position-of-the-Year finalist. Among the nation's elite at the position.

Not on team2-deepStarterRecognizedEliteApex

Career Arc

HS
Recruit
★★★★
#63 national
CFB
College
Ole Miss
2021
NFL
NFL Draft
R3 · #94
Carolina · 2022

Identity & Role

The durable bio layer: position, size, hometown, and roster role.

PositionQB
Class2
Jersey2
Measurements6-1 | 205 lb
HometownVentura, CA
Primary teamOle Miss

Recruiting Pedigree

How big the prospect was before college, and whether the later career arc beat that expectation.

Top pedigree 4-star No. 63 recruit
Composite rating 0.9690 HighSchool
Signed with Ole Miss 2018
Origin Long Beach Poly Long Beach, CA, USA
Class Profile Context
2018 4-star | 0.9690 No. 63 recruit | HighSchool | Ole Miss

Transfer Arc

Portal movement changes role, context, and perception. This keeps that path in one place.

Portal moves 0 No portal entry on file
Latest destination -- --
Transfer stars -- CFBD transfer rating context
Eligibility -- Transfer date TBD
Season Move Context
No transfer portal moves on file for this player.

Heisman Lens · 2021 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 20
Current nowcast#5Latest modeled ballot order
Season forecast#5Where the full season sim points
Win probability6.0%Chance to actually win the trophy
Finalist probability35.5%Chance to make the finalist tier
Ballot probability94.5%Chance to appear anywhere on a ballot
Best official finish--Best completed Heisman placement on file

Heisman 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 Ole Miss

Composite

0.9690

#63 national

NFL Draft

2022 · Rd 3, Pick 30

#94 overall · Carolina

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

PENDING

The 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 Matt Corral

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 Matt Corral

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.

A 3-act season arc returns once this player has six or more games on the ledger.

Scenario Explorer

Available for players with a qualifying signature metric (passing yards, rushing yards, receiving yards, sacks, etc.). The slider projects how a season finishes if the current pace holds.

Why this is a two-channel quarterback case

The fast read on the thing that makes this player more than a generic stat line.

The unusual part of Matt Corral's case is that the production comes in two channels, not one. For Ole Miss, he has 3,349 passing yards and 20 touchdown passes, but he also adds 614 rushing yards and 11 rushing scores. That kind of dual-threat load tends to create a more resilient Heisman case because the offense can tilt the game in multiple ways.

Current place #5 6.0% win | 35.5% finalist
Role load 51.8% Overall usage share
Profile quirk Blue-chip pedigree No. 63 recruit

2021 Season · Final

Traditional stats first. Advanced context underneath.

Last season

QB season snapshot

2021 season snapshot | final

2021 season snapshot | finalData: CFBD player stats + local Heisman modelPeer context: same position + same level
Pass yards 3,349 20 TD | 5 INT | #21/382 (95th pct)
Completion rate 67.9% 262/386 completions | #83/383 (79th pct)
Yards/attempt 8.7 Explosiveness through the air | #60/382 (85th pct)
Player identity What kind of player is this?

30-second read

What kind of player is this?

High-volume passer | Efficient | Vertical threat against FBS QB peers. The quickest read is whether the profile wins on volume, efficiency, explosiveness, or rushing value.

High-volume passerEfficientVertical threatDual-threat

2021 Season · Final

2021 season snapshot | final

Passing Efficiency

CMP
262 93rd
ATT
386 91st
CMP%
67.9% 79th
Y/A
8.7 85th

Passing Production

YDS
3,349 95th
TD
20 90th
INT
5 32nd

Rushing

CAR
152 96th
YDS
614 95th
YPC
4.0 65th
TD
11 97th

Game Log

Week-by-week box

No per-game rows for this season yet — the table fills in as box scores arrive.

Season-by-season tables Career rows + per-season box score

Traditional history

Traditional Stats

Season rows up top, career context at the bottom.

Season rows Career row

Season context · Team result + system

2021Ole Miss10-2HC: Lane Kiffin · Run-leaning, fast tempo
SeasonTeam
2021Ole Miss26238667.9%3,3498.7205155.3----
Career1 loaded season26238667.9%3,3498.7205155.3----
SeasonTeam
2021Ole Miss1526144.011--
Career1 loaded season1526144.011--
Advanced layer Usage, value, and context

Advanced metrics second

Advanced Metrics

Usage, value, and opponent-adjusted context.

Usage Value Context
Passing WEPA

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.

Role share

How much of the offense runs through the quarterback once passing and rushing responsibility are blended together.

Peer percentile

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.

Traditional first

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.

Rush impact 614 11 rush TD | #22/408 (95th pct)
Usage 51.8% 88.9% pass share | 21.9% rush share | #64/428 (85th pct)
Passing WEPA +0.47 Opponent-adjusted passing value | #8/200 (96th pct)
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Group Metric Value Rank Pct Why it matters
Passing Passing yards 3,349 #21/382 95th pct Volumevs FBS QB
Passing Pass TD 20 #42/407 90th pct Scoringvs FBS QB
Passing Completions 262 #29/383 93rd pct Volumevs FBS QB
Passing Completion % 67.9% #83/383 79th pct Efficiencyvs FBS QB
Passing Yards / attempt 8.7 #60/382 85th pct Efficiencyvs FBS QB
Rushing Rushing yards 614 #22/408 95th pct Volumevs FBS QB
Value Passing WEPA +0.47 #8/200 96th pct Opponent-adjusted passing value | 383 weighted playsvs FBS QB
Usage Role share 51.8% #64/428 85th pct Share of team offensevs FBS QB
Passing Attempts 386 #36/407 91st pct Volumevs FBS QB
Passing Interceptions 5 #276/407 32nd pct Turnoversvs FBS QB
Rushing Carries 152 #18/408 96th pct Volumevs FBS QB
Rushing Rushing LONG 32 #101/391 74th pct Metricvs FBS QB
Rushing Rush TD 11 #12/408 97th pct Scoringvs FBS QB
Rushing Yards / carry 4.0 #143/407 65th pct Efficiencyvs FBS QB
Usage Pass share 88.9% #73/428 83rd pct Air-game usagevs FBS QB
Usage Passing-down usage 64.2% #85/428 80th pct Known-passing sharevs FBS QB
Usage 3rd-down usage 58.1% #114/428 74th pct Money-down loadvs FBS QB
Usage 2nd-down usage 50.2% #77/428 82nd pct Middle-down loadvs FBS QB
Usage 1st-down usage 50.1% #33/428 93rd pct Early-down loadvs FBS QB
Usage Standard-down usage 46.3% #57/428 87th pct Base-situation sharevs FBS QB
Usage Rush share 21.9% #53/428 88th pct Ground-game usagevs FBS QB
Value Rushing WEPA +0.61 #1/140 100th pct Opponent-adjusted rushing value | 133 weighted playsvs FBS QB
Ball Security Fumbles lost 2 #163/258 37th 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

StatusAwaiting tracker

Heisman model tracks the top FBS contenders weekly; this player hasn't entered the watch list yet.

Splits

Per-game splits

Splits fill in once box scores from at least three games land for this season.

Box-score Savant card waits for a season-stat snapshot above the cohort floor. Returns once enough box-score volume lands.

Advanced Savant · QB · 2021

Percentile Card

Advanced opponent-adjusted percentile bars are coming soon for this player.

P4G5All FBS
EPA / dropback
awaiting
CPOE
awaiting
Success rate
awaiting
Explosive rate (20+)
awaiting
aDOT
awaiting
Deep-ball accuracy
awaiting
Pressure-to-sack
awaiting
3rd-down EPA
awaiting
Red-zone TD rate
awaiting
Play-action EPA
awaiting
Scramble EPA
awaiting
Turnover-worthy play rate
awaiting

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 returns once this player clears the Savant metric floor (4+ scored bars).
DNA Match awaiting data — similarity scores compute once season stats clear the volume gate for this position cohort.

Supporting Cast · Scheme

Staff and system around the player

2025 season

Head Coach

Lane Kiffin

Pass share

48.2%

521 pass / 560 run

Plays / game

72.1

15 games

OL sack rate (allowed)

4.5%

330 dropbacks · PBP

Scheme: Balanced.

Coaching Lineage · 2021

1 coach
2021
Lane Kiffin
Ole Miss

Played his entire career under Lane Kiffin.

Bio · Recruiting · Transfer · Roster

Off-field context — switch tabs to drill into recruit profile, transfer arc, or roster timeline.

HometownVentura, CA
Height6'1"
Weight205 lb
Class2
PositionQB
Jersey2

Trophy Case · Confirmed honors

What the selectors said

1 entries
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ALL-CONFERENCE

All-Conf mention (2021)

All-SEC

Trophy Case · Detail

Every honor on the ledger, broken out by stream and selector.

All-Conference

1 all-conference honor

Conference-level recognition helps anchor whether a player is merely statistically loud or actually viewed as elite within his competitive lane.

Honors Timeline

Season-end distinction and week-by-week recognition on one timeline.

Season Honor Scope Team / Selector Context
2021 All-SEC all_conference Ole Miss | SEC QB

Heisman By Year

Modeled rank and official finish by season.

Season Team Role Latest Model Forecast Win Finalist Official Finish Points Context
2021 Ole Miss QB2 #5 #5 6.0% 35.5% -- -- W20 snapshot | SEC

Roster Timeline

Team, conference, and class by season.

Season Team Conference Pos Class Bio
2021 Ole Miss SEC QB 2 No. 2 | 6-1 | 205 lb | Ventura, CA