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Heisman / Players / Miller McCrumby /South Alabama

Miller McCrumby

TE · South Alabama · Sr · #2

Below the discourse floor — the honest stats-only state.

128 REC YDS · 15 REC · 0 REC TD

2026 RETURNINGReturning to South Alabama for 2026

2026 Outlook

Returning to South Alabama for 2026

2026 Depth chart

Projected starter

Tight end · South Alabama

Returning around him

  • 25% of 2024 offensive production back (Heavy turnover)
  • Transfer portal: -18 net (12 in / 30 out)

2026 Award watch

No preseason watch lists yet (most drop June 15 – July 15)

South Alabama · Last season: 4-8 · Talent rank #102 · 2026 recruiting class #118

TE · SOUTH ALABAMA · SUN BELT

Miller McCrumby

  • 4
  • #2
  • 6-3 | 234 lb
  • Mount Pleasant, TX

CFB Zeitgeist Score

16

Below cohort in the position cohort. Carried by long catch at the 42nd percentile.

Heisman Heat

#4692

<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 · Starter

R07 · Impact starter

Impact starter. Producing measurable value above replacement.

Not on team2-deepStarterRecognizedEliteApex

Development Trajectory · receiving yards

2022–2025
9.02022
1292023
1282025

+1322%

Up 1322% from first season to most-recent.

Career Arc

HS
Recruit
★★★
#766 national
CFB
College
2 teams
2022–2025
NFL
NFL Draft
Not drafted (yet)

Identity & Role

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

PositionTE
Class4
Jersey2
Measurements6-3 | 234 lb
HometownMount Pleasant, TX
Primary teamSouth Alabama

Recruiting Pedigree

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

Top pedigree 3-star No. 766 recruit
Composite rating 0.8704 HighSchool
Signed with -- 2022
Origin Mount Pleasant Mount Pleasant, TX, USA
Class Profile Context
2022 3-star | 0.8704 No. 766 recruit | HighSchool

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 · 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 16
Current nowcast#4692Latest modeled ballot order
Season forecast#5044Where the full season sim points
Win probability0.0%Chance to actually win the trophy
Finalist probability0.0%Chance to make the finalist tier
Ballot probability0.0%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 —

Composite

0.8704

#766 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

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 Miller McCrumby

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 Miller McCrumby

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.

Season Pace · Projection

Where the receiving totals stand

projecting to 13-game
Through 8g
128Rec yards
15Receptions
0Rec TDs
Per game
16Rec yards
2Receptions
0Rec TDs
Projected (13g)
208Rec yards
24Receptions
0Rec TDs

To hit 700-yard receiver (currently 128): needs 114.4/game over remaining 5.

To hit 1,000-yard receiver (currently 128): needs 174.4/game over remaining 5.

To hit 60-catch season (currently 15): needs 9/game over remaining 5.

To hit 80-catch season (currently 15): needs 13/game over remaining 5.

To hit 8 receiving TDs (currently 0): needs 1.6/game over remaining 5.

To hit 10 receiving TDs (currently 0): needs 2/game over remaining 5.

What made this player interesting

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

Miller McCrumby's story is about how role and output meet each other. For South Alabama, 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.

Current place #4692 0.0% win | 0.0% finalist
Role load 2.8% Overall usage share
Profile quirk Transfer path 0 portal moves

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
Receptions 15 0 rec TD | #141/475 (71st pct)
Receiving yards 128 8.5 per catch | #167/475 (65th pct)
Scrimmage yards 128 Total offensive yardage | #167/475 (65th pct)
Player identity What kind of player is this?

30-second read

What kind of player is this?

Receiving weapon against FBS receiving peers.

Balanced profile

2025 Season · Final

2025 season snapshot | final

Receiving

REC
15 71st
YDS
128 65th
YPR
8.5 36th
TD
0 46th

Game Log · Week-by-week

2025 season · 8 games

Box score · CFBD
WkOppRECYDSAVGTDLONGNote
Wk 1W 38-21vs Morgan State13232.0032Season-high 32 yds
Wk 2L 31-33vs Tulane4297.3013
Wk 4L 20-38vs Coastal Carolina252.504
Wk 5L 22-36@ North Texas22010.0016
Wk 8L 14-15vs Arkansas State177.007
Wk 10L 22-31vs Louisiana2178.509
Wk 13W 42-35vs Southern Miss2126.007
Wk 14L 26-49@ Texas State166.006
Total151289.9032
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

2022Arkansas State3-9HC: Butch Jones · Balanced
2023Arkansas State6-7HC: Butch Jones · Run-leaning
2025South Alabama4-8HC: Major Applewhite · Run-heavy
SeasonTeam
2025South Alabama151288.50--
2023Arkansas State141299.20--
2022Arkansas State199.00--
Career3 loaded seasons302668.90--
Advanced layer Usage, value, and context

Advanced metrics second

Advanced Metrics

Usage, value, and opponent-adjusted context.

Usage Value Context
Pass share

The tight end's share of the passing offense, which helps distinguish a featured receiving tight end from a secondary option.

Role share

A blended usage view that shows how often the offense flows through the tight end compared with other same-level peers.

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.

Usage 2.8% 6.7% pass-game share | #198/468 (58th pct)
Return yards 0 0 return TD
Touchdowns 0 Across offense and returns | #257/475 (46th pct)
Open full stat explorer
0 metrics visible Showing all metrics
Group Metric Value Rank Pct Why it matters
Receiving Receptions 15 #141/475 71st pct Volumevs FBS TE
Receiving Receiving yards 128 #167/475 65th pct Volumevs FBS TE
Receiving Receiving TD 0 #257/475 46th pct Scoringvs FBS TE
Receiving Yards / catch 8.5 #307/475 36th pct Efficiencyvs FBS TE
Usage Pass share 6.7% #198/468 58th pct Air-game usagevs FBS TE
Receiving Receiving LONG 32 #122/475 75th pct Metricvs FBS TE
Usage Passing-down usage 5.5% #124/468 74th pct Known-passing sharevs FBS TE
Usage 2nd-down usage 3.8% #202/468 57th pct Middle-down loadvs FBS TE
Usage 3rd-down usage 3.4% #215/468 54th pct Money-down loadvs FBS TE
Usage Role share 2.8% #245/468 48th pct Share of team offensevs FBS TE
Usage 1st-down usage 2.0% #307/468 35th pct Early-down loadvs FBS TE
Usage Standard-down usage 1.7% #375/468 20th pct Base-situation sharevs 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

StatusAwaiting 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 · 8 games

Home/Road · Win/Loss · Season halves

Home vs Road

REC/gYDS/gYPRTD/g
Home6g2.017.010.50.0
Road2g1.513.08.00.0

Win vs Loss

REC/gYDS/gYPRTD/g
Wins2g1.522.019.00.0
Losses6g2.014.06.90.0

First half vs Second half

REC/gYDS/gYPRTD/g
Weeks 1-74g2.221.512.90.0
Weeks 8+4g1.510.56.90.0

Pocket and defense-quality (clean vs. pressure) splits are coming soon.

Savant · Box-rate percentiles

Where this profile ranks vs the TE cohort

16Below cohort
5 metrics · season cumulative

Concern: rec tds (6th).

Long catch#100 / 175 · 42nd pct
32rece
Receptions#141 / 175 · 17th pct
15rece
Yards / catch#147 / 175 · 16th pct
8.5rece
Rec yards#157 / 175 · 11th pct
128rece
Rec TDs#152 / 175 · 7th pct
0rece

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
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 · Fingerprint match

Three closest profiles by box-rate percentile

3 peers · 5 metrics
Miller McCrumbySouth AlabamaBryce CaufieldOregon State· 72% simHayden HansenFlorida· 66% simTyler FortenberryArkansas State· 62% sim
Long catch
42
McCrumby
39
Caufield
32
Hansen
32
Fortenberry
Receptions
17
McCrumby
66
Caufield
69
Hansen
75
Fortenberry
Yards / catch
16
McCrumby
7
Caufield
16
Hansen
26
Fortenberry
Rec yards
11
McCrumby
44
Caufield
54
Hansen
58
Fortenberry
Rec TDs
7
McCrumby
21
Caufield
43
Hansen
43
Fortenberry

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 Matt Bjorson’s 2021 season.

Matt Bjorson

88%match

Indiana · 2021

#2

Logan Kyle

Vanderbilt · 2023

86%
#3

John Copenhaver

North Carolina · 2022

83%
#4

Jjay Mcafee

Georgia Southern · 2021

81%
#5

Miller McCrumby

Arkansas State · 2023

81%

Matches Matt on

Height
Total EPA (college ability)
Yards / reception

Not enough data yet for this comparison.

As a senior, his production profile tracks closest to John Langan's senior season at Rutgers (2023).

John Langan

86%match

Rutgers · 2023

#2

Blake Bosma

Western Michigan · 2025

All-MAC
79%
#3

Connor Witthoft

Delaware · 2025

79%
#4

Nicky Dalmolin

Duke · 2023

78%
#5

Luke Benson

Georgia Tech · 2023

78%

Matches John on

Total EPA (college ability)
EPA / play (adj)
Yards / reception

Supporting Cast · Scheme

Staff and system around the player

2025 season

Head Coach

Major Applewhite

Pass share

37.0%

310 pass / 527 run

Plays / game

69.8

12 games

OL sack rate (allowed)

7.2%

249 dropbacks · PBP

Scheme: Run-heavy.

Coaching Lineage · 2022–2025

2 coaches
2022
Kane Wommack
South Alabama
2023
Kane Wommack
South Alabama
2025
Major Applewhite
South Alabama
era →

Coaching transition mid-career: Kane Wommack → Major Applewhite. 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.

HometownMount Pleasant, TX
Height6'3"
Weight234 lb
Class4
PositionTE
Jersey2

Trophy Case · Detail

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

Honors

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 Arkansas State TE4 #4692 #5044 0.0% 0.0% -- -- W16 snapshot | Sun Belt
2023 Arkansas State TE4 #3110 #3356 0.0% 0.0% -- -- W19 snapshot | Sun Belt
2022 Arkansas State TE4 #4979 #5527 0.0% 0.0% -- -- W20 snapshot | Sun Belt

Roster Timeline

Team, conference, and class by season.

Season Team Conference Pos Class Bio
2025 South Alabama Sun Belt TE 4 No. 2 | 6-3 | 234 lb | Mount Pleasant, TX
2024 Arkansas State Sun Belt TE 4 No. 2 | 6-3 | 234 lb | Mount Pleasant, TX
2023 Arkansas State Sun Belt TE 4 No. 2 | 6-3 | 234 lb | Mount Pleasant, TX
2022 Arkansas State Sun Belt TE 4 No. 2 | 6-3 | 234 lb | Mount Pleasant, TX