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Heisman / Players / Nehemiah Martinez /Texas Tech

Nehemiah Martinez

WR · Texas Tech · Jr · #20

Limited signal — not enough coverage for a story yet.

ALUMNUSTexas Tech 2023 alumnus

WR · TEXAS TECH · BIG 12

Nehemiah Martinez

  • 3
  • #20
  • 5-9 | 205 lb
  • Lubbock, TX

CFB Zeitgeist WR Score

Awaiting

Heisman Heat

#1879

<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 0 · Not on team

R01 · Scout team / redshirt

Scout team / redshirt. Developing behind the depth chart.

Not on team2-deepStarterRecognizedEliteApex

Development Trajectory · receiving yards

2022–2023
3942022
32.02023

-92%

Sharp dropoff (-92%) — career inflection point.

Career Arc

HS
Recruit
No recruit profile
CFB
College
Texas Tech
2021–2023
NFL
NFL Draft
Not drafted (yet)

Identity & Role

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

PositionWR
Class3
Jersey20
Measurements5-9 | 205 lb
HometownLubbock, TX
Primary teamTexas Tech

Recruiting Pedigree

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

Top pedigree Not on file No matched recruiting profile in the loaded archive
Composite rating -- Composite rating unavailable for this player
Signed with -- Commitment history unavailable
Origin -- Hometown and high school unavailable
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.

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 · 2023 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 19
Current nowcast#1879Latest modeled ballot order
Season forecast#1954Where 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.

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 Nehemiah Martinez

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 Nehemiah Martinez

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.

What made this player interesting

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

Nehemiah Martinez's story is about how role and output meet each other. For Texas 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.

Current place #1879 0.0% win | 0.0% finalist
Role load 1.5% Overall usage share
Profile quirk Development arc 5 return yds

2023 Season · Final

Traditional stats first. Advanced context underneath.

Last season

WR season snapshot

2023 season snapshot | final

2023 season snapshot | finalData: CFBD player stats + local Heisman modelPeer context: same position + same level
Receptions 2 0 rec TD | #886/1110 (20th pct)
Receiving yards 32 16.0 per catch | #847/1107 (24th pct)
Scrimmage yards 92 Total offensive yardage | #847/1107 (24th pct)
Player identity What kind of player is this?

30-second read

What kind of player is this?

Big-play receiver against FBS receiving peers.

Big-play receiver

2023 Season · Final

2023 season snapshot | final

Receiving

REC
2 20th
YDS
32 24th
YPR
16.0 82nd
TD
0 45th

Rushing

CAR
11 90th
YDS
60 88th
YPC
5.5 62nd
TD
0 81st

Returns

KR YDS
5 6th
KR AVG
5.0 6th

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

2021Texas Tech6-6HC: Matt Wells · Balanced
2022Texas Tech8-5HC: Joey McGuire · Balanced, fast tempo
2023Texas Tech7-6HC: Joey McGuire · Balanced
SeasonTeam
2023Texas Tech23216.00--
2022Texas Tech3239412.32--
2021Texas Tech----------
Career3 loaded seasons3442612.52--
SeasonTeam
2023Texas Tech11605----
2022Texas Tech212130----
2021Texas Tech31921----
Career3 loaded seasons1691156----
Advanced layer Usage, value, and context

Advanced metrics second

Advanced Metrics

Usage, value, and opponent-adjusted context.

Usage Value Context
Pass share

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.

Role share

A blended workload view that accounts for catches, designed touches, and any return-game involvement that shapes the overall profile.

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 1.5% 0.0% pass-game share | #1114/1137 (2nd pct)
Return yards 5 0 return TD | #225/238 (6th pct)
Touchdowns 0 Across offense and returns | #615/1111 (45th pct)
Open full stat explorer
0 metrics visible Showing all metrics
Group Metric Value Rank Pct Why it matters
Receiving Receptions 2 #886/1110 20th pct Volumevs FBS WR
Receiving Receiving yards 32 #847/1107 24th pct Volumevs FBS WR
Receiving Receiving TD 0 #615/1111 45th pct Scoringvs FBS WR
Receiving Yards / catch 16.0 #205/1106 82nd pct Efficiencyvs FBS WR
Returns Kick return yards 5 #225/238 6th pct Volumevs FBS WR
Usage Pass share 0.0% #1114/1137 2nd pct Air-game usagevs FBS WR
Rushing Rushing yards 60 #49/397 88th pct Volumevs FBS WR
Rushing Carries 11 #43/407 90th pct Volumevs FBS WR
Rushing Rushing LONG 11 #156/346 55th pct Metricvs FBS WR
Rushing Yards / carry 5.5 #150/393 62nd pct Efficiencyvs FBS WR
Rushing Rush TD 0 #81/411 81st pct Scoringvs FBS WR
Receiving Receiving LONG 31 #586/1105 47th pct Metricvs FBS WR
Returns Kick return avg 5.0 #222/236 6th pct Efficiencyvs FBS WR
Returns Kick returns 1 #169/243 31st pct Volumevs FBS WR
Usage Passing-down usage 3.7% #844/1137 26th pct Known-passing sharevs FBS WR
Usage Rush share 2.6% #71/1137 94th pct Ground-game usagevs FBS WR
Usage 2nd-down usage 2.2% #891/1137 22nd pct Middle-down loadvs FBS WR
Usage Role share 1.5% #1035/1137 9th pct Share of team offensevs FBS WR
Usage 1st-down usage 1.4% #965/1137 15th pct Early-down loadvs FBS WR
Usage Standard-down usage 0.9% #1055/1137 7th pct Base-situation sharevs FBS WR
Usage 3rd-down usage 0.0% #937/1137 18th pct Money-down loadvs FBS WR
Ball Security Fumbles lost 0 #1/302 100th pct Turnoversvs 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

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 · WR · 2023

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

Joey McGuire

Pass share

47.6%

484 pass / 532 run

Plays / game

72.6

14 games

OL sack rate (allowed)

6.5%

336 dropbacks · PBP

Scheme: Balanced.

Coaching Lineage · 2021–2023

2 coaches
2021
Matt Wells
Texas Tech
2022
Joey McGuire
Texas Tech
era →
2023
Joey McGuire
Texas Tech

Coaching transition mid-career: Matt Wells → Joey McGuire. 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.

HometownLubbock, TX
Height5'9"
Weight205 lb
Class3
PositionWR
Jersey20

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
2023 Texas Tech WR3 #1879 #1954 0.0% 0.0% -- -- W19 snapshot | Big 12
2022 Texas Tech WR3 #856 #945 0.0% 0.0% -- -- W20 snapshot | Big 12
2021 Texas Tech WR3 #3421 #3393 0.0% 0.0% -- -- W20 snapshot | Big 12

Roster Timeline

Team, conference, and class by season.

Season Team Conference Pos Class Bio
2023 Texas Tech Big 12 WR 3 No. 20 | 5-9 | 205 lb | Lubbock, TX
2022 Texas Tech Big 12 WR 3 No. 20 | 5-9 | 205 lb | Lubbock, TX
2021 Texas Tech Big 12 WR 3 No. 20 | 5-9 | 205 lb | Lubbock, TX