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Oliver Straw

P · West Virginia · Sr · #41

Limited signal — not enough coverage for a story yet.

2026 RETURNINGReturning to West Virginia for 2026As of Jun 22, 2026

2026 Outlook

Returning to West Virginia for 2026

2026 Depth chart

Projected starter

Punter · West Virginia

Returning around him

26% of 2024 offensive production back (Heavy turnover)
Transfer portal: -16 net (34 in / 50 out)

2026 Award watch

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

West Virginia · Last season: 4-8 · Talent rank #63 · 2026 recruiting class #43

P · WEST VIRGINIA · BIG 12

Oliver Straw

4
#41
6-2 | 210 lb
Melbourne, VIC

CFB Zeitgeist P Score

Awaiting

Heisman Heat

#15827

<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 P AWARD

Ray Guy

—

CONSENSUS

All-American

—

Player Standing · 17 rungs

Tier 2 · Starter

R07 · Impact starter

Impact starter. Producing measurable value above replacement.

Not on team2-deepStarterRecognizedEliteApex

Career Arc

Recruit

★★★

#1843 national

CFB

College

West Virginia

2022–2025

NFL

NFL Draft

—

Not drafted (yet)

Identity & Role

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

PositionP

Class4

Jersey41

Measurements6-2 | 210 lb

HometownMelbourne, VIC

Primary teamWest Virginia

Recruiting Pedigree

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

Top pedigree 3-star No. 1843 recruit

Composite rating 0.8226 HighSchool

Signed with West Virginia 2022

Origin ProKick Australia Australia, AUST, USA

Class	Profile	Context
2022	3-star \| 0.8226	No. 1843 recruit \| HighSchool \| West Virginia

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#15827Latest modeled ballot order

Season forecast#15779Where 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 West Virginia

Composite

0.8226

#1843 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.

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 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.

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.

Oliver Straw's story is about how role and output meet each other. For West Virginia, 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 #15827 0.0% win | 0.0% finalist

Role load -- Role share still loading

Profile quirk Development arc The card should explain why this profile stands out

2025 Season · Final

Traditional stats first. Advanced context underneath.

Last season

OTHER season snapshot

2025 season snapshot | final

2025 season snapshot | finalData: CFBD player stats + local Heisman modelPeer context: same position + same level

Scrimmage yards 12 Combined rushing and receiving

Touchdowns 0 Across offense and returns

Usage -- Role share still loading

Player identity What kind of player is this?

30-second read

What kind of player is this?

This player profile will sharpen as more advanced context is loaded.

Balanced profile

Game Log · Week-by-week

2025 season · 12 games

Box score · CFBD

Wk	Opp	PUNT	YDS	AVG	LONG	IN20
Wk 1	W 45-3vs Robert Morris	3	113	37.7	42	1
Wk 2	L 10-17@ Ohio	8	328	41.0	55	2
Wk 3	W 31-24vs Pittsburgh	6	274	45.7	52	1
Wk 4	L 10-41@ Kansas	8	350	43.8	50	2
Wk 5	L 14-48vs Utah	3	110	36.7	50	1
Wk 6	L 24-38@ BYU	3	140	46.7	50	3
Wk 8	L 13-45@ UCF	9	420	46.7	61	3
Wk 9	L 17-23vs TCU	3	100	33.3	42	0
Wk 10	W 45-35@ Houston	6	275	45.8	55	0
Wk 11	W 29-22vs Colorado	5	211	42.2	53	1
Wk 12	L 23-25@ Arizona State	4	136	34.0	48	0
Wk 14	L 0-49vs Texas Tech	8	345	43.1	53	1
Total		66	2802	41.4	61	15

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

2022West Virginia5-7HC: Neal Brown · Balanced

2023West Virginia9-4HC: Neal Brown · Run-heavy

2025West Virginia4-8HC: Rich Rodriguez · Run-heavy

Advanced layer Usage, value, and context

Advanced metrics second

Advanced Metrics

Usage, value, and opponent-adjusted context.

Usage Value Context

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.

Open full stat explorer

Group	Metric	Value	Rank	Pct	Why it matters
Rushing	Rushing LONG	12	#10/29	69th pct	Metricvs FBS peers
Rushing	Rushing yards	12	#15/53	74th pct	Volumevs FBS peers
Rushing	Yards / carry	12.0	#9/49	84th pct	Efficiencyvs FBS peers
Rushing	Carries	1	#9/50	84th pct	Volumevs FBS peers
Rushing	Rush TD	0	#5/54	93rd pct	Scoringvs FBS peers
Punting	Punting YDS	2,802	#13/179	93rd pct	Metricvs FBS peers
Punting	Punting NO	66	#7/179	97th pct	Metricvs FBS peers
Punting	Punting LONG	61	#77/179	58th pct	Metricvs FBS peers
Punting	Punting YPP	42	#102/179	44th pct	Metricvs FBS peers
Punting	Punting IN 20	15	#69/166	59th pct	Metricvs FBS peers
Punting	Punting TB	3	#55/142	62nd pct	Metricvs FBS peers

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

The Ray Guy 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 · 12 games

Home/Road · Win/Loss · Season halves

Home vs Road

	YDS/g	TD/g	YPA	INT/g
Home6g	—	—	—	—
Road6g	—	—	—	—

Win vs Loss

	YDS/g	TD/g	YPA	INT/g
Wins4g	—	—	—	—
Losses8g	—	—	—	—

First half vs Second half

	YDS/g	TD/g	YPA	INT/g
Weeks 1-76g	—	—	—	—
Weeks 8+6g	—	—	—	—

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

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

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 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

Rich Rodriguez

Pass share

38.7%

327 pass / 517 run

Plays / game

70.3

12 games

OL sack rate (allowed)

10.7%

272 dropbacks · PBP

Scheme: Run-heavy.

Coaching Lineage · 2022–2025

2 coaches

2022

Neal Brown

West Virginia

2023

Neal Brown

West Virginia

2025

Rich Rodriguez

West Virginia

era →

Coaching transition mid-career: Neal Brown → Rich Rodriguez. Worth noting in scheme + development context.

HometownMelbourne, VIC

Height6'2"

Weight210 lb

Class4

PositionP

Jersey41

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	West Virginia	P4	#15827	#15779	0.0%	0.0%	--	--	W16 snapshot \| Big 12
2023	West Virginia	P4	#15600	#15367	0.0%	0.0%	--	--	W19 snapshot \| Big 12
2022	West Virginia	P4	#15245	#15222	0.0%	0.0%	--	--	W20 snapshot \| Big 12

Roster Timeline

Team, conference, and class by season.

Season	Team	Conference	Pos	Class	Bio
2025	West Virginia	Big 12	P	4	No. 41 \| 6-2 \| 210 lb \| Melbourne, VIC
2024	West Virginia	Big 12	P	4	No. 41 \| 6-2 \| 210 lb \| Melbourne, VIC
2023	West Virginia	Big 12	P	4	No. 41 \| 6-2 \| 210 lb \| Melbourne, VIC
2022	West Virginia	Big 12	P	4	No. 41 \| 6-2 \| 210 lb \| Melbourne, VIC

Oliver Straw

R07 · Impact starter

Identity & Role

Recruiting Pedigree

Transfer Arc

Heisman Lens · 2024 Season · Final

The Room on Oliver Straw

How rival fanbases talk about Oliver Straw

Awaiting candidate metric

What made this player interesting

2025 Season · Final

OTHER season snapshot

What kind of player is this?

Traditional Stats

Advanced Metrics

Player Standing

Percentile Card

Advanced Savant

Bio · Recruiting · Transfer · Roster

Trophy Case · Detail

No formal honors on the ledger yet

Honors Timeline

Heisman By Year

Roster Timeline