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OFFSEASON · SUMMER 2026 · COMMITMENT SEASON

Ross Fournet

WR · Florida International · Sr · #19

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

86 REC YDS · 10 REC · 0 REC TD

2026 RETURNINGReturning to Florida International for 2026

2026 Outlook

Returning to Florida International for 2026

Updated May 27

2026 Depth chart

Returning starter

Wide receiver · Florida International

Returning around him

  • 42% of 2024 offensive production back (Moderate turnover)
  • Transfer portal: -5 net (16 in / 21 out)

2026 Award watch

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

Florida International · Last season: 7-6 · Talent rank #98 · 2026 recruiting class #90

WR · FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL · CONFERENCE USA

Ross Fournet

  • 4
  • #19
  • 5-11 | 190 lb
  • Windermere, FL

CFB Zeitgeist Score

8

Below cohort in the position cohort. Carried by rush tds at the 39th percentile.

Heisman Heat

#4493

<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

2022–2025
55.02022
19.02023
86.02025

+56%

Up 56% from first season to most-recent.

Career Arc

HS
Recruit
No recruit profile
CFB
College
Florida International
2022–2025
NFL
NFL Draft
Not drafted (yet)

Identity & Role

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

PositionWR
Class4
Jersey19
Measurements5-11 | 190 lb
HometownWindermere, FL
Primary teamFlorida International

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 · 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#4493Latest modeled ballot order
Season forecast#4796Where 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 Ross Fournet

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 Ross Fournet

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
86Rec yards
10Receptions
0Rec TDs
Per game
10.8Rec yards
1Receptions
0Rec TDs
Projected (13g)
139.8Rec yards
16Receptions
0Rec TDs

To hit 700-yard receiver (currently 86): needs 122.8/game over remaining 5.

To hit 1,000-yard receiver (currently 86): needs 182.8/game over remaining 5.

To hit 60-catch season (currently 10): needs 10/game over remaining 5.

To hit 80-catch season (currently 10): needs 14/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.

Ross Fournet's story is about how role and output meet each other. For Florida International, 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 #4493 0.0% win | 0.0% finalist
Role load 3.8% Overall usage share
Profile quirk Development arc 29 return yds

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
Receptions 10 0 rec TD | #578/1110 (48th pct)
Receiving yards 86 8.6 per catch | #662/1107 (40th pct)
Scrimmage yards 89 Total offensive yardage | #662/1107 (40th 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
10 48th
YDS
86 40th
YPR
8.6 21st
TD
0 45th

Rushing

CAR
1 35th
YDS
3 26th
YPC
3.0 36th
TD
0 81st

Returns

KR YDS
29 33rd
KR AVG
14.5 24th

Game Log · Week-by-week

2025 season · 8 games

Box score · CFBD
WkOppRECYDSAVGTDLONGNote
Wk 2L 0-34@ Penn State3227.309
Wk 4L 16-38vs Delaware
Wk 6L 10-51@ UConn22512.5020Season-high 25 yds
Wk 8W 25-6@ Western Kentucky294.505
Wk 9L 26-45vs Kennesaw State188.008
Wk 11W 56-30@ Middle Tennessee
Wk 14W 56-16@ Sam Houston
BowlL 20-57@ UTSA22211.0015
Total10868.7020
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

2022Florida International4-8HC: Mike MacIntyre · Pass-leaning
2023Florida International4-8HC: Mike MacIntyre · Balanced
2025Florida International7-6HC: Willie Simmons · Balanced
SeasonTeam
2025Florida International10868.60--
2023Florida International2199.50--
2022Florida International9556.10--
Career3 loaded seasons211607.60--
SeasonTeam
2025Florida International1329----
2023Florida International----213----
2022Florida International19------
Career3 loaded seasons212242----
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 3.8% 6.3% pass-game share | #747/1137 (34th pct)
Return yards 29 0 return TD | #161/238 (33rd pct)
Touchdowns 0 Across offense and returns | #615/1111 (45th pct)
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Group Metric Value Rank Pct Why it matters
Receiving Receptions 10 #578/1110 48th pct Volumevs FBS WR
Receiving Receiving yards 86 #662/1107 40th pct Volumevs FBS WR
Receiving Receiving TD 0 #615/1111 45th pct Scoringvs FBS WR
Receiving Yards / catch 8.6 #875/1106 21st pct Efficiencyvs FBS WR
Returns Kick return yards 29 #161/238 33rd pct Volumevs FBS WR
Usage Pass share 6.3% #747/1137 34th pct Air-game usagevs FBS WR
Rushing Rushing LONG 3 #299/346 14th pct Metricvs FBS WR
Rushing Rushing yards 3 #293/397 26th pct Volumevs FBS WR
Rushing Yards / carry 3.0 #254/393 36th pct Efficiencyvs FBS WR
Rushing Carries 1 #264/407 35th pct Volumevs FBS WR
Rushing Rush TD 0 #81/411 81st pct Scoringvs FBS WR
Receiving Receiving LONG 20 #760/1105 31st pct Metricvs FBS WR
Returns Kick return avg 14.5 #181/236 24th pct Efficiencyvs FBS WR
Returns Kick returns 2 #132/243 46th pct Volumevs FBS WR
Usage 1st-down usage 5.2% #402/1137 65th pct Early-down loadvs FBS WR
Usage 3rd-down usage 4.5% #684/1137 40th pct Money-down loadvs FBS WR
Usage Passing-down usage 4.4% #768/1137 33rd pct Known-passing sharevs FBS WR
Usage Role share 3.8% #645/1137 43rd pct Share of team offensevs FBS WR
Usage Standard-down usage 3.4% #618/1137 46th pct Base-situation sharevs FBS WR
Usage 2nd-down usage 2.2% #891/1137 22nd pct Middle-down loadvs FBS WR
Usage Rush share 0.8% #225/1137 80th 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

StatusAwaiting tracker

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

Splits · Per-game

2025 season · 8 games

Home/Road · Win/Loss · Season halves

Home vs Road

REC/gYDS/gYPRTD/g
Home2g0.54.08.00.0
Road6g1.513.08.80.0

Win vs Loss

REC/gYDS/gYPRTD/g
Wins3g0.73.04.50.0
Losses5g1.615.49.70.0

First half vs Second half

REC/gYDS/gYPRTD/g
Weeks 1-74g1.817.210.30.0
Weeks 8+4g0.84.26.20.0

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

Savant · Box-rate percentiles

Where this profile ranks vs the WR cohort

8Below cohort
7 metrics · season cumulative

Concern: receptions (0th).

Rush TDs#67 / 287 · 39th pct
0rush
Rush yards#212 / 287 · 25th pct
3rush
Rec TDs#482 / 558 · 7th pct
0rece
Yards / catch#522 / 558 · 7th pct
8.6rece
Long catch#539 / 558 · 3rd pct
20rece
Rec yards#555 / 558 · 1st pct
86rece
Receptions#559 / 558 · 0th pct
10rece

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
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 · 7 metrics
Ross FournetFlorida InternationalMichael Jackson IIIPurdue· 55% simJacquon GibsonMassachusetts· 48% simChauncy CobbArkansas State· 45% sim
Rush TDs
39
Fournet
39
III
39
Gibson
39
Cobb
Rush yards
25
Fournet
6
III
76
Gibson
12
Cobb
Rec TDs
7
Fournet
24
III
7
Gibson
24
Cobb
Yards / catch
7
Fournet
9
III
15
Gibson
25
Cobb
Long catch
3
Fournet
16
III
56
Gibson
58
Cobb
Rec yards
1
Fournet
70
III
74
Gibson
87
Cobb
Receptions
0
Fournet
92
III
92
Gibson
98
Cobb

Closest peers by overall box-score percentile profile at the same position.

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

Willie Simmons

Pass share

47.3%

428 pass / 476 run

Plays / game

69.5

13 games

OL sack rate (allowed)

6.9%

290 dropbacks · PBP

Scheme: Balanced.

Coaching Lineage · 2022–2025

2 coaches
2022
Mike MacIntyre
Florida International
2023
Mike MacIntyre
Florida International
2025
Willie Simmons
Florida International
era →

Coaching transition mid-career: Mike MacIntyre → Willie Simmons. 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.

HometownWindermere, FL
Height5'11"
Weight190 lb
Class4
PositionWR
Jersey19

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 Florida International WR4 #4493 #4796 0.0% 0.0% -- -- W16 snapshot | Conference USA
2023 Florida International WR4 #4907 #5617 0.0% 0.0% -- -- W19 snapshot | Conference USA
2022 Florida International WR4 #4284 #4930 0.0% 0.0% -- -- W20 snapshot | Conference USA
2021 Florida International WR4 #5236 #5799 0.0% 0.0% -- -- W20 snapshot | Conference USA

Roster Timeline

Team, conference, and class by season.

Season Team Conference Pos Class Bio
2025 Florida International Conference USA WR 4 No. 19 | 5-11 | 190 lb | Windermere, FL
2024 Florida International Conference USA WR 4 No. 19 | 5-11 | 190 lb | Windermere, FL
2023 Florida International Conference USA WR 4 No. 19 | 5-11 | 190 lb | Windermere, FL
2022 Florida International Conference USA WR 4 No. 19 | 5-11 | 190 lb | Windermere, FL
2021 Florida International Conference USA WR 4 No. 19 | 5-11 | 190 lb | Windermere, FL