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Heisman / Players / Rylan Green /UL Monroe

Rylan Green

TE · UL Monroe · Sr · #85

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

50 REC YDS · 4 REC · 1 REC TD

2026 RETURNINGReturning to UL Monroe for 2026

2026 Outlook

Returning to UL Monroe for 2026

2026 Depth chart

Projected starter

Tight end · UL Monroe

Returning around him

  • 78% of 2024 offensive production back (Strong continuity)
  • Transfer portal: +3 net (20 in / 17 out)

2026 Award watch

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

UL Monroe · Last season: 3-9 · Talent rank #124 · 2026 recruiting class #115

TE · UL MONROE · SUN BELT

Rylan Green

  • 4
  • #85
  • 6-4 | 255 lb
  • West Monroe, LA

CFB Zeitgeist Score

22

Below cohort in the position cohort. Carried by yards / catch at the 77th percentile.

Heisman Heat

#3939

<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 1 · 2-deep

R04 · Rotational

Rotational. Earning real snaps in the rotation.

Not on team2-deepStarterRecognizedEliteApex

Development Trajectory · receiving yards

2022–2025
30.02022
50.02025

+67%

Up 67% from first season to most-recent.

Career Arc

HS
Recruit
★★★
#2215 national
CFB
College
UL Monroe
2022–2025
NFL
NFL Draft
Not drafted (yet)

Identity & Role

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

PositionTE
Class4
Jersey85
Measurements6-4 | 255 lb
HometownWest Monroe, LA
Primary teamUL Monroe

Recruiting Pedigree

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

Top pedigree 3-star No. 2215 recruit
Composite rating 0.8115 HighSchool
Signed with UL Monroe 2021
Origin West Monroe West Monroe, LA, USA
Class Profile Context
2021 3-star | 0.8115 No. 2215 recruit | HighSchool | UL Monroe

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#3939Latest modeled ballot order
Season forecast#3827Where 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 UL Monroe

Composite

0.8115

#2215 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 Rylan Green

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 Rylan Green

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 6g
50Rec yards
4Receptions
1Rec TDs
Per game
8.3Rec yards
1Receptions
0Rec TDs
Projected (13g)
108.3Rec yards
9Receptions
2Rec TDs

To hit 700-yard receiver (currently 50): needs 92.9/game over remaining 7.

To hit 1,000-yard receiver (currently 50): needs 135.7/game over remaining 7.

To hit 60-catch season (currently 4): needs 8/game over remaining 7.

To hit 80-catch season (currently 4): needs 10.9/game over remaining 7.

To hit 8 receiving TDs (currently 1): needs 1/game over remaining 7.

To hit 10 receiving TDs (currently 1): needs 1.3/game over remaining 7.

What made this player interesting

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

Rylan Green's story is about how role and output meet each other. For UL Monroe, 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 #3939 0.0% win | 0.0% finalist
Role load 2.2% Overall usage share
Profile quirk Development arc 17 return yds

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 4 1 rec TD | #287/475 (40th pct)
Receiving yards 50 12.5 per catch | #275/475 (42nd pct)
Scrimmage yards 50 Total offensive yardage | #275/475 (42nd 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
4 40th
YDS
50 42nd
YPR
12.5 79th
TD
1 71st

Game Log · Week-by-week

2025 season · 6 games

Box score · CFBD
WkOppRECYDSAVGTDLONGNote
Wk 2L 0-73@ Alabama
Wk 8L 14-37vs Troy
Wk 10L 6-31vs Old Dominion144.014
Wk 12L 14-26vs South Alabama11414.0014
Wk 13L 14-31@ Texas State199.009
Wk 14L 27-30@ Louisiana12323.0023Season-high 23 yds
Total45012.5123
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

2022UL Monroe4-8HC: Terry Bowden · Run-leaning, slow tempo
2025UL Monroe3-9HC: Bryant Vincent · Run-leaning, slow tempo
SeasonTeam
2025UL Monroe45012.51--
2022UL Monroe4307.50--
Career2 loaded seasons88010.01--
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 2.2% 4.9% pass-game share | #300/468 (36th pct)
Return yards 17 0 return TD
Touchdowns 1 Across offense and returns | #140/475 (71st pct)
Open full stat explorer
0 metrics visible Showing all metrics
Group Metric Value Rank Pct Why it matters
Receiving Receptions 4 #287/475 40th pct Volumevs FBS TE
Receiving Receiving yards 50 #275/475 42nd pct Volumevs FBS TE
Receiving Receiving TD 1 #140/475 71st pct Scoringvs FBS TE
Receiving Yards / catch 12.5 #103/475 79th pct Efficiencyvs FBS TE
Usage Pass share 4.9% #300/468 36th pct Air-game usagevs FBS TE
Receiving Receiving LONG 23 #215/475 55th pct Metricvs FBS TE
Usage 1st-down usage 4.7% #93/468 80th pct Early-down loadvs FBS TE
Usage Standard-down usage 3.4% #176/468 63rd pct Base-situation sharevs FBS TE
Usage Role share 2.2% #320/468 32nd pct Share of team offensevs FBS TE
Usage 2nd-down usage 0.0% #400/468 15th pct Middle-down loadvs FBS TE
Usage 3rd-down usage 0.0% #339/468 28th pct Money-down loadvs FBS TE
Usage Passing-down usage 0.0% #382/468 19th pct Known-passing 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 · 6 games

Home/Road · Win/Loss · Season halves

Home vs Road

REC/gYDS/gYPRTD/g
Home3g0.76.09.00.3
Road3g0.710.716.00.0

Win vs Loss

REC/gYDS/gYPRTD/g
Losses6g0.78.312.50.2

First half vs Second half

REC/gYDS/gYPRTD/g
Weeks 1-71g
Weeks 8+5g0.810.012.50.2

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

Savant · Box-rate percentiles

Where this profile ranks vs the TE cohort

22Below cohort
5 metrics · season cumulative

Concern: receptions (0th).

Yards / catch#38 / 175 · 77th pct
12.5rece
Rec TDs#126 / 175 · 21st pct
1rece
Long catch#148 / 175 · 15th pct
23rece
Rec yards#176 / 175 · 0th pct
50rece
Receptions#176 / 175 · 0th pct
4rece

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
Rylan GreenUL MonroeLuke LindenmeyerNebraska· 56% simBryce CaufieldOregon State· 51% simDecker DeGraafWashington· 51% sim
Yards / catch
77
Green
53
Lindenmeyer
7
Caufield
62
DeGraaf
Rec TDs
21
Green
43
Lindenmeyer
21
Caufield
43
DeGraaf
Long catch
15
Green
23
Lindenmeyer
39
Caufield
39
DeGraaf
Rec yards
0
Green
63
Lindenmeyer
44
Caufield
72
DeGraaf
Receptions
0
Green
66
Lindenmeyer
66
Caufield
75
DeGraaf

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

Bryant Vincent

Pass share

41.4%

302 pass / 428 run

Plays / game

60.8

12 games

OL sack rate (allowed)

8.3%

241 dropbacks · PBP

Scheme: Run-leaning, slow tempo.

Coaching Lineage · 2022–2025

2 coaches
2022
Terry Bowden
UL Monroe
2025
Bryant Vincent
UL Monroe
era →

Coaching transition mid-career: Terry Bowden → Bryant Vincent. 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.

HometownWest Monroe, LA
Height6'4"
Weight255 lb
Class4
PositionTE
Jersey85

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 UL Monroe TE4 #3939 #3827 0.0% 0.0% -- -- W16 snapshot | Sun Belt
2023 UL Monroe TE4 #5835 #6573 0.0% 0.0% -- -- W19 snapshot | Sun Belt
2022 UL Monroe TE4 #4464 #4993 0.0% 0.0% -- -- W20 snapshot | Sun Belt

Roster Timeline

Team, conference, and class by season.

Season Team Conference Pos Class Bio
2025 UL Monroe Sun Belt TE 4 No. 85 | 6-4 | 255 lb | West Monroe, LA
2024 UL Monroe Sun Belt TE 4 No. 85 | 6-4 | 255 lb | West Monroe, LA
2023 UL Monroe Sun Belt TE 4 No. 85 | 6-4 | 255 lb | West Monroe, LA
2022 UL Monroe Sun Belt TE 4 No. 85 | 6-4 | 255 lb | West Monroe, LA