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Heisman / Players / Tahj Bullock /Colorado State

Tahj Bullock

QB · Colorado State · Sr · #12

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

0 PASS YDS · 0 PASS TD · 31 RUSH YDS

2026 RETURNINGReturning to Colorado State for 2026

2026 Outlook

Returning to Colorado State for 2026

Updated May 27

2026 Depth chart

Returning starter

Quarterback · Colorado State

Returning around him

  • 50% of 2024 offensive production back (Solid continuity)
  • Transfer portal: -7 net (31 in / 38 out)

2026 Award watch

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

Colorado State · Last season: 2-10 · Talent rank #92 · 2026 recruiting class #106

QB · COLORADO STATE · MOUNTAIN WEST

Tahj Bullock

  • 4
  • #12
  • 6-3 | 220 lb
  • East Orange, NJ

CFB Zeitgeist Score

20

Below cohort in the position cohort. Carried by interceptions at the 99th percentile.

Heisman Heat

#775

<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 QB AWARD

Davey O'Brien

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 · passing yards

2021–2025
27.02021
2712023
2002024
0.02025

-100%

Sharp dropoff (-100%) — career inflection point.

Career Arc

HS
Recruit
★★★
#923 national
CFB
College
3 teams
2021–2025
NFL
NFL Draft
Not drafted (yet)

Identity & Role

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

PositionQB
Class4
Jersey12
Measurements6-3 | 220 lb
HometownEast Orange, NJ
Primary teamColorado State

Recruiting Pedigree

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

Top pedigree 3-star No. 923 recruit
Composite rating 0.8596 HighSchool
Signed with -- 2021
Origin St. Peter's Prep Jersey City, NJ, USA
Class Profile Context
2021 3-star | 0.8596 No. 923 recruit | HighSchool

Transfer Arc

Portal movement changes role, context, and perception. This keeps that path in one place.

Portal moves 2 Programs changed on file
Latest destination Colorado State 2025
Transfer stars 3-star CFBD transfer rating context
Eligibility Immediate May 3, 2025
Season Move Context
2025 Akron -> Colorado State 3-star | 0.8400 | Immediate
2023 Virginia Tech -> Akron 3-star | Immediate

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#775Latest modeled ballot order
Season forecast#1160Where 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

0.8596

#923 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 Tahj Bullock

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 Tahj Bullock

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 passing totals stand

projecting to 13-game
Through 6g
0Pass yards
0Pass TDs
0INT
Per game
0Pass yards
0Pass TDs
0INT
Projected (13g)
0Pass yards
0Pass TDs
0INT

To hit 3,000-yard season (currently 0): needs 428.6/game over remaining 7.

To hit 4,000-yard season (currently 0): needs 571.4/game over remaining 7.

To hit 25 passing TDs (currently 0): needs 3.6/game over remaining 7.

To hit 30 passing TDs (currently 0): needs 4.3/game over remaining 7.

To hit 35 passing TDs (currently 0): needs 5/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.

Tahj Bullock's story is about how role and output meet each other. For Colorado State, 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 #775 0.0% win | 0.0% finalist
Role load 6.5% Overall usage share
Profile quirk Transfer path 2 portal moves

2025 Season · Final

Traditional stats first. Advanced context underneath.

Last season

QB season snapshot

2025 season snapshot | final

2025 season snapshot | finalData: CFBD player stats + local Heisman modelPeer context: same position + same level
Pass yards 0 0 TD | 0 INT
Completion rate 0.0% 0/1 completions
Yards/attempt 0.0 Explosiveness through the air
Player identity What kind of player is this?

30-second read

What kind of player is this?

Balanced quarterback against FBS QB peers. The quickest read is whether the profile wins on volume, efficiency, explosiveness, or rushing value.

Balanced profile

2025 Season · Final

2025 season snapshot | final

Passing Efficiency

ATT
1 7th

Passing Production

TD
0 30th
INT
0 100th

Rushing

CAR
23 53rd
YDS
31 48th
YPC
1.3 29th
TD
3 77th

Game Log · Week-by-week

2025 season · 6 games

Box score · CFBD
WkOppCMP/ATTYDSTDINTYPAQBRNote
Wk 1L 21-38@ Washington0/10000.019.0Season-high 0 yds
Wk 2W 21-17vs Northern Colorado
Wk 4L 16-17vs UTSA
Wk 5L 3-20vs Washington State
Wk 8L 19-31vs Hawai'i
Wk 11L 10-42vs UNLV
Total0/10000.019.0
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

2021Virginia Tech6-6HC: J.C. Price · Run-heavy
2023Akron2-10HC: Joe Moorhead · Pass-leaning
2024Akron4-8HC: Joe Moorhead · Pass-leaning
2025Colorado State2-10HC: Jay Norvell · Balanced
SeasonTeam
2025Colorado State--10.0%--0.0000.0----
2024Akron223073.3%2006.700129.3----
2023Akron326648.5%2714.13388.9----
2021Virginia Tech2450.0%276.800106.7----
Career4 loaded seasons5610155.4%4984.933100.7----
SeasonTeam
2025Colorado State23311.33--
2024Akron531382.68--
2023Akron621652.74--
2021Virginia Tech6142.30--
Career4 loaded seasons1443482.415--
Advanced layer Usage, value, and context

Advanced metrics second

Advanced Metrics

Usage, value, and opponent-adjusted context.

Usage Value Context
Passing WEPA

Opponent-adjusted passing value. Positive numbers mean the quarterback is adding more value through the air than a neutral peer would in the same environment.

Role share

How much of the offense runs through the quarterback once passing and rushing responsibility are blended together.

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.

Rush impact 31 3 rush TD | #213/408 (48th pct)
Usage 6.5% 2.0% pass share | 11.1% rush share | #312/428 (27th pct)
Passing WEPA -- Adjusted value feed still loading
Open full stat explorer
0 metrics visible Showing all metrics
Group Metric Value Rank Pct Why it matters
Passing Pass TD 0 #285/407 30th pct Scoringvs FBS QB
Rushing Rushing yards 31 #213/408 48th pct Volumevs FBS QB
Usage Role share 6.5% #312/428 27th pct Share of team offensevs FBS QB
Passing Attempts 1 #378/407 7th pct Volumevs FBS QB
Passing Interceptions 0 #1/407 100th pct Turnoversvs FBS QB
Rushing Carries 23 #193/408 53rd pct Volumevs FBS QB
Rushing Rushing LONG 10 #298/391 24th pct Metricvs FBS QB
Rushing Rush TD 3 #94/408 77th pct Scoringvs FBS QB
Rushing Yards / carry 1.3 #288/407 29th pct Efficiencyvs FBS QB
Usage Rush share 11.1% #145/428 66th pct Ground-game usagevs FBS QB
Usage Standard-down usage 9.0% #271/428 37th pct Base-situation sharevs FBS QB
Usage 1st-down usage 7.2% #286/428 33rd pct Early-down loadvs FBS QB
Usage 3rd-down usage 4.9% #372/428 13th pct Money-down loadvs FBS QB
Usage 2nd-down usage 3.8% #352/428 18th pct Middle-down loadvs FBS QB
Usage Passing-down usage 2.1% #381/428 11th pct Known-passing sharevs FBS QB
Usage Pass share 2.0% #396/428 8th pct Air-game usagevs FBS QB
Value Rushing WEPA +0.33 #32/140 78th pct Opponent-adjusted rushing value | 53 weighted playsvs FBS QB

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 · 6 games

Home/Road · Win/Loss · Season halves

Home vs Road

YDS/gTD/gYPAINT/g
Home5g
Road1g0.00.00.00.0

Win vs Loss

YDS/gTD/gYPAINT/g
Wins1g
Losses5g0.00.00.00.0

First half vs Second half

YDS/gTD/gYPAINT/g
Weeks 1-74g0.00.00.00.0
Weeks 8+2g

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

Savant · Box-rate percentiles

Where this profile ranks vs the QB cohort

20Below cohort
7 metrics · season cumulative

Elite: interceptions (99th). Concern: completion % (0th).

Interceptions#1 / 183 · 99th pct
0pass
Rush TDs#86 / 183 · 49th pct
3rush
Rush yards#131 / 183 · 29th pct
31rush
Pass yards#184 / 183 · 0th pct
0pass
Pass TDs#184 / 183 · 0th pct
0pass
Yards / att#184 / 183 · 0th pct
0.0pass
Completion %#184 / 183 · 0th pct
0.0%pass

Percentiles versus same-position peers with enough snaps this season, based on box-score rates.

Advanced Savant · QB · 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
Tahj BullockColorado StateNick VattiatoMiddle Tennessee· 58% simRyan BrownePurdue· 55% simDrake LindseyMinnesota· 54% sim
Interceptions
99
Bullock
44
Vattiato
14
Browne
56
Lindsey
Rush TDs
49
Bullock
39
Vattiato
59
Browne
59
Lindsey
Rush yards
29
Bullock
27
Vattiato
61
Browne
1
Lindsey
Pass yards
0
Bullock
57
Vattiato
56
Browne
61
Lindsey
Pass TDs
0
Bullock
64
Vattiato
33
Browne
72
Lindsey
Yards / att
0
Bullock
13
Vattiato
23
Browne
16
Lindsey
Completion %
0
Bullock
41
Vattiato
29
Browne
56
Lindsey

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

Jay Norvell

Pass share

52.1%

393 pass / 362 run

Plays / game

62.9

12 games

OL sack rate (allowed)

11.1%

315 dropbacks · PBP

Scheme: Balanced.

Coaching Lineage · 2021–2025

2 coaches
2021
Steve Addazio
Colorado State
2023
Jay Norvell
Colorado State
era →
2024
Jay Norvell
Colorado State
2025
Jay Norvell
Colorado State

Coaching transition mid-career: Steve Addazio → Jay Norvell. 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.

HometownEast Orange, NJ
Height6'3"
Weight220 lb
Class4
PositionQB
Jersey12

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 Akron QB4 #775 #1160 0.0% 0.0% -- -- W16 snapshot | Mid-American
2023 Akron QB4 #1452 #2022 0.0% 0.0% -- -- W19 snapshot | Mid-American
2022 Virginia Tech QB4 #1628 #1767 0.0% 0.0% -- -- W20 snapshot | ACC
2021 Virginia Tech QB4 #806 #696 0.0% 0.0% -- -- W20 snapshot | ACC

Roster Timeline

Team, conference, and class by season.

Season Team Conference Pos Class Bio
2025 Colorado State Mountain West QB 4 No. 12 | 6-3 | 220 lb | East Orange, NJ
2024 Akron Mid-American QB 4 No. 12 | 6-3 | 220 lb | East Orange, NJ
2023 Akron Mid-American QB 4 No. 12 | 6-3 | 220 lb | East Orange, NJ
2022 Virginia Tech ACC QB 4 No. 12 | 6-3 | 220 lb | East Orange, NJ
2021 Virginia Tech ACC QB 4 No. 12 | 6-3 | 220 lb | East Orange, NJ