CFB Zeitgeist Score
49
Mid-pack in the position cohort. Carried by yards / catch at the 60th percentile.
Zycarl Lewis Jr.
Below the discourse floor — the honest stats-only state.
330 REC YDS · 24 REC · 2 REC TD
2026 Outlook
Returning to Tulane for 2026
2026 Depth chart
Projected starter
Wide receiver · Tulane
Returning around him
- 15% of 2024 offensive production back (Heavy turnover)
- Transfer portal: -7 net (20 in / 27 out)
2026 Award watch
No preseason watch lists yet (most drop June 15 – July 15)
Tulane · Last season: 11-3 (AP #17) · Talent rank #68 · 2026 recruiting class #74
WR · TULANE · AMERICAN ATHLETIC
Zycarl Lewis Jr.
- 1
- #15
- 5-10 | 160 lb
- Venice, FL
Heisman Heat
#3573
<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
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CONSENSUS
All-American
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Player Standing · 17 rungs
Tier 2 · StarterR05 · Part-time starter
Part-time starter. Splitting first-team reps.
Not on team2-deepStarterRecognizedEliteApex
Development Trajectory · receiving yards
2024–2025+2100%
Up 2100% from first season to most-recent.
Career Arc
HS
Recruit
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CFB
College
Tulane
NFL
NFL Draft
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Identity & Role
The durable bio layer: position, size, hometown, and roster role.
Recruiting Pedigree
How big the prospect was before college, and whether the later career arc beat that expectation.
| 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.
| 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 16Heisman 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
PENDINGThe 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 Zycarl Lewis Jr.
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 Zycarl Lewis Jr.
No rival-bucket mentions in the current season.
2025 Signature · 2025 season
Yards per reception
13.8
yds
All FBS WRs, min 20 receptions
National rank #173 of 531
Percentile vs All FBS WRs, min 20 receptions 68th
Why it matters
#173 of 531 All FBS WRs at 13.8 yards per reception (24 catches).
Vs cohort
This player 13.8 (68th)
MODERATE · n=24 cohort 531
- Also strong
- Receiving TDs#302 / 531
- Receiving yards (total)#362 / 531
Signature Moment
Week 7 vs East Carolina — 75 ypr
Result W 26-19
The week the volume broke through — put up 75 yds vs East Carolina.
Season Pace · Projection
Where the receiving totals stand
Through 13g
330Rec yards
24Receptions
2Rec TDs
Per game
25.4Rec yards
2Receptions
0Rec TDs
Final
330Rec yards
24Receptions
2Rec TDs
What made this player interesting
The fast read on the thing that makes this player more than a generic stat line.
Zycarl Lewis Jr.'s story is about how role and output meet each other. For Tulane, 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.
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
Player identity What kind of player is this?
30-second read
What kind of player is this?
Receiving weapon against FBS receiving peers.
2025 Season · Final
2025 season snapshot | final
Receiving
REC
24 68th
YDS
330 70th
YPR
13.8 66th
TD
2 75th
Game Log · Week-by-week
2025 season · 13 games
| Wk | Opp | REC | YDS | AVG | TD | LONG | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | W 23-3vs Northwestern | 1 | 10 | 10.0 | 0 | 10 | |
| Wk 2 | W 33-31@ South Alabama | 2 | 24 | 12.0 | 0 | 20 | |
| Wk 3 | W 34-27vs Duke | 1 | 13 | 13.0 | 0 | 13 | |
| Wk 5 | W 31-14@ Tulsa | 2 | 17 | 8.5 | 0 | 17 | |
| Wk 7 | W 26-19vs East Carolina | 2 | 75 | 37.5 | 1 | 63 | Season-high 75 yds |
| Wk 8 | W 24-17vs Army | 1 | 6 | 6.0 | 0 | 6 | |
| Wk 10 | L 26-48@ UTSA | 4 | 47 | 11.8 | 1 | 20 | |
| Wk 11 | W 38-32@ Memphis | 3 | 37 | 12.3 | 0 | 22 | |
| Wk 12 | W 35-24vs Florida Atlantic | 1 | 2 | 2.0 | 0 | 2 | |
| Wk 13 | W 37-13@ Temple | 2 | 39 | 19.5 | 0 | 22 | |
| Wk 14 | W 27-0vs Charlotte | 2 | 22 | 11.0 | 0 | 21 | |
| Wk 15 | W 34-21vs North Texas | 2 | 30 | 15.0 | 0 | 17 | |
| Bowl | L 10-41@ Ole Miss | 1 | 8 | 8.0 | 0 | 8 | |
| Total | 24 | 330 | 12.8 | 2 | 63 |
Season-by-season tables Career rows + per-season box score
Advanced layer Usage, value, and context
Advanced metrics second
Advanced Metrics
Usage, value, and opponent-adjusted context.
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.
A blended workload view that accounts for catches, designed touches, and any return-game involvement that shapes the overall profile.
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.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Receiving | Receptions | 24 | #358/1110 | 68th pct | Volumevs FBS WR |
| Receiving | Receiving yards | 330 | #331/1107 | 70th pct | Volumevs FBS WR |
| Receiving | Receiving TD | 2 | #281/1111 | 75th pct | Scoringvs FBS WR |
| Receiving | Yards / catch | 13.8 | #375/1106 | 66th pct | Efficiencyvs FBS WR |
| Usage | Pass share | 8.5% | #569/1137 | 50th pct | Air-game usagevs FBS WR |
| Receiving | Receiving LONG | 63 | #150/1105 | 87th pct | Metricvs FBS WR |
| Usage | 3rd-down usage | 7.1% | #442/1137 | 61st pct | Money-down loadvs FBS WR |
| Usage | Passing-down usage | 5.5% | #652/1137 | 43rd pct | Known-passing sharevs FBS WR |
| Usage | Role share | 3.9% | #625/1137 | 45th pct | Share of team offensevs FBS WR |
| Usage | 2nd-down usage | 3.2% | #771/1137 | 32nd pct | Middle-down loadvs FBS WR |
| Usage | Standard-down usage | 3.2% | #647/1137 | 43rd pct | Base-situation sharevs FBS WR |
| Usage | 1st-down usage | 3.0% | #715/1137 | 37th pct | Early-down loadvs FBS WR |
| Usage | Rush share | 0.0% | #391/1137 | 66th 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
Status—Awaiting tracker
Heisman model tracks the top FBS contenders weekly; this player hasn't entered the watch list yet.
Splits · Per-game
2025 season · 13 games
Home vs Road
| REC/g | YDS/g | YPR | TD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home7g | 1.4 | 22.6 | 13.5 | 0.1 |
| Road6g | 2.3 | 28.7 | 12.0 | 0.2 |
Win vs Loss
| REC/g | YDS/g | YPR | TD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wins11g | 1.7 | 25.0 | 13.3 | 0.1 |
| Losses2g | 2.5 | 27.5 | 9.9 | 0.5 |
First half vs Second half
| REC/g | YDS/g | YPR | TD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-76g | 1.5 | 24.5 | 14.8 | 0.2 |
| Weeks 8+7g | 2.1 | 26.1 | 11.1 | 0.1 |
Pocket and defense-quality (clean vs. pressure) splits are coming soon.
Savant · Box-rate percentiles
Where this profile ranks vs the WR cohort
49Mid-pack
Production sits in the middle of the position cohort across the board.
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
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
Zycarl Lewis Jr.TulaneRyan DavisUtah· 64% simSean WilsonDelaware· 63% simHank BeattyIllinois· 63% sim
Long catch
Yards / catch
Rec TDs
Rec yards
Receptions
Closest peers by overall box-score percentile profile at the same position.
Player DNA
The Possession Receiver
Reliable target who converts on critical downs. Not flashy; consistently productive.
WR
His 2025 production profile sits closest to Gio Richardson’s 2025 season.
Gio Richardson
79%match
#2
Marcus Fleming
78%
#3
Amad Anderson
74%
#4
Takye Heath
74%
#5
Dashaun Davis
73%
Matches Gio on
Reception volume
TD rate
Total EPA (college ability)
Differs from Gio on
Weight (lower)
Not enough data yet for this comparison.
As a sophomore, his production profile tracks closest to Marcus Fleming's sophomore season at Maryland (2021).
Marcus Fleming
82%match
#2
Jamari Gassett
82%
#3
Takye Heath
76%
#4
Devonte Ross
74%
#5
Marcus Brown
72%
Matches Marcus on
Total EPA (college ability)
Reception volume
TD rate
Differs from Marcus on
Class year (lower)
EPA / play (adj) (lower)
Supporting Cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Jon Sumrall
Pass share
45.8%
424 pass / 501 run
Plays / game
66.1
14 games
OL sack rate (allowed)
3.4%
294 dropbacks · PBP
Scheme: Run-leaning.
Coaching Lineage · 2024–2025
1 coach2024
Jon Sumrall
Tulane
2025
Jon Sumrall
Tulane
Played his entire career under Jon Sumrall.
Bio · Recruiting · Transfer · Roster
Off-field context — switch tabs to drill into recruit profile, transfer arc, or roster timeline.
HometownVenice, FL
Height5'10"
Weight160 lb
Class1
PositionWR
Jersey15
No fields populated yet.
No fields populated yet.
Current teamTulane
ConferenceAmerican Athletic
Joined2025
Career arc2 season(s)
Trophy Case · Detail
Every honor on the ledger, broken out by stream and selector.
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 | Tulane | WR1 | #3573 | #3588 | 0.0% | 0.0% | -- | -- | W16 snapshot | American Athletic |
Roster Timeline
Team, conference, and class by season.