CFB Zeitgeist Score
62
Solid starter in the position cohort. Carried by yards / att at the 100th percentile.
Alberto Mendoza
Below the discourse floor — the honest stats-only state.
286 PASS YDS · 5 PASS TD · 190 RUSH YDS
Where He Ended Up · Transfer
Transferred to Georgia Tech
2025Indiana
2026Georgia Tech
QB · INDIANA · BIG TEN
Alberto Mendoza
- 1
- #16
- 6-2 | 203 lb
- Miami, FL
Heisman Heat
#265
<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
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CONSENSUS
All-American
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Player Standing · 17 rungs
Tier 2 · StarterR06 · Starter
Starter. A locked-in starting role.
Not on team2-deepStarterRecognizedEliteApex
In Their Words
266 windows · 2025 fan posts
fernando×64.7indiana×24.8alberto×87.3cristobal×66.5whitmer×58.2mendoza×24.5hoosiers×38.8heisman×15.2
“Indiana QB Fernando Mendoza announces intention to enter 2026 NFL Draft”
reddit/CFB · fan post, verbatim
Development Trajectory · passing yards
2024–2025+4667%
Up 4667% from first season to most-recent.
Career Arc
HS
Recruit
★★★
CFB
College
Indiana
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 |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 3-star | 0.8506 | No. 1550 recruit | HighSchool | Indiana |
Transfer Arc
Portal movement changes role, context, and perception. This keeps that path in one place.
| Season | Move | Context |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Indiana -> Georgia Tech | 3-star | 0.8600 | 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 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.
NIL · Recruiting · NFL Draft
Market value, pedigree & pro outcome
Recruit stars
★★★☆☆
to Indiana
Composite
0.8506
#1550 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
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 Alberto Mendoza
Fan sentiment · Season 2025 conversation window
Belief Meter
57
Quietly Bullish
Top Take
“”
Trajectory
Per-cohort trajectory lands when historical bucket data is aggregated.
Cohort divergence map
- Own fans · n=45
- Rivals · n=6
- National · n=27
Rival Radar
How rival fanbases talk about Alberto Mendoza
Obsession score 4
Rival mentions 6
Weeks on radar 3
Peak moment Week 0 · 4 mentions
Grudging respect 17% Neutral 83% Mockery 0%
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.
Season Pace · Projection
Where the passing totals stand
Through 8g
286Pass yards
5Pass TDs
1INT
Per game
35.8Pass yards
1Pass TDs
0INT
Projected (13g)
464.8Pass yards
8Pass TDs
2INT
To hit 3,000-yard season (currently 286): needs 542.8/game over remaining 5.
To hit 4,000-yard season (currently 286): needs 742.8/game over remaining 5.
To hit 25 passing TDs (currently 5): needs 4/game over remaining 5.
To hit 30 passing TDs (currently 5): needs 5/game over remaining 5.
To hit 35 passing TDs (currently 5): needs 6/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.
Alberto Mendoza's story is about how role and output meet each other. For Indiana, 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
QB 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?
Highly efficient | Vertical threat | Dual-threat against FBS QB peers. The quickest read is whether the profile wins on volume, efficiency, explosiveness, or rushing value.
2025 Season · Final
2025 season snapshot | final
Passing Efficiency
CMP
18 40th
ATT
24 41st
CMP%
75.0% 91st
Y/A
11.9 95th
Passing Production
YDS
286 45th
TD
5 64th
INT
1 63rd
Rushing
CAR
13 41st
YDS
190 78th
YPC
14.6 99th
TD
1 63rd
Game Log · Week-by-week
2025 season · 8 games
| Wk | Opp | CMP/ATT | YDS | TD | INT | YPA | QBR | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 2 | W 56-9vs Kennesaw State | 3/3 | 35 | 1 | 0 | 11.7 | 99.9 | |
| Wk 3 | W 73-0vs Indiana State | 6/9 | 104 | 2 | 0 | 11.6 | 77.6 | Season-high 104 yds |
| Wk 4 | W 63-10vs Illinois | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| Wk 9 | W 56-6vs UCLA | 4/7 | 45 | 0 | 1 | 6.4 | 93.9 | |
| Wk 10 | W 55-10@ Maryland | 2/2 | 20 | 1 | 0 | 10.0 | 100.0 | |
| Wk 12 | W 31-7vs Wisconsin | 1/1 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 6.0 | 88.4 | |
| Wk 14 | W 56-3@ Purdue | 2/2 | 76 | 1 | 0 | 38.0 | 100.0 | |
| Bowl | W 38-3vs Alabama | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| Total | 18/24 | 286 | 5 | 1 | 13.9 | 93.3 |
Season-by-season tables Career rows + per-season box score
Traditional history
Traditional Stats
Season rows up top, career context at the bottom.
Season context · Team result + system
2024Indiana11-2HC: Curt Cignetti · Run-leaning
2025Indiana16-0HC: Curt Cignetti · Run-heavy
Advanced layer Usage, value, and context
Advanced metrics second
Advanced Metrics
Usage, value, and opponent-adjusted context.
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.
How much of the offense runs through the quarterback once passing and rushing responsibility are blended together.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Passing | Passing yards | 286 | #210/382 | 45th pct | Volumevs FBS QB |
| Passing | Pass TD | 5 | #149/407 | 64th pct | Scoringvs FBS QB |
| Passing | Completions | 18 | #231/383 | 40th pct | Volumevs FBS QB |
| Passing | Completion % | 75.0% | #37/383 | 91st pct | Efficiencyvs FBS QB |
| Passing | Yards / attempt | 11.9 | #21/382 | 95th pct | Efficiencyvs FBS QB |
| Rushing | Rushing yards | 190 | #90/408 | 78th pct | Volumevs FBS QB |
| Usage | Role share | 5.3% | #338/428 | 21st pct | Share of team offensevs FBS QB |
| Passing | Attempts | 24 | #243/407 | 41st pct | Volumevs FBS QB |
| Passing | Interceptions | 1 | #153/407 | 63rd pct | Turnoversvs FBS QB |
| Rushing | Rushing LONG | 58 | #27/391 | 93rd pct | Metricvs FBS QB |
| Rushing | Yards / carry | 14.6 | #7/407 | 99th pct | Efficiencyvs FBS QB |
| Rushing | Carries | 13 | #240/408 | 41st pct | Volumevs FBS QB |
| Rushing | Rush TD | 1 | #151/408 | 63rd pct | Scoringvs FBS QB |
| Usage | 3rd-down usage | 9.2% | #317/428 | 26th pct | Money-down loadvs FBS QB |
| Usage | Pass share | 9.2% | #312/428 | 27th pct | Air-game usagevs FBS QB |
| Usage | Standard-down usage | 5.9% | #316/428 | 26th pct | Base-situation sharevs FBS QB |
| Usage | 1st-down usage | 5.6% | #314/428 | 27th pct | Early-down loadvs FBS QB |
| Usage | 2nd-down usage | 3.2% | #366/428 | 15th pct | Middle-down loadvs FBS QB |
| Usage | Passing-down usage | 3.1% | #372/428 | 13th pct | Known-passing sharevs FBS QB |
| Usage | Rush share | 3.1% | #334/428 | 22nd pct | Ground-game usagevs 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
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 · 8 games
Home vs Road
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home6g | 31.7 | 0.5 | 8.9 | 0.2 |
| Road2g | 48.0 | 1.0 | 24.0 | 0.0 |
Win vs Loss
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wins8g | 35.8 | 0.6 | 14.0 | 0.1 |
First half vs Second half
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-74g | 34.8 | 0.8 | 11.6 | 0.0 |
| Weeks 8+4g | 36.8 | 0.5 | 15.1 | 0.2 |
Pocket and defense-quality (clean vs. pressure) splits are coming soon.
Savant · Box-rate percentiles
Where this profile ranks vs the QB cohort
62Solid starter
Elite: yards / att (100th). Strength: completion % (99th). Concern: pass yards (0th).
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
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
Alberto MendozaIndianaCade KlubnikClemson· 56% simLuke AltmyerIllinois· 56% simJoe FagnanoUConn· 54% sim
Yards / att
Completion %
Interceptions
Rush yards
Rush TDs
Pass TDs
Pass yards
Closest peers by overall box-score percentile profile at the same position.
Supporting Cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Curt Cignetti
Pass share
38.7%
404 pass / 641 run
Plays / game
65.3
16 games
OL sack rate (allowed)
7.3%
275 dropbacks · PBP
Scheme: Run-heavy.
Coaching Lineage · 2024–2025
1 coach2024
Curt Cignetti
Indiana
2025
Curt Cignetti
Indiana
Played his entire career under Curt Cignetti.
Bio · Recruiting · Transfer · Roster
Off-field context — switch tabs to drill into recruit profile, transfer arc, or roster timeline.
HometownMiami, FL
Height6'2"
Weight203 lb
Class1
PositionQB
Jersey16
No fields populated yet.
No fields populated yet.
Current teamIndiana
ConferenceBig Ten
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 | Indiana | QB1 | #265 | #162 | 0.0% | 0.0% | -- | -- | W16 snapshot | Big Ten |
Roster Timeline
Team, conference, and class by season.