CFB Zeitgeist WR Score
Awaiting
Anthony Simpson
Limited signal — not enough coverage for a story yet.
Where He Ended Up · Transfer
Transferred to Toledo
2025Michigan
2026Toledo
WR · MICHIGAN · BIG TEN
Anthony Simpson
- 4
- #5
- 5-11 | 186 lb
- Hartford, CT
Heisman Heat
#3468
<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
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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
2021–2024-65%
Sharp dropoff (-65%) — career inflection point.
Career Arc
HS
Recruit
★★★
CFB
College
3 teams
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 |
|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 3-star | 0.8250 | No. 5 recruit | PrepSchool | Arizona |
| 2020 | 3-star | 0.8100 | No. 2503 recruit | HighSchool |
Transfer Arc
Portal movement changes role, context, and perception. This keeps that path in one place.
| Season | Move | Context |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Michigan -> Toledo | 3-star | 0.8300 | Immediate |
| 2025 | Massachusetts -> Michigan | 3-star | 0.8300 | 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 Arizona
Composite
0.8250
#5 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 Anthony Simpson
Fan sentiment ·
Belief Meter
62
Mixed Sentiment
Top Take
“”
Trajectory
Per-cohort trajectory lands when historical bucket data is aggregated.
Cohort divergence map
- Own fans · n=4
- National · n=3
Rival Radar
How rival fanbases talk about Anthony Simpson
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.
Scenario Explorer
Available for players with a qualifying signature metric (passing yards, rushing yards, receiving yards, sacks, etc.). The slider projects how a season finishes if the current pace holds.
What made this player interesting
The fast read on the thing that makes this player more than a generic stat line.
Anthony Simpson's story is about how role and output meet each other. For Michigan, 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
Rushing
CAR
1 35th
YDS
10 48th
YPC
10.0 87th
TD
0 81st
Game Log · Week-by-week
2025 season · 1 games
| Wk | Opp | REC | YDS | AVG | TD | LONG | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 3 | W 63-3vs Central Michigan | — | — | — | — | — | |
| Total | — | — | — | — | — |
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
2021Arizona1-11HC: Jedd Fisch · Balanced
2022Arizona5-7HC: Jedd Fisch · Pass-leaning
2023Massachusetts3-9HC: Don Brown · Balanced, slow tempo
2024Massachusetts2-10HC: Shane Montgomery · Run-leaning
2025Michigan9-4HC: Sherrone Moore · Run-leaning
| Season | Team | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Michigan | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| 2024 | Massachusetts | 3 | 16 | 5.3 | 0 | -- |
| 2023 | Massachusetts | 57 | 792 | 13.9 | 3 | -- |
| 2022 | Arizona | 5 | 64 | 12.8 | 0 | -- |
| 2021 | Arizona | 4 | 46 | 11.5 | 0 | -- |
| Career | 5 loaded seasons | 69 | 918 | 13.3 | 3 | -- |
| Season | Team | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Michigan | 1 | 10 | -- | -- | -- |
| 2024 | Massachusetts | -- | -- | 64 | -- | -- |
| 2023 | Massachusetts | 11 | 93 | 10 | -- | -- |
| 2022 | Arizona | 2 | 8 | 342 | -- | -- |
| 2021 | Arizona | 1 | 7 | -- | -- | -- |
| Career | 5 loaded seasons | 15 | 118 | 416 | -- | -- |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Usage | Pass share | 0.0% | #1114/1137 | 2nd pct | Air-game usagevs FBS WR |
| Rushing | Rushing LONG | 10 | #173/346 | 50th pct | Metricvs FBS WR |
| Rushing | Rushing yards | 10 | #206/397 | 48th pct | Volumevs FBS WR |
| Rushing | Yards / carry | 10.0 | #54/393 | 87th 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 |
| Usage | 1st-down usage | 2.4% | #829/1137 | 27th pct | Early-down loadvs FBS WR |
| Usage | Rush share | 1.8% | #114/1137 | 90th pct | Ground-game usagevs FBS WR |
| Usage | Standard-down usage | 1.6% | #982/1137 | 14th pct | Base-situation sharevs FBS WR |
| Usage | Role share | 1.3% | #1096/1137 | 4th pct | Share of team offensevs FBS WR |
| Usage | 2nd-down usage | 0.0% | #993/1137 | 13th pct | Middle-down loadvs FBS WR |
| Usage | 3rd-down usage | 0.0% | #937/1137 | 18th pct | Money-down loadvs FBS WR |
| Usage | Passing-down usage | 0.0% | #1009/1137 | 11th pct | Known-passing sharevs 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 · 1 games
Home vs Road
| REC/g | YDS/g | YPR | TD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home1g | — | — | — | — |
Win vs Loss
| REC/g | YDS/g | YPR | TD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wins1g | — | — | — | — |
First half vs Second half
| REC/g | YDS/g | YPR | TD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-71g | — | — | — | — |
Pocket and defense-quality (clean vs. pressure) splits are coming soon.
Savant · Box-rate percentiles
Where this profile ranks vs the WR cohort
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.
Supporting Cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Sherrone Moore
Pass share
40.9%
340 pass / 492 run
Plays / game
64.0
13 games
OL sack rate (allowed)
7.4%
256 dropbacks · PBP
Scheme: Run-leaning.
Coaching Lineage · 2021–2025
2 coaches2021
Jim Harbaugh
Michigan
2022
Jim Harbaugh
Michigan
2023
Jim Harbaugh
Michigan
2024era →
Sherrone Moore
Michigan
2025
Sherrone Moore
Michigan
Coaching transition mid-career: Jim Harbaugh → Sherrone Moore. 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.
HometownHartford, CT
Height5'11"
Weight186 lb
Class4
PositionWR
Jersey5
No fields populated yet.
No fields populated yet.
Current teamMichigan
ConferenceBig Ten
Joined2025
Career arc5 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 | Massachusetts | WR4 | #3468 | #3903 | 0.0% | 0.0% | -- | -- | W16 snapshot | FBS Independents |
| 2023 | Massachusetts | WR4 | #956 | #1549 | 0.0% | 0.0% | -- | -- | W19 snapshot | FBS Independents |
| 2022 | Arizona | WR4 | #2367 | #2744 | 0.0% | 0.0% | -- | -- | W20 snapshot | Pac-12 |
| 2021 | Arizona | WR4 | #3221 | #3736 | 0.0% | 0.0% | -- | -- | W20 snapshot | Pac-12 |
Roster Timeline
Team, conference, and class by season.
| Season | Team | Conference | Pos | Class | Bio |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Michigan | Big Ten | WR | 4 | No. 5 | 5-11 | 186 lb | Hartford, CT |
| 2024 | Massachusetts | FBS Independents | WR | 4 | No. 5 | 5-11 | 186 lb | Hartford, CT |
| 2023 | Massachusetts | FBS Independents | WR | 4 | No. 5 | 5-11 | 186 lb | Hartford, CT |
| 2022 | Arizona | Pac-12 | WR | 4 | No. 5 | 5-11 | 186 lb | Hartford, CT |
| 2021 | Arizona | Pac-12 | WR | 4 | No. 5 | 5-11 | 186 lb | Hartford, CT |