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Heisman / Players / Ari Patu /Stanford

Ari Patu

QB · Stanford · Sr · #1

Limited signal — not enough coverage for a story yet.

ALUMNUSStanford 2023 alumnus

QB · STANFORD · PAC-12

Ari Patu

  • 4
  • #1
  • 6-4 | 220 lb
  • Folsom, CA

CFB Zeitgeist QB Score

Awaiting

Heisman Heat

#1576

<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 0 · Not on team

R01 · Scout team / redshirt

Scout team / redshirt. Developing behind the depth chart.

Not on team2-deepStarterRecognizedEliteApex

Development Trajectory · passing yards

2021–2023
48.02021
65.02022
37.02023

-23%

Sharp dropoff (-23%) — career inflection point.

Career Arc

HS
Recruit
★★★
#405 national
CFB
College
Stanford
2021–2023
NFL
NFL Draft
Not drafted (yet)

Identity & Role

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

PositionQB
Class4
Jersey1
Measurements6-4 | 220 lb
HometownFolsom, CA
Primary teamStanford

Recruiting Pedigree

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

Top pedigree 3-star No. 405 recruit
Composite rating 0.8894 HighSchool
Signed with Stanford 2021
Origin Folsom Folsom, CA, USA
Class Profile Context
2021 3-star | 0.8894 No. 405 recruit | HighSchool | Stanford

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 · 2023 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 19
Current nowcast#1576Latest modeled ballot order
Season forecast#1922Where 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 Stanford

Composite

0.8894

#405 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 Ari Patu

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 Ari Patu

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.

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.

Ari Patu's story is about how role and output meet each other. For Stanford, 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 #1576 0.0% win | 0.0% finalist
Role load 17.6% Overall usage share
Profile quirk Development arc The card should explain why this profile stands out

2023 Season · Final

Traditional stats first. Advanced context underneath.

Last season

QB season snapshot

2023 season snapshot | final

2023 season snapshot | finalData: CFBD player stats + local Heisman modelPeer context: same position + same level
Pass yards 37 0 TD | 0 INT | #320/382 (16th pct)
Completion rate 50.0% 3/6 completions | #309/383 (20th pct)
Yards/attempt 6.2 Explosiveness through the air | #248/382 (35th pct)
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

2023 Season · Final

2023 season snapshot | final

Passing Efficiency

CMP
3 16th
ATT
6 22nd
CMP%
50.0% 20th
Y/A
6.2 35th

Passing Production

YDS
37 16th
TD
0 30th
INT
0 100th

Rushing

CAR
4 24th
YDS
37 50th
YPC
9.3 95th
TD
0 44th

Game Log · Week-by-week

2025 season · 1 games

Box score · CFBD
WkOppCMP/ATTYDSTDINTYPAQBRNote
Wk 1L 6-55@ Western Kentucky11/2086004.3--Season-high 86 yds
Total11/2086004.3
Season-by-season tables Career rows + per-season box score

Traditional history

Traditional Stats

Season rows up top, career context at the bottom.

Season rows Career row

Season context · Team result + system

2021Stanford3-9HC: David Shaw · Balanced, slow tempo
2022Stanford3-9HC: David Shaw · Balanced
2023Stanford3-9HC: Troy Taylor · Balanced
SeasonTeam
2023Stanford3650.0%376.200101.8----
2022Stanford6966.7%657.220200.7----
2021Stanford81650.0%483.01183.3----
Career3 loaded seasons173154.8%1504.831121.0----
SeasonTeam
2023Stanford4379.20--
2022Stanford382.70--
2021Stanford33110.30--
Career3 loaded seasons10767.60--
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 37 0 rush TD | #206/408 (50th pct)
Usage 17.6% 30.0% pass share | 5.8% rush share | #224/428 (48th 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 Passing yards 37 #320/382 16th pct Volumevs FBS QB
Passing Pass TD 0 #285/407 30th pct Scoringvs FBS QB
Passing Completions 3 #321/383 16th pct Volumevs FBS QB
Passing Completion % 50.0% #309/383 20th pct Efficiencyvs FBS QB
Passing Yards / attempt 6.2 #248/382 35th pct Efficiencyvs FBS QB
Rushing Rushing yards 37 #206/408 50th pct Volumevs FBS QB
Usage Role share 17.6% #224/428 48th pct Share of team offensevs FBS QB
Passing Attempts 6 #319/407 22nd pct Volumevs FBS QB
Passing Interceptions 0 #1/407 100th pct Turnoversvs FBS QB
Rushing Rushing LONG 23 #153/391 61st pct Metricvs FBS QB
Rushing Yards / carry 9.3 #20/407 95th pct Efficiencyvs FBS QB
Rushing Carries 4 #312/408 24th pct Volumevs FBS QB
Rushing Rush TD 0 #230/408 44th pct Scoringvs FBS QB
Usage Pass share 30.0% #219/428 49th pct Air-game usagevs FBS QB
Usage 3rd-down usage 20.8% #235/428 45th pct Money-down loadvs FBS QB
Usage 1st-down usage 19.0% #205/428 52nd pct Early-down loadvs FBS QB
Usage Standard-down usage 17.7% #211/428 51st pct Base-situation sharevs FBS QB
Usage Passing-down usage 17.5% #248/428 42nd pct Known-passing sharevs FBS QB
Usage 2nd-down usage 12.1% #254/428 41st pct Middle-down loadvs FBS QB
Usage Rush share 5.8% #259/428 40th pct Ground-game usagevs FBS QB
Ball Security Fumbles lost 1 #69/258 74th pct Turnoversvs 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 · 1 games

Home/Road · Win/Loss · Season halves

Home vs Road

YDS/gTD/gYPAINT/g
Road1g86.00.04.30.0

Win vs Loss

YDS/gTD/gYPAINT/g
Losses1g86.00.04.30.0

First half vs Second half

YDS/gTD/gYPAINT/g
Weeks 1-71g86.00.04.30.0

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

Box-score Savant card waits for a season-stat snapshot above the cohort floor. Returns once enough box-score volume lands.

Advanced Savant · QB · 2023

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 returns once this player clears the Savant metric floor (4+ scored bars).
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

Frank Reich

Pass share

50.4%

391 pass / 385 run

Plays / game

64.7

12 games

OL sack rate (allowed)

12.5%

337 dropbacks · PBP

Scheme: Balanced.

Coaching Lineage · 2021–2023

2 coaches
2021
David Shaw
Stanford
2022
David Shaw
Stanford
2023
Troy Taylor
Stanford
era →

Coaching transition mid-career: David Shaw → Troy Taylor. 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.

HometownFolsom, CA
Height6'4"
Weight220 lb
Class4
PositionQB
Jersey1

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
2023 Stanford QB4 #1576 #1922 0.0% 0.0% -- -- W19 snapshot | Pac-12
2022 Stanford QB4 #778 #990 0.0% 0.0% -- -- W20 snapshot | Pac-12
2021 Stanford QB4 #964 #924 0.0% 0.0% -- -- W20 snapshot | Pac-12

Roster Timeline

Team, conference, and class by season.

Season Team Conference Pos Class Bio
2023 Stanford Pac-12 QB 4 No. 1 | 6-4 | 220 lb | Folsom, CA
2022 Stanford Pac-12 QB 4 No. 1 | 6-4 | 220 lb | Folsom, CA
2021 Stanford Pac-12 QB 4 No. 1 | 6-4 | 220 lb | Folsom, CA