CFB Zeitgeist Score
2
Below cohort in the position cohort. Carried by rec tds at the 7th percentile.
Aviyon Smith-Mack
Below the discourse floor — the honest stats-only state.
49 REC YDS · 9 REC · 0 REC TD
2026 Outlook
Returning to Sam Houston for 2026
2026 Depth chart
Projected starter
Wide receiver · Sam Houston
Returning around him
- 90% of 2024 offensive production back (Strong continuity)
- Transfer portal: +5 net (20 in / 15 out)
2026 Award watch
No preseason watch lists yet (most drop June 15 – July 15)
Sam Houston · Last season: 2-10 · Talent rank #123 · 2026 recruiting class #122
WR · SAM HOUSTON · CONFERENCE USA
Aviyon Smith-Mack
- 3
- #1
- 5-8 | 180 lb
- St. Petersburg, FL
Heisman Heat
Awaiting
Not on the live Heisman board this week.
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
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TOP WR AWARD
Biletnikoff
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CONSENSUS
All-American
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Player Standing · 17 rungs
Tier 0 · Not on teamR01 · Scout team / redshirt
Scout team / redshirt. Developing behind the depth chart.
Not on team2-deepStarterRecognizedEliteApex
Career Arc
HS
Recruit
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CFB
College
Sam Houston
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 |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | LIU Post -> Sam Houston | 3-star | 0.8300 | Immediate |
Heisman Lens
Where the model places this player relative to the rest of the Heisman field.
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.
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 Aviyon Smith-Mack
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 Aviyon Smith-Mack
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.
Season Pace · Projection
Where the receiving totals stand
Through 3g
49Rec yards
9Receptions
0Rec TDs
Per game
16.3Rec yards
3Receptions
0Rec TDs
Projected (13g)
212.3Rec yards
39Receptions
0Rec TDs
To hit 700-yard receiver (currently 49): needs 65.1/game over remaining 10.
To hit 1,000-yard receiver (currently 49): needs 95.1/game over remaining 10.
To hit 60-catch season (currently 9): needs 5.1/game over remaining 10.
To hit 80-catch season (currently 9): needs 7.1/game over remaining 10.
To hit 8 receiving TDs (currently 0): needs 0.8/game over remaining 10.
To hit 10 receiving TDs (currently 0): needs 1/game over remaining 10.
What made this player interesting
The fast read on the thing that makes this player more than a generic stat line.
Aviyon Smith-Mack's story is about how role and output meet each other. For Sam Houston, 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
9 46th
YDS
49 29th
YPR
5.4 7th
TD
0 45th
Game Log · Week-by-week
2025 season · 3 games
| Wk | Opp | REC | YDS | AVG | TD | LONG | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | L 24-41@ Western Kentucky | 4 | 27 | 6.8 | 0 | 12 | Season-high 27 yds |
| Wk 1 | L 21-38vs UNLV | 4 | 24 | 6.0 | 0 | 9 | Season-high 27 yds |
| Wk 4 | L 0-55@ Texas | 1 | -2 | -2.0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Total | 9 | 49 | 3.6 | 0 | 12 |
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
2025Sam Houston2-10HC: Phil Longo · Balanced
| Season | Team | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Sam Houston | 9 | 49 | 5.4 | 0 | -- |
| Career | 1 loaded season | 9 | 49 | 5.4 | 0 | -- |
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 | 9 | #604/1110 | 46th pct | Volumevs FBS WR |
| Receiving | Receiving yards | 49 | #786/1107 | 29th pct | Volumevs FBS WR |
| Receiving | Receiving TD | 0 | #615/1111 | 45th pct | Scoringvs FBS WR |
| Receiving | Yards / catch | 5.4 | #1030/1106 | 7th pct | Efficiencyvs FBS WR |
| Usage | Pass share | 15.2% | #236/1137 | 79th pct | Air-game usagevs FBS WR |
| Receiving | Receiving LONG | 12 | #915/1105 | 17th pct | Metricvs FBS WR |
| Usage | 1st-down usage | 10.0% | #92/1137 | 92nd pct | Early-down loadvs FBS WR |
| Usage | Passing-down usage | 9.7% | #253/1137 | 78th pct | Known-passing sharevs FBS WR |
| Usage | Role share | 8.6% | #168/1137 | 85th pct | Share of team offensevs FBS WR |
| Usage | Standard-down usage | 7.8% | #164/1137 | 86th pct | Base-situation sharevs FBS WR |
| Usage | 2nd-down usage | 7.3% | #290/1137 | 75th pct | Middle-down loadvs FBS WR |
| Usage | 3rd-down usage | 5.1% | #630/1137 | 45th pct | Money-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 · 3 games
Home vs Road
| REC/g | YDS/g | YPR | TD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home1g | 4.0 | 24.0 | 6.0 | 0.0 |
| Road2g | 2.5 | 12.5 | 2.4 | 0.0 |
Win vs Loss
| REC/g | YDS/g | YPR | TD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Losses3g | 3.0 | 16.3 | 3.6 | 0.0 |
First half vs Second half
| REC/g | YDS/g | YPR | TD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-73g | 3.0 | 16.3 | 3.6 | 0.0 |
Pocket and defense-quality (clean vs. pressure) splits are coming soon.
Savant · Box-rate percentiles
Where this profile ranks vs the WR cohort
2Below cohort
Concern: receptions (0th).
Percentiles versus same-position peers with enough snaps this season, based on box-score rates.
Advanced Savant · WR · 2025
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
Aviyon Smith-MackSam HoustonMichael Jackson IIIPurdue· 47% simJacquon GibsonMassachusetts· 41% simAaron TurnerRice· 39% sim
Rec TDs
Long catch
Yards / catch
Rec yards
Receptions
Closest peers by overall box-score percentile profile at the same position.
Supporting Cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Phil Longo
Pass share
51.3%
388 pass / 368 run
Plays / game
63.0
12 games
OL sack rate (allowed)
11.1%
324 dropbacks · PBP
Scheme: Balanced.
Coaching Lineage · 2025
1 coach2025
Phil Longo
Sam Houston
Played his entire career under Phil Longo.
Bio · Recruiting · Transfer · Roster
Off-field context — switch tabs to drill into recruit profile, transfer arc, or roster timeline.
HometownSt. Petersburg, FL
Height5'8"
Weight180 lb
Class3
PositionWR
Jersey1
No fields populated yet.
No fields populated yet.
Current teamSam Houston
ConferenceConference USA
Joined2025
Career arc1 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| This player hasn’t appeared on a Heisman ballot tracked by the model. | |||||||||
Roster Timeline
Team, conference, and class by season.
| Season | Team | Conference | Pos | Class | Bio |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Sam Houston | Conference USA | WR | 3 | No. 1 | 5-8 | 180 lb | St. Petersburg, FL |