CFB Zeitgeist QB Score
Awaiting
Brennan Armstrong
Limited signal — not enough coverage for a story yet.
QB · NC STATE · ACC
Brennan Armstrong
- 4
- #5
- 6-2 | 212 lb
- Shelby, OH
Heisman Heat
#53
<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 0 · Not on teamR01 · Scout team / redshirt
Scout team / redshirt. Developing behind the depth chart.
Not on team2-deepStarterRecognizedEliteApex
Career arc · Season-by-season Standing
3 seasons on the ladder
★
2021
Virginia · QB
R09 · All-Conference HM / 2nd team
Recognized
2022
Virginia · QB
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2023
NC State · QB
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Development Trajectory · passing yards
2021–2023-60%
Sharp dropoff (-60%) — career inflection point.
Career Arc
HS
Recruit
★★★
CFB
College
2 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 3-star | 0.8710 | No. 619 recruit | HighSchool | Virginia |
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 · 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 19Heisman 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 Virginia
Composite
0.8710
#619 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 Brennan Armstrong
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 Brennan Armstrong
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.
Why this is a two-channel quarterback case
The fast read on the thing that makes this player more than a generic stat line.
The unusual part of Brennan Armstrong's case is that the production comes in two channels, not one. For NC State, he has 1,783 passing yards and 11 touchdown passes, but he also adds 665 rushing yards and 7 rushing scores. That kind of dual-threat load tends to create a more resilient Heisman case because the offense can tilt the game in multiple ways.
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
Player identity What kind of player is this?
30-second read
What kind of player is this?
Steady volume | Dual-threat against FBS QB peers. The quickest read is whether the profile wins on volume, efficiency, explosiveness, or rushing value.
2023 Season · Final
2023 season snapshot | final
Passing Efficiency
CMP
160 74th
ATT
262 76th
CMP%
61.1% 49th
Y/A
6.8 48th
Passing Production
YDS
1,783 73rd
TD
11 76th
INT
7 23rd
Rushing
CAR
143 94th
YDS
665 96th
YPC
4.7 74th
TD
7 90th
Game Log
Week-by-week box
No per-game rows for this season yet — the table fills in as box scores arrive.
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
2021Virginia6-6HC: Bronco Mendenhall · Pass-heavy
2022Virginia3-7HC: Tony Elliott · Balanced
2023NC State9-4HC: Dave Doeren · Run-leaning
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 | 1,783 | #103/382 | 73rd pct | Volumevs FBS QB |
| Passing | Pass TD | 11 | #99/407 | 76th pct | Scoringvs FBS QB |
| Passing | Completions | 160 | #100/383 | 74th pct | Volumevs FBS QB |
| Passing | Completion % | 61.1% | #195/383 | 49th pct | Efficiencyvs FBS QB |
| Passing | Yards / attempt | 6.8 | #199/382 | 48th pct | Efficiencyvs FBS QB |
| Rushing | Rushing yards | 665 | #17/408 | 96th pct | Volumevs FBS QB |
| Value | Passing WEPA | +0.53 | #6/200 | 98th pct | Opponent-adjusted passing value | 512 weighted playsvs FBS QB |
| Usage | Role share | 71.6% | #1/428 | 100th pct | Share of team offensevs FBS QB |
| Passing | Attempts | 262 | #98/407 | 76th pct | Volumevs FBS QB |
| Passing | Interceptions | 7 | #316/407 | 23rd pct | Turnoversvs FBS QB |
| Rushing | Carries | 143 | #25/408 | 94th pct | Volumevs FBS QB |
| Rushing | Rushing LONG | 43 | #58/391 | 85th pct | Metricvs FBS QB |
| Rushing | Rush TD | 7 | #43/408 | 90th pct | Scoringvs FBS QB |
| Rushing | Yards / carry | 4.7 | #108/407 | 74th pct | Efficiencyvs FBS QB |
| Usage | Pass share | 96.6% | #12/428 | 97th pct | Air-game usagevs FBS QB |
| Usage | Passing-down usage | 77.0% | #12/428 | 97th pct | Known-passing sharevs FBS QB |
| Usage | 3rd-down usage | 75.9% | #16/428 | 96th pct | Money-down loadvs FBS QB |
| Usage | 1st-down usage | 73.0% | #1/428 | 100th pct | Early-down loadvs FBS QB |
| Usage | Standard-down usage | 69.3% | #1/428 | 100th pct | Base-situation sharevs FBS QB |
| Usage | 2nd-down usage | 67.2% | #4/428 | 99th pct | Middle-down loadvs FBS QB |
| Usage | Rush share | 25.2% | #36/428 | 92nd pct | Ground-game usagevs FBS QB |
| Value | Rushing WEPA | +0.31 | #37/140 | 74th pct | Opponent-adjusted rushing value | 73 weighted playsvs 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
Status—Awaiting tracker
Heisman model tracks the top FBS contenders weekly; this player hasn't entered the watch list yet.
Splits
Per-game splits
Splits fill in once box scores from at least three games land for this season.
Advanced Savant · QB · 2023
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
Dave Doeren
Pass share
49.7%
411 pass / 416 run
Plays / game
63.6
13 games
OL sack rate (allowed)
6.5%
307 dropbacks · PBP
Scheme: Balanced.
Coaching Lineage · 2021–2023
1 coach2021
Dave Doeren
NC State
2022
Dave Doeren
NC State
2023
Dave Doeren
NC State
Played his entire career under Dave Doeren.
Bio · Recruiting · Transfer · Roster
Off-field context — switch tabs to drill into recruit profile, transfer arc, or roster timeline.
HometownShelby, OH
Height6'2"
Weight212 lb
Class4
PositionQB
Jersey5
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Current teamNC State
ConferenceACC
Joined2023
Career arc3 season(s)
Trophy Case · Confirmed honors
What the selectors said
🎖
ALL-CONFERENCE
All-Conf mention (2021)
All-ACC
Trophy Case · Detail
Every honor on the ledger, broken out by stream and selector.
1 all-conference honor
Conference-level recognition helps anchor whether a player is merely statistically loud or actually viewed as elite within his competitive lane.
Honors Timeline
Season-end distinction and week-by-week recognition on one timeline.
| Season | Honor | Scope | Team / Selector | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | All-ACC | all_conference | Virginia | ACC | QB |
Heisman By Year
Modeled rank and official finish by season.
Roster Timeline
Team, conference, and class by season.