CFB Zeitgeist Score
40
Mid-pack in the position cohort. Carried by receptions at the 66th percentile.
Caden Jensen
Below the discourse floor — the honest stats-only state.
231 REC YDS · 29 REC · 1 REC TD
2026 Outlook
Returning to Louisiana for 2026
2026 Depth chart
Projected starter
Tight end · Louisiana
Returning around him
- 57% of 2024 offensive production back (Solid continuity)
- 1 Louisiana player drafted to NFL
- Transfer portal: -2 net (5 in / 7 out)
2026 Award watch
No preseason watch lists yet (most drop June 15 – July 15)
Louisiana · Last season: 6-7 · Talent rank #91 · 2026 recruiting class #81
TE · LOUISIANA · SUN BELT
Caden Jensen
- 2
- #88
- 6-6 | 264 lb
- Flower Mound, TX
Heisman Heat
#1482
<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 TE AWARD
Mackey
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CONSENSUS
All-American
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Player Standing · 17 rungs
Tier 2 · StarterR07 · Impact starter
Impact starter. Producing measurable value above replacement.
Not on team2-deepStarterRecognizedEliteApex
Development Trajectory · receiving yards
2024–2025+67%
Up 67% from first season to most-recent.
Career Arc
HS
Recruit
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CFB
College
Louisiana
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 |
|---|---|---|
| No transfer portal moves on file for this player. | ||
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.
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 Caden Jensen
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 Caden Jensen
No rival-bucket mentions in the current season.
2025 Signature · 2025 season
Receiving TDs
1
count
All FBS WRs, min 20 receptions
National rank #402 of 531
Percentile vs All FBS WRs, min 20 receptions 24th
Why it matters
#402 of 531 All FBS WRs in receiving TDs — 1 TDs on 29 receptions.
Vs cohort
This player 1 (24th)
MODERATE · n=29 cohort 531
- Also strong
- Receiving yards (total)#469 / 531
- Yards per reception#495 / 531
Signature Moment
Week 11 vs Texas State — 1 receiving_tds
Result W 42-39
The week the volume broke through — stacked 1 td vs Texas State.
Season Pace · Projection
Where the receiving totals stand
Through 10g
231Rec yards
29Receptions
1Rec TDs
Per game
23.1Rec yards
3Receptions
0Rec TDs
Projected (13g)
300.3Rec yards
38Receptions
1Rec TDs
To hit 700-yard receiver (currently 231): needs 156.3/game over remaining 3.
To hit 1,000-yard receiver (currently 231): needs 256.3/game over remaining 3.
To hit 60-catch season (currently 29): needs 10.3/game over remaining 3.
To hit 80-catch season (currently 29): needs 17/game over remaining 3.
To hit 8 receiving TDs (currently 1): needs 2.3/game over remaining 3.
To hit 10 receiving TDs (currently 1): needs 3/game over remaining 3.
What made this player interesting
The fast read on the thing that makes this player more than a generic stat line.
Caden Jensen's story is about how role and output meet each other. For Louisiana, 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
TE 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?
Target magnet against FBS receiving peers.
2025 Season · Final
2025 season snapshot | final
Receiving
REC
29 88th
YDS
231 81st
YPR
8.0 31st
TD
1 71st
Game Log · Week-by-week
2025 season · 10 games
| Wk | Opp | REC | YDS | AVG | TD | LONG | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | L 12-14vs Rice | 1 | 4 | 4.0 | 0 | 4 | Season-high 72 yds |
| Wk 2 | W 34-10vs McNeese | 3 | 9 | 3.0 | 0 | 5 | |
| Wk 3 | L 10-52@ Missouri | 1 | 5 | 5.0 | 0 | 5 | |
| Wk 4 | L 31-34@ Eastern Michigan | 2 | 8 | 4.0 | 0 | 5 | |
| Wk 7 | L 14-24@ James Madison | 2 | 5 | 2.5 | 0 | 5 | |
| Wk 8 | L 10-22vs Southern Miss | 5 | 45 | 9.0 | 0 | 18 | |
| Wk 11 | W 42-39vs Texas State | 3 | 28 | 9.3 | 1 | 27 | |
| Wk 13 | W 34-30@ Arkansas State | 4 | 34 | 8.5 | 0 | 17 | |
| Wk 14 | W 30-27vs UL Monroe | 4 | 21 | 5.3 | 0 | 11 | |
| Bowl | L 13-20@ Delaware | 4 | 72 | 18.0 | 0 | 40 | |
| Total | 29 | 231 | 6.9 | 1 | 40 |
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
2024Louisiana10-4HC: Michael Desormeaux · Run-leaning
2025Louisiana6-7HC: Michael Desormeaux · Run-leaning
Advanced layer Usage, value, and context
Advanced metrics second
Advanced Metrics
Usage, value, and opponent-adjusted context.
The tight end's share of the passing offense, which helps distinguish a featured receiving tight end from a secondary option.
A blended usage view that shows how often the offense flows through the tight end compared with other same-level peers.
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 | 29 | #58/475 | 88th pct | Volumevs FBS TE |
| Receiving | Receiving yards | 231 | #93/475 | 81st pct | Volumevs FBS TE |
| Receiving | Receiving TD | 1 | #140/475 | 71st pct | Scoringvs FBS TE |
| Receiving | Yards / catch | 8.0 | #328/475 | 31st pct | Efficiencyvs FBS TE |
| Usage | Pass share | 14.9% | #22/468 | 96th pct | Air-game usagevs FBS TE |
| Receiving | Receiving LONG | 40 | #70/475 | 85th pct | Metricvs FBS TE |
| Usage | Passing-down usage | 9.2% | #33/468 | 93rd pct | Known-passing sharevs FBS TE |
| Usage | 1st-down usage | 6.8% | #28/468 | 94th pct | Early-down loadvs FBS TE |
| Usage | 2nd-down usage | 6.7% | #47/468 | 90th pct | Middle-down loadvs FBS TE |
| Usage | Role share | 6.4% | #36/468 | 93rd pct | Share of team offensevs FBS TE |
| Usage | 3rd-down usage | 6.0% | #112/468 | 76th pct | Money-down loadvs FBS TE |
| Usage | Standard-down usage | 4.9% | #72/468 | 85th pct | Base-situation sharevs FBS TE |
| Usage | Rush share | 0.0% | #58/468 | 88th pct | Ground-game usagevs FBS TE |
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
The Mackey award tracker integrates per-week probability once a dedicated scraper for this award lands. Confirmed past winners and finalists for this player will surface here.
Splits · Per-game
2025 season · 10 games
Home vs Road
| REC/g | YDS/g | YPR | TD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home5g | 3.2 | 21.4 | 6.1 | 0.2 |
| Road5g | 2.6 | 24.8 | 7.6 | 0.0 |
Win vs Loss
| REC/g | YDS/g | YPR | TD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wins4g | 3.5 | 23.0 | 6.5 | 0.2 |
| Losses6g | 2.5 | 23.2 | 7.1 | 0.0 |
First half vs Second half
| REC/g | YDS/g | YPR | TD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-76g | 2.2 | 17.2 | 6.1 | 0.0 |
| Weeks 8+4g | 4.0 | 32.0 | 8.0 | 0.2 |
Pocket and defense-quality (clean vs. pressure) splits are coming soon.
Savant · Box-rate percentiles
Where this profile ranks vs the TE cohort
40Mid-pack
Concern: yards / catch (12th).
Percentiles versus same-position peers with enough snaps this season, based on box-score rates.
Advanced Savant · TE · 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
Caden JensenLouisianaBryce CaufieldOregon State· 88% simJackson CanaanSan José State· 86% simD'Andre RogersTCU· 84% sim
Receptions
Long catch
Rec yards
Rec TDs
Yards / catch
Closest peers by overall box-score percentile profile at the same position.
Player DNA
The Complete TE
Dual-threat: blocks when needed, catches when needed. Coveted on both sides.
TE
His 2025 production profile sits closest to Brett Norfleet’s 2024 season.
Brett Norfleet
72%match
#2
Caden Jensen
68%
#3
Trey Miller
54%
#4
Michael Johnson Jr.
66%
#5
Maliq Carr
65%
Matches Brett on
Yards / reception
Weight
EPA / play (adj)
Differs from Brett on
Total EPA (college ability) (lower)
Not enough data yet for this comparison.
As a sophomore, his production profile tracks closest to Ben Ratzlaff's sophomore season at Western Kentucky (2021).
Ben Ratzlaff
75%match
#2
Brett Norfleet
70%
#3
Garrett Miller
70%
#4
Michael Johnson Jr.
69%
#5
A.J. Barner
69%
Matches Ben on
Total EPA (college ability)
Yards / reception
EPA / play (adj)
Differs from Ben on
Reception volume (higher)
Supporting Cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Michael Desormeaux
Pass share
40.1%
341 pass / 509 run
Plays / game
65.4
13 games
OL sack rate (allowed)
7.8%
257 dropbacks · PBP
Scheme: Run-leaning.
Coaching Lineage · 2024–2025
1 coach2024
Michael Desormeaux
Louisiana
2025
Michael Desormeaux
Louisiana
Played his entire career under Michael Desormeaux.
Bio · Recruiting · Transfer · Roster
Off-field context — switch tabs to drill into recruit profile, transfer arc, or roster timeline.
HometownFlower Mound, TX
Height6'6"
Weight264 lb
Class2
PositionTE
Jersey88
No fields populated yet.
No fields populated yet.
Current teamLouisiana
ConferenceSun Belt
Joined2025
Career arc3 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.
Roster Timeline
Team, conference, and class by season.