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OFFSEASON · SUMMER 2026 · COMMITMENT SEASON
Heisman / Players / Cameron Friel /UNLV

Cameron Friel

QB · UNLV · Sr · #7

Below the discourse floor — the honest stats-only state.

0 PASS YDS · 0 PASS TD · 29 RUSH YDS

2026 RETURNINGReturning to UNLV for 2026

2026 Outlook

Returning to UNLV for 2026

Updated May 27

2026 Depth chart

Returning starter

Quarterback · UNLV

Returning around him

  • 15% of 2024 offensive production back (Heavy turnover)
  • Transfer portal: +0 net (15 in / 15 out)

2026 Award watch

No preseason watch lists yet (most drop June 15 – July 15)

UNLV · Last season: 10-4 · Talent rank #51 · 2026 recruiting class #95

QB · UNLV · MOUNTAIN WEST

Cameron Friel

  • 4
  • #7
  • 6-3 | 230 lb
  • Kahului, HI

CFB Zeitgeist Score

17

Below cohort in the position cohort. Carried by interceptions at the 99th percentile.

Heisman Heat

#235

<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 2 · Starter

R05 · Part-time starter

Part-time starter. Splitting first-team reps.

Not on team2-deepStarterRecognizedEliteApex

Development Trajectory · passing yards

2021–2025
1,6082021
3642022
64.02024
0.02025

-100%

Sharp dropoff (-100%) — career inflection point.

Career Arc

HS
Recruit
★★★
#1310 national
CFB
College
UNLV
2021–2025
NFL
NFL Draft
Not drafted (yet)

Identity & Role

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

PositionQB
Class4
Jersey7
Measurements6-3 | 230 lb
HometownKahului, HI
Primary teamUNLV

Recruiting Pedigree

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

Top pedigree 3-star No. 1310 recruit
Composite rating 0.8463 HighSchool
Signed with -- 2021
Origin Kailua Kaneohe, HI, USA
Class Profile Context
2021 3-star | 0.8463 No. 1310 recruit | HighSchool

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 · 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 16
Current nowcast#235Latest modeled ballot order
Season forecast#193Where 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 —

Composite

0.8463

#1310 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 Cameron Friel

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 Cameron Friel

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.

Season Pace · Projection

Where the passing totals stand

projecting to 13-game
Through 3g
0Pass yards
0Pass TDs
0INT
Per game
0Pass yards
0Pass TDs
0INT
Projected (13g)
0Pass yards
0Pass TDs
0INT

To hit 3,000-yard season (currently 0): needs 300/game over remaining 10.

To hit 4,000-yard season (currently 0): needs 400/game over remaining 10.

To hit 25 passing TDs (currently 0): needs 2.5/game over remaining 10.

To hit 30 passing TDs (currently 0): needs 3/game over remaining 10.

To hit 35 passing TDs (currently 0): needs 3.5/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.

Cameron Friel's story is about how role and output meet each other. For UNLV, 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 #235 0.0% win | 0.0% finalist
Role load 4.2% Overall usage share
Profile quirk Development arc The card should explain why this profile stands out

2025 Season · Final

Traditional stats first. Advanced context underneath.

Last season

QB season snapshot

2025 season snapshot | final

2025 season snapshot | finalData: CFBD player stats + local Heisman modelPeer context: same position + same level
Pass yards 0 0 TD | 0 INT
Completion rate 0.0% 0/2 completions
Yards/attempt 0.0 Explosiveness through the air
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

2025 Season · Final

2025 season snapshot | final

Passing Efficiency

ATT
2 11th

Passing Production

TD
0 30th
INT
0 100th

Rushing

CAR
7 30th
YDS
29 46th
YPC
4.1 66th
TD
0 44th

Game Log · Week-by-week

2025 season · 3 games

Box score · CFBD
WkOppCMP/ATTYDSTDINTYPAQBRNote
Wk 11W 42-10@ Colorado State0/20000.046.1Season-high 0 yds
Wk 12W 29-26vs Utah State
Wk 13W 38-10vs Hawai'i
Total0/20000.046.1
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

2021UNLV2-10HC: Marcus Arroyo · Run-leaning, slow tempo
2022UNLV5-7HC: Marcus Arroyo · Balanced
2023UNLV9-5HC: Barry Odom · Run-leaning
2024UNLV11-3HC: Barry Odom · Run-heavy
2025UNLV10-4HC: Dan Mullen · Run-leaning
SeasonTeam
2025UNLV--20.0%--0.0000.0----
2024UNLV5683.3%6410.700172.9----
2023UNLV--------------------
2022UNLV334967.3%3647.431145.9----
2021UNLV14122662.4%1,6087.1611121.2----
Career5 loaded seasons17928363.3%2,0367.2912125.7----
SeasonTeam
2025UNLV7294.10--
2024UNLV7284.02--
2023UNLV111.01--
2022UNLV12-68-5.70--
2021UNLV46-74-1.60--
Career5 loaded seasons73-84-1.23--
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 29 0 rush TD | #220/408 (46th pct)
Usage 4.2% 2.1% pass share | 6.3% rush share | #355/428 (17th pct)
Passing WEPA +0.30 Opponent-adjusted passing value | #82/200 (60th pct)
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Group Metric Value Rank Pct Why it matters
Passing Pass TD 0 #285/407 30th pct Scoringvs FBS QB
Rushing Rushing yards 29 #220/408 46th pct Volumevs FBS QB
Value Passing WEPA +0.30 #82/200 60th pct Opponent-adjusted passing value | 211 weighted playsvs FBS QB
Usage Role share 4.2% #355/428 17th pct Share of team offensevs FBS QB
Passing Attempts 2 #363/407 11th pct Volumevs FBS QB
Passing Interceptions 0 #1/407 100th pct Turnoversvs FBS QB
Rushing Carries 7 #286/408 30th pct Volumevs FBS QB
Rushing Rushing LONG 6 #345/391 12th pct Metricvs FBS QB
Rushing Yards / carry 4.1 #138/407 66th pct Efficiencyvs FBS QB
Rushing Rush TD 0 #230/408 44th pct Scoringvs FBS QB
Usage 3rd-down usage 9.8% #310/428 28th pct Money-down loadvs FBS QB
Usage Rush share 6.3% #240/428 44th pct Ground-game usagevs FBS QB
Usage Passing-down usage 4.8% #355/428 17th pct Known-passing sharevs FBS QB
Usage Standard-down usage 3.9% #350/428 18th pct Base-situation sharevs FBS QB
Usage Pass share 2.1% #393/428 8th pct Air-game usagevs FBS QB
Usage 1st-down usage 2.0% #388/428 10th pct Early-down loadvs FBS QB
Usage 2nd-down usage 1.5% #394/428 8th pct Middle-down loadvs 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 · 3 games

Home/Road · Win/Loss · Season halves

Home vs Road

YDS/gTD/gYPAINT/g
Home2g
Road1g0.00.00.00.0

Win vs Loss

YDS/gTD/gYPAINT/g
Wins3g0.00.00.00.0

First half vs Second half

YDS/gTD/gYPAINT/g
Weeks 8+3g0.00.00.00.0

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

Savant · Box-rate percentiles

Where this profile ranks vs the QB cohort

17Below cohort
7 metrics · season cumulative

Elite: interceptions (99th). Concern: completion % (0th).

Interceptions#1 / 183 · 99th pct
0pass
Rush yards#132 / 183 · 28th pct
29rush
Rush TDs#150 / 183 · 9th pct
0rush
Pass yards#184 / 183 · 0th pct
0pass
Pass TDs#184 / 183 · 0th pct
0pass
Yards / att#184 / 183 · 0th pct
0.0pass
Completion %#184 / 183 · 0th pct
0.0%pass

Percentiles versus same-position peers with enough snaps this season, based on box-score rates.

Advanced Savant · QB · 2024

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 · Fingerprint match

Three closest profiles by box-rate percentile

3 peers · 7 metrics
Cameron FrielUNLVNick VattiatoMiddle Tennessee· 57% simLogan FifeNew Mexico State· 53% simRyan BrownePurdue· 52% sim
Interceptions
99
Friel
44
Vattiato
5
Fife
14
Browne
Rush yards
28
Friel
27
Vattiato
20
Fife
61
Browne
Rush TDs
9
Friel
39
Vattiato
26
Fife
59
Browne
Pass yards
0
Friel
57
Vattiato
58
Fife
56
Browne
Pass TDs
0
Friel
64
Vattiato
45
Fife
33
Browne
Yards / att
0
Friel
13
Vattiato
19
Fife
23
Browne
Completion %
0
Friel
41
Vattiato
13
Fife
29
Browne

Closest peers by overall box-score percentile profile at the same position.

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

Dan Mullen

Pass share

46.5%

423 pass / 487 run

Plays / game

65.0

14 games

OL sack rate (allowed)

7.8%

283 dropbacks · PBP

Scheme: Run-leaning.

Coaching Lineage · 2021–2025

3 coaches
2021
Marcus Arroyo
UNLV
2022
Marcus Arroyo
UNLV
2023
Barry Odom
UNLV
era →
2024
Barry Odom
UNLV
2025
Dan Mullen
UNLV
era →

Played under 3 different head coaches: Marcus Arroyo, Barry Odom, and Dan Mullen. Multi-era developmental context.

Bio · Recruiting · Transfer · Roster

Off-field context — switch tabs to drill into recruit profile, transfer arc, or roster timeline.

HometownKahului, HI
Height6'3"
Weight230 lb
Class4
PositionQB
Jersey7

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
2024 UNLV QB4 #235 #193 0.0% 0.0% -- -- W16 snapshot | Mountain West
2023 UNLV QB4 #1421 #1177 0.0% 0.0% -- -- W19 snapshot | Mountain West
2022 UNLV QB4 #1284 #1639 0.0% 0.0% -- -- W20 snapshot | Mountain West
2021 UNLV QB4 #1100 #1532 0.0% 0.0% -- -- W20 snapshot | Mountain West

Roster Timeline

Team, conference, and class by season.

Season Team Conference Pos Class Bio
2025 UNLV Mountain West QB 4 No. 7 | 6-3 | 230 lb | Kahului, HI
2024 UNLV Mountain West QB 4 No. 7 | 6-3 | 230 lb | Kahului, HI
2023 UNLV Mountain West QB 4 No. 7 | 6-3 | 230 lb | Kahului, HI
2022 UNLV Mountain West QB 4 No. 7 | 6-3 | 230 lb | Kahului, HI
2021 UNLV Mountain West QB 4 No. 7 | 6-3 | 230 lb | Kahului, HI