CFB Zeitgeist LB Score
Awaiting
Collin Oliver
Limited signal — not enough coverage for a story yet.
Where He Ended Up · NFL
Green BayEntering 2nd NFL season
LB · OKLAHOMA STATE · BIG 12
CFB Zeitgeist LB Score
Awaiting
Heisman Heat
#13420
<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 LB AWARD
Butkus
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CONSENSUS
All-American
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Player Standing · 17 rungs
Tier 1 · 2-deepDeep reserve. In the program, working up the two-deep.
Career arc · Season-by-season Standing
3 seasons on the ladder
2021
Oklahoma State · LB
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2022
Oklahoma State · LB
R09 · All-Conference HM / 2nd team
Recognized
2023
Oklahoma State · LB
R09 · All-Conference HM / 2nd team
Recognized
Career Arc
The durable bio layer: position, size, hometown, and roster role.
How big the prospect was before college, and whether the later career arc beat that expectation.
| Class | Profile | Context |
|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 3-star | 0.8867 | No. 439 recruit | HighSchool | Oklahoma State |
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. | ||
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.
Selector Grid · 2025
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 Oklahoma State
Composite
0.8867
#439 national
NFL Draft
2025 · Rd 5, Pick 23
#159 overall · Green Bay
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.
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 reads how different fanbases talk about this player. Returns once weekly mentions clear the publish floor.
Rival Radar
No rival-bucket mentions in the current season.
Signature Story
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.
The fast read on the thing that makes this player more than a generic stat line.
Collin Oliver is trying to climb the steepest award hill in college football: a defensive candidacy. The hook is the disruption profile on Oklahoma State's defense, with 6.0 sacks, 15.5 tackles for loss, and -- interceptions through the current loaded season. For a defender, the question is never just production; it is whether elite disruption and team context can become nationally undeniable.
Traditional stats first. Advanced context underneath.
Last season
2023 season snapshot | final
30-second read
High-disruption defender | Coverage splash | High-volume tackler against FBS defenders.
2023 season snapshot | final
Tackling & Disruption
Coverage & Takeaways
Game Log
Week-by-week box
No per-game rows for this season yet — the table fills in as box scores arrive.
Traditional history
Season rows up top, career context at the bottom.
Season context · Team result + system
| Season | Team | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | Oklahoma State | 73 | 45 | 15.5 | 6.0 | 5 | -- | -- |
| 2022 | Oklahoma State | 27 | 19 | 7.5 | 5.0 | 1 | -- | -- |
| 2021 | Oklahoma State | 29 | 20 | 15.5 | 11.5 | -- | -- | -- |
| Career | 3 loaded seasons | 129 | 84 | 38.5 | 22.5 | 6 | -- | -- |
Advanced metrics second
Usage, value, and opponent-adjusted context.
TFL, sacks, and QB hurries are grouped together because defensive Heisman cases are usually built on visible havoc, not on tackle counts alone.
Pass breakups, interceptions, and forced fumbles matter because national awards voters respond to plays that change possessions and highlight reels.
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.
| Group | Metric | Value | Rank | Pct | Why it matters |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Defense | Total tackles | 73 | #227/4942 | 95th pct | Volumevs FBS DEF |
| Defense | TFL | 15.5 | #15/4972 | 100th pct | Disruptionvs FBS DEF |
| Defense | Sacks | 6.0 | #74/4972 | 99th pct | Disruptionvs FBS DEF |
| Defense | Pass breakups | 5 | #218/2184 | 90th pct | Coveragevs FBS DEF |
| Defense | QB hurries | 9 | #27/1878 | 99th pct | Disruptionvs FBS DEF |
| Defense | Solo tackles | 45 | #128/4584 | 97th pct | Volumevs FBS DEF |
| Defense | Fumbles recovered | 1 | #103/736 | 86th pct | Takeawaysvs FBS DEF |
| Ball Security | Fumbles lost | 0 | #1/773 | 100th pct | Turnoversvs FBS DEF |
Universal 17-step ladder. Tier pills below; accolade streams nested.
AWAITING CLASSIFICATION
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
The Butkus 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 splits
Splits fill in once box scores from at least three games land for this season.
Advanced Savant · LB · 2024
Advanced opponent-adjusted percentile bars are coming soon for this player.
Opponent-adjusted advanced metrics with a cohort filter.
Supporting Cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Mike Gundy
Pass share
47.5%
365 pass / 403 run
Plays / game
64.0
12 games
OL sack rate (allowed)
9.9%
223 dropbacks · PBP
Scheme: Balanced.
Coaching Lineage · 2021–2023
1 coachPlayed his entire career under Mike Gundy.
Off-field context — switch tabs to drill into recruit profile, transfer arc, or roster timeline.
No fields populated yet.
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Trophy Case · Confirmed honors
What the selectors said
ALL-CONFERENCE
All-Conf mention (2023)
All-Big 12
Every honor on the ledger, broken out by stream and selector.
Conference-level recognition helps anchor whether a player is merely statistically loud or actually viewed as elite within his competitive lane.
Season-end distinction and week-by-week recognition on one timeline.
| Season | Honor | Scope | Team / Selector | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | All-Big 12 | all_conference | Oklahoma State | Big 12 | LB |
| 2022 | All-Big 12 | all_conference | Big 12 | DL |
Modeled rank and official finish by season.
| Season | Team | Role | Latest Model | Forecast | Win | Finalist | Official Finish | Points | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Oklahoma State | LB4 | #13420 | #13372 | 0.0% | 0.0% | -- | -- | W16 snapshot | Big 12 |
| 2023 | Oklahoma State | LB4 | #6491 | #7426 | 0.0% | 0.0% | -- | -- | W19 snapshot | Big 12 |
| 2022 | Oklahoma State | LB4 | #6690 | #7463 | 0.0% | 0.0% | -- | -- | W20 snapshot | Big 12 |
| 2021 | Oklahoma State | LB4 | #1928 | #2181 | 0.0% | 0.0% | -- | -- | W20 snapshot | Big 12 |
Team, conference, and class by season.
| Season | Team | Conference | Pos | Class | Bio |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Oklahoma State | Big 12 | LB | 4 | No. 30 | 6-2 | 240 lb | Oklahoma City, OK |
| 2023 | Oklahoma State | Big 12 | LB | 4 | No. 30 | 6-2 | 240 lb | Oklahoma City, OK |
| 2022 | Oklahoma State | Big 12 | LB | 4 | No. 30 | 6-2 | 240 lb | Oklahoma City, OK |
| 2021 | Oklahoma State | Big 12 | LB | 4 | No. 30 | 6-2 | 240 lb | Oklahoma City, OK |