CFB Zeitgeist Score
63
Solid starter in the position cohort. Carried by rec tds at the 78th percentile.
Daejon Reynolds
Below the discourse floor — the honest stats-only state.
471 REC YDS · 33 REC · 5 REC TD
2026 Outlook
Returning to UNLV for 2026
2026 Depth chart
Projected starter
Wide receiver · 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
WR · UNLV · MOUNTAIN WEST
Daejon Reynolds
- 3
- #3
- 6-2 | 210 lb
- Springfield, IL
Heisman Heat
#695
<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 WR AWARD
Biletnikoff
—
CONSENSUS
All-American
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Player Standing · 17 rungs
Tier 2 · StarterR05 · Part-time starter
Part-time starter. Splitting first-team reps.
Not on team2-deepStarterRecognizedEliteApex
Development Trajectory · receiving yards
2021–2025-9520%
Sharp dropoff (-9520%) — career inflection point.
Career Arc
HS
Recruit
★★★★
CFB
College
3 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 4-star | 0.9030 | No. 293 recruit | HighSchool | Florida |
Transfer Arc
Portal movement changes role, context, and perception. This keeps that path in one place.
| Season | Move | Context |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Pittsburgh -> UNLV | 3-star | 0.8400 | Immediate |
| 2023 | Florida -> Pittsburgh | 4-star | Immediate |
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.
NIL · Recruiting · NFL Draft
Market value, pedigree & pro outcome
Recruit stars
★★★★☆
to Florida
Composite
0.9030
#293 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 Daejon Reynolds
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 Daejon Reynolds
No rival-bucket mentions in the current season.
2025 Signature · 2025 season
Yards per reception
14.3
yds
All FBS WRs, min 20 receptions
National rank #136 of 531
Percentile vs All FBS WRs, min 20 receptions 74th
Why it matters
#136 of 531 All FBS WRs at 14.3 yards per reception (33 catches).
Vs cohort
This player 14.3 (74th)
HIGH · n=33 cohort 531
- Also strong
- Receiving TDs#98 / 531
- Receiving yards (total)#241 / 531
Signature Moment
Week 7 vs Air Force — 139 ypr
Result W 51-48
The week the volume broke through — put up 139 yds vs Air Force.
Season Pace · Projection
Where the receiving totals stand
Through 12g
471Rec yards
33Receptions
5Rec TDs
Per game
39.2Rec yards
3Receptions
0Rec TDs
Projected (13g)
510.2Rec yards
36Receptions
5Rec TDs
To hit 700-yard receiver (currently 471): needs 229/game over remaining 1.
To hit 1,000-yard receiver (currently 471): needs 529/game over remaining 1.
To hit 60-catch season (currently 33): needs 27/game over remaining 1.
To hit 80-catch season (currently 33): needs 47/game over remaining 1.
To hit 8 receiving TDs (currently 5): needs 3/game over remaining 1.
To hit 10 receiving TDs (currently 5): needs 5/game over remaining 1.
What made this player interesting
The fast read on the thing that makes this player more than a generic stat line.
Daejon Reynolds'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.
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
33 78th
YDS
471 78th
YPR
14.3 71st
TD
5 91st
Rushing
YDS
-2 15th
TD
0 81st
Game Log · Week-by-week
2025 season · 12 games
| Wk | Opp | REC | YDS | AVG | TD | LONG | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | W 38-31vs Idaho State | 1 | 9 | 9.0 | 1 | 9 | |
| Wk 1 | W 38-21@ Sam Houston | 1 | 12 | 12.0 | 0 | 12 | |
| Wk 2 | W 30-23vs UCLA | 1 | 32 | 32.0 | 0 | 32 | |
| Wk 4 | W 41-38@ Miami (OH) | 4 | 45 | 11.3 | 0 | 18 | |
| Wk 7 | W 51-48vs Air Force | 4 | 139 | 34.8 | 1 | 86 | Season-high 139 yds |
| Wk 8 | L 31-56@ Boise State | 2 | 14 | 7.0 | 0 | 8 | |
| Wk 10 | L 35-40vs New Mexico | 5 | 78 | 15.6 | 1 | 35 | |
| Wk 12 | W 29-26vs Utah State | 3 | 14 | 4.7 | 1 | 9 | |
| Wk 13 | W 38-10vs Hawai'i | 6 | 45 | 7.5 | 1 | 15 | |
| Wk 14 | W 42-17@ Nevada | 2 | 43 | 21.5 | 0 | 22 | |
| Wk 15 | L 21-38@ Boise State | 3 | 39 | 13.0 | 0 | 21 | |
| Bowl | L 10-17@ Ohio | 1 | 1 | 1.0 | 0 | 1 | |
| Total | 33 | 471 | 14.1 | 5 | 86 |
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
2021Florida6-6HC: Dan Mullen · Run-leaning, fast tempo
2022Florida6-7HC: Billy Napier · Run-leaning
2023Pittsburgh3-9HC: Pat Narduzzi · Balanced, slow tempo
2024Pittsburgh7-6HC: Pat Narduzzi · Balanced, fast tempo
2025UNLV10-4HC: Dan Mullen · Run-leaning
| Season | Team | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | UNLV | 33 | 471 | 14.3 | 5 | -- |
| 2024 | Pittsburgh | 15 | 189 | 12.6 | 1 | -- |
| 2023 | Pittsburgh | 28 | 316 | 11.3 | 0 | -- |
| 2022 | Florida | 11 | 244 | 22.2 | 2 | -- |
| 2021 | Florida | 1 | -5 | -5.0 | 0 | -- |
| Career | 5 loaded seasons | 88 | 1,215 | 13.8 | 8 | -- |
| Season | Team | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | UNLV | -- | -2 | -- | -- | -- |
| 2024 | Pittsburgh | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| 2023 | Pittsburgh | 1 | 1 | -- | -- | -- |
| 2022 | Florida | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| 2021 | Florida | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Career | 5 loaded seasons | 1 | -1 | -- | -- | -- |
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 | 33 | #247/1110 | 78th pct | Volumevs FBS WR |
| Receiving | Receiving yards | 471 | #243/1107 | 78th pct | Volumevs FBS WR |
| Receiving | Receiving TD | 5 | #96/1111 | 91st pct | Scoringvs FBS WR |
| Receiving | Yards / catch | 14.3 | #318/1106 | 71st pct | Efficiencyvs FBS WR |
| Usage | Pass share | 10.4% | #468/1137 | 59th pct | Air-game usagevs FBS WR |
| Rushing | Rush TD | 0 | #81/411 | 81st pct | Scoringvs FBS WR |
| Rushing | Rushing yards | -2 | #340/397 | 15th pct | Volumevs FBS WR |
| Receiving | Receiving LONG | 86 | #13/1105 | 99th pct | Metricvs FBS WR |
| Usage | Passing-down usage | 8.9% | #317/1137 | 72nd pct | Known-passing sharevs FBS WR |
| Usage | 3rd-down usage | 8.3% | #345/1137 | 70th pct | Money-down loadvs FBS WR |
| Usage | Role share | 5.1% | #471/1137 | 59th pct | Share of team offensevs FBS WR |
| Usage | 2nd-down usage | 4.6% | #563/1137 | 51st pct | Middle-down loadvs FBS WR |
| Usage | 1st-down usage | 4.0% | #560/1137 | 51st pct | Early-down loadvs FBS WR |
| Usage | Standard-down usage | 3.4% | #618/1137 | 46th pct | Base-situation sharevs 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 · 12 games
Home vs Road
| REC/g | YDS/g | YPR | TD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home6g | 3.3 | 52.8 | 17.3 | 0.8 |
| Road6g | 2.2 | 25.7 | 11.0 | 0.0 |
Win vs Loss
| REC/g | YDS/g | YPR | TD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wins8g | 2.8 | 42.4 | 16.6 | 0.5 |
| Losses4g | 2.8 | 33.0 | 9.2 | 0.2 |
First half vs Second half
| REC/g | YDS/g | YPR | TD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-76g | 2.0 | 39.7 | 16.7 | 0.3 |
| Weeks 8+6g | 3.5 | 38.8 | 11.5 | 0.5 |
Pocket and defense-quality (clean vs. pressure) splits are coming soon.
Savant · Box-rate percentiles
Where this profile ranks vs the WR cohort
63Solid starter
Elite: long catch (98th). Concern: rush yards (12th).
Percentiles versus same-position peers with enough snaps this season, based on box-score rates.
Advanced Savant · WR · 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
Daejon ReynoldsUNLVQue'Sean BrownDuke· 79% simChris Dawn Jr.Texas State· 78% simJordan HudsonSMU· 78% sim
Long catch
Rec TDs
Yards / catch
Rec yards
Receptions
Rush TDs
Rush yards
Closest peers by overall box-score percentile profile at the same position.
Player DNA
The Jump-Ball Target
Wins contested catches at the goal line. Size and catch radius are the weapons.
WR
His 2025 production profile sits closest to Dane Key’s 2022 season.
Dane Key
82%match
#2
Jahmal Edrine
82%
#3
Rara Thomas
81%
#4
Coy Eakin
80%
#5
Chris Autman-Bell
79%
Matches Dane on
Yards / reception
Weight
EPA / play (adj)
Through 4 college seasons, his career arc tracks closest to Darien Chase’s path through Portland State.
Darien Chase
100%match
#2
Jarrod Barnes
99%
#3
Kobe Clark
99%
#4
Jalen Brooks
97%
#5
Tejhaun Palmer
All-AACNFL Rd 6
95%
Matches Darien on
Yards per reception
As a graduate, his production profile tracks closest to Sam Brown's graduate season at Miami (2024).
Sam Brown
64%match
#2
J.Michael Sturdivant
22%
#3
Will Sheppard
21%
#4
Keontra Smith
20%
#5
Joseph Manjack
19%
Matches Sam on
EPA / play (adj)
Yards / reception
Recruiting rating
Differs from Sam on
TD rate (higher)
Weight (higher)
Supporting Cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
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 coaches2021
Marcus Arroyo
UNLV
2022
Marcus Arroyo
UNLV
2023era →
Barry Odom
UNLV
2024
Barry Odom
UNLV
2025era →
Dan Mullen
UNLV
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.
HometownSpringfield, IL
Height6'2"
Weight210 lb
Class3
PositionWR
Jersey3
No fields populated yet.
No fields populated yet.
Current teamUNLV
ConferenceMountain West
Joined2025
Career arc5 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Pittsburgh | WR3 | #695 | #692 | 0.0% | 0.0% | -- | -- | W16 snapshot | ACC |
| 2023 | Pittsburgh | WR3 | #2183 | #2691 | 0.0% | 0.0% | -- | -- | W19 snapshot | ACC |
| 2022 | Florida | WR3 | #1082 | #1276 | 0.0% | 0.0% | -- | -- | W20 snapshot | SEC |
| 2021 | Florida | WR3 | #2960 | #2675 | 0.0% | 0.0% | -- | -- | W20 snapshot | SEC |
Roster Timeline
Team, conference, and class by season.
| Season | Team | Conference | Pos | Class | Bio |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | UNLV | Mountain West | WR | 3 | No. 3 | 6-2 | 210 lb | Springfield, IL |
| 2024 | Pittsburgh | ACC | WR | 3 | No. 3 | 6-2 | 210 lb | Springfield, IL |
| 2023 | Pittsburgh | ACC | WR | 3 | No. 3 | 6-2 | 210 lb | Springfield, IL |
| 2022 | Florida | SEC | WR | 3 | No. 3 | 6-2 | 210 lb | Springfield, IL |
| 2021 | Florida | SEC | WR | 3 | No. 3 | 6-2 | 210 lb | Springfield, IL |