CFB Zeitgeist Score
17
Below cohort in the position cohort. Carried by yards / catch at the 39th percentile.
Dan Dishman
Below the discourse floor — the honest stats-only state.
100 REC YDS · 10 REC · 1 REC TD
2026 Outlook
Returning to UTSA for 2026
2026 Depth chart
Projected starter
Tight end · UTSA
Returning around him
- 96% of 2024 offensive production back (Strong continuity)
- Transfer portal: -2 net (21 in / 23 out)
2026 Award watch
No preseason watch lists yet (most drop June 15 – July 15)
UTSA · Last season: 7-6 · Talent rank #65 · 2026 recruiting class #107
TE · UTSA · AMERICAN ATHLETIC
Dan Dishman
- 4
- #80
- 6-6 | 245 lb
- League City, TX
Heisman Heat
#1172
<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
—
CONSENSUS
All-American
—
Player Standing · 17 rungs
Tier 2 · StarterR06 · Starter
Starter. A locked-in starting role.
Not on team2-deepStarterRecognizedEliteApex
Development Trajectory · receiving yards
2021–2025+400%
Up 400% from first season to most-recent.
Career Arc
HS
Recruit
★★★
CFB
College
UTSA
NFL
NFL Draft
—
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 |
|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 3-star | 0.8193 | No. 2233 recruit | HighSchool | UTSA |
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.
NIL · Recruiting · NFL Draft
Market value, pedigree & pro outcome
Recruit stars
★★★☆☆
to UTSA
Composite
0.8193
#2233 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 Dan Dishman
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 Dan Dishman
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.
Season Pace · Projection
Where the receiving totals stand
Through 6g
100Rec yards
10Receptions
1Rec TDs
Per game
16.7Rec yards
2Receptions
0Rec TDs
Projected (13g)
216.7Rec yards
22Receptions
2Rec TDs
To hit 700-yard receiver (currently 100): needs 85.7/game over remaining 7.
To hit 1,000-yard receiver (currently 100): needs 128.6/game over remaining 7.
To hit 60-catch season (currently 10): needs 7.1/game over remaining 7.
To hit 80-catch season (currently 10): needs 10/game over remaining 7.
To hit 8 receiving TDs (currently 1): needs 1/game over remaining 7.
To hit 10 receiving TDs (currently 1): needs 1.3/game over remaining 7.
What made this player interesting
The fast read on the thing that makes this player more than a generic stat line.
Dan Dishman's story is about how role and output meet each other. For UTSA, 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?
Receiving weapon against FBS receiving peers.
2025 Season · Final
2025 season snapshot | final
Receiving
REC
10 61st
YDS
100 60th
YPR
10.0 54th
TD
1 71st
Game Log · Week-by-week
2025 season · 6 games
| Wk | Opp | REC | YDS | AVG | TD | LONG | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 2 | L 36-43vs Texas State | 1 | 8 | 8.0 | 0 | 8 | |
| Wk 3 | W 48-20vs Incarnate Word | 2 | 11 | 5.5 | 1 | 7 | |
| Wk 4 | W 17-16@ Colorado State | 1 | 7 | 7.0 | 0 | 7 | |
| Wk 6 | L 21-27@ Temple | 2 | 17 | 8.5 | 0 | 13 | |
| Wk 7 | W 61-13vs Rice | 1 | 12 | 12.0 | 0 | 12 | |
| Wk 10 | W 48-26vs Tulane | 3 | 45 | 15.0 | 0 | 26 | Season-high 45 yds |
| Total | 10 | 100 | 9.3 | 1 | 26 |
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
2021UTSA12-1HC: Jeff Traylor · Run-leaning, fast tempo
2022UTSA11-3HC: Jeff Traylor · Balanced
2023UTSA9-4HC: Jeff Traylor · Run-leaning
2024UTSA7-6HC: Jeff Traylor · Balanced, fast tempo
2025UTSA7-6HC: Jeff Traylor · Balanced
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 | 10 | #186/475 | 61st pct | Volumevs FBS TE |
| Receiving | Receiving yards | 100 | #193/475 | 60th pct | Volumevs FBS TE |
| Receiving | Receiving TD | 1 | #140/475 | 71st pct | Scoringvs FBS TE |
| Receiving | Yards / catch | 10.0 | #220/475 | 54th pct | Efficiencyvs FBS TE |
| Usage | Pass share | 5.3% | #270/468 | 43rd pct | Air-game usagevs FBS TE |
| Receiving | Receiving LONG | 26 | #178/475 | 63rd pct | Metricvs FBS TE |
| Usage | Passing-down usage | 5.4% | #127/468 | 73rd pct | Known-passing sharevs FBS TE |
| Usage | 2nd-down usage | 3.2% | #245/468 | 48th pct | Middle-down loadvs FBS TE |
| Usage | 3rd-down usage | 2.8% | #249/468 | 47th pct | Money-down loadvs FBS TE |
| Usage | Role share | 2.7% | #255/468 | 46th pct | Share of team offensevs FBS TE |
| Usage | 1st-down usage | 2.4% | #284/468 | 40th pct | Early-down loadvs FBS TE |
| Usage | Standard-down usage | 1.5% | #389/468 | 17th 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 · 6 games
Home vs Road
| REC/g | YDS/g | YPR | TD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home4g | 1.8 | 19.0 | 10.1 | 0.2 |
| Road2g | 1.5 | 12.0 | 7.8 | 0.0 |
Win vs Loss
| REC/g | YDS/g | YPR | TD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wins4g | 1.8 | 18.8 | 9.9 | 0.2 |
| Losses2g | 1.5 | 12.5 | 8.2 | 0.0 |
First half vs Second half
| REC/g | YDS/g | YPR | TD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-75g | 1.4 | 11.0 | 8.2 | 0.2 |
| Weeks 8+1g | 3.0 | 45.0 | 15.0 | 0.0 |
Pocket and defense-quality (clean vs. pressure) splits are coming soon.
Savant · Box-rate percentiles
Where this profile ranks vs the TE cohort
17Below cohort
Concern: receptions (0th).
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
Dan DishmanUTSABryce CaufieldOregon State· 62% simHayden HansenFlorida· 59% simLuke LindenmeyerNebraska· 59% sim
Yards / catch
Long catch
Rec TDs
Rec yards
Receptions
Closest peers by overall box-score percentile profile at the same position.
Player DNA
The Move TE
Lined up out wide as often as inline. Creates mismatches downfield.
TE
His 2025 production profile sits closest to Reece Adkins’s 2025 season.
Reece Adkins
86%match
#2
Dan Dishman
71%
#3
Hudson Habermehl
67%
#4
Malcolm Epps
67%
#5
Keyan Burnett
60%
Matches Reece on
Total EPA (college ability)
Reception volume
Yards / reception
Not enough data yet for this comparison.
As a graduate, his production profile tracks closest to Keanu Hill's graduate season at BYU (2024).
Keanu Hill
64%match
#2
Broc Lane
64%
#3
Jerand Bradley
All-Big 12
62%
#4
Jake Roberts
57%
#5
Lake McRee
All-Big Ten
56%
Matches Keanu on
Weight
TD rate
EPA / play (adj)
Differs from Keanu on
Yards / reception (higher)
Height (higher)
Supporting Cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Jeff Traylor
Pass share
50.7%
446 pass / 434 run
Plays / game
67.7
13 games
OL sack rate (allowed)
6.0%
281 dropbacks · PBP
Scheme: Balanced.
Coaching Lineage · 2021–2025
1 coach2021
Jeff Traylor
UTSA
2022
Jeff Traylor
UTSA
2023
Jeff Traylor
UTSA
2024
Jeff Traylor
UTSA
2025
Jeff Traylor
UTSA
Played his entire career under Jeff Traylor.
Bio · Recruiting · Transfer · Roster
Off-field context — switch tabs to drill into recruit profile, transfer arc, or roster timeline.
HometownLeague City, TX
Height6'6"
Weight245 lb
Class4
PositionTE
Jersey80
No fields populated yet.
No fields populated yet.
Current teamUTSA
ConferenceAmerican Athletic
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 | UTSA | TE4 | #1172 | #1769 | 0.0% | 0.0% | -- | -- | W16 snapshot | American Athletic |
| 2023 | UTSA | TE4 | #2245 | #2128 | 0.0% | 0.0% | -- | -- | W19 snapshot | American Athletic |
| 2022 | UTSA | TE4 | #1139 | #978 | 0.0% | 0.0% | -- | -- | W20 snapshot | Conference USA |
| 2021 | UTSA | TE4 | #2865 | #2667 | 0.0% | 0.0% | -- | -- | W20 snapshot | Conference USA |
Roster Timeline
Team, conference, and class by season.
| Season | Team | Conference | Pos | Class | Bio |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | UTSA | American Athletic | TE | 4 | No. 80 | 6-6 | 245 lb | League City, TX |
| 2024 | UTSA | American Athletic | TE | 4 | No. 80 | 6-6 | 245 lb | League City, TX |
| 2023 | UTSA | American Athletic | TE | 4 | No. 80 | 6-6 | 245 lb | League City, TX |
| 2022 | UTSA | Conference USA | TE | 4 | No. 80 | 6-6 | 245 lb | League City, TX |
| 2021 | UTSA | Conference USA | TE | 4 | No. 80 | 6-6 | 245 lb | League City, TX |