CFB Zeitgeist Score
45
Mid-pack in the position cohort. Carried by completion % at the 89th percentile.
Danny O'Neil
Below the discourse floor — the honest stats-only state.
635 PASS YDS · 5 PASS TD · 58 RUSH YDS
2026 Outlook
Returning to Wisconsin for 2026
2026 Depth chart
Projected starter
Quarterback · Wisconsin
Returning around him
- 40% of 2024 offensive production back (Moderate turnover)
- Transfer portal: +8 net (33 in / 25 out)
2026 Award watch
No preseason watch lists yet (most drop June 15 – July 15)
Wisconsin · Last season: 4-8 · Talent rank #28 · 2026 recruiting class #27
QB · WISCONSIN · BIG TEN
Danny O'Neil
- 2
- #18
- 6-0 | 196 lb
- Indianapolis, IN
Heisman Heat
#2172
<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
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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
Career Arc
HS
Recruit
★★★
CFB
College
Wisconsin
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 |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 3-star | 0.8786 | No. 680 recruit | HighSchool | San Diego State |
Transfer Arc
Portal movement changes role, context, and perception. This keeps that path in one place.
| Season | Move | Context |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | San Diego State -> Wisconsin | 3-star | 0.8600 | 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 San Diego State
Composite
0.8786
#680 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 Danny O'Neil
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 Danny O'Neil
No rival-bucket mentions in the current season.
2025 Signature · 2025 season
ESPN QBR (season average)
34.1
QBR
P4 + Notre Dame QBs, min 2 games
National rank #87 of 92
Percentile vs P4 + Notre Dame QBs, min 2 games 6th
Why it matters
#87 of 92 P4 + Notre Dame QBs by ESPN QBR — 34.1 across 6 games.
Vs cohort
This player 34.1 (6th)
HIGH · n=6 cohort 92
- Also strong
- Third-down snap share#72 / 93
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 passing totals stand
Through 6g
635Pass yards
5Pass TDs
5INT
Per game
105.8Pass yards
1Pass TDs
1INT
Projected (13g)
1,376Pass yards
11Pass TDs
11INT
To hit 3,000-yard season (currently 635): needs 337.9/game over remaining 7.
To hit 4,000-yard season (currently 635): needs 480.7/game over remaining 7.
To hit 25 passing TDs (currently 5): needs 2.9/game over remaining 7.
To hit 30 passing TDs (currently 5): needs 3.6/game over remaining 7.
To hit 35 passing TDs (currently 5): needs 4.3/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.
Danny O'Neil's story is about how role and output meet each other. For Wisconsin, 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
QB 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?
Efficient against FBS QB peers. The quickest read is whether the profile wins on volume, efficiency, explosiveness, or rushing value.
2025 Season · Final
2025 season snapshot | final
Passing Efficiency
CMP
61 56th
ATT
90 58th
CMP%
67.8% 78th
Y/A
7.1 57th
Passing Production
YDS
635 57th
TD
5 64th
INT
5 32nd
Rushing
CAR
50 69th
YDS
58 57th
YPC
1.2 28th
TD
1 63rd
Game Log · Week-by-week
2025 season · 6 games
| Wk | Opp | CMP/ATT | YDS | TD | INT | YPA | QBR | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | W 17-0vs Miami (OH) | 12/19 | 120 | 1 | 1 | 6.3 | 45.0 | |
| Wk 2 | W 42-10vs Middle Tennessee | 23/27 | 283 | 3 | 1 | 10.5 | 57.8 | Season-high 283 yds |
| Wk 3 | L 14-38@ Alabama | 11/17 | 117 | 1 | 2 | 6.9 | 23.3 | |
| Wk 4 | L 10-27vs Maryland | 14/22 | 120 | 0 | 1 | 5.5 | 18.3 | |
| Wk 8 | L 0-34vs Ohio State | 1/3 | -5 | 0 | 0 | -1.7 | 26.4 | |
| Wk 11 | W 13-10vs Washington | 0/2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 33.5 | |
| Total | 61/90 | 635 | 5 | 5 | 4.6 | 34.1 |
Season-by-season tables Career rows + per-season box score
Traditional history
Traditional Stats
Season rows up top, career context at the bottom.
Season context · Team result + system
2025Wisconsin4-8HC: Luke Fickell · Run-heavy, slow tempo
| Season | Team | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Wisconsin | 61 | 90 | 67.8% | 635 | 7.1 | 5 | 5 | 134.3 | -- | -- |
| Career | 1 loaded season | 61 | 90 | 67.8% | 635 | 7.1 | 5 | 5 | 134.3 | -- | -- |
| Season | Team | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Wisconsin | 50 | 58 | 1.2 | 1 | -- |
| Career | 1 loaded season | 50 | 58 | 1.2 | 1 | -- |
Advanced layer Usage, value, and context
Advanced metrics second
Advanced Metrics
Usage, value, and opponent-adjusted context.
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.
How much of the offense runs through the quarterback once passing and rushing responsibility are blended together.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Passing | Passing yards | 635 | #166/382 | 57th pct | Volumevs FBS QB |
| Passing | Pass TD | 5 | #149/407 | 64th pct | Scoringvs FBS QB |
| Passing | Completions | 61 | #168/383 | 56th pct | Volumevs FBS QB |
| Passing | Completion % | 67.8% | #84/383 | 78th pct | Efficiencyvs FBS QB |
| Passing | Yards / attempt | 7.1 | #165/382 | 57th pct | Efficiencyvs FBS QB |
| Rushing | Rushing yards | 58 | #178/408 | 57th pct | Volumevs FBS QB |
| Value | Passing WEPA | +0.22 | #130/200 | 36th pct | Opponent-adjusted passing value | 101 weighted playsvs FBS QB |
| Usage | Role share | 35.5% | #161/428 | 63rd pct | Share of team offensevs FBS QB |
| Passing | Attempts | 90 | #171/407 | 58th pct | Volumevs FBS QB |
| Passing | Interceptions | 5 | #276/407 | 32nd pct | Turnoversvs FBS QB |
| Rushing | Carries | 50 | #127/408 | 69th pct | Volumevs FBS QB |
| Rushing | Rushing LONG | 21 | #167/391 | 58th pct | Metricvs FBS QB |
| Rushing | Yards / carry | 1.2 | #296/407 | 28th pct | Efficiencyvs FBS QB |
| Rushing | Rush TD | 1 | #151/408 | 63rd pct | Scoringvs FBS QB |
| Usage | Pass share | 60.4% | #168/428 | 61st pct | Air-game usagevs FBS QB |
| Usage | 3rd-down usage | 48.8% | #149/428 | 65th pct | Money-down loadvs FBS QB |
| Usage | Passing-down usage | 41.3% | #181/428 | 58th pct | Known-passing sharevs FBS QB |
| Usage | 2nd-down usage | 33.1% | #169/428 | 61st pct | Middle-down loadvs FBS QB |
| Usage | Standard-down usage | 32.5% | #151/428 | 65th pct | Base-situation sharevs FBS QB |
| Usage | 1st-down usage | 30.8% | #160/428 | 63rd pct | Early-down loadvs FBS QB |
| Usage | Rush share | 17.5% | #79/428 | 82nd pct | Ground-game usagevs FBS QB |
| Value | Rushing WEPA | +0.24 | #73/140 | 49th pct | Opponent-adjusted rushing value | 37 weighted playsvs 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
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 · 6 games
Home vs Road
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home5g | 104 | 0.8 | 4.1 | 0.6 |
| Road1g | 117 | 1.0 | 6.9 | 2.0 |
Win vs Loss
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wins3g | 134 | 1.3 | 5.6 | 0.7 |
| Losses3g | 77.3 | 0.3 | 3.6 | 1.0 |
First half vs Second half
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-74g | 160 | 1.2 | 7.3 | 1.2 |
| Weeks 8+2g | -2.5 | 0.0 | -0.8 | 0.0 |
Pocket and defense-quality (clean vs. pressure) splits are coming soon.
Savant · Box-rate percentiles
Where this profile ranks vs the QB cohort
45Mid-pack
Elite: completion % (88th). Concern: pass yards (10th).
Percentiles versus same-position peers with enough snaps this season, based on box-score rates.
Pass Profile · Completion depth (PBP)
Where the throws are landing
Short
0–9 yds55%of completions
29 comp5.3 yds avg2 TD
Middle
10–19 yds34%of completions
18 comp13.8 yds avg1 TD
Deep
20+ yds11%of completions
6 comp34.8 yds avg2 TD
Overall 67.1% completion on 79 attempts.
Advanced Savant · QB · 2024
Percentile Card
Concerns: EPA / dropback.
P4G5All FBS
Advanced Savant
Opponent-adjusted advanced metrics with a cohort filter.
wepa_passing0.22Below (<p25) (n=94)
wepa_rushing0.24Low (p25–p50) (n=72)
Peer Comparator · Fingerprint match
Three closest profiles by box-rate percentile
Danny O'NeilWisconsinCade KlubnikClemson· 65% simNick VattiatoMiddle Tennessee· 65% simJalen KitnaUAB· 65% sim
Completion %
Interceptions
Yards / att
Rush yards
Rush TDs
Pass TDs
Pass yards
Closest peers by overall box-score percentile profile at the same position.
Player DNA
The Game Manager
Consistent underneath passer who protects the lead. Rarely loses games; rarely wins them alone.
QB
His 2025 production profile sits closest to Logan Fife’s 2022 season.
Logan Fife
53%match
#2
Ryder Burton
53%
#3
Jacob Zeno
47%
#4
Anthony Colandrea
45%
#5
Jayden de Laura
39%
Matches Logan on
INT rate
Differs from Logan on
TD rate (higher)
Recruiting rating (higher)
Class year (lower)
Through 2 college seasons, his career arc tracks closest to Derek Robertson’s path through Monmouth.
Derek Robertson
84%match
#2
Parker McKinney
84%
#3
Trenton Bourguet
81%
#4
Brady McBride
77%
#5
Luke Anthony
77%
Matches Derek on
Yards per attempt
Completion %
As a sophomore, his production profile tracks closest to Logan Fife's sophomore season at Fresno State (2022).
Logan Fife
48%match
#2
Chandler Rogers
43%
#3
Anthony Colandrea
All-Mountain West
42%
#4
MJ Morris
39%
#5
Tony Muskett
38%
Differs from Logan on
Class year (lower)
TD rate (higher)
Recruiting rating (higher)
Supporting Cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Luke Fickell
Pass share
39.7%
272 pass / 413 run
Plays / game
57.1
12 games
OL sack rate (allowed)
10.8%
249 dropbacks · PBP
Scheme: Run-heavy, slow tempo.
Coaching Lineage · 2025
1 coach2025
Luke Fickell
Wisconsin
Played his entire career under Luke Fickell.
Bio · Recruiting · Transfer · Roster
Off-field context — switch tabs to drill into recruit profile, transfer arc, or roster timeline.
HometownIndianapolis, IN
Height6'0"
Weight196 lb
Class2
PositionQB
Jersey18
No fields populated yet.
No fields populated yet.
Current teamWisconsin
ConferenceBig Ten
Joined2025
Career arc2 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 | San Diego State | QB2 | #2172 | #2552 | 0.0% | 0.0% | -- | -- | W16 snapshot | Mountain West |
Roster Timeline
Team, conference, and class by season.
| Season | Team | Conference | Pos | Class | Bio |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Wisconsin | Big Ten | QB | 2 | No. 18 | 6-0 | 196 lb | Indianapolis, IN |
| 2024 | San Diego State | Mountain West | QB | 2 | No. 18 | 6-0 | 196 lb | Indianapolis, IN |