CFB Zeitgeist Score
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Below cohort in the position cohort. Carried by yards / att at the 63rd percentile.
Deshawn Purdie
Below the discourse floor — the honest stats-only state.
618 PASS YDS · 6 PASS TD · -11 RUSH YDS
Where He Ended Up · Transfer
Transferred to Liberty
2025Wake Forest
2026Liberty
QB · WAKE FOREST · ACC
Deshawn Purdie
- 2
- #5
- 6-4 | 228 lb
- Baltimore, MD
Heisman Heat
#521
<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
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Player Standing · 17 rungs
Tier 2 · StarterR07 · Impact starter
Impact starter. Producing measurable value above replacement.
Not on team2-deepStarterRecognizedEliteApex
Development Trajectory · passing yards
2024–2025-66%
Sharp dropoff (-66%) — career inflection point.
Career Arc
HS
Recruit
★★★
CFB
College
2 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 3-star | 0.8511 | No. 1533 recruit | HighSchool | Charlotte |
Transfer Arc
Portal movement changes role, context, and perception. This keeps that path in one place.
| Season | Move | Context |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Wake Forest -> Liberty | 3-star | 0.8400 | Immediate |
| 2025 | Charlotte -> Wake Forest | 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 Charlotte
Composite
0.8511
#1533 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 Deshawn Purdie
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 Deshawn Purdie
No rival-bucket mentions in the current season.
2025 Signature · 2025 season
ESPN QBR (season average)
33.2
QBR
P4 + Notre Dame QBs, min 2 games
National rank #88 of 92
Percentile vs P4 + Notre Dame QBs, min 2 games 4th
Why it matters
#88 of 92 P4 + Notre Dame QBs by ESPN QBR — 33.2 across 8 games.
Vs cohort
This player 33.2 (4th)
HIGH · n=8 cohort 92
- Also strong
- Third-down snap share#92 / 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 8g
618Pass yards
6Pass TDs
3INT
Per game
77.2Pass yards
1Pass TDs
0INT
Projected (13g)
1,004Pass yards
10Pass TDs
5INT
To hit 3,000-yard season (currently 618): needs 476.4/game over remaining 5.
To hit 4,000-yard season (currently 618): needs 676.4/game over remaining 5.
To hit 25 passing TDs (currently 6): needs 3.8/game over remaining 5.
To hit 30 passing TDs (currently 6): needs 4.8/game over remaining 5.
To hit 35 passing TDs (currently 6): needs 5.8/game over remaining 5.
What made this player interesting
The fast read on the thing that makes this player more than a generic stat line.
Deshawn Purdie's story is about how role and output meet each other. For Wake Forest, 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?
Pocket-leaning 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
41 53rd
ATT
82 56th
CMP%
50.0% 20th
Y/A
7.5 68th
Passing Production
YDS
618 56th
TD
6 66th
INT
3 43rd
Rushing
CAR
11 38th
YDS
-11 10th
YPC
-1.0 12th
TD
0 44th
Game Log · Week-by-week
2025 season · 8 games
| Wk | Opp | CMP/ATT | YDS | TD | INT | YPA | QBR | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 2 | W 42-10vs Western Carolina | 3/4 | 42 | 1 | 0 | 10.5 | 97.1 | |
| Wk 5 | L 29-30vs Georgia Tech | 1/3 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 4.7 | 1.5 | |
| Wk 6 | W 30-23@ Virginia Tech | 0/1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 1.8 | |
| Wk 7 | W 39-14@ Oregon State | 14/27 | 270 | 4 | 0 | 10.0 | 76.8 | Season-high 270 yds |
| Wk 9 | W 13-12vs SMU | 14/26 | 183 | 0 | 2 | 7.0 | 11.4 | |
| Wk 10 | L 7-42@ Florida State | 6/10 | 69 | 1 | 0 | 6.9 | 71.0 | |
| Wk 11 | W 16-9@ Virginia | 2/7 | 18 | 0 | 0 | 2.6 | 5.2 | |
| Wk 13 | W 52-14vs Delaware | 1/4 | 22 | 0 | 1 | 5.5 | 1.1 | |
| Total | 41/82 | 618 | 6 | 3 | 5.9 | 33.2 |
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
2024Charlotte5-7HC: Biff Poggi · Balanced, slow tempo
2025Wake Forest9-4HC: Jake Dickert · Balanced
| Season | Team | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Wake Forest | 41 | 82 | 50.0% | 618 | 7.5 | 6 | 3 | 130.1 | -- | -- |
| 2024 | Charlotte | 100 | 200 | 50.0% | 1,802 | 9.0 | 10 | 6 | 136.2 | -- | -- |
| Career | 2 loaded seasons | 141 | 282 | 50.0% | 2,420 | 8.6 | 16 | 9 | 134.4 | -- | -- |
| Season | Team | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Wake Forest | 11 | -11 | -1.0 | 0 | -- |
| 2024 | Charlotte | 41 | -130 | -3.2 | 1 | -- |
| Career | 2 loaded seasons | 52 | -141 | -2.7 | 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 | 618 | #169/382 | 56th pct | Volumevs FBS QB |
| Passing | Pass TD | 6 | #141/407 | 66th pct | Scoringvs FBS QB |
| Passing | Completions | 41 | #182/383 | 53rd pct | Volumevs FBS QB |
| Passing | Completion % | 50.0% | #309/383 | 20th pct | Efficiencyvs FBS QB |
| Passing | Yards / attempt | 7.5 | #125/382 | 68th pct | Efficiencyvs FBS QB |
| Rushing | Rushing yards | -11 | #367/408 | 10th pct | Volumevs FBS QB |
| Value | Passing WEPA | +0.28 | #92/200 | 55th pct | Opponent-adjusted passing value | 86 weighted playsvs FBS QB |
| Usage | Role share | 13.7% | #246/428 | 43rd pct | Share of team offensevs FBS QB |
| Passing | Attempts | 82 | #182/407 | 56th pct | Volumevs FBS QB |
| Passing | Interceptions | 3 | #234/407 | 43rd pct | Turnoversvs FBS QB |
| Rushing | Rushing LONG | 13 | #243/391 | 38th pct | Metricvs FBS QB |
| Rushing | Carries | 11 | #254/408 | 38th pct | Volumevs FBS QB |
| Rushing | Rush TD | 0 | #230/408 | 44th pct | Scoringvs FBS QB |
| Rushing | Yards / carry | -1.0 | #358/407 | 12th pct | Efficiencyvs FBS QB |
| Usage | Pass share | 28.3% | #223/428 | 48th pct | Air-game usagevs FBS QB |
| Usage | Passing-down usage | 21.3% | #232/428 | 46th pct | Known-passing sharevs FBS QB |
| Usage | 2nd-down usage | 18.4% | #217/428 | 50th pct | Middle-down loadvs FBS QB |
| Usage | 3rd-down usage | 16.3% | #256/428 | 40th pct | Money-down loadvs FBS QB |
| Usage | Standard-down usage | 9.8% | #264/428 | 39th pct | Base-situation sharevs FBS QB |
| Usage | 1st-down usage | 9.0% | #265/428 | 38th pct | Early-down loadvs FBS QB |
| Usage | Rush share | 1.3% | #381/428 | 11th pct | Ground-game usagevs FBS QB |
| Ball Security | Fumbles lost | 1 | #69/258 | 74th pct | Turnoversvs 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 · 8 games
Home vs Road
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home4g | 65.2 | 0.2 | 6.9 | 0.8 |
| Road4g | 89.2 | 1.2 | 4.9 | 0.0 |
Win vs Loss
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wins6g | 89.2 | 0.8 | 5.9 | 0.5 |
| Losses2g | 41.5 | 0.5 | 5.8 | 0.0 |
First half vs Second half
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-74g | 81.5 | 1.2 | 6.3 | 0.0 |
| Weeks 8+4g | 73.0 | 0.2 | 5.5 | 0.8 |
Pocket and defense-quality (clean vs. pressure) splits are coming soon.
Savant · Box-rate percentiles
Where this profile ranks vs the QB cohort
34Below cohort
Elite: interceptions (82nd). Concern: completion % (3rd).
Percentiles versus same-position peers with enough snaps this season, based on box-score rates.
Advanced Savant · QB · 2024
Percentile Card
Reads as a mid-tier profile across the board..
P4G5All FBS
Advanced Savant
Opponent-adjusted advanced metrics with a cohort filter.
wepa_passing0.28Low (p25–p50) (n=94)
Peer Comparator · Fingerprint match
Three closest profiles by box-rate percentile
Deshawn PurdieWake ForestNick VattiatoMiddle Tennessee· 64% simLogan FifeNew Mexico State· 59% simDrake LindseyMinnesota· 58% sim
Interceptions
Fumbles lost
Yards / att
Pass TDs
Rush yards
Rush TDs
Pass yards
Completion %
Closest peers by overall box-score percentile profile at the same position.
Player DNA
The Pocket Passer
Balanced passer who operates within the system. Profile sits near league average across dimensions.
QB
His 2025 production profile sits closest to Austin Aune’s 2020 season.
Austin Aune
55%match
#2
Parker McNeil
55%
#3
Deshawn Purdie
52%
#4
Carlos Davis
50%
#5
Joe Fagnano
49%
Matches Austin on
Yards / attempt
Differs from Austin on
TD rate (higher)
INT rate (higher)
Rush yards / carry (lower)
Through 2 college seasons, his career arc tracks closest to Haaziq Daniels’s path through Air Force.
Haaziq Daniels
69%match
#2
Max Bortenschlager
67%
#3
Austin Simmons
64%
#4
Aaron Philo
64%
#5
Parker McNeil
63%
Matches Haaziq on
Completion %
Yards per attempt
Differs from Haaziq on
Height (higher)
As a sophomore, his production profile tracks closest to Jayden Maiava's sophomore season at USC (2024).
Jayden Maiava
54%match
All-Big Ten
#2
AJ Swann
51%
#3
Parker McNeil
47%
#4
Jayden Denegal
47%
#5
Brandon Peters
46%
Matches Jayden on
TD rate
Differs from Jayden on
Rush yards / carry (lower)
Completion % (lower)
Class year (lower)
Supporting Cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Jake Dickert
Pass share
48.0%
405 pass / 439 run
Plays / game
64.9
13 games
OL sack rate (allowed)
5.1%
293 dropbacks · PBP
Scheme: Balanced.
Coaching Lineage · 2024–2025
2 coaches2024
Dave Clawson
Wake Forest
2025era →
Jake Dickert
Wake Forest
Coaching transition mid-career: Dave Clawson → Jake Dickert. Worth noting in scheme + development context.
Bio · Recruiting · Transfer · Roster
Off-field context — switch tabs to drill into recruit profile, transfer arc, or roster timeline.
HometownBaltimore, MD
Height6'4"
Weight228 lb
Class2
PositionQB
Jersey5
No fields populated yet.
No fields populated yet.
Current teamWake Forest
ConferenceACC
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 | Charlotte | QB2 | #521 | #780 | 0.0% | 0.0% | -- | -- | W16 snapshot | American Athletic |
Roster Timeline
Team, conference, and class by season.
| Season | Team | Conference | Pos | Class | Bio |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Wake Forest | ACC | QB | 2 | No. 5 | 6-4 | 228 lb | Baltimore, MD |
| 2024 | Charlotte | American Athletic | QB | 2 | No. 5 | 6-4 | 228 lb | Baltimore, MD |