CFB Zeitgeist Score
30
Below cohort in the position cohort. Carried by rush yards at the 96th percentile.
Drelon Miller
Below the discourse floor — the honest stats-only state.
159 REC YDS · 21 REC · 1 REC TD
2026 Outlook
Returning to Colorado for 2026
2026 Depth chart
Projected starter
Wide receiver · Colorado
Returning around him
2026 Award watch
No preseason watch lists yet (most drop June 15 – July 15)
Colorado · Last season: 3-9 · Talent rank #30 · 2026 recruiting class #37
WR · COLORADO · BIG 12
CFB Zeitgeist Score
30
Below cohort in the position cohort. Carried by rush yards at the 96th percentile.
Heisman Heat
#489
<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
—
Player Standing · 17 rungs
Tier 1 · 2-deepBackup. On the two-deep, pushing for snaps.
Development Trajectory · receiving yards
2024–2025Sharp dropoff (-43%) — career inflection point.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 4-star | 0.9516 | No. 101 recruit | HighSchool | Colorado |
| 2023 | 4-star | 0.9096 | No. 274 recruit | HighSchool | Colorado |
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 Colorado
Composite
0.9516
#101 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.
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.
2025 Signature · 2025 season
1
count
All FBS WRs, min 20 receptions
Why it matters
#402 of 531 All FBS WRs in receiving TDs — 1 TDs on 21 receptions.
Vs cohort
MODERATE · n=21 cohort 531
Signature Moment
Week 5 vs BYU — 1 receiving_tds
Result L 21-24
The week the volume broke through — stacked 1 td vs BYU.
Season Pace · Projection
Where the receiving totals stand
To hit 700-yard receiver (currently 159): needs 270.5/game over remaining 2.
To hit 1,000-yard receiver (currently 159): needs 420.5/game over remaining 2.
To hit 60-catch season (currently 21): needs 19.5/game over remaining 2.
To hit 80-catch season (currently 21): needs 29.5/game over remaining 2.
To hit 8 receiving TDs (currently 1): needs 3.5/game over remaining 2.
To hit 10 receiving TDs (currently 1): needs 4.5/game over remaining 2.
The fast read on the thing that makes this player more than a generic stat line.
The most interesting thing about Drelon Miller is that he shows up in multiple game states. He is a receiver first, but the profile also includes designed touches and return-game juice, which means his value is not limited to a conventional route tree.
Traditional stats first. Advanced context underneath.
Last season
2025 season snapshot | final
30-second read
Receiving weapon against FBS receiving peers.
2025 season snapshot | final
Receiving
Rushing
Game Log · Week-by-week
2025 season · 11 games
| Wk | Opp | REC | YDS | AVG | TD | LONG | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | L 20-27vs Georgia Tech | 2 | 13 | 6.5 | 0 | 16 | |
| Wk 2 | W 31-7vs Delaware | 1 | 1 | 1.0 | 0 | 1 | |
| Wk 3 | L 20-36@ Houston | 3 | 23 | 7.7 | 0 | 16 | |
| Wk 4 | W 37-20vs Wyoming | 2 | 25 | 12.5 | 0 | 16 | |
| Wk 5 | L 21-24vs BYU | 2 | 27 | 13.5 | 1 | 19 | |
| Wk 6 | L 21-35@ TCU | 1 | 6 | 6.0 | 0 | 6 | |
| Wk 9 | L 7-53@ Utah | — | — | — | — | — | |
| Wk 10 | L 17-52vs Arizona | 2 | 12 | 6.0 | 0 | 9 | |
| Wk 11 | L 22-29@ West Virginia | 4 | 37 | 9.3 | 0 | 32 | Season-high 37 yds |
| Wk 13 | L 17-42vs Arizona State | 3 | 14 | 4.7 | 0 | 8 | |
| Wk 14 | L 14-24@ Kansas State | 1 | 1 | 1.0 | 0 | 1 | |
| Total | 21 | 159 | 6.8 | 1 | 32 |
Traditional history
Season rows up top, career context at the bottom.
Season context · Team result + system
Advanced metrics second
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.
| Group | Metric | Value | Rank | Pct | Why it matters |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Receiving | Receptions | 21 | #402/1110 | 64th pct | Volumevs FBS WR |
| Receiving | Receiving yards | 159 | #528/1107 | 52nd pct | Volumevs FBS WR |
| Receiving | Receiving TD | 1 | #396/1111 | 64th pct | Scoringvs FBS WR |
| Receiving | Yards / catch | 7.6 | #940/1106 | 15th pct | Efficiencyvs FBS WR |
| Usage | Pass share | 9.6% | #504/1137 | 56th pct | Air-game usagevs FBS WR |
| Rushing | Rushing yards | 134 | #13/397 | 97th pct | Volumevs FBS WR |
| Rushing | Carries | 46 | #6/407 | 99th pct | Volumevs FBS WR |
| Rushing | Rushing LONG | 16 | #93/346 | 73rd pct | Metricvs FBS WR |
| Rushing | Yards / carry | 2.9 | #265/393 | 33rd pct | Efficiencyvs FBS WR |
| Rushing | Rush TD | 1 | #19/411 | 96th pct | Scoringvs FBS WR |
| Receiving | Receiving LONG | 32 | #576/1105 | 48th pct | Metricvs FBS WR |
| Usage | 1st-down usage | 14.1% | #16/1137 | 99th pct | Early-down loadvs FBS WR |
| Usage | Rush share | 13.9% | #2/1137 | 100th pct | Ground-game usagevs FBS WR |
| Usage | 2nd-down usage | 13.0% | #35/1137 | 97th pct | Middle-down loadvs FBS WR |
| Usage | Standard-down usage | 13.0% | #16/1137 | 99th pct | Base-situation sharevs FBS WR |
| Usage | Role share | 11.6% | #48/1137 | 96th pct | Share of team offensevs FBS WR |
| Usage | Passing-down usage | 9.1% | #297/1137 | 74th pct | Known-passing sharevs FBS WR |
| Usage | 3rd-down usage | 6.0% | #550/1137 | 52nd pct | Money-down loadvs FBS WR |
| Value | Rushing WEPA | +0.07 | #7/8 | 25th pct | Opponent-adjusted rushing value | 48 weighted playsvs FBS WR |
| Ball Security | Fumbles lost | 0 | #1/302 | 100th pct | Turnoversvs FBS WR |
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
Heisman model tracks the top FBS contenders weekly; this player hasn't entered the watch list yet.
Splits · Per-game
2025 season · 11 games
Home vs Road
| REC/g | YDS/g | YPR | TD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home6g | 2.0 | 15.3 | 7.4 | 0.2 |
| Road5g | 1.8 | 13.4 | 6.0 | 0.0 |
Win vs Loss
| REC/g | YDS/g | YPR | TD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wins2g | 1.5 | 13.0 | 6.8 | 0.0 |
| Losses9g | 2.0 | 14.8 | 6.8 | 0.1 |
First half vs Second half
| REC/g | YDS/g | YPR | TD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-76g | 1.8 | 15.8 | 7.9 | 0.2 |
| Weeks 8+5g | 2.0 | 12.8 | 5.2 | 0.0 |
Pocket and defense-quality (clean vs. pressure) splits are coming soon.
Savant · Box-rate percentiles
Where this profile ranks vs the WR cohort
Elite: rush yards (96th). Strength: rush tds (85th). Concern: yards / catch (2nd).
Percentiles versus same-position peers with enough snaps this season, based on box-score rates.
Advanced Savant · WR · 2024
Advanced opponent-adjusted percentile bars are coming soon for this player.
Opponent-adjusted advanced metrics with a cohort filter.
Peer Comparator · Fingerprint match
Three closest profiles by box-rate percentile
Closest peers by overall box-score percentile profile at the same position.
Player DNA
Reliable target who converts on critical downs. Not flashy; consistently productive.
His 2025 production profile sits closest to Austin Upshaw’s 2020 season.
Austin Upshaw
Justius Lowe
Thai Chiaokhiao-Bowman
Gary Givens III
Demarcus Jones
Matches Austin on
Differs from Austin on
Through 2 college seasons, his career arc tracks closest to Rico Bussey Jr.’s path through Hawai'i.
Rico Bussey Jr.
Caleb Burke
Daniel Crawford
Landon Wolf
Owen Glascoe
Matches Rico on
As a sophomore, his production profile tracks closest to Antonio Harris's sophomore season at Purdue (2025).
Antonio Harris
Taylor Bradshaw
Ben Ratzlaff
Javon Swinton
Jamel Hardy
Matches Antonio on
Differs from Antonio on
Supporting Cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Deion Sanders
Pass share
45.6%
356 pass / 424 run
Plays / game
65.0
12 games
OL sack rate (allowed)
12.5%
320 dropbacks · PBP
Scheme: Run-leaning.
Coaching Lineage · 2024–2025
1 coachPlayed his entire career under Deion Sanders.
Off-field context — switch tabs to drill into recruit profile, transfer arc, or roster timeline.
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Every honor on the ledger, broken out by stream and selector.
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.
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. | ||||
Modeled rank and official finish by season.
| Season | Team | Role | Latest Model | Forecast | Win | Finalist | Official Finish | Points | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Colorado | WR2 | #489 | #483 | 0.0% | 0.0% | -- | -- | W16 snapshot | Big 12 |
Team, conference, and class by season.