CFB Zeitgeist Score
46
Mid-pack in the position cohort. Carried by rec tds at the 68th percentile.
Gary Bryant Jr.
Below the discourse floor — the honest stats-only state.
306 REC YDS · 26 REC · 4 REC TD
2026 Outlook
Returning to Oregon for 2026
2026 Depth chart
Projected starter
Wide receiver · Oregon
Returning around him
- 19% of 2024 offensive production back (Heavy turnover)
- 7 Oregon players drafted to NFL
- Transfer portal: -17 net (13 in / 30 out)
2026 Award watch
No preseason watch lists yet (most drop June 15 – July 15)
Oregon · Last season: 13-2 (AP #5) · Talent rank #5 · 2026 recruiting class #5
WR · OREGON · BIG TEN
Gary Bryant Jr.
- 4
- #2
- 5-11 | 191 lb
- Riverside, CA
Heisman Heat
#1265
<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 · StarterR06 · Starter
Starter. A locked-in starting role.
Not on team2-deepStarterRecognizedEliteApex
Development Trajectory · receiving yards
2021–2025-47%
Sharp dropoff (-47%) — career inflection point.
Career Arc
HS
Recruit
★★★★
CFB
College
2 teams
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 | 4-star | 0.9766 | No. 46 recruit | HighSchool | USC |
Transfer Arc
Portal movement changes role, context, and perception. This keeps that path in one place.
| Season | Move | Context |
|---|---|---|
| 2023 | USC -> Oregon | 4-star | 0.9000 | 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 USC
Composite
0.9766
#46 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 Gary Bryant Jr.
Fan sentiment ·
Belief Meter
50
Mixed Sentiment
Top Take
“”
Trajectory
Per-cohort trajectory lands when historical bucket data is aggregated.
Cohort divergence map
- Own fans · n=3
Rival Radar
How rival fanbases talk about Gary Bryant Jr.
No rival-bucket mentions in the current season.
2025 Signature · 2025 season
Yards per reception
11.8
yds
All FBS WRs, min 20 receptions
National rank #300 of 531
Percentile vs All FBS WRs, min 20 receptions 44th
Why it matters
#300 of 531 All FBS WRs at 11.8 yards per reception (26 catches).
Vs cohort
This player 11.8 (44th)
MODERATE · n=26 cohort 531
- Also strong
- Receiving TDs#161 / 531
- Receiving yards (total)#386 / 531
Signature Moment
Week 4 vs Oregon State — 65 ypr
Result W 41-7
The week the volume broke through — put up 65 yds vs Oregon State.
Season Pace · Projection
Where the receiving totals stand
Through 11g
306Rec yards
26Receptions
4Rec TDs
Per game
27.8Rec yards
2Receptions
0Rec TDs
Projected (13g)
361.6Rec yards
31Receptions
5Rec TDs
To hit 700-yard receiver (currently 306): needs 197/game over remaining 2.
To hit 1,000-yard receiver (currently 306): needs 347/game over remaining 2.
To hit 60-catch season (currently 26): needs 17/game over remaining 2.
To hit 80-catch season (currently 26): needs 27/game over remaining 2.
To hit 8 receiving TDs (currently 4): needs 2/game over remaining 2.
To hit 10 receiving TDs (currently 4): needs 3/game over remaining 2.
What made this player interesting
The fast read on the thing that makes this player more than a generic stat line.
Gary Bryant Jr.'s story is about how role and output meet each other. For Oregon, 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?
All-purpose weapon against FBS receiving peers.
2025 Season · Final
2025 season snapshot | final
Receiving
REC
26 70th
YDS
306 68th
YPR
11.8 49th
TD
4 86th
Returns
PR YDS
98 74th
PR AVG
7.0 44th
Game Log · Week-by-week
2025 season · 11 games
| Wk | Opp | REC | YDS | AVG | TD | LONG | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | W 59-13vs Montana State | 4 | 31 | 7.8 | 1 | 14 | |
| Wk 2 | W 69-3vs Oklahoma State | 3 | 46 | 15.3 | 1 | 28 | |
| Wk 3 | W 34-14@ Northwestern | — | — | — | — | — | |
| Wk 4 | W 41-7vs Oregon State | 3 | 65 | 21.7 | 1 | 49 | Season-high 65 yds |
| Wk 5 | W 30-24@ Penn State | 6 | 55 | 9.2 | 1 | 25 | |
| Wk 7 | L 20-30vs Indiana | 4 | 37 | 9.3 | 0 | 18 | |
| Wk 8 | W 56-10@ Rutgers | 2 | 32 | 16.0 | 0 | 24 | |
| Wk 9 | W 21-7vs Wisconsin | 2 | 11 | 5.5 | 0 | 7 | |
| Wk 11 | W 18-16@ Iowa | 1 | 22 | 22.0 | 0 | 22 | |
| Bowl | W 23-0@ Texas Tech | 1 | 7 | 7.0 | 0 | 7 | |
| Bowl | L 22-56@ Indiana | — | — | — | — | — | |
| Total | 26 | 306 | 12.6 | 4 | 49 |
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
2021USC4-8HC: Donte Williams · Balanced, fast tempo
2022USC11-3HC: Lincoln Riley · Balanced
2023Oregon12-2HC: Dan Lanning · Balanced
2024Oregon13-1HC: Dan Lanning · Balanced
2025Oregon13-2HC: Dan Lanning · Run-leaning
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 | 26 | #335/1110 | 70th pct | Volumevs FBS WR |
| Receiving | Receiving yards | 306 | #355/1107 | 68th pct | Volumevs FBS WR |
| Receiving | Receiving TD | 4 | #152/1111 | 86th pct | Scoringvs FBS WR |
| Receiving | Yards / catch | 11.8 | #562/1106 | 49th pct | Efficiencyvs FBS WR |
| Returns | Punt return yards | 98 | #60/224 | 74th pct | Volumevs FBS WR |
| Usage | Pass share | 11.6% | #400/1137 | 65th pct | Air-game usagevs FBS WR |
| Receiving | Receiving LONG | 49 | #283/1105 | 74th pct | Metricvs FBS WR |
| Returns | Punt returns | 14 | #42/237 | 83rd pct | Volumevs FBS WR |
| Returns | Punt return avg | 7.0 | #126/222 | 44th pct | Efficiencyvs FBS WR |
| Usage | 3rd-down usage | 10.0% | #219/1137 | 81st pct | Money-down loadvs FBS WR |
| Usage | Passing-down usage | 6.7% | #491/1137 | 57th pct | Known-passing sharevs FBS WR |
| Usage | Role share | 5.0% | #482/1137 | 58th pct | Share of team offensevs FBS WR |
| Usage | Standard-down usage | 4.5% | #450/1137 | 61st pct | Base-situation sharevs FBS WR |
| Usage | 1st-down usage | 4.3% | #509/1137 | 55th pct | Early-down loadvs FBS WR |
| Usage | 2nd-down usage | 2.6% | #851/1137 | 25th pct | Middle-down loadvs FBS WR |
| Usage | Rush share | 0.0% | #391/1137 | 66th pct | Ground-game usagevs FBS WR |
| Ball Security | Fumbles lost | 1 | #131/302 | 57th pct | Turnoversvs 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 · 11 games
Home vs Road
| REC/g | YDS/g | YPR | TD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home5g | 3.2 | 38.0 | 11.9 | 0.6 |
| Road6g | 1.7 | 19.3 | 13.6 | 0.2 |
Win vs Loss
| REC/g | YDS/g | YPR | TD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wins9g | 2.4 | 29.9 | 13.1 | 0.4 |
| Losses2g | 2.0 | 18.5 | 9.3 | 0.0 |
First half vs Second half
| REC/g | YDS/g | YPR | TD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-78g | 2.6 | 30.1 | 11.7 | 0.5 |
| Weeks 8+3g | 1.7 | 21.7 | 14.5 | 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
46Mid-pack
Production sits in the middle of the position cohort across the board.
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
Gary Bryant Jr.OregonRyan DavisUtah· 71% simAsaad WaseemFlorida Atlantic· 69% simAnthony Evans IIIMississippi State· 68% sim
Rec TDs
Long catch
Receptions
Yards / catch
Rec yards
Fumbles lost
Closest peers by overall box-score percentile profile at the same position.
Player DNA
The Possession Receiver
Reliable target who converts on critical downs. Not flashy; consistently productive.
WR
His 2025 production profile sits closest to Cade McDonald’s 2023 season.
Cade McDonald
79%match
#2
Barion Brown
All-SECNFL Rd 6
76%
#3
Braden Lenzy
76%
#4
Tony Johnson
74%
#5
Isiah Cox
74%
Matches Cade on
Yards / reception
Total EPA (college ability)
EPA / play (adj)
Differs from Cade on
TD rate (higher)
Through 4 college seasons, his career arc tracks closest to Malik Murray’s path through East Tennessee State.
Malik Murray
99%match
#2
Julius Young
98%
#3
Darien Chase
95%
#4
Jarrod Barnes
94%
#5
Kobe Clark
94%
Matches Malik on
Yards per reception
Supporting Cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Dan Lanning
Pass share
44.9%
436 pass / 534 run
Plays / game
64.7
15 games
OL sack rate (allowed)
4.8%
250 dropbacks · PBP
Scheme: Run-leaning.
Coaching Lineage · 2021–2025
2 coaches2021
Bryan McClendon
Oregon
2022era →
Dan Lanning
Oregon
2023
Dan Lanning
Oregon
2024
Dan Lanning
Oregon
2025
Dan Lanning
Oregon
Coaching transition mid-career: Bryan McClendon → Dan Lanning. 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.
HometownRiverside, CA
Height5'11"
Weight191 lb
Class4
PositionWR
Jersey2
No fields populated yet.
No fields populated yet.
Current teamOregon
ConferenceBig Ten
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 | Oregon | WR4 | #1265 | #973 | 0.0% | 0.0% | -- | -- | W16 snapshot | Big Ten |
| 2023 | Oregon | WR4 | #195 | #170 | 0.0% | 0.0% | -- | -- | W19 snapshot | Pac-12 |
| 2022 | USC | WR4 | #1870 | #1426 | 0.0% | 0.0% | -- | -- | W20 snapshot | Pac-12 |
| 2021 | USC | WR4 | #440 | #553 | 0.0% | 0.0% | -- | -- | W20 snapshot | Pac-12 |
Roster Timeline
Team, conference, and class by season.
| Season | Team | Conference | Pos | Class | Bio |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Oregon | Big Ten | WR | 4 | No. 2 | 5-11 | 191 lb | Riverside, CA |
| 2024 | Oregon | Big Ten | WR | 4 | No. 2 | 5-11 | 191 lb | Riverside, CA |
| 2023 | Oregon | Pac-12 | WR | 4 | No. 2 | 5-11 | 191 lb | Riverside, CA |
| 2022 | USC | Pac-12 | WR | 4 | No. 2 | 5-11 | 191 lb | Riverside, CA |
| 2021 | USC | Pac-12 | WR | 4 | No. 2 | 5-11 | 191 lb | Riverside, CA |