CFB Zeitgeist QB Score
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Hayden Wolff
Limited signal — not enough coverage for a story yet.
QB · WESTERN MICHIGAN · MID-AMERICAN
Hayden Wolff
- 4
- #11
- 6-5 | 235 lb
- Venice, FL
Heisman Heat
#1843
<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 0 · Not on teamR01 · Scout team / redshirt
Scout team / redshirt. Developing behind the depth chart.
Not on team2-deepStarterRecognizedEliteApex
Development Trajectory · passing yards
2021–2023-22%
Sharp dropoff (-22%) — career inflection point.
Career Arc
HS
Recruit
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| No recruiting profile is on file for this player. | ||
Transfer Arc
Portal movement changes role, context, and perception. This keeps that path in one place.
| Season | Move | Context |
|---|---|---|
| 2023 | Old Dominion -> Western Michigan | 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.
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 Hayden Wolff
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 Hayden Wolff
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.
Scenario Explorer
Available for players with a qualifying signature metric (passing yards, rushing yards, receiving yards, sacks, etc.). The slider projects how a season finishes if the current pace holds.
What made this player interesting
The fast read on the thing that makes this player more than a generic stat line.
Hayden Wolff's story is about how role and output meet each other. For Western Michigan, 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.
2023 Season · Final
Traditional stats first. Advanced context underneath.
Last season
QB season snapshot
2023 season snapshot | final
2023 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?
Steady volume | Efficient | Pocket-leaning against FBS QB peers. The quickest read is whether the profile wins on volume, efficiency, explosiveness, or rushing value.
2023 Season · Final
2023 season snapshot | final
Passing Efficiency
CMP
148 73rd
ATT
226 73rd
CMP%
65.5% 67th
Y/A
6.7 45th
Passing Production
YDS
1,505 71st
TD
8 68th
INT
5 32nd
Rushing
CAR
44 66th
YDS
17 38th
YPC
0.4 20th
TD
2 73rd
Game Log
Week-by-week box
No per-game rows for this season yet — the table fills in as box scores arrive.
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
2021Old Dominion6-6HC: Ricky Rahne · Run-leaning, fast tempo
2022Old Dominion3-9HC: Ricky Rahne · Pass-leaning, slow tempo
2023Western Michigan4-8HC: Lance Taylor · Run-leaning
| Season | Team | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | Western Michigan | 148 | 226 | 65.5% | 1,505 | 6.7 | 8 | 5 | 128.7 | -- | -- |
| 2022 | Old Dominion | 234 | 409 | 57.2% | 2,919 | 7.1 | 18 | 6 | 128.8 | -- | -- |
| 2021 | Old Dominion | 159 | 253 | 62.8% | 1,933 | 7.6 | 10 | 7 | 134.5 | -- | -- |
| Career | 3 loaded seasons | 541 | 888 | 60.9% | 6,357 | 7.2 | 36 | 18 | 130.4 | -- | -- |
| Season | Team | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | Western Michigan | 44 | 17 | 0.4 | 2 | -- |
| 2022 | Old Dominion | 62 | -74 | -1.2 | 1 | -- |
| 2021 | Old Dominion | 14 | -92 | -6.6 | 0 | -- |
| Career | 3 loaded seasons | 120 | -149 | -1.2 | 3 | -- |
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 | 1,505 | #113/382 | 71st pct | Volumevs FBS QB |
| Passing | Pass TD | 8 | #130/407 | 68th pct | Scoringvs FBS QB |
| Passing | Completions | 148 | #104/383 | 73rd pct | Volumevs FBS QB |
| Passing | Completion % | 65.5% | #126/383 | 67th pct | Efficiencyvs FBS QB |
| Passing | Yards / attempt | 6.7 | #210/382 | 45th pct | Efficiencyvs FBS QB |
| Rushing | Rushing yards | 17 | #255/408 | 38th pct | Volumevs FBS QB |
| Value | Passing WEPA | +0.44 | #14/200 | 94th pct | Opponent-adjusted passing value | 255 weighted playsvs FBS QB |
| Usage | Role share | 42.0% | #138/428 | 68th pct | Share of team offensevs FBS QB |
| Passing | Attempts | 226 | #111/407 | 73rd pct | Volumevs FBS QB |
| Passing | Interceptions | 5 | #276/407 | 32nd pct | Turnoversvs FBS QB |
| Rushing | Carries | 44 | #139/408 | 66th pct | Volumevs FBS QB |
| Rushing | Rushing LONG | 20 | #177/391 | 55th pct | Metricvs FBS QB |
| Rushing | Rush TD | 2 | #113/408 | 73rd pct | Scoringvs FBS QB |
| Rushing | Yards / carry | 0.4 | #326/407 | 20th pct | Efficiencyvs FBS QB |
| Usage | Pass share | 85.8% | #90/428 | 79th pct | Air-game usagevs FBS QB |
| Usage | Passing-down usage | 59.2% | #114/428 | 74th pct | Known-passing sharevs FBS QB |
| Usage | 3rd-down usage | 53.7% | #135/428 | 69th pct | Money-down loadvs FBS QB |
| Usage | 2nd-down usage | 41.9% | #133/428 | 69th pct | Middle-down loadvs FBS QB |
| Usage | 1st-down usage | 36.9% | #125/428 | 71st pct | Early-down loadvs FBS QB |
| Usage | Standard-down usage | 33.7% | #144/428 | 67th pct | Base-situation sharevs FBS QB |
| Usage | Rush share | 0.3% | #391/428 | 9th pct | Ground-game usagevs FBS QB |
| Ball Security | Fumbles lost | 0 | #1/258 | 100th 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 splits
Splits fill in once box scores from at least three games land for this season.
Advanced Savant · QB · 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.
Supporting Cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Lance Taylor
Pass share
33.3%
304 pass / 609 run
Plays / game
65.2
14 games
OL sack rate (allowed)
9.3%
248 dropbacks · PBP
Scheme: Run-heavy.
Coaching Lineage · 2021–2023
2 coaches2021
Tim Lester
Western Michigan
2022
Tim Lester
Western Michigan
2023era →
Lance Taylor
Western Michigan
Coaching transition mid-career: Tim Lester → Lance Taylor. 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.
HometownVenice, FL
Height6'5"
Weight235 lb
Class4
PositionQB
Jersey11
No fields populated yet.
No fields populated yet.
Current teamWestern Michigan
ConferenceMid-American
Joined2024
Career arc4 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 | Western Michigan | QB4 | #1843 | #2189 | 0.0% | 0.0% | -- | -- | W16 snapshot | Mid-American |
| 2023 | Western Michigan | QB4 | #718 | #992 | 0.0% | 0.0% | -- | -- | W19 snapshot | Mid-American |
| 2022 | Old Dominion | QB4 | #745 | #1093 | 0.0% | 0.0% | -- | -- | W20 snapshot | Sun Belt |
| 2021 | Old Dominion | QB4 | #598 | #790 | 0.0% | 0.0% | -- | -- | W20 snapshot | Conference USA |
Roster Timeline
Team, conference, and class by season.
| Season | Team | Conference | Pos | Class | Bio |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Western Michigan | Mid-American | QB | 4 | No. 11 | 6-5 | 235 lb | Venice, FL |
| 2023 | Western Michigan | Mid-American | QB | 4 | No. 11 | 6-5 | 235 lb | Venice, FL |
| 2022 | Old Dominion | Sun Belt | QB | 4 | No. 11 | 6-5 | 235 lb | Venice, FL |
| 2021 | Old Dominion | Conference USA | QB | 4 | No. 11 | 6-5 | 235 lb | Venice, FL |