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Heisman / Players / Heinrich Haarberg /Nebraska

Heinrich Haarberg

TE · Nebraska · Sr · #10

Below the discourse floor — the honest stats-only state.

52 REC YDS · 8 REC · 1 REC TD

2026 RETURNINGReturning to Nebraska for 2026

2026 Outlook

Returning to Nebraska for 2026

2026 Depth chart

Projected starter

Tight end · Nebraska

Returning around him

  • 59% of 2024 offensive production back (Solid continuity)
  • 1 Nebraska player drafted to NFL
  • Transfer portal: -3 net (16 in / 19 out)

2026 Award watch

No preseason watch lists yet (most drop June 15 – July 15)

Nebraska · Last season: 7-6 (AP #25) · Talent rank #20 · 2026 recruiting class #22

TE · NEBRASKA · BIG TEN

Heinrich Haarberg

  • 4
  • #10
  • 6-5 | 230 lb
  • Kearney, NE

CFB Zeitgeist Score

13

Below cohort in the position cohort. Carried by rush yards at the 67th percentile.

Heisman Heat

#1169

<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 TE AWARD

Mackey

CONSENSUS

All-American

Player Standing · 17 rungs

Tier 2 · Starter

R06 · Starter

Starter. A locked-in starting role.

Not on team2-deepStarterRecognizedEliteApex

Development Trajectory · receiving yards

2023–2025
12.02023
16.02024
52.02025

+333%

Up 333% from first season to most-recent.

Career Arc

HS
Recruit
★★★
#600 national
CFB
College
Nebraska
2023–2025
NFL
NFL Draft
Not drafted (yet)

Identity & Role

The durable bio layer: position, size, hometown, and roster role.

PositionTE
Class4
Jersey10
Measurements6-5 | 230 lb
HometownKearney, NE
Primary teamNebraska

Recruiting Pedigree

How big the prospect was before college, and whether the later career arc beat that expectation.

Top pedigree 3-star No. 600 recruit
Composite rating 0.8741 HighSchool
Signed with -- 2021
Origin Kearney Catholic Kearney, NE, USA
Class Profile Context
2021 3-star | 0.8741 No. 600 recruit | HighSchool

Transfer Arc

Portal movement changes role, context, and perception. This keeps that path in one place.

Portal moves 0 No portal entry on file
Latest destination -- --
Transfer stars -- CFBD transfer rating context
Eligibility -- Transfer date TBD
Season Move Context
No transfer portal moves on file for this player.

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 16
Current nowcast#1169Latest modeled ballot order
Season forecast#1134Where the full season sim points
Win probability0.0%Chance to actually win the trophy
Finalist probability0.0%Chance to make the finalist tier
Ballot probability0.0%Chance to appear anywhere on a ballot
Best official finish--Best completed Heisman placement on file

Heisman 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 —

Composite

0.8741

#600 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

PENDING

The 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 Heinrich Haarberg

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 Heinrich Haarberg

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.

A 3-act season arc returns once this player has six or more games on the ledger.

Season Pace · Projection

Where the receiving totals stand

projecting to 13-game
Through 10g
52Rec yards
8Receptions
1Rec TDs
Per game
5.2Rec yards
1Receptions
0Rec TDs
Projected (13g)
67.6Rec yards
10Receptions
1Rec TDs

To hit 700-yard receiver (currently 52): needs 216/game over remaining 3.

To hit 1,000-yard receiver (currently 52): needs 316/game over remaining 3.

To hit 60-catch season (currently 8): needs 17.3/game over remaining 3.

To hit 80-catch season (currently 8): needs 24/game over remaining 3.

To hit 8 receiving TDs (currently 1): needs 2.3/game over remaining 3.

To hit 10 receiving TDs (currently 1): needs 3/game over remaining 3.

What made this player interesting

The fast read on the thing that makes this player more than a generic stat line.

Heinrich Haarberg's story is about how role and output meet each other. For Nebraska, 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.

Current place #1169 0.0% win | 0.0% finalist
Role load 3.2% Overall usage share
Profile quirk Development arc The card should explain why this profile stands out

2025 Season · Final

Traditional stats first. Advanced context underneath.

Last season

TE season snapshot

2025 season snapshot | final

2025 season snapshot | finalData: CFBD player stats + local Heisman modelPeer context: same position + same level
Receptions 8 1 rec TD | #215/475 (55th pct)
Receiving yards 52 6.5 per catch | #267/475 (44th pct)
Scrimmage yards 61 Total offensive yardage | #267/475 (44th pct)
Player identity What kind of player is this?

30-second read

What kind of player is this?

Receiving weapon against FBS receiving peers.

Balanced profile

2025 Season · Final

2025 season snapshot | final

Receiving

REC
8 55th
YDS
52 44th
YPR
6.5 18th
TD
1 71st

Rushing

CAR
9 92nd
YDS
9 62nd
YPC
1.0 40th
TD
0 69th

Game Log · Week-by-week

2025 season · 10 games

Box score · CFBD
WkOppRECYDSAVGTDLONGNote
Wk 1W 20-17@ Cincinnati
Wk 2W 68-0vs Akron199.009
Wk 3W 59-7vs Houston Christian11313.0013
Wk 4L 27-30vs Michigan3186.019Season-high 18 yds
Wk 6W 38-27vs Michigan State1-2-2.000
Wk 7W 34-31@ Maryland11313.0013
Wk 9W 28-21vs Northwestern
Wk 10L 17-21vs USC111.001
Wk 11W 28-21@ UCLA
Wk 14L 16-40vs Iowa
Total8526.7113
Season-by-season tables Career rows + per-season box score

Traditional history

Traditional Stats

Season rows up top, career context at the bottom.

Season rows Career row

Season context · Team result + system

2023Nebraska5-7HC: Matt Rhule · Run-heavy, slow tempo
2024Nebraska7-6HC: Matt Rhule · Balanced
2025Nebraska7-6HC: Matt Rhule · Run-leaning
SeasonTeam
2025Nebraska8526.51--
2024Nebraska2168.00--
2023Nebraska2126.00--
Career3 loaded seasons12806.71--
Advanced layer Usage, value, and context

Advanced metrics second

Advanced Metrics

Usage, value, and opponent-adjusted context.

Usage Value Context
Pass share

The tight end's share of the passing offense, which helps distinguish a featured receiving tight end from a secondary option.

Role share

A blended usage view that shows how often the offense flows through the tight end compared with other same-level peers.

Peer percentile

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.

Traditional first

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.

Usage 3.2% 4.2% pass-game share | #336/468 (28th pct)
Return yards 0 0 return TD
Touchdowns 1 Across offense and returns | #140/475 (71st pct)
Open full stat explorer
0 metrics visible Showing all metrics
Group Metric Value Rank Pct Why it matters
Receiving Receptions 8 #215/475 55th pct Volumevs FBS TE
Receiving Receiving yards 52 #267/475 44th pct Volumevs FBS TE
Receiving Receiving TD 1 #140/475 71st pct Scoringvs FBS TE
Receiving Yards / catch 6.5 #389/475 18th pct Efficiencyvs FBS TE
Usage Pass share 4.2% #336/468 28th pct Air-game usagevs FBS TE
Rushing Carries 9 #6/59 92nd pct Volumevs FBS TE
Rushing Rushing yards 9 #21/53 62nd pct Volumevs FBS TE
Rushing Rushing LONG 2 #30/50 42nd pct Metricvs FBS TE
Rushing Yards / carry 1.0 #33/53 40th pct Efficiencyvs FBS TE
Rushing Rush TD 0 #20/62 69th pct Scoringvs FBS TE
Receiving Receiving LONG 13 #354/475 26th pct Metricvs FBS TE
Usage 3rd-down usage 5.7% #121/468 74th pct Money-down loadvs FBS TE
Usage Standard-down usage 3.6% #157/468 67th pct Base-situation sharevs FBS TE
Usage Role share 3.2% #200/468 57th pct Share of team offensevs FBS TE
Usage Rush share 2.4% #10/468 98th pct Ground-game usagevs FBS TE
Usage Passing-down usage 2.2% #321/468 32nd pct Known-passing sharevs FBS TE
Usage 2nd-down usage 2.1% #331/468 29th pct Middle-down loadvs FBS TE
Usage 1st-down usage 1.8% #323/468 31st pct Early-down loadvs FBS TE
Ball Security Fumbles lost 1 #34/55 40th pct Turnoversvs FBS TE

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

StatusAwaiting tracker

The Mackey award tracker integrates per-week probability once a dedicated scraper for this award lands. Confirmed past winners and finalists for this player will surface here.

Splits · Per-game

2025 season · 10 games

Home/Road · Win/Loss · Season halves

Home vs Road

REC/gYDS/gYPRTD/g
Home7g1.05.65.40.1
Road3g0.34.313.00.0

Win vs Loss

REC/gYDS/gYPRTD/g
Wins7g0.64.78.20.0
Losses3g1.36.33.50.3

First half vs Second half

REC/gYDS/gYPRTD/g
Weeks 1-76g1.28.57.80.2
Weeks 8+4g0.20.21.00.0

Pocket and defense-quality (clean vs. pressure) splits are coming soon.

Savant · Box-rate percentiles

Where this profile ranks vs the TE cohort

13Below cohort
8 metrics · season cumulative

Concern: receptions (0th).

Rush yards#12 / 33 · 67th pct
9rush
Rush TDs#14 / 33 · 30th pct
0rush
Fumbles lost#18 / 33 · 27th pct
1fumb
Rec TDs#126 / 175 · 21st pct
1rece
Yards / catch#172 / 175 · 2nd pct
6.5rece
Long catch#174 / 175 · 1st pct
13rece
Rec yards#176 / 175 · 0th pct
52rece
Receptions#176 / 175 · 0th pct
8rece

Percentiles versus same-position peers with enough snaps this season, based on box-score rates.

Advanced Savant · TE · 2024

Percentile Card

Advanced opponent-adjusted percentile bars are coming soon for this player.

P4G5All FBS
EPA / dropback
awaiting
CPOE
awaiting
Success rate
awaiting
Explosive rate (20+)
awaiting
aDOT
awaiting
Deep-ball accuracy
awaiting
Pressure-to-sack
awaiting
3rd-down EPA
awaiting
Red-zone TD rate
awaiting
Play-action EPA
awaiting
Scramble EPA
awaiting
Turnover-worthy play rate
awaiting

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

3 peers · 8 metrics
Heinrich HaarbergNebraskaBryce CaufieldOregon State· 64% simHayden HansenFlorida· 61% simTyler FortenberryArkansas State· 53% sim
Rush yards
67
Haarberg
Rush TDs
30
Haarberg
Fumbles lost
27
Haarberg
27
Caufield
27
Hansen
Rec TDs
21
Haarberg
21
Caufield
43
Hansen
43
Fortenberry
Yards / catch
2
Haarberg
7
Caufield
16
Hansen
26
Fortenberry
Long catch
1
Haarberg
39
Caufield
32
Hansen
32
Fortenberry
Rec yards
0
Haarberg
44
Caufield
54
Hansen
58
Fortenberry
Receptions
0
Haarberg
66
Caufield
69
Hansen
75
Fortenberry

Closest peers by overall box-score percentile profile at the same position.

Player DNA

The Complete TE

Dual-threat: blocks when needed, catches when needed. Coveted on both sides.

TE

His 2025 production profile sits closest to Tyler Fromm’s 2021 season.

Tyler Fromm

77%match

Auburn · 2021

#2

Brooks Johnson

Coastal Carolina · 2025

77%
#3

Dylan Leonard

Georgia Tech · 2023

72%
#4

Riley Smith

Boise State · 2023

71%
#5

Caleb Phillips

Hawai'i · 2021

71%

Matches Tyler on

TD rate
Total EPA (college ability)
Yards / reception

Differs from Tyler on

EPA / play (adj) (lower)
Recruiting rating (lower)

Not enough data yet for this comparison.

As a junior, his production profile tracks closest to Brooks Johnson's junior season at Coastal Carolina (2025).

Brooks Johnson

76%match

Coastal Carolina · 2025

#2

Evan Svoboda

Wyoming · 2025

73%
#3

Chase Curtis

TCU · 2023

71%
#4

Andre Johnson

Arizona State · 2022

71%
#5

A.J. Barner

Indiana · 2022

70%

Matches Brooks on

Reception volume
Yards / reception
TD rate

Differs from Brooks on

Class year (higher)
Recruiting rating (higher)

Supporting Cast · Scheme

Staff and system around the player

2025 season

Head Coach

Matt Rhule

Pass share

46.4%

378 pass / 437 run

Plays / game

62.7

13 games

OL sack rate (allowed)

9.5%

315 dropbacks · PBP

Scheme: Run-leaning.

Coaching Lineage · 2023–2025

1 coach
2023
Matt Rhule
Nebraska
2024
Matt Rhule
Nebraska
2025
Matt Rhule
Nebraska

Played his entire career under Matt Rhule.

Bio · Recruiting · Transfer · Roster

Off-field context — switch tabs to drill into recruit profile, transfer arc, or roster timeline.

HometownKearney, NE
Height6'5"
Weight230 lb
Class4
PositionTE
Jersey10

Trophy Case · Detail

Every honor on the ledger, broken out by stream and selector.

Honors

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 Nebraska TE4 #1169 #1134 0.0% 0.0% -- -- W16 snapshot | Big Ten
2023 Nebraska TE4 #3074 #3369 0.0% 0.0% -- -- W19 snapshot | Big Ten
2022 Nebraska TE4 #3893 #4003 0.0% 0.0% -- -- W20 snapshot | Big Ten
2021 Nebraska TE4 #3533 #3479 0.0% 0.0% -- -- W20 snapshot | Big Ten

Roster Timeline

Team, conference, and class by season.

Season Team Conference Pos Class Bio
2025 Nebraska Big Ten TE 4 No. 10 | 6-5 | 230 lb | Kearney, NE
2024 Nebraska Big Ten TE 4 No. 10 | 6-5 | 230 lb | Kearney, NE
2023 Nebraska Big Ten TE 4 No. 10 | 6-5 | 230 lb | Kearney, NE
2022 Nebraska Big Ten TE 4 No. 10 | 6-5 | 230 lb | Kearney, NE
2021 Nebraska Big Ten TE 4 No. 10 | 6-5 | 230 lb | Kearney, NE