CFB Zeitgeist QB Score
Awaiting
Jake Garcia
Limited signal — not enough coverage for a story yet.
In Portal · 2026
In transfer portal
2025Michigan
DestinationTBD
QB · MICHIGAN · BIG TEN
Jake Garcia
- 4
- #12
- 6-2 | 210 lb
- Whittier, CA
Heisman Heat
#1321
<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 1 · 2-deepR03 · Backup
Backup. On the two-deep, pushing for snaps.
Not on team2-deepStarterRecognizedEliteApex
Development Trajectory · passing yards
2021–2022+446%
Up 446% from first season to most-recent.
Career Arc
HS
Recruit
★★★★
CFB
College
Miami
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 |
|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 4-star | 0.9761 | No. 48 recruit | HighSchool | Miami |
Transfer Arc
Portal movement changes role, context, and perception. This keeps that path in one place.
| Season | Move | Context |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Michigan -> -- | 4-star | Immediate |
| 2025 | East Carolina -> Michigan | 3-star | 0.8300 | Immediate |
| 2024 | Missouri -> East Carolina | 3-star | 0.8600 | Immediate |
| 2023 | Miami -> Missouri | 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 Miami
Composite
0.9761
#48 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 Jake Garcia
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 Jake Garcia
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.
Jake Garcia's story is about how role and output meet each other. For 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.
2022 Season · Final
Traditional stats first. Advanced context underneath.
Last season
QB season snapshot
2022 season snapshot | final
2022 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.
2022 Season · Final
2022 season snapshot | final
Passing Efficiency
CMP
68 60th
ATT
112 62nd
CMP%
60.7% 48th
Y/A
7.2 59th
Passing Production
YDS
803 61st
TD
5 64th
INT
4 36th
Rushing
CAR
25 53rd
YDS
-75 2nd
YPC
-3.0 4th
TD
0 44th
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
2021Miami7-5HC: Jess Simpson · Balanced
2022Miami5-7HC: Mario Cristobal · Balanced
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 | 803 | #151/382 | 61st pct | Volumevs FBS QB |
| Passing | Pass TD | 5 | #149/407 | 64th pct | Scoringvs FBS QB |
| Passing | Completions | 68 | #155/383 | 60th pct | Volumevs FBS QB |
| Passing | Completion % | 60.7% | #199/383 | 48th pct | Efficiencyvs FBS QB |
| Passing | Yards / attempt | 7.2 | #156/382 | 59th pct | Efficiencyvs FBS QB |
| Rushing | Rushing yards | -75 | #402/408 | 2nd pct | Volumevs FBS QB |
| Usage | Role share | 21.4% | #209/428 | 51st pct | Share of team offensevs FBS QB |
| Passing | Attempts | 112 | #156/407 | 62nd pct | Volumevs FBS QB |
| Passing | Interceptions | 4 | #263/407 | 36th pct | Turnoversvs FBS QB |
| Rushing | Carries | 25 | #192/408 | 53rd pct | Volumevs FBS QB |
| Rushing | Rushing LONG | 14 | #232/391 | 41st pct | Metricvs FBS QB |
| Rushing | Rush TD | 0 | #230/408 | 44th pct | Scoringvs FBS QB |
| Rushing | Yards / carry | -3.0 | #390/407 | 4th pct | Efficiencyvs FBS QB |
| Usage | Pass share | 51.9% | #180/428 | 58th pct | Air-game usagevs FBS QB |
| Usage | Passing-down usage | 25.0% | #221/428 | 49th pct | Known-passing sharevs FBS QB |
| Usage | 3rd-down usage | 22.2% | #232/428 | 46th pct | Money-down loadvs FBS QB |
| Usage | 2nd-down usage | 21.7% | #207/428 | 52nd pct | Middle-down loadvs FBS QB |
| Usage | 1st-down usage | 21.6% | #194/428 | 55th pct | Early-down loadvs FBS QB |
| Usage | Standard-down usage | 20.7% | #199/428 | 54th pct | Base-situation sharevs FBS QB |
| Usage | Rush share | 2.4% | #353/428 | 18th pct | Ground-game usagevs FBS QB |
| Ball Security | Fumbles lost | 3 | #213/258 | 18th 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
Sherrone Moore
Pass share
40.9%
340 pass / 492 run
Plays / game
64.0
13 games
OL sack rate (allowed)
7.4%
256 dropbacks · PBP
Scheme: Run-leaning.
Coaching Lineage · 2021–2022
1 coach2021
Jim Harbaugh
Michigan
2022
Jim Harbaugh
Michigan
Played his entire career under Jim Harbaugh.
Bio · Recruiting · Transfer · Roster
Off-field context — switch tabs to drill into recruit profile, transfer arc, or roster timeline.
HometownWhittier, CA
Height6'2"
Weight210 lb
Class4
PositionQB
Jersey12
No fields populated yet.
No fields populated yet.
Current teamMichigan
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 | East Carolina | QB4 | #1321 | #1400 | 0.0% | 0.0% | -- | -- | W16 snapshot | American Athletic |
| 2023 | Missouri | QB4 | #414 | #234 | 0.0% | 0.0% | -- | -- | W19 snapshot | SEC |
| 2022 | Miami | QB4 | #779 | #973 | 0.0% | 0.0% | -- | -- | W20 snapshot | ACC |
| 2021 | Miami | QB4 | #336 | #365 | 0.0% | 0.0% | -- | -- | W20 snapshot | ACC |
Roster Timeline
Team, conference, and class by season.
| Season | Team | Conference | Pos | Class | Bio |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Michigan | Big Ten | QB | 4 | No. 12 | 6-2 | 210 lb | Whittier, CA |
| 2024 | East Carolina | American Athletic | QB | 4 | No. 12 | 6-2 | 210 lb | Whittier, CA |
| 2023 | Missouri | SEC | QB | 4 | No. 12 | 6-2 | 210 lb | Whittier, CA |
| 2022 | Miami | ACC | QB | 4 | No. 12 | 6-2 | 210 lb | Whittier, CA |
| 2021 | Miami | ACC | QB | 4 | No. 12 | 6-2 | 210 lb | Whittier, CA |