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Heisman / Players / Jordan Dingle /South Carolina

Jordan Dingle

TE · South Carolina · Sr · #5

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

136 REC YDS · 10 REC · 0 REC TD

2026 RETURNINGReturning to South Carolina for 2026

2026 Outlook

Returning to South Carolina for 2026

2026 Depth chart

Projected starter

Tight end · South Carolina

Returning around him

  • 62% of 2024 offensive production back (Solid continuity)
  • 3 South Carolina players drafted to NFL
  • Transfer portal: +1 net (25 in / 24 out)

2026 Award watch

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

South Carolina · Last season: 4-8 (AP #11) · Talent rank #18 · 2026 recruiting class #18

TE · SOUTH CAROLINA · SEC

Jordan Dingle

  • 4
  • #5
  • 6-4 | 242 lb
  • Bowling Green, KY

CFB Zeitgeist Score

28

Below cohort in the position cohort. Carried by yards / catch at the 88th percentile.

Heisman Heat

#1243

<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

2021–2025
54.02021
2202022
2702023
71.02024
1362025

+152%

Up 152% from first season to most-recent.

Career Arc

HS
Recruit
★★★
#480 national
CFB
College
2 teams
2021–2025
NFL
NFL Draft
Not drafted (yet)

Identity & Role

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

PositionTE
Class4
Jersey5
Measurements6-4 | 242 lb
HometownBowling Green, KY
Primary teamSouth Carolina

Recruiting Pedigree

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

Top pedigree 3-star No. 480 recruit
Composite rating 0.8826 HighSchool
Signed with Kentucky 2021
Origin Bowling Green Bowling Green, KY, USA
Class Profile Context
2021 3-star | 0.8826 No. 480 recruit | HighSchool | Kentucky

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#1243Latest modeled ballot order
Season forecast#1396Where 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 Kentucky

Composite

0.8826

#480 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 Jordan Dingle

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 Jordan Dingle

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 7g
136Rec yards
10Receptions
0Rec TDs
Per game
19.4Rec yards
1Receptions
0Rec TDs
Projected (13g)
252.6Rec yards
19Receptions
0Rec TDs

To hit 700-yard receiver (currently 136): needs 94/game over remaining 6.

To hit 1,000-yard receiver (currently 136): needs 144/game over remaining 6.

To hit 60-catch season (currently 10): needs 8.3/game over remaining 6.

To hit 80-catch season (currently 10): needs 11.7/game over remaining 6.

To hit 8 receiving TDs (currently 0): needs 1.3/game over remaining 6.

To hit 10 receiving TDs (currently 0): needs 1.7/game over remaining 6.

What made this player interesting

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

Jordan Dingle's story is about how role and output meet each other. For South Carolina, 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 #1243 0.0% win | 0.0% finalist
Role load 3.4% Overall usage share
Profile quirk Transfer path 0 portal moves

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 10 0 rec TD | #186/475 (61st pct)
Receiving yards 136 13.6 per catch | #159/475 (67th pct)
Scrimmage yards 136 Total offensive yardage | #159/475 (67th pct)
Player identity What kind of player is this?

30-second read

What kind of player is this?

Big-play receiver against FBS receiving peers.

Big-play receiver

2025 Season · Final

2025 season snapshot | final

Receiving

REC
10 61st
YDS
136 67th
YPR
13.6 85th
TD
0 46th

Game Log · Week-by-week

2025 season · 7 games

Box score · CFBD
WkOppRECYDSAVGTDLONGNote
Wk 2W 38-10vs South Carolina State
Wk 3L 7-31vs Vanderbilt34314.3033Season-high 43 yds
Wk 4L 20-29@ Missouri12020.0020
Wk 7L 10-20@ LSU144.004
Wk 9L 22-29vs Alabama22010.0012
Wk 10L 14-30@ Ole Miss22512.5020
Wk 12L 30-31@ Texas A&M12424.0024
Total1013614.1033
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

2021Kentucky9-3HC: Mark Stoops · Run-leaning
2022Kentucky7-6HC: Mark Stoops · Run-leaning, slow tempo
2023Kentucky7-6HC: Mark Stoops · Balanced, slow tempo
2024Kentucky4-8HC: Mark Stoops · Run-leaning, slow tempo
2025South Carolina4-8HC: Shane Beamer · Run-leaning
SeasonTeam
2025South Carolina1013613.60--
2024Kentucky9717.91--
2023Kentucky1227022.50--
2022Kentucky2022011.03--
2021Kentucky25427.00--
Career5 loaded seasons5375114.24--
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 3.4% 6.8% pass-game share | #187/468 (60th pct)
Return yards 0 0 return TD
Touchdowns 0 Across offense and returns | #257/475 (46th pct)
Open full stat explorer
0 metrics visible Showing all metrics
Group Metric Value Rank Pct Why it matters
Receiving Receptions 10 #186/475 61st pct Volumevs FBS TE
Receiving Receiving yards 136 #159/475 67th pct Volumevs FBS TE
Receiving Receiving TD 0 #257/475 46th pct Scoringvs FBS TE
Receiving Yards / catch 13.6 #74/475 85th pct Efficiencyvs FBS TE
Usage Pass share 6.8% #187/468 60th pct Air-game usagevs FBS TE
Receiving Receiving LONG 33 #111/475 77th pct Metricvs FBS TE
Usage 2nd-down usage 4.5% #148/468 69th pct Middle-down loadvs FBS TE
Usage Passing-down usage 4.5% #166/468 65th pct Known-passing sharevs FBS TE
Usage Role share 3.4% #181/468 62nd pct Share of team offensevs FBS TE
Usage 3rd-down usage 3.1% #233/468 50th pct Money-down loadvs FBS TE
Usage Standard-down usage 2.9% #228/468 51st pct Base-situation sharevs FBS TE
Usage 1st-down usage 2.7% #259/468 45th pct Early-down loadvs FBS TE
Usage Rush share 0.0% #58/468 88th pct Ground-game usagevs 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 · 7 games

Home/Road · Win/Loss · Season halves

Home vs Road

REC/gYDS/gYPRTD/g
Home3g1.721.012.20.0
Road4g1.218.215.10.0

Win vs Loss

REC/gYDS/gYPRTD/g
Wins1g
Losses6g1.722.714.10.0

First half vs Second half

REC/gYDS/gYPRTD/g
Weeks 1-74g1.216.812.80.0
Weeks 8+3g1.723.015.50.0

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

Savant · Box-rate percentiles

Where this profile ranks vs the TE cohort

28Below cohort
5 metrics · season cumulative

Elite: yards / catch (87th). Concern: receptions (0th).

Yards / catch#22 / 175 · 88th pct
13.6rece
Long catch#94 / 175 · 45th pct
33rece
Rec yards#154 / 175 · 12th pct
136rece
Rec TDs#152 / 175 · 7th pct
0rece
Receptions#176 / 175 · 0th pct
10rece

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 · 5 metrics
Jordan DingleSouth CarolinaLuke LindenmeyerNebraska· 55% simDecker DeGraafWashington· 53% simRiley NowakowskiIndiana· 51% sim
Yards / catch
88
Dingle
53
Lindenmeyer
62
DeGraaf
71
Nowakowski
Long catch
45
Dingle
23
Lindenmeyer
39
DeGraaf
69
Nowakowski
Rec yards
12
Dingle
63
Lindenmeyer
72
DeGraaf
77
Nowakowski
Rec TDs
7
Dingle
43
Lindenmeyer
43
DeGraaf
43
Nowakowski
Receptions
0
Dingle
66
Lindenmeyer
75
DeGraaf
75
Nowakowski

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

Player DNA

The Move TE

Lined up out wide as often as inline. Creates mismatches downfield.

TE

His 2025 production profile sits closest to Zach Ortwerth’s 2024 season.

Zach Ortwerth

80%match

Iowa · 2024

#2

Marshall Lang

Northwestern · 2023

80%
#3

Jordan Dingle

Kentucky · 2023

79%
#4

Sackett Wood Jr.

Virginia · 2022

79%
#5

Elijah Mojarro

California · 2022

74%

Matches Zach on

Height
Total EPA (college ability)
Yards / reception

Differs from Zach on

Class year (higher)

Not enough data yet for this comparison.

As a graduate, his production profile tracks closest to Ben Yurosek's graduate season at Georgia (2024).

Ben Yurosek

72%match

Georgia · 2024

#2

Christian Fitzpatrick

Oklahoma State · 2025

70%
#3

Dan Villari

Syracuse · 2025

63%
#4

Loic Fouonji

Vanderbilt · 2024

62%
#5

Drake Dabney

TCU · 2024

61%

Matches Ben on

Total EPA (college ability)
Weight
Reception volume

Differs from Ben on

Yards / reception (higher)

Supporting Cast · Scheme

Staff and system around the player

2025 season

Head Coach

Shane Beamer

Pass share

45.5%

340 pass / 407 run

Plays / game

62.2

12 games

OL sack rate (allowed)

13.0%

316 dropbacks · PBP

Scheme: Run-leaning.

Coaching Lineage · 2021–2025

1 coach
2021
Shane Beamer
South Carolina
2022
Shane Beamer
South Carolina
2023
Shane Beamer
South Carolina
2024
Shane Beamer
South Carolina
2025
Shane Beamer
South Carolina

Played his entire career under Shane Beamer.

Bio · Recruiting · Transfer · Roster

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

HometownBowling Green, KY
Height6'4"
Weight242 lb
Class4
PositionTE
Jersey5

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 Kentucky TE4 #1243 #1396 0.0% 0.0% -- -- W16 snapshot | SEC
2023 Kentucky TE4 #1301 #1334 0.0% 0.0% -- -- W19 snapshot | SEC
2022 Kentucky TE4 #876 #896 0.0% 0.0% -- -- W20 snapshot | SEC
2021 Kentucky TE4 #1740 #1663 0.0% 0.0% -- -- W20 snapshot | SEC

Roster Timeline

Team, conference, and class by season.

Season Team Conference Pos Class Bio
2025 South Carolina SEC TE 4 No. 5 | 6-4 | 242 lb | Bowling Green, KY
2024 Kentucky SEC TE 4 No. 5 | 6-4 | 242 lb | Bowling Green, KY
2023 Kentucky SEC TE 4 No. 5 | 6-4 | 242 lb | Bowling Green, KY
2022 Kentucky SEC TE 4 No. 5 | 6-4 | 242 lb | Bowling Green, KY
2021 Kentucky SEC TE 4 No. 5 | 6-4 | 242 lb | Bowling Green, KY