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Heisman / Players / Josh Beetham /Georgia Tech

Josh Beetham

TE · Georgia Tech · Sr · #17

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

134 REC YDS · 6 REC · 2 REC TD

2026 RETURNINGReturning to Georgia Tech for 2026

2026 Outlook

Returning to Georgia Tech for 2026

2026 Depth chart

Projected starter

Tight end · Georgia Tech

Returning around him

  • 81% of 2024 offensive production back (Strong continuity)
  • 2 Georgia Tech players drafted to NFL
  • Transfer portal: -1 net (19 in / 20 out)

2026 Award watch

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

Georgia Tech · Last season: 9-4 (AP #24) · Talent rank #39 · 2026 recruiting class #21

TE · GEORGIA TECH · ACC

Josh Beetham

  • 4
  • #17
  • 6-5 | 255 lb
  • Yorkville, IL

CFB Zeitgeist Score

44

Mid-pack in the position cohort. Carried by yards / catch at the 99th percentile.

Heisman Heat

#2999

<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

R05 · Part-time starter

Part-time starter. Splitting first-team reps.

Not on team2-deepStarterRecognizedEliteApex

Career Arc

HS
Recruit
No recruit profile
CFB
College
Georgia Tech
2025
NFL
NFL Draft
Not drafted (yet)

Identity & Role

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

PositionTE
Class4
Jersey17
Measurements6-5 | 255 lb
HometownYorkville, IL
Primary teamGeorgia Tech

Recruiting Pedigree

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

Top pedigree Not on file No matched recruiting profile in the loaded archive
Composite rating -- Composite rating unavailable for this player
Signed with -- Commitment history unavailable
Origin -- Hometown and high school unavailable
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.

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#2999Latest modeled ballot order
Season forecast#3012Where 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.

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 Josh Beetham

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 Josh Beetham

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
134Rec yards
6Receptions
2Rec TDs
Per game
19.1Rec yards
1Receptions
0Rec TDs
Projected (13g)
248.9Rec yards
11Receptions
4Rec TDs

To hit 700-yard receiver (currently 134): needs 94.3/game over remaining 6.

To hit 1,000-yard receiver (currently 134): needs 144.3/game over remaining 6.

To hit 60-catch season (currently 6): needs 9/game over remaining 6.

To hit 80-catch season (currently 6): needs 12.3/game over remaining 6.

To hit 8 receiving TDs (currently 2): needs 1/game over remaining 6.

To hit 10 receiving TDs (currently 2): needs 1.3/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.

Josh Beetham's story is about how role and output meet each other. For Georgia Tech, 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 #2999 0.0% win | 0.0% finalist
Role load 1.6% 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 6 2 rec TD | #245/475 (49th pct)
Receiving yards 134 22.3 per catch | #162/475 (66th pct)
Scrimmage yards 134 Total offensive yardage | #162/475 (66th 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
6 49th
YDS
134 66th
YPR
22.3 98th
TD
2 84th

Game Log · Week-by-week

2025 season · 7 games

Box score · CFBD
WkOppRECYDSAVGTDLONGNote
Wk 3W 24-21vs Clemson
Wk 5W 30-29@ Wake Forest11717.0017
Wk 7W 35-20vs Virginia Tech13131.0031
Wk 8W 27-18@ Duke14949.0049Season-high 49 yds
Wk 9W 41-16vs Syracuse23417.02212 TD catches
Wk 12W 36-34@ Boston College
BowlL 21-25@ BYU133.003
Total613423.4249
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

2025Georgia Tech9-4HC: Brent Key · Run-leaning
SeasonTeam
2025Georgia Tech613422.32--
Career1 loaded season613422.32--
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 1.6% 3.6% pass-game share | #369/468 (21st pct)
Return yards 12 0 return TD
Touchdowns 2 Across offense and returns | #79/475 (84th pct)
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Group Metric Value Rank Pct Why it matters
Receiving Receptions 6 #245/475 49th pct Volumevs FBS TE
Receiving Receiving yards 134 #162/475 66th pct Volumevs FBS TE
Receiving Receiving TD 2 #79/475 84th pct Scoringvs FBS TE
Receiving Yards / catch 22.3 #9/475 98th pct Efficiencyvs FBS TE
Usage Pass share 3.6% #369/468 21st pct Air-game usagevs FBS TE
Receiving Receiving LONG 49 #42/475 91st pct Metricvs FBS TE
Usage 3rd-down usage 2.8% #249/468 47th pct Money-down loadvs FBS TE
Usage Standard-down usage 2.1% #324/468 31st pct Base-situation sharevs FBS TE
Usage Role share 1.6% #385/468 18th pct Share of team offensevs FBS TE
Usage 1st-down usage 1.1% #374/468 20th pct Early-down loadvs FBS TE
Usage 2nd-down usage 0.0% #400/468 15th pct Middle-down loadvs FBS TE
Usage Passing-down usage 0.0% #382/468 19th pct Known-passing sharevs 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
Home3g1.021.724.00.7
Road4g0.817.223.00.0

Win vs Loss

REC/gYDS/gYPRTD/g
Wins6g0.821.828.50.3
Losses1g1.03.03.00.0

First half vs Second half

REC/gYDS/gYPRTD/g
Weeks 1-74g0.812.817.00.0
Weeks 8+3g1.027.733.00.7

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

Savant · Box-rate percentiles

Where this profile ranks vs the TE cohort

44Mid-pack
5 metrics · season cumulative

Elite: yards / catch (99th). Concern: receptions (0th).

Yards / catch#2 / 175 · 99th pct
22.3rece
Long catch#37 / 175 · 79th pct
49rece
Rec TDs#76 / 175 · 43rd pct
2rece
Rec yards#156 / 175 · 11th pct
134rece
Receptions#176 / 175 · 0th pct
6rece

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
Josh BeethamGeorgia TechRiley NowakowskiIndiana· 54% simEthan ConnerTroy· 53% simLance MasonWisconsin· 53% sim
Yards / catch
99
Beetham
71
Nowakowski
81
Conner
85
Mason
Long catch
79
Beetham
69
Nowakowski
61
Conner
74
Mason
Rec TDs
43
Beetham
43
Nowakowski
66
Conner
80
Mason
Rec yards
11
Beetham
77
Nowakowski
79
Conner
80
Mason
Receptions
0
Beetham
75
Nowakowski
72
Conner
69
Mason

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

DNA Match awaiting data — similarity scores compute once season stats clear the volume gate for this position cohort.

Supporting Cast · Scheme

Staff and system around the player

2025 season

Head Coach

Brent Key

Pass share

46.1%

391 pass / 457 run

Plays / game

65.2

13 games

OL sack rate (allowed)

5.0%

221 dropbacks · PBP

Scheme: Run-leaning.

Coaching Lineage · 2025

1 coach
2025
Brent Key
Georgia Tech

Played his entire career under Brent Key.

Bio · Recruiting · Transfer · Roster

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

HometownYorkville, IL
Height6'5"
Weight255 lb
Class4
PositionTE
Jersey17

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 Georgia Tech TE4 #2999 #3012 0.0% 0.0% -- -- W16 snapshot | ACC
2023 Michigan TE4 #1930 #1320 0.0% 0.0% -- -- W19 snapshot | Big Ten
2022 Michigan TE4 #1957 #1305 0.0% 0.0% -- -- W20 snapshot | Big Ten

Roster Timeline

Team, conference, and class by season.

Season Team Conference Pos Class Bio
2025 Georgia Tech ACC TE 4 No. 17 | 6-5 | 255 lb | Yorkville, IL
2024 Georgia Tech ACC TE 4 No. 17 | 6-5 | 255 lb | Yorkville, IL
2023 Michigan Big Ten TE 4 No. 17 | 6-5 | 255 lb | Yorkville, IL
2022 Michigan Big Ten TE 4 No. 17 | 6-5 | 255 lb | Yorkville, IL