CFB Zeitgeist Score
66
Solid starter in the position cohort. Carried by rec yards at the 83rd percentile.
Josh Meredith
Below the discourse floor — the honest stats-only state.
725 REC YDS · 57 REC · 3 REC TD
2026 Outlook
Returning to Washington State for 2026
2026 Depth chart
Returning starter
Wide receiver · Washington State
Returning around him
2026 Award watch
No preseason watch lists yet (most drop June 15 – July 15)
Washington State · Last season: 7-6 · Talent rank #95 · 2026 recruiting class #71
WR · WASHINGTON STATE · PAC-12
CFB Zeitgeist Score
66
Solid starter in the position cohort. Carried by rec yards at the 83rd percentile.
Heisman Heat
#2700
<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 WR AWARD
Biletnikoff
—
CONSENSUS
All-American
—
Player Standing · 17 rungs
Tier 2 · StarterImpact starter. Producing measurable value above replacement.
Development Trajectory · receiving yards
2022–2025Up 14400% from first season to most-recent.
Career Arc
The durable bio layer: position, size, hometown, and roster role.
How big the prospect was before college, and whether the later career arc beat that expectation.
| Class | Profile | Context |
|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 3-star | 0.8393 | No. 1485 recruit | HighSchool | Washington State |
Portal movement changes role, context, and perception. This keeps that path in one place.
| Season | Move | Context |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Washington State -> -- | 3-star | Withdrawn |
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.
Achievements
Selector Grid · 2025
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 Washington State
Composite
0.8393
#1485 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.
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 reads how different fanbases talk about this player. Returns once weekly mentions clear the publish floor.
Rival Radar
No rival-bucket mentions in the current season.
2025 Signature · 2025 season
725
yds
All FBS WRs, min 20 receptions
Why it matters
#88 of 531 All FBS WRs in receiving yards — 725 yards on 57 receptions.
Vs cohort
HIGH · n=57 cohort 531
Signature Moment
Week 8 at Virginia — 108 receiving_yards_total
Result L 20-22
The week the volume broke through — put up 108 yds at Virginia.
Season Pace · Projection
Where the receiving totals stand
✓ Hit 700-yard receiver · finished with 725.
The fast read on the thing that makes this player more than a generic stat line.
Josh Meredith's story is about how role and output meet each other. For Washington State, 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.
Traditional stats first. Advanced context underneath.
Last season
2025 season snapshot | final
30-second read
Target magnet against FBS receiving peers.
2025 season snapshot | final
Receiving
Game Log · Week-by-week
2025 season · 13 games
| Wk | Opp | REC | YDS | AVG | TD | LONG | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | W 13-10vs Idaho | 2 | 31 | 15.5 | 1 | 25 | |
| Wk 2 | W 36-13vs San Diego State | 8 | 88 | 11.0 | 0 | 34 | |
| Wk 3 | L 10-59@ North Texas | 2 | 6 | 3.0 | 0 | 4 | |
| Wk 4 | L 24-59vs Washington | 3 | 70 | 23.3 | 0 | 48 | |
| Wk 5 | W 20-3@ Colorado State | 4 | 60 | 15.0 | 0 | 23 | |
| Wk 7 | L 21-24@ Ole Miss | 5 | 30 | 6.0 | 0 | 9 | |
| Wk 8 | L 20-22@ Virginia | 7 | 108 | 15.4 | 1 | 32 | Season-high 108 yds |
| Wk 9 | W 28-7vs Toledo | 4 | 81 | 20.3 | 0 | 40 | |
| Wk 10 | L 7-10@ Oregon State | 4 | 44 | 11.0 | 0 | 19 | |
| Wk 12 | W 28-3vs Louisiana Tech | 5 | 70 | 14.0 | 1 | 23 | |
| Wk 13 | L 20-24@ James Madison | 3 | 21 | 7.0 | 0 | 12 | |
| Wk 14 | W 32-8vs Oregon State | 2 | 32 | 16.0 | 0 | 22 | |
| Bowl | W 34-21@ Utah State | 8 | 84 | 10.5 | 0 | 20 | |
| Total | 57 | 725 | 12.9 | 3 | 48 |
Traditional history
Season rows up top, career context at the bottom.
Season context · Team result + system
| Season | Team | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Washington State | 57 | 725 | 12.7 | 3 | -- |
| 2023 | Washington State | 3 | 53 | 17.7 | 1 | -- |
| 2022 | Washington State | 1 | 5 | 5.0 | 0 | -- |
| Career | 3 loaded seasons | 61 | 783 | 12.8 | 4 | -- |
Advanced metrics second
Usage, value, and opponent-adjusted context.
The player's share of a team's passing-game involvement. It is the fastest way to see whether the receiver is a true focal point or more of a complementary piece.
A blended workload view that accounts for catches, designed touches, and any return-game involvement that shapes the overall profile.
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.
| Group | Metric | Value | Rank | Pct | Why it matters |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Receiving | Receptions | 57 | #78/1110 | 93rd pct | Volumevs FBS WR |
| Receiving | Receiving yards | 725 | #94/1107 | 92nd pct | Volumevs FBS WR |
| Receiving | Receiving TD | 3 | #206/1111 | 82nd pct | Scoringvs FBS WR |
| Receiving | Yards / catch | 12.7 | #479/1106 | 57th pct | Efficiencyvs FBS WR |
| Usage | Pass share | 19.1% | #104/1137 | 91st pct | Air-game usagevs FBS WR |
| Receiving | Receiving LONG | 48 | #298/1105 | 73rd pct | Metricvs FBS WR |
| Usage | 3rd-down usage | 12.2% | #122/1137 | 89th pct | Money-down loadvs FBS WR |
| Usage | Passing-down usage | 11.9% | #132/1137 | 88th pct | Known-passing sharevs FBS WR |
| Usage | Role share | 9.7% | #108/1137 | 91st pct | Share of team offensevs FBS WR |
| Usage | 1st-down usage | 8.9% | #127/1137 | 89th pct | Early-down loadvs FBS WR |
| Usage | Standard-down usage | 8.7% | #117/1137 | 90th pct | Base-situation sharevs FBS WR |
| Usage | 2nd-down usage | 8.2% | #220/1137 | 81st pct | Middle-down loadvs FBS WR |
| Usage | Rush share | 0.0% | #391/1137 | 66th pct | Ground-game usagevs FBS WR |
Universal 17-step ladder. Tier pills below; accolade streams nested.
AWAITING CLASSIFICATION
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
Heisman model tracks the top FBS contenders weekly; this player hasn't entered the watch list yet.
Splits · Per-game
2025 season · 13 games
Home vs Road
| REC/g | YDS/g | YPR | TD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home6g | 4.0 | 62.0 | 16.7 | 0.3 |
| Road7g | 4.7 | 50.4 | 9.7 | 0.1 |
Win vs Loss
| REC/g | YDS/g | YPR | TD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wins7g | 4.7 | 63.7 | 14.6 | 0.3 |
| Losses6g | 4.0 | 46.5 | 11.0 | 0.2 |
First half vs Second half
| REC/g | YDS/g | YPR | TD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-77g | 4.6 | 52.7 | 12.0 | 0.1 |
| Weeks 8+6g | 4.2 | 59.3 | 14.0 | 0.3 |
Pocket and defense-quality (clean vs. pressure) splits are coming soon.
Savant · Box-rate percentiles
Where this profile ranks vs the WR cohort
Elite: receptions (85th). Strength: rec yards (83rd).
Percentiles versus same-position peers with enough snaps this season, based on box-score rates.
Advanced Savant · WR · 2024
Advanced opponent-adjusted percentile bars are coming soon for this player.
Opponent-adjusted advanced metrics with a cohort filter.
Peer Comparator · Fingerprint match
Three closest profiles by box-rate percentile
Closest peers by overall box-score percentile profile at the same position.
Player DNA
Runs precise routes in tight quarters. Volume player who keeps chains moving.
His 2025 production profile sits closest to Keelan Marion’s 2025 season.
Keelan Marion
Jared Brown
Ronnie Bell
Kyri Shoels
Jordan Watkins
Matches Keelan on
Differs from Keelan on
Through 2 college seasons, his career arc tracks closest to Jalen McDonald’s path through Merrimack.
Jalen McDonald
DeVontres Dukes
Joshua Harris
Dazz Newsome
Na'eem Abdul-Rahim Gladding
Matches Jalen on
As a senior, his production profile tracks closest to John Paul Richardson's senior season at TCU (2024).
John Paul Richardson
Omari Kelly
Trell Harris
Kyre Duplessis
Jalon Calhoun
Matches John on
Supporting Cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Jimmy Rogers
Pass share
48.7%
407 pass / 429 run
Plays / game
64.3
13 games
OL sack rate (allowed)
6.1%
327 dropbacks · PBP
Scheme: Balanced.
Coaching Lineage · 2022–2025
2 coachesCoaching transition mid-career: Jake Dickert → Jimmy Rogers. Worth noting in scheme + development context.
Off-field context — switch tabs to drill into recruit profile, transfer arc, or roster timeline.
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Every honor on the ledger, broken out by stream and selector.
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.
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. | ||||
Modeled rank and official finish by season.
| Season | Team | Role | Latest Model | Forecast | Win | Finalist | Official Finish | Points | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Washington State | WR4 | #2700 | #2566 | 0.0% | 0.0% | -- | -- | W16 snapshot | Pac-12 |
| 2023 | Washington State | WR4 | #1858 | #2111 | 0.0% | 0.0% | -- | -- | W19 snapshot | Pac-12 |
| 2022 | Washington State | WR4 | #3367 | #3316 | 0.0% | 0.0% | -- | -- | W20 snapshot | Pac-12 |
| 2021 | Washington State | WR4 | #4153 | #4272 | 0.0% | 0.0% | -- | -- | W20 snapshot | Pac-12 |
Team, conference, and class by season.
| Season | Team | Conference | Pos | Class | Bio |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Washington State | Pac-12 | WR | 4 | No. 18 | 6-0 | 193 lb | San Diego, CA |
| 2024 | Washington State | Pac-12 | WR | 4 | No. 18 | 6-0 | 193 lb | San Diego, CA |
| 2023 | Washington State | Pac-12 | WR | 4 | No. 18 | 6-0 | 193 lb | San Diego, CA |
| 2022 | Washington State | Pac-12 | WR | 4 | No. 18 | 6-0 | 193 lb | San Diego, CA |
| 2021 | Washington State | Pac-12 | WR | 4 | No. 18 | 6-0 | 193 lb | San Diego, CA |