CFB Zeitgeist Score
54
Mid-pack in the position cohort. Carried by rec tds at the 66th percentile.
Lakota Dippre
Below the discourse floor — the honest stats-only state.
192 REC YDS · 17 REC · 3 REC TD
2026 Outlook
Returning to James Madison for 2026
2026 Depth chart
Projected starter
Tight end · James Madison
Returning around him
2026 Award watch
No preseason watch lists yet (most drop June 15 – July 15)
James Madison · Last season: 12-2 (AP #19) · Talent rank #127 · 2026 recruiting class #108
TE · JAMES MADISON · SUN BELT
CFB Zeitgeist Score
54
Mid-pack in the position cohort. Carried by rec tds at the 66th percentile.
Heisman Heat
#5379
<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
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CONSENSUS
All-American
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Player Standing · 17 rungs
Tier 2 · StarterImpact starter. Producing measurable value above replacement.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| No recruiting profile is on file for this player. | ||
Portal movement changes role, context, and perception. This keeps that path in one place.
| Season | Move | Context |
|---|---|---|
| No transfer portal moves on file for this player. | ||
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.
Selector Grid · 2025
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
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.
Signature Story
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.
Season Pace · Projection
Where the receiving totals stand
To hit 700-yard receiver (currently 192): needs 254/game over remaining 2.
To hit 1,000-yard receiver (currently 192): needs 404/game over remaining 2.
To hit 60-catch season (currently 17): needs 21.5/game over remaining 2.
To hit 80-catch season (currently 17): needs 31.5/game over remaining 2.
To hit 8 receiving TDs (currently 3): needs 2.5/game over remaining 2.
To hit 10 receiving TDs (currently 3): needs 3.5/game over remaining 2.
The fast read on the thing that makes this player more than a generic stat line.
The most interesting thing about Lakota Dippre is that he shows up in multiple game states. He is a receiver first, but the profile also includes designed touches and return-game juice, which means his value is not limited to a conventional route tree.
Traditional stats first. Advanced context underneath.
Last season
2025 season snapshot | final
30-second read
Receiving weapon against FBS receiving peers.
2025 season snapshot | final
Receiving
Rushing
Game Log · Week-by-week
2025 season · 11 games
| Wk | Opp | REC | YDS | AVG | TD | LONG | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 2 | L 14-28@ Louisville | 1 | 3 | 3.0 | 1 | 3 | |
| Wk 4 | W 31-13@ Liberty | 2 | 43 | 21.5 | 0 | 36 | Season-high 43 yds |
| Wk 5 | W 35-10vs Georgia Southern | 2 | 42 | 21.0 | 1 | 25 | |
| Wk 6 | W 14-7@ Georgia State | 3 | 19 | 6.3 | 0 | 11 | |
| Wk 7 | W 24-14vs Louisiana | 1 | 7 | 7.0 | 0 | 7 | |
| Wk 8 | W 63-27vs Old Dominion | 2 | 18 | 9.0 | 0 | 11 | |
| Wk 11 | W 35-23@ Marshall | — | — | — | — | — | |
| Wk 12 | W 58-10vs App State | 1 | 16 | 16.0 | 0 | 16 | |
| Wk 13 | W 24-20vs Washington State | 2 | 14 | 7.0 | 0 | 8 | |
| Wk 14 | W 59-10@ Coastal Carolina | 1 | 25 | 25.0 | 1 | 25 | |
| Bowl | L 34-51@ Oregon | 2 | 5 | 2.5 | 0 | 3 | |
| Total | 17 | 192 | 11.8 | 3 | 36 |
Traditional history
Season rows up top, career context at the bottom.
Season context · Team result + system
| Season | Team | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | James Madison | 17 | 192 | 11.3 | 3 | -- |
| 2024 | Charlotte | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Career | 2 loaded seasons | 17 | 192 | 11.3 | 3 | -- |
Advanced metrics second
Usage, value, and opponent-adjusted context.
The tight end's share of the passing offense, which helps distinguish a featured receiving tight end from a secondary option.
A blended usage view that shows how often the offense flows through the tight end compared with other same-level peers.
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 | 17 | #129/475 | 73rd pct | Volumevs FBS TE |
| Receiving | Receiving yards | 192 | #118/475 | 75th pct | Volumevs FBS TE |
| Receiving | Receiving TD | 3 | #45/475 | 91st pct | Scoringvs FBS TE |
| Receiving | Yards / catch | 11.3 | #154/475 | 68th pct | Efficiencyvs FBS TE |
| Usage | Pass share | 6.7% | #198/468 | 58th pct | Air-game usagevs FBS TE |
| Rushing | Rushing yards | 49 | #5/53 | 92nd pct | Volumevs FBS TE |
| Rushing | Rushing LONG | 23 | #7/50 | 88th pct | Metricvs FBS TE |
| Rushing | Yards / carry | 12.3 | #7/53 | 89th pct | Efficiencyvs FBS TE |
| Rushing | Carries | 4 | #12/59 | 81st pct | Volumevs FBS TE |
| Rushing | Rush TD | 1 | #5/62 | 94th pct | Scoringvs FBS TE |
| Receiving | Receiving LONG | 36 | #91/475 | 81st pct | Metricvs FBS TE |
| Usage | 1st-down usage | 3.1% | #212/468 | 55th pct | Early-down loadvs FBS TE |
| Usage | Passing-down usage | 3.1% | #267/468 | 43rd pct | Known-passing sharevs FBS TE |
| Usage | Role share | 3.1% | #213/468 | 55th pct | Share of team offensevs FBS TE |
| Usage | Standard-down usage | 3.1% | #205/468 | 56th pct | Base-situation sharevs FBS TE |
| Usage | 3rd-down usage | 2.7% | #258/468 | 45th pct | Money-down loadvs FBS TE |
| Usage | 2nd-down usage | 1.6% | #364/468 | 22nd pct | Middle-down loadvs FBS TE |
| Usage | Rush share | 0.7% | #24/468 | 95th pct | Ground-game usagevs FBS TE |
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
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 · 11 games
Home vs Road
| REC/g | YDS/g | YPR | TD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home5g | 1.6 | 19.4 | 12.0 | 0.2 |
| Road6g | 1.5 | 15.8 | 11.7 | 0.3 |
Win vs Loss
| REC/g | YDS/g | YPR | TD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wins9g | 1.6 | 20.4 | 14.1 | 0.2 |
| Losses2g | 1.5 | 4.0 | 2.8 | 0.5 |
First half vs Second half
| REC/g | YDS/g | YPR | TD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-76g | 1.8 | 19.8 | 10.2 | 0.3 |
| Weeks 8+5g | 1.2 | 14.6 | 14.2 | 0.2 |
Pocket and defense-quality (clean vs. pressure) splits are coming soon.
Savant · Box-rate percentiles
Where this profile ranks vs the TE cohort
Elite: rush yards (95th). Concern: receptions (24th).
Percentiles versus same-position peers with enough snaps this season, based on box-score rates.
Advanced Savant · TE · 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
The first name called near the goal line. Blocking is secondary.
His 2025 production profile sits closest to Nate Boerkircher’s 2025 season.
Nate Boerkircher
Malachi Thomas
Giles Amos
Walker Lyons
Brandon Crum
Matches Nate on
Differs from Nate on
Not enough data yet for this comparison.
As a sophomore, his production profile tracks closest to Malachi Thomas's sophomore season at Pittsburgh (2025).
Malachi Thomas
Mason Williams
Blake Whiteheart
Ethan Davis
Tony Livingston
Matches Malachi on
Differs from Malachi on
Supporting Cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Bob Chesney
Pass share
39.7%
385 pass / 584 run
Plays / game
69.2
14 games
OL sack rate (allowed)
7.8%
269 dropbacks · PBP
Scheme: Run-heavy.
Coaching Lineage · 2024–2025
1 coachPlayed his entire career under Bob Chesney.
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.
Team, conference, and class by season.
| Season | Team | Conference | Pos | Class | Bio |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | James Madison | Sun Belt | TE | 2 | No. 15 | 6-4 | 253 lb | Scott Township, PA |
| 2024 | Charlotte | American Athletic | TE | 2 | No. 15 | 6-4 | 253 lb | Scott Township, PA |
| 2023 | Charlotte | American Athletic | TE | 2 | No. 15 | 6-4 | 253 lb | Scott Township, PA |