CFB Zeitgeist Score
20
Below cohort in the position cohort. Carried by yards / catch at the 38th percentile.
Mark Hamper
Below the discourse floor — the honest stats-only state.
202 REC YDS · 17 REC · 0 REC TD
2026 Outlook
Returning to California for 2026
2026 Depth chart
Projected starter
Wide receiver · California
Returning around him
- 22% of 2024 offensive production back (Heavy turnover)
- 1 California player drafted to NFL
- Transfer portal: -4 net (32 in / 36 out)
2026 Award watch
No preseason watch lists yet (most drop June 15 – July 15)
California · Last season: 7-6 · Talent rank #36 · 2026 recruiting class #69
WR · CALIFORNIA · ACC
Mark Hamper
- 2
- #15
- 6-2 | 210 lb
- West Linn, OR
Heisman Heat
Awaiting
Not on the live Heisman board this week.
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
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TOP WR AWARD
Biletnikoff
—
CONSENSUS
All-American
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Player Standing · 17 rungs
Tier 1 · 2-deepR04 · Rotational
Rotational. Earning real snaps in the rotation.
Not on team2-deepStarterRecognizedEliteApex
Career Arc
HS
Recruit
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CFB
College
California
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 |
|---|---|---|
| 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.
| Season | Move | Context |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Wisconsin -> California | 3-star | 0.8900 | Immediate |
Heisman Lens
Where the model places this player relative to the rest of the Heisman field.
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
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 Mark Hamper
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 Mark Hamper
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.
Season Pace · Projection
Where the receiving totals stand
Through 6g
202Rec yards
17Receptions
0Rec TDs
Per game
33.7Rec yards
3Receptions
0Rec TDs
Projected (13g)
437.7Rec yards
37Receptions
0Rec TDs
To hit 700-yard receiver (currently 202): needs 71.1/game over remaining 7.
To hit 1,000-yard receiver (currently 202): needs 114/game over remaining 7.
To hit 60-catch season (currently 17): needs 6.1/game over remaining 7.
To hit 80-catch season (currently 17): needs 9/game over remaining 7.
To hit 8 receiving TDs (currently 0): needs 1.1/game over remaining 7.
To hit 10 receiving TDs (currently 0): needs 1.4/game over remaining 7.
What made this player interesting
The fast read on the thing that makes this player more than a generic stat line.
Mark Hamper's story is about how role and output meet each other. For California, 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.
2025 Season · Final
Traditional stats first. Advanced context underneath.
Last season
WR season snapshot
2025 season snapshot | final
2025 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?
Receiving weapon against FBS receiving peers.
2025 Season · Final
2025 season snapshot | final
Receiving
REC
17 59th
YDS
202 59th
YPR
11.9 50th
TD
0 45th
Game Log · Week-by-week
2025 season · 6 games
| Wk | Opp | REC | YDS | AVG | TD | LONG | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | W 34-15@ Oregon State | 1 | 35 | 35.0 | 0 | 35 | |
| Wk 2 | W 35-3vs Texas Southern | 5 | 69 | 13.8 | 0 | 26 | Season-high 69 yds |
| Wk 3 | W 27-14vs Minnesota | 3 | 35 | 11.7 | 0 | 29 | |
| Wk 4 | L 0-34@ San Diego State | 4 | 28 | 7.0 | 0 | 21 | |
| Wk 8 | W 21-18vs North Carolina | 1 | 12 | 12.0 | 0 | 12 | |
| Wk 11 | W 29-26@ Louisville | 3 | 23 | 7.7 | 0 | 12 | |
| Total | 17 | 202 | 14.5 | 0 | 35 |
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
2025California7-6HC: Justin Wilcox · Pass-leaning
| Season | Team | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | California | 17 | 202 | 11.9 | 0 | -- |
| Career | 1 loaded season | 17 | 202 | 11.9 | 0 | -- |
Advanced layer Usage, value, and context
Advanced metrics second
Advanced Metrics
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.
Open full stat explorer
| Group | Metric | Value | Rank | Pct | Why it matters |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Receiving | Receptions | 17 | #454/1110 | 59th pct | Volumevs FBS WR |
| Receiving | Receiving yards | 202 | #460/1107 | 59th pct | Volumevs FBS WR |
| Receiving | Receiving TD | 0 | #615/1111 | 45th pct | Scoringvs FBS WR |
| Receiving | Yards / catch | 11.9 | #556/1106 | 50th pct | Efficiencyvs FBS WR |
| Usage | Pass share | 7.7% | #639/1137 | 44th pct | Air-game usagevs FBS WR |
| Receiving | Receiving LONG | 35 | #527/1105 | 52nd pct | Metricvs FBS WR |
| Usage | 3rd-down usage | 6.6% | #497/1137 | 56th pct | Money-down loadvs FBS WR |
| Usage | Passing-down usage | 5.4% | #661/1137 | 42nd pct | Known-passing sharevs FBS WR |
| Usage | Role share | 4.7% | #519/1137 | 54th pct | Share of team offensevs FBS WR |
| Usage | 1st-down usage | 4.4% | #493/1137 | 57th pct | Early-down loadvs FBS WR |
| Usage | 2nd-down usage | 4.3% | #604/1137 | 47th pct | Middle-down loadvs FBS WR |
| Usage | Standard-down usage | 4.3% | #478/1137 | 58th pct | Base-situation sharevs FBS WR |
| Usage | Rush share | 0.0% | #391/1137 | 66th pct | Ground-game usagevs FBS WR |
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
2025 season · 6 games
Home vs Road
| REC/g | YDS/g | YPR | TD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home3g | 3.0 | 38.7 | 12.5 | 0.0 |
| Road3g | 2.7 | 28.7 | 16.6 | 0.0 |
Win vs Loss
| REC/g | YDS/g | YPR | TD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wins5g | 2.6 | 34.8 | 16.0 | 0.0 |
| Losses1g | 4.0 | 28.0 | 7.0 | 0.0 |
First half vs Second half
| REC/g | YDS/g | YPR | TD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-74g | 3.2 | 41.8 | 16.9 | 0.0 |
| Weeks 8+2g | 2.0 | 17.5 | 9.8 | 0.0 |
Pocket and defense-quality (clean vs. pressure) splits are coming soon.
Savant · Box-rate percentiles
Where this profile ranks vs the WR cohort
20Below cohort
Concern: rec tds (6th).
Percentiles versus same-position peers with enough snaps this season, based on box-score rates.
Advanced Savant · WR · 2025
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.
Peer Comparator · Fingerprint match
Three closest profiles by box-rate percentile
Mark HamperCaliforniaMichael Jackson IIIPurdue· 57% simJacquon GibsonMassachusetts· 54% simKevin Coleman Jr.Missouri· 51% sim
Yards / catch
Long catch
Receptions
Rec yards
Rec TDs
Closest peers by overall box-score percentile profile at the same position.
Player DNA
The Possession Receiver
Reliable target who converts on critical downs. Not flashy; consistently productive.
WR
His 2025 production profile sits closest to Rodney Harris II’s 2024 season.
Rodney Harris II
92%match
#2
Kyren Lacy
86%
#3
Ben Ratzlaff
80%
#4
Caleb Snead
81%
#5
Isaiah Washington
80%
Matches Rodney on
Total EPA (college ability)
Weight
Yards / reception
Through 2 college seasons, his career arc tracks closest to Xavier Lane’s path through Missouri State.
Xavier Lane
100%match
#2
Ian Duarte
100%
#3
T.J. Vasher
98%
#4
Amon-Ra St. Brown
NFL Rd 4
96%
#5
Rico Flores
96%
Matches Xavier on
Yards per reception
As a sophomore, his production profile tracks closest to Ben Ratzlaff's sophomore season at Western Kentucky (2021).
Ben Ratzlaff
87%match
#2
Miles Burris
85%
#3
Perry Thompson
82%
#4
Xavier Daisy
80%
#5
Jackson Holman
79%
Matches Ben on
TD rate
Yards / reception
Total EPA (college ability)
Supporting Cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Justin Wilcox
Pass share
57.0%
502 pass / 379 run
Plays / game
67.8
13 games
OL sack rate (allowed)
8.2%
353 dropbacks · PBP
Scheme: Pass-leaning.
Coaching Lineage · 2025
1 coach2025
Justin Wilcox
California
Played his entire career under Justin Wilcox.
Bio · Recruiting · Transfer · Roster
Off-field context — switch tabs to drill into recruit profile, transfer arc, or roster timeline.
HometownWest Linn, OR
Height6'2"
Weight210 lb
Class2
PositionWR
Jersey15
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No fields populated yet.
Current teamCalifornia
ConferenceACC
Joined2025
Career arc1 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| This player hasn’t appeared on a Heisman ballot tracked by the model. | |||||||||
Roster Timeline
Team, conference, and class by season.
| Season | Team | Conference | Pos | Class | Bio |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | California | ACC | WR | 2 | No. 15 | 6-2 | 210 lb | West Linn, OR |