CFB Zeitgeist QB Score
Awaiting
Matthew Downing
Limited signal — not enough coverage for a story yet.
QB · LOUISIANA TECH · CONFERENCE USA
Matthew Downing
- 3
- #7
- 6-0 | 209 lb
- Alpharetta, GA
Heisman Heat
#2140
<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 QB AWARD
Davey O'Brien
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CONSENSUS
All-American
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Player Standing · 17 rungs
Tier 0 · Not on teamR01 · Scout team / redshirt
Scout team / redshirt. Developing behind the depth chart.
Not on team2-deepStarterRecognizedEliteApex
Development Trajectory · passing yards
2021–2022+1269%
Up 1269% from first season to most-recent.
Career Arc
HS
Recruit
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CFB
College
2 teams
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 |
|---|---|---|
| 2023 | Louisiana Tech -> -- | 2-star | Immediate |
| 2022 | TCU -> Louisiana Tech | 3-star | 0.8100 | Immediate |
Heisman Lens · 2022 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 20Heisman 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 Matthew Downing
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 Matthew Downing
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.
Scenario Explorer
Available for players with a qualifying signature metric (passing yards, rushing yards, receiving yards, sacks, etc.). The slider projects how a season finishes if the current pace holds.
What made this player interesting
The fast read on the thing that makes this player more than a generic stat line.
Matthew Downing's story is about how role and output meet each other. For Louisiana 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.
2022 Season · Final
Traditional stats first. Advanced context underneath.
Last season
QB season snapshot
2022 season snapshot | final
2022 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?
Pocket-leaning against FBS QB peers. The quickest read is whether the profile wins on volume, efficiency, explosiveness, or rushing value.
2022 Season · Final
2022 season snapshot | final
Passing Efficiency
CMP
33 49th
ATT
62 53rd
CMP%
53.2% 23rd
Y/A
5.7 25th
Passing Production
YDS
356 48th
TD
3 57th
INT
4 36th
Rushing
CAR
20 51st
YDS
-3 15th
YPC
-0.2 16th
TD
0 44th
Game Log
Week-by-week box
No per-game rows for this season yet — the table fills in as box scores arrive.
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
2021TCU5-7HC: Gary Patterson · Run-heavy
2022Louisiana Tech3-9HC: Sonny Cumbie · Balanced
| Season | Team | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | Louisiana Tech | 33 | 62 | 53.2% | 356 | 5.7 | 3 | 4 | 104.5 | -- | -- |
| 2021 | TCU | 3 | 4 | 75.0% | 26 | 6.5 | 0 | 0 | 129.6 | -- | -- |
| Career | 2 loaded seasons | 36 | 66 | 54.5% | 382 | 5.8 | 3 | 4 | 106.0 | -- | -- |
| Season | Team | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | Louisiana Tech | 20 | -3 | -0.1 | 0 | -- |
| 2021 | TCU | 1 | 2 | 2.0 | 0 | -- |
| Career | 2 loaded seasons | 21 | -1 | -0.0 | 0 | -- |
Advanced layer Usage, value, and context
Advanced metrics second
Advanced Metrics
Usage, value, and opponent-adjusted context.
Opponent-adjusted passing value. Positive numbers mean the quarterback is adding more value through the air than a neutral peer would in the same environment.
How much of the offense runs through the quarterback once passing and rushing responsibility are blended together.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Passing | Passing yards | 356 | #198/382 | 48th pct | Volumevs FBS QB |
| Passing | Pass TD | 3 | #178/407 | 57th pct | Scoringvs FBS QB |
| Passing | Completions | 33 | #196/383 | 49th pct | Volumevs FBS QB |
| Passing | Completion % | 53.2% | #296/383 | 23rd pct | Efficiencyvs FBS QB |
| Passing | Yards / attempt | 5.7 | #286/382 | 25th pct | Efficiencyvs FBS QB |
| Rushing | Rushing yards | -3 | #346/408 | 15th pct | Volumevs FBS QB |
| Usage | Role share | 7.9% | #293/428 | 32nd pct | Share of team offensevs FBS QB |
| Passing | Attempts | 62 | #192/407 | 53rd pct | Volumevs FBS QB |
| Passing | Interceptions | 4 | #263/407 | 36th pct | Turnoversvs FBS QB |
| Rushing | Carries | 20 | #202/408 | 51st pct | Volumevs FBS QB |
| Rushing | Rushing LONG | 13 | #243/391 | 38th pct | Metricvs FBS QB |
| Rushing | Rush TD | 0 | #230/408 | 44th pct | Scoringvs FBS QB |
| Rushing | Yards / carry | -0.2 | #341/407 | 16th pct | Efficiencyvs FBS QB |
| Usage | 3rd-down usage | 18.2% | #245/428 | 43rd pct | Money-down loadvs FBS QB |
| Usage | Pass share | 16.7% | #270/428 | 37th pct | Air-game usagevs FBS QB |
| Usage | Standard-down usage | 8.0% | #282/428 | 34th pct | Base-situation sharevs FBS QB |
| Usage | Passing-down usage | 7.7% | #329/428 | 23rd pct | Known-passing sharevs FBS QB |
| Usage | 1st-down usage | 6.1% | #303/428 | 29th pct | Early-down loadvs FBS QB |
| Usage | 2nd-down usage | 5.6% | #323/428 | 25th pct | Middle-down loadvs FBS QB |
| Usage | Rush share | 2.6% | #346/428 | 19th pct | Ground-game usagevs FBS QB |
| Ball Security | Fumbles lost | 1 | #69/258 | 74th pct | Turnoversvs FBS QB |
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 splits
Splits fill in once box scores from at least three games land for this season.
Advanced Savant · QB · 2022
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.
Supporting Cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Sonny Cumbie
Pass share
37.1%
311 pass / 527 run
Plays / game
64.5
13 games
OL sack rate (allowed)
9.4%
234 dropbacks · PBP
Scheme: Run-heavy.
Coaching Lineage · 2021–2022
2 coaches2021
Skip Holtz
Louisiana Tech
2022era →
Sonny Cumbie
Louisiana Tech
Coaching transition mid-career: Skip Holtz → Sonny Cumbie. Worth noting in scheme + development context.
Bio · Recruiting · Transfer · Roster
Off-field context — switch tabs to drill into recruit profile, transfer arc, or roster timeline.
HometownAlpharetta, GA
Height6'0"
Weight209 lb
Class3
PositionQB
Jersey7
No fields populated yet.
No fields populated yet.
Current teamLouisiana Tech
ConferenceConference USA
Joined2022
Career arc2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | Louisiana Tech | QB3 | #2140 | #2726 | 0.0% | 0.0% | -- | -- | W20 snapshot | Conference USA |
| 2021 | TCU | QB3 | #883 | #826 | 0.0% | 0.0% | -- | -- | W20 snapshot | Big 12 |
Roster Timeline
Team, conference, and class by season.
| Season | Team | Conference | Pos | Class | Bio |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | Louisiana Tech | Conference USA | QB | 3 | No. 7 | 6-0 | 209 lb | Alpharetta, GA |
| 2021 | TCU | Big 12 | QB | 3 | No. 7 | 6-0 | 209 lb | Alpharetta, GA |