CFB Zeitgeist Score
17
Below cohort in the position cohort. Carried by interceptions at the 97th percentile.
Max Brown
Below the discourse floor — the honest stats-only state.
7 PASS YDS · 0 PASS TD · 23 RUSH YDS
2026 Outlook
Returning to West Virginia for 2026
2026 Depth chart
Projected starter
Quarterback · West Virginia
Returning around him
- 26% of 2024 offensive production back (Heavy turnover)
- Transfer portal: -16 net (34 in / 50 out)
2026 Award watch
No preseason watch lists yet (most drop June 15 – July 15)
West Virginia · Last season: 4-8 · Talent rank #63 · 2026 recruiting class #43
QB · WEST VIRGINIA · BIG 12
Max Brown
- 3
- #6
- 6-2 | 221 lb
- Tulsa, OK
Heisman Heat
#916
<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 1 · 2-deepR04 · Rotational
Rotational. Earning real snaps in the rotation.
Not on team2-deepStarterRecognizedEliteApex
Development Trajectory · passing yards
2023–2025-96%
Sharp dropoff (-96%) — career inflection point.
Career Arc
HS
Recruit
★★★
CFB
College
3 teams
NFL
NFL Draft
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Heisman futures · live sportsbook odds
#20 in market ▼ from #17 · 6 books
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 |
|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 3-star | 0.8374 | No. 1557 recruit | HighSchool | Florida |
Transfer Arc
Portal movement changes role, context, and perception. This keeps that path in one place.
| Season | Move | Context |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Charlotte -> West Virginia | 3-star | 0.8000 | Immediate |
| 2024 | Florida -> Charlotte | 3-star | 0.8700 | Immediate |
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 16Heisman 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.
NIL · Recruiting · NFL Draft
Market value, pedigree & pro outcome
Recruit stars
★★★☆☆
to Florida
Composite
0.8374
#1557 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.
The Room on Max Brown
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 Max Brown
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 passing totals stand
Through 2g
7Pass yards
0Pass TDs
1INT
Per game
3.5Pass yards
0Pass TDs
0INT
Projected (13g)
45.5Pass yards
0Pass TDs
6INT
To hit 3,000-yard season (currently 7): needs 272.1/game over remaining 11.
To hit 4,000-yard season (currently 7): needs 363/game over remaining 11.
To hit 25 passing TDs (currently 0): needs 2.3/game over remaining 11.
To hit 30 passing TDs (currently 0): needs 2.7/game over remaining 11.
To hit 35 passing TDs (currently 0): needs 3.2/game over remaining 11.
What made this player interesting
The fast read on the thing that makes this player more than a generic stat line.
Max Brown's story is about how role and output meet each other. For West Virginia, 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
QB 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?
Balanced quarterback against FBS QB peers. The quickest read is whether the profile wins on volume, efficiency, explosiveness, or rushing value.
2025 Season · Final
2025 season snapshot | final
Passing Efficiency
CMP
1 8th
ATT
3 15th
CMP%
33.3% 4th
Y/A
2.3 3rd
Passing Production
YDS
7 2nd
TD
0 30th
INT
1 63rd
Rushing
CAR
4 24th
YDS
23 42nd
YPC
5.8 83rd
TD
0 44th
Game Log · Week-by-week
2025 season · 2 games
| Wk | Opp | CMP/ATT | YDS | TD | INT | YPA | QBR | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 5 | L 14-48vs Utah | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| Wk 14 | L 0-49vs Texas Tech | 1/3 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 2.3 | 7.9 | Season-high 7 yds |
| Total | 1/3 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 2.3 | 7.9 |
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
2023Florida5-7HC: Billy Napier · Balanced
2024Charlotte5-7HC: Biff Poggi · Balanced, slow tempo
2025West Virginia4-8HC: Rich Rodriguez · Run-heavy
| Season | Team | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | West Virginia | 1 | 3 | 33.3% | 7 | 2.3 | 0 | 1 | -13.7 | -- | -- |
| 2024 | Charlotte | 43 | 93 | 46.2% | 561 | 6.0 | 3 | 6 | 94.6 | -- | -- |
| 2023 | Florida | 19 | 28 | 67.9% | 192 | 6.9 | 0 | 1 | 118.3 | -- | -- |
| Career | 3 loaded seasons | 63 | 124 | 50.8% | 760 | 6.1 | 3 | 8 | 97.4 | -- | -- |
| Season | Team | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | West Virginia | 4 | 23 | 5.8 | 0 | -- |
| 2024 | Charlotte | 33 | 85 | 2.6 | 0 | -- |
| 2023 | Florida | 23 | 37 | 1.6 | 0 | -- |
| Career | 3 loaded seasons | 60 | 145 | 2.4 | 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 | 7 | #375/382 | 2nd pct | Volumevs FBS QB |
| Passing | Pass TD | 0 | #285/407 | 30th pct | Scoringvs FBS QB |
| Passing | Completions | 1 | #355/383 | 8th pct | Volumevs FBS QB |
| Passing | Completion % | 33.3% | #368/383 | 4th pct | Efficiencyvs FBS QB |
| Passing | Yards / attempt | 2.3 | #371/382 | 3rd pct | Efficiencyvs FBS QB |
| Rushing | Rushing yards | 23 | #237/408 | 42nd pct | Volumevs FBS QB |
| Value | Passing WEPA | +0.16 | #165/200 | 18th pct | Opponent-adjusted passing value | 109 weighted playsvs FBS QB |
| Usage | Role share | 5.9% | #327/428 | 24th pct | Share of team offensevs FBS QB |
| Passing | Attempts | 3 | #346/407 | 15th pct | Volumevs FBS QB |
| Passing | Interceptions | 1 | #153/407 | 63rd pct | Turnoversvs FBS QB |
| Rushing | Rushing LONG | 14 | #232/391 | 41st pct | Metricvs FBS QB |
| Rushing | Yards / carry | 5.8 | #69/407 | 83rd pct | Efficiencyvs FBS QB |
| Rushing | Carries | 4 | #312/408 | 24th pct | Volumevs FBS QB |
| Rushing | Rush TD | 0 | #230/408 | 44th pct | Scoringvs FBS QB |
| Usage | Passing-down usage | 8.5% | #316/428 | 26th pct | Known-passing sharevs FBS QB |
| Usage | 2nd-down usage | 8.1% | #289/428 | 33rd pct | Middle-down loadvs FBS QB |
| Usage | 3rd-down usage | 7.1% | #339/428 | 21st pct | Money-down loadvs FBS QB |
| Usage | Rush share | 6.1% | #245/428 | 43rd pct | Ground-game usagevs FBS QB |
| Usage | Pass share | 6.0% | #336/428 | 22nd pct | Air-game usagevs FBS QB |
| Usage | 1st-down usage | 4.7% | #326/428 | 24th pct | Early-down loadvs FBS QB |
| Usage | Standard-down usage | 4.2% | #344/428 | 20th pct | Base-situation sharevs 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
2025 season · 2 games
Home vs Road
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home2g | 3.5 | 0.0 | 2.3 | 0.5 |
Win vs Loss
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Losses2g | 3.5 | 0.0 | 2.3 | 0.5 |
First half vs Second half
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-71g | — | — | — | — |
| Weeks 8+1g | 7.0 | 0.0 | 2.3 | 1.0 |
Pocket and defense-quality (clean vs. pressure) splits are coming soon.
Savant · Box-rate percentiles
Where this profile ranks vs the QB cohort
17Below cohort
Elite: interceptions (97th). Concern: completion % (0th).
Percentiles versus same-position peers with enough snaps this season, based on box-score rates.
Advanced Savant · QB · 2024
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
Max BrownWest VirginiaNick VattiatoMiddle Tennessee· 57% simLogan FifeNew Mexico State· 54% simRyan BrownePurdue· 52% sim
Interceptions
Rush yards
Rush TDs
Pass yards
Pass TDs
Yards / att
Completion %
Closest peers by overall box-score percentile profile at the same position.
Supporting Cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Rich Rodriguez
Pass share
38.7%
327 pass / 517 run
Plays / game
70.3
12 games
OL sack rate (allowed)
10.7%
272 dropbacks · PBP
Scheme: Run-heavy.
Coaching Lineage · 2023–2025
3 coaches2023
Neal Brown
West Virginia
2024era →
Chad Scott
West Virginia
2025era →
Rich Rodriguez
West Virginia
Played under 3 different head coaches: Neal Brown, Chad Scott, and Rich Rodriguez. Multi-era developmental context.
Bio · Recruiting · Transfer · Roster
Off-field context — switch tabs to drill into recruit profile, transfer arc, or roster timeline.
HometownTulsa, OK
Height6'2"
Weight221 lb
Class3
PositionQB
Jersey6
No fields populated yet.
No fields populated yet.
Current teamWest Virginia
ConferenceBig 12
Joined2025
Career arc4 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.
Roster Timeline
Team, conference, and class by season.
| Season | Team | Conference | Pos | Class | Bio |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | West Virginia | Big 12 | QB | 3 | No. 6 | 6-2 | 221 lb | Tulsa, OK |
| 2024 | Charlotte | American Athletic | QB | 3 | No. 6 | 6-2 | 221 lb | Tulsa, OK |
| 2023 | Florida | SEC | QB | 3 | No. 6 | 6-2 | 221 lb | Tulsa, OK |
| 2022 | Florida | SEC | QB | 3 | No. 6 | 6-2 | 221 lb | Tulsa, OK |