CFB Zeitgeist Score
48
Mid-pack in the position cohort. Carried by yards / catch at the 90th percentile.
Micah Mays Jr.
Below the discourse floor — the honest stats-only state.
302 REC YDS · 18 REC · 2 REC TD
Where He Ended Up · Transfer
Transferred to Florida
2025Wake Forest
2026Florida
WR · WAKE FOREST · ACC
Micah Mays Jr.
- 2
- #7
- 6-2 | 196 lb
- Palm Beach Gardens, FL
Heisman Heat
#4248
<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 · StarterR05 · Part-time starter
Part-time starter. Splitting first-team reps.
Not on team2-deepStarterRecognizedEliteApex
Career Arc
HS
Recruit
★★★★
CFB
College
Wake Forest
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 |
|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 4-star | 0.8961 | No. 377 recruit | HighSchool | Wake Forest |
Transfer Arc
Portal movement changes role, context, and perception. This keeps that path in one place.
| Season | Move | Context |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Wake Forest -> Florida | 3-star | 0.8800 | 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 Wake Forest
Composite
0.8961
#377 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 Micah Mays Jr.
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 Micah Mays Jr.
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 8g
302Rec yards
18Receptions
2Rec TDs
Per game
37.8Rec yards
2Receptions
0Rec TDs
Projected (13g)
490.8Rec yards
29Receptions
3Rec TDs
To hit 700-yard receiver (currently 302): needs 79.6/game over remaining 5.
To hit 1,000-yard receiver (currently 302): needs 139.6/game over remaining 5.
To hit 60-catch season (currently 18): needs 8.4/game over remaining 5.
To hit 80-catch season (currently 18): needs 12.4/game over remaining 5.
To hit 8 receiving TDs (currently 2): needs 1.2/game over remaining 5.
To hit 10 receiving TDs (currently 2): needs 1.6/game over remaining 5.
What made this player interesting
The fast read on the thing that makes this player more than a generic stat line.
Micah Mays Jr.'s story is about how role and output meet each other. For Wake Forest, 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?
Big-play receiver against FBS receiving peers.
2025 Season · Final
2025 season snapshot | final
Receiving
REC
18 60th
YDS
302 68th
YPR
16.8 86th
TD
2 75th
Game Log · Week-by-week
2025 season · 8 games
| Wk | Opp | REC | YDS | AVG | TD | LONG | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | W 10-9vs Kennesaw State | 3 | 33 | 11.0 | 0 | 23 | |
| Wk 3 | L 24-34vs NC State | 1 | 26 | 26.0 | 0 | 26 | |
| Wk 5 | L 29-30vs Georgia Tech | 2 | 65 | 32.5 | 0 | 37 | |
| Wk 6 | W 30-23@ Virginia Tech | 2 | 21 | 10.5 | 0 | 17 | |
| Wk 7 | W 39-14@ Oregon State | 2 | 69 | 34.5 | 1 | 52 | Season-high 69 yds |
| Wk 9 | W 13-12vs SMU | 2 | 30 | 15.0 | 0 | 16 | |
| Wk 10 | L 7-42@ Florida State | 5 | 51 | 10.2 | 1 | 18 | |
| Wk 13 | W 52-14vs Delaware | 1 | 7 | 7.0 | 0 | 7 | |
| Total | 18 | 302 | 18.3 | 2 | 52 |
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
2025Wake Forest9-4HC: Jake Dickert · Balanced
| Season | Team | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Wake Forest | 18 | 302 | 16.8 | 2 | -- |
| Career | 1 loaded season | 18 | 302 | 16.8 | 2 | -- |
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 | 18 | #444/1110 | 60th pct | Volumevs FBS WR |
| Receiving | Receiving yards | 302 | #359/1107 | 68th pct | Volumevs FBS WR |
| Receiving | Receiving TD | 2 | #281/1111 | 75th pct | Scoringvs FBS WR |
| Receiving | Yards / catch | 16.8 | #160/1106 | 86th pct | Efficiencyvs FBS WR |
| Usage | Pass share | 13.8% | #287/1137 | 75th pct | Air-game usagevs FBS WR |
| Receiving | Receiving LONG | 52 | #244/1105 | 78th pct | Metricvs FBS WR |
| Usage | 2nd-down usage | 9.9% | #122/1137 | 89th pct | Middle-down loadvs FBS WR |
| Usage | Passing-down usage | 8.9% | #317/1137 | 72nd pct | Known-passing sharevs FBS WR |
| Usage | 3rd-down usage | 6.9% | #464/1137 | 59th pct | Money-down loadvs FBS WR |
| Usage | Role share | 6.9% | #285/1137 | 75th pct | Share of team offensevs FBS WR |
| Usage | Standard-down usage | 5.9% | #299/1137 | 74th pct | Base-situation sharevs FBS WR |
| Usage | 1st-down usage | 5.1% | #417/1137 | 63rd pct | Early-down loadvs 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 · 8 games
Home vs Road
| REC/g | YDS/g | YPR | TD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home5g | 1.8 | 32.2 | 18.3 | 0.0 |
| Road3g | 3.0 | 47.0 | 18.4 | 0.7 |
Win vs Loss
| REC/g | YDS/g | YPR | TD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wins5g | 2.0 | 32.0 | 15.6 | 0.2 |
| Losses3g | 2.7 | 47.3 | 22.9 | 0.3 |
First half vs Second half
| REC/g | YDS/g | YPR | TD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-75g | 2.0 | 42.8 | 22.9 | 0.2 |
| Weeks 8+3g | 2.7 | 29.3 | 10.7 | 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
48Mid-pack
Elite: yards / catch (89th). Concern: receptions (19th).
Percentiles versus same-position peers with enough snaps this season, based on box-score rates.
Advanced Savant · WR · 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
Micah Mays Jr.Wake ForestNik McMillanBuffalo· 58% simHarrison Wallace IIIOle Miss· 57% simSean WilsonDelaware· 54% sim
Yards / catch
Long catch
Rec TDs
Rec yards
Receptions
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 CJ Brown’s 2025 season.
CJ Brown
82%match
#2
Treyshun Hurry
82%
#3
Keontez Lewis
80%
#4
Boobie Curry
80%
#5
Armani Winfield
80%
Matches CJ on
Yards / reception
Weight
Height
Through 2 college seasons, his career arc tracks closest to Derick Eugene’s path through Long Island University.
Derick Eugene
96%match
#2
Elijah Steward
96%
#3
Max Tomczak
94%
#4
Andrew Erickson
94%
#5
Caleb Gossett
93%
Matches Derick on
Yards per reception
As a sophomore, his production profile tracks closest to CJ Brown's sophomore season at Arkansas (2025).
CJ Brown
84%match
#2
Aidan Mizell
82%
#3
Taj Davis
78%
#4
Zaquandre White
74%
#5
Jaden Dottin
70%
Matches CJ on
Yards / reception
EPA / play (adj)
Height
Supporting Cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Jake Dickert
Pass share
48.0%
405 pass / 439 run
Plays / game
64.9
13 games
OL sack rate (allowed)
5.1%
293 dropbacks · PBP
Scheme: Balanced.
Coaching Lineage · 2025
1 coach2025
Jake Dickert
Wake Forest
Played his entire career under Jake Dickert.
Bio · Recruiting · Transfer · Roster
Off-field context — switch tabs to drill into recruit profile, transfer arc, or roster timeline.
HometownPalm Beach Gardens, FL
Height6'2"
Weight196 lb
Class2
PositionWR
Jersey7
No fields populated yet.
No fields populated yet.
Current teamWake Forest
ConferenceACC
Joined2025
Career arc3 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Wake Forest | WR2 | #4248 | #4538 | 0.0% | 0.0% | -- | -- | W16 snapshot | ACC |
| 2023 | Wake Forest | WR2 | #4650 | #4959 | 0.0% | 0.0% | -- | -- | W19 snapshot | ACC |
Roster Timeline
Team, conference, and class by season.
| Season | Team | Conference | Pos | Class | Bio |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Wake Forest | ACC | WR | 2 | No. 7 | 6-2 | 196 lb | Palm Beach Gardens, FL |
| 2024 | Wake Forest | ACC | WR | 2 | No. 7 | 6-2 | 196 lb | Palm Beach Gardens, FL |
| 2023 | Wake Forest | ACC | WR | 2 | No. 7 | 6-2 | 196 lb | Palm Beach Gardens, FL |