CFB Zeitgeist Score
23
Below cohort in the position cohort. Carried by interceptions at the 74th percentile.
MJ Morris
MJ Morris arrives at Coastal Carolina with a new fit to prove and an old chapter behind him.
4★ · NATIONAL RECRUIT
No.417
recruiting national rank
Coastal Carolina fans claim him as family first and a player second.
Minority viewA vocal minority sees it the other way.
AI narrative · updated 2026-06-22 · compiled from CFB Zeitgeist data
Where He Ended Up · Transfer
Transferred to Texas
QB · COASTAL CAROLINA · SUN BELT
CFB Zeitgeist Score
23
Below cohort in the position cohort. Carried by interceptions at the 74th percentile.
Heisman Heat
#352
<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 2 · StarterPart-time starter. Splitting first-team reps.
Development Trajectory · passing yards
2022–2025Sharp dropoff (-53%) — career inflection point.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 4-star | 0.8909 | No. 417 recruit | HighSchool | NC State |
Portal movement changes role, context, and perception. This keeps that path in one place.
| Season | Move | Context |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Coastal Carolina -> Texas | 3-star | 0.8500 | Immediate |
| 2025 | Maryland -> Coastal Carolina | 3-star | 0.8500 | Immediate |
| 2024 | NC State -> Maryland | 3-star | 0.8700 | Immediate |
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.
NIL · Recruiting · NFL Draft
Market value, pedigree & pro outcome
Recruit stars
★★★★☆
to NC State
Composite
0.8909
#417 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.
Fan sentiment ·
Belief Meter
88
Grounded Optimism
Top Take
“”
Trajectory
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 passing totals stand
To hit 3,000-yard season (currently 304): needs 269.6/game over remaining 10.
To hit 4,000-yard season (currently 304): needs 369.6/game over remaining 10.
To hit 25 passing TDs (currently 1): needs 2.4/game over remaining 10.
To hit 30 passing TDs (currently 1): needs 2.9/game over remaining 10.
To hit 35 passing TDs (currently 1): needs 3.4/game over remaining 10.
The fast read on the thing that makes this player more than a generic stat line.
MJ Morris's story is about how role and output meet each other. For Coastal Carolina, 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.
Traditional stats first. Advanced context underneath.
Last season
2025 season snapshot | final
30-second read
Balanced quarterback against FBS QB peers. The quickest read is whether the profile wins on volume, efficiency, explosiveness, or rushing value.
2025 season snapshot | final
Passing Efficiency
Passing Production
Rushing
Game Log · Week-by-week
2025 season · 3 games
| Wk | Opp | CMP/ATT | YDS | TD | INT | YPA | QBR | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | L 7-48@ Virginia | 20/36 | 163 | 0 | 1 | 4.5 | 13.2 | Season-high 163 yds |
| Wk 2 | W 13-0vs Charleston Southern | 13/22 | 102 | 0 | 3 | 4.6 | 4.8 | 3 INTs — rough day |
| Wk 8 | W 45-37@ App State | 2/2 | 39 | 1 | 0 | 19.5 | 100.0 | |
| Total | 35/60 | 304 | 1 | 4 | 9.5 | 39.3 |
Traditional history
Season rows up top, career context at the bottom.
Season context · Team result + system
| Season | Team | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Coastal Carolina | 35 | 60 | 58.3% | 304 | 5.1 | 1 | 4 | 93.1 | -- | -- |
| 2024 | Maryland | 36 | 61 | 59.0% | 350 | 5.7 | 5 | 5 | 117.9 | -- | -- |
| 2023 | NC State | 63 | 113 | 55.8% | 719 | 6.4 | 7 | 5 | 120.8 | -- | -- |
| 2022 | NC State | 52 | 86 | 60.5% | 648 | 7.5 | 7 | 1 | 148.3 | -- | -- |
| Career | 4 loaded seasons | 186 | 320 | 58.1% | 2,021 | 6.3 | 20 | 15 | 122.4 | -- | -- |
| Season | Team | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Coastal Carolina | 11 | 31 | 2.8 | 0 | -- |
| 2024 | Maryland | 28 | 12 | 0.4 | 1 | -- |
| 2023 | NC State | 32 | 15 | 0.5 | 0 | -- |
| 2022 | NC State | 49 | 88 | 1.8 | 1 | -- |
| Career | 4 loaded seasons | 120 | 146 | 1.2 | 2 | -- |
Advanced metrics second
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.
| Group | Metric | Value | Rank | Pct | Why it matters |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Passing | Passing yards | 304 | #205/382 | 47th pct | Volumevs FBS QB |
| Passing | Pass TD | 1 | #228/407 | 44th pct | Scoringvs FBS QB |
| Passing | Completions | 35 | #193/383 | 50th pct | Volumevs FBS QB |
| Passing | Completion % | 58.3% | #243/383 | 37th pct | Efficiencyvs FBS QB |
| Passing | Yards / attempt | 5.1 | #306/382 | 20th pct | Efficiencyvs FBS QB |
| Rushing | Rushing yards | 31 | #213/408 | 48th pct | Volumevs FBS QB |
| Value | Passing WEPA | +0.32 | #62/200 | 70th pct | Opponent-adjusted passing value | 74 weighted playsvs FBS QB |
| Usage | Role share | 31.9% | #174/428 | 60th pct | Share of team offensevs FBS QB |
| Passing | Attempts | 60 | #193/407 | 53rd pct | Volumevs FBS QB |
| Passing | Interceptions | 4 | #263/407 | 36th pct | Turnoversvs FBS QB |
| Rushing | Carries | 11 | #254/408 | 38th pct | Volumevs FBS QB |
| Rushing | Rushing LONG | 11 | #281/391 | 28th pct | Metricvs FBS QB |
| Rushing | Yards / carry | 2.8 | #202/407 | 51st pct | Efficiencyvs FBS QB |
| Rushing | Rush TD | 0 | #230/408 | 44th pct | Scoringvs FBS QB |
| Usage | Pass share | 67.9% | #144/428 | 67th pct | Air-game usagevs FBS QB |
| Usage | Passing-down usage | 45.2% | #169/428 | 61st pct | Known-passing sharevs FBS QB |
| Usage | 3rd-down usage | 39.5% | #182/428 | 58th pct | Money-down loadvs FBS QB |
| Usage | 2nd-down usage | 33.8% | #166/428 | 61st pct | Middle-down loadvs FBS QB |
| Usage | 1st-down usage | 26.4% | #175/428 | 59th pct | Early-down loadvs FBS QB |
| Usage | Standard-down usage | 26.1% | #178/428 | 59th pct | Base-situation sharevs FBS QB |
| Usage | Rush share | 6.8% | #234/428 | 46th pct | Ground-game usagevs FBS QB |
| Ball Security | Fumbles lost | 0 | #1/258 | 100th pct | Turnoversvs FBS QB |
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
Heisman model tracks the top FBS contenders weekly; this player hasn't entered the watch list yet.
Splits · Per-game
2025 season · 3 games
Home vs Road
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home1g | 102 | 0.0 | 4.6 | 3.0 |
| Road2g | 101 | 0.5 | 12.0 | 0.5 |
Win vs Loss
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wins2g | 70.5 | 0.5 | 12.1 | 1.5 |
| Losses1g | 163 | 0.0 | 4.5 | 1.0 |
First half vs Second half
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-72g | 132 | 0.0 | 4.5 | 2.0 |
| Weeks 8+1g | 39.0 | 1.0 | 19.5 | 0.0 |
Pocket and defense-quality (clean vs. pressure) splits are coming soon.
Savant · Box-rate percentiles
Where this profile ranks vs the QB cohort
Elite: fumbles lost (91st). Concern: pass yards (0th).
Percentiles versus same-position peers with enough snaps this season, based on box-score rates.
Pass Profile · Completion depth (PBP)
Where the throws are landing
Short
0–9 ydsMiddle
10–19 ydsDeep
20+ ydsOverall 57.9% completion on 57 attempts.
Advanced Savant · QB · 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.
Supporting Cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Tim Beck
Pass share
46.3%
399 pass / 463 run
Plays / game
66.3
13 games
OL sack rate (allowed)
7.2%
290 dropbacks · PBP
Scheme: Run-leaning.
Coaching Lineage · 2022–2025
2 coachesCoaching transition mid-career: Chad Staggs → Tim Beck. Worth noting in scheme + development context.
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 | Coastal Carolina | Sun Belt | QB | 3 | No. 7 | 6-1 | 209 lb | Carrollton, GA |
| 2024 | Maryland | Big Ten | QB | 3 | No. 7 | 6-1 | 209 lb | Carrollton, GA |
| 2023 | NC State | ACC | QB | 3 | No. 7 | 6-1 | 209 lb | Carrollton, GA |
| 2022 | NC State | ACC | QB | 3 | No. 7 | 6-1 | 209 lb | Carrollton, GA |