CFB Zeitgeist Score
64
Solid starter in the position cohort. Carried by pass tds at the 96th percentile.
Owen McCown
Below the discourse floor — the honest stats-only state.
2,990 PASS YDS · 30 PASS TD · 24 RUSH YDS
2026 Outlook
Returning to UTSA for 2026
2026 Depth chart
Returning starter
Quarterback · UTSA
Returning around him
- 96% of 2024 offensive production back (Strong continuity)
- Transfer portal: -2 net (21 in / 23 out)
2026 Award watch
No preseason watch lists yet (most drop June 15 – July 15)
UTSA · Last season: 7-6 · Talent rank #65 · 2026 recruiting class #107
QB · UTSA · AMERICAN ATHLETIC
Owen McCown
- 3
- #13
- 6-1 | 190 lb
- Rusk, TX
Heisman Heat
#122
<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 · StarterR07 · Impact starter
Impact starter. Producing measurable value above replacement.
Not on team2-deepStarterRecognizedEliteApex
Development Trajectory · passing yards
2022–2025+398%
Up 398% from first season to most-recent.
Career Arc
HS
Recruit
★★★
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 |
|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 3-star | 0.8670 | No. 838 recruit | HighSchool |
Transfer Arc
Portal movement changes role, context, and perception. This keeps that path in one place.
| Season | Move | Context |
|---|---|---|
| 2023 | Colorado -> UTSA | 3-star | 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.
Achievements
- Volume King 1.3% Volume King 2,500+ passing yards, 1,200+ rushing yards, or 900+ receiving yards in a single season (position-appropriate threshold). Held by 1.3% of the 2025 pool. 2990 passing yards — clears the 2,500-QB volume bar.
- Program Benchmark 5.5% Program Benchmark Season leader for the program at the player's position across the headline volume metric (passing yards / rushing yards / receiving yards). Held by 5.5% of the 2025 pool. Team leader in passing yards (2990).
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 —
Composite
0.8670
#838 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 Owen McCown
Fan sentiment ·
Belief Meter
50
Mixed Sentiment
Top Take
“”
Trajectory
Per-cohort trajectory lands when historical bucket data is aggregated.
Cohort divergence map
- Own fans · n=8
- National · n=2
Rival Radar
How rival fanbases talk about Owen McCown
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 13g
2,990Pass yards
30Pass TDs
7INT
Per game
230Pass yards
2Pass TDs
1INT
Final
2,990Pass yards
30Pass TDs
7INT
✓ Hit 25 passing TDs · finished with 30.
✓ Hit 30 passing TDs · finished with 30.
What made this player interesting
The fast read on the thing that makes this player more than a generic stat line.
Owen McCown's story is about how role and output meet each other. For UTSA, 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?
High-volume passer | Efficient 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
276 96th
ATT
409 95th
CMP%
67.5% 78th
Y/A
7.3 62nd
Passing Production
YDS
2,990 90th
TD
30 99th
INT
7 23rd
Rushing
CAR
45 67th
YDS
24 43rd
YPC
0.5 21st
TD
1 63rd
Game Log · Week-by-week
2025 season · 13 games
| Wk | Opp | CMP/ATT | YDS | TD | INT | YPA | QBR | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | L 24-42@ Texas A&M | 19/32 | 121 | 0 | 0 | 3.8 | 43.8 | 3 TD passes |
| Wk 2 | L 36-43vs Texas State | 23/43 | 219 | 2 | 0 | 5.1 | 47.7 | |
| Wk 3 | W 48-20vs Incarnate Word | 29/35 | 238 | 4 | 0 | 6.8 | 78.2 | 4 TD passes |
| Wk 4 | W 17-16@ Colorado State | 14/27 | 173 | 1 | 2 | 6.4 | 36.5 | |
| Wk 6 | L 21-27@ Temple | 25/37 | 234 | 2 | 2 | 6.3 | 40.8 | |
| Wk 7 | W 61-13vs Rice | 15/21 | 236 | 3 | 0 | 11.2 | 87.8 | 3 TD passes |
| Wk 8 | L 17-55@ North Texas | 11/20 | 84 | 1 | 0 | 4.2 | 28.5 | |
| Wk 10 | W 48-26vs Tulane | 31/33 | 370 | 4 | 0 | 11.2 | 95.2 | Season-high 370 yds |
| Wk 11 | L 23-55@ South Florida | 16/23 | 200 | 1 | 1 | 8.7 | 34.6 | |
| Wk 12 | W 28-7@ Charlotte | 24/37 | 306 | 2 | 1 | 8.3 | 40.4 | |
| Wk 13 | W 58-24vs East Carolina | 24/33 | 248 | 5 | 0 | 7.5 | 94.7 | 5 TD passes |
| Wk 14 | L 24-27vs Army | 27/40 | 266 | 2 | 1 | 6.7 | 43.0 | |
| Bowl | W 57-20vs Florida International | 18/28 | 295 | 3 | 0 | 10.5 | 54.0 | |
| Total | 276/409 | 2990 | 30 | 7 | 7.4 | 55.8 |
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
2022Colorado1-11HC: Mike Sanford Jr. · Balanced, slow tempo
2023UTSA9-4HC: Jeff Traylor · Run-leaning
2024UTSA7-6HC: Jeff Traylor · Balanced, fast tempo
2025UTSA7-6HC: Jeff Traylor · Balanced
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 | 2,990 | #38/382 | 90th pct | Volumevs FBS QB |
| Passing | Pass TD | 30 | #6/407 | 99th pct | Scoringvs FBS QB |
| Passing | Completions | 276 | #17/383 | 96th pct | Volumevs FBS QB |
| Passing | Completion % | 67.5% | #86/383 | 78th pct | Efficiencyvs FBS QB |
| Passing | Yards / attempt | 7.3 | #145/382 | 62nd pct | Efficiencyvs FBS QB |
| Rushing | Rushing yards | 24 | #235/408 | 43rd pct | Volumevs FBS QB |
| Value | Passing WEPA | +0.32 | #62/200 | 70th pct | Opponent-adjusted passing value | 372 weighted playsvs FBS QB |
| Usage | Role share | 47.7% | #97/428 | 78th pct | Share of team offensevs FBS QB |
| Passing | Attempts | 409 | #20/407 | 95th pct | Volumevs FBS QB |
| Passing | Interceptions | 7 | #316/407 | 23rd pct | Turnoversvs FBS QB |
| Rushing | Carries | 45 | #136/408 | 67th pct | Volumevs FBS QB |
| Rushing | Rushing LONG | 29 | #113/391 | 71st pct | Metricvs FBS QB |
| Rushing | Rush TD | 1 | #151/408 | 63rd pct | Scoringvs FBS QB |
| Rushing | Yards / carry | 0.5 | #321/407 | 21st pct | Efficiencyvs FBS QB |
| Usage | Pass share | 88.9% | #73/428 | 83rd pct | Air-game usagevs FBS QB |
| Usage | Passing-down usage | 59.8% | #110/428 | 75th pct | Known-passing sharevs FBS QB |
| Usage | 2nd-down usage | 54.2% | #50/428 | 89th pct | Middle-down loadvs FBS QB |
| Usage | 3rd-down usage | 50.6% | #142/428 | 67th pct | Money-down loadvs FBS QB |
| Usage | Standard-down usage | 42.3% | #97/428 | 78th pct | Base-situation sharevs FBS QB |
| Usage | 1st-down usage | 40.9% | #101/428 | 77th pct | Early-down loadvs FBS QB |
| Usage | Rush share | 5.3% | #271/428 | 37th pct | Ground-game usagevs FBS QB |
| Ball Security | Fumbles lost | 3 | #213/258 | 18th 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
2025 season · 13 games
Home vs Road
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home7g | 267 | 3.3 | 8.4 | 0.1 |
| Road6g | 186 | 1.2 | 6.3 | 1.0 |
Win vs Loss
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wins7g | 267 | 3.1 | 8.8 | 0.4 |
| Losses6g | 187 | 1.3 | 5.8 | 0.7 |
First half vs Second half
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-77g | 217 | 2.1 | 7.2 | 0.6 |
| Weeks 8+6g | 246 | 2.5 | 7.8 | 0.5 |
Pocket and defense-quality (clean vs. pressure) splits are coming soon.
Savant · Box-rate percentiles
Where this profile ranks vs the QB cohort
64Solid starter
Elite: pass tds (96th). Strength: completion % (88th). Concern: fumbles lost (18th).
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 yds64%of completions
71 comp5.2 yds avg3 TD
Middle
10–19 yds25%of completions
28 comp13.7 yds avg1 TD
Deep
20+ yds11%of completions
12 comp40.8 yds avg5 TD
Overall 59.4% completion on 187 attempts · 12 deep completions averaging 40.8 yds.
Advanced Savant · QB · 2024
Percentile Card
Reads as a mid-tier profile across the board..
P4G5All FBS
Advanced Savant
Opponent-adjusted advanced metrics with a cohort filter.
wepa_passing0.32Mid (p50–p75) (n=94)
Peer Comparator · Fingerprint match
Three closest profiles by box-rate percentile
Owen McCownUTSAMicah AlejadoHawai'i· 87% simDarian MensahDuke· 87% simTy SimpsonAlabama· 84% sim
Pass TDs
Completion %
Pass yards
Yards / att
Interceptions
Rush yards
Rush TDs
Fumbles lost
Closest peers by overall box-score percentile profile at the same position.
Player DNA
The Pocket Surgeon
High-percentage passer who protects the ball. Loses the matchup on improvisation.
QB
His 2025 production profile sits closest to Jake Haener’s 2021 season.
Jake Haener
62%match
All-Mountain WestNFL Rd 4
#2
Chandler Rogers
62%
#3
Devin Leary
NFL Rd 6
62%
#4
Drew Pyne
60%
#5
Jayden de Laura
59%
Matches Jake on
Completion %
Weight
Differs from Jake on
Yards / attempt (lower)
TD rate (higher)
Total pass EPA (college ability) (lower)
Through 4 college seasons, his career arc tracks closest to Broc Lowry’s path through Western Michigan.
Broc Lowry
91%match
All-MAC
#2
JC French
90%
#3
Maverick McIvor
88%
#4
Taylor Powell
86%
#5
Chase Garbers
84%
Matches Broc on
Height
Completion %
Yards per attempt
As a senior, his production profile tracks closest to Kevin Jennings's senior season at SMU (2025).
Kevin Jennings
50%match
All-ACC
#2
Chevan Cordeiro
All-Mountain West
48%
#3
Noah Kim
47%
#4
Miller Moss
All-Big Ten
47%
#5
Frank Harris
All-AAC
46%
Matches Kevin on
Height
Differs from Kevin on
INT rate (lower)
Yards / attempt (lower)
TD rate (higher)
Supporting Cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Jeff Traylor
Pass share
50.7%
446 pass / 434 run
Plays / game
67.7
13 games
OL sack rate (allowed)
6.0%
281 dropbacks · PBP
Scheme: Balanced.
Coaching Lineage · 2022–2025
1 coach2022
Jeff Traylor
UTSA
2023
Jeff Traylor
UTSA
2024
Jeff Traylor
UTSA
2025
Jeff Traylor
UTSA
Played his entire career under Jeff Traylor.
Bio · Recruiting · Transfer · Roster
Off-field context — switch tabs to drill into recruit profile, transfer arc, or roster timeline.
HometownRusk, TX
Height6'1"
Weight190 lb
Class3
PositionQB
Jersey13
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Current teamUTSA
ConferenceAmerican Athletic
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.