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Heisman / Players / Ryan Eckley /Michigan State

Ryan Eckley

P · Michigan State · Jr · #96

Below the discourse floor — the honest stats-only state.

1 TACKLES · 0 SACKS

2026 NFL DRAFTDrafted by Baltimore — Rd 6, Pick 30, #211 overall

Where He Ended Up · NFL

Baltimore2026 NFL rookie season

#211Rd 6 · Pick 30
Baltimore2026 NFL rookie season

P · MICHIGAN STATE · BIG TEN

Ryan Eckley

  • 3
  • #96
  • 6-2 | 207 lb
  • Lithia, FL

CFB Zeitgeist P Score

Awaiting

Heisman Heat

#15794

<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 P AWARD

Ray Guy

CONSENSUS

All-American

Player Standing · 17 rungs

Tier 2 · Starter

R07 · Impact starter

Impact starter. Producing measurable value above replacement.

Not on team2-deepStarterRecognizedEliteApex

Career arc · Season-by-season Standing

2 seasons on the ladder

Peak: R09 All-Conference HM / 2nd team · 2023

2023

Michigan State · P

R09 · All-Conference HM / 2nd team

Recognized

2025

Michigan State · P

R09 · All-Conference HM / 2nd team

Recognized

NFL Draft 2026 · Rd 6, Pick 30 · #211 overall · Baltimore

Career Arc

HS
Recruit
No recruit profile
CFB
College
Michigan State
2023–2025
NFL
NFL Draft
R6 &middot; #211
Baltimore &middot; 2026

Identity & Role

The durable bio layer: position, size, hometown, and roster role.

PositionP
Class3
Jersey96
Measurements6-2 | 207 lb
HometownLithia, FL
Primary teamMichigan State

Recruiting Pedigree

How big the prospect was before college, and whether the later career arc beat that expectation.

Top pedigree Not on file No matched recruiting profile in the loaded archive
Composite rating -- Composite rating unavailable for this player
Signed with -- Commitment history unavailable
Origin -- Hometown and high school unavailable
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.

Portal moves 0 No portal entry on file
Latest destination -- --
Transfer stars -- CFBD transfer rating context
Eligibility -- Transfer date TBD
Season Move Context
No transfer portal moves on file for this player.

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 16
Current nowcast#15794Latest modeled ballot order
Season forecast#15727Where the full season sim points
Win probability0.0%Chance to actually win the trophy
Finalist probability0.0%Chance to make the finalist tier
Ballot probability0.0%Chance to appear anywhere on a ballot
Best official finish--Best completed Heisman placement on file

Heisman Futures

Not yet listed on major futures markets.

No achievements unlocked yet this season.

Selector Grid · 2025

AP
FWAA
AFCA
WCFF
SN
SI

NIL · Recruiting · NFL Draft

Market value, pedigree & pro outcome

NFL Draft

2026 · Rd 6, Pick 30

#211 overall · Baltimore

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

PENDING

The 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 Ryan Eckley

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 Ryan Eckley

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.

A 3-act season arc returns once this player has six or more games on the ledger.

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.

Why the honors trail matters

The fast read on the thing that makes this player more than a generic stat line.

The useful clue on this card is not just the Heisman rank, but the broader honors spine. Ryan Eckley already has 4 loaded recognition items, which helps distinguish a player who is merely productive from one who is already earning selector-level validation.

Current place #15794 0.0% win | 0.0% finalist
Role load -- Role share still loading
Profile quirk Honors spine 4 honors loaded

2025 Season · Final

Traditional stats first. Advanced context underneath.

Last season

OTHER season snapshot

2025 season snapshot | final

2025 season snapshot | finalData: CFBD player stats + local Heisman modelPeer context: same position + same level
Scrimmage yards 0 Combined rushing and receiving
Touchdowns 0 Across offense and returns
Usage -- Role share still loading
Player identity What kind of player is this?

30-second read

What kind of player is this?

This player profile will sharpen as more advanced context is loaded.

Balanced profile

Game Log · Week-by-week

2025 season · 12 games

Box score · CFBD
WkOppPUNTYDSAVGLONGIN20Note
Wk 1W 23-6vs Western Michigan630851.3594
Wk 2W 42-40vs Boston College316454.7603
Wk 3W 41-24vs Youngstown State14848.0480
Wk 4L 31-45@ USC316956.3572
Wk 6L 27-38@ Nebraska420451.0540
Wk 7L 13-38vs UCLA313545.0480
Wk 8L 13-38@ Indiana15050.0500
Wk 9L 20-31vs Michigan733247.4552
Wk 10L 20-23@ Minnesota523146.2491
Wk 12L 10-28vs Penn State524248.4583
Wk 13L 17-20@ Iowa625742.8581
Wk 14W 38-28vs Maryland523847.6544
Total49237849.16020
Season-by-season tables Career rows + per-season box score

Traditional history

Traditional Stats

Season rows up top, career context at the bottom.

Season rows Career row

Season context · Team result + system

2023Michigan State4-8HC: Mel Tucker · Balanced
2025Michigan State4-8HC: Jonathan Smith · Balanced
Advanced layer Usage, value, and context

Advanced metrics second

Advanced Metrics

Usage, value, and opponent-adjusted context.

Usage Value Context
Peer percentile

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.

Traditional first

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
0 metrics visible Showing all metrics
Group Metric Value Rank Pct Why it matters
Defense Solo tackles 1 #63/282 78th pct Volumevs FBS peers
Defense Total tackles 1 #109/388 72nd pct Volumevs FBS peers
Defense Sacks 0.0 #15/390 96th pct Disruptionvs FBS peers
Defense TFL 0.0 #20/390 95th pct Disruptionvs FBS peers
Kicking Kicking FGA 1 #174/188 8th pct Metricvs FBS peers
Punting Punting YDS 2,378 #46/179 75th pct Metricvs FBS peers
Punting Punting LONG 60 #86/179 53rd pct Metricvs FBS peers
Punting Punting NO 49 #62/179 66th pct Metricvs FBS peers
Punting Punting YPP 48 #5/179 98th pct Metricvs FBS peers
Punting Punting IN 20 20 #28/166 84th pct Metricvs FBS peers
Punting Punting TB 1 #111/142 23rd pct Metricvs FBS peers

Player Standing

Universal 17-step ladder. Tier pills below; accolade streams nested.

ALL-CONF HM

On-team2-deepStartingRecognizedEliteApex

ALL-CONF HM · Rung 9 of 16

Why he’s here

All-Conference honorable mention / 2nd team — the recognition has started.

What moves him up

A best-at-position run lifts to 1st team.

What moves him down

A back-end conference finish drops out of the honor list.

Accolade streams

StatusAwaiting tracker

The Ray Guy award tracker integrates per-week probability once a dedicated scraper for this award lands. Confirmed past winners and finalists for this player will surface here.

Splits · Per-game

2025 season · 12 games

Home/Road · Win/Loss · Season halves

Home vs Road

YDS/gTD/gYPAINT/g
Home7g
Road5g

Win vs Loss

YDS/gTD/gYPAINT/g
Wins4g
Losses8g

First half vs Second half

YDS/gTD/gYPAINT/g
Weeks 1-76g
Weeks 8+6g

Pocket and defense-quality (clean vs. pressure) splits are coming soon.

Box-score Savant card waits for a season-stat snapshot above the cohort floor. Returns once enough box-score volume lands.

Advanced Savant · P · 2024

Percentile Card

Advanced opponent-adjusted percentile bars are coming soon for this player.

P4G5All FBS
EPA / dropback
awaiting
CPOE
awaiting
Success rate
awaiting
Explosive rate (20+)
awaiting
aDOT
awaiting
Deep-ball accuracy
awaiting
Pressure-to-sack
awaiting
3rd-down EPA
awaiting
Red-zone TD rate
awaiting
Play-action EPA
awaiting
Scramble EPA
awaiting
Turnover-worthy play rate
awaiting

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 returns once this player clears the Savant metric floor (4+ scored bars).
DNA Match awaiting data — similarity scores compute once season stats clear the volume gate for this position cohort.

Supporting Cast · Scheme

Staff and system around the player

2025 season

Head Coach

Jonathan Smith

Pass share

49.7%

378 pass / 382 run

Plays / game

63.3

12 games

OL sack rate (allowed)

11.2%

303 dropbacks · PBP

Scheme: Balanced.

Coaching Lineage · 2023–2025

2 coaches
2023
Mel Tucker
Michigan State
2025
Jonathan Smith
Michigan State
era →

Coaching transition mid-career: Mel Tucker → Jonathan Smith. 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.

HometownLithia, FL
Height6'2"
Weight207 lb
Class3
PositionP
Jersey96

Trophy Case · Confirmed honors

What the selectors said

4 entries
🥈

ALL-CONFERENCE · 1ST TEAM

All-Conf 1st team (2025)

All-Big Ten

Trophy Case · Detail

Every honor on the ledger, broken out by stream and selector.

All-Conference

4 all-conference honors

Conference-level recognition helps anchor whether a player is merely statistically loud or actually viewed as elite within his competitive lane.

Honors Timeline

Season-end distinction and week-by-week recognition on one timeline.

Season Honor Scope Team / Selector Context
2025 All-Big Ten all_conference Michigan State | Big Ten P
2025 All-Big Ten all_conference Michigan State | Big Ten EDDL
2024 All-Big Ten all_conference Michigan State | Big Ten P
2023 All-Big Ten all_conference Michigan State | Big Ten P

Heisman By Year

Modeled rank and official finish by season.

Season Team Role Latest Model Forecast Win Finalist Official Finish Points Context
2024 Michigan State P3 #15794 #15727 0.0% 0.0% -- -- W16 snapshot | Big Ten
2023 Michigan State P3 #15959 #15972 0.0% 0.0% -- -- W19 snapshot | Big Ten
2022 Michigan State P3 #15264 #15257 0.0% 0.0% -- -- W20 snapshot | Big Ten

Roster Timeline

Team, conference, and class by season.

Season Team Conference Pos Class Bio
2025 Michigan State Big Ten P 3 No. 96 | 6-2 | 207 lb | Lithia, FL
2024 Michigan State Big Ten P 3 No. 96 | 6-2 | 207 lb | Lithia, FL
2023 Michigan State Big Ten P 3 No. 96 | 6-2 | 207 lb | Lithia, FL
2022 Michigan State Big Ten P 3 No. 96 | 6-2 | 207 lb | Lithia, FL