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Heisman / Players / Spencer Rattler /South Carolina

Spencer Rattler

QB · South Carolina · Sr · #7

Limited signal — not enough coverage for a story yet.

NOW IN NFLNew Orleans — drafted 2024, Rd 5, Pick 15, #150 overall

Where He Ended Up · NFL

New OrleansEntering 3rd NFL season

#150Rd 5 · Pick 15
New OrleansEntering 3rd NFL season

QB · SOUTH CAROLINA · SEC

Spencer Rattler

  • 4
  • #7
  • 6-1 | 217 lb
  • Phoenix, AZ

CFB Zeitgeist QB Score

Awaiting

Heisman Heat

#81

<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

CONSENSUS

All-American

Player Standing · 17 rungs

Tier 0 · Not on team

R01 · Scout team / redshirt

Scout team / redshirt. Developing behind the depth chart.

Not on team2-deepStarterRecognizedEliteApex

Career arc · Season-by-season Standing

3 seasons on the ladder

Peak: R09 All-Conference HM / 2nd team · 2021

2021

Oklahoma · QB

R09 · All-Conference HM / 2nd team

Recognized

2022

South Carolina · QB

2023

South Carolina · QB

NFL Draft 2024 · Rd 5, Pick 15 · #150 overall · New Orleans

Development Trajectory · passing yards

2021–2023
1,4832021
3,0112022
3,1862023

+115%

Up 115% from first season to most-recent.

Career Arc

HS
Recruit
★★★★★
#11 national
CFB
College
2 teams
2021–2023
NFL
NFL Draft
R5 &middot; #150
New Orleans &middot; 2024

Identity & Role

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

PositionQB
Class4
Jersey7
Measurements6-1 | 217 lb
HometownPhoenix, AZ
Primary teamSouth Carolina

Recruiting Pedigree

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

Top pedigree 5-star No. 11 recruit
Composite rating 0.9942 HighSchool
Signed with Oklahoma 2019
Origin Pinnacle Phoenix, AZ, USA
Class Profile Context
2019 5-star | 0.9942 No. 11 recruit | HighSchool | Oklahoma

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 · 2023 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 19
Current nowcast#81Latest modeled ballot order
Season forecast#117Where 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

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 Oklahoma

Composite

0.9942

#11 national

NFL Draft

2024 · Rd 5, Pick 15

#150 overall · New Orleans

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 Spencer Rattler

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 Spencer Rattler

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. Spencer Rattler already has 1 loaded recognition item, which helps distinguish a player who is merely productive from one who is already earning selector-level validation.

Current place #81 0.0% win | 0.0% finalist
Role load 45.4% Overall usage share
Profile quirk Blue-chip pedigree No. 11 recruit

2023 Season · Final

Traditional stats first. Advanced context underneath.

Last season

QB season snapshot

2023 season snapshot | final

2023 season snapshot | finalData: CFBD player stats + local Heisman modelPeer context: same position + same level
Pass yards 3,186 19 TD | 8 INT | #25/382 (94th pct)
Completion rate 68.9% 275/399 completions | #75/383 (81st pct)
Yards/attempt 8.0 Explosiveness through the air | #92/382 (76th pct)
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.

High-volume passerEfficient

2023 Season · Final

2023 season snapshot | final

Passing Efficiency

CMP
275 96th
ATT
399 94th
CMP%
68.9% 81st
Y/A
8.0 76th

Passing Production

YDS
3,186 94th
TD
19 89th
INT
8 17th

Rushing

CAR
98 87th
YDS
102 67th
YPC
1.0 26th
TD
4 82nd

Game Log

Week-by-week box

No per-game rows for this season yet — the table fills in as box scores arrive.

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

2021Oklahoma10-2HC: Bob Stoops · Balanced
2022South Carolina8-5HC: Shane Beamer · Balanced
2023South Carolina5-7HC: Shane Beamer · Balanced
SeasonTeam
2023South Carolina27539968.9%3,1868.0198147.7----
2022South Carolina26239466.5%3,0117.61812139.7----
2021Oklahoma14018774.9%1,4837.9115155.5----
Career3 loaded seasons67798069.1%7,6807.84825146.0----
SeasonTeam
2023South Carolina981021.04--
2022South Carolina72570.83--
2021Oklahoma43771.83--
Career3 loaded seasons2132361.110--
Advanced layer Usage, value, and context

Advanced metrics second

Advanced Metrics

Usage, value, and opponent-adjusted context.

Usage Value Context
Passing WEPA

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.

Role share

How much of the offense runs through the quarterback once passing and rushing responsibility are blended together.

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.

Rush impact 102 4 rush TD | #135/408 (67th pct)
Usage 45.4% 71.2% pass share | 13.5% rush share | #112/428 (74th pct)
Passing WEPA +0.37 Opponent-adjusted passing value | #34/200 (84th pct)
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Group Metric Value Rank Pct Why it matters
Passing Passing yards 3,186 #25/382 94th pct Volumevs FBS QB
Passing Pass TD 19 #44/407 89th pct Scoringvs FBS QB
Passing Completions 275 #18/383 96th pct Volumevs FBS QB
Passing Completion % 68.9% #75/383 81st pct Efficiencyvs FBS QB
Passing Yards / attempt 8.0 #92/382 76th pct Efficiencyvs FBS QB
Rushing Rushing yards 102 #135/408 67th pct Volumevs FBS QB
Value Passing WEPA +0.37 #34/200 84th pct Opponent-adjusted passing value | 161 weighted playsvs FBS QB
Usage Role share 45.4% #112/428 74th pct Share of team offensevs FBS QB
Passing Attempts 399 #27/407 94th pct Volumevs FBS QB
Passing Interceptions 8 #339/407 17th pct Turnoversvs FBS QB
Rushing Carries 98 #56/408 87th pct Volumevs FBS QB
Rushing Rushing LONG 28 #117/391 70th pct Metricvs FBS QB
Rushing Rush TD 4 #74/408 82nd pct Scoringvs FBS QB
Rushing Yards / carry 1.0 #302/407 26th pct Efficiencyvs FBS QB
Usage Pass share 71.2% #141/428 67th pct Air-game usagevs FBS QB
Usage 3rd-down usage 58.4% #113/428 74th pct Money-down loadvs FBS QB
Usage Passing-down usage 56.6% #123/428 71st pct Known-passing sharevs FBS QB
Usage 2nd-down usage 50.6% #74/428 83rd pct Middle-down loadvs FBS QB
Usage Standard-down usage 40.7% #105/428 76th pct Base-situation sharevs FBS QB
Usage 1st-down usage 37.9% #119/428 72nd pct Early-down loadvs FBS QB
Usage Rush share 13.5% #120/428 72nd pct Ground-game usagevs FBS QB
Ball Security Fumbles lost 0 #1/258 100th 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

StatusAwaiting tracker

Heisman model tracks the top FBS contenders weekly; this player hasn't entered the watch list yet.

Splits

Per-game splits

Splits fill in once box scores from at least three games land for this season.

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

Advanced Savant · QB · 2023

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

Shane Beamer

Pass share

45.5%

340 pass / 407 run

Plays / game

62.2

12 games

OL sack rate (allowed)

13.0%

316 dropbacks · PBP

Scheme: Run-leaning.

Coaching Lineage · 2021–2023

1 coach
2021
Shane Beamer
South Carolina
2022
Shane Beamer
South Carolina
2023
Shane Beamer
South Carolina

Played his entire career under Shane Beamer.

Bio · Recruiting · Transfer · Roster

Off-field context — switch tabs to drill into recruit profile, transfer arc, or roster timeline.

HometownPhoenix, AZ
Height6'1"
Weight217 lb
Class4
PositionQB
Jersey7

Trophy Case · Confirmed honors

What the selectors said

1 entries
🎖

ALL-CONFERENCE

All-Conf mention (2021)

All-Big 12

Trophy Case · Detail

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

All-Conference

1 all-conference honor

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
2021 All-Big 12 all_conference Oklahoma | Big 12 QB

Heisman By Year

Modeled rank and official finish by season.

Season Team Role Latest Model Forecast Win Finalist Official Finish Points Context
2023 South Carolina QB4 #81 #117 0.0% 0.0% -- -- W19 snapshot | SEC
2022 South Carolina QB4 #68 #85 0.0% 0.0% -- -- W20 snapshot | SEC
2021 Oklahoma QB4 #63 #44 0.0% 0.0% -- -- W20 snapshot | Big 12

Roster Timeline

Team, conference, and class by season.

Season Team Conference Pos Class Bio
2023 South Carolina SEC QB 4 No. 7 | 6-1 | 217 lb | Phoenix, AZ
2022 South Carolina SEC QB 4 No. 7 | 6-1 | 217 lb | Phoenix, AZ
2021 Oklahoma Big 12 QB 4 No. 7 | 6-1 | 217 lb | Phoenix, AZ