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Heisman / Players / Tony Livingston /Florida

Tony Livingston

TE · Florida · Jr · #86

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

119 REC YDS · 11 REC · 2 REC TD

2026 RETURNINGReturning to Florida for 2026

2026 Outlook

Returning to Florida for 2026

2026 Depth chart

Projected starter

Tight end · Florida

Returning around him

  • 55% of 2024 offensive production back (Solid continuity)
  • 7 Florida players drafted to NFL
  • Transfer portal: -9 net (27 in / 36 out)

2026 Award watch

No preseason watch lists yet (most drop June 15 – July 15)

Florida · Last season: 4-8 (AP #13) · Talent rank #12 · 2026 recruiting class #7

TE · FLORIDA · SEC

Tony Livingston

  • 3
  • #86
  • 6-5 | 264 lb
  • Tampa, FL

CFB Zeitgeist Score

31

Below cohort in the position cohort. Carried by yards / catch at the 53rd percentile.

Heisman Heat

#933

<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 TE AWARD

Mackey

CONSENSUS

All-American

Player Standing · 17 rungs

Tier 2 · Starter

R06 · Starter

Starter. A locked-in starting role.

Not on team2-deepStarterRecognizedEliteApex

Development Trajectory · receiving yards

2023–2025
4.02023
1092024
1192025

+2875%

Up 2875% from first season to most-recent.

Career Arc

HS
Recruit
★★★★
#338 national
CFB
College
Florida
2023–2025
NFL
NFL Draft
Not drafted (yet)

Identity & Role

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

PositionTE
Class3
Jersey86
Measurements6-5 | 264 lb
HometownTampa, FL
Primary teamFlorida

Recruiting Pedigree

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

Top pedigree 4-star No. 338 recruit
Composite rating 0.8985 HighSchool
Signed with Florida 2022
Origin King Tampa, FL, USA
Class Profile Context
2022 4-star | 0.8985 No. 338 recruit | HighSchool | Florida

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#933Latest modeled ballot order
Season forecast#1203Where 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 Florida

Composite

0.8985

#338 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

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 Tony Livingston

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 Tony Livingston

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.

Season Pace · Projection

Where the receiving totals stand

projecting to 13-game
Through 8g
119Rec yards
11Receptions
2Rec TDs
Per game
14.9Rec yards
1Receptions
0Rec TDs
Projected (13g)
193.4Rec yards
18Receptions
3Rec TDs

To hit 700-yard receiver (currently 119): needs 116.2/game over remaining 5.

To hit 1,000-yard receiver (currently 119): needs 176.2/game over remaining 5.

To hit 60-catch season (currently 11): needs 9.8/game over remaining 5.

To hit 80-catch season (currently 11): needs 13.8/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.

Tony Livingston's story is about how role and output meet each other. For Florida, 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.

Current place #933 0.0% win | 0.0% finalist
Role load 2.9% Overall usage share
Profile quirk Blue-chip pedigree No. 338 recruit

2025 Season · Final

Traditional stats first. Advanced context underneath.

Last season

TE season snapshot

2025 season snapshot | final

2025 season snapshot | finalData: CFBD player stats + local Heisman modelPeer context: same position + same level
Receptions 11 2 rec TD | #176/475 (63rd pct)
Receiving yards 119 10.8 per catch | #173/475 (64th pct)
Scrimmage yards 119 Total offensive yardage | #173/475 (64th pct)
Player identity What kind of player is this?

30-second read

What kind of player is this?

Receiving weapon against FBS receiving peers.

Balanced profile

2025 Season · Final

2025 season snapshot | final

Receiving

REC
11 63rd
YDS
119 64th
YPR
10.8 62nd
TD
2 84th

Game Log · Week-by-week

2025 season · 8 games

Box score · CFBD
WkOppRECYDSAVGTDLONGNote
Wk 1W 55-0vs Long Island University2168.0112
Wk 3L 10-20@ LSU2147.009
Wk 4L 7-26@ Miami188.008
Wk 6W 29-21vs Texas199.009
Wk 11L 7-38@ Kentucky133.003
Wk 12L 24-34@ Ole Miss13838.0038Season-high 38 yds
Wk 13L 11-31vs Tennessee22211.0014
Wk 14W 40-21vs Florida State199.019
Total1111911.6238
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

2023Florida5-7HC: Billy Napier · Balanced
2024Florida8-5HC: Billy Napier · Run-leaning
2025Florida4-8HC: Billy Napier · Balanced
SeasonTeam
2025Florida1111910.82--
2024Florida1010910.92--
2023Florida144.00--
Career3 loaded seasons2223210.54--
Advanced layer Usage, value, and context

Advanced metrics second

Advanced Metrics

Usage, value, and opponent-adjusted context.

Usage Value Context
Pass share

The tight end's share of the passing offense, which helps distinguish a featured receiving tight end from a secondary option.

Role share

A blended usage view that shows how often the offense flows through the tight end compared with other same-level peers.

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.

Usage 2.9% 5.7% pass-game share | #249/468 (47th pct)
Return yards 0 0 return TD
Touchdowns 2 Across offense and returns | #79/475 (84th pct)
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Group Metric Value Rank Pct Why it matters
Receiving Receptions 11 #176/475 63rd pct Volumevs FBS TE
Receiving Receiving yards 119 #173/475 64th pct Volumevs FBS TE
Receiving Receiving TD 2 #79/475 84th pct Scoringvs FBS TE
Receiving Yards / catch 10.8 #181/475 62nd pct Efficiencyvs FBS TE
Usage Pass share 5.7% #249/468 47th pct Air-game usagevs FBS TE
Receiving Receiving LONG 38 #81/475 83rd pct Metricvs FBS TE
Usage 1st-down usage 3.7% #149/468 68th pct Early-down loadvs FBS TE
Usage 2nd-down usage 3.4% #231/468 51st pct Middle-down loadvs FBS TE
Usage Standard-down usage 3.3% #184/468 61st pct Base-situation sharevs FBS TE
Usage Role share 2.9% #235/468 50th pct Share of team offensevs FBS TE
Usage Passing-down usage 2.2% #321/468 32nd pct Known-passing sharevs FBS TE
Usage 3rd-down usage 1.1% #332/468 29th pct Money-down loadvs FBS TE
Usage Rush share 0.0% #58/468 88th pct Ground-game usagevs FBS TE

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

The Mackey 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 · 8 games

Home/Road · Win/Loss · Season halves

Home vs Road

REC/gYDS/gYPRTD/g
Home4g1.514.09.20.5
Road4g1.215.814.00.0

Win vs Loss

REC/gYDS/gYPRTD/g
Wins3g1.311.38.70.7
Losses5g1.417.013.40.0

First half vs Second half

REC/gYDS/gYPRTD/g
Weeks 1-74g1.511.88.00.2
Weeks 8+4g1.218.015.20.2

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

Savant · Box-rate percentiles

Where this profile ranks vs the TE cohort

31Below cohort
5 metrics · season cumulative

Concern: receptions (0th).

Long catch#71 / 175 · 59th pct
38rece
Yards / catch#81 / 175 · 53rd pct
10.8rece
Rec TDs#76 / 175 · 43rd pct
2rece
Rec yards#160 / 175 · 9th pct
119rece
Receptions#176 / 175 · 0th pct
11rece

Percentiles versus same-position peers with enough snaps this season, based on box-score rates.

Advanced Savant · TE · 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 · Fingerprint match

Three closest profiles by box-rate percentile

3 peers · 5 metrics
Tony LivingstonFloridaLuke LindenmeyerNebraska· 58% simBryce CaufieldOregon State· 58% simHayden HansenFlorida· 58% sim
Long catch
59
Livingston
23
Lindenmeyer
39
Caufield
32
Hansen
Yards / catch
53
Livingston
53
Lindenmeyer
7
Caufield
16
Hansen
Rec TDs
43
Livingston
43
Lindenmeyer
21
Caufield
43
Hansen
Rec yards
9
Livingston
63
Lindenmeyer
44
Caufield
54
Hansen
Receptions
0
Livingston
66
Lindenmeyer
66
Caufield
69
Hansen

Closest peers by overall box-score percentile profile at the same position.

Player DNA

The Red-Zone Weapon

The first name called near the goal line. Blocking is secondary.

TE

His 2025 production profile sits closest to Markeston Douglas’s 2023 season.

Markeston Douglas

80%match

Florida State · 2023

#2

Markeston Douglas

Florida State · 2022

75%
#3

Easton Dean

Iowa State · 2022

75%
#4

Michael Masunas

Michigan State · 2025

71%
#5

Zaire Mitchell-Paden

Florida Atlantic · 2021

70%

Matches Markeston on

Height
EPA / play (adj)
Yards / reception

Differs from Markeston on

Recruiting rating (higher)
Class year (lower)

Not enough data yet for this comparison.

As a junior, his production profile tracks closest to Michael Masunas's junior season at Michigan State (2025).

Michael Masunas

81%match

Michigan State · 2025

#2

Brett Norfleet

Missouri · 2025

74%
#3

Easton Dean

Iowa State · 2022

74%
#4

Thomas Yassmin

Utah · 2023

72%
#5

Matthew Klopfenstein

Baylor · 2025

71%

Matches Michael on

Total EPA (college ability)
TD rate
Reception volume

Differs from Michael on

Recruiting rating (higher)

Supporting Cast · Scheme

Staff and system around the player

2025 season

Head Coach

Billy Napier

Pass share

49.4%

372 pass / 381 run

Plays / game

62.8

12 games

OL sack rate (allowed)

7.1%

311 dropbacks · PBP

Scheme: Balanced.

Coaching Lineage · 2023–2025

1 coach
2023
Billy Napier
Florida
2024
Billy Napier
Florida
2025
Billy Napier
Florida

Played his entire career under Billy Napier.

Bio · Recruiting · Transfer · Roster

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

HometownTampa, FL
Height6'5"
Weight264 lb
Class3
PositionTE
Jersey86

Trophy Case · Detail

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

Honors

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 Florida TE3 #933 #1203 0.0% 0.0% -- -- W16 snapshot | SEC
2023 Florida TE3 #3759 #3732 0.0% 0.0% -- -- W19 snapshot | SEC

Roster Timeline

Team, conference, and class by season.

Season Team Conference Pos Class Bio
2025 Florida SEC TE 3 No. 86 | 6-5 | 264 lb | Tampa, FL
2024 Florida SEC TE 3 No. 86 | 6-5 | 264 lb | Tampa, FL
2023 Florida SEC TE 3 No. 86 | 6-5 | 264 lb | Tampa, FL