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Heisman / Players / Tory Horton /Colorado State

Tory Horton

WR · Colorado State · Sr · #14

Limited signal — not enough coverage for a story yet.

NOW IN NFLSeattle — drafted 2025, Rd 5, Pick 30, #166 overall

Where He Ended Up · NFL

SeattleEntering 2nd NFL season

#166Rd 5 · Pick 30
SeattleEntering 2nd NFL season

WR · COLORADO STATE · MOUNTAIN WEST

Tory Horton

  • 4
  • #14
  • 6-2 | 190 lb
  • Fresno, CA

CFB Zeitgeist WR Score

Awaiting

Heisman Heat

#4580

<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 WR AWARD

Biletnikoff

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 · 2022

2021

Nevada · WR

2022

Colorado State · WR

R09 · All-Conference HM / 2nd team

Recognized

2023

Colorado State · WR

R09 · All-Conference HM / 2nd team

Recognized

NFL Draft 2025 · Rd 5, Pick 30 · #166 overall · Seattle

Development Trajectory · receiving yards

2021–2023
6592021
1,1312022
1,1362023

+72%

Up 72% from first season to most-recent.

Career Arc

HS
Recruit
★★★
#2622 national
CFB
College
2 teams
2021–2023
NFL
NFL Draft
R5 &middot; #166
Seattle &middot; 2025

Identity & Role

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

PositionWR
Class4
Jersey14
Measurements6-2 | 190 lb
HometownFresno, CA
Primary teamColorado State

Recruiting Pedigree

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

Top pedigree 3-star No. 2622 recruit
Composite rating 0.8089 HighSchool
Signed with Nevada 2020
Origin Washington Union Fresno, CA, USA
Class Profile Context
2020 3-star | 0.8089 No. 2622 recruit | HighSchool | Nevada

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#4580Latest modeled ballot order
Season forecast#4921Where 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 Nevada

Composite

0.8089

#2622 national

NFL Draft

2025 · Rd 5, Pick 30

#166 overall · Seattle

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 Tory Horton

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 Tory Horton

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. Tory Horton 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 #4580 0.0% win | 0.0% finalist
Role load 8.6% Overall usage share
Profile quirk Transfer path 0 portal moves

2023 Season · Final

Traditional stats first. Advanced context underneath.

Last season

WR season snapshot

2023 season snapshot | final

2023 season snapshot | finalData: CFBD player stats + local Heisman modelPeer context: same position + same level
Receptions 96 8 rec TD | #5/1110 (100th pct)
Receiving yards 1,136 11.8 per catch | #9/1107 (99th pct)
Scrimmage yards 1,136 Total offensive yardage | #9/1107 (99th pct)
Player identity What kind of player is this?

30-second read

What kind of player is this?

Target magnet | All-purpose weapon against FBS receiving peers.

Target magnetAll-purpose weapon

2023 Season · Final

2023 season snapshot | final

Receiving

REC
96 100th
YDS
1,136 99th
YPR
11.8 49th
TD
8 98th

Returns

PR YDS
147 83rd
PR AVG
13.4 86th
RET TD
1 89th

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

2021Nevada8-4HC: Vai Taua · Pass-heavy
2022Colorado State3-9HC: Jay Norvell · Run-leaning, slow tempo
2023Colorado State5-7HC: Jay Norvell · Pass-leaning
SeasonTeam
2023Colorado State961,13611.88--
2022Colorado State711,13115.98--
2021Nevada5265912.75--
Career3 loaded seasons2192,92613.421--
SeasonTeam
2023Colorado State------1471
2022Colorado State26--1711
2021Nevada----------
Career3 loaded seasons26--3182
Advanced layer Usage, value, and context

Advanced metrics second

Advanced Metrics

Usage, value, and opponent-adjusted context.

Usage Value Context
Pass share

The player's share of a team's passing-game involvement. It is the fastest way to see whether the receiver is a true focal point or more of a complementary piece.

Role share

A blended workload view that accounts for catches, designed touches, and any return-game involvement that shapes the overall profile.

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 8.6% 12.7% pass-game share | #337/1137 (70th pct)
Return yards 147 1 return TD
Touchdowns 9 Across offense and returns | #23/1111 (98th pct)
Open full stat explorer
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Group Metric Value Rank Pct Why it matters
Receiving Receptions 96 #5/1110 100th pct Volumevs FBS WR
Receiving Receiving yards 1,136 #9/1107 99th pct Volumevs FBS WR
Receiving Receiving TD 8 #23/1111 98th pct Scoringvs FBS WR
Receiving Yards / catch 11.8 #562/1106 49th pct Efficiencyvs FBS WR
Returns Punt return yards 147 #38/224 83rd pct Volumevs FBS WR
Usage Pass share 12.7% #337/1137 70th pct Air-game usagevs FBS WR
Receiving Receiving LONG 76 #44/1105 96th pct Metricvs FBS WR
Returns Punt return avg 13.4 #33/222 86th pct Efficiencyvs FBS WR
Returns Punt returns 11 #62/237 74th pct Volumevs FBS WR
Returns Punt return TD 1 #4/27 89th pct Scoringvs FBS WR
Usage Passing-down usage 10.5% #208/1137 82nd pct Known-passing sharevs FBS WR
Usage 2nd-down usage 9.2% #154/1137 87th pct Middle-down loadvs FBS WR
Usage 3rd-down usage 8.7% #320/1137 72nd pct Money-down loadvs FBS WR
Usage Role share 8.6% #168/1137 85th pct Share of team offensevs FBS WR
Usage 1st-down usage 8.2% #174/1137 85th pct Early-down loadvs FBS WR
Usage Standard-down usage 7.6% #176/1137 85th pct Base-situation sharevs FBS WR
Usage Rush share 0.0% #391/1137 66th pct Ground-game usagevs FBS WR

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 · WR · 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

Jay Norvell

Pass share

52.1%

393 pass / 362 run

Plays / game

62.9

12 games

OL sack rate (allowed)

11.1%

315 dropbacks · PBP

Scheme: Balanced.

Coaching Lineage · 2021–2023

2 coaches
2021
Steve Addazio
Colorado State
2022
Jay Norvell
Colorado State
era →
2023
Jay Norvell
Colorado State

Coaching transition mid-career: Steve Addazio → Jay Norvell. 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.

HometownFresno, CA
Height6'2"
Weight190 lb
Class4
PositionWR
Jersey14

Trophy Case · Confirmed honors

What the selectors said

4 entries
🎖

ALL-CONFERENCE

All-Conf mention (2024)

All-Mountain West

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
2024 All-Mountain West all_conference Colorado State | Mountain West WR
2023 All-Mountain West all_conference Colorado State | Mountain West RET
2023 All-Mountain West all_conference Colorado State | Mountain West WR
2022 All-Mountain West all_conference Colorado State | Mountain West WR

Heisman By Year

Modeled rank and official finish by season.

Season Team Role Latest Model Forecast Win Finalist Official Finish Points Context
2024 Colorado State WR4 #4580 #4921 0.0% 0.0% -- -- W16 snapshot | Mountain West
2023 Colorado State WR4 #866 #1255 0.0% 0.0% -- -- W19 snapshot | Mountain West
2022 Colorado State WR4 #948 #1609 0.0% 0.0% -- -- W20 snapshot | Mountain West
2021 Nevada WR4 #808 #976 0.0% 0.0% -- -- W20 snapshot | Mountain West

Roster Timeline

Team, conference, and class by season.

Season Team Conference Pos Class Bio
2024 Colorado State Mountain West WR 4 No. 14 | 6-2 | 190 lb | Fresno, CA
2023 Colorado State Mountain West WR 4 No. 14 | 6-2 | 190 lb | Fresno, CA
2022 Colorado State Mountain West WR 4 No. 14 | 6-2 | 190 lb | Fresno, CA
2021 Nevada Mountain West WR 4 No. 14 | 6-2 | 190 lb | Fresno, CA