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Heisman / Players / Travis Hunter /Colorado

Travis Hunter

WR · Colorado · Jr · #12

Limited signal — not enough coverage for a story yet.

NOW IN NFLJacksonville — drafted 2025, Rd 1, Pick 2, #2 overall

Where He Ended Up · NFL

JacksonvilleEntering 2nd NFL season

#2Rd 1 · Pick 2
JacksonvilleEntering 2nd NFL season

WR · COLORADO · BIG 12

Travis Hunter

  • 3
  • #12
  • 6-1 | 185 lb
  • Suwanee, GA

CFB Zeitgeist WR Score

Awaiting

Heisman Heat

#136

<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 5 · Apex

R16 · POTY / Heisman winner

Position-of-the-Year / Heisman winner. The trophy is in the case.

Not on team2-deepStarterRecognizedEliteApex

Career arc · Season-by-season Standing

2 seasons on the ladder

Peak: R13 Consensus All-American · 2023

2023

Colorado · WR

R13 · Consensus All-American

Elite

2024

Colorado · WR

R13 · Consensus All-American

Elite

NFL Draft 2025 · Rd 1, Pick 2 · #2 overall · Jacksonville

Development Trajectory · receiving yards

2023–2024
7212023
1,2582024

+74%

Up 74% from first season to most-recent.

Career Arc

HS
Recruit
★★★★★
#1 national
CFB
College
Colorado
2023–2024
NFL
NFL Draft
R1 &middot; #2
Jacksonville &middot; 2025

Identity & Role

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

PositionWR
Class3
Jersey12
Measurements6-1 | 185 lb
HometownSuwanee, GA
Primary teamColorado

Recruiting Pedigree

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

Top pedigree 5-star No. 1 recruit
Composite rating 0.9999 HighSchool
Signed with Jackson State 2022
Origin Collins Hill Suwanee, GA, USA
Class Profile Context
2022 5-star | 0.9999 No. 1 recruit | HighSchool | Jackson State

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#136Latest modeled ballot order
Season forecast#156Where 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#1Best 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 Jackson State

Composite

0.9999

#1 national

NFL Draft

2025 · Rd 1, Pick 2

#2 overall · Jacksonville

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 Travis Hunter

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 Travis Hunter

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. Travis Hunter already has 20 loaded recognition items, which helps distinguish a player who is merely productive from one who is already earning selector-level validation.

Current place #136 0.0% win | 0.0% finalist
Role load 12.5% Overall usage share
Profile quirk Blue-chip pedigree No. 1 recruit

2024 Season · Final

Traditional stats first. Advanced context underneath.

Last season

WR season snapshot

2024 season snapshot | final

2024 season snapshot | finalData: CFBD player stats + local Heisman modelPeer context: same position + same level
Receptions 96 15 rec TD | #5/1110 (100th pct)
Receiving yards 1,258 13.1 per catch | #4/1107 (100th pct)
Scrimmage yards 1,263 Total offensive yardage | #4/1107 (100th pct)
Player identity What kind of player is this?

30-second read

What kind of player is this?

Target magnet against FBS receiving peers.

Target magnet

2024 Season · Final

2024 season snapshot | final

Receiving

REC
96 100th
YDS
1,258 100th
YPR
13.1 60th
TD
15 100th

Rushing

CAR
2 53rd
YDS
5 35th
YPC
2.5 31st
TD
1 96th

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

2023Colorado4-8HC: Deion Sanders · Pass-leaning
2024Colorado9-4HC: Deion Sanders · Pass-leaning
SeasonTeam
2024Colorado961,25813.115--
2023Colorado5772112.65--
Career2 loaded seasons1531,97912.920--
SeasonTeam
2024Colorado25------
2023Colorado----------
Career2 loaded seasons25------
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 12.5% 19.4% pass-game share | #100/1137 (91st pct)
Return yards 0 0 return TD
Touchdowns 16 Across offense and returns | #1/1111 (100th pct)
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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 1,258 #4/1107 100th pct Volumevs FBS WR
Receiving Receiving TD 15 #1/1111 100th pct Scoringvs FBS WR
Receiving Yards / catch 13.1 #441/1106 60th pct Efficiencyvs FBS WR
Usage Pass share 19.4% #100/1137 91st pct Air-game usagevs FBS WR
Rushing Rushing LONG 5 #261/346 25th pct Metricvs FBS WR
Rushing Rushing yards 5 #259/397 35th pct Volumevs FBS WR
Rushing Yards / carry 2.5 #271/393 31st pct Efficiencyvs FBS WR
Rushing Carries 2 #194/407 53rd pct Volumevs FBS WR
Rushing Rush TD 1 #19/411 96th pct Scoringvs FBS WR
Receiving Receiving LONG 58 #193/1105 83rd pct Metricvs FBS WR
Usage Passing-down usage 16.2% #32/1137 97th pct Known-passing sharevs FBS WR
Usage 3rd-down usage 16.1% #30/1137 97th pct Money-down loadvs FBS WR
Usage 2nd-down usage 12.8% #39/1137 97th pct Middle-down loadvs FBS WR
Usage Role share 12.5% #33/1137 97th pct Share of team offensevs FBS WR
Usage 1st-down usage 10.8% #70/1137 94th pct Early-down loadvs FBS WR
Usage Standard-down usage 10.7% #50/1137 96th pct Base-situation sharevs FBS WR
Usage Rush share 0.7% #239/1137 79th 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

Deion Sanders

Pass share

45.6%

356 pass / 424 run

Plays / game

65.0

12 games

OL sack rate (allowed)

12.5%

320 dropbacks · PBP

Scheme: Run-leaning.

Coaching Lineage · 2023–2024

1 coach
2023
Deion Sanders
Colorado
2024
Deion Sanders
Colorado

Played his entire career under Deion Sanders.

Bio · Recruiting · Transfer · Roster

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

HometownSuwanee, GA
Height6'1"
Weight185 lb
Class3
PositionWR
Jersey12

Trophy Case · Confirmed honors

What the selectors said

20 entries
🏆

ALL-AMERICA · CONSENSUS

Consensus AA (2024)

4 first-team selectors

🏅

POSITION AWARDS

Heisman, Walter Camp, Bednarik

2024 season

🎖

ALL-CONFERENCE

All-Conf mention (2024)

All-Big 12

Trophy Case · Detail

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

Heisman

Heisman Trophy winner

Won the award in 2024. This should always live at the front of the card's trophy case.

Finalist

1 finalist season

Invited into the official finalist tier in 2024. That belongs in the trophy case, not buried in a table.

All-America

12 All-America selections

National selector recognition is one of the strongest non-Heisman signals on a player card and should sit near the top of the showcase.

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.

Votes

Heisman votes in 1 season

Even lower-volume award recognition is worth preserving because it marks seasons where a player entered the national conversation.

Honors Timeline

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

Season Honor Scope Team / Selector Context
2024 Lott IMPACT position_award Colorado | Lott IMPACT winner | DB
2024 Paul Hornung position_award Colorado | Paul Hornung winner | ATH
2024 Walter Camp position_award Colorado | Walter Camp winner | ATH
2024 Heisman position_award Colorado | Heisman winner | DB
2024 Bednarik position_award Colorado | Bednarik winner | DB
2024 Biletnikoff position_award Colorado | Biletnikoff winner | WR
2024 All-Big 12 all_conference Colorado | Big 12 WR
2024 All-America (SI) all_america Colorado | SI WR
2024 All-America (CBS) all_america Colorado | CBS WR
2024 All-America (WCFF) all_america Colorado | WCFF WR
2024 All-America (SN) all_america Colorado | SN WR
2024 All-America (Consensus) all_america Colorado | Consensus --
2023 Paul Hornung position_award Colorado | Paul Hornung winner | ATH
2023 All-America (Athlon) all_america Colorado | Athlon first | AP-RET
2023 All-America (SI) all_america Colorado | SI first | AP-RET
2023 All-America (SN) all_america Colorado | SN first | AP-RET
2023 All-America (FWAA) all_america Colorado | FWAA first | AP-RET
2023 All-America (AFCA) all_america Colorado | AFCA first | AP-RET
2023 All-America (AP) all_america Colorado | AP first | AP-RET
2023 All-America (Consensus) all_america Colorado | Consensus --

Heisman By Year

Modeled rank and official finish by season.

Season Team Role Latest Model Forecast Win Finalist Official Finish Points Context
2024 Colorado WR3 #136 #156 0.0% 0.0% Winner 2231 W16 snapshot | Big 12 | Won the trophy
2023 Colorado WR3 #845 #1209 0.0% 0.0% -- -- W19 snapshot | Pac-12

Roster Timeline

Team, conference, and class by season.

Season Team Conference Pos Class Bio
2024 Colorado Big 12 WR 3 No. 12 | 6-1 | 185 lb | Suwanee, GA
2023 Colorado Pac-12 WR 3 No. 12 | 6-1 | 185 lb | Suwanee, GA