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Tristian Vandenberg

PK · Memphis · Sr · #25

Limited signal — not enough coverage for a story yet.

CAREER COMPLETEMemphis 2024 — college career completeAs of Jun 22, 2026

PK · MEMPHIS · AMERICAN ATHLETIC

Tristian Vandenberg

4
#25
6-4 | 227 lb
Buffalo, NY

CFB Zeitgeist PK Score

Awaiting

Heisman Heat

#14440

<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 K AWARD

Lou Groza

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CONSENSUS

All-American

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Player Standing · 17 rungs

Tier 1 · 2-deep

R02 · Deep reserve

Deep reserve. In the program, working up the two-deep.

Not on team2-deepStarterRecognizedEliteApex

Career Arc

Recruit

★★

#2722 national

CFB

College

2 teams

2021–2024

NFL

NFL Draft

—

Not drafted (yet)

Identity & Role

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

PositionPK

Class4

Jersey25

Measurements6-4 | 227 lb

HometownBuffalo, NY

Primary teamMemphis

Recruiting Pedigree

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

Top pedigree 2-star No. 2722 recruit

Composite rating 0.7956 HighSchool

Signed with Ohio 2019

Origin Canisius Buffalo, NY, USA

Class	Profile	Context
2019	2-star \| 0.7956	No. 2722 recruit \| HighSchool \| Ohio

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#14440Latest modeled ballot order

Season forecast#14219Where 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 Ohio

Composite

0.7956

#2722 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.

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 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.

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.

What we can say about this player

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

Tristian Vandenberg's page is mostly roster and pedigree right now — there isn't measurable current-season production on file for Memphis yet. As box scores and snaps land, the on-field story fills in here.

Current place #14440 0.0% win | 0.0% finalist

Role load -- Role share still loading

Profile quirk Transfer path 0 portal moves

2024 Season · Final

Traditional stats first. Advanced context underneath.

Last season

OTHER season snapshot

2024 season snapshot | final

2024 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 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

2021Ohio3-9HC: Tim Albin · Run-leaning, slow tempo

2022Ohio10-4HC: Tim Albin · Balanced

2023Memphis10-3HC: Ryan Silverfield · Balanced

2024Memphis11-2HC: Ryan Silverfield · Balanced, fast tempo

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

Group	Metric	Value	Rank	Pct	Why it matters
Kicking	Kicking points	52	#117/221	48th pct	Scoringvs FBS peers
Kicking	Kicking LONG	43	#143/175	19th pct	Metricvs FBS peers
Kicking	Kicking XPA	25	#112/213	48th pct	Metricvs FBS peers
Kicking	Kicking XPM	25	#111/213	48th pct	Metricvs FBS peers
Kicking	Kicking FGA	12	#113/188	40th pct	Metricvs FBS peers
Kicking	FG made	9	#112/175	37th pct	Scoringvs FBS peers
Kicking	FG %	75.0%	#95/175	46th pct	Efficiencyvs FBS peers

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

Status—Awaiting tracker

The Groza 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 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.

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 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

Ryan Silverfield

Pass share

46.9%

412 pass / 466 run

Plays / game

67.5

13 games

OL sack rate (allowed)

11.2%

285 dropbacks · PBP

Scheme: Run-leaning.

Coaching Lineage · 2021–2024

1 coach

2021

Ryan Silverfield

Memphis

2022

Ryan Silverfield

Memphis

2023

Ryan Silverfield

Memphis

2024

Ryan Silverfield

Memphis

Played his entire career under Ryan Silverfield.

HometownBuffalo, NY

Height6'4"

Weight227 lb

Class4

PositionPK

Jersey25

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	Memphis	PK4	#14440	#14219	0.0%	0.0%	--	--	W16 snapshot \| American Athletic
2023	Memphis	PK4	#15805	#15633	0.0%	0.0%	--	--	W19 snapshot \| American Athletic
2022	Ohio	PK4	#15243	#15096	0.0%	0.0%	--	--	W20 snapshot \| Mid-American
2021	Ohio	PK4	#14917	#14933	0.0%	0.0%	--	--	W20 snapshot \| Mid-American

Roster Timeline

Team, conference, and class by season.

Season	Team	Conference	Pos	Class	Bio
2024	Memphis	American Athletic	PK	4	No. 25 \| 6-4 \| 227 lb \| Buffalo, NY
2023	Memphis	American Athletic	PK	4	No. 25 \| 6-4 \| 227 lb \| Buffalo, NY
2022	Ohio	Mid-American	PK	4	No. 25 \| 6-4 \| 227 lb \| Buffalo, NY
2021	Ohio	Mid-American	PK	4	No. 25 \| 6-4 \| 227 lb \| Buffalo, NY

Tristian Vandenberg

R02 · Deep reserve

Identity & Role

Recruiting Pedigree

Transfer Arc

Heisman Lens · 2024 Season · Final

The Room on Tristian Vandenberg

How rival fanbases talk about Tristian Vandenberg

Awaiting candidate metric

What we can say about this player

2024 Season · Final

OTHER season snapshot

What kind of player is this?

Traditional Stats

Advanced Metrics

Player Standing

Percentile Card

Advanced Savant

Bio · Recruiting · Transfer · Roster

Trophy Case · Detail

No formal honors on the ledger yet

Honors Timeline

Heisman By Year

Roster Timeline