CFB Zeitgeist Score
73
Solid starter in the position cohort. Carried by yards / catch at the 91st percentile.
Vandrevious Jacobs
Filling the Shoesas of 2026-06-22
Vandrevious Jacobs is a cornerstone for South Carolina — measured against the line he joined.
548REC YDS32REC4REC TD
4★ · NATIONAL RECRUIT
No.300
recruiting national rank
Read the story so far
AI narrative · updated 2026-06-22 · compiled from CFB Zeitgeist data
2026 Outlook
Returning to South Carolina for 2026
2026 Depth chart
Projected starter
Wide receiver · South Carolina
Returning around him
- 62% of 2024 offensive production back (Solid continuity)
- 3 South Carolina players drafted to NFL
- Transfer portal: +1 net (25 in / 24 out)
2026 Award watch
No preseason watch lists yet (most drop June 15 – July 15)
South Carolina · Last season: 4-8 (AP #11) · Talent rank #18 · 2026 recruiting class #18
WR · SOUTH CAROLINA · SEC
Vandrevious Jacobs
- 2
- #19
- 6-0 | 182 lb
- Fort Pierce, FL
Heisman Heat
#2714
<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
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Player Standing · 17 rungs
Tier 2 · StarterR06 · Starter
Starter. A locked-in starting role.
Not on team2-deepStarterRecognizedEliteApex
Development Trajectory · receiving yards
2023–2025+813%
Up 813% from first season to most-recent.
Career Arc
HS
Recruit
★★★★
CFB
College
2 teams
NFL
NFL Draft
—
Identity & Role
The durable bio layer: position, size, hometown, and roster role.
Recruiting Pedigree
How big the prospect was before college, and whether the later career arc beat that expectation.
| Class | Profile | Context |
|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 4-star | 0.9048 | No. 300 recruit | HighSchool | Florida State |
Transfer Arc
Portal movement changes role, context, and perception. This keeps that path in one place.
| 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 16Heisman 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 State
Composite
0.9048
#300 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
PENDINGThe 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 Vandrevious Jacobs
Fan sentiment ·
Belief Meter
80
Grounded Optimism
Top Take
“”
Trajectory
Per-cohort trajectory lands when historical bucket data is aggregated.
Cohort divergence map
- Own fans · n=5
Rival Radar
How rival fanbases talk about Vandrevious Jacobs
No rival-bucket mentions in the current season.
2025 Signature · 2025 season
Yards per reception
17.1
yds
All FBS WRs, min 20 receptions
National rank #40 of 531
Percentile vs All FBS WRs, min 20 receptions 93rd
Why it matters
#40 of 531 All FBS WRs at 17.1 yards per reception (32 catches).
Vs cohort
This player 17.1 (93th)
HIGH · n=32 cohort 531
- Also strong
- Receiving yards (total)#174 / 531
- Receiving TDs#161 / 531
Signature Moment
Week 14 vs Clemson — 141 ypr
Result L 14-28
The week the volume broke through — put up 141 yds vs Clemson.
Season Pace · Projection
Where the receiving totals stand
Through 8g
548Rec yards
32Receptions
4Rec TDs
Per game
68.5Rec yards
4Receptions
0Rec TDs
Projected (13g)
890.5Rec yards
52Receptions
6Rec TDs
To hit 700-yard receiver (currently 548): needs 30.4/game over remaining 5.
To hit 1,000-yard receiver (currently 548): needs 90.4/game over remaining 5.
To hit 60-catch season (currently 32): needs 5.6/game over remaining 5.
To hit 80-catch season (currently 32): needs 9.6/game over remaining 5.
To hit 8 receiving TDs (currently 4): needs 0.8/game over remaining 5.
To hit 10 receiving TDs (currently 4): needs 1.2/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.
Vandrevious Jacobs's story is about how role and output meet each other. For South Carolina, 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.
2025 Season · Final
Traditional stats first. Advanced context underneath.
Last season
WR season snapshot
2025 season snapshot | final
2025 season snapshot | finalData: CFBD player stats + local Heisman modelPeer context: same position + same level
Player identity What kind of player is this?
30-second read
What kind of player is this?
Big-play receiver against FBS receiving peers.
2025 Season · Final
2025 season snapshot | final
Receiving
REC
32 77th
YDS
548 84th
YPR
17.1 87th
TD
4 86th
Game Log · Week-by-week
2025 season · 8 games
| Wk | Opp | REC | YDS | AVG | TD | LONG | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 2 | W 38-10vs South Carolina State | 4 | 57 | 14.3 | 1 | 35 | |
| Wk 3 | L 7-31vs Vanderbilt | 2 | 30 | 15.0 | 0 | 20 | |
| Wk 4 | L 20-29@ Missouri | 7 | 128 | 18.3 | 1 | 49 | |
| Wk 5 | W 35-13vs Kentucky | 5 | 108 | 21.6 | 0 | 59 | |
| Wk 7 | L 10-20@ LSU | 2 | 18 | 9.0 | 0 | 16 | |
| Wk 8 | L 7-26vs Oklahoma | 1 | 2 | 2.0 | 0 | 2 | |
| Wk 12 | L 30-31@ Texas A&M | 4 | 64 | 16.0 | 1 | 50 | |
| Wk 14 | L 14-28vs Clemson | 7 | 141 | 20.1 | 1 | 74 | Season-high 141 yds |
| Total | 32 | 548 | 14.5 | 4 | 74 |
Season-by-season tables Career rows + per-season box score
Traditional history
Traditional Stats
Season rows up top, career context at the bottom.
Season context · Team result + system
2023Florida State13-1HC: Mike Norvell · Balanced
2025South Carolina4-8HC: Shane Beamer · Run-leaning
| Season | Team | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | South Carolina | 32 | 548 | 17.1 | 4 | -- |
| 2023 | Florida State | 3 | 60 | 20.0 | 1 | -- |
| Career | 2 loaded seasons | 35 | 608 | 17.4 | 5 | -- |
Advanced layer Usage, value, and context
Advanced metrics second
Advanced Metrics
Usage, value, and opponent-adjusted context.
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.
A blended workload view that accounts for catches, designed touches, and any return-game involvement that shapes the overall profile.
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.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Receiving | Receptions | 32 | #255/1110 | 77th pct | Volumevs FBS WR |
| Receiving | Receiving yards | 548 | #180/1107 | 84th pct | Volumevs FBS WR |
| Receiving | Receiving TD | 4 | #152/1111 | 86th pct | Scoringvs FBS WR |
| Receiving | Yards / catch | 17.1 | #145/1106 | 87th pct | Efficiencyvs FBS WR |
| Usage | Pass share | 17.5% | #150/1137 | 87th pct | Air-game usagevs FBS WR |
| Receiving | Receiving LONG | 74 | #69/1105 | 94th pct | Metricvs FBS WR |
| Usage | 1st-down usage | 10.0% | #92/1137 | 92nd pct | Early-down loadvs FBS WR |
| Usage | Standard-down usage | 9.1% | #98/1137 | 91st pct | Base-situation sharevs FBS WR |
| Usage | Role share | 9.0% | #146/1137 | 87th pct | Share of team offensevs FBS WR |
| Usage | Passing-down usage | 8.7% | #335/1137 | 71st pct | Known-passing sharevs FBS WR |
| Usage | 3rd-down usage | 8.6% | #328/1137 | 71st pct | Money-down loadvs FBS WR |
| Usage | 2nd-down usage | 7.4% | #276/1137 | 76th pct | Middle-down loadvs 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
Status—Awaiting tracker
Heisman model tracks the top FBS contenders weekly; this player hasn't entered the watch list yet.
Splits · Per-game
2025 season · 8 games
Home vs Road
| REC/g | YDS/g | YPR | TD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home5g | 3.8 | 67.6 | 14.6 | 0.4 |
| Road3g | 4.3 | 70.0 | 14.4 | 0.7 |
Win vs Loss
| REC/g | YDS/g | YPR | TD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wins2g | 4.5 | 82.5 | 18.0 | 0.5 |
| Losses6g | 3.8 | 63.8 | 13.4 | 0.5 |
First half vs Second half
| REC/g | YDS/g | YPR | TD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-75g | 4.0 | 68.2 | 15.6 | 0.4 |
| Weeks 8+3g | 4.0 | 69.0 | 12.7 | 0.7 |
Pocket and defense-quality (clean vs. pressure) splits are coming soon.
Savant · Box-rate percentiles
Where this profile ranks vs the WR cohort
73Solid starter
Elite: yards / catch (90th). Strength: long catch (88th).
Percentiles versus same-position peers with enough snaps this season, based on box-score rates.
Advanced Savant · WR · 2024
Percentile Card
Advanced opponent-adjusted percentile bars are coming soon for this player.
P4G5All FBS
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
Vandrevious JacobsSouth CarolinaChris Dawn Jr.Texas State· 77% simHarrison Wallace IIIOle Miss· 77% simNik McMillanBuffalo· 76% sim
Yards / catch
Long catch
Rec TDs
Rec yards
Receptions
Closest peers by overall box-score percentile profile at the same position.
Player DNA
The Deep Threat
Stretches the field vertically. Every snap is a potential big play.
WR
His 2025 production profile sits closest to Jayce Brown’s 2023 season.
Jayce Brown
84%match
#2
Jeff Foreman
84%
#3
Malcolm Simmons
82%
#4
Jeff Foreman
80%
#5
Kelvontay Dixon
78%
Matches Jayce on
Total EPA (college ability)
TD rate
Weight
Differs from Jayce on
Recruiting rating (higher)
Class year (higher)
Through 2 college seasons, his career arc tracks closest to T.J. Simmons’s path through West Virginia.
T.J. Simmons
90%match
#2
Jordan Mosley
88%
#3
Perry Carter
82%
#4
JaQuae Jackson
82%
#5
Kahtero Summers
82%
Matches T.J. on
Yards per reception
Recruiting rating
As a junior, his production profile tracks closest to Tychaun Chapman's junior season at Southern Miss (2025).
Tychaun Chapman
76%match
#2
Jayce Brown
73%
#3
DeAndre Moore Jr.
70%
#4
Carlos Hernandez
66%
#5
Ontaria Wilson
64%
Matches Tychaun on
EPA / play (adj)
Recruiting rating
Total EPA (college ability)
Differs from Tychaun on
Class year (lower)
Supporting Cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
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 · 2023–2025
1 coach2023
Shane Beamer
South Carolina
2025
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.
HometownFort Pierce, FL
Height6'0"
Weight182 lb
Class2
PositionWR
Jersey19
No fields populated yet.
No fields populated yet.
Current teamSouth Carolina
ConferenceSEC
Joined2025
Career arc3 season(s)
Trophy Case · Detail
Every honor on the ledger, broken out by stream and selector.
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 | South Carolina | WR2 | #2714 | #2441 | 0.0% | 0.0% | -- | -- | W16 snapshot | SEC |
| 2023 | Florida State | WR2 | #1144 | #811 | 0.0% | 0.0% | -- | -- | W19 snapshot | ACC |
Roster Timeline
Team, conference, and class by season.
| Season | Team | Conference | Pos | Class | Bio |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | South Carolina | SEC | WR | 2 | No. 19 | 6-0 | 182 lb | Fort Pierce, FL |
| 2024 | South Carolina | SEC | WR | 2 | No. 19 | 6-0 | 182 lb | Fort Pierce, FL |
| 2023 | Florida State | ACC | WR | 2 | No. 19 | 6-0 | 182 lb | Fort Pierce, FL |