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OFFSEASON · SUMMER 2026 · COMMITMENT SEASON
Heisman / Players / Vincent Wilkins /Boston College

Vincent Wilkins

WR · Boston College · Jr · #21

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

113 REC YDS · 4 REC · 0 REC TD

2026 RETURNINGReturning to Boston College for 2026

2026 Outlook

Returning to Boston College for 2026

2026 Depth chart

Projected starter

Wide receiver · Boston College

Returning around him

  • 62% of 2024 offensive production back (Solid continuity)
  • 4 Boston College players drafted to NFL
  • Transfer portal: -4 net (26 in / 30 out)

2026 Award watch

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

Boston College · Last season: 2-10 · Talent rank #69 · 2026 recruiting class #59

WR · BOSTON COLLEGE · ACC

Vincent Wilkins

  • 3
  • #21
  • 5-9 | 187 lb
  • Pfafftown, NC

CFB Zeitgeist Score

31

Below cohort in the position cohort. Carried by yards / catch at the 100th percentile.

Heisman Heat

Awaiting

Not on the live Heisman board this week.

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

TOP WR AWARD

Biletnikoff

CONSENSUS

All-American

Player Standing · 17 rungs

Tier 1 · 2-deep

R04 · Rotational

Rotational. Earning real snaps in the rotation.

Not on team2-deepStarterRecognizedEliteApex

Career Arc

HS
Recruit
No recruit profile
CFB
College
Boston College
2025
NFL
NFL Draft
Not drafted (yet)

Identity & Role

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

PositionWR
Class3
Jersey21
Measurements5-9 | 187 lb
HometownPfafftown, NC
Primary teamBoston College

Recruiting Pedigree

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

Top pedigree Not on file No matched recruiting profile in the loaded archive
Composite rating -- Composite rating unavailable for this player
Signed with -- Commitment history unavailable
Origin -- Hometown and high school unavailable
Class Profile Context
No recruiting profile is on file for this player.

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

Where the model places this player relative to the rest of the Heisman field.

Current nowcast--Latest modeled ballot order
Season forecast--Where the full season sim points
Win probability--Chance to actually win the trophy
Finalist probability--Chance to make the finalist tier
Ballot probability--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.

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 Vincent Wilkins

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 Vincent Wilkins

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 4g
113Rec yards
4Receptions
0Rec TDs
Per game
28.2Rec yards
1Receptions
0Rec TDs
Projected (13g)
367.2Rec yards
13Receptions
0Rec TDs

To hit 700-yard receiver (currently 113): needs 65.2/game over remaining 9.

To hit 1,000-yard receiver (currently 113): needs 98.6/game over remaining 9.

To hit 60-catch season (currently 4): needs 6.2/game over remaining 9.

To hit 80-catch season (currently 4): needs 8.4/game over remaining 9.

To hit 8 receiving TDs (currently 0): needs 0.9/game over remaining 9.

To hit 10 receiving TDs (currently 0): needs 1.1/game over remaining 9.

What made this player interesting

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

Vincent Wilkins's story is about how role and output meet each other. For Boston College, 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 -- -- win | -- finalist
Role load 1.7% Overall usage share
Profile quirk Development arc 38 return yds

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
Receptions 4 0 rec TD | #767/1110 (31st pct)
Receiving yards 113 28.3 per catch | #600/1107 (46th pct)
Scrimmage yards 113 Total offensive yardage | #600/1107 (46th pct)
Player identity What kind of player is this?

30-second read

What kind of player is this?

Big-play receiver against FBS receiving peers.

Big-play receiver

2025 Season · Final

2025 season snapshot | final

Receiving

REC
4 31st
YDS
113 46th
YPR
28.3 99th
TD
0 45th

Returns

KR YDS
38 42nd
KR AVG
19.0 48th

Game Log · Week-by-week

2025 season · 4 games

Box score · CFBD
WkOppRECYDSAVGTDLONGNote
Wk 1W 66-10vs Fordham15555.0055
Wk 2L 40-42@ Michigan State15656.0056Season-high 56 yds
Wk 3L 20-30@ Stanford1-6-6.000
Wk 8L 23-38vs UConn188.008
Total411328.2056
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

2025Boston College2-10HC: Bill O'Brien · Balanced
SeasonTeam
2025Boston College411328.20--
Career1 loaded season411328.20--
SeasonTeam
2025Boston College----38----
Career1 loaded season----38----
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 1.7% 3.0% pass-game share | #1021/1137 (10th pct)
Return yards 38 0 return TD | #140/238 (42nd pct)
Touchdowns 0 Across offense and returns | #615/1111 (45th pct)
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Group Metric Value Rank Pct Why it matters
Receiving Receptions 4 #767/1110 31st pct Volumevs FBS WR
Receiving Receiving yards 113 #600/1107 46th pct Volumevs FBS WR
Receiving Receiving TD 0 #615/1111 45th pct Scoringvs FBS WR
Receiving Yards / catch 28.3 #16/1106 99th pct Efficiencyvs FBS WR
Returns Kick return yards 38 #140/238 42nd pct Volumevs FBS WR
Usage Pass share 3.0% #1021/1137 10th pct Air-game usagevs FBS WR
Receiving Receiving LONG 56 #205/1105 82nd pct Metricvs FBS WR
Returns Kick return avg 19.0 #123/236 48th pct Efficiencyvs FBS WR
Returns Kick returns 2 #132/243 46th pct Volumevs FBS WR
Usage 1st-down usage 2.9% #739/1137 35th pct Early-down loadvs FBS WR
Usage Standard-down usage 1.8% #945/1137 17th pct Base-situation sharevs FBS WR
Usage Role share 1.7% #997/1137 12th pct Share of team offensevs FBS WR
Usage Passing-down usage 1.2% #994/1137 13th pct Known-passing sharevs FBS WR
Usage 2nd-down usage 1.0% #984/1137 14th pct Middle-down loadvs FBS WR
Usage 3rd-down usage 0.0% #937/1137 18th pct Money-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

StatusAwaiting tracker

Heisman model tracks the top FBS contenders weekly; this player hasn't entered the watch list yet.

Splits · Per-game

2025 season · 4 games

Home/Road · Win/Loss · Season halves

Home vs Road

REC/gYDS/gYPRTD/g
Home2g1.031.531.50.0
Road2g1.025.025.00.0

Win vs Loss

REC/gYDS/gYPRTD/g
Wins1g1.055.055.00.0
Losses3g1.019.319.30.0

First half vs Second half

REC/gYDS/gYPRTD/g
Weeks 1-73g1.035.035.00.0
Weeks 8+1g1.08.08.00.0

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

Savant · Box-rate percentiles

Where this profile ranks vs the WR cohort

31Below cohort
5 metrics · season cumulative

Elite: yards / catch (100th). Concern: receptions (0th).

Yards / catch#1 / 558 · 100th pct
28.3rece
Long catch#183 / 558 · 67th pct
56rece
Rec TDs#482 / 558 · 7th pct
0rece
Rec yards#545 / 558 · 2nd pct
113rece
Receptions#559 / 558 · 0th pct
4rece

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

Advanced Savant · WR · 2025

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
Vincent WilkinsBoston CollegeNik McMillanBuffalo· 38% simHarrison Wallace IIIOle Miss· 36% simJacquon GibsonMassachusetts· 35% sim
Yards / catch
100
Wilkins
84
McMillan
78
III
15
Gibson
Long catch
67
Wilkins
65
McMillan
65
III
56
Gibson
Rec TDs
7
Wilkins
57
McMillan
68
III
7
Gibson
Rec yards
2
Wilkins
96
McMillan
94
III
74
Gibson
Receptions
0
Wilkins
90
McMillan
90
III
92
Gibson

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

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

Bill O'Brien

Pass share

54.8%

454 pass / 374 run

Plays / game

69.0

12 games

OL sack rate (allowed)

10.9%

349 dropbacks · PBP

Scheme: Balanced.

Coaching Lineage · 2025

1 coach
2025
Bill O'Brien
Boston College

Played his entire career under Bill O'Brien.

Bio · Recruiting · Transfer · Roster

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

HometownPfafftown, NC
Height5'9"
Weight187 lb
Class3
PositionWR
Jersey21

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
This player hasn’t appeared on a Heisman ballot tracked by the model.

Roster Timeline

Team, conference, and class by season.

Season Team Conference Pos Class Bio
2025 Boston College ACC WR 3 No. 21 | 5-9 | 187 lb | Pfafftown, NC