CFB Zeitgeist Score
45
Mid-pack in the position cohort. Carried by completion % at the 89th percentile.
Zion Turner
Below the discourse floor — the honest stats-only state.
409 PASS YDS · 1 PASS TD · 135 RUSH YDS
2026 Outlook
Returning to Marshall for 2026
2026 Depth chart
Projected starter
Quarterback · Marshall
Returning around him
- 100% of 2024 offensive production back (Strong continuity)
- Transfer portal: +5 net (27 in / 22 out)
2026 Award watch
No preseason watch lists yet (most drop June 15 – July 15)
Marshall · Last season: 5-7 · Talent rank #89 · 2026 recruiting class #120
QB · MARSHALL · SUN BELT
Zion Turner
- 3
- #1
- 6-1 | 205 lb
- Miami, FL
Heisman Heat
#1863
<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 QB AWARD
Davey O'Brien
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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 · passing yards
2022–2025-71%
Sharp dropoff (-71%) — career inflection point.
Career Arc
HS
Recruit
★★★
CFB
College
2 teams
NFL
NFL Draft
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 3-star | 0.8396 | No. 1483 recruit | HighSchool | UConn |
Transfer Arc
Portal movement changes role, context, and perception. This keeps that path in one place.
| Season | Move | Context |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Jacksonville State -> Marshall | 3-star | 0.8200 | Immediate |
| 2024 | UConn -> Jacksonville State | 3-star | 0.8200 | Immediate |
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 UConn
Composite
0.8396
#1483 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 Zion Turner
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 Zion Turner
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.
Season Pace · Projection
Where the passing totals stand
Through 5g
409Pass yards
1Pass TDs
1INT
Per game
81.8Pass yards
0Pass TDs
0INT
Projected (13g)
1,063Pass yards
3Pass TDs
3INT
To hit 3,000-yard season (currently 409): needs 323.9/game over remaining 8.
To hit 4,000-yard season (currently 409): needs 448.9/game over remaining 8.
To hit 25 passing TDs (currently 1): needs 3/game over remaining 8.
To hit 30 passing TDs (currently 1): needs 3.6/game over remaining 8.
To hit 35 passing TDs (currently 1): needs 4.2/game over remaining 8.
What made this player interesting
The fast read on the thing that makes this player more than a generic stat line.
Zion Turner's story is about how role and output meet each other. For Marshall, 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
QB 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?
Efficient against FBS QB peers. The quickest read is whether the profile wins on volume, efficiency, explosiveness, or rushing value.
2025 Season · Final
2025 season snapshot | final
Passing Efficiency
CMP
40 52nd
ATT
59 53rd
CMP%
67.8% 78th
Y/A
6.9 52nd
Passing Production
YDS
409 51st
TD
1 44th
INT
1 63rd
Rushing
CAR
21 51st
YDS
135 73rd
YPC
6.4 89th
TD
1 63rd
Game Log · Week-by-week
2025 season · 5 games
| Wk | Opp | CMP/ATT | YDS | TD | INT | YPA | QBR | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | L 7-45@ Georgia | 6/7 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 14.3 | 99.7 | |
| Wk 2 | L 20-21vs Missouri State | 13/24 | 83 | 0 | 1 | 3.5 | 16.6 | |
| Wk 3 | W 38-7vs Eastern Kentucky | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| Wk 13 | L 24-26@ App State | 8/9 | 54 | 0 | 0 | 6.0 | 44.9 | |
| Wk 14 | L 19-24vs Georgia Southern | 13/19 | 172 | 1 | 0 | 9.1 | 44.9 | Season-high 172 yds |
| Total | 40/59 | 409 | 1 | 1 | 8.2 | 51.5 |
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
2022UConn6-7HC: Jim Mora · Run-heavy, slow tempo
2023UConn3-9HC: Jim Mora · Balanced
2025Marshall5-7HC: Tony Gibson · Run-leaning
Advanced layer Usage, value, and context
Advanced metrics second
Advanced Metrics
Usage, value, and opponent-adjusted context.
Opponent-adjusted passing value. Positive numbers mean the quarterback is adding more value through the air than a neutral peer would in the same environment.
How much of the offense runs through the quarterback once passing and rushing responsibility are blended together.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Passing | Passing yards | 409 | #189/382 | 51st pct | Volumevs FBS QB |
| Passing | Pass TD | 1 | #228/407 | 44th pct | Scoringvs FBS QB |
| Passing | Completions | 40 | #185/383 | 52nd pct | Volumevs FBS QB |
| Passing | Completion % | 67.8% | #84/383 | 78th pct | Efficiencyvs FBS QB |
| Passing | Yards / attempt | 6.9 | #186/382 | 52nd pct | Efficiencyvs FBS QB |
| Rushing | Rushing yards | 135 | #113/408 | 73rd pct | Volumevs FBS QB |
| Usage | Role share | 22.7% | #205/428 | 52nd pct | Share of team offensevs FBS QB |
| Passing | Attempts | 59 | #194/407 | 53rd pct | Volumevs FBS QB |
| Passing | Interceptions | 1 | #153/407 | 63rd pct | Turnoversvs FBS QB |
| Rushing | Rushing LONG | 26 | #127/391 | 68th pct | Metricvs FBS QB |
| Rushing | Carries | 21 | #201/408 | 51st pct | Volumevs FBS QB |
| Rushing | Yards / carry | 6.4 | #47/407 | 89th pct | Efficiencyvs FBS QB |
| Rushing | Rush TD | 1 | #151/408 | 63rd pct | Scoringvs FBS QB |
| Usage | Pass share | 42.1% | #197/428 | 54th pct | Air-game usagevs FBS QB |
| Usage | 3rd-down usage | 34.3% | #196/428 | 54th pct | Money-down loadvs FBS QB |
| Usage | Passing-down usage | 28.6% | #208/428 | 52nd pct | Known-passing sharevs FBS QB |
| Usage | Standard-down usage | 19.9% | #202/428 | 53rd pct | Base-situation sharevs FBS QB |
| Usage | 2nd-down usage | 19.8% | #213/428 | 50th pct | Middle-down loadvs FBS QB |
| Usage | 1st-down usage | 18.3% | #207/428 | 52nd pct | Early-down loadvs FBS QB |
| Usage | Rush share | 9.9% | #159/428 | 63rd pct | Ground-game usagevs FBS QB |
| Ball Security | Fumbles lost | 2 | #163/258 | 37th pct | Turnoversvs FBS QB |
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 · 5 games
Home vs Road
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home3g | 85.0 | 0.3 | 6.3 | 0.3 |
| Road2g | 77.0 | 0.0 | 10.2 | 0.0 |
Win vs Loss
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wins1g | — | — | — | — |
| Losses4g | 102 | 0.2 | 8.2 | 0.2 |
First half vs Second half
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-73g | 61.0 | 0.0 | 8.9 | 0.3 |
| Weeks 8+2g | 113 | 0.5 | 7.5 | 0.0 |
Pocket and defense-quality (clean vs. pressure) splits are coming soon.
Savant · Box-rate percentiles
Where this profile ranks vs the QB cohort
45Mid-pack
Elite: interceptions (97th). Strength: completion % (88th). Concern: pass tds (1st).
Percentiles versus same-position peers with enough snaps this season, based on box-score rates.
Advanced Savant · QB · 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
Zion TurnerMarshallCade KlubnikClemson· 58% simNick VattiatoMiddle Tennessee· 57% simRyan BrownePurdue· 55% sim
Interceptions
Completion %
Rush yards
Yards / att
Fumbles lost
Rush TDs
Pass yards
Pass TDs
Closest peers by overall box-score percentile profile at the same position.
Supporting Cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Tony Gibson
Pass share
40.4%
335 pass / 495 run
Plays / game
69.2
12 games
OL sack rate (allowed)
7.0%
244 dropbacks · PBP
Scheme: Run-leaning.
Coaching Lineage · 2022–2025
2 coaches2022
Charles Huff
Marshall
2023
Charles Huff
Marshall
2025era →
Tony Gibson
Marshall
Coaching transition mid-career: Charles Huff → Tony Gibson. 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.
HometownMiami, FL
Height6'1"
Weight205 lb
Class3
PositionQB
Jersey1
No fields populated yet.
No fields populated yet.
Current teamMarshall
ConferenceSun Belt
Joined2025
Career arc5 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 | Jacksonville State | QB3 | #1863 | #2185 | 0.0% | 0.0% | -- | -- | W16 snapshot | Conference USA |
| 2023 | UConn | QB3 | #1707 | #1899 | 0.0% | 0.0% | -- | -- | W19 snapshot | FBS Independents |
| 2022 | UConn | QB3 | #510 | #691 | 0.0% | 0.0% | -- | -- | W20 snapshot | FBS Independents |
| 2021 | UConn | QB3 | #2085 | #2420 | 0.0% | 0.0% | -- | -- | W20 snapshot | FBS Independents |
Roster Timeline
Team, conference, and class by season.
| Season | Team | Conference | Pos | Class | Bio |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Marshall | Sun Belt | QB | 3 | No. 1 | 6-1 | 205 lb | Miami, FL |
| 2024 | Jacksonville State | Conference USA | QB | 3 | No. 1 | 6-1 | 205 lb | Miami, FL |
| 2023 | UConn | FBS Independents | QB | 3 | No. 1 | 6-1 | 205 lb | Miami, FL |
| 2022 | UConn | FBS Independents | QB | 3 | No. 1 | 6-1 | 205 lb | Miami, FL |
| 2021 | UConn | FBS Independents | QB | 3 | No. 1 | 6-1 | 205 lb | Miami, FL |