CFB Zeitgeist Score
4
Below cohort in the position cohort. Carried by rec tds at the 7th percentile.
Benji Gosnell
Below the discourse floor — the honest stats-only state.
86 REC YDS · 12 REC · 0 REC TD
2026 Outlook
Returning to Virginia Tech for 2026
2026 Depth chart
Projected starter
Tight end · Virginia Tech
Returning around him
- 50% of 2024 offensive production back (Moderate turnover)
- Transfer portal: +0 net (27 in / 27 out)
2026 Award watch
No preseason watch lists yet (most drop June 15 – July 15)
Virginia Tech · Last season: 3-9 · Talent rank #40 · 2026 recruiting class #39
TE · VIRGINIA TECH · ACC
Benji Gosnell
- 3
- #82
- 6-5 | 254 lb
- Meadows Of Dan, VA
Heisman Heat
#3125
<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 TE AWARD
Mackey
—
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
In Their Words
80 windows · 2025 fan posts
benji×259.5ja'ricous×389.3hairston×97.3reynolds×77.9
Development Trajectory · receiving yards
2023–2025-37%
Sharp dropoff (-37%) — career inflection point.
Career Arc
HS
Recruit
★★★★
CFB
College
Virginia Tech
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 |
|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 4-star | 0.9000 | No. 311 recruit | HighSchool | Virginia Tech |
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 Virginia Tech
Composite
0.9000
#311 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 Benji Gosnell
Fan sentiment ·
Belief Meter
75
Grounded Optimism
Top Take
“”
Trajectory
Per-cohort trajectory lands when historical bucket data is aggregated.
Cohort divergence map
- Own fans · n=8
Rival Radar
How rival fanbases talk about Benji Gosnell
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 receiving totals stand
Through 7g
86Rec yards
12Receptions
0Rec TDs
Per game
12.3Rec yards
2Receptions
0Rec TDs
Projected (13g)
159.7Rec yards
22Receptions
0Rec TDs
To hit 700-yard receiver (currently 86): needs 102.3/game over remaining 6.
To hit 1,000-yard receiver (currently 86): needs 152.3/game over remaining 6.
To hit 60-catch season (currently 12): needs 8/game over remaining 6.
To hit 80-catch season (currently 12): needs 11.3/game over remaining 6.
To hit 8 receiving TDs (currently 0): needs 1.3/game over remaining 6.
To hit 10 receiving TDs (currently 0): needs 1.7/game over remaining 6.
What made this player interesting
The fast read on the thing that makes this player more than a generic stat line.
Benji Gosnell's story is about how role and output meet each other. For Virginia Tech, 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
TE 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?
Receiving weapon against FBS receiving peers.
2025 Season · Final
2025 season snapshot | final
Receiving
REC
12 65th
YDS
86 56th
YPR
7.2 24th
TD
0 46th
Game Log · Week-by-week
2025 season · 7 games
| Wk | Opp | REC | YDS | AVG | TD | LONG | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | L 11-24@ South Carolina | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Wk 2 | L 20-44vs Vanderbilt | 2 | 12 | 6.0 | 0 | 7 | |
| Wk 3 | L 26-45vs Old Dominion | 2 | 18 | 9.0 | 0 | 12 | |
| Wk 4 | W 38-6vs Wofford | 1 | 18 | 18.0 | 0 | 18 | |
| Wk 5 | W 23-21@ NC State | 3 | 23 | 7.7 | 0 | 14 | Season-high 23 yds |
| Wk 9 | W 42-34vs California | 2 | 11 | 5.5 | 0 | 11 | |
| Wk 12 | L 14-34@ Florida State | 1 | 4 | 4.0 | 0 | 4 | |
| Total | 12 | 86 | 7.2 | 0 | 18 |
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
2023Virginia Tech7-6HC: Brent Pry · Run-leaning
2025Virginia Tech3-9HC: Brent Pry · Run-leaning
| Season | Team | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Virginia Tech | 12 | 86 | 7.2 | 0 | -- |
| 2023 | Virginia Tech | 12 | 137 | 11.4 | 1 | -- |
| Career | 2 loaded seasons | 24 | 223 | 9.3 | 1 | -- |
Advanced layer Usage, value, and context
Advanced metrics second
Advanced Metrics
Usage, value, and opponent-adjusted context.
The tight end's share of the passing offense, which helps distinguish a featured receiving tight end from a secondary option.
A blended usage view that shows how often the offense flows through the tight end compared with other same-level peers.
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 | 12 | #166/475 | 65th pct | Volumevs FBS TE |
| Receiving | Receiving yards | 86 | #208/475 | 56th pct | Volumevs FBS TE |
| Receiving | Receiving TD | 0 | #257/475 | 46th pct | Scoringvs FBS TE |
| Receiving | Yards / catch | 7.2 | #363/475 | 24th pct | Efficiencyvs FBS TE |
| Usage | Pass share | 6.8% | #187/468 | 60th pct | Air-game usagevs FBS TE |
| Receiving | Receiving LONG | 18 | #281/475 | 41st pct | Metricvs FBS TE |
| Usage | Passing-down usage | 7.5% | #60/468 | 87th pct | Known-passing sharevs FBS TE |
| Usage | 2nd-down usage | 5.6% | #78/468 | 84th pct | Middle-down loadvs FBS TE |
| Usage | 3rd-down usage | 5.0% | #155/468 | 67th pct | Money-down loadvs FBS TE |
| Usage | Role share | 3.3% | #191/468 | 59th pct | Share of team offensevs FBS TE |
| Usage | Standard-down usage | 1.5% | #389/468 | 17th pct | Base-situation sharevs FBS TE |
| Usage | 1st-down usage | 1.1% | #374/468 | 20th pct | Early-down loadvs FBS TE |
| Usage | Rush share | 0.0% | #58/468 | 88th pct | Ground-game usagevs FBS TE |
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
The Mackey 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
2025 season · 7 games
Home vs Road
| REC/g | YDS/g | YPR | TD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home4g | 1.8 | 14.8 | 9.6 | 0.0 |
| Road3g | 1.7 | 9.0 | 3.9 | 0.0 |
Win vs Loss
| REC/g | YDS/g | YPR | TD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wins3g | 2.0 | 17.3 | 10.4 | 0.0 |
| Losses4g | 1.5 | 8.5 | 4.8 | 0.0 |
First half vs Second half
| REC/g | YDS/g | YPR | TD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-75g | 1.8 | 14.2 | 8.1 | 0.0 |
| Weeks 8+2g | 1.5 | 7.5 | 4.8 | 0.0 |
Pocket and defense-quality (clean vs. pressure) splits are coming soon.
Savant · Box-rate percentiles
Where this profile ranks vs the TE cohort
4Below cohort
Concern: rec yards (2nd).
Percentiles versus same-position peers with enough snaps this season, based on box-score rates.
Advanced Savant · TE · 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
Benji GosnellVirginia TechBryce CaufieldOregon State· 62% simHayden HansenFlorida· 57% simTyler FortenberryArkansas State· 53% sim
Rec TDs
Long catch
Yards / catch
Receptions
Rec yards
Closest peers by overall box-score percentile profile at the same position.
Player DNA
The Complete TE
Dual-threat: blocks when needed, catches when needed. Coveted on both sides.
TE
His 2025 production profile sits closest to Steven Stilianos’s 2023 season.
Steven Stilianos
82%match
#2
Bryce Pierre
82%
#3
Tre Watson
80%
#4
Trent Tyre
77%
#5
Patrick Herbert
79%
Matches Steven on
Height
Weight
Total EPA (college ability)
Differs from Steven on
Class year (lower)
EPA / play (adj) (higher)
Not enough data yet for this comparison.
As a junior, his production profile tracks closest to Zach Ortwerth's junior season at Iowa (2025).
Zach Ortwerth
81%match
#2
Cam McCormick
80%
#3
Patrick Herbert
79%
#4
Dakota Twitty
78%
#5
Jake Taylor
78%
Matches Zach on
Yards / reception
Height
Weight
Supporting Cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Brent Pry
Pass share
42.0%
319 pass / 441 run
Plays / game
63.3
12 games
OL sack rate (allowed)
9.5%
296 dropbacks · PBP
Scheme: Run-leaning.
Coaching Lineage · 2023–2025
1 coach2023
Brent Pry
Virginia Tech
2025
Brent Pry
Virginia Tech
Played his entire career under Brent Pry.
Bio · Recruiting · Transfer · Roster
Off-field context — switch tabs to drill into recruit profile, transfer arc, or roster timeline.
HometownMeadows Of Dan, VA
Height6'5"
Weight254 lb
Class3
PositionTE
Jersey82
No fields populated yet.
No fields populated yet.
Current teamVirginia Tech
ConferenceACC
Joined2025
Career arc4 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 | Virginia Tech | TE3 | #3125 | #3085 | 0.0% | 0.0% | -- | -- | W16 snapshot | ACC |
| 2023 | Virginia Tech | TE3 | #1740 | #1862 | 0.0% | 0.0% | -- | -- | W19 snapshot | ACC |
| 2022 | Virginia Tech | TE3 | #4171 | #4417 | 0.0% | 0.0% | -- | -- | W20 snapshot | ACC |
Roster Timeline
Team, conference, and class by season.
| Season | Team | Conference | Pos | Class | Bio |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Virginia Tech | ACC | TE | 3 | No. 82 | 6-5 | 254 lb | Meadows Of Dan, VA |
| 2024 | Virginia Tech | ACC | TE | 3 | No. 82 | 6-5 | 254 lb | Meadows Of Dan, VA |
| 2023 | Virginia Tech | ACC | TE | 3 | No. 82 | 6-5 | 254 lb | Meadows Of Dan, VA |
| 2022 | Virginia Tech | ACC | TE | 3 | No. 82 | 6-5 | 254 lb | Meadows Of Dan, VA |