CFB Zeitgeist QB Score
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Brady Olson
Limited signal — not enough coverage for a story yet.
QB · MASSACHUSETTS · FBS INDEPENDENTS
Brady Olson
- 4
- #12
- 6-4 | 200 lb
- Bellingham, MA
Heisman Heat
#2149
<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 0 · Not on teamR00 · Walk-on
Walk-on. Earning a roster spot is the starting line.
Not on team2-deepStarterRecognizedEliteApex
Development Trajectory · passing yards
2021–2023-100%
Sharp dropoff (-100%) — career inflection point.
Career Arc
HS
Recruit
★★★
CFB
College
Massachusetts
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 | 0.8081 | No. 2280 recruit | HighSchool | Massachusetts |
Transfer Arc
Portal movement changes role, context, and perception. This keeps that path in one place.
| Season | Move | Context |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Massachusetts -> Central Connecticut | 2-star | Immediate |
Heisman Lens · 2023 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 19Heisman 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 Massachusetts
Composite
0.8081
#2280 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 Brady Olson
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 Brady Olson
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.
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.
Brady Olson's page is mostly roster and pedigree right now — there isn't measurable current-season production on file for Massachusetts yet. As box scores and snaps land, the on-field story fills in here.
2023 Season · Final
Traditional stats first. Advanced context underneath.
Last season
QB season snapshot
2023 season snapshot | final
2023 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?
Pocket-leaning against FBS QB peers. The quickest read is whether the profile wins on volume, efficiency, explosiveness, or rushing value.
2023 Season · Final
2023 season snapshot | final
Passing Efficiency
ATT
3 15th
Passing Production
TD
0 30th
INT
1 63rd
Game Log · Week-by-week
2025 season · 1 games
| Wk | Opp | CMP/ATT | YDS | TD | INT | YPA | QBR | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | L 13-59@ UConn | 8/19 | 118 | 0 | 0 | 6.2 | -- | Season-high 118 yds |
| Total | 8/19 | 118 | 0 | 0 | 6.2 | — |
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
2021Massachusetts1-11HC: Alex Miller · Run-leaning, slow tempo
2022Massachusetts1-11HC: Don Brown · Run-heavy
2023Massachusetts3-9HC: Don Brown · Balanced, slow tempo
| Season | Team | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | Massachusetts | -- | 3 | 0.0% | -- | 0.0 | 0 | 1 | -66.7 | -- | -- |
| 2022 | Massachusetts | 77 | 153 | 50.3% | 791 | 5.2 | 2 | 8 | 87.6 | -- | -- |
| 2021 | Massachusetts | 104 | 215 | 48.4% | 1,145 | 5.3 | 8 | 7 | 98.9 | -- | -- |
| Career | 3 loaded seasons | 181 | 371 | 48.8% | 1,936 | 5.2 | 10 | 16 | 92.9 | -- | -- |
| Season | Team | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | Massachusetts | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| 2022 | Massachusetts | 34 | 46 | 1.4 | 0 | -- |
| 2021 | Massachusetts | 35 | 28 | 0.8 | 0 | -- |
| Career | 3 loaded seasons | 69 | 74 | 1.1 | 0 | -- |
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 | Pass TD | 0 | #285/407 | 30th pct | Scoringvs FBS QB |
| Value | Passing WEPA | +0.17 | #162/200 | 20th pct | Opponent-adjusted passing value | 194 weighted playsvs FBS QB |
| Usage | Role share | 48.2% | #94/428 | 78th pct | Share of team offensevs FBS QB |
| Passing | Attempts | 3 | #346/407 | 15th pct | Volumevs FBS QB |
| Passing | Interceptions | 1 | #153/407 | 63rd pct | Turnoversvs FBS QB |
| Usage | Pass share | 90.1% | #58/428 | 87th pct | Air-game usagevs FBS QB |
| Usage | Passing-down usage | 62.6% | #95/428 | 78th pct | Known-passing sharevs FBS QB |
| Usage | 3rd-down usage | 53.6% | #135/428 | 69th pct | Money-down loadvs FBS QB |
| Usage | 1st-down usage | 47.0% | #51/428 | 88th pct | Early-down loadvs FBS QB |
| Usage | 2nd-down usage | 45.2% | #117/428 | 73rd pct | Middle-down loadvs FBS QB |
| Usage | Standard-down usage | 41.1% | #103/428 | 76th pct | Base-situation sharevs FBS QB |
| Usage | Rush share | 11.2% | #144/428 | 67th pct | Ground-game usagevs 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 · 1 games
Home vs Road
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Road1g | 118 | 0.0 | 6.2 | 0.0 |
Win vs Loss
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Losses1g | 118 | 0.0 | 6.2 | 0.0 |
First half vs Second half
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-71g | 118 | 0.0 | 6.2 | 0.0 |
Pocket and defense-quality (clean vs. pressure) splits are coming soon.
Advanced Savant · QB · 2023
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.
Supporting Cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Joe Harasymiak
Pass share
54.2%
415 pass / 351 run
Plays / game
63.8
12 games
OL sack rate (allowed)
9.9%
342 dropbacks · PBP
Scheme: Balanced.
Coaching Lineage · 2021–2023
2 coaches2021
Alex Miller
Massachusetts
2022era →
Don Brown
Massachusetts
2023
Don Brown
Massachusetts
Coaching transition mid-career: Alex Miller → Don Brown. 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.
HometownBellingham, MA
Height6'4"
Weight200 lb
Class4
PositionQB
Jersey12
No fields populated yet.
No fields populated yet.
Current teamMassachusetts
ConferenceFBS Independents
Joined2023
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | Massachusetts | QB4 | #2149 | #2438 | 0.0% | 0.0% | -- | -- | W19 snapshot | FBS Independents |
| 2022 | Massachusetts | QB4 | #1535 | #2153 | 0.0% | 0.0% | -- | -- | W20 snapshot | FBS Independents |
| 2021 | Massachusetts | QB4 | #856 | #1189 | 0.0% | 0.0% | -- | -- | W20 snapshot | FBS Independents |
Roster Timeline
Team, conference, and class by season.
| Season | Team | Conference | Pos | Class | Bio |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | Massachusetts | FBS Independents | QB | 4 | No. 12 | 6-4 | 200 lb | Bellingham, MA |
| 2022 | Massachusetts | FBS Independents | QB | 4 | No. 12 | 6-4 | 200 lb | Bellingham, MA |
| 2021 | Massachusetts | FBS Independents | QB | 4 | No. 12 | 6-4 | 200 lb | Bellingham, MA |