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OFFSEASON · SUMMER 2026 · COMMITMENT SEASON
Heisman / Players / Brandon Buckhaulter /UL Monroe

Brandon Buckhaulter

WR · UL Monroe · Jr · #5

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

52 REC YDS · 4 REC · 1 REC TD

2026 RETURNINGReturning to UL Monroe for 2026

2026 Outlook

Returning to UL Monroe for 2026

2026 Depth chart

Projected starter

Wide receiver · UL Monroe

Returning around him

  • 78% of 2024 offensive production back (Strong continuity)
  • Transfer portal: +3 net (20 in / 17 out)

2026 Award watch

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

UL Monroe · Last season: 3-9 · Talent rank #124 · 2026 recruiting class #115

WR · UL MONROE · SUN BELT

Brandon Buckhaulter

  • 3
  • #5
  • 6-1 | 205 lb
  • Jackson, MS

CFB Zeitgeist Score

21

Below cohort in the position cohort. Carried by yards / catch at the 50th percentile.

Heisman Heat

#4352

<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

Player Standing · 17 rungs

Tier 1 · 2-deep

R02 · Deep reserve

Deep reserve. In the program, working up the two-deep.

Not on team2-deepStarterRecognizedEliteApex

Development Trajectory · receiving yards

2023–2025
1032023
18.02024
52.02025

-50%

Sharp dropoff (-50%) — career inflection point.

Career Arc

HS
Recruit
★★★
#535 national
CFB
College
3 teams
2022–2025
NFL
NFL Draft
Not drafted (yet)

Identity & Role

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

PositionWR
Class3
Jersey5
Measurements6-1 | 205 lb
HometownJackson, MS
Primary teamUL Monroe

Recruiting Pedigree

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

Top pedigree 3-star No. 535 recruit
Composite rating 0.8785 HighSchool
Signed with -- 2021
Origin Hartfield Academy Flowood, MS, USA
Class Profile Context
2021 3-star | 0.8785 No. 535 recruit | HighSchool

Transfer Arc

Portal movement changes role, context, and perception. This keeps that path in one place.

Portal moves 2 Programs changed on file
Latest destination UL Monroe 2025
Transfer stars 3-star CFBD transfer rating context
Eligibility Immediate May 24, 2025
Season Move Context
2025 Western Kentucky -> UL Monroe 3-star | 0.8300 | Immediate
2023 Ole Miss -> -- 3-star | 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 16
Current nowcast#4352Latest modeled ballot order
Season forecast#4906Where the full season sim points
Win probability0.0%Chance to actually win the trophy
Finalist probability0.0%Chance to make the finalist tier
Ballot probability0.0%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.

NIL · Recruiting · NFL Draft

Market value, pedigree & pro outcome

Recruit stars

★★★☆☆

to —

Composite

0.8785

#535 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

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 Brandon Buckhaulter

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 Brandon Buckhaulter

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 3g
52Rec yards
4Receptions
1Rec TDs
Per game
17.3Rec yards
1Receptions
0Rec TDs
Projected (13g)
225.3Rec yards
17Receptions
4Rec TDs

To hit 700-yard receiver (currently 52): needs 64.8/game over remaining 10.

To hit 1,000-yard receiver (currently 52): needs 94.8/game over remaining 10.

To hit 60-catch season (currently 4): needs 5.6/game over remaining 10.

To hit 80-catch season (currently 4): needs 7.6/game over remaining 10.

To hit 8 receiving TDs (currently 1): needs 0.7/game over remaining 10.

To hit 10 receiving TDs (currently 1): needs 0.9/game over remaining 10.

What made this player interesting

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

Brandon Buckhaulter's story is about how role and output meet each other. For UL Monroe, 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 #4352 0.0% win | 0.0% finalist
Role load 3.9% Overall usage share
Profile quirk Transfer path 2 portal moves

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 1 rec TD | #767/1110 (31st pct)
Receiving yards 52 13.0 per catch | #773/1107 (30th pct)
Scrimmage yards 72 Total offensive yardage | #773/1107 (30th pct)
Player identity What kind of player is this?

30-second read

What kind of player is this?

Receiving weapon against FBS receiving peers.

Balanced profile

2025 Season · Final

2025 season snapshot | final

Receiving

REC
4 31st
YDS
52 30th
YPR
13.0 59th
TD
1 64th

Rushing

CAR
2 53rd
YDS
20 66th
YPC
10.0 87th
TD
0 81st

Game Log · Week-by-week

2025 season · 3 games

Box score · CFBD
WkOppRECYDSAVGTDLONGNote
Wk 4W 31-25@ UTEP11414.0014
Wk 5W 28-16vs Arkansas State22613.0014Season-high 26 yds
Wk 8L 14-37vs Troy11212.0112
Total45213.0114
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

2022Ole Miss8-5HC: Lane Kiffin · Run-heavy, fast tempo
2023UAB4-8HC: Trent Dilfer · Balanced
2024UAB3-9HC: Trent Dilfer · Balanced
2025UL Monroe3-9HC: Bryant Vincent · Run-leaning, slow tempo
SeasonTeam
2025UL Monroe45213.01--
2024UAB2189.00--
2023UAB510320.61--
2022Ole Miss----------
Career4 loaded seasons1117315.72--
SeasonTeam
2025UL Monroe220------
2024UAB1116----
2023UAB778------
2022Ole Miss----------
Career4 loaded seasons109916----
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 3.9% 6.2% pass-game share | #757/1137 (34th pct)
Return yards 0 0 return TD
Touchdowns 1 Across offense and returns | #396/1111 (64th 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 52 #773/1107 30th pct Volumevs FBS WR
Receiving Receiving TD 1 #396/1111 64th pct Scoringvs FBS WR
Receiving Yards / catch 13.0 #450/1106 59th pct Efficiencyvs FBS WR
Usage Pass share 6.2% #757/1137 34th pct Air-game usagevs FBS WR
Rushing Rushing yards 20 #135/397 66th pct Volumevs FBS WR
Rushing Rushing LONG 19 #77/346 78th pct Metricvs FBS WR
Rushing Yards / carry 10.0 #54/393 87th pct Efficiencyvs FBS WR
Rushing Carries 2 #194/407 53rd pct Volumevs FBS WR
Rushing Rush TD 0 #81/411 81st pct Scoringvs FBS WR
Receiving Receiving LONG 14 #876/1105 21st pct Metricvs FBS WR
Usage Standard-down usage 4.2% #494/1137 57th pct Base-situation sharevs FBS WR
Usage Role share 3.9% #625/1137 45th pct Share of team offensevs FBS WR
Usage 1st-down usage 3.6% #611/1137 46th pct Early-down loadvs FBS WR
Usage 2nd-down usage 3.5% #727/1137 36th pct Middle-down loadvs FBS WR
Usage Passing-down usage 3.2% #885/1137 22nd pct Known-passing sharevs FBS WR
Usage 3rd-down usage 2.9% #830/1137 27th pct Money-down loadvs FBS WR
Usage Rush share 2.0% #101/1137 91st 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 · 3 games

Home/Road · Win/Loss · Season halves

Home vs Road

REC/gYDS/gYPRTD/g
Home2g1.519.012.50.5
Road1g1.014.014.00.0

Win vs Loss

REC/gYDS/gYPRTD/g
Wins2g1.520.013.50.0
Losses1g1.012.012.01.0

First half vs Second half

REC/gYDS/gYPRTD/g
Weeks 1-72g1.520.013.50.0
Weeks 8+1g1.012.012.01.0

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

Savant · Box-rate percentiles

Where this profile ranks vs the WR cohort

21Below cohort
7 metrics · season cumulative

Concern: receptions (0th).

Rush yards#111 / 287 · 61st pct
20rush
Yards / catch#276 / 558 · 50th pct
13.0rece
Rush TDs#67 / 287 · 39th pct
0rush
Rec TDs#373 / 558 · 24th pct
1rece
Long catch#552 / 558 · 1st pct
14rece
Rec yards#558 / 558 · 0th pct
52rece
Receptions#559 / 558 · 0th pct
4rece

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
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 · 7 metrics
Brandon BuckhaulterUL MonroeMichael Jackson IIIPurdue· 49% simJacquon GibsonMassachusetts· 48% simKevin Coleman Jr.Missouri· 46% sim
Rush yards
61
Buckhaulter
6
III
76
Gibson
89
Jr.
Yards / catch
50
Buckhaulter
9
III
15
Gibson
28
Jr.
Rush TDs
39
Buckhaulter
39
III
39
Gibson
39
Jr.
Rec TDs
24
Buckhaulter
24
III
7
Gibson
24
Jr.
Long catch
1
Buckhaulter
16
III
56
Gibson
56
Jr.
Rec yards
0
Buckhaulter
70
III
74
Gibson
84
Jr.
Receptions
0
Buckhaulter
92
III
92
Gibson
94
Jr.

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

Bryant Vincent

Pass share

41.4%

302 pass / 428 run

Plays / game

60.8

12 games

OL sack rate (allowed)

8.3%

241 dropbacks · PBP

Scheme: Run-leaning, slow tempo.

Coaching Lineage · 2022–2025

2 coaches
2022
Terry Bowden
UL Monroe
2023
Terry Bowden
UL Monroe
2024
Bryant Vincent
UL Monroe
era →
2025
Bryant Vincent
UL Monroe

Coaching transition mid-career: Terry Bowden → Bryant Vincent. 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.

HometownJackson, MS
Height6'1"
Weight205 lb
Class3
PositionWR
Jersey5

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
2024 UAB WR3 #4352 #4906 0.0% 0.0% -- -- W16 snapshot | American Athletic
2023 UAB WR3 #2861 #3531 0.0% 0.0% -- -- W19 snapshot | American Athletic
2022 Ole Miss WR3 #3042 #2747 0.0% 0.0% -- -- W20 snapshot | SEC
2021 Ole Miss WR3 #2493 #2028 0.0% 0.0% -- -- W20 snapshot | SEC

Roster Timeline

Team, conference, and class by season.

Season Team Conference Pos Class Bio
2025 UL Monroe Sun Belt WR 3 No. 5 | 6-1 | 205 lb | Jackson, MS
2024 UAB American Athletic WR 3 No. 5 | 6-1 | 205 lb | Jackson, MS
2023 UAB American Athletic WR 3 No. 5 | 6-1 | 205 lb | Jackson, MS
2022 Ole Miss SEC WR 3 No. 5 | 6-1 | 205 lb | Jackson, MS
2021 Ole Miss SEC WR 3 No. 5 | 6-1 | 205 lb | Jackson, MS