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Brant Kuithe

TE · Utah · Sr · #80

Limited signal — not enough coverage for a story yet.

CAREER COMPLETEUtah 2024 — college career complete

TE · UTAH · BIG 12

Brant Kuithe

  • 4
  • #80
  • 6-2 | 236 lb
  • Katy, TX

CFB Zeitgeist TE Score

Awaiting

Heisman Heat

#170

<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

Player Standing · 17 rungs

Tier 1 · 2-deep

R03 · Backup

Backup. On the two-deep, pushing for snaps.

Not on team2-deepStarterRecognizedEliteApex

Career arc · Season-by-season Standing

3 seasons on the ladder

Peak: R09 All-Conference HM / 2nd team · 2024

2021

Utah · TE

2022

Utah · TE

2024

Utah · TE

R09 · All-Conference HM / 2nd team

Recognized

Development Trajectory · receiving yards

2021–2024
6112021
2062022
5052024

-17%

Down 17% — context-dependent (injury / role change?).

Career Arc

HS
Recruit
★★★
#1213 national
CFB
College
Utah
2021–2024
NFL
NFL Draft
Not drafted (yet)

Identity & Role

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

PositionTE
Class4
Jersey80
Measurements6-2 | 236 lb
HometownKaty, TX
Primary teamUtah

Recruiting Pedigree

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

Top pedigree 3-star No. 1213 recruit
Composite rating 0.8451 HighSchool
Signed with Utah 2018
Origin Cinco Ranch Katy, TX, USA
Class Profile Context
2018 3-star | 0.8451 No. 1213 recruit | HighSchool | Utah

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 · 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#170Latest modeled ballot order
Season forecast#206Where 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 Utah

Composite

0.8451

#1213 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 Brant Kuithe

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 Brant Kuithe

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.

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.

Why the honors trail matters

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

The useful clue on this card is not just the Heisman rank, but the broader honors spine. Brant Kuithe already has 1 loaded recognition item, which helps distinguish a player who is merely productive from one who is already earning selector-level validation.

Current place #170 0.0% win | 0.0% finalist
Role load 8.3% Overall usage share
Profile quirk Honors spine 1 honors loaded

2024 Season · Final

Traditional stats first. Advanced context underneath.

Last season

TE season snapshot

2024 season snapshot | final

2024 season snapshot | finalData: CFBD player stats + local Heisman modelPeer context: same position + same level
Receptions 35 6 rec TD | #34/475 (93rd pct)
Receiving yards 505 14.4 per catch | #17/475 (97th pct)
Scrimmage yards 531 Total offensive yardage | #17/475 (97th pct)
Player identity What kind of player is this?

30-second read

What kind of player is this?

Target magnet | Big-play receiver against FBS receiving peers.

Target magnetBig-play receiver

2024 Season · Final

2024 season snapshot | final

Receiving

REC
35 93rd
YDS
505 97th
YPR
14.4 87th
TD
6 99th

Rushing

CAR
8 88th
YDS
26 83rd
YPC
3.3 60th
TD
2 98th

Game Log

Week-by-week box

No per-game rows for this season yet — the table fills in as box scores arrive.

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

2021Utah10-3HC: Kyle Whittingham · Run-leaning
2022Utah10-4HC: Kyle Whittingham · Run-leaning
2024Utah5-7HC: Kyle Whittingham · Balanced
SeasonTeam
2024Utah3550514.46--
2022Utah1920610.83--
2021Utah5061112.26--
Career3 loaded seasons1041,32212.715--
Advanced layer Usage, value, and context

Advanced metrics second

Advanced Metrics

Usage, value, and opponent-adjusted context.

Usage Value Context
Pass share

The tight end's share of the passing offense, which helps distinguish a featured receiving tight end from a secondary option.

Role share

A blended usage view that shows how often the offense flows through the tight end compared with other same-level peers.

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 8.3% 14.0% pass-game share | #28/468 (94th pct)
Return yards 0 0 return TD
Touchdowns 8 Across offense and returns | #6/475 (99th pct)
Open full stat explorer
0 metrics visible Showing all metrics
Group Metric Value Rank Pct Why it matters
Receiving Receptions 35 #34/475 93rd pct Volumevs FBS TE
Receiving Receiving yards 505 #17/475 97th pct Volumevs FBS TE
Receiving Receiving TD 6 #6/475 99th pct Scoringvs FBS TE
Receiving Yards / catch 14.4 #62/475 87th pct Efficiencyvs FBS TE
Usage Pass share 14.0% #28/468 94th pct Air-game usagevs FBS TE
Rushing Rushing yards 26 #10/53 83rd pct Volumevs FBS TE
Rushing Rushing LONG 11 #14/50 74th pct Metricvs FBS TE
Rushing Carries 8 #8/59 88th pct Volumevs FBS TE
Rushing Yards / carry 3.3 #22/53 60th pct Efficiencyvs FBS TE
Rushing Rush TD 2 #2/62 98th pct Scoringvs FBS TE
Receiving Receiving LONG 71 #9/475 98th pct Metricvs FBS TE
Usage 1st-down usage 9.0% #4/468 99th pct Early-down loadvs FBS TE
Usage Standard-down usage 9.0% #5/468 99th pct Base-situation sharevs FBS TE
Usage 3rd-down usage 8.5% #45/468 91st pct Money-down loadvs FBS TE
Usage Role share 8.3% #12/468 98th pct Share of team offensevs FBS TE
Usage 2nd-down usage 7.5% #36/468 93rd pct Middle-down loadvs FBS TE
Usage Passing-down usage 7.0% #72/468 85th pct Known-passing sharevs FBS TE
Usage Rush share 2.7% #9/468 98th 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

StatusAwaiting 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 splits

Splits fill in once box scores from at least three games land for this season.

Box-score Savant card waits for a season-stat snapshot above the cohort floor. Returns once enough box-score volume lands.

Advanced Savant · TE · 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 returns once this player clears the Savant metric floor (4+ scored bars).
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

Kyle Whittingham

Pass share

39.8%

371 pass / 562 run

Plays / game

71.8

13 games

OL sack rate (allowed)

4.2%

289 dropbacks · PBP

Scheme: Run-heavy.

Coaching Lineage · 2021–2024

1 coach
2021
Kyle Whittingham
Utah
2022
Kyle Whittingham
Utah
2024
Kyle Whittingham
Utah

Played his entire career under Kyle Whittingham.

Bio · Recruiting · Transfer · Roster

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

HometownKaty, TX
Height6'2"
Weight236 lb
Class4
PositionTE
Jersey80

Trophy Case · Confirmed honors

What the selectors said

1 entries
🎖

ALL-CONFERENCE

All-Conf mention (2024)

All-Big 12

Trophy Case · Detail

Every honor on the ledger, broken out by stream and selector.

All-Conference

1 all-conference honor

Conference-level recognition helps anchor whether a player is merely statistically loud or actually viewed as elite within his competitive lane.

Honors Timeline

Season-end distinction and week-by-week recognition on one timeline.

Season Honor Scope Team / Selector Context
2024 All-Big 12 all_conference Utah | Big 12 TE

Heisman By Year

Modeled rank and official finish by season.

Season Team Role Latest Model Forecast Win Finalist Official Finish Points Context
2024 Utah TE4 #170 #206 0.0% 0.0% -- -- W16 snapshot | Big 12
2023 Utah TE4 #3034 #2811 0.0% 0.0% -- -- W19 snapshot | Pac-12
2022 Utah TE4 #583 #466 0.0% 0.0% -- -- W20 snapshot | Pac-12
2021 Utah TE4 #401 #445 0.0% 0.0% -- -- W20 snapshot | Pac-12

Roster Timeline

Team, conference, and class by season.

Season Team Conference Pos Class Bio
2024 Utah Big 12 TE 4 No. 80 | 6-2 | 236 lb | Katy, TX
2023 Utah Pac-12 TE 4 No. 80 | 6-2 | 236 lb | Katy, TX
2022 Utah Pac-12 TE 4 No. 80 | 6-2 | 236 lb | Katy, TX
2021 Utah Pac-12 TE 4 No. 80 | 6-2 | 236 lb | Katy, TX