CFB Zeitgeist TE Score
Awaiting
Colston Loveland
Limited signal — not enough coverage for a story yet.
Where He Ended Up · NFL
ChicagoEntering 2nd NFL season
#10Rd 1 · Pick 10
ChicagoEntering 2nd NFL season
TE · MICHIGAN · BIG TEN
Colston Loveland
- 3
- #18
- 6-5 | 245 lb
- Gooding, ID
Heisman Heat
#350
<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 1 · 2-deepR03 · Backup
Backup. On the two-deep, pushing for snaps.
Not on team2-deepStarterRecognizedEliteApex
Career arc · Season-by-season Standing
3 seasons on the ladder
2022
Michigan · TE
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★
2023
Michigan · TE
R09 · All-Conference HM / 2nd team
Recognized
2024
Michigan · TE
R09 · All-Conference HM / 2nd team
Recognized
NFL Draft 2025 · Rd 1, Pick 10 · #10 overall · Chicago
Development Trajectory · receiving yards
2022–2024+148%
Up 148% from first season to most-recent.
Career Arc
HS
Recruit
★★★★
CFB
College
Michigan
NFL
NFL Draft
R1 · #10
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 | 0.9011 | No. 302 recruit | HighSchool | Michigan |
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 Michigan
Composite
0.9011
#302 national
NFL Draft
2025 · Rd 1, Pick 10
#10 overall · Chicago
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 Colston Loveland
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 Colston Loveland
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.
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. Colston Loveland already has 3 loaded recognition items, which helps distinguish a player who is merely productive from one who is already earning selector-level validation.
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
Player identity What kind of player is this?
30-second read
What kind of player is this?
Target magnet against FBS receiving peers.
2024 Season · Final
2024 season snapshot | final
Receiving
REC
56 100th
YDS
582 99th
YPR
10.4 57th
TD
5 97th
Rushing
CAR
1 51st
YDS
-2 8th
YPC
-2.0 6th
TD
0 69th
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 context · Team result + system
2022Michigan13-1HC: Jim Harbaugh · Run-heavy
2023Michigan15-0HC: Jim Harbaugh · Run-heavy, slow tempo
2024Michigan8-5HC: Sherrone Moore · Run-heavy
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 | 56 | #3/475 | 100th pct | Volumevs FBS TE |
| Receiving | Receiving yards | 582 | #8/475 | 99th pct | Volumevs FBS TE |
| Receiving | Receiving TD | 5 | #14/475 | 97th pct | Scoringvs FBS TE |
| Receiving | Yards / catch | 10.4 | #203/475 | 57th pct | Efficiencyvs FBS TE |
| Usage | Pass share | 20.0% | #5/468 | 99th pct | Air-game usagevs FBS TE |
| Rushing | Carries | 1 | #30/59 | 51st pct | Volumevs FBS TE |
| Rushing | Rush TD | 0 | #20/62 | 69th pct | Scoringvs FBS TE |
| Rushing | Rushing yards | -2 | #50/53 | 8th pct | Volumevs FBS TE |
| Rushing | Yards / carry | -2.0 | #51/53 | 6th pct | Efficiencyvs FBS TE |
| Receiving | Receiving LONG | 36 | #91/475 | 81st pct | Metricvs FBS TE |
| Usage | 2nd-down usage | 11.2% | #8/468 | 99th pct | Middle-down loadvs FBS TE |
| Usage | Passing-down usage | 10.7% | #15/468 | 97th pct | Known-passing sharevs FBS TE |
| Usage | Role share | 9.3% | #7/468 | 99th pct | Share of team offensevs FBS TE |
| Usage | 1st-down usage | 8.8% | #6/468 | 99th pct | Early-down loadvs FBS TE |
| Usage | Standard-down usage | 8.7% | #6/468 | 99th pct | Base-situation sharevs FBS TE |
| Usage | 3rd-down usage | 7.6% | #62/468 | 87th pct | Money-down loadvs FBS TE |
| Usage | Rush share | 0.6% | #29/468 | 94th pct | Ground-game usagevs FBS TE |
| Ball Security | Fumbles lost | 1 | #34/55 | 40th pct | Turnoversvs 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 splits
Splits fill in once box scores from at least three games land for this season.
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.
Supporting Cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Sherrone Moore
Pass share
40.9%
340 pass / 492 run
Plays / game
64.0
13 games
OL sack rate (allowed)
7.4%
256 dropbacks · PBP
Scheme: Run-leaning.
Coaching Lineage · 2022–2024
2 coaches2022
Jim Harbaugh
Michigan
2023
Jim Harbaugh
Michigan
2024era →
Sherrone Moore
Michigan
Coaching transition mid-career: Jim Harbaugh → Sherrone Moore. 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.
HometownGooding, ID
Height6'5"
Weight245 lb
Class3
PositionTE
Jersey18
No fields populated yet.
No fields populated yet.
Current teamMichigan
ConferenceBig Ten
Joined2024
Career arc3 season(s)
Trophy Case · Confirmed honors
What the selectors said
🥈
ALL-CONFERENCE · 1ST TEAM
All-Conf 1st team (2024)
All-Big Ten
Trophy Case · Detail
Every honor on the ledger, broken out by stream and selector.
3 all-conference honors
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 Ten | all_conference | Michigan | Big Ten | TE |
| 2024 | All-Big Ten | all_conference | Big Ten | OTHE |
| 2023 | All-Big Ten | all_conference | Michigan | Big Ten | TE |
Heisman By Year
Modeled rank and official finish by season.
Roster Timeline
Team, conference, and class by season.