CFB Zeitgeist Score
84
All-Conference in the position cohort. Carried by rec yards at the 98th percentile.
Dae'Quan Wright
Below the discourse floor — the honest stats-only state.
635 REC YDS · 39 REC · 5 REC TD
2026 Outlook
Returning to Ole Miss for 2026
2026 Depth chart
Projected starter
Tight end · Ole Miss
Returning around him
2026 Award watch
No preseason watch lists yet (most drop June 15 – July 15)
Ole Miss · Last season: 13-2 (AP #6) · Talent rank #21 · 2026 recruiting class #16
TE · OLE MISS · SEC
CFB Zeitgeist Score
84
All-Conference in the position cohort. Carried by rec yards at the 98th percentile.
Heisman Heat
#1907
<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
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CONSENSUS
All-American
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Player Standing · 17 rungs
Tier 2 · StarterImpact starter. Producing measurable value above replacement.
Development Trajectory · receiving yards
2022–2025Up 205% from first season to most-recent.
Career Arc
The durable bio layer: position, size, hometown, and roster role.
How big the prospect was before college, and whether the later career arc beat that expectation.
| Class | Profile | Context |
|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 3-star | 0.8756 | No. 647 recruit | HighSchool | Virginia Tech |
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. | ||
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.
Achievements
Selector Grid · 2025
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
0.8756
#647 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.
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 reads how different fanbases talk about this player. Returns once weekly mentions clear the publish floor.
Rival Radar
No rival-bucket mentions in the current season.
2025 Signature · 2025 season
16.3
yds
All FBS WRs, min 20 receptions
Why it matters
#57 of 531 All FBS WRs at 16.3 yards per reception (39 catches).
Vs cohort
HIGH · n=39 cohort 531
Signature Moment
Week 7 vs Washington State — 80 ypr
Result W 24-21
The week the volume broke through — put up 80 yds vs Washington State.
Season Pace · Projection
Where the receiving totals stand
The fast read on the thing that makes this player more than a generic stat line.
Dae'Quan Wright's story is about how role and output meet each other. For Ole Miss, 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.
Traditional stats first. Advanced context underneath.
Last season
2025 season snapshot | final
30-second read
Target magnet | Big-play receiver against FBS receiving peers.
2025 season snapshot | final
Receiving
Rushing
Game Log · Week-by-week
2025 season · 14 games
| Wk | Opp | REC | YDS | AVG | TD | LONG | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | W 63-7vs Georgia State | 4 | 78 | 19.5 | 1 | 38 | |
| Wk 3 | W 41-35vs Arkansas | 1 | 64 | 64.0 | 0 | 64 | |
| Wk 4 | W 45-10vs Tulane | 3 | 71 | 23.7 | 1 | 53 | |
| Wk 5 | W 24-19vs LSU | 4 | 66 | 16.5 | 0 | 26 | |
| Wk 7 | W 24-21vs Washington State | 4 | 80 | 20.0 | 1 | 42 | Season-high 80 yds |
| Wk 8 | L 35-43@ Georgia | 3 | 34 | 11.3 | 0 | 14 | |
| Wk 9 | W 34-26@ Oklahoma | 3 | 11 | 3.7 | 0 | 7 | |
| Wk 10 | W 30-14vs South Carolina | 2 | 32 | 16.0 | 1 | 24 | |
| Wk 11 | W 49-0vs The Citadel | 1 | 13 | 13.0 | 0 | 13 | |
| Wk 12 | W 34-24vs Florida | 3 | 36 | 12.0 | 0 | 16 | |
| Wk 14 | W 38-19@ Mississippi State | 2 | 4 | 2.0 | 0 | 4 | |
| Bowl | W 41-10vs Tulane | 4 | 64 | 16.0 | 0 | 25 | |
| Bowl | W 39-34@ Georgia | 2 | 18 | 9.0 | 0 | 10 | |
| Bowl | L 27-31vs Miami | 3 | 64 | 21.3 | 1 | 24 | |
| Total | 39 | 635 | 17.7 | 5 | 64 |
Traditional history
Season rows up top, career context at the bottom.
Season context · Team result + system
| Season | Team | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Ole Miss | 39 | 635 | 16.3 | 5 | -- |
| 2023 | Virginia Tech | 28 | 366 | 13.1 | 0 | -- |
| 2022 | Virginia Tech | 19 | 208 | 10.9 | 0 | -- |
| Career | 3 loaded seasons | 86 | 1,209 | 14.1 | 5 | -- |
Advanced metrics second
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.
| Group | Metric | Value | Rank | Pct | Why it matters |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Receiving | Receptions | 39 | #17/475 | 97th pct | Volumevs FBS TE |
| Receiving | Receiving yards | 635 | #4/475 | 99th pct | Volumevs FBS TE |
| Receiving | Receiving TD | 5 | #14/475 | 97th pct | Scoringvs FBS TE |
| Receiving | Yards / catch | 16.3 | #36/475 | 93rd pct | Efficiencyvs FBS TE |
| Usage | Pass share | 10.4% | #85/468 | 82nd pct | Air-game usagevs FBS TE |
| Rushing | Rushing LONG | 2 | #30/50 | 42nd pct | Metricvs FBS TE |
| Rushing | Rushing yards | 2 | #31/53 | 43rd pct | Volumevs FBS TE |
| Rushing | Yards / carry | 2.0 | #26/53 | 53rd pct | Efficiencyvs FBS TE |
| Rushing | Carries | 1 | #30/59 | 51st pct | Volumevs FBS TE |
| Rushing | Rush TD | 0 | #20/62 | 69th pct | Scoringvs FBS TE |
| Receiving | Receiving LONG | 64 | #15/475 | 97th pct | Metricvs FBS TE |
| Usage | 3rd-down usage | 7.7% | #58/468 | 88th pct | Money-down loadvs FBS TE |
| Usage | Standard-down usage | 5.8% | #45/468 | 91st pct | Base-situation sharevs FBS TE |
| Usage | 1st-down usage | 5.6% | #56/468 | 88th pct | Early-down loadvs FBS TE |
| Usage | Role share | 5.2% | #77/468 | 84th pct | Share of team offensevs FBS TE |
| Usage | Passing-down usage | 3.6% | #220/468 | 53rd pct | Known-passing sharevs FBS TE |
| Usage | 2nd-down usage | 2.6% | #296/468 | 37th pct | Middle-down loadvs FBS TE |
| Usage | Rush share | 0.2% | #54/468 | 89th pct | Ground-game usagevs FBS TE |
| Ball Security | Fumbles lost | 0 | #1/55 | 100th pct | Turnoversvs FBS TE |
Universal 17-step ladder. Tier pills below; accolade streams nested.
AWAITING CLASSIFICATION
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
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 · 14 games
Home vs Road
| REC/g | YDS/g | YPR | TD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home10g | 2.9 | 56.8 | 22.2 | 0.5 |
| Road4g | 2.5 | 16.8 | 6.5 | 0.0 |
Win vs Loss
| REC/g | YDS/g | YPR | TD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wins12g | 2.8 | 44.8 | 17.9 | 0.3 |
| Losses2g | 3.0 | 49.0 | 16.3 | 0.5 |
First half vs Second half
| REC/g | YDS/g | YPR | TD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-78g | 3.1 | 63.1 | 23.8 | 0.5 |
| Weeks 8+6g | 2.3 | 21.7 | 9.7 | 0.2 |
Pocket and defense-quality (clean vs. pressure) splits are coming soon.
Savant · Box-rate percentiles
Where this profile ranks vs the TE cohort
Elite: rec yards (98th). Strength: yards / catch (98th).
Percentiles versus same-position peers with enough snaps this season, based on box-score rates.
Advanced Savant · TE · 2024
Advanced opponent-adjusted percentile bars are coming soon for this player.
Opponent-adjusted advanced metrics with a cohort filter.
Peer Comparator · Fingerprint match
Three closest profiles by box-rate percentile
Closest peers by overall box-score percentile profile at the same position.
Player DNA
Lined up out wide as often as inline. Creates mismatches downfield.
His 2025 production profile sits closest to Carsen Ryan’s 2025 season.
Carsen Ryan
Lake McRee
Drake Dabney
Mason Fairchild
Ben Yurosek
Matches Carsen on
Differs from Carsen on
Not enough data yet for this comparison.
As a senior, his production profile tracks closest to Mason Fairchild's senior season at Kansas (2023).
Mason Fairchild
Drake Dabney
Carsen Ryan
Cade Stover
Matthew Hibner
Matches Mason on
Differs from Mason on
Supporting Cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Lane Kiffin
Pass share
48.2%
521 pass / 560 run
Plays / game
72.1
15 games
OL sack rate (allowed)
4.5%
330 dropbacks · PBP
Scheme: Balanced.
Coaching Lineage · 2022–2025
1 coachPlayed his entire career under Lane Kiffin.
Off-field context — switch tabs to drill into recruit profile, transfer arc, or roster timeline.
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Every honor on the ledger, broken out by stream and selector.
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.
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. | ||||
Modeled rank and official finish by season.
| Season | Team | Role | Latest Model | Forecast | Win | Finalist | Official Finish | Points | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Ole Miss | TE4 | #1907 | #1630 | 0.0% | 0.0% | -- | -- | W16 snapshot | SEC |
| 2023 | Virginia Tech | TE4 | #1372 | #1474 | 0.0% | 0.0% | -- | -- | W19 snapshot | ACC |
| 2022 | Virginia Tech | TE4 | #2443 | #2925 | 0.0% | 0.0% | -- | -- | W20 snapshot | ACC |
Team, conference, and class by season.
| Season | Team | Conference | Pos | Class | Bio |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Ole Miss | SEC | TE | 4 | No. 8 | 6-4 | 255 lb | Perry, GA |
| 2024 | Ole Miss | SEC | TE | 4 | No. 8 | 6-4 | 255 lb | Perry, GA |
| 2023 | Virginia Tech | ACC | TE | 4 | No. 8 | 6-4 | 255 lb | Perry, GA |
| 2022 | Virginia Tech | ACC | TE | 4 | No. 8 | 6-4 | 255 lb | Perry, GA |