CFB Zeitgeist Score
60
Solid starter in the position cohort. Carried by rec yards at the 72nd percentile.
Decker DeGraaf
Below the discourse floor — the honest stats-only state.
360 REC YDS · 32 REC · 2 REC TD
2026 Outlook
Returning to Washington for 2026
2026 Depth chart
Projected starter
Tight end · Washington
Returning around him
- 42% of 2024 offensive production back (Moderate turnover)
- 7 Washington players drafted to NFL
- Transfer portal: -9 net (14 in / 23 out)
2026 Award watch
No preseason watch lists yet (most drop June 15 – July 15)
Washington · Last season: 9-4 (AP #24) · Talent rank #37 · 2026 recruiting class #23
TE · WASHINGTON · BIG TEN
Decker DeGraaf
- 2
- #86
- 6-3 | 245 lb
- San Dimas, CA
Heisman Heat
#587
<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 2 · StarterR07 · Impact starter
Impact starter. Producing measurable value above replacement.
Not on team2-deepStarterRecognizedEliteApex
Development Trajectory · receiving yards
2024–2025+55%
Up 55% from first season to most-recent.
Career Arc
HS
Recruit
★★★
CFB
College
Washington
NFL
NFL Draft
—
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 |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 3-star | 0.8733 | No. 819 recruit | HighSchool |
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.
Achievements
- Program Benchmark 5.5% Program Benchmark Season leader for the program at the player's position across the headline volume metric (passing yards / rushing yards / receiving yards). Held by 5.5% of the 2025 pool. Team leader in receiving yards (360).
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
0.8733
#819 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 Decker DeGraaf
Fan sentiment ·
Belief Meter
50
Mixed Sentiment
Top Take
“”
Trajectory
Per-cohort trajectory lands when historical bucket data is aggregated.
Cohort divergence map
- Own fans · n=1
Rival Radar
How rival fanbases talk about Decker DeGraaf
No rival-bucket mentions in the current season.
2025 Signature · 2025 season
Yards per reception
11.3
yds
All FBS WRs, min 20 receptions
National rank #331 of 531
Percentile vs All FBS WRs, min 20 receptions 38th
Why it matters
#331 of 531 All FBS WRs at 11.3 yards per reception (32 catches).
Vs cohort
This player 11.3 (38th)
HIGH · n=32 cohort 531
- Also strong
- Receiving yards (total)#341 / 531
- Receiving TDs#302 / 531
Signature Moment
Week 12 vs Purdue — 91 ypr
Result W 49-13
The week the volume broke through — put up 91 yds vs Purdue.
Season Pace · Projection
Where the receiving totals stand
Through 11g
360Rec yards
32Receptions
2Rec TDs
Per game
32.7Rec yards
3Receptions
0Rec TDs
Projected (13g)
425.5Rec yards
38Receptions
2Rec TDs
To hit 700-yard receiver (currently 360): needs 170/game over remaining 2.
To hit 1,000-yard receiver (currently 360): needs 320/game over remaining 2.
To hit 60-catch season (currently 32): needs 14/game over remaining 2.
To hit 80-catch season (currently 32): needs 24/game over remaining 2.
To hit 8 receiving TDs (currently 2): needs 3/game over remaining 2.
To hit 10 receiving TDs (currently 2): needs 4/game over remaining 2.
What made this player interesting
The fast read on the thing that makes this player more than a generic stat line.
Decker DeGraaf's story is about how role and output meet each other. For Washington, 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.
2025 Season · Final
Traditional stats first. Advanced context underneath.
Last season
TE season snapshot
2025 season snapshot | final
2025 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.
2025 Season · Final
2025 season snapshot | final
Receiving
REC
32 91st
YDS
360 90th
YPR
11.3 68th
TD
2 84th
Game Log · Week-by-week
2025 season · 11 games
| Wk | Opp | REC | YDS | AVG | TD | LONG | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | W 38-21vs Colorado State | 4 | 20 | 5.0 | 0 | 8 | |
| Wk 2 | W 70-10vs UC Davis | 1 | 6 | 6.0 | 0 | 6 | |
| Wk 5 | L 6-24vs Ohio State | 2 | 24 | 12.0 | 0 | 23 | |
| Wk 6 | W 24-20@ Maryland | 6 | 62 | 10.3 | 0 | 21 | |
| Wk 7 | W 38-19vs Rutgers | 2 | 39 | 19.5 | 0 | 28 | |
| Wk 8 | L 7-24@ Michigan | 4 | 26 | 6.5 | 0 | 14 | |
| Wk 9 | W 42-25vs Illinois | 2 | 13 | 6.5 | 1 | 11 | |
| Wk 12 | W 49-13vs Purdue | 5 | 91 | 18.2 | 0 | 30 | Season-high 91 yds |
| Wk 13 | W 48-14@ UCLA | 3 | 46 | 15.3 | 1 | 24 | |
| Wk 14 | L 14-26vs Oregon | 2 | 26 | 13.0 | 0 | 24 | |
| Bowl | W 38-10vs Boise State | 1 | 7 | 7.0 | 0 | 7 | |
| Total | 32 | 360 | 10.8 | 2 | 30 |
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
2024Washington6-7HC: Jedd Fisch · Balanced
2025Washington9-4HC: Jedd Fisch · Run-leaning
| Season | Team | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Washington | 32 | 360 | 11.2 | 2 | -- |
| 2024 | Washington | 15 | 233 | 15.5 | 3 | -- |
| Career | 2 loaded seasons | 47 | 593 | 12.6 | 5 | -- |
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 | 32 | #42/475 | 91st pct | Volumevs FBS TE |
| Receiving | Receiving yards | 360 | #50/475 | 90th pct | Volumevs FBS TE |
| Receiving | Receiving TD | 2 | #79/475 | 84th pct | Scoringvs FBS TE |
| Receiving | Yards / catch | 11.3 | #154/475 | 68th pct | Efficiencyvs FBS TE |
| Usage | Pass share | 10.7% | #77/468 | 84th pct | Air-game usagevs FBS TE |
| Receiving | Receiving LONG | 30 | #134/475 | 72nd pct | Metricvs FBS TE |
| Usage | Passing-down usage | 5.6% | #118/468 | 75th pct | Known-passing sharevs FBS TE |
| Usage | 2nd-down usage | 5.4% | #91/468 | 81st pct | Middle-down loadvs FBS TE |
| Usage | 3rd-down usage | 5.3% | #138/468 | 71st pct | Money-down loadvs FBS TE |
| Usage | Role share | 5.0% | #81/468 | 83rd pct | Share of team offensevs FBS TE |
| Usage | Standard-down usage | 4.8% | #77/468 | 84th pct | Base-situation sharevs FBS TE |
| Usage | 1st-down usage | 4.6% | #99/468 | 79th pct | Early-down loadvs FBS TE |
| Usage | Rush share | 0.0% | #58/468 | 88th pct | Ground-game usagevs FBS TE |
| Ball Security | Fumbles lost | 0 | #1/55 | 100th 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
2025 season · 11 games
Home vs Road
| REC/g | YDS/g | YPR | TD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home8g | 2.4 | 28.2 | 10.9 | 0.1 |
| Road3g | 4.3 | 44.7 | 10.7 | 0.3 |
Win vs Loss
| REC/g | YDS/g | YPR | TD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wins8g | 3.0 | 35.5 | 11.0 | 0.2 |
| Losses3g | 2.7 | 25.3 | 10.5 | 0.0 |
First half vs Second half
| REC/g | YDS/g | YPR | TD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-76g | 2.7 | 26.3 | 10.0 | 0.0 |
| Weeks 8+5g | 3.2 | 40.4 | 11.9 | 0.4 |
Pocket and defense-quality (clean vs. pressure) splits are coming soon.
Savant · Box-rate percentiles
Where this profile ranks vs the TE cohort
60Solid starter
Production sits in the middle of the position cohort across the board.
Percentiles versus same-position peers with enough snaps this season, based on box-score rates.
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.
Peer Comparator · Fingerprint match
Three closest profiles by box-rate percentile
Decker DeGraafWashingtonHouston ThomasUTSA· 91% simLuke LindenmeyerNebraska· 90% simHunter TiptonMiddle Tennessee· 87% sim
Receptions
Fumbles lost
Rec yards
Yards / catch
Rec TDs
Long catch
Closest peers by overall box-score percentile profile at the same position.
Player DNA
The Complete TE
Dual-threat: blocks when needed, catches when needed. Coveted on both sides.
TE
His 2025 production profile sits closest to Ryan Jones’s 2022 season.
Ryan Jones
76%match
#2
Luke Lindenmeyer
76%
#3
Christian Trahan
75%
#4
Kenyon Sadiq
NFL Rd 1 · Pk 16
75%
#5
Keyan Burnett
69%
Matches Ryan on
Total EPA (college ability)
TD rate
Yards / reception
Differs from Ryan on
Class year (lower)
Reception volume (lower)
Not enough data yet for this comparison.
As a sophomore, his production profile tracks closest to Willie Rodriguez's sophomore season at Kentucky (2025).
Willie Rodriguez
80%match
#2
Tyler Hunt
78%
#3
Richie Anderson
77%
#4
Hunter Tipton
77%
#5
Hunter Welcing
76%
Matches Willie on
TD rate
Weight
Height
Supporting Cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Jedd Fisch
Pass share
44.9%
370 pass / 454 run
Plays / game
63.4
13 games
OL sack rate (allowed)
9.3%
268 dropbacks · PBP
Scheme: Run-leaning.
Coaching Lineage · 2024–2025
1 coach2024
Jedd Fisch
Washington
2025
Jedd Fisch
Washington
Played his entire career under Jedd Fisch.
Bio · Recruiting · Transfer · Roster
Off-field context — switch tabs to drill into recruit profile, transfer arc, or roster timeline.
HometownSan Dimas, CA
Height6'3"
Weight245 lb
Class2
PositionTE
Jersey86
No fields populated yet.
No fields populated yet.
Current teamWashington
ConferenceBig Ten
Joined2025
Career arc2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Washington | TE2 | #587 | #655 | 0.0% | 0.0% | -- | -- | W16 snapshot | Big Ten |
Roster Timeline
Team, conference, and class by season.
| Season | Team | Conference | Pos | Class | Bio |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Washington | Big Ten | TE | 2 | No. 86 | 6-3 | 245 lb | San Dimas, CA |
| 2024 | Washington | Big Ten | TE | 2 | No. 86 | 6-3 | 245 lb | San Dimas, CA |