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Heisman / Players / Francisco Mauigoa /Miami

Francisco Mauigoa

LB · Miami · Sr · #1

Limited signal — not enough coverage for a story yet.

NOW IN NFLNew York — drafted 2025, Rd 5, Pick 26, #162 overall

Where He Ended Up · NFL

New YorkEntering 2nd NFL season

#162Rd 5 · Pick 26
New YorkEntering 2nd NFL season

LB · MIAMI · ACC

Francisco Mauigoa

  • 4
  • #1
  • 6-3 | 230 lb
  • ILI'ILI

CFB Zeitgeist LB Score

Awaiting

Heisman Heat

#2926

<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 LB AWARD

Butkus

CONSENSUS

All-American

Player Standing · 17 rungs

Tier 0 · Not on team

R01 · Scout team / redshirt

Scout team / redshirt. Developing behind the depth chart.

Not on team2-deepStarterRecognizedEliteApex

Career arc · Season-by-season Standing

4 seasons on the ladder

Peak: R09 All-Conference HM / 2nd team · 2023

2021

Washington State · LB

2022

Washington State · LB

2023

Miami · LB

R09 · All-Conference HM / 2nd team

Recognized

2024

Miami · LB

NFL Draft 2025 · Rd 5, Pick 26 · #162 overall · New York

Career Arc

HS
Recruit
★★★
#1284 national
CFB
College
2 teams
2021–2024
NFL
NFL Draft
R5 &middot; #162
New York &middot; 2025

Identity & Role

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

PositionLB
Class4
Jersey1
Measurements6-3 | 230 lb
HometownILI'ILI
Primary teamMiami

Recruiting Pedigree

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

Top pedigree 5-star No. 9 recruit
Composite rating 0.9940 HighSchool
Signed with Miami 2023
Origin IMG Academy Bradenton, FL, USA
Class Profile Context
2023 5-star | 0.9940 No. 9 recruit | HighSchool | Miami
2021 3-star | 0.8467 No. 1284 recruit | HighSchool

Transfer Arc

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

Portal moves 1 Programs changed on file
Latest destination Miami 2023
Transfer stars 4-star CFBD transfer rating context
Eligibility Immediate Dec 7, 2022
Season Move Context
2023 Washington State -> Miami 4-star | 0.9200 | 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#2926Latest modeled ballot order
Season forecast#3381Where 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 Miami

Composite

0.9940

#9 national

NFL Draft

2025 · Rd 5, Pick 26

#162 overall · New York

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 Francisco Mauigoa

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 Francisco Mauigoa

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 this is a rare defensive case

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

Francisco Mauigoa is trying to climb the steepest award hill in college football: a defensive candidacy. The hook is the disruption profile on Miami's defense, with 2.0 sacks, 11.0 tackles for loss, and 1 interceptions through the current loaded season. For a defender, the question is never just production; it is whether elite disruption and team context can become nationally undeniable.

Current place #2926 0.0% win | 0.0% finalist
Role load -- Role share still loading
Profile quirk Blue-chip pedigree No. 9 recruit

2024 Season · Final

Traditional stats first. Advanced context underneath.

Last season

DEF season snapshot

2024 season snapshot | final

2024 season snapshot | finalData: CFBD player stats + local Heisman modelPeer context: same position + same level
Total tackles 96 51 solo | #61/4942 (99th pct)
TFL 11.0 Backfield disruption | #74/4972 (99th pct)
Sacks 2.0 Pass-rush finish | #491/4972 (90th pct)
Player identity What kind of player is this?

30-second read

What kind of player is this?

High-disruption defender | Coverage splash | High-volume tackler against FBS defenders.

High-disruption defenderCoverage splashHigh-volume tackler

2024 Season · Final

2024 season snapshot | final

Tackling & Disruption

TOT
96 99th
SOLO
51 99th
TFL
11.0 99th
SACK
2.0 90th
QBH
5 90th

Coverage & Takeaways

PD
5 90th
INT
1 65th

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

2021Washington State7-5HC: Nick Rolovich · Balanced
2022Washington State7-6HC: Jake Dickert · Pass-leaning
2023Miami7-6HC: Mario Cristobal · Balanced
2024Miami10-3HC: Mario Cristobal · Balanced, fast tempo
SeasonTeam
2024Miami965111.02.051--
2023Miami784516.57.531--
2022Washington State60345.53.511--
2021Washington State17100.50.0------
Career4 loaded seasons25114033.513.093--
Advanced layer Usage, value, and context

Advanced metrics second

Advanced Metrics

Usage, value, and opponent-adjusted context.

Usage Value Context
Disruption stats

TFL, sacks, and QB hurries are grouped together because defensive Heisman cases are usually built on visible havoc, not on tackle counts alone.

Coverage splash

Pass breakups, interceptions, and forced fumbles matter because national awards voters respond to plays that change possessions and highlight reels.

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.

INT 1 0 pick-six TD | #308/869 (65th pct)
Pass breakups 5 Coverage disruption | #218/2184 (90th pct)
QB pressures 5 Quarterback hurries | #188/1878 (90th pct)
Open full stat explorer
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Group Metric Value Rank Pct Why it matters
Defense Total tackles 96 #61/4942 99th pct Volumevs FBS DEF
Defense TFL 11.0 #74/4972 99th pct Disruptionvs FBS DEF
Defense Sacks 2.0 #491/4972 90th pct Disruptionvs FBS DEF
Defense Interceptions 1 #308/869 65th pct Takeawaysvs FBS DEF
Defense Pass breakups 5 #218/2184 90th pct Coveragevs FBS DEF
Defense QB hurries 5 #188/1878 90th pct Disruptionvs FBS DEF
Defense Solo tackles 51 #61/4584 99th pct Volumevs FBS DEF
Defense INT return avg 2.0 #512/578 12th pct Takeawaysvs FBS DEF
Defense INT return yards 2 #527/578 9th pct Takeawaysvs FBS DEF

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 Butkus 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 · LB · 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

Mario Cristobal

Pass share

47.2%

496 pass / 554 run

Plays / game

65.6

16 games

OL sack rate (allowed)

4.1%

245 dropbacks · PBP

Scheme: Balanced.

Coaching Lineage · 2021–2024

2 coaches
2021
Jess Simpson
Miami
2022
Mario Cristobal
Miami
era →
2023
Mario Cristobal
Miami
2024
Mario Cristobal
Miami

Coaching transition mid-career: Jess Simpson → Mario Cristobal. 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.

HometownILI'ILI
Height6'3"
Weight230 lb
Class4
PositionLB
Jersey1

Trophy Case · Confirmed honors

What the selectors said

1 entries
🎖

ALL-CONFERENCE

All-Conf mention (2023)

All-ACC

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
2023 All-ACC all_conference Miami | ACC LB

Heisman By Year

Modeled rank and official finish by season.

Season Team Role Latest Model Forecast Win Finalist Official Finish Points Context
2024 Miami LB4 #2926 #3381 0.0% 0.0% -- -- W16 snapshot | ACC
2023 Miami LB4 #5134 #6151 0.0% 0.0% -- -- W19 snapshot | ACC
2022 Washington State LB4 #7438 #8148 0.0% 0.0% -- -- W20 snapshot | Pac-12
2021 Washington State LB4 #12085 #12114 0.0% 0.0% -- -- W20 snapshot | Pac-12

Roster Timeline

Team, conference, and class by season.

Season Team Conference Pos Class Bio
2024 Miami ACC LB 4 No. 1 | 6-3 | 230 lb | ILI'ILI
2023 Miami ACC LB 4 No. 1 | 6-3 | 230 lb | ILI'ILI
2022 Washington State Pac-12 LB 4 No. 1 | 6-3 | 230 lb | ILI'ILI
2021 Washington State Pac-12 LB 4 No. 1 | 6-3 | 230 lb | ILI'ILI