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Heisman / Players / Graham Nicholson /Alabama

Graham Nicholson

PK · Alabama · Sr · #14

Limited signal — not enough coverage for a story yet.

CAREER COMPLETEAlabama 2024 — college career complete

PK · ALABAMA · SEC

Graham Nicholson

  • 4
  • #14
  • 6-0 | 183 lb
  • Cincinnati, OH

CFB Zeitgeist PK Score

Awaiting

Heisman Heat

#11921

<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 K AWARD

Lou Groza

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

4 seasons on the ladder

Peak: R13 Consensus All-American · 2023

2021

Miami (OH) · PK

2022

Miami (OH) · PK

2023

Miami (OH) · PK

R13 · Consensus All-American

Elite

2024

Alabama · PK

R09 · All-Conference HM / 2nd team

Recognized

Career Arc

HS
Recruit
No recruit profile
CFB
College
2 teams
2021–2024
NFL
NFL Draft
Not drafted (yet)

Identity & Role

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

PositionPK
Class4
Jersey14
Measurements6-0 | 183 lb
HometownCincinnati, OH
Primary teamAlabama

Recruiting Pedigree

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

Top pedigree Not on file No matched recruiting profile in the loaded archive
Composite rating -- Composite rating unavailable for this player
Signed with -- Commitment history unavailable
Origin -- Hometown and high school unavailable
Class Profile Context
No recruiting profile is on file for this player.

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 Alabama 2024
Transfer stars 3-star CFBD transfer rating context
Eligibility Immediate Apr 19, 2024
Season Move Context
2024 Miami (OH) -> Alabama 3-star | 0.8400 | 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#11921Latest modeled ballot order
Season forecast#11428Where 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.

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 Graham Nicholson

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 Graham Nicholson

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. Graham Nicholson already has 14 loaded recognition items, which helps distinguish a player who is merely productive from one who is already earning selector-level validation.

Current place #11921 0.0% win | 0.0% finalist
Role load -- Role share still loading
Profile quirk Transfer path 1 portal move

2024 Season · Final

Traditional stats first. Advanced context underneath.

Last season

OTHER season snapshot

2024 season snapshot | final

2024 season snapshot | finalData: CFBD player stats + local Heisman modelPeer context: same position + same level
Scrimmage yards 0 Combined rushing and receiving
Touchdowns 0 Across offense and returns
Usage -- Role share still loading
Player identity What kind of player is this?

30-second read

What kind of player is this?

This player profile will sharpen as more advanced context is loaded.

Balanced profile

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

2021Miami (OH)6-6HC: Chuck Martin · Balanced
2022Miami (OH)6-7HC: Chuck Martin · Run-leaning, slow tempo
2023Miami (OH)11-3HC: Chuck Martin · Run-heavy, slow tempo
2024Alabama9-4HC: Kalen DeBoer · Run-leaning
Advanced layer Usage, value, and context

Advanced metrics second

Advanced Metrics

Usage, value, and opponent-adjusted context.

Usage Value Context
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.

Open full stat explorer
0 metrics visible Showing all metrics
Group Metric Value Rank Pct Why it matters
Kicking Kicking points 77 #80/221 64th pct Scoringvs FBS peers
Kicking Kicking XPA 53 #16/213 93rd pct Metricvs FBS peers
Kicking Kicking XPM 53 #15/213 93rd pct Metricvs FBS peers
Kicking Kicking LONG 51 #54/175 70th pct Metricvs FBS peers
Kicking Kicking FGA 10 #124/188 35th pct Metricvs FBS peers
Kicking FG made 8 #117/175 34th pct Scoringvs FBS peers
Kicking FG % 80.0% #69/175 61st pct Efficiencyvs FBS peers

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 Groza 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 · PK · 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

Kalen DeBoer

Pass share

53.4%

523 pass / 456 run

Plays / game

65.3

15 games

OL sack rate (allowed)

6.8%

384 dropbacks · PBP

Scheme: Balanced.

Coaching Lineage · 2021–2024

2 coaches
2021
Nick Saban
Alabama
2022
Nick Saban
Alabama
2023
Nick Saban
Alabama
2024
Kalen DeBoer
Alabama
era →

Coaching transition mid-career: Nick Saban → Kalen DeBoer. 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.

HometownCincinnati, OH
Height6'0"
Weight183 lb
Class4
PositionPK
Jersey14

Trophy Case · Confirmed honors

What the selectors said

14 entries
🏆

ALL-AMERICA · CONSENSUS

Consensus AA (2023)

10 first-team selectors

🏅

POSITION AWARDS

Lou Groza

2023 season

🎖

ALL-CONFERENCE

All-Conf mention (2024)

All-SEC

Trophy Case · Detail

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

All-America

11 All-America selections

National selector recognition is one of the strongest non-Heisman signals on a player card and should sit near the top of the showcase.

All-Conference

2 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-SEC all_conference Alabama | SEC K
2023 Lou Groza position_award Miami (OH) | Lou Groza winner | K
2023 All-MAC all_conference Miami | MAC K
2023 All-America (SI) all_america Miami (OH) | SI first | K
2023 All-America (USA Today) all_america Miami (OH) | USA Today first | K
2023 All-America (The Athletic) all_america Miami (OH) | The Athletic first | K
2023 All-America (Athlon) all_america Miami (OH) | Athlon first | K
2023 All-America (CBS) all_america Miami (OH) | CBS first | K
2023 All-America (ESPN) all_america Miami (OH) | ESPN first | K
2023 All-America (WCFF) all_america Miami (OH) | WCFF first | K
2023 All-America (SN) all_america Miami (OH) | SN first | K
2023 All-America (AFCA) all_america Miami (OH) | AFCA first | K
2023 All-America (AP) all_america Miami (OH) | AP first | K
2023 All-America (Consensus) all_america Miami (OH) | Consensus --

Heisman By Year

Modeled rank and official finish by season.

Season Team Role Latest Model Forecast Win Finalist Official Finish Points Context
2024 Alabama PK4 #11921 #11428 0.0% 0.0% -- -- W16 snapshot | SEC
2023 Miami (OH) PK4 #11359 #11366 0.0% 0.0% -- -- W19 snapshot | Mid-American
2022 Miami (OH) PK4 #14335 #14570 0.0% 0.0% -- -- W20 snapshot | Mid-American
2021 Miami (OH) PK4 #13871 #14077 0.0% 0.0% -- -- W20 snapshot | Mid-American

Roster Timeline

Team, conference, and class by season.

Season Team Conference Pos Class Bio
2024 Alabama SEC PK 4 No. 14 | 6-0 | 183 lb | Cincinnati, OH
2023 Miami (OH) Mid-American PK 4 No. 14 | 6-0 | 183 lb | Cincinnati, OH
2022 Miami (OH) Mid-American PK 4 No. 14 | 6-0 | 183 lb | Cincinnati, OH
2021 Miami (OH) Mid-American PK 4 No. 14 | 6-0 | 183 lb | Cincinnati, OH