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OFFSEASON · SUMMER 2026 · COMMITMENT SEASON
Heisman / Players / Harvey Broussard /Houston

Harvey Broussard

WR · Houston · Jr · #3

Below the discourse floor — the honest stats-only state.

126 REC YDS · 9 REC · 1 REC TD

2026 RETURNINGReturning to Houston for 2026

2026 Outlook

Returning to Houston for 2026

2026 Depth chart

Projected starter

Wide receiver · Houston

Returning around him

  • 105% of 2024 offensive production back (Strong continuity)
  • 1 Houston player drafted to NFL
  • Transfer portal: +2 net (18 in / 16 out)

2026 Award watch

No preseason watch lists yet (most drop June 15 – July 15)

Houston · Last season: 10-3 (AP #25) · Talent rank #66 · 2026 recruiting class #52

WR · HOUSTON · BIG 12

Harvey Broussard

  • 3
  • #3
  • 6-3 | 185 lb
  • Saint Martinville, LA

CFB Zeitgeist Score

21

Below cohort in the position cohort. Carried by yards / catch at the 63rd percentile.

Heisman Heat

#641

<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 WR AWARD

Biletnikoff

CONSENSUS

All-American

Player Standing · 17 rungs

Tier 1 · 2-deep

R04 · Rotational

Rotational. Earning real snaps in the rotation.

Not on team2-deepStarterRecognizedEliteApex

Development Trajectory · receiving yards

2023–2025
3172023
4862024
1262025

-60%

Sharp dropoff (-60%) — career inflection point.

Career Arc

HS
Recruit
★★★
#733 national
CFB
College
2 teams
2023–2025
NFL
NFL Draft
Not drafted (yet)

Identity & Role

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

PositionWR
Class3
Jersey3
Measurements6-3 | 185 lb
HometownSaint Martinville, LA
Primary teamHouston

Recruiting Pedigree

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

Top pedigree 3-star No. 733 recruit
Composite rating 0.8744 HighSchool
Signed with Louisiana 2023
Origin St. Martinville St. Martinville, LA, USA
Class Profile Context
2023 3-star | 0.8744 No. 733 recruit | HighSchool | Louisiana

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 Houston 2025
Transfer stars 3-star CFBD transfer rating context
Eligibility Immediate Dec 15, 2024
Season Move Context
2025 Louisiana -> Houston 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#641Latest modeled ballot order
Season forecast#782Where 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 Louisiana

Composite

0.8744

#733 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

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 Harvey Broussard

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 Harvey Broussard

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.

Season Pace · Projection

Where the receiving totals stand

projecting to 13-game
Through 7g
126Rec yards
9Receptions
1Rec TDs
Per game
18Rec yards
1Receptions
0Rec TDs
Projected (13g)
234Rec yards
17Receptions
2Rec TDs

To hit 700-yard receiver (currently 126): needs 95.7/game over remaining 6.

To hit 1,000-yard receiver (currently 126): needs 145.7/game over remaining 6.

To hit 60-catch season (currently 9): needs 8.5/game over remaining 6.

To hit 80-catch season (currently 9): needs 11.8/game over remaining 6.

To hit 8 receiving TDs (currently 1): needs 1.2/game over remaining 6.

To hit 10 receiving TDs (currently 1): needs 1.5/game over remaining 6.

What made this player interesting

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

Harvey Broussard's story is about how role and output meet each other. For Houston, 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.

Current place #641 0.0% win | 0.0% finalist
Role load 3.7% Overall usage share
Profile quirk Transfer path 1 portal move

2025 Season · Final

Traditional stats first. Advanced context underneath.

Last season

WR season snapshot

2025 season snapshot | final

2025 season snapshot | finalData: CFBD player stats + local Heisman modelPeer context: same position + same level
Receptions 9 1 rec TD | #604/1110 (46th pct)
Receiving yards 126 14.0 per catch | #576/1107 (48th pct)
Scrimmage yards 126 Total offensive yardage | #576/1107 (48th pct)
Player identity What kind of player is this?

30-second read

What kind of player is this?

Receiving weapon against FBS receiving peers.

Balanced profile

2025 Season · Final

2025 season snapshot | final

Receiving

REC
9 46th
YDS
126 48th
YPR
14.0 68th
TD
1 64th

Game Log · Week-by-week

2025 season · 7 games

Box score · CFBD
WkOppRECYDSAVGTDLONGNote
Wk 1W 27-0vs Stephen F. Austin111.001
Wk 6L 11-35vs Texas Tech
Wk 7W 39-17@ Oklahoma State24321.5129
Wk 8W 31-28vs Arizona11111.0011
Wk 9W 24-16@ Arizona State2126.006
Wk 10L 35-45vs West Virginia24723.5028Season-high 47 yds
BowlW 38-35vs LSU11212.0012
Total912612.5129
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

2023Louisiana6-7HC: Michael Desormeaux · Run-leaning
2024Louisiana10-4HC: Michael Desormeaux · Run-leaning
2025Houston10-3HC: Willie Fritz · Run-leaning
SeasonTeam
2025Houston912614.01--
2024Louisiana3148615.73--
2023Louisiana2431713.22--
Career3 loaded seasons6492914.56--
Advanced layer Usage, value, and context

Advanced metrics second

Advanced Metrics

Usage, value, and opponent-adjusted context.

Usage Value Context
Pass share

The player's share of a team's passing-game involvement. It is the fastest way to see whether the receiver is a true focal point or more of a complementary piece.

Role share

A blended workload view that accounts for catches, designed touches, and any return-game involvement that shapes the overall profile.

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.

Usage 3.7% 8.4% pass-game share | #575/1137 (50th pct)
Return yards 0 0 return TD
Touchdowns 1 Across offense and returns | #396/1111 (64th pct)
Open full stat explorer
0 metrics visible Showing all metrics
Group Metric Value Rank Pct Why it matters
Receiving Receptions 9 #604/1110 46th pct Volumevs FBS WR
Receiving Receiving yards 126 #576/1107 48th pct Volumevs FBS WR
Receiving Receiving TD 1 #396/1111 64th pct Scoringvs FBS WR
Receiving Yards / catch 14.0 #350/1106 68th pct Efficiencyvs FBS WR
Usage Pass share 8.4% #575/1137 50th pct Air-game usagevs FBS WR
Receiving Receiving LONG 29 #611/1105 45th pct Metricvs FBS WR
Usage 3rd-down usage 6.8% #478/1137 58th pct Money-down loadvs FBS WR
Usage Passing-down usage 3.9% #820/1137 28th pct Known-passing sharevs FBS WR
Usage 1st-down usage 3.7% #595/1137 48th pct Early-down loadvs FBS WR
Usage Role share 3.7% #659/1137 42nd pct Share of team offensevs FBS WR
Usage Standard-down usage 3.6% #582/1137 49th pct Base-situation sharevs FBS WR
Usage 2nd-down usage 1.4% #960/1137 16th pct Middle-down loadvs FBS WR
Usage Rush share 0.0% #391/1137 66th pct Ground-game usagevs FBS WR

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

Heisman model tracks the top FBS contenders weekly; this player hasn't entered the watch list yet.

Splits · Per-game

2025 season · 7 games

Home/Road · Win/Loss · Season halves

Home vs Road

REC/gYDS/gYPRTD/g
Home5g1.014.211.90.0
Road2g2.027.513.80.5

Win vs Loss

REC/gYDS/gYPRTD/g
Wins5g1.415.810.30.2
Losses2g1.023.523.50.0

First half vs Second half

REC/gYDS/gYPRTD/g
Weeks 1-74g1.014.011.50.2
Weeks 8+3g1.723.313.50.0

Pocket and defense-quality (clean vs. pressure) splits are coming soon.

Savant · Box-rate percentiles

Where this profile ranks vs the WR cohort

21Below cohort
5 metrics · season cumulative

Concern: receptions (0th).

Yards / catch#201 / 558 · 63rd pct
14.0rece
Rec TDs#373 / 558 · 24th pct
1rece
Long catch#483 / 558 · 13th pct
29rece
Rec yards#539 / 558 · 4th pct
126rece
Receptions#559 / 558 · 0th pct
9rece

Percentiles versus same-position peers with enough snaps this season, based on box-score rates.

Advanced Savant · WR · 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 · Fingerprint match

Three closest profiles by box-rate percentile

3 peers · 5 metrics
Harvey BroussardHoustonMichael Jackson IIIPurdue· 44% simJacquon GibsonMassachusetts· 40% simTrent WalkerOregon State· 40% sim
Yards / catch
63
Broussard
9
III
15
Gibson
40
Walker
Rec TDs
24
Broussard
24
III
7
Gibson
42
Walker
Long catch
13
Broussard
16
III
56
Gibson
39
Walker
Rec yards
4
Broussard
70
III
74
Gibson
89
Walker
Receptions
0
Broussard
92
III
92
Gibson
95
Walker

Closest peers by overall box-score percentile profile at the same position.

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

Willie Fritz

Pass share

41.4%

377 pass / 534 run

Plays / game

70.1

13 games

OL sack rate (allowed)

6.5%

262 dropbacks · PBP

Scheme: Run-leaning.

Coaching Lineage · 2023–2025

2 coaches
2023
Dana Holgorsen
Houston
2024
Dana Holgorsen
Houston
2025
Willie Fritz
Houston
era →

Coaching transition mid-career: Dana Holgorsen → Willie Fritz. 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.

HometownSaint Martinville, LA
Height6'3"
Weight185 lb
Class3
PositionWR
Jersey3

Trophy Case · Detail

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

Honors

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 Louisiana WR3 #641 #782 0.0% 0.0% -- -- W16 snapshot | Sun Belt
2023 Louisiana WR3 #1703 #2091 0.0% 0.0% -- -- W19 snapshot | Sun Belt

Roster Timeline

Team, conference, and class by season.

Season Team Conference Pos Class Bio
2025 Houston Big 12 WR 3 No. 3 | 6-3 | 185 lb | Saint Martinville, LA
2024 Louisiana Sun Belt WR 3 No. 3 | 6-3 | 185 lb | Saint Martinville, LA
2023 Louisiana Sun Belt WR 3 No. 3 | 6-3 | 185 lb | Saint Martinville, LA