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Heisman / Players / Hudson Kaak /Auburn

Hudson Kaak

P · Auburn · Jr · #14

Limited signal — not enough coverage for a story yet.

2026 RETURNINGReturning to Auburn for 2026

2026 Outlook

Returning to Auburn for 2026

2026 Depth chart

Projected starter

Punter · Auburn

Returning around him

  • 22% of 2024 offensive production back (Heavy turnover)
  • 5 Auburn players drafted to NFL
  • Transfer portal: -1 net (38 in / 39 out)

2026 Award watch

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

Auburn · Last season: 5-7 (AP #22) · Talent rank #13 · 2026 recruiting class #8

P · AUBURN · SEC

Hudson Kaak

  • 3
  • #14
  • 6-1 | 222 lb
  • Seymour, VIC

CFB Zeitgeist P Score

Awaiting

Heisman Heat

#15731

<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 P AWARD

Ray Guy

CONSENSUS

All-American

Player Standing · 17 rungs

Tier 2 · Starter

R07 · Impact starter

Impact starter. Producing measurable value above replacement.

Not on team2-deepStarterRecognizedEliteApex

Career Arc

HS
Recruit
★★★
#2179 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.

PositionP
Class3
Jersey14
Measurements6-1 | 222 lb
HometownSeymour, VIC
Primary teamAuburn

Recruiting Pedigree

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

Top pedigree 3-star No. 2179 recruit
Composite rating 0.8108 HighSchool
Signed with Oklahoma State 2023
Origin ProKick Australia Australia, AUST, USA
Class Profile Context
2023 3-star | 0.8108 No. 2179 recruit | HighSchool | Oklahoma State

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 Auburn 2025
Transfer stars 3-star CFBD transfer rating context
Eligibility Immediate Dec 14, 2024
Season Move Context
2025 Oklahoma State -> Auburn 3-star | 0.8100 | 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#15731Latest modeled ballot order
Season forecast#15458Where 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 Oklahoma State

Composite

0.8108

#2179 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 Hudson Kaak

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 Hudson Kaak

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.

What we can say about this player

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

Hudson Kaak's page is mostly roster and pedigree right now — there isn't measurable current-season production on file for Auburn yet. As box scores and snaps land, the on-field story fills in here.

Current place #15731 0.0% win | 0.0% finalist
Role load -- Role share still loading
Profile quirk Transfer path 1 portal move

2025 Season · Final

Traditional stats first. Advanced context underneath.

Last season

OTHER season snapshot

2025 season snapshot | final

2025 season snapshot | finalData: CFBD player stats + local Heisman modelPeer context: same position + same level
Scrimmage yards -12 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

2025 season · 12 games

Box score · CFBD
WkOppPUNTYDSAVGLONGIN20Note
Wk 1W 38-24@ Baylor311839.3401
Wk 2W 42-3vs Ball State311438.0490
Wk 3W 31-15vs South Alabama28844.0460
Wk 4L 17-24@ Oklahoma627445.7492
Wk 5L 10-16@ Texas A&M940344.8482
Wk 7L 10-20vs Georgia413834.5470
Wk 8L 17-23vs Missouri416942.3471
Wk 9W 33-24@ Arkansas13232.0320
Wk 10L 3-10vs Kentucky731945.6553
Wk 11L 38-45@ Vanderbilt312642.0471
Wk 13W 62-17vs Mercer27939.5411
Wk 14L 20-27vs Alabama520040.0450
Total49206040.65511
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

2023Oklahoma State10-4HC: Mike Gundy · Pass-leaning
2025Auburn5-7HC: Hugh Freeze · 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
Rushing Carries 1 #9/50 84th pct Volumevs FBS peers
Rushing Rush TD 0 #5/54 93rd pct Scoringvs FBS peers
Rushing Rushing yards -12 #45/53 17th pct Volumevs FBS peers
Rushing Yards / carry -12.0 #42/49 16th pct Efficiencyvs FBS peers
Punting Punting YDS 2,060 #71/179 61st pct Metricvs FBS peers
Punting Punting LONG 55 #132/179 27th pct Metricvs FBS peers
Punting Punting NO 49 #62/179 66th pct Metricvs FBS peers
Punting Punting YPP 42 #116/179 36th pct Metricvs FBS peers
Punting Punting IN 20 11 #114/166 32nd pct Metricvs FBS peers
Punting Punting TB 1 #111/142 23rd pct Metricvs 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 Ray Guy 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 · 12 games

Home/Road · Win/Loss · Season halves

Home vs Road

YDS/gTD/gYPAINT/g
Home7g
Road5g

Win vs Loss

YDS/gTD/gYPAINT/g
Wins5g
Losses7g

First half vs Second half

YDS/gTD/gYPAINT/g
Weeks 1-76g
Weeks 8+6g

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

Box-score Savant card waits for a season-stat snapshot above the cohort floor. Returns once enough box-score volume lands.

Advanced Savant · P · 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

Hugh Freeze

Pass share

44.7%

360 pass / 445 run

Plays / game

67.1

12 games

OL sack rate (allowed)

13.3%

308 dropbacks · PBP

Scheme: Run-leaning.

Coaching Lineage · 2023–2025

1 coach
2023
Hugh Freeze
Auburn
2025
Hugh Freeze
Auburn

Played his entire career under Hugh Freeze.

Bio · Recruiting · Transfer · Roster

Off-field context — switch tabs to drill into recruit profile, transfer arc, or roster timeline.

HometownSeymour, VIC
Height6'1"
Weight222 lb
Class3
PositionP
Jersey14

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 Oklahoma State P3 #15731 #15458 0.0% 0.0% -- -- W16 snapshot | Big 12
2023 Oklahoma State P3 #15614 #15361 0.0% 0.0% -- -- W19 snapshot | Big 12

Roster Timeline

Team, conference, and class by season.

Season Team Conference Pos Class Bio
2025 Auburn SEC P 3 No. 14 | 6-1 | 222 lb | Seymour, VIC
2024 Oklahoma State Big 12 P 3 No. 14 | 6-1 | 222 lb | Seymour, VIC
2023 Oklahoma State Big 12 P 3 No. 14 | 6-1 | 222 lb | Seymour, VIC