CFB Zeitgeist Score
64
Solid starter in the position cohort. Carried by rec yards at the 81st percentile.
Hunter Tipton
Below the discourse floor — the honest stats-only state.
411 REC YDS · 39 REC · 2 REC TD
2026 Outlook
Returning to Middle Tennessee for 2026
2026 Depth chart
Projected starter
Tight end · Middle Tennessee
Returning around him
- 99% of 2024 offensive production back (Strong continuity)
- 1 Middle Tennessee player drafted to NFL
- Transfer portal: +1 net (19 in / 18 out)
2026 Award watch
No preseason watch lists yet (most drop June 15 – July 15)
Middle Tennessee · Last season: 3-9 · Talent rank #110 · 2026 recruiting class #98
TE · MIDDLE TENNESSEE · CONFERENCE USA
Hunter Tipton
- 3
- #82
- 6-4 | 237 lb
- Timpson, TX
Heisman Heat
#4980
<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
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CONSENSUS
All-American
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Player Standing · 17 rungs
Tier 2 · StarterR07 · Impact starter
Impact starter. Producing measurable value above replacement.
Not on team2-deepStarterRecognizedEliteApex
Career Arc
HS
Recruit
★★★
CFB
College
Middle Tennessee
NFL
NFL Draft
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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 | 0.8204 | No. 103 recruit | JUCO | Louisiana Tech |
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 (411).
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 Tech
Composite
0.8204
#103 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 Hunter Tipton
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 Hunter Tipton
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.
Season Pace · Projection
Where the receiving totals stand
Through 12g
411Rec yards
39Receptions
2Rec TDs
Per game
34.2Rec yards
3Receptions
0Rec TDs
Projected (13g)
445.2Rec yards
42Receptions
2Rec TDs
To hit 700-yard receiver (currently 411): needs 289/game over remaining 1.
To hit 1,000-yard receiver (currently 411): needs 589/game over remaining 1.
To hit 60-catch season (currently 39): needs 21/game over remaining 1.
To hit 80-catch season (currently 39): needs 41/game over remaining 1.
To hit 8 receiving TDs (currently 2): needs 6/game over remaining 1.
To hit 10 receiving TDs (currently 2): needs 8/game over remaining 1.
What made this player interesting
The fast read on the thing that makes this player more than a generic stat line.
Hunter Tipton's story is about how role and output meet each other. For Middle Tennessee, 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
39 97th
YDS
411 93rd
YPR
10.5 59th
TD
2 84th
Game Log · Week-by-week
2025 season · 12 games
| Wk | Opp | REC | YDS | AVG | TD | LONG | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | L 14-34vs Austin Peay | 1 | 6 | 6.0 | 0 | 6 | |
| Wk 2 | L 10-42@ Wisconsin | 3 | 22 | 7.3 | 1 | 12 | |
| Wk 3 | W 14-13@ Nevada | 2 | 20 | 10.0 | 0 | 14 | |
| Wk 4 | L 28-42vs Marshall | 1 | 12 | 12.0 | 0 | 12 | |
| Wk 5 | L 16-24@ Kennesaw State | 3 | 45 | 15.0 | 0 | 21 | |
| Wk 7 | L 20-22vs Missouri State | 7 | 54 | 7.7 | 0 | 12 | |
| Wk 9 | L 28-31@ Delaware | 5 | 56 | 11.2 | 1 | 17 | |
| Wk 10 | L 21-24vs Jacksonville State | 5 | 56 | 11.2 | 0 | 28 | |
| Wk 11 | L 30-56vs Florida International | 2 | 24 | 12.0 | 0 | 18 | |
| Wk 12 | L 26-42@ Western Kentucky | 4 | 68 | 17.0 | 0 | 37 | Season-high 68 yds |
| Wk 13 | W 31-17vs Sam Houston | 2 | 15 | 7.5 | 0 | 11 | |
| Wk 14 | W 31-24@ New Mexico State | 4 | 33 | 8.3 | 0 | 20 | |
| Total | 39 | 411 | 10.4 | 2 | 37 |
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
2025Middle Tennessee3-9HC: Derek Mason · Pass-leaning
| Season | Team | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Middle Tennessee | 39 | 411 | 10.5 | 2 | -- |
| Career | 1 loaded season | 39 | 411 | 10.5 | 2 | -- |
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 | 39 | #17/475 | 97th pct | Volumevs FBS TE |
| Receiving | Receiving yards | 411 | #34/475 | 93rd pct | Volumevs FBS TE |
| Receiving | Receiving TD | 2 | #79/475 | 84th pct | Scoringvs FBS TE |
| Receiving | Yards / catch | 10.5 | #196/475 | 59th pct | Efficiencyvs FBS TE |
| Usage | Pass share | 8.4% | #128/468 | 73rd pct | Air-game usagevs FBS TE |
| Receiving | Receiving LONG | 37 | #85/475 | 82nd pct | Metricvs FBS TE |
| Usage | 2nd-down usage | 6.3% | #58/468 | 88th pct | Middle-down loadvs FBS TE |
| Usage | Passing-down usage | 5.9% | #106/468 | 78th pct | Known-passing sharevs FBS TE |
| Usage | 1st-down usage | 5.3% | #67/468 | 86th pct | Early-down loadvs FBS TE |
| Usage | Role share | 5.3% | #71/468 | 85th pct | Share of team offensevs FBS TE |
| Usage | Standard-down usage | 5.0% | #69/468 | 85th pct | Base-situation sharevs FBS TE |
| Usage | 3rd-down usage | 3.9% | #191/468 | 59th pct | Money-down loadvs FBS TE |
| Usage | Rush share | 0.0% | #58/468 | 88th pct | Ground-game usagevs 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 · 12 games
Home vs Road
| REC/g | YDS/g | YPR | TD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home6g | 3.0 | 27.8 | 9.4 | 0.0 |
| Road6g | 3.5 | 40.7 | 11.5 | 0.3 |
Win vs Loss
| REC/g | YDS/g | YPR | TD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wins3g | 2.7 | 22.7 | 8.6 | 0.0 |
| Losses9g | 3.4 | 38.1 | 11.0 | 0.2 |
First half vs Second half
| REC/g | YDS/g | YPR | TD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-76g | 2.8 | 26.5 | 9.7 | 0.2 |
| Weeks 8+6g | 3.7 | 42.0 | 11.2 | 0.2 |
Pocket and defense-quality (clean vs. pressure) splits are coming soon.
Savant · Box-rate percentiles
Where this profile ranks vs the TE cohort
64Solid starter
Elite: receptions (90th). Strength: rec yards (80th).
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
Hunter TiptonMiddle TennesseeMax KlareOhio State· 97% simJett CarpenterNevada· 92% simJeremiah FranklinBoston College· 91% sim
Receptions
Rec yards
Long catch
Yards / catch
Rec TDs
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 Boden Groen’s 2023 season.
Boden Groen
81%match
#2
Jack Endries
NFL Rd 7
80%
#3
Christian Sims
All-MAC
79%
#4
Jyrin Johnson
All-MAC
78%
#5
Camm McDonald
77%
Matches Boden on
Height
TD rate
Total EPA (college ability)
Differs from Boden on
Class year (lower)
Not enough data yet for this comparison.
As a sophomore, his production profile tracks closest to Josiah Miamen's sophomore season at Florida International (2022).
Josiah Miamen
79%match
#2
Camm McDonald
79%
#3
Cade Otton
NFL Rd 4
78%
#4
Christian Sims
All-MAC
78%
#5
Jake Tonges
77%
Matches Josiah on
Weight
Yards / reception
Differs from Josiah on
Class year (lower)
Recruiting rating (lower)
Reception volume (higher)
Supporting Cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Derek Mason
Pass share
61.3%
495 pass / 313 run
Plays / game
67.3
12 games
OL sack rate (allowed)
8.6%
373 dropbacks · PBP
Scheme: Pass-leaning.
Coaching Lineage · 2025
1 coach2025
Derek Mason
Middle Tennessee
Played his entire career under Derek Mason.
Bio · Recruiting · Transfer · Roster
Off-field context — switch tabs to drill into recruit profile, transfer arc, or roster timeline.
HometownTimpson, TX
Height6'4"
Weight237 lb
Class3
PositionTE
Jersey82
No fields populated yet.
No fields populated yet.
Current teamMiddle Tennessee
ConferenceConference USA
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 | Louisiana Tech | TE3 | #4980 | #5493 | 0.0% | 0.0% | -- | -- | W16 snapshot | Conference USA |
Roster Timeline
Team, conference, and class by season.
| Season | Team | Conference | Pos | Class | Bio |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Middle Tennessee | Conference USA | TE | 3 | No. 82 | 6-4 | 237 lb | Timpson, TX |
| 2024 | Louisiana Tech | Conference USA | TE | 3 | No. 82 | 6-4 | 237 lb | Timpson, TX |