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Heisman / Players / Jacob Godfrey /UL Monroe

Jacob Godfrey

WR · UL Monroe · So · #2

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

191 REC YDS · 16 REC · 2 REC TD

2026 RETURNINGReturning to UL Monroe for 2026

2026 Outlook

Returning to UL Monroe for 2026

2026 Depth chart

Projected starter

Wide receiver · UL Monroe

Returning around him

  • 78% of 2024 offensive production back (Strong continuity)
  • Transfer portal: +3 net (20 in / 17 out)

2026 Award watch

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

UL Monroe · Last season: 3-9 · Talent rank #124 · 2026 recruiting class #115

WR · UL MONROE · SUN BELT

Jacob Godfrey

  • 2
  • #2
  • 5-8 | 175 lb
  • Spanish Fort, AL

CFB Zeitgeist Score

31

Below cohort in the position cohort. Carried by rec tds at the 42nd percentile.

Heisman Heat

#4314

<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

R03 · Backup

Backup. On the two-deep, pushing for snaps.

Not on team2-deepStarterRecognizedEliteApex

Development Trajectory · receiving yards

2023–2025
6.02023
1912025

+3083%

Up 3083% from first season to most-recent.

Career Arc

HS
Recruit
No recruit profile
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
Class2
Jersey2
Measurements5-8 | 175 lb
HometownSpanish Fort, AL
Primary teamUL Monroe

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 0 No portal entry on file
Latest destination -- --
Transfer stars -- CFBD transfer rating context
Eligibility -- Transfer date TBD
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 16
Current nowcast#4314Latest modeled ballot order
Season forecast#4177Where 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 Jacob Godfrey

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 Jacob Godfrey

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 11g
191Rec yards
16Receptions
2Rec TDs
Per game
17.4Rec yards
1Receptions
0Rec TDs
Projected (13g)
225.7Rec yards
19Receptions
2Rec TDs

To hit 700-yard receiver (currently 191): needs 254.5/game over remaining 2.

To hit 1,000-yard receiver (currently 191): needs 404.5/game over remaining 2.

To hit 60-catch season (currently 16): needs 22/game over remaining 2.

To hit 80-catch season (currently 16): needs 32/game over remaining 2.

To hit 8 receiving TDs (currently 2): needs 3/game over remaining 2.

To hit 10 receiving TDs (currently 2): needs 4/game over remaining 2.

What made this player interesting

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

Jacob Godfrey's story is about how role and output meet each other. For UL Monroe, 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 #4314 0.0% win | 0.0% finalist
Role load 6.6% Overall usage share
Profile quirk Transfer path 0 portal moves

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 16 2 rec TD | #465/1110 (58th pct)
Receiving yards 191 11.9 per catch | #479/1107 (57th pct)
Scrimmage yards 226 Total offensive yardage | #479/1107 (57th 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
16 58th
YDS
191 57th
YPR
11.9 50th
TD
2 75th

Rushing

CAR
4 74th
YDS
35 78th
YPC
8.8 83rd
TD
0 81st

Returns

KR YDS
12 13th
KR AVG
6.0 8th
PR YDS
77 67th
PR AVG
8.6 57th

Game Log · Week-by-week

2025 season · 11 games

Box score · CFBD
WkOppRECYDSAVGTDLONGNote
Wk 1W 29-0vs St. Francis (PA)22211.0025
Wk 2L 0-73@ Alabama1-1-1.000
Wk 4W 31-25@ UTEP24924.5137Season-high 49 yds
Wk 5W 28-16vs Arkansas State24020.0137
Wk 6L 7-42@ Northwestern22613.0017
Wk 7L 8-23@ Coastal Carolina
Wk 8L 14-37vs Troy33311.0017
Wk 10L 6-31vs Old Dominion3175.7010
Wk 12L 14-26vs South Alabama155.005
Wk 13L 14-31@ Texas State
Wk 14L 27-30@ Louisiana
Total1619111.2237
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

2023New Mexico4-8HC: Danny Gonzales · Run-leaning
2025UL Monroe3-9HC: Bryant Vincent · Run-leaning, slow tempo
SeasonTeam
2025UL Monroe1619111.92--
2023New Mexico166.00--
Career2 loaded seasons1719711.62--
SeasonTeam
2025UL Monroe4351277--
2023New Mexico----------
Career2 loaded seasons4351277--
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 6.6% 13.7% pass-game share | #292/1137 (74th pct)
Return yards 89 0 return TD | #208/238 (13th pct)
Touchdowns 2 Across offense and returns | #281/1111 (75th pct)
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Group Metric Value Rank Pct Why it matters
Receiving Receptions 16 #465/1110 58th pct Volumevs FBS WR
Receiving Receiving yards 191 #479/1107 57th pct Volumevs FBS WR
Receiving Receiving TD 2 #281/1111 75th pct Scoringvs FBS WR
Receiving Yards / catch 11.9 #556/1106 50th pct Efficiencyvs FBS WR
Returns Kick return yards 12 #208/238 13th pct Volumevs FBS WR
Returns Punt return yards 77 #74/224 67th pct Volumevs FBS WR
Usage Pass share 13.7% #292/1137 74th pct Air-game usagevs FBS WR
Rushing Rushing yards 35 #88/397 78th pct Volumevs FBS WR
Rushing Rushing LONG 20 #71/346 80th pct Metricvs FBS WR
Rushing Yards / carry 8.8 #69/393 83rd pct Efficiencyvs FBS WR
Rushing Carries 4 #108/407 74th pct Volumevs FBS WR
Rushing Rush TD 0 #81/411 81st pct Scoringvs FBS WR
Receiving Receiving LONG 37 #499/1105 55th pct Metricvs FBS WR
Returns Punt returns 9 #80/237 67th pct Volumevs FBS WR
Returns Punt return avg 8.6 #97/222 57th pct Efficiencyvs FBS WR
Returns Kick return avg 6.0 #218/236 8th pct Efficiencyvs FBS WR
Returns Kick returns 2 #132/243 46th pct Volumevs FBS WR
Usage 3rd-down usage 10.8% #181/1137 84th pct Money-down loadvs FBS WR
Usage Passing-down usage 9.0% #310/1137 73rd pct Known-passing sharevs FBS WR
Usage Role share 6.6% #307/1137 73rd pct Share of team offensevs FBS WR
Usage 1st-down usage 5.7% #351/1137 69th pct Early-down loadvs FBS WR
Usage Standard-down usage 5.2% #369/1137 68th pct Base-situation sharevs FBS WR
Usage 2nd-down usage 4.9% #526/1137 54th pct Middle-down loadvs FBS WR
Usage Rush share 1.4% #146/1137 87th 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 · 11 games

Home/Road · Win/Loss · Season halves

Home vs Road

REC/gYDS/gYPRTD/g
Home5g2.223.410.50.2
Road6g0.812.312.20.2

Win vs Loss

REC/gYDS/gYPRTD/g
Wins3g2.037.018.50.7
Losses8g1.210.06.70.0

First half vs Second half

REC/gYDS/gYPRTD/g
Weeks 1-76g1.522.713.50.3
Weeks 8+5g1.411.07.20.0

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

Savant · Box-rate percentiles

Where this profile ranks vs the WR cohort

31Below cohort
7 metrics · season cumulative

Concern: rec yards (14th).

Rush yards#80 / 287 · 72nd pct
35rush
Rec TDs#276 / 558 · 42nd pct
2rece
Rush TDs#67 / 287 · 39th pct
0rush
Yards / catch#344 / 558 · 38th pct
11.9rece
Long catch#416 / 558 · 25th pct
37rece
Receptions#465 / 558 · 15th pct
16rece
Rec yards#474 / 558 · 15th pct
191rece

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 · 7 metrics
Jacob GodfreyUL MonroeJacquon GibsonMassachusetts· 58% simKevin Coleman Jr.Missouri· 57% simMichael Jackson IIIPurdue· 54% sim
Rush yards
72
Godfrey
76
Gibson
89
Jr.
6
III
Rec TDs
42
Godfrey
7
Gibson
24
Jr.
24
III
Rush TDs
39
Godfrey
39
Gibson
39
Jr.
39
III
Yards / catch
38
Godfrey
15
Gibson
28
Jr.
9
III
Long catch
25
Godfrey
56
Gibson
56
Jr.
16
III
Receptions
15
Godfrey
92
Gibson
94
Jr.
92
III
Rec yards
15
Godfrey
74
Gibson
84
Jr.
70
III

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

Player DNA

The Possession Receiver

Reliable target who converts on critical downs. Not flashy; consistently productive.

WR

His 2025 production profile sits closest to K.D. Hutchinson’s 2023 season.

K.D. Hutchinson

86%match

Western Kentucky · 2023

#2

DeAngelo Irvin Jr.

UNLV · 2025

74%
#3

Elijah Metcalf

Marshall · 2024

73%
#4

Dayton Wade

Ole Miss · 2022

71%
#5

Renard Bell

Washington State · 2022

70%

Matches K.D. on

Yards / reception
TD rate
Total EPA (college ability)

Differs from K.D. on

Class year (higher)

Through 2 college seasons, his career arc tracks closest to Landon Ruggieri’s path through Bryant.

Landon Ruggieri

100%match

Bryant · 2023

#2

Noah Gray

Duke · 2020

NFL Rd 5
100%
#3

Nate Stewart

Akron · 2020

99%
#4

Brandon Smith

Iowa · 2020

99%
#5

Miequle Brock

Nicholls · 2025

99%

Matches Landon on

Yards per reception

As a junior, his production profile tracks closest to Xavier Terrell's junior season at Florida Atlantic (2025).

Xavier Terrell

74%match

Florida Atlantic · 2025

#2

DeAngelo Irvin Jr.

UNLV · 2025

72%
#3

Eugene Wilson

Florida · 2025

67%
#4

Joseph Himon II

Northwestern · 2024

66%
#5

Isaac Jernigan

San José State · 2023

65%

Matches Xavier on

Reception volume
Total EPA (college ability)
Yards / reception

Differs from Xavier on

TD rate (higher)

Supporting Cast · Scheme

Staff and system around the player

2025 season

Head Coach

Bryant Vincent

Pass share

41.4%

302 pass / 428 run

Plays / game

60.8

12 games

OL sack rate (allowed)

8.3%

241 dropbacks · PBP

Scheme: Run-leaning, slow tempo.

Coaching Lineage · 2023–2025

2 coaches
2023
Terry Bowden
UL Monroe
2025
Bryant Vincent
UL Monroe
era →

Coaching transition mid-career: Terry Bowden → Bryant Vincent. 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.

HometownSpanish Fort, AL
Height5'8"
Weight175 lb
Class2
PositionWR
Jersey2

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 UL Monroe WR2 #4314 #4177 0.0% 0.0% -- -- W16 snapshot | Sun Belt
2023 New Mexico WR2 #5461 #5937 0.0% 0.0% -- -- W19 snapshot | Mountain West

Roster Timeline

Team, conference, and class by season.

Season Team Conference Pos Class Bio
2025 UL Monroe Sun Belt WR 2 No. 2 | 5-8 | 175 lb | Spanish Fort, AL
2024 UL Monroe Sun Belt WR 2 No. 2 | 5-8 | 175 lb | Spanish Fort, AL
2023 New Mexico Mountain West WR 2 No. 2 | 5-8 | 175 lb | Spanish Fort, AL