CFB Zeitgeist Score
64
Solid starter in the position cohort. Carried by rec yards at the 94th percentile.
Jaren Kanak
Below the discourse floor — the honest stats-only state.
533 REC YDS · 44 REC · 0 REC TD
Where He Ended Up · NFL
Tennessee2026 NFL rookie season
#225Rd 7 · Pick 9
Tennessee2026 NFL rookie season
TE · OKLAHOMA · SEC
Jaren Kanak
- 4
- #12
- 6-2 | 233 lb
- Hays, KS
Heisman Heat
#2480
<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
—
CONSENSUS
All-American
—
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
Oklahoma
NFL
NFL Draft
R7 · #225
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 |
|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 4-star | 0.9378 | No. 156 recruit | HighSchool | Oklahoma |
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 (533).
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
Composite
0.9378
#156 national
NFL Draft
2026 · Rd 7, Pick 9
#225 overall · Tennessee
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 Jaren Kanak
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 Jaren Kanak
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 13g
533Rec yards
44Receptions
0Rec TDs
Per game
41Rec yards
3Receptions
0Rec TDs
Final
533Rec yards
44Receptions
0Rec TDs
What made this player interesting
The fast read on the thing that makes this player more than a generic stat line.
Jaren Kanak's story is about how role and output meet each other. For Oklahoma, 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
44 98th
YDS
533 98th
YPR
12.1 75th
TD
0 46th
Game Log · Week-by-week
2025 season · 13 games
| Wk | Opp | REC | YDS | AVG | TD | LONG | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | W 35-3vs Illinois State | 5 | 90 | 18.0 | 0 | 48 | Season-high 90 yds |
| Wk 2 | W 24-13vs Michigan | 5 | 69 | 13.8 | 0 | 31 | |
| Wk 3 | W 42-3@ Temple | 4 | 86 | 21.5 | 0 | 31 | |
| Wk 4 | W 24-17vs Auburn | 4 | 62 | 15.5 | 0 | 23 | |
| Wk 6 | W 44-0vs Kent State | 2 | 21 | 10.5 | 0 | 14 | |
| Wk 7 | L 6-23@ Texas | 3 | 20 | 6.7 | 0 | 9 | |
| Wk 8 | W 26-7@ South Carolina | 1 | 16 | 16.0 | 0 | 16 | |
| Wk 9 | L 26-34vs Ole Miss | 3 | 30 | 10.0 | 0 | 16 | |
| Wk 10 | W 33-27@ Tennessee | 3 | 16 | 5.3 | 0 | 8 | |
| Wk 12 | W 23-21@ Alabama | 2 | 23 | 11.5 | 0 | 12 | |
| Wk 13 | W 17-6vs Missouri | 2 | 24 | 12.0 | 0 | 17 | |
| Wk 14 | W 17-13vs LSU | 6 | 54 | 9.0 | 0 | 17 | |
| Bowl | L 24-34vs Alabama | 4 | 22 | 5.5 | 0 | 8 | |
| Total | 44 | 533 | 11.9 | 0 | 48 |
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
2022Oklahoma6-7HC: Brent Venables · Run-leaning, fast tempo
2023Oklahoma10-3HC: Brent Venables · Balanced
2024Oklahoma6-7HC: Brent Venables · Run-leaning
2025Oklahoma10-3HC: Brent Venables · Balanced
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 | 44 | #12/475 | 98th pct | Volumevs FBS TE |
| Receiving | Receiving yards | 533 | #11/475 | 98th pct | Volumevs FBS TE |
| Receiving | Receiving TD | 0 | #257/475 | 46th pct | Scoringvs FBS TE |
| Receiving | Yards / catch | 12.1 | #119/475 | 75th pct | Efficiencyvs FBS TE |
| Usage | Pass share | 11.9% | #53/468 | 89th pct | Air-game usagevs FBS TE |
| Receiving | Receiving LONG | 48 | #44/475 | 91st pct | Metricvs FBS TE |
| Usage | Passing-down usage | 8.0% | #50/468 | 90th pct | Known-passing sharevs FBS TE |
| Usage | 3rd-down usage | 7.0% | #80/468 | 83rd pct | Money-down loadvs FBS TE |
| Usage | Role share | 6.2% | #45/468 | 91st pct | Share of team offensevs FBS TE |
| Usage | 1st-down usage | 6.0% | #43/468 | 91st pct | Early-down loadvs FBS TE |
| Usage | 2nd-down usage | 5.5% | #83/468 | 82nd pct | Middle-down loadvs FBS TE |
| Usage | Standard-down usage | 5.3% | #55/468 | 88th pct | Base-situation sharevs FBS TE |
| Usage | Rush share | 0.0% | #58/468 | 88th pct | Ground-game usagevs FBS TE |
| Ball Security | Fumbles lost | 1 | #34/55 | 40th pct | Turnoversvs 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 · 13 games
Home vs Road
| REC/g | YDS/g | YPR | TD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home8g | 3.9 | 46.5 | 11.8 | 0.0 |
| Road5g | 2.6 | 32.2 | 12.2 | 0.0 |
Win vs Loss
| REC/g | YDS/g | YPR | TD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wins10g | 3.4 | 46.1 | 13.3 | 0.0 |
| Losses3g | 3.3 | 24.0 | 7.4 | 0.0 |
First half vs Second half
| REC/g | YDS/g | YPR | TD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-77g | 3.9 | 52.9 | 13.1 | 0.0 |
| Weeks 8+6g | 2.8 | 27.2 | 10.6 | 0.0 |
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: rec yards (94th). Strength: receptions (93rd). Concern: rec tds (6th).
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
Jaren KanakOklahomaEli FinleyLouisiana Tech· 90% simEli RaridonNotre Dame· 85% simDan VillariSyracuse· 84% sim
Rec yards
Receptions
Long catch
Yards / catch
Fumbles lost
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 Justin Ford’s 2021 season.
Justin Ford
65%match
#2
Brant Kuithe
62%
#3
Cole Cavallo
49%
#4
Terrance Carter
All-Sun Belt
53%
#5
Sean Dykes
44%
Matches Justin on
Weight
Yards / reception
TD rate
Differs from Justin on
Class year (higher)
Recruiting rating (higher)
Through 1 college season, his career arc tracks closest to Pat Freiermuth’s path through Penn State.
Pat Freiermuth
77%match
All-Big TenNFL Rd 2 · Pk 23
#2
Joey Beljan
73%
#3
Tommy Tremble
NFL Rd 3 · Pk 20
68%
#4
Pearson Baldwin
67%
#5
Jordan Smith
63%
Matches Pat on
Yards per reception
Recruiting rating
As a senior, his production profile tracks closest to Bru McCoy's senior season at Tennessee (2024).
Bru McCoy
76%match
#2
Jahmal Edrine
72%
#3
Riley Nowakowski
All-Big TenNFL Rd 5
70%
#4
Jeremiah Hunter
68%
#5
Cornelius Johnson
NFL Rd 7
67%
Matches Bru on
Total EPA (college ability)
Reception volume
EPA / play (adj)
Differs from Bru on
TD rate (lower)
Supporting Cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Brent Venables
Pass share
50.4%
429 pass / 423 run
Plays / game
65.5
13 games
OL sack rate (allowed)
7.0%
345 dropbacks · PBP
Scheme: Balanced.
Coaching Lineage · 2022–2025
1 coach2022
Brent Venables
Oklahoma
2023
Brent Venables
Oklahoma
2024
Brent Venables
Oklahoma
2025
Brent Venables
Oklahoma
Played his entire career under Brent Venables.
Bio · Recruiting · Transfer · Roster
Off-field context — switch tabs to drill into recruit profile, transfer arc, or roster timeline.
HometownHays, KS
Height6'2"
Weight233 lb
Class4
PositionTE
Jersey12
No fields populated yet.
No fields populated yet.
Current teamOklahoma
ConferenceSEC
Joined2025
Career arc4 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.
Roster Timeline
Team, conference, and class by season.