CFB Zeitgeist WR Score
Awaiting
John Metchie
Limited signal — not enough coverage for a story yet.
WR · ALABAMA · SEC
John Metchie
- 3
- #8
- 6-0 | 195 lb
- Brampton, ON
Heisman Heat
#159
<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
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CONSENSUS
All-American
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Player Standing · 17 rungs
Tier 1 · 2-deepR03 · Backup
Backup. On the two-deep, pushing for snaps.
Not on team2-deepStarterRecognizedEliteApex
Career Arc
HS
Recruit
★★★★
CFB
College
Alabama
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 |
|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 4-star | 0.9084 | No. 262 recruit | HighSchool | Alabama |
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 · 2021 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 20Heisman 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 Alabama
Composite
0.9084
#262 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 John Metchie
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 John Metchie
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.
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 made this player interesting
The fast read on the thing that makes this player more than a generic stat line.
John Metchie's story is about how role and output meet each other. For Alabama, 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.
2021 Season · Final
Traditional stats first. Advanced context underneath.
Last season
WR season snapshot
2021 season snapshot | final
2021 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.
2021 Season · Final
2021 season snapshot | final
Receiving
REC
96 100th
YDS
1,142 99th
YPR
11.9 50th
TD
8 98th
Rushing
CAR
1 35th
YDS
8 45th
YPC
8.0 81st
TD
0 81st
Returns
KR YDS
13 14th
KR AVG
13.0 17th
Game Log
Week-by-week box
No per-game rows for this season yet — the table fills in as box scores arrive.
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
2021Alabama12-1HC: Nick Saban · Balanced, fast tempo
| Season | Team | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | Alabama | 96 | 1,142 | 11.9 | 8 | -- |
| Career | 1 loaded season | 96 | 1,142 | 11.9 | 8 | -- |
| Season | Team | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | Alabama | 1 | 8 | 13 | -- | -- |
| Career | 1 loaded season | 1 | 8 | 13 | -- | -- |
Advanced layer Usage, value, and context
Advanced metrics second
Advanced Metrics
Usage, value, and opponent-adjusted context.
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.
A blended workload view that accounts for catches, designed touches, and any return-game involvement that shapes the overall profile.
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 | 96 | #5/1110 | 100th pct | Volumevs FBS WR |
| Receiving | Receiving yards | 1,142 | #9/1107 | 99th pct | Volumevs FBS WR |
| Receiving | Receiving TD | 8 | #23/1111 | 98th pct | Scoringvs FBS WR |
| Receiving | Yards / catch | 11.9 | #556/1106 | 50th pct | Efficiencyvs FBS WR |
| Returns | Kick return yards | 13 | #206/238 | 14th pct | Volumevs FBS WR |
| Usage | Pass share | 24.1% | #31/1137 | 97th pct | Air-game usagevs FBS WR |
| Rushing | Rushing LONG | 8 | #198/346 | 43rd pct | Metricvs FBS WR |
| Rushing | Rushing yards | 8 | #220/397 | 45th pct | Volumevs FBS WR |
| Rushing | Yards / carry | 8.0 | #76/393 | 81st pct | Efficiencyvs FBS WR |
| Rushing | Carries | 1 | #264/407 | 35th pct | Volumevs FBS WR |
| Rushing | Rush TD | 0 | #81/411 | 81st pct | Scoringvs FBS WR |
| Receiving | Receiving LONG | 46 | #325/1105 | 71st pct | Metricvs FBS WR |
| Returns | Kick return avg | 13.0 | #196/236 | 17th pct | Efficiencyvs FBS WR |
| Returns | Kick returns | 1 | #169/243 | 31st pct | Volumevs FBS WR |
| Usage | Passing-down usage | 18.4% | #17/1137 | 99th pct | Known-passing sharevs FBS WR |
| Usage | 3rd-down usage | 16.7% | #23/1137 | 98th pct | Money-down loadvs FBS WR |
| Usage | Role share | 13.1% | #24/1137 | 98th pct | Share of team offensevs FBS WR |
| Usage | 2nd-down usage | 12.7% | #40/1137 | 97th pct | Middle-down loadvs FBS WR |
| Usage | 1st-down usage | 12.1% | #40/1137 | 97th pct | Early-down loadvs FBS WR |
| Usage | Standard-down usage | 10.8% | #48/1137 | 96th pct | Base-situation sharevs FBS WR |
| Usage | Rush share | 0.2% | #374/1137 | 67th pct | Ground-game usagevs FBS WR |
| Ball Security | Fumbles lost | 0 | #1/302 | 100th pct | Turnoversvs 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
Status—Awaiting tracker
Heisman model tracks the top FBS contenders weekly; this player hasn't entered the watch list yet.
Splits
Per-game splits
Splits fill in once box scores from at least three games land for this season.
Advanced Savant · WR · 2021
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.
Supporting Cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Kalen DeBoer
Pass share
53.4%
523 pass / 456 run
Plays / game
65.3
15 games
OL sack rate (allowed)
6.8%
384 dropbacks · PBP
Scheme: Balanced.
Coaching Lineage · 2021
1 coach2021
Nick Saban
Alabama
Played his entire career under Nick Saban.
Bio · Recruiting · Transfer · Roster
Off-field context — switch tabs to drill into recruit profile, transfer arc, or roster timeline.
HometownBrampton, ON
Height6'0"
Weight195 lb
Class3
PositionWR
Jersey8
No fields populated yet.
No fields populated yet.
Current teamAlabama
ConferenceSEC
Joined2021
Career arc1 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | Alabama | WR3 | #159 | #108 | 0.0% | 0.0% | -- | -- | W20 snapshot | SEC |
Roster Timeline
Team, conference, and class by season.
| Season | Team | Conference | Pos | Class | Bio |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | Alabama | SEC | WR | 3 | No. 8 | 6-0 | 195 lb | Brampton, ON |