CFB Zeitgeist Score
4
Below cohort in the position cohort. Carried by yards / catch at the 11th percentile.
Justius Lowe
Below the discourse floor — the honest stats-only state.
56 REC YDS · 6 REC · 0 REC TD
Where He Ended Up · Transfer
Transferred to San Diego State
WR · OREGON · BIG TEN
CFB Zeitgeist Score
4
Below cohort in the position cohort. Carried by yards / catch at the 11th percentile.
Heisman Heat
#562
<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 2 · StarterStarter. A locked-in starting role.
Development Trajectory · receiving yards
2024–2025Sharp dropoff (-72%) — career inflection point.
Career Arc
The durable bio layer: position, size, hometown, and roster role.
How big the prospect was before college, and whether the later career arc beat that expectation.
| Class | Profile | Context |
|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 3-star | 0.8852 | No. 488 recruit | HighSchool | Oregon |
Portal movement changes role, context, and perception. This keeps that path in one place.
| Season | Move | Context |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Oregon -> San Diego State | 3-star | 0.8600 | Immediate |
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.
Selector Grid · 2025
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 Oregon
Composite
0.8852
#488 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.
Fan sentiment ·
Belief Meter
75
Grounded Optimism
Top Take
“”
Trajectory
Rival Radar
No rival-bucket mentions in the current season.
Signature Story
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
To hit 700-yard receiver (currently 56): needs 71.6/game over remaining 9.
To hit 1,000-yard receiver (currently 56): needs 104.9/game over remaining 9.
To hit 60-catch season (currently 6): needs 6/game over remaining 9.
To hit 80-catch season (currently 6): needs 8.2/game over remaining 9.
To hit 8 receiving TDs (currently 0): needs 0.9/game over remaining 9.
To hit 10 receiving TDs (currently 0): needs 1.1/game over remaining 9.
The fast read on the thing that makes this player more than a generic stat line.
Justius Lowe's story is about how role and output meet each other. For Oregon, 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.
Traditional stats first. Advanced context underneath.
Last season
2025 season snapshot | final
30-second read
Receiving weapon against FBS receiving peers.
2025 season snapshot | final
Receiving
Game Log · Week-by-week
2025 season · 4 games
| Wk | Opp | REC | YDS | AVG | TD | LONG | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | W 59-13vs Montana State | 1 | 12 | 12.0 | 0 | 12 | |
| Wk 2 | W 69-3vs Oklahoma State | 2 | 19 | 9.5 | 0 | 10 | |
| Wk 11 | W 18-16@ Iowa | 1 | 3 | 3.0 | 0 | 3 | |
| Wk 12 | W 42-13vs Minnesota | 2 | 22 | 11.0 | 0 | 14 | Season-high 22 yds |
| Total | 6 | 56 | 8.9 | 0 | 14 |
Traditional history
Season rows up top, career context at the bottom.
Season context · Team result + system
Advanced metrics second
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.
| Group | Metric | Value | Rank | Pct | Why it matters |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Receiving | Receptions | 6 | #696/1110 | 37th pct | Volumevs FBS WR |
| Receiving | Receiving yards | 56 | #758/1107 | 32nd pct | Volumevs FBS WR |
| Receiving | Receiving TD | 0 | #615/1111 | 45th pct | Scoringvs FBS WR |
| Receiving | Yards / catch | 9.3 | #808/1106 | 27th pct | Efficiencyvs FBS WR |
| Usage | Pass share | 6.9% | #696/1137 | 39th pct | Air-game usagevs FBS WR |
| Receiving | Receiving LONG | 14 | #876/1105 | 21st pct | Metricvs FBS WR |
| Usage | Passing-down usage | 7.0% | #463/1137 | 59th pct | Known-passing sharevs FBS WR |
| Usage | 3rd-down usage | 4.7% | #665/1137 | 42nd pct | Money-down loadvs FBS WR |
| Usage | 2nd-down usage | 3.7% | #696/1137 | 39th pct | Middle-down loadvs FBS WR |
| Usage | Role share | 2.8% | #812/1137 | 29th pct | Share of team offensevs FBS WR |
| Usage | 1st-down usage | 1.6% | #938/1137 | 18th pct | Early-down loadvs FBS WR |
| Usage | Standard-down usage | 1.5% | #999/1137 | 12th pct | Base-situation sharevs FBS WR |
| Usage | Rush share | 0.0% | #391/1137 | 66th pct | Ground-game usagevs FBS WR |
Universal 17-step ladder. Tier pills below; accolade streams nested.
AWAITING CLASSIFICATION
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
Heisman model tracks the top FBS contenders weekly; this player hasn't entered the watch list yet.
Splits · Per-game
2025 season · 4 games
Home vs Road
| REC/g | YDS/g | YPR | TD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home3g | 1.7 | 17.7 | 10.8 | 0.0 |
| Road1g | 1.0 | 3.0 | 3.0 | 0.0 |
Win vs Loss
| REC/g | YDS/g | YPR | TD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wins4g | 1.5 | 14.0 | 8.9 | 0.0 |
First half vs Second half
| REC/g | YDS/g | YPR | TD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-72g | 1.5 | 15.5 | 10.8 | 0.0 |
| Weeks 8+2g | 1.5 | 12.5 | 7.0 | 0.0 |
Pocket and defense-quality (clean vs. pressure) splits are coming soon.
Savant · Box-rate percentiles
Where this profile ranks vs the WR cohort
Concern: receptions (0th).
Percentiles versus same-position peers with enough snaps this season, based on box-score rates.
Advanced Savant · WR · 2024
Advanced opponent-adjusted percentile bars are coming soon for this player.
Opponent-adjusted advanced metrics with a cohort filter.
Peer Comparator · Fingerprint match
Three closest profiles by box-rate percentile
Closest peers by overall box-score percentile profile at the same position.
Supporting Cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Dan Lanning
Pass share
44.9%
436 pass / 534 run
Plays / game
64.7
15 games
OL sack rate (allowed)
4.8%
250 dropbacks · PBP
Scheme: Run-leaning.
Coaching Lineage · 2022–2025
1 coachPlayed his entire career under Dan Lanning.
Off-field context — switch tabs to drill into recruit profile, transfer arc, or roster timeline.
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Every honor on the ledger, broken out by stream and selector.
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.
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. | ||||
Modeled rank and official finish by season.
Team, conference, and class by season.