CFB Zeitgeist Score
25
Below cohort in the position cohort. Carried by pass tds at the 49th percentile.
Kaden Anderson
Filling the Shoesas of 2026-06-22
Kaden Anderson is a cornerstone for Wyoming — measured against the line he joined.
1,971PASS YDS12PASS TD-33RUSH YDS
PASSING VALUE · WEPA
+0.16
via your WEPA model · 2025 · 327 plays
Read the story so far
AI narrative · updated 2026-06-22 · compiled from CFB Zeitgeist data
2026 Outlook
Returning to Wyoming for 2026
2026 Depth chart
Returning starter
Quarterback · Wyoming
Returning around him
- 77% of 2024 offensive production back (Strong continuity)
- Transfer portal: +3 net (19 in / 16 out)
2026 Award watch
No preseason watch lists yet (most drop June 15 – July 15)
Wyoming · Last season: 4-8 · Talent rank #117 · 2026 recruiting class #89
QB · WYOMING · MOUNTAIN WEST
Kaden Anderson
- 2
- #12
- 6-4 | 230 lb
- Southlake, TX
Heisman Heat
#526
<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 QB AWARD
Davey O'Brien
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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
Development Trajectory · passing yards
2024–2025+106%
Up 106% from first season to most-recent.
Career Arc
HS
Recruit
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CFB
College
Wyoming
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 |
|---|---|---|
| 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.
| 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 passing yards (1971).
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
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 Kaden Anderson
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 Kaden Anderson
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 passing totals stand
Through 12g
1,971Pass yards
12Pass TDs
10INT
Per game
164.2Pass yards
1Pass TDs
1INT
Projected (13g)
2,135Pass yards
13Pass TDs
11INT
To hit 3,000-yard season (currently 1,971): needs 1,029/game over remaining 1.
To hit 4,000-yard season (currently 1,971): needs 2,029/game over remaining 1.
To hit 25 passing TDs (currently 12): needs 13/game over remaining 1.
To hit 30 passing TDs (currently 12): needs 18/game over remaining 1.
To hit 35 passing TDs (currently 12): needs 23/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.
Kaden Anderson's story is about how role and output meet each other. For Wyoming, 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
QB 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?
High-volume passer | Pocket-leaning against FBS QB peers. The quickest read is whether the profile wins on volume, efficiency, explosiveness, or rushing value.
2025 Season · Final
2025 season snapshot | final
Passing Efficiency
CMP
189 79th
ATT
336 85th
CMP%
56.3% 30th
Y/A
5.9 28th
Passing Production
YDS
1,971 76th
TD
12 79th
INT
10 8th
Rushing
CAR
43 65th
YDS
-33 5th
YPC
-0.8 13th
TD
0 44th
Game Log · Week-by-week
2025 season · 12 games
| Wk | Opp | CMP/ATT | YDS | TD | INT | YPA | QBR | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | W 10-0@ Akron | 19/36 | 260 | 1 | 1 | 7.2 | 41.7 | |
| Wk 2 | W 31-7vs Northern Iowa | 17/23 | 167 | 2 | 0 | 7.3 | 20.9 | |
| Wk 3 | L 6-31vs Utah | 12/23 | 108 | 0 | 1 | 4.7 | 22.9 | |
| Wk 4 | L 20-37@ Colorado | 11/25 | 176 | 2 | 0 | 7.0 | 51.8 | |
| Wk 6 | L 17-31vs UNLV | 25/46 | 254 | 1 | 1 | 5.5 | 32.3 | |
| Wk 7 | W 35-28vs San José State | 23/39 | 304 | 2 | 2 | 7.8 | 27.4 | Season-high 304 yds |
| Wk 8 | L 21-24@ Air Force | 23/29 | 211 | 1 | 1 | 7.3 | 47.8 | |
| Wk 9 | W 28-0vs Colorado State | 16/24 | 154 | 2 | 0 | 6.4 | 74.6 | |
| Wk 10 | L 7-24@ San Diego State | 12/24 | 93 | 0 | 3 | 3.9 | 13.0 | 3 INTs — rough day |
| Wk 12 | L 3-24@ Fresno State | 6/23 | 64 | 0 | 1 | 2.8 | 5.2 | |
| Wk 13 | L 7-13vs Nevada | 22/39 | 157 | 1 | 0 | 4.0 | 15.7 | |
| Wk 14 | L 7-27@ Hawai'i | 3/5 | 23 | 0 | 0 | 4.6 | 51.6 | |
| Total | 189/336 | 1971 | 12 | 10 | 5.7 | 33.7 |
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
2024Wyoming3-9HC: Jay Sawvel · Run-leaning
2025Wyoming4-8HC: Jay Sawvel · Balanced
Advanced layer Usage, value, and context
Advanced metrics second
Advanced Metrics
Usage, value, and opponent-adjusted context.
Opponent-adjusted passing value. Positive numbers mean the quarterback is adding more value through the air than a neutral peer would in the same environment.
How much of the offense runs through the quarterback once passing and rushing responsibility are blended together.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Passing | Passing yards | 1,971 | #92/382 | 76th pct | Volumevs FBS QB |
| Passing | Pass TD | 12 | #88/407 | 79th pct | Scoringvs FBS QB |
| Passing | Completions | 189 | #82/383 | 79th pct | Volumevs FBS QB |
| Passing | Completion % | 56.3% | #269/383 | 30th pct | Efficiencyvs FBS QB |
| Passing | Yards / attempt | 5.9 | #275/382 | 28th pct | Efficiencyvs FBS QB |
| Rushing | Rushing yards | -33 | #388/408 | 5th pct | Volumevs FBS QB |
| Value | Passing WEPA | +0.16 | #165/200 | 18th pct | Opponent-adjusted passing value | 327 weighted playsvs FBS QB |
| Usage | Role share | 46.8% | #107/428 | 75th pct | Share of team offensevs FBS QB |
| Passing | Attempts | 336 | #62/407 | 85th pct | Volumevs FBS QB |
| Passing | Interceptions | 10 | #377/407 | 8th pct | Turnoversvs FBS QB |
| Rushing | Carries | 43 | #142/408 | 65th pct | Volumevs FBS QB |
| Rushing | Rushing LONG | 9 | #311/391 | 21st pct | Metricvs FBS QB |
| Rushing | Rush TD | 0 | #230/408 | 44th pct | Scoringvs FBS QB |
| Rushing | Yards / carry | -0.8 | #354/407 | 13th pct | Efficiencyvs FBS QB |
| Usage | Pass share | 83.3% | #105/428 | 76th pct | Air-game usagevs FBS QB |
| Usage | Passing-down usage | 60.7% | #105/428 | 76th pct | Known-passing sharevs FBS QB |
| Usage | 3rd-down usage | 59.4% | #105/428 | 76th pct | Money-down loadvs FBS QB |
| Usage | 2nd-down usage | 47.3% | #98/428 | 77th pct | Middle-down loadvs FBS QB |
| Usage | 1st-down usage | 40.6% | #104/428 | 76th pct | Early-down loadvs FBS QB |
| Usage | Standard-down usage | 39.5% | #110/428 | 75th pct | Base-situation sharevs FBS QB |
| Usage | Rush share | 8.0% | #200/428 | 54th pct | Ground-game usagevs FBS QB |
| Ball Security | Fumbles lost | 2 | #163/258 | 37th pct | Turnoversvs FBS QB |
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
2025 season · 12 games
Home vs Road
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home6g | 191 | 1.3 | 6.0 | 0.7 |
| Road6g | 138 | 0.7 | 5.5 | 1.0 |
Win vs Loss
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wins4g | 221 | 1.8 | 7.2 | 0.8 |
| Losses8g | 136 | 0.6 | 5.0 | 0.9 |
First half vs Second half
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-76g | 212 | 1.3 | 6.6 | 0.8 |
| Weeks 8+6g | 117 | 0.7 | 4.8 | 0.8 |
Pocket and defense-quality (clean vs. pressure) splits are coming soon.
Savant · Box-rate percentiles
Where this profile ranks vs the QB cohort
25Below cohort
Concern: rush tds (9th).
Percentiles versus same-position peers with enough snaps this season, based on box-score rates.
Pass Profile · Completion depth (PBP)
Where the throws are landing
Short
0–9 yds56%of completions
66 comp5.7 yds avg2 TD
Middle
10–19 yds24%of completions
28 comp12.5 yds avg
Deep
20+ yds20%of completions
23 comp31.1 yds avg5 TD
Overall 54.9% completion on 213 attempts · 23 deep completions averaging 31.1 yds.
Advanced Savant · QB · 2024
Percentile Card
Concerns: EPA / dropback.
P4G5All FBS
Advanced Savant
Opponent-adjusted advanced metrics with a cohort filter.
wepa_passing0.16Below (<p25) (n=94)
Peer Comparator · Fingerprint match
Three closest profiles by box-rate percentile
Kaden AndersonWyomingLogan FifeNew Mexico State· 89% simPreston StoneNorthwestern· 86% simNick VattiatoMiddle Tennessee· 78% sim
Pass yards
Pass TDs
Fumbles lost
Completion %
Interceptions
Yards / att
Rush yards
Rush TDs
Closest peers by overall box-score percentile profile at the same position.
Player DNA
The Pocket Passer
Balanced passer who operates within the system. Profile sits near league average across dimensions.
QB
His 2025 production profile sits closest to Ryan Hilinski’s 2022 season.
Ryan Hilinski
78%match
#2
Tad Hudson
74%
#3
Zach Calzada
70%
#4
Billy Wiles
70%
#5
Ryan Hilinski
69%
Matches Ryan on
Yards / attempt
Rush yards / carry
Weight
Differs from Ryan on
Class year (lower)
TD rate (higher)
Through 2 college seasons, his career arc tracks closest to Mike Wright’s path through Northwestern.
Mike Wright
91%match
#2
Joe Pesansky
89%
#3
Aidan Armenta
87%
#4
Cam Ransom
85%
#5
Ethan Hampton
84%
Matches Mike on
Height
Yards per attempt
Completion %
As a sophomore, his production profile tracks closest to Jacob Sirmon's sophomore season at Central Michigan (2021).
Jacob Sirmon
66%match
#2
Brayden Schager
65%
#3
Ken Seals
64%
#4
Ryan Hilinski
64%
#5
Aidan Armenta
62%
Matches Jacob on
Height
Differs from Jacob on
Class year (lower)
Completion % (lower)
TD rate (lower)
Supporting Cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Jay Sawvel
Pass share
49.8%
383 pass / 386 run
Plays / game
64.1
12 games
OL sack rate (allowed)
6.3%
332 dropbacks · PBP
Scheme: Balanced.
Coaching Lineage · 2024–2025
1 coach2024
Jay Sawvel
Wyoming
2025
Jay Sawvel
Wyoming
Played his entire career under Jay Sawvel.
Bio · Recruiting · Transfer · Roster
Off-field context — switch tabs to drill into recruit profile, transfer arc, or roster timeline.
HometownSouthlake, TX
Height6'4"
Weight230 lb
Class2
PositionQB
Jersey12
No fields populated yet.
No fields populated yet.
Current teamWyoming
ConferenceMountain West
Joined2025
Career arc3 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.