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Heisman / Players / Kansei Matsuzawa /Hawai'i

Kansei Matsuzawa

PK · Hawai'i · Sr · #17

Limited signal — not enough coverage for a story yet.

2026 RETURNINGReturning to Hawai'i for 2026

2026 Outlook

Returning to Hawai'i for 2026

2026 Depth chart

Projected starter

PK · Hawai'i

Returning around him

  • 46% of 2024 offensive production back (Moderate turnover)
  • Transfer portal: +7 net (16 in / 9 out)

2026 Award watch

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

Hawai'i · Last season: 9-4 · Talent rank #120 · 2026 recruiting class #124

PK · HAWAI'I · MOUNTAIN WEST

Kansei Matsuzawa

  • 4
  • #17
  • 6-2 | 200 lb
  • Tokyo

CFB Zeitgeist PK Score

Awaiting

Heisman Heat

#16018

<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 K AWARD

Lou Groza

CONSENSUS

All-American

Player Standing · 17 rungs

Tier 0 · Not on team

R01 · Scout team / redshirt

Scout team / redshirt. Developing behind the depth chart.

Not on team2-deepStarterRecognizedEliteApex

Career Arc

HS
Recruit
No recruit profile
CFB
College
Hawai'i
2025
NFL
NFL Draft
Not drafted (yet)

Identity & Role

The durable bio layer: position, size, hometown, and roster role.

PositionPK
Class4
Jersey17
Measurements6-2 | 200 lb
HometownTokyo
Primary teamHawai'i

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#16018Latest modeled ballot order
Season forecast#16023Where 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.

Achievements

  • Honors Badge 0.7% Honors Badge Recognized on a major honors list (Heisman, All-American, Davey O'Brien, Maxwell, Walter Camp, Nagurski, Biletnikoff). Held by 0.7% of the 2025 pool. Recognized on: All-America (AFCA).

Selector Grid · 2025

AP
FWAA
AFCA
WCFF
SN
SI

Named Consensus All-American — recognized on 3+ of the 5 NCAA-recognized selector lists.

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 Kansei Matsuzawa

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 Kansei Matsuzawa

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.

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.

Why the honors trail matters

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

The useful clue on this card is not just the Heisman rank, but the broader honors spine. Kansei Matsuzawa already has 7 loaded recognition items, which helps distinguish a player who is merely productive from one who is already earning selector-level validation.

Current place #16018 0.0% win | 0.0% finalist
Role load -- Role share still loading
Profile quirk Honors spine 7 honors loaded

2025 Season · Final

Traditional stats first. Advanced context underneath.

Last season

OTHER season snapshot

2025 season snapshot | final

2025 season snapshot | finalData: CFBD player stats + local Heisman modelPeer context: same position + same level
Scrimmage yards 0 Combined rushing and receiving
Touchdowns 0 Across offense and returns
Usage -- Role share still loading
Player identity What kind of player is this?

30-second read

What kind of player is this?

This player profile will sharpen as more advanced context is loaded.

Balanced profile

Game Log · Week-by-week

2025 season · 13 games

Box score · CFBD
WkOppFGM/FGALONGXPPTSNote
Wk 1W 23-20vs Stanford3/3402/211
Wk 1L 6-40@ Arizona2/2410/06
Wk 2W 37-20vs Sam Houston3/3434/413
Wk 3W 23-3vs Portland State3/3472/211
Wk 4L 21-23vs Fresno State2/2521/17
Wk 5W 44-35@ Air Force3/3395/514
Wk 7W 44-26vs Utah State3/3465/514
Wk 8W 31-19@ Colorado State1/1264/47
Wk 10L 38-45@ San José State1/1245/58
Wk 11W 38-6vs San Diego State1/1225/58
Wk 13L 10-38@ UNLV1/1451/14
Wk 14W 27-7vs Wyoming2/3473/39
BowlW 35-31vs California2/3393/39
Total27/2952121
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

2025Hawai'i9-4HC: Timmy Chang · Pass-leaning
Advanced layer Usage, value, and context

Advanced metrics second

Advanced Metrics

Usage, value, and opponent-adjusted context.

Usage Value Context
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.

Open full stat explorer
0 metrics visible Showing all metrics
Group Metric Value Rank Pct Why it matters
Kicking Kicking points 121 #3/221 99th pct Scoringvs FBS peers
Kicking Kicking LONG 52 #42/175 77th pct Metricvs FBS peers
Kicking Kicking XPA 40 #52/213 76th pct Metricvs FBS peers
Kicking Kicking XPM 40 #48/213 78th pct Metricvs FBS peers
Kicking Kicking FGA 29 #6/188 97th pct Metricvs FBS peers
Kicking FG made 27 #2/175 99th pct Scoringvs FBS peers
Kicking FG % 93.1% #16/175 91st pct Efficiencyvs FBS peers

Player Standing

Universal 17-step ladder. Tier pills below; accolade streams nested.

CONSENSUS AA

On-team2-deepStartingRecognizedEliteApex

CONSENSUS AA · Rung 13 of 16

Why he’s here

Consensus All-American — 1st team on at least three of the five NCAA selectors.

What moves him up

Sweep the remaining selectors for Unanimous status.

What moves him down

Fall below three selectors and this returns to plain All-American.

Accolade streams

All-America statusCONSENSUS

Named Consensus All-American — recognized on 3+ of the 5 NCAA-recognized selector lists.

AP1st
FWAA1st
AFCA1st
WCFF1st
SN1st
SI1st

Splits · Per-game

2025 season · 13 games

Home/Road · Win/Loss · Season halves

Home vs Road

YDS/gTD/gYPAINT/g
Home8g
Road5g

Win vs Loss

YDS/gTD/gYPAINT/g
Wins9g
Losses4g

First half vs Second half

YDS/gTD/gYPAINT/g
Weeks 1-78g
Weeks 8+5g

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

Box-score Savant card waits for a season-stat snapshot above the cohort floor. Returns once enough box-score volume lands.

Advanced Savant · PK · 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 returns once this player clears the Savant metric floor (4+ scored bars).
DNA Match awaiting data — similarity scores compute once season stats clear the volume gate for this position cohort.

Supporting Cast · Scheme

Staff and system around the player

2025 season

Head Coach

Timmy Chang

Pass share

60.2%

540 pass / 357 run

Plays / game

69.0

13 games

OL sack rate (allowed)

6.8%

427 dropbacks · PBP

Scheme: Pass-leaning.

Coaching Lineage · 2025

1 coach
2025
Timmy Chang
Hawai'i

Played his entire career under Timmy Chang.

Bio · Recruiting · Transfer · Roster

Off-field context — switch tabs to drill into recruit profile, transfer arc, or roster timeline.

HometownTokyo
Height6'2"
Weight200 lb
Class4
PositionPK
Jersey17

Trophy Case · Confirmed honors

What the selectors said

7 entries
🏆

ALL-AMERICA · CONSENSUS

Consensus AA (2025)

5 first-team selectors

🎖

ALL-CONFERENCE

All-Conf mention (2025)

All-Mountain West

Trophy Case · Detail

Every honor on the ledger, broken out by stream and selector.

All-America

6 All-America selections

National selector recognition is one of the strongest non-Heisman signals on a player card and should sit near the top of the showcase.

All-Conference

1 all-conference honor

Conference-level recognition helps anchor whether a player is merely statistically loud or actually viewed as elite within his competitive lane.

Honors Timeline

Season-end distinction and week-by-week recognition on one timeline.

Season Honor Scope Team / Selector Context
2025 All-Mountain West all_conference Mountain West K
2025 All-America (ESPN) all_america ESPN K
2025 All-America (CBS) all_america CBS K
2025 All-America (WCFF) all_america WCFF K
2025 All-America (AP) all_america AP K
2025 All-America (AFCA) all_america AFCA K
2025 All-America (Consensus) all_america Consensus --

Heisman By Year

Modeled rank and official finish by season.

Season Team Role Latest Model Forecast Win Finalist Official Finish Points Context
2024 Hawai'i PK4 #16018 #16023 0.0% 0.0% -- -- W16 snapshot | Mountain West
2023 Hawai'i PK4 #16074 #16078 0.0% 0.0% -- -- W19 snapshot | Mountain West

Roster Timeline

Team, conference, and class by season.

Season Team Conference Pos Class Bio
2025 Hawai'i Mountain West PK 4 No. 17 | 6-2 | 200 lb | Tokyo
2024 Hawai'i Mountain West PK 4 No. 17 | 6-2 | 200 lb | Tokyo
2023 Hawai'i Mountain West PK 4 No. 17 | 6-2 | 200 lb | Tokyo