CFB Zeitgeist Score
41
Mid-pack in the position cohort. Carried by yards / catch at the 69th percentile.
Khalil Dinkins
Below the discourse floor — the honest stats-only state.
167 REC YDS · 14 REC · 2 REC TD
2026 Outlook
Returning to Penn State for 2026
2026 Depth chart
Projected starter
Tight end · Penn State
Returning around him
- 56% of 2024 offensive production back (Solid continuity)
- 8 Penn State players drafted to NFL
- Transfer portal: -11 net (37 in / 48 out)
2026 Award watch
No preseason watch lists yet (most drop June 15 – July 15)
Penn State · Last season: 7-6 (AP #7) · Talent rank #10 · 2026 recruiting class #15
TE · PENN STATE · BIG TEN
Khalil Dinkins
- 4
- #16
- 6-4 | 251 lb
- Wexford, PA
Heisman Heat
#1609
<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
Development Trajectory · receiving yards
2022–2025+215%
Up 215% from first season to most-recent.
Career Arc
HS
Recruit
★★★
CFB
College
Penn State
NFL
NFL Draft
—
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 |
|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 3-star | 0.8711 | No. 666 recruit | HighSchool |
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.
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 —
Composite
0.8711
#666 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 Khalil Dinkins
Fan sentiment ·
Belief Meter
50
Mixed Sentiment
Top Take
“”
Trajectory
Per-cohort trajectory lands when historical bucket data is aggregated.
Cohort divergence map
- Own fans · n=2
Rival Radar
How rival fanbases talk about Khalil Dinkins
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 7g
167Rec yards
14Receptions
2Rec TDs
Per game
23.9Rec yards
2Receptions
0Rec TDs
Projected (13g)
310.1Rec yards
26Receptions
4Rec TDs
To hit 700-yard receiver (currently 167): needs 88.8/game over remaining 6.
To hit 1,000-yard receiver (currently 167): needs 138.8/game over remaining 6.
To hit 60-catch season (currently 14): needs 7.7/game over remaining 6.
To hit 80-catch season (currently 14): needs 11/game over remaining 6.
To hit 8 receiving TDs (currently 2): needs 1/game over remaining 6.
To hit 10 receiving TDs (currently 2): needs 1.3/game over remaining 6.
What made this player interesting
The fast read on the thing that makes this player more than a generic stat line.
Khalil Dinkins's story is about how role and output meet each other. For Penn State, 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?
Receiving weapon against FBS receiving peers.
2025 Season · Final
2025 season snapshot | final
Receiving
REC
14 69th
YDS
167 72nd
YPR
11.9 71st
TD
2 84th
Game Log · Week-by-week
2025 season · 7 games
| Wk | Opp | REC | YDS | AVG | TD | LONG | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | W 46-11vs Nevada | 1 | 24 | 24.0 | 0 | 24 | |
| Wk 2 | W 34-0vs Florida International | 1 | 9 | 9.0 | 1 | 9 | |
| Wk 5 | L 24-30vs Oregon | 2 | 23 | 11.5 | 0 | 16 | |
| Wk 6 | L 37-42@ UCLA | 3 | 49 | 16.3 | 1 | 40 | Season-high 49 yds |
| Wk 8 | L 24-25@ Iowa | 1 | 10 | 10.0 | 0 | 10 | |
| Wk 10 | L 14-38@ Ohio State | 2 | 12 | 6.0 | 0 | 9 | |
| Wk 11 | L 24-27vs Indiana | 4 | 40 | 10.0 | 0 | 23 | |
| Total | 14 | 167 | 12.4 | 2 | 40 |
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
2022Penn State11-2HC: James Franklin · Run-leaning
2023Penn State10-3HC: James Franklin · Run-leaning
2025Penn State7-6HC: James Franklin · Run-leaning
| Season | Team | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Penn State | 14 | 167 | 11.9 | 2 | -- |
| 2023 | Penn State | 5 | 57 | 11.4 | 2 | -- |
| 2022 | Penn State | 4 | 53 | 13.2 | 1 | -- |
| Career | 3 loaded seasons | 23 | 277 | 12.0 | 5 | -- |
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 | 14 | #150/475 | 69th pct | Volumevs FBS TE |
| Receiving | Receiving yards | 167 | #134/475 | 72nd pct | Volumevs FBS TE |
| Receiving | Receiving TD | 2 | #79/475 | 84th pct | Scoringvs FBS TE |
| Receiving | Yards / catch | 11.9 | #137/475 | 71st pct | Efficiencyvs FBS TE |
| Usage | Pass share | 6.9% | #185/468 | 61st pct | Air-game usagevs FBS TE |
| Receiving | Receiving LONG | 40 | #70/475 | 85th pct | Metricvs FBS TE |
| Usage | 1st-down usage | 4.3% | #112/468 | 76th pct | Early-down loadvs FBS TE |
| Usage | 2nd-down usage | 4.3% | #163/468 | 65th pct | Middle-down loadvs FBS TE |
| Usage | Passing-down usage | 4.0% | #199/468 | 58th pct | Known-passing sharevs FBS TE |
| Usage | Role share | 3.2% | #200/468 | 57th pct | Share of team offensevs FBS TE |
| Usage | Standard-down usage | 2.8% | #238/468 | 49th pct | Base-situation sharevs FBS TE |
| Usage | 3rd-down usage | 0.0% | #339/468 | 28th pct | Money-down loadvs FBS TE |
| Usage | Rush share | 0.0% | #58/468 | 88th pct | Ground-game usagevs 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 · 7 games
Home vs Road
| REC/g | YDS/g | YPR | TD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home4g | 2.0 | 24.0 | 13.6 | 0.2 |
| Road3g | 2.0 | 23.7 | 10.8 | 0.3 |
Win vs Loss
| REC/g | YDS/g | YPR | TD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wins2g | 1.0 | 16.5 | 16.5 | 0.5 |
| Losses5g | 2.4 | 26.8 | 10.8 | 0.2 |
First half vs Second half
| REC/g | YDS/g | YPR | TD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-74g | 1.8 | 26.2 | 15.2 | 0.5 |
| Weeks 8+3g | 2.3 | 20.7 | 8.7 | 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
41Mid-pack
Concern: receptions (13th).
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
Khalil DinkinsPenn StateLuke LindenmeyerNebraska· 65% simRiley NowakowskiIndiana· 64% simDecker DeGraafWashington· 64% sim
Yards / catch
Long catch
Rec TDs
Rec yards
Receptions
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 Josh Kattus’s 2025 season.
Josh Kattus
80%match
#2
Shane Calhoun
78%
#3
Blake Kern
74%
#4
Elijah Sohn
74%
#5
Zach Horton
72%
Matches Josh on
Total EPA (college ability)
Yards / reception
TD rate
Differs from Josh on
EPA / play (adj) (higher)
Not enough data yet for this comparison.
As a senior, his production profile tracks closest to Josh Kattus's senior season at Kentucky (2025).
Josh Kattus
84%match
#2
Erick All
NFL Rd 4
77%
#3
Elijah Mojarro
76%
#4
Marshall Lang
76%
#5
Dallas Payne
75%
Matches Josh on
Weight
Yards / reception
Recruiting rating
Differs from Josh on
EPA / play (adj) (higher)
Supporting Cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
James Franklin
Pass share
42.0%
339 pass / 469 run
Plays / game
62.2
13 games
OL sack rate (allowed)
7.4%
230 dropbacks · PBP
Scheme: Run-leaning.
Coaching Lineage · 2022–2025
1 coach2022
James Franklin
Penn State
2023
James Franklin
Penn State
2025
James Franklin
Penn State
Played his entire career under James Franklin.
Bio · Recruiting · Transfer · Roster
Off-field context — switch tabs to drill into recruit profile, transfer arc, or roster timeline.
HometownWexford, PA
Height6'4"
Weight251 lb
Class4
PositionTE
Jersey16
No fields populated yet.
No fields populated yet.
Current teamPenn State
ConferenceBig Ten
Joined2025
Career arc5 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Penn State | TE4 | #1609 | #1241 | 0.0% | 0.0% | -- | -- | W16 snapshot | Big Ten |
| 2023 | Penn State | TE4 | #847 | #647 | 0.0% | 0.0% | -- | -- | W19 snapshot | Big Ten |
| 2022 | Penn State | TE4 | #1134 | #857 | 0.0% | 0.0% | -- | -- | W20 snapshot | Big Ten |
| 2021 | Penn State | TE4 | #2820 | #2513 | 0.0% | 0.0% | -- | -- | W20 snapshot | Big Ten |
Roster Timeline
Team, conference, and class by season.
| Season | Team | Conference | Pos | Class | Bio |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Penn State | Big Ten | TE | 4 | No. 16 | 6-4 | 251 lb | Wexford, PA |
| 2024 | Penn State | Big Ten | TE | 4 | No. 16 | 6-4 | 251 lb | Wexford, PA |
| 2023 | Penn State | Big Ten | TE | 4 | No. 16 | 6-4 | 251 lb | Wexford, PA |
| 2022 | Penn State | Big Ten | TE | 4 | No. 16 | 6-4 | 251 lb | Wexford, PA |
| 2021 | Penn State | Big Ten | TE | 4 | No. 16 | 6-4 | 251 lb | Wexford, PA |