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Kris Hughes

WR · Louisville · So · #14

Below the discourse floor — the honest stats-only state.

109 REC YDS · 8 REC · 1 REC TD

IN PORTALIn transfer portal — destination TBD (from Louisville)

In Portal · 2026

In transfer portal

2025Louisville
DestinationTBD

WR · LOUISVILLE · ACC

Kris Hughes

  • 2
  • #14
  • 5-11 | 195 lb
  • Morganfield, KY

CFB Zeitgeist Score

20

Below cohort in the position cohort. Carried by yards / catch at the 58th percentile.

Heisman Heat

#1693

<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

CONSENSUS

All-American

Player Standing · 17 rungs

Tier 1 · 2-deep

R04 · Rotational

Rotational. Earning real snaps in the rotation.

Not on team2-deepStarterRecognizedEliteApex

Development Trajectory · receiving yards

2024–2025
54.02024
1092025

+102%

Up 102% from first season to most-recent.

Career Arc

HS
Recruit
No recruit profile
CFB
College
Louisville
2024–2025
NFL
NFL Draft
Not drafted (yet)

Identity & Role

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

PositionWR
Class2
Jersey14
Measurements5-11 | 195 lb
HometownMorganfield, KY
Primary teamLouisville

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 1 Programs changed on file
Latest destination -- 2026
Transfer stars -- CFBD transfer rating context
Eligibility Immediate Dec 29, 2025
Season Move Context
2026 Louisville -> -- Immediate

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#1693Latest modeled ballot order
Season forecast#1801Where 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.

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.

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 Kris Hughes

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 Kris Hughes

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.

Season Pace · Projection

Where the receiving totals stand

projecting to 13-game
Through 6g
109Rec yards
8Receptions
1Rec TDs
Per game
18.2Rec yards
1Receptions
0Rec TDs
Projected (13g)
236.2Rec yards
17Receptions
2Rec TDs

To hit 700-yard receiver (currently 109): needs 84.4/game over remaining 7.

To hit 1,000-yard receiver (currently 109): needs 127.3/game over remaining 7.

To hit 60-catch season (currently 8): needs 7.4/game over remaining 7.

To hit 80-catch season (currently 8): needs 10.3/game over remaining 7.

To hit 8 receiving TDs (currently 1): needs 1/game over remaining 7.

To hit 10 receiving TDs (currently 1): needs 1.3/game over remaining 7.

What made this player interesting

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

Kris Hughes's story is about how role and output meet each other. For Louisville, 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.

Current place #1693 0.0% win | 0.0% finalist
Role load 3.8% Overall usage share
Profile quirk Development arc The card should explain why this profile stands out

2025 Season · Final

Traditional stats first. Advanced context underneath.

Last season

WR season snapshot

2025 season snapshot | final

2025 season snapshot | finalData: CFBD player stats + local Heisman modelPeer context: same position + same level
Receptions 8 1 rec TD | #631/1110 (43rd pct)
Receiving yards 109 13.6 per catch | #611/1107 (45th pct)
Scrimmage yards 109 Total offensive yardage | #611/1107 (45th pct)
Player identity What kind of player is this?

30-second read

What kind of player is this?

Receiving weapon against FBS receiving peers.

Balanced profile

2025 Season · Final

2025 season snapshot | final

Receiving

REC
8 43rd
YDS
109 45th
YPR
13.6 64th
TD
1 64th

Game Log · Week-by-week

2025 season · 6 games

Box score · CFBD
WkOppRECYDSAVGTDLONGNote
Wk 1W 51-17vs Eastern Kentucky35016.7131Season-high 50 yds
Wk 4W 40-17vs Bowling Green166.006
Wk 6L 27-30vs Virginia23618.0033
Wk 12L 19-20vs Clemson11010.0010
Wk 13L 6-38@ SMU177.007
BowlW 27-22vs Toledo
Total810911.5133
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

2024Louisville9-4HC: Jeff Brohm · Balanced
2025Louisville9-4HC: Jeff Brohm · Balanced
SeasonTeam
2025Louisville810913.61--
2024Louisville7547.70--
Career2 loaded seasons1516310.91--
Advanced layer Usage, value, and context

Advanced metrics second

Advanced Metrics

Usage, value, and opponent-adjusted context.

Usage Value Context
Pass share

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.

Role share

A blended workload view that accounts for catches, designed touches, and any return-game involvement that shapes the overall profile.

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.

Usage 3.8% 6.9% pass-game share | #696/1137 (39th pct)
Return yards 0 0 return TD
Touchdowns 1 Across offense and returns | #396/1111 (64th pct)
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Group Metric Value Rank Pct Why it matters
Receiving Receptions 8 #631/1110 43rd pct Volumevs FBS WR
Receiving Receiving yards 109 #611/1107 45th pct Volumevs FBS WR
Receiving Receiving TD 1 #396/1111 64th pct Scoringvs FBS WR
Receiving Yards / catch 13.6 #400/1106 64th pct Efficiencyvs FBS WR
Usage Pass share 6.9% #696/1137 39th pct Air-game usagevs FBS WR
Receiving Receiving LONG 33 #568/1105 49th pct Metricvs FBS WR
Usage 3rd-down usage 9.8% #241/1137 79th pct Money-down loadvs FBS WR
Usage Passing-down usage 6.3% #557/1137 51st pct Known-passing sharevs FBS WR
Usage Role share 3.8% #645/1137 43rd pct Share of team offensevs FBS WR
Usage 2nd-down usage 3.0% #805/1137 29th pct Middle-down loadvs FBS WR
Usage Standard-down usage 3.0% #683/1137 40th pct Base-situation sharevs FBS WR
Usage 1st-down usage 2.0% #886/1137 22nd pct Early-down loadvs FBS WR
Usage Rush share 0.0% #391/1137 66th pct Ground-game usagevs 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

StatusAwaiting tracker

Heisman model tracks the top FBS contenders weekly; this player hasn't entered the watch list yet.

Splits · Per-game

2025 season · 6 games

Home/Road · Win/Loss · Season halves

Home vs Road

REC/gYDS/gYPRTD/g
Home5g1.420.412.70.2
Road1g1.07.07.00.0

Win vs Loss

REC/gYDS/gYPRTD/g
Wins3g1.318.711.30.3
Losses3g1.317.711.70.0

First half vs Second half

REC/gYDS/gYPRTD/g
Weeks 1-74g1.523.013.60.2
Weeks 8+2g1.08.58.50.0

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

Savant · Box-rate percentiles

Where this profile ranks vs the WR cohort

20Below cohort
5 metrics · season cumulative

Concern: receptions (0th).

Yards / catch#235 / 558 · 58th pct
13.6rece
Rec TDs#373 / 558 · 24th pct
1rece
Long catch#458 / 558 · 18th pct
33rece
Rec yards#547 / 558 · 2nd pct
109rece
Receptions#559 / 558 · 0th pct
8rece

Percentiles versus same-position peers with enough snaps this season, based on box-score rates.

Advanced Savant · WR · 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 · Fingerprint match

Three closest profiles by box-rate percentile

3 peers · 5 metrics
Kris HughesLouisvilleMichael Jackson IIIPurdue· 44% simJacquon GibsonMassachusetts· 41% simTrent WalkerOregon State· 40% sim
Yards / catch
58
Hughes
9
III
15
Gibson
40
Walker
Rec TDs
24
Hughes
24
III
7
Gibson
42
Walker
Long catch
18
Hughes
16
III
56
Gibson
39
Walker
Rec yards
2
Hughes
70
III
74
Gibson
89
Walker
Receptions
0
Hughes
92
III
92
Gibson
95
Walker

Closest peers by overall box-score percentile profile at the same position.

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

Jeff Brohm

Pass share

50.2%

414 pass / 410 run

Plays / game

63.4

13 games

OL sack rate (allowed)

7.0%

314 dropbacks · PBP

Scheme: Balanced.

Coaching Lineage · 2024–2025

1 coach
2024
Jeff Brohm
Louisville
2025
Jeff Brohm
Louisville

Played his entire career under Jeff Brohm.

Bio · Recruiting · Transfer · Roster

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

HometownMorganfield, KY
Height5'11"
Weight195 lb
Class2
PositionWR
Jersey14

Trophy Case · Detail

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

Honors

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 Louisville WR2 #1693 #1801 0.0% 0.0% -- -- W16 snapshot | ACC
2023 Louisville WR2 #2979 #2553 0.0% 0.0% -- -- W19 snapshot | ACC

Roster Timeline

Team, conference, and class by season.

Season Team Conference Pos Class Bio
2025 Louisville ACC WR 2 No. 14 | 5-11 | 195 lb | Morganfield, KY
2024 Louisville ACC WR 2 No. 14 | 5-11 | 195 lb | Morganfield, KY
2023 Louisville ACC WR 2 No. 14 | 5-11 | 195 lb | Morganfield, KY