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OFFSEASON · SUMMER 2026 · COMMITMENT SEASON
Heisman / Players / Kyren Lacy /LSU

Kyren Lacy

WR · LSU · Sr · #2

Limited signal — not enough coverage for a story yet.

CAREER COMPLETELSU 2024 — college career complete

WR · LSU · SEC

Kyren Lacy

  • 4
  • #2
  • 6-2 | 213 lb
  • Thibodaux, LA

CFB Zeitgeist WR Score

Awaiting

Heisman Heat

#151

<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

R03 · Backup

Backup. On the two-deep, pushing for snaps.

Not on team2-deepStarterRecognizedEliteApex

Development Trajectory · receiving yards

2021–2024
3042021
2682022
5582023
8662024

+185%

Up 185% from first season to most-recent.

Career Arc

HS
Recruit
★★★
#1080 national
CFB
College
2 teams
2021–2024
NFL
NFL Draft
Not drafted (yet)

Identity & Role

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

PositionWR
Class4
Jersey2
Measurements6-2 | 213 lb
HometownThibodaux, LA
Primary teamLSU

Recruiting Pedigree

How big the prospect was before college, and whether the later career arc beat that expectation.

Top pedigree 3-star No. 1080 recruit
Composite rating 0.8548 HighSchool
Signed with -- 2020
Origin Thibodaux Thibodaux, LA, USA
Class Profile Context
2020 3-star | 0.8548 No. 1080 recruit | HighSchool

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 LSU 2022
Transfer stars 3-star CFBD transfer rating context
Eligibility Immediate Jan 14, 2022
Season Move Context
2022 Louisiana -> LSU 3-star | 0.8900 | 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#151Latest modeled ballot order
Season forecast#167Where 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.

NIL · Recruiting · NFL Draft

Market value, pedigree & pro outcome

Recruit stars

★★★☆☆

to —

Composite

0.8548

#1080 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

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 Kyren Lacy

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 Kyren Lacy

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.

What made this player interesting

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

Kyren Lacy's story is about how role and output meet each other. For LSU, 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 #151 0.0% win | 0.0% finalist
Role load 10.1% Overall usage share
Profile quirk Transfer path 1 portal move

2024 Season · Final

Traditional stats first. Advanced context underneath.

Last season

WR season snapshot

2024 season snapshot | final

2024 season snapshot | finalData: CFBD player stats + local Heisman modelPeer context: same position + same level
Receptions 58 9 rec TD | #73/1110 (94th pct)
Receiving yards 866 14.9 per catch | #48/1107 (96th pct)
Scrimmage yards 866 Total offensive yardage | #48/1107 (96th pct)
Player identity What kind of player is this?

30-second read

What kind of player is this?

Target magnet against FBS receiving peers.

Target magnet

2024 Season · Final

2024 season snapshot | final

Receiving

REC
58 94th
YDS
866 96th
YPR
14.9 75th
TD
9 99th

Game Log

Week-by-week box

No per-game rows for this season yet — the table fills in as box scores arrive.

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

2021Louisiana12-1HC: Billy Napier · Run-leaning
2022LSU10-4HC: Brian Kelly · Balanced
2023LSU10-3HC: Brian Kelly · Balanced
2024LSU9-4HC: Brian Kelly · Pass-leaning, fast tempo
SeasonTeam
2024LSU5886614.99--
2023LSU3055818.67--
2022LSU2426811.20--
2021Louisiana2230413.86--
Career4 loaded seasons1341,99614.922--
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 10.1% 16.6% pass-game share | #183/1137 (84th pct)
Return yards 0 0 return TD
Touchdowns 9 Across offense and returns | #17/1111 (99th pct)
Open full stat explorer
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Group Metric Value Rank Pct Why it matters
Receiving Receptions 58 #73/1110 94th pct Volumevs FBS WR
Receiving Receiving yards 866 #48/1107 96th pct Volumevs FBS WR
Receiving Receiving TD 9 #17/1111 99th pct Scoringvs FBS WR
Receiving Yards / catch 14.9 #272/1106 75th pct Efficiencyvs FBS WR
Usage Pass share 16.6% #183/1137 84th pct Air-game usagevs FBS WR
Receiving Receiving LONG 35 #527/1105 52nd pct Metricvs FBS WR
Usage 3rd-down usage 16.2% #28/1137 98th pct Money-down loadvs FBS WR
Usage Passing-down usage 12.4% #120/1137 90th pct Known-passing sharevs FBS WR
Usage 1st-down usage 10.5% #81/1137 93rd pct Early-down loadvs FBS WR
Usage Role share 10.1% #96/1137 92nd pct Share of team offensevs FBS WR
Usage Standard-down usage 8.9% #105/1137 91st pct Base-situation sharevs FBS WR
Usage 2nd-down usage 5.9% #403/1137 65th pct Middle-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 splits

Splits fill in once box scores from at least three games land for this season.

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

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 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

Brian Kelly

Pass share

55.0%

443 pass / 363 run

Plays / game

62.0

13 games

OL sack rate (allowed)

6.8%

365 dropbacks · PBP

Scheme: Balanced, slow tempo.

Coaching Lineage · 2021–2024

2 coaches
2021
Ed Orgeron
LSU
2022
Brian Kelly
LSU
era →
2023
Brian Kelly
LSU
2024
Brian Kelly
LSU

Coaching transition mid-career: Ed Orgeron → Brian Kelly. Worth noting in scheme + development context.

Bio · Recruiting · Transfer · Roster

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

HometownThibodaux, LA
Height6'2"
Weight213 lb
Class4
PositionWR
Jersey2

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 LSU WR4 #151 #167 0.0% 0.0% -- -- W16 snapshot | SEC
2023 LSU WR4 #198 #208 0.0% 0.0% -- -- W19 snapshot | SEC
2022 LSU WR4 #1115 #928 0.0% 0.0% -- -- W20 snapshot | SEC
2021 Louisiana WR4 #796 #810 0.0% 0.0% -- -- W20 snapshot | Sun Belt

Roster Timeline

Team, conference, and class by season.

Season Team Conference Pos Class Bio
2024 LSU SEC WR 4 No. 2 | 6-2 | 213 lb | Thibodaux, LA
2023 LSU SEC WR 4 No. 2 | 6-2 | 213 lb | Thibodaux, LA
2022 LSU SEC WR 4 No. 2 | 6-2 | 213 lb | Thibodaux, LA
2021 Louisiana Sun Belt WR 4 No. 2 | 6-2 | 213 lb | Thibodaux, LA