CFB Zeitgeist Score
38
Mid-pack in the position cohort. Carried by rec tds at the 42nd percentile.
Kyron Ware-Hudson
Below the discourse floor — the honest stats-only state.
288 REC YDS · 23 REC · 2 REC TD
2026 Outlook
Returning to Penn State for 2026
2026 Depth chart
Projected starter
Wide receiver · 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
WR · PENN STATE · BIG TEN
Kyron Ware-Hudson
- 4
- #11
- 6-1 | 215 lb
- Duarte, CA
Heisman Heat
#345
<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
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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 · receiving yards
2021–2025+7100%
Up 7100% from first season to most-recent.
Career Arc
HS
Recruit
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CFB
College
2 teams
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.
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
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 Kyron Ware-Hudson
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 Kyron Ware-Hudson
No rival-bucket mentions in the current season.
2025 Signature · 2025 season
Yards per reception
12.5
yds
All FBS WRs, min 20 receptions
National rank #258 of 531
Percentile vs All FBS WRs, min 20 receptions 52nd
Why it matters
#258 of 531 All FBS WRs at 12.5 yards per reception (23 catches).
Vs cohort
This player 12.5 (52th)
MODERATE · n=23 cohort 531
- Also strong
- Receiving TDs#302 / 531
- Receiving yards (total)#401 / 531
Signature Moment
Week 1 vs Nevada — 89 ypr
Result W 46-11
The week the volume broke through — put up 89 yds vs Nevada.
Season Pace · Projection
Where the receiving totals stand
Through 9g
288Rec yards
23Receptions
2Rec TDs
Per game
32Rec yards
3Receptions
0Rec TDs
Projected (13g)
416Rec yards
33Receptions
3Rec TDs
To hit 700-yard receiver (currently 288): needs 103/game over remaining 4.
To hit 1,000-yard receiver (currently 288): needs 178/game over remaining 4.
To hit 60-catch season (currently 23): needs 9.2/game over remaining 4.
To hit 80-catch season (currently 23): needs 14.2/game over remaining 4.
To hit 8 receiving TDs (currently 2): needs 1.5/game over remaining 4.
To hit 10 receiving TDs (currently 2): needs 2/game over remaining 4.
What made this player interesting
The fast read on the thing that makes this player more than a generic stat line.
Kyron Ware-Hudson'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
WR 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
23 66th
YDS
288 67th
YPR
12.5 55th
TD
2 75th
Game Log · Week-by-week
2025 season · 9 games
| Wk | Opp | REC | YDS | AVG | TD | LONG | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | W 46-11vs Nevada | 6 | 89 | 14.8 | 1 | 31 | Season-high 89 yds |
| Wk 2 | W 34-0vs Florida International | 5 | 37 | 7.4 | 0 | 12 | |
| Wk 3 | W 52-6vs Villanova | 3 | 30 | 10.0 | 0 | 13 | |
| Wk 6 | L 37-42@ UCLA | 4 | 52 | 13.0 | 1 | 20 | |
| Wk 7 | L 21-22vs Northwestern | 1 | 10 | 10.0 | 0 | 10 | |
| Wk 10 | L 14-38@ Ohio State | 1 | 18 | 18.0 | 0 | 18 | |
| Wk 11 | L 24-27vs Indiana | 1 | 9 | 9.0 | 0 | 9 | |
| Wk 13 | W 37-10vs Nebraska | 1 | 20 | 20.0 | 0 | 20 | |
| Wk 14 | W 40-36@ Rutgers | 1 | 23 | 23.0 | 0 | 23 | |
| Total | 23 | 288 | 13.9 | 2 | 31 |
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
2021USC4-8HC: Donte Williams · Balanced, fast tempo
2023USC8-5HC: Lincoln Riley · Pass-leaning, slow tempo
2024USC7-6HC: Lincoln Riley · Pass-leaning
2025Penn State7-6HC: James Franklin · Run-leaning
| Season | Team | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Penn State | 23 | 288 | 12.5 | 2 | -- |
| 2024 | USC | 38 | 462 | 12.2 | 3 | -- |
| 2023 | USC | 17 | 189 | 11.1 | 2 | -- |
| 2021 | USC | 2 | 4 | 2.0 | 0 | -- |
| Career | 4 loaded seasons | 80 | 943 | 11.8 | 7 | -- |
| Season | Team | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Penn State | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| 2024 | USC | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| 2023 | USC | -- | -- | -- | 13 | -- |
| 2021 | USC | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Career | 4 loaded seasons | -- | -- | -- | 13 | -- |
Advanced layer Usage, value, and context
Advanced metrics second
Advanced Metrics
Usage, value, and opponent-adjusted context.
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.
A blended workload view that accounts for catches, designed touches, and any return-game involvement that shapes the overall profile.
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 | 23 | #373/1110 | 66th pct | Volumevs FBS WR |
| Receiving | Receiving yards | 288 | #366/1107 | 67th pct | Volumevs FBS WR |
| Receiving | Receiving TD | 2 | #281/1111 | 75th pct | Scoringvs FBS WR |
| Receiving | Yards / catch | 12.5 | #494/1106 | 55th pct | Efficiencyvs FBS WR |
| Usage | Pass share | 15.7% | #214/1137 | 81st pct | Air-game usagevs FBS WR |
| Receiving | Receiving LONG | 31 | #586/1105 | 47th pct | Metricvs FBS WR |
| Usage | 2nd-down usage | 11.4% | #70/1137 | 94th pct | Middle-down loadvs FBS WR |
| Usage | Passing-down usage | 11.3% | #172/1137 | 85th pct | Known-passing sharevs FBS WR |
| Usage | Role share | 7.0% | #277/1137 | 76th pct | Share of team offensevs FBS WR |
| Usage | 1st-down usage | 5.8% | #345/1137 | 70th pct | Early-down loadvs FBS WR |
| Usage | Standard-down usage | 5.4% | #351/1137 | 69th pct | Base-situation sharevs FBS WR |
| Usage | 3rd-down usage | 3.9% | #742/1137 | 35th pct | Money-down loadvs FBS WR |
| Usage | Rush share | 0.0% | #391/1137 | 66th pct | Ground-game usagevs FBS WR |
| Ball Security | Fumbles lost | 0 | #1/302 | 100th pct | Turnoversvs 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
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 · 9 games
Home vs Road
| REC/g | YDS/g | YPR | TD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home6g | 2.8 | 32.5 | 11.9 | 0.2 |
| Road3g | 2.0 | 31.0 | 18.0 | 0.3 |
Win vs Loss
| REC/g | YDS/g | YPR | TD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wins5g | 3.2 | 39.8 | 15.0 | 0.2 |
| Losses4g | 1.8 | 22.2 | 12.5 | 0.2 |
First half vs Second half
| REC/g | YDS/g | YPR | TD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-75g | 3.8 | 43.6 | 11.0 | 0.4 |
| Weeks 8+4g | 1.0 | 17.5 | 17.5 | 0.0 |
Pocket and defense-quality (clean vs. pressure) splits are coming soon.
Savant · Box-rate percentiles
Where this profile ranks vs the WR cohort
38Mid-pack
Elite: fumbles lost (80th). Concern: long catch (15th).
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
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
Kyron Ware-HudsonPenn StateAaron TurnerRice· 62% simKevin Coleman Jr.Missouri· 59% simJacquon GibsonMassachusetts· 58% sim
Fumbles lost
Yards / catch
Rec TDs
Rec yards
Receptions
Long catch
Closest peers by overall box-score percentile profile at the same position.
Player DNA
The Possession Receiver
Reliable target who converts on critical downs. Not flashy; consistently productive.
WR
His 2025 production profile sits closest to Dillon Bell’s 2025 season.
Dillon Bell
84%match
#2
Kyle Ford
83%
#3
Dylan Goffney
82%
#4
Kyron Ware-Hudson
81%
#5
Monroe Young
80%
Matches Dillon on
TD rate
Total EPA (college ability)
Weight
Through 3 college seasons, his career arc tracks closest to Ryan Flournoy’s path through Southeast Missouri State.
Ryan Flournoy
98%match
NFL Rd 6
#2
Xavier Lane
98%
#3
Anthony Lowe
98%
#4
Ian Duarte
97%
#5
Jeremiah Miller
96%
Matches Ryan on
Yards per reception
As a senior, his production profile tracks closest to Dillon Bell's senior season at Georgia (2025).
Dillon Bell
87%match
#2
Luke Doty
82%
#3
Keontez Lewis
80%
#4
Bralon Brown
80%
#5
Eric Holley
79%
Matches Dillon on
Total EPA (college ability)
Weight
TD rate
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 · 2021–2025
1 coach2021
James Franklin
Penn State
2023
James Franklin
Penn State
2024
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.
HometownDuarte, CA
Height6'1"
Weight215 lb
Class4
PositionWR
Jersey11
No fields populated yet.
No fields populated yet.
Current teamPenn State
ConferenceBig Ten
Joined2025
Career arc4 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.
| Season | Team | Conference | Pos | Class | Bio |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Penn State | Big Ten | WR | 4 | No. 11 | 6-1 | 215 lb | Duarte, CA |
| 2024 | USC | Big Ten | WR | 4 | No. 11 | 6-1 | 215 lb | Duarte, CA |
| 2023 | USC | Pac-12 | WR | 4 | No. 11 | 6-1 | 215 lb | Duarte, CA |
| 2021 | USC | Pac-12 | WR | 4 | No. 11 | 6-1 | 215 lb | Duarte, CA |