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Heisman / Players / Lawson Luckie /Georgia

Lawson Luckie

TE · Georgia · Jr · #7

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

158 REC YDS · 15 REC · 4 REC TD

2026 RETURNINGReturning to Georgia for 2026

2026 Outlook

Returning to Georgia for 2026

2026 Depth chart

Projected starter

Tight end · Georgia

Returning around him

  • 37% of 2024 offensive production back (Moderate turnover)
  • 8 Georgia players drafted to NFL
  • Transfer portal: -7 net (9 in / 16 out)

2026 Award watch

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

Georgia · Last season: 12-2 (AP #2) · Talent rank #1 · 2026 recruiting class #2

TE · GEORGIA · SEC

Lawson Luckie

  • 3
  • #7
  • 6-4 | 240 lb
  • Norcross, GA

CFB Zeitgeist Score

41

Mid-pack in the position cohort. Carried by rec tds at the 80th percentile.

Heisman Heat

#318

<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 · Starter

R07 · Impact starter

Impact starter. Producing measurable value above replacement.

Not on team2-deepStarterRecognizedEliteApex

Development Trajectory · receiving yards

2023–2025
9.02023
3482024
1582025

+1656%

Up 1656% from first season to most-recent.

Career Arc

HS
Recruit
★★★★
#153 national
CFB
College
Georgia
2023–2025
NFL
NFL Draft
Not drafted (yet)

Identity & Role

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

PositionTE
Class3
Jersey7
Measurements6-4 | 240 lb
HometownNorcross, GA
Primary teamGeorgia

Recruiting Pedigree

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

Top pedigree 4-star No. 153 recruit
Composite rating 0.9361 HighSchool
Signed with Georgia 2023
Origin Norcross Norcross, GA, USA
Class Profile Context
2023 4-star | 0.9361 No. 153 recruit | HighSchool | Georgia

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#318Latest modeled ballot order
Season forecast#331Where 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 Georgia

Composite

0.9361

#153 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 Lawson Luckie

Fan sentiment ·

Belief Meter

62

Mixed Sentiment

Sample 4 mentions
Confidence LOW

Top Take

Trajectory

Cohort divergence mapbearishbullishheatedcalmOwn fans: 4 mentions · belief +25 · "Everydayer Club If you never miss an episode, it’s time to make it official. Joi"Own fans
  • Own fans · n=4

Rival Radar

How rival fanbases talk about Lawson Luckie

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 8g
158Rec yards
15Receptions
4Rec TDs
Per game
19.8Rec yards
2Receptions
0Rec TDs
Projected (13g)
256.8Rec yards
24Receptions
6Rec TDs

To hit 700-yard receiver (currently 158): needs 108.4/game over remaining 5.

To hit 1,000-yard receiver (currently 158): needs 168.4/game over remaining 5.

To hit 60-catch season (currently 15): needs 9/game over remaining 5.

To hit 80-catch season (currently 15): needs 13/game over remaining 5.

To hit 8 receiving TDs (currently 4): needs 0.8/game over remaining 5.

To hit 10 receiving TDs (currently 4): needs 1.2/game over remaining 5.

What made this player interesting

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

Lawson Luckie's story is about how role and output meet each other. For Georgia, 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 #318 0.0% win | 0.0% finalist
Role load 4.0% Overall usage share
Profile quirk Blue-chip pedigree No. 153 recruit

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
Receptions 15 4 rec TD | #141/475 (71st pct)
Receiving yards 158 10.5 per catch | #141/475 (71st pct)
Scrimmage yards 158 Total offensive yardage | #141/475 (71st 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
15 71st
YDS
158 71st
YPR
10.5 59th
TD
4 95th

Game Log · Week-by-week

2025 season · 8 games

Box score · CFBD
WkOppRECYDSAVGTDLONGNote
Wk 1W 45-7vs Marshall166.006
Wk 3W 44-41@ Tennessee3258.3016
Wk 7W 20-10@ Auburn177.007
Wk 8W 43-35vs Ole Miss5438.6313Season-high 43 yds
Wk 12W 35-10vs Texas166.016
Wk 13W 35-3vs Charlotte23316.5029
Wk 15W 28-7@ Alabama11818.0018
BowlL 34-39vs Ole Miss12020.0016
Total1515811.3429
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

2023Georgia13-1HC: Kirby Smart · Balanced
2024Georgia11-3HC: Kirby Smart · Pass-leaning
2025Georgia12-2HC: Kirby Smart · Run-leaning
SeasonTeam
2025Georgia1515810.54--
2024Georgia2434814.53--
2023Georgia294.51--
Career3 loaded seasons4151512.68--
Advanced layer Usage, value, and context

Advanced metrics second

Advanced Metrics

Usage, value, and opponent-adjusted context.

Usage Value Context
Pass share

The tight end's share of the passing offense, which helps distinguish a featured receiving tight end from a secondary option.

Role share

A blended usage view that shows how often the offense flows through the tight end compared with other same-level peers.

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 4.0% 8.9% pass-game share | #118/468 (75th pct)
Return yards 0 0 return TD
Touchdowns 4 Across offense and returns | #27/475 (95th pct)
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Group Metric Value Rank Pct Why it matters
Receiving Receptions 15 #141/475 71st pct Volumevs FBS TE
Receiving Receiving yards 158 #141/475 71st pct Volumevs FBS TE
Receiving Receiving TD 4 #27/475 95th pct Scoringvs FBS TE
Receiving Yards / catch 10.5 #196/475 59th pct Efficiencyvs FBS TE
Usage Pass share 8.9% #118/468 75th pct Air-game usagevs FBS TE
Receiving Receiving LONG 29 #145/475 70th pct Metricvs FBS TE
Usage 1st-down usage 4.6% #99/468 79th pct Early-down loadvs FBS TE
Usage Standard-down usage 4.3% #97/468 79th pct Base-situation sharevs FBS TE
Usage 3rd-down usage 4.1% #185/468 61st pct Money-down loadvs FBS TE
Usage Role share 4.0% #127/468 73rd pct Share of team offensevs FBS TE
Usage Passing-down usage 3.3% #253/468 46th pct Known-passing sharevs FBS TE
Usage 2nd-down usage 2.9% #268/468 43rd pct Middle-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

StatusAwaiting 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 · 8 games

Home/Road · Win/Loss · Season halves

Home vs Road

REC/gYDS/gYPRTD/g
Home5g2.021.611.40.8
Road3g1.716.711.10.0

Win vs Loss

REC/gYDS/gYPRTD/g
Wins7g2.019.710.10.6
Losses1g1.020.020.00.0

First half vs Second half

REC/gYDS/gYPRTD/g
Weeks 1-74g1.514.510.30.0
Weeks 8+4g2.225.012.31.0

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
5 metrics · season cumulative

Elite: rec tds (80th). Concern: receptions (17th).

Rec TDs#27 / 175 · 80th pct
4rece
Yards / catch#92 / 175 · 47th pct
10.5rece
Long catch#112 / 175 · 35th pct
29rece
Rec yards#139 / 175 · 20th pct
158rece
Receptions#141 / 175 · 17th pct
15rece

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
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
Lawson LuckieGeorgiaRichie AndersonFresno State· 68% simBrett NorfleetMissouri· 67% simLuke LindenmeyerNebraska· 66% sim
Rec TDs
80
Luckie
66
Anderson
89
Norfleet
43
Lindenmeyer
Yards / catch
47
Luckie
33
Anderson
13
Norfleet
53
Lindenmeyer
Long catch
35
Luckie
20
Anderson
27
Norfleet
23
Lindenmeyer
Rec yards
20
Luckie
60
Anderson
54
Norfleet
63
Lindenmeyer
Receptions
17
Luckie
72
Anderson
72
Norfleet
66
Lindenmeyer

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 Ethan Conner’s 2023 season.

Ethan Conner

75%match

Troy · 2023

#2

Seth Green

Houston · 2021

72%
#3

Marshall Lang

Northwestern · 2021

70%
#4

Sage Ennis

Virginia · 2025

69%
#5

Will Wallace

Tulane · 2021

69%

Matches Ethan on

Weight
TD rate
EPA / play (adj)

Differs from Ethan on

Yards / reception (lower)
Class year (lower)

Not enough data yet for this comparison.

As a junior, his production profile tracks closest to Jacob Jenkins's junior season at Liberty (2024).

Jacob Jenkins

67%match

Liberty · 2024

All-Sun Belt
#2

Jake Bruno

Ohio · 2025

64%
#3

Nicky Dalmolin

Duke · 2022

64%
#4

Trent Pennix

NC State · 2022

60%
#5

Mata'ava Ta'ase

BYU · 2024

60%

Matches Jacob on

Height
Yards / reception
EPA / play (adj)

Differs from Jacob on

Class year (lower)
TD rate (higher)

Supporting Cast · Scheme

Staff and system around the player

2025 season

Head Coach

Kirby Smart

Pass share

42.5%

417 pass / 565 run

Plays / game

70.1

14 games

OL sack rate (allowed)

6.2%

290 dropbacks · PBP

Scheme: Run-leaning.

Coaching Lineage · 2023–2025

1 coach
2023
Kirby Smart
Georgia
2024
Kirby Smart
Georgia
2025
Kirby Smart
Georgia

Played his entire career under Kirby Smart.

Bio · Recruiting · Transfer · Roster

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

HometownNorcross, GA
Height6'4"
Weight240 lb
Class3
PositionTE
Jersey7

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 Georgia TE3 #318 #331 0.0% 0.0% -- -- W16 snapshot | SEC
2023 Georgia TE3 #1699 #1206 0.0% 0.0% -- -- W19 snapshot | SEC

Roster Timeline

Team, conference, and class by season.

Season Team Conference Pos Class Bio
2025 Georgia SEC TE 3 No. 7 | 6-4 | 240 lb | Norcross, GA
2024 Georgia SEC TE 3 No. 7 | 6-4 | 240 lb | Norcross, GA
2023 Georgia SEC TE 3 No. 7 | 6-4 | 240 lb | Norcross, GA