CFB Zeitgeist Score
39
Mid-pack in the position cohort. Carried by interceptions at the 92nd percentile.
Malachi Singleton
Below the discourse floor — the honest stats-only state.
439 PASS YDS · 5 PASS TD · 202 RUSH YDS
Where He Ended Up · Transfer
Transferred to App State
2025Purdue
2026App State
QB · PURDUE · BIG TEN
Malachi Singleton
- 2
- #3
- 6-1 | 235 lb
- Kennesaw, GA
Heisman Heat
#201
<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 QB AWARD
Davey O'Brien
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CONSENSUS
All-American
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Player Standing · 17 rungs
Tier 2 · StarterR06 · Starter
Starter. A locked-in starting role.
Not on team2-deepStarterRecognizedEliteApex
Development Trajectory · passing yards
2024–2025+23%
Modest growth (23%) across the multi-season window.
Career Arc
HS
Recruit
★★★★
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 |
|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 4-star | 0.8950 | No. 389 recruit | HighSchool | Arkansas |
Transfer Arc
Portal movement changes role, context, and perception. This keeps that path in one place.
| Season | Move | Context |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Purdue -> App State | 3-star | 0.8500 | Immediate |
| 2025 | Arkansas -> Purdue | 3-star | 0.8700 | 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 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 Arkansas
Composite
0.8950
#389 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 Malachi Singleton
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 Malachi Singleton
No rival-bucket mentions in the current season.
2025 Signature · 2025 season
ESPN QBR (season average)
51.2
QBR
P4 + Notre Dame QBs, min 2 games
National rank #73 of 92
Percentile vs P4 + Notre Dame QBs, min 2 games 21st
Why it matters
#73 of 92 P4 + Notre Dame QBs by ESPN QBR — 51.2 across 8 games.
Vs cohort
This player 51.2 (21th)
HIGH · n=8 cohort 92
- Also strong
- Third-down snap share#92 / 93
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 passing totals stand
Through 11g
439Pass yards
5Pass TDs
2INT
Per game
39.9Pass yards
0Pass TDs
0INT
Projected (13g)
518.8Pass yards
6Pass TDs
2INT
To hit 3,000-yard season (currently 439): needs 1,280/game over remaining 2.
To hit 4,000-yard season (currently 439): needs 1,780/game over remaining 2.
To hit 25 passing TDs (currently 5): needs 10/game over remaining 2.
To hit 30 passing TDs (currently 5): needs 12.5/game over remaining 2.
To hit 35 passing TDs (currently 5): needs 15/game over remaining 2.
What made this player interesting
The fast read on the thing that makes this player more than a generic stat line.
Malachi Singleton's story is about how role and output meet each other. For Purdue, 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
QB 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?
Dual-threat against FBS QB peers. The quickest read is whether the profile wins on volume, efficiency, explosiveness, or rushing value.
2025 Season · Final
2025 season snapshot | final
Passing Efficiency
CMP
38 51st
ATT
64 53rd
CMP%
59.4% 42nd
Y/A
6.9 52nd
Passing Production
YDS
439 52nd
TD
5 64th
INT
2 52nd
Rushing
CAR
49 69th
YDS
202 79th
YPC
4.1 66th
TD
1 63rd
Game Log · Week-by-week
2025 season · 11 games
| Wk | Opp | CMP/ATT | YDS | TD | INT | YPA | QBR | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | W 31-0vs Ball State | 2/3 | 29 | 0 | 0 | 9.7 | 42.8 | |
| Wk 3 | L 17-33vs USC | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| Wk 4 | L 30-56@ Notre Dame | 3/4 | 39 | 1 | 1 | 9.8 | 66.8 | |
| Wk 6 | L 27-43vs Illinois | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| Wk 7 | L 20-27@ Minnesota | 0/1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 100.0 | |
| Wk 8 | L 0-19@ Northwestern | 11/20 | 187 | 0 | 1 | 9.4 | 23.1 | Season-high 187 yds |
| Wk 9 | L 24-27vs Rutgers | 2/3 | 11 | 2 | 0 | 3.7 | 51.8 | |
| Wk 10 | L 16-21@ Michigan | 1/2 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 2.5 | 50.3 | |
| Wk 11 | L 10-34vs Ohio State | 3/3 | 18 | 1 | 0 | 6.0 | 3.1 | |
| Wk 12 | L 13-49@ Washington | 16/28 | 150 | 1 | 0 | 5.4 | 71.7 | |
| Wk 14 | L 3-56vs Indiana | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| Total | 38/64 | 439 | 5 | 2 | 5.8 | 51.2 |
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
2024Arkansas7-6HC: Sam Pittman · Run-leaning
2025Purdue2-10HC: Barry Odom · Balanced
Advanced layer Usage, value, and context
Advanced metrics second
Advanced Metrics
Usage, value, and opponent-adjusted context.
Opponent-adjusted passing value. Positive numbers mean the quarterback is adding more value through the air than a neutral peer would in the same environment.
How much of the offense runs through the quarterback once passing and rushing responsibility are blended together.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Passing | Passing yards | 439 | #184/382 | 52nd pct | Volumevs FBS QB |
| Passing | Pass TD | 5 | #149/407 | 64th pct | Scoringvs FBS QB |
| Passing | Completions | 38 | #188/383 | 51st pct | Volumevs FBS QB |
| Passing | Completion % | 59.4% | #222/383 | 42nd pct | Efficiencyvs FBS QB |
| Passing | Yards / attempt | 6.9 | #186/382 | 52nd pct | Efficiencyvs FBS QB |
| Rushing | Rushing yards | 202 | #85/408 | 79th pct | Volumevs FBS QB |
| Value | Passing WEPA | +0.22 | #130/200 | 36th pct | Opponent-adjusted passing value | 65 weighted playsvs FBS QB |
| Usage | Role share | 15.5% | #234/428 | 46th pct | Share of team offensevs FBS QB |
| Passing | Attempts | 64 | #191/407 | 53rd pct | Volumevs FBS QB |
| Passing | Interceptions | 2 | #195/407 | 52nd pct | Turnoversvs FBS QB |
| Rushing | Carries | 49 | #129/408 | 69th pct | Volumevs FBS QB |
| Rushing | Rushing LONG | 40 | #69/391 | 83rd pct | Metricvs FBS QB |
| Rushing | Yards / carry | 4.1 | #138/407 | 66th pct | Efficiencyvs FBS QB |
| Rushing | Rush TD | 1 | #151/408 | 63rd pct | Scoringvs FBS QB |
| Usage | Standard-down usage | 16.9% | #215/428 | 50th pct | Base-situation sharevs FBS QB |
| Usage | Pass share | 16.4% | #271/428 | 37th pct | Air-game usagevs FBS QB |
| Usage | 3rd-down usage | 16.3% | #256/428 | 40th pct | Money-down loadvs FBS QB |
| Usage | 2nd-down usage | 15.9% | #229/428 | 47th pct | Middle-down loadvs FBS QB |
| Usage | Rush share | 14.7% | #106/428 | 75th pct | Ground-game usagevs FBS QB |
| Usage | 1st-down usage | 13.5% | #233/428 | 46th pct | Early-down loadvs FBS QB |
| Usage | Passing-down usage | 12.8% | #278/428 | 35th pct | Known-passing sharevs FBS QB |
| Value | Rushing WEPA | +0.19 | #96/140 | 32nd pct | Opponent-adjusted rushing value | 46 weighted playsvs FBS QB |
| Ball Security | Fumbles lost | 1 | #69/258 | 74th pct | Turnoversvs FBS QB |
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 · 11 games
Home vs Road
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home6g | 9.7 | 0.5 | 6.5 | 0.0 |
| Road5g | 76.2 | 0.4 | 5.4 | 0.4 |
Win vs Loss
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wins1g | 29.0 | 0.0 | 9.7 | 0.0 |
| Losses10g | 41.0 | 0.5 | 5.3 | 0.2 |
First half vs Second half
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-75g | 13.6 | 0.2 | 6.5 | 0.2 |
| Weeks 8+6g | 61.8 | 0.7 | 5.4 | 0.2 |
Pocket and defense-quality (clean vs. pressure) splits are coming soon.
Savant · Box-rate percentiles
Where this profile ranks vs the QB cohort
39Mid-pack
Elite: interceptions (92nd). Concern: pass yards (2nd).
Percentiles versus same-position peers with enough snaps this season, based on box-score rates.
Advanced Savant · QB · 2024
Percentile Card
Concerns: EPA / dropback.
P4G5All FBS
Advanced Savant
Opponent-adjusted advanced metrics with a cohort filter.
wepa_passing0.22Below (<p25) (n=94)
wepa_rushing0.19Low (p25–p50) (n=72)
Peer Comparator · Fingerprint match
Three closest profiles by box-rate percentile
Malachi SingletonPurdueNick VattiatoMiddle Tennessee· 65% simAvery JohnsonKansas State· 63% simCade KlubnikClemson· 60% sim
Interceptions
Fumbles lost
Rush yards
Yards / att
Completion %
Rush TDs
Pass TDs
Pass yards
Closest peers by overall box-score percentile profile at the same position.
Supporting Cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Barry Odom
Pass share
52.0%
404 pass / 373 run
Plays / game
64.8
12 games
OL sack rate (allowed)
4.9%
348 dropbacks · PBP
Scheme: Balanced.
Coaching Lineage · 2024–2025
2 coaches2024
Ryan Walters
Purdue
2025era →
Barry Odom
Purdue
Coaching transition mid-career: Ryan Walters → Barry Odom. 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.
HometownKennesaw, GA
Height6'1"
Weight235 lb
Class2
PositionQB
Jersey3
No fields populated yet.
No fields populated yet.
Current teamPurdue
ConferenceBig Ten
Joined2025
Career arc3 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.