CFB Zeitgeist QB Score
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Mason Garcia
Limited signal — not enough coverage for a story yet.
QB · EAST CAROLINA · AMERICAN ATHLETIC
Mason Garcia
- 2
- #10
- 6-5 | 249 lb
- Myrtle Beach, SC
Heisman Heat
#1710
<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 0 · Not on teamR01 · Scout team / redshirt
Scout team / redshirt. Developing behind the depth chart.
Not on team2-deepStarterRecognizedEliteApex
Development Trajectory · passing yards
2021–2023+1843%
Up 1843% from first season to most-recent.
Career Arc
HS
Recruit
★★★★
CFB
College
East Carolina
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 |
|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 4-star | 0.8933 | No. 374 recruit | HighSchool |
Transfer Arc
Portal movement changes role, context, and perception. This keeps that path in one place.
| Season | Move | Context |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | East Carolina -> Austin Peay | 4-star | Immediate |
Heisman Lens · 2023 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 19Heisman 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
0.8933
#374 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 Mason Garcia
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 Mason Garcia
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.
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.
Mason Garcia's story is about how role and output meet each other. For East Carolina, 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.
2023 Season · Final
Traditional stats first. Advanced context underneath.
Last season
QB season snapshot
2023 season snapshot | final
2023 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.
2023 Season · Final
2023 season snapshot | final
Passing Efficiency
CMP
48 55th
ATT
95 59th
CMP%
50.5% 20th
Y/A
4.3 12th
Passing Production
YDS
408 51st
TD
1 44th
INT
2 52nd
Rushing
CAR
50 69th
YDS
227 81st
YPC
4.5 71st
TD
2 73rd
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 context · Team result + system
2021East Carolina7-5HC: Mike Houston · Balanced, fast tempo
2022East Carolina8-5HC: Mike Houston · Balanced
2023East Carolina2-10HC: Mike Houston · Balanced
| Season | Team | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | East Carolina | 48 | 95 | 50.5% | 408 | 4.3 | 1 | 2 | 85.9 | -- | -- |
| 2022 | East Carolina | 7 | 12 | 58.3% | 54 | 4.5 | 0 | 0 | 96.1 | -- | -- |
| 2021 | East Carolina | 2 | 3 | 66.7% | 21 | 7.0 | 1 | 1 | 168.8 | -- | -- |
| Career | 3 loaded seasons | 57 | 110 | 51.8% | 483 | 4.4 | 2 | 3 | 89.2 | -- | -- |
| Season | Team | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | East Carolina | 50 | 227 | 4.5 | 2 | -- |
| 2022 | East Carolina | 5 | 14 | 2.8 | 0 | -- |
| 2021 | East Carolina | 8 | 19 | 2.4 | 1 | -- |
| Career | 3 loaded seasons | 63 | 260 | 4.1 | 3 | -- |
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 | 408 | #190/382 | 51st pct | Volumevs FBS QB |
| Passing | Pass TD | 1 | #228/407 | 44th pct | Scoringvs FBS QB |
| Passing | Completions | 48 | #173/383 | 55th pct | Volumevs FBS QB |
| Passing | Completion % | 50.5% | #308/383 | 20th pct | Efficiencyvs FBS QB |
| Passing | Yards / attempt | 4.3 | #338/382 | 12th pct | Efficiencyvs FBS QB |
| Rushing | Rushing yards | 227 | #78/408 | 81st pct | Volumevs FBS QB |
| Usage | Role share | 3.7% | #368/428 | 14th pct | Share of team offensevs FBS QB |
| Passing | Attempts | 95 | #169/407 | 59th pct | Volumevs FBS QB |
| Passing | Interceptions | 2 | #195/407 | 52nd pct | Turnoversvs FBS QB |
| Rushing | Rushing LONG | 57 | #35/391 | 91st pct | Metricvs FBS QB |
| Rushing | Carries | 50 | #127/408 | 69th pct | Volumevs FBS QB |
| Rushing | Yards / carry | 4.5 | #118/407 | 71st pct | Efficiencyvs FBS QB |
| Rushing | Rush TD | 2 | #113/408 | 73rd pct | Scoringvs FBS QB |
| Usage | 3rd-down usage | 11.5% | #297/428 | 31st pct | Money-down loadvs FBS QB |
| Usage | Rush share | 5.3% | #271/428 | 37th pct | Ground-game usagevs FBS QB |
| Usage | Passing-down usage | 4.5% | #361/428 | 16th pct | Known-passing sharevs FBS QB |
| Usage | Standard-down usage | 3.3% | #363/428 | 15th pct | Base-situation sharevs FBS QB |
| Usage | 2nd-down usage | 2.2% | #386/428 | 10th pct | Middle-down loadvs FBS QB |
| Usage | 1st-down usage | 1.7% | #390/428 | 9th pct | Early-down loadvs FBS QB |
| Usage | Pass share | 1.7% | #400/428 | 7th pct | Air-game usagevs 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 splits
Splits fill in once box scores from at least three games land for this season.
Advanced Savant · QB · 2023
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.
Supporting Cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Blake Harrell
Pass share
44.5%
440 pass / 548 run
Plays / game
76.0
13 games
OL sack rate (allowed)
4.7%
343 dropbacks · PBP
Scheme: Run-leaning, fast tempo.
Coaching Lineage · 2021–2023
1 coach2021
Mike Houston
East Carolina
2022
Mike Houston
East Carolina
2023
Mike Houston
East Carolina
Played his entire career under Mike Houston.
Bio · Recruiting · Transfer · Roster
Off-field context — switch tabs to drill into recruit profile, transfer arc, or roster timeline.
HometownMyrtle Beach, SC
Height6'5"
Weight249 lb
Class2
PositionQB
Jersey10
No fields populated yet.
No fields populated yet.
Current teamEast Carolina
ConferenceAmerican Athletic
Joined2023
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.
| Season | Team | Role | Latest Model | Forecast | Win | Finalist | Official Finish | Points | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | East Carolina | QB2 | #1710 | #2176 | 0.0% | 0.0% | -- | -- | W19 snapshot | American Athletic |
| 2022 | East Carolina | QB2 | #1430 | #1386 | 0.0% | 0.0% | -- | -- | W20 snapshot | American Athletic |
| 2021 | East Carolina | QB2 | #1411 | #1458 | 0.0% | 0.0% | -- | -- | W20 snapshot | American Athletic |
Roster Timeline
Team, conference, and class by season.
| Season | Team | Conference | Pos | Class | Bio |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | East Carolina | American Athletic | QB | 2 | No. 10 | 6-5 | 249 lb | Myrtle Beach, SC |
| 2022 | East Carolina | American Athletic | QB | 2 | No. 10 | 6-5 | 249 lb | Myrtle Beach, SC |
| 2021 | East Carolina | American Athletic | QB | 2 | No. 10 | 6-5 | 249 lb | Myrtle Beach, SC |