CFB Zeitgeist Score
26
Below cohort in the position cohort. Carried by yards / catch at the 99th percentile.
Micah Barnett
Below the discourse floor — the honest stats-only state.
33 REC YDS · 2 REC · 0 REC TD
2026 Outlook
Returning to Rice for 2026
2026 Depth chart
Projected starter
Tight end · Rice
Returning around him
- 75% of 2024 offensive production back (Strong continuity)
- Transfer portal: -2 net (20 in / 22 out)
2026 Award watch
No preseason watch lists yet (most drop June 15 – July 15)
Rice · Last season: 5-8 · Talent rank #106 · 2026 recruiting class #100
TE · RICE · AMERICAN ATHLETIC
Micah Barnett
- 4
- #49
- 6-2 | 234 lb
- Dickinson, TX
Heisman Heat
#4398
<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
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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
2022–2025+560%
Up 560% from first season to most-recent.
Career Arc
HS
Recruit
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CFB
College
Rice
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 Micah Barnett
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 Micah Barnett
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.
Season Pace · Projection
Where the receiving totals stand
Through 2g
33Rec yards
2Receptions
0Rec TDs
Per game
16.5Rec yards
1Receptions
0Rec TDs
Projected (13g)
214.5Rec yards
13Receptions
0Rec TDs
To hit 700-yard receiver (currently 33): needs 60.6/game over remaining 11.
To hit 1,000-yard receiver (currently 33): needs 87.9/game over remaining 11.
To hit 60-catch season (currently 2): needs 5.3/game over remaining 11.
To hit 80-catch season (currently 2): needs 7.1/game over remaining 11.
To hit 8 receiving TDs (currently 0): needs 0.7/game over remaining 11.
To hit 10 receiving TDs (currently 0): needs 0.9/game over remaining 11.
What made this player interesting
The fast read on the thing that makes this player more than a generic stat line.
Micah Barnett's story is about how role and output meet each other. For Rice, 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
TE 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?
Big-play receiver against FBS receiving peers.
2025 Season · Final
2025 season snapshot | final
Receiving
REC
2 27th
YDS
33 34th
YPR
16.5 93rd
TD
0 46th
Game Log · Week-by-week
2025 season · 2 games
| Wk | Opp | REC | YDS | AVG | TD | LONG | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 9 | W 37-34vs UConn | 1 | 28 | 28.0 | 0 | 28 | Season-high 28 yds |
| Wk 13 | L 24-56vs North Texas | 1 | 5 | 5.0 | 0 | 5 | |
| Total | 2 | 33 | 16.5 | 0 | 28 |
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
2022Rice5-8HC: Mike Bloomgren · Run-leaning
2023Rice6-7HC: Mike Bloomgren · Balanced, slow tempo
2024Rice4-8HC: Mike Bloomgren · Pass-leaning
2025Rice5-8HC: Scott Abell · Run-heavy
Advanced layer Usage, value, and context
Advanced metrics second
Advanced Metrics
Usage, value, and opponent-adjusted context.
The tight end's share of the passing offense, which helps distinguish a featured receiving tight end from a secondary option.
A blended usage view that shows how often the offense flows through the tight end compared with other same-level peers.
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 |
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| Receiving | Receptions | 2 | #349/475 | 27th pct | Volumevs FBS TE |
| Receiving | Receiving yards | 33 | #316/475 | 34th pct | Volumevs FBS TE |
| Receiving | Receiving TD | 0 | #257/475 | 46th pct | Scoringvs FBS TE |
| Receiving | Yards / catch | 16.5 | #33/475 | 93rd pct | Efficiencyvs FBS TE |
| Usage | Pass share | 18.2% | #10/468 | 98th pct | Air-game usagevs FBS TE |
| Receiving | Receiving LONG | 28 | #149/475 | 69th pct | Metricvs FBS TE |
| Usage | Passing-down usage | 10.0% | #22/468 | 96th pct | Known-passing sharevs FBS TE |
| Usage | 3rd-down usage | 7.1% | #73/468 | 85th pct | Money-down loadvs FBS TE |
| Usage | 1st-down usage | 6.1% | #40/468 | 92nd pct | Early-down loadvs FBS TE |
| Usage | Role share | 5.3% | #71/468 | 85th pct | Share of team offensevs FBS TE |
| Usage | 2nd-down usage | 3.7% | #211/468 | 55th pct | Middle-down loadvs FBS TE |
| Usage | Standard-down usage | 3.6% | #157/468 | 67th pct | Base-situation sharevs 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
Status—Awaiting 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 · 2 games
Home vs Road
| REC/g | YDS/g | YPR | TD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home2g | 1.0 | 16.5 | 16.5 | 0.0 |
Win vs Loss
| REC/g | YDS/g | YPR | TD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wins1g | 1.0 | 28.0 | 28.0 | 0.0 |
| Losses1g | 1.0 | 5.0 | 5.0 | 0.0 |
First half vs Second half
| REC/g | YDS/g | YPR | TD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 8+2g | 1.0 | 16.5 | 16.5 | 0.0 |
Pocket and defense-quality (clean vs. pressure) splits are coming soon.
Savant · Box-rate percentiles
Where this profile ranks vs the TE cohort
26Below cohort
Elite: yards / catch (98th). Concern: receptions (0th).
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
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
Micah BarnettRiceLuke LindenmeyerNebraska· 51% simDecker DeGraafWashington· 48% simRiley NowakowskiIndiana· 45% sim
Yards / catch
Long catch
Rec TDs
Rec yards
Receptions
Closest peers by overall box-score percentile profile at the same position.
Supporting Cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Scott Abell
Pass share
26.0%
224 pass / 636 run
Plays / game
66.2
13 games
OL sack rate (allowed)
11.6%
147 dropbacks · PBP
Scheme: Run-heavy.
Coaching Lineage · 2022–2025
2 coaches2022
Mike Bloomgren
Rice
2023
Mike Bloomgren
Rice
2024
Mike Bloomgren
Rice
2025era →
Scott Abell
Rice
Coaching transition mid-career: Mike Bloomgren → Scott Abell. 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.
HometownDickinson, TX
Height6'2"
Weight234 lb
Class4
PositionTE
Jersey49
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No fields populated yet.
Current teamRice
ConferenceAmerican Athletic
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.
| Season | Team | Role | Latest Model | Forecast | Win | Finalist | Official Finish | Points | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Rice | TE4 | #4398 | #5014 | 0.0% | 0.0% | -- | -- | W16 snapshot | American Athletic |
| 2023 | Rice | TE4 | #4310 | #4266 | 0.0% | 0.0% | -- | -- | W19 snapshot | American Athletic |
| 2022 | Rice | TE4 | #5007 | #5486 | 0.0% | 0.0% | -- | -- | W20 snapshot | Conference USA |
Roster Timeline
Team, conference, and class by season.
| Season | Team | Conference | Pos | Class | Bio |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Rice | American Athletic | TE | 4 | No. 49 | 6-2 | 234 lb | Dickinson, TX |
| 2024 | Rice | American Athletic | TE | 4 | No. 49 | 6-2 | 234 lb | Dickinson, TX |
| 2023 | Rice | American Athletic | TE | 4 | No. 49 | 6-2 | 234 lb | Dickinson, TX |
| 2022 | Rice | Conference USA | TE | 4 | No. 49 | 6-2 | 234 lb | Dickinson, TX |