CFB Zeitgeist Score
20
Below cohort in the position cohort. Carried by interceptions at the 99th percentile.
Mike Wright
Below the discourse floor — the honest stats-only state.
13 PASS YDS · 0 PASS TD · 72 RUSH YDS
2026 Outlook
Returning to East Carolina for 2026
2026 Depth chart
Returning starter
Quarterback · East Carolina
Returning around him
- 51% of 2024 offensive production back (Solid continuity)
- 1 East Carolina player drafted to NFL
- Transfer portal: -3 net (23 in / 26 out)
2026 Award watch
No preseason watch lists yet (most drop June 15 – July 15)
East Carolina · Last season: 9-4 · Talent rank #78 · 2026 recruiting class #77
QB · EAST CAROLINA · AMERICAN ATHLETIC
Mike Wright
- 4
- #11
- 6-4 | 195 lb
- Atlanta, GA
Heisman Heat
#563
<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 · StarterR05 · Part-time starter
Part-time starter. Splitting first-team reps.
Not on team2-deepStarterRecognizedEliteApex
Development Trajectory · passing yards
2021–2025-99%
Sharp dropoff (-99%) — career inflection point.
Career Arc
HS
Recruit
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CFB
College
4 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 Mike Wright
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 Mike Wright
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 passing totals stand
Through 12g
13Pass yards
0Pass TDs
0INT
Per game
1.1Pass yards
0Pass TDs
0INT
Projected (13g)
14.1Pass yards
0Pass TDs
0INT
To hit 3,000-yard season (currently 13): needs 2,987/game over remaining 1.
To hit 4,000-yard season (currently 13): needs 3,987/game over remaining 1.
To hit 25 passing TDs (currently 0): needs 25/game over remaining 1.
To hit 30 passing TDs (currently 0): needs 30/game over remaining 1.
To hit 35 passing TDs (currently 0): needs 35/game over remaining 1.
What made this player interesting
The fast read on the thing that makes this player more than a generic stat line.
Mike Wright'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.
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?
Balanced quarterback 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
3 16th
ATT
7 24th
CMP%
42.9% 7th
Y/A
1.9 2nd
Passing Production
YDS
13 7th
TD
0 30th
INT
0 100th
Rushing
CAR
18 49th
YDS
72 60th
YPC
4.0 65th
TD
2 73rd
Game Log · Week-by-week
2025 season · 12 games
| Wk | Opp | CMP/ATT | YDS | TD | INT | YPA | QBR | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | L 17-24@ NC State | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| Wk 2 | W 56-3vs Campbell | 3/5 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 2.6 | 4.5 | Season-high 13 yds |
| Wk 3 | W 38-0@ Coastal Carolina | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| Wk 5 | W 28-6vs Army | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| Wk 7 | L 19-26@ Tulane | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| Wk 8 | W 41-27vs Tulsa | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| Wk 10 | W 45-14@ Temple | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| Wk 11 | W 48-22vs Charlotte | 0/1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 1.0 | |
| Wk 12 | W 31-27vs Memphis | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| Wk 13 | L 24-58@ UTSA | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| Wk 14 | W 42-3@ Florida Atlantic | 0/1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 77.6 | |
| Bowl | W 23-17vs Pittsburgh | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| Total | 3/7 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 0.9 | 27.7 |
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
2021Vanderbilt2-10HC: Clark Lea · Balanced
2022Vanderbilt5-7HC: Clark Lea · Run-leaning
2023Mississippi State5-7HC: Greg Knox · Run-leaning, slow tempo
2024Northwestern4-8HC: David Braun · Balanced, slow tempo
2025East Carolina9-4HC: Blake Harrell · Run-leaning, fast tempo
| Season | Team | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | East Carolina | 3 | 7 | 42.9% | 13 | 1.9 | 0 | 0 | 58.5 | -- | -- |
| 2024 | Northwestern | 39 | 67 | 58.2% | 356 | 5.3 | 0 | 1 | 99.9 | -- | -- |
| 2023 | Mississippi State | 48 | 85 | 56.5% | 453 | 5.3 | 3 | 3 | 105.8 | -- | -- |
| 2022 | Vanderbilt | 85 | 148 | 57.4% | 974 | 6.6 | 12 | 4 | 134.1 | -- | -- |
| 2021 | Vanderbilt | 93 | 175 | 53.1% | 1,042 | 6.0 | 8 | 6 | 111.4 | -- | -- |
| Career | 5 loaded seasons | 268 | 482 | 55.6% | 2,838 | 5.9 | 23 | 14 | 115.0 | -- | -- |
| Season | Team | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | East Carolina | 18 | 72 | 4.0 | 2 | -- |
| 2024 | Northwestern | 17 | 82 | 4.8 | 1 | -- |
| 2023 | Mississippi State | 71 | 324 | 4.6 | 3 | -- |
| 2022 | Vanderbilt | 71 | 517 | 7.3 | 5 | -- |
| 2021 | Vanderbilt | 91 | 376 | 4.1 | 1 | -- |
| Career | 5 loaded seasons | 268 | 1,371 | 5.1 | 12 | -- |
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 | 13 | #358/382 | 7th pct | Volumevs FBS QB |
| Passing | Pass TD | 0 | #285/407 | 30th pct | Scoringvs FBS QB |
| Passing | Completions | 3 | #321/383 | 16th pct | Volumevs FBS QB |
| Passing | Completion % | 42.9% | #356/383 | 7th pct | Efficiencyvs FBS QB |
| Passing | Yards / attempt | 1.9 | #374/382 | 2nd pct | Efficiencyvs FBS QB |
| Rushing | Rushing yards | 72 | #166/408 | 60th pct | Volumevs FBS QB |
| Value | Passing WEPA | +0.25 | #113/200 | 44th pct | Opponent-adjusted passing value | 67 weighted playsvs FBS QB |
| Usage | Role share | 3.8% | #363/428 | 15th pct | Share of team offensevs FBS QB |
| Passing | Attempts | 7 | #309/407 | 24th pct | Volumevs FBS QB |
| Passing | Interceptions | 0 | #1/407 | 100th pct | Turnoversvs FBS QB |
| Rushing | Carries | 18 | #208/408 | 49th pct | Volumevs FBS QB |
| Rushing | Rushing LONG | 18 | #192/391 | 51st pct | Metricvs FBS QB |
| Rushing | Yards / carry | 4.0 | #143/407 | 65th pct | Efficiencyvs FBS QB |
| Rushing | Rush TD | 2 | #113/408 | 73rd pct | Scoringvs FBS QB |
| Usage | 1st-down usage | 5.4% | #318/428 | 26th pct | Early-down loadvs FBS QB |
| Usage | Standard-down usage | 4.4% | #341/428 | 21st pct | Base-situation sharevs FBS QB |
| Usage | Pass share | 3.8% | #363/428 | 15th pct | Air-game usagevs FBS QB |
| Usage | Rush share | 3.8% | #305/428 | 29th pct | Ground-game usagevs FBS QB |
| Usage | 2nd-down usage | 2.6% | #377/428 | 12th pct | Middle-down loadvs FBS QB |
| Usage | 3rd-down usage | 2.5% | #392/428 | 9th pct | Money-down loadvs FBS QB |
| Usage | Passing-down usage | 2.0% | #382/428 | 11th pct | Known-passing sharevs 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 · 12 games
Home vs Road
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home6g | 2.2 | 0.0 | 1.3 | 0.0 |
| Road6g | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
Win vs Loss
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wins9g | 1.4 | 0.0 | 0.9 | 0.0 |
| Losses3g | — | — | — | — |
First half vs Second half
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-76g | 2.2 | 0.0 | 2.6 | 0.0 |
| Weeks 8+6g | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
Pocket and defense-quality (clean vs. pressure) splits are coming soon.
Savant · Box-rate percentiles
Where this profile ranks vs the QB cohort
20Below cohort
Elite: interceptions (99th). Concern: yards / att (0th).
Percentiles versus same-position peers with enough snaps this season, based on box-score rates.
Advanced Savant · QB · 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
Mike WrightEast CarolinaNick VattiatoMiddle Tennessee· 58% simRyan BrownePurdue· 56% simLogan FifeNew Mexico State· 53% sim
Interceptions
Rush TDs
Rush yards
Completion %
Pass yards
Pass TDs
Yards / att
Closest peers by overall box-score percentile profile at the same position.
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 · 2021–2025
2 coaches2021
Mike Houston
East Carolina
2022
Mike Houston
East Carolina
2023
Mike Houston
East Carolina
2024
Mike Houston
East Carolina
2025era →
Blake Harrell
East Carolina
Coaching transition mid-career: Mike Houston → Blake Harrell. 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.
HometownAtlanta, GA
Height6'4"
Weight195 lb
Class4
PositionQB
Jersey11
No fields populated yet.
No fields populated yet.
Current teamEast Carolina
ConferenceAmerican Athletic
Joined2025
Career arc5 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 | Northwestern | QB4 | #563 | #626 | 0.0% | 0.0% | -- | -- | W16 snapshot | Big Ten |
| 2023 | Mississippi State | QB4 | #556 | #652 | 0.0% | 0.0% | -- | -- | W19 snapshot | SEC |
| 2022 | Vanderbilt | QB4 | #224 | #379 | 0.0% | 0.0% | -- | -- | W20 snapshot | SEC |
| 2021 | Vanderbilt | QB4 | #548 | #797 | 0.0% | 0.0% | -- | -- | W20 snapshot | SEC |
Roster Timeline
Team, conference, and class by season.
| Season | Team | Conference | Pos | Class | Bio |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | East Carolina | American Athletic | QB | 4 | No. 11 | 6-4 | 195 lb | Atlanta, GA |
| 2024 | Northwestern | Big Ten | QB | 4 | No. 11 | 6-4 | 195 lb | Atlanta, GA |
| 2023 | Mississippi State | SEC | QB | 4 | No. 11 | 6-4 | 195 lb | Atlanta, GA |
| 2022 | Vanderbilt | SEC | QB | 4 | No. 11 | 6-4 | 195 lb | Atlanta, GA |
| 2021 | Vanderbilt | SEC | QB | 4 | No. 11 | 6-4 | 195 lb | Atlanta, GA |