CFB Zeitgeist Score
62
Solid starter in the position cohort. Carried by rush yards at the 76th percentile.
Myles Montgomery
Filling the Shoesas of 2026-06-22
Myles Montgomery is a cornerstone for UCF — measured against the line he joined.
705RUSH YDS4RUSH TD143CARRIES
RUSHING VALUE · WEPA
+0.09
via your WEPA model · 2025 · 136 plays
Read the story so far
AI narrative · updated 2026-06-22 · compiled from CFB Zeitgeist data
2026 Outlook
Returning to UCF for 2026
2026 Depth chart
Returning starter
Running back · UCF
Returning around him
- 31% of 2024 offensive production back (Moderate turnover)
- 1 UCF player drafted to NFL
- Transfer portal: -4 net (31 in / 35 out)
2026 Award watch
No preseason watch lists yet (most drop June 15 – July 15)
UCF · Last season: 5-7 · Talent rank #43 · 2026 recruiting class #79
RB · UCF · BIG 12
Myles Montgomery
- 4
- #22
- 5-11 | 205 lb
- Jacksonville, FL
Heisman Heat
#262
<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 RB AWARD
Doak Walker
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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 · rushing yards
2022–2025+488%
Up 488% from first season to most-recent.
Career Arc
HS
Recruit
★★★
CFB
College
2 teams
NFL
NFL Draft
—
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 |
|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 3-star | 0.8556 | No. 1031 recruit | HighSchool |
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.
Achievements
- Program Benchmark 5.5% Program Benchmark Season leader for the program at the player's position across the headline volume metric (passing yards / rushing yards / receiving yards). Held by 5.5% of the 2025 pool. Team leader in rushing yards (705).
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
0.8556
#1031 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 Myles Montgomery
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 Myles Montgomery
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 rushing totals stand
Through 11g
705Rush yards
143Carries
4Rush TDs
Per game
64.1Rush yards
13Carries
0Rush TDs
Projected (13g)
833.2Rush yards
169Carries
5Rush TDs
To hit 750-yard season (currently 705): needs 22.5/game over remaining 2.
To hit 1,000-yard season (currently 705): needs 147.5/game over remaining 2.
To hit 1,500-yard season (currently 705): needs 397.5/game over remaining 2.
To hit 10 rushing TDs (currently 4): needs 3/game over remaining 2.
To hit 15 rushing TDs (currently 4): needs 5.5/game over remaining 2.
To hit 20 rushing TDs (currently 4): needs 8/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.
Myles Montgomery's story is about how role and output meet each other. For UCF, 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
RB 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?
Workhorse | Passing-game back against FBS RB peers.
2025 Season · Final
2025 season snapshot | final
Rushing
CAR
143 90th
YDS
705 88th
YPC
4.9 59th
TD
4 79th
Receiving
REC
17 80th
YDS
182 87th
YPR
10.7 82nd
TD
0 70th
Game Log · Week-by-week
2025 season · 11 games
| Wk | Opp | CAR | YDS | AVG | TD | LONG | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | W 17-10vs Jacksonville State | 21 | 79 | 3.8 | 0 | 13 | |
| Wk 2 | W 68-7vs North Carolina A&T | 8 | 35 | 4.4 | 0 | 15 | |
| Wk 4 | W 34-9vs North Carolina | 12 | 35 | 2.9 | 1 | 6 | |
| Wk 5 | L 20-34@ Kansas State | 10 | 119 | 11.9 | 0 | 45 | Season-high 119 yds |
| Wk 6 | L 20-27vs Kansas | 22 | 110 | 5.0 | 2 | 29 | |
| Wk 7 | L 11-20@ Cincinnati | 13 | 56 | 4.3 | 0 | 22 | |
| Wk 8 | W 45-13vs West Virginia | 14 | 88 | 6.3 | 0 | 39 | |
| Wk 10 | L 3-30@ Baylor | 12 | 50 | 4.2 | 0 | 17 | |
| Wk 11 | L 27-30vs Houston | 6 | 23 | 3.8 | 1 | 15 | |
| Wk 13 | W 17-14vs Oklahoma State | 18 | 81 | 4.5 | 0 | 31 | |
| Wk 14 | L 21-41@ BYU | 7 | 29 | 4.1 | 0 | 18 | |
| Total | 143 | 705 | 5.0 | 4 | 45 |
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
2022Cincinnati9-4HC: Luke Fickell · Balanced
2023Cincinnati3-9HC: Scott Satterfield · Run-leaning
2024UCF4-8HC: Gus Malzahn · Run-heavy
2025UCF5-7HC: Scott Frost · Balanced
| Season | Team | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | UCF | 143 | 705 | 4.9 | 4 | -- |
| 2024 | UCF | 51 | 293 | 5.7 | 3 | -- |
| 2023 | Cincinnati | 66 | 428 | 6.5 | 3 | -- |
| 2022 | Cincinnati | 14 | 120 | 8.6 | 1 | -- |
| Career | 4 loaded seasons | 274 | 1,546 | 5.6 | 11 | -- |
| Season | Team | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | UCF | 17 | 182 | 10.7 | 0 | -- |
| 2024 | UCF | 3 | 66 | 22.0 | 1 | -- |
| 2023 | Cincinnati | 5 | 5 | 1.0 | 0 | -- |
| 2022 | Cincinnati | 1 | 4 | 4.0 | 0 | -- |
| Career | 4 loaded seasons | 26 | 257 | 9.9 | 1 | -- |
Advanced layer Usage, value, and context
Advanced metrics second
Advanced Metrics
Usage, value, and opponent-adjusted context.
Opponent-adjusted rushing value. It helps separate empty volume from carries that actually move the scoreboard.
How much of the team's offense flows through this back once rushing work and receiving work are combined.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rushing | Rushing yards | 705 | #86/735 | 88th pct | Volumevs FBS RB |
| Rushing | Rush TD | 4 | #154/739 | 79th pct | Scoringvs FBS RB |
| Rushing | Yards / carry | 4.9 | #305/735 | 59th pct | Efficiencyvs FBS RB |
| Receiving | Receptions | 17 | #111/552 | 80th pct | Volumevs FBS RB |
| Receiving | Receiving yards | 182 | #74/548 | 87th pct | Volumevs FBS RB |
| Value | Rushing WEPA | +0.09 | #226/362 | 38th pct | Opponent-adjusted rushing value | 136 weighted playsvs FBS RB |
| Usage | Role share | 23.0% | #64/738 | 91st pct | Share of team offensevs FBS RB |
| Rushing | Carries | 143 | #76/739 | 90th pct | Volumevs FBS RB |
| Rushing | Rushing LONG | 45 | #201/733 | 73rd pct | Metricvs FBS RB |
| Receiving | Receiving LONG | 64 | #23/540 | 96th pct | Metricvs FBS RB |
| Receiving | Yards / catch | 10.7 | #98/548 | 82nd pct | Efficiencyvs FBS RB |
| Receiving | Receiving TD | 0 | #169/552 | 70th pct | Scoringvs FBS RB |
| Usage | Rush share | 40.9% | #57/738 | 92nd pct | Ground-game usagevs FBS RB |
| Usage | Standard-down usage | 26.6% | #66/738 | 91st pct | Base-situation sharevs FBS RB |
| Usage | 1st-down usage | 25.8% | #73/738 | 90th pct | Early-down loadvs FBS RB |
| Usage | 2nd-down usage | 23.1% | #62/738 | 92nd pct | Middle-down loadvs FBS RB |
| Usage | 3rd-down usage | 18.7% | #36/738 | 95th pct | Money-down loadvs FBS RB |
| Usage | Passing-down usage | 15.5% | #55/738 | 93rd pct | Known-passing sharevs FBS RB |
| Usage | Pass share | 7.2% | #77/738 | 90th pct | Air-game usagevs FBS RB |
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 | YPC | TD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Home7g | 64.4 | 4.4 | 0.6 |
| Road4g | 63.5 | 6.1 | 0.0 |
Win vs Loss
| YDS/g | YPC | TD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wins5g | 63.6 | 4.4 | 0.2 |
| Losses6g | 64.5 | 5.5 | 0.5 |
First half vs Second half
| YDS/g | YPC | TD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-76g | 72.3 | 5.4 | 0.5 |
| Weeks 8+5g | 54.2 | 4.6 | 0.2 |
Pocket and defense-quality (clean vs. pressure) splits are coming soon.
Savant · Box-rate percentiles
Where this profile ranks vs the RB cohort
62Solid starter
Production sits in the middle of the position cohort across the board.
Percentiles versus same-position peers with enough snaps this season, based on box-score rates.
Advanced Savant · RB · 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.
wepa_rushing0.09Low (p25–p50) (n=178)
Peer Comparator · Fingerprint match
Three closest profiles by box-rate percentile
Myles MontgomeryUCFRashod DubinionApp State· 91% simDominic RichardsonTulsa· 86% simKamari MoultonIowa· 86% sim
Rec yards
Carries
Rush yards
Receptions
Rush TDs
Long run
Yards / carry
Closest peers by overall box-score percentile profile at the same position.
Player DNA
The Balanced Back
Plays within the scheme — consistent production without a dominant dimension.
RB
His 2025 production profile sits closest to Christian Turner’s 2023 season.
Christian Turner
81%match
#2
Jalen Mitchell
81%
#3
Roman Hemby
All-Big Ten
80%
#4
Devin Mockobee
79%
#5
Alex Fontenot
79%
Matches Christian on
Yards / carry
Rush TD rate
Receiving share
Differs from Christian on
EPA / carry (adj) (lower)
Not enough data yet for this comparison.
As a senior, his production profile tracks closest to Anthony Watkins's senior season at Tulsa (2024).
Anthony Watkins
82%match
All-AAC
#2
Coleman Bennett
All-Conference USA
79%
#3
Michel Dukes
79%
#4
Larry McCammon III
All-Conference USA
78%
#5
Nathaniel Peat
76%
Matches Anthony on
Weight
Total rush EPA (college ability)
Yards / carry
Supporting Cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Scott Frost
Pass share
51.7%
403 pass / 377 run
Plays / game
65.0
12 games
OL sack rate (allowed)
6.5%
324 dropbacks · PBP
Scheme: Balanced.
Coaching Lineage · 2022–2025
2 coaches2022
Gus Malzahn
UCF
2023
Gus Malzahn
UCF
2024
Gus Malzahn
UCF
2025era →
Scott Frost
UCF
Coaching transition mid-career: Gus Malzahn → Scott Frost. 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.
HometownJacksonville, FL
Height5'11"
Weight205 lb
Class4
PositionRB
Jersey22
No fields populated yet.
No fields populated yet.
Current teamUCF
ConferenceBig 12
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 | UCF | RB4 | #262 | #348 | 0.0% | 0.0% | -- | -- | W16 snapshot | Big 12 |
| 2023 | Cincinnati | RB4 | #996 | #1410 | 0.0% | 0.0% | -- | -- | W19 snapshot | Big 12 |
| 2022 | Cincinnati | RB4 | #1549 | #1483 | 0.0% | 0.0% | -- | -- | W20 snapshot | American Athletic |
| 2021 | Cincinnati | RB4 | #1577 | #1055 | 0.0% | 0.0% | -- | -- | W20 snapshot | American Athletic |
Roster Timeline
Team, conference, and class by season.
| Season | Team | Conference | Pos | Class | Bio |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | UCF | Big 12 | RB | 4 | No. 22 | 5-11 | 205 lb | Jacksonville, FL |
| 2024 | UCF | Big 12 | RB | 4 | No. 22 | 5-11 | 205 lb | Jacksonville, FL |
| 2023 | Cincinnati | Big 12 | RB | 4 | No. 22 | 5-11 | 205 lb | Jacksonville, FL |
| 2022 | Cincinnati | American Athletic | RB | 4 | No. 22 | 5-11 | 205 lb | Jacksonville, FL |
| 2021 | Cincinnati | American Athletic | RB | 4 | No. 22 | 5-11 | 205 lb | Jacksonville, FL |