CFB Zeitgeist Score
53
Mid-pack in the position cohort. Carried by yards / catch at the 83rd percentile.
Noah Thomas
Below the discourse floor — the honest stats-only state.
254 REC YDS · 16 REC · 4 REC TD
2026 Outlook
Returning to Georgia for 2026
2026 Depth chart
Projected starter
Wide receiver · Georgia
Returning around him
- 37% of 2024 offensive production back (Moderate turnover)
- 8 Georgia players drafted to NFL
- Transfer portal: -7 net (9 in / 16 out)
2026 Award watch
No preseason watch lists yet (most drop June 15 – July 15)
Georgia · Last season: 12-2 (AP #2) · Talent rank #1 · 2026 recruiting class #2
WR · GEORGIA · SEC
Noah Thomas
- 4
- #5
- 6-5 | 205 lb
- League City, TX
Heisman Heat
#2423
<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 WR AWARD
Biletnikoff
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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 · receiving yards
2022–2025+398%
Up 398% from first season to most-recent.
Career Arc
HS
Recruit
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Texas A&M -> Georgia | 4-star | 0.9300 | 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.
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 Noah Thomas
Fan sentiment ·
Belief Meter
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Awaiting per-cohort signal
Top Take
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Trajectory
Per-cohort trajectory lands when historical bucket data is aggregated.
Cohort divergence map
- National · n=2
Rival Radar
How rival fanbases talk about Noah Thomas
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 6g
254Rec yards
16Receptions
4Rec TDs
Per game
42.3Rec yards
3Receptions
1Rec TDs
Projected (13g)
550.3Rec yards
35Receptions
9Rec TDs
To hit 700-yard receiver (currently 254): needs 63.7/game over remaining 7.
To hit 1,000-yard receiver (currently 254): needs 106.6/game over remaining 7.
To hit 60-catch season (currently 16): needs 6.3/game over remaining 7.
To hit 80-catch season (currently 16): needs 9.1/game over remaining 7.
To hit 8 receiving TDs (currently 4): needs 0.6/game over remaining 7.
To hit 10 receiving TDs (currently 4): needs 0.9/game over remaining 7.
What made this player interesting
The fast read on the thing that makes this player more than a generic stat line.
Noah Thomas's story is about how role and output meet each other. For Georgia, 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
WR 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
16 58th
YDS
254 64th
YPR
15.9 81st
TD
4 86th
Game Log · Week-by-week
2025 season · 6 games
| Wk | Opp | REC | YDS | AVG | TD | LONG | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 2 | W 28-6vs Austin Peay | 3 | 24 | 8.0 | 0 | 11 | |
| Wk 7 | W 20-10@ Auburn | 1 | 30 | 30.0 | 0 | 30 | |
| Wk 10 | W 24-20@ Florida | 1 | 22 | 22.0 | 1 | 22 | |
| Wk 11 | W 41-21@ Mississippi State | 3 | 78 | 26.0 | 1 | 64 | Season-high 78 yds |
| Wk 12 | W 35-10vs Texas | 4 | 32 | 8.0 | 2 | 17 | 2 TD catches |
| Wk 13 | W 35-3vs Charlotte | 4 | 68 | 17.0 | 0 | 38 | |
| Total | 16 | 254 | 18.5 | 4 | 64 |
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
2022Texas A&M5-7HC: Jimbo Fisher · Balanced
2023Texas A&M7-6HC: Elijah Robinson · Balanced
2025Georgia12-2HC: Kirby Smart · Run-leaning
Advanced layer Usage, value, and context
Advanced metrics second
Advanced Metrics
Usage, value, and opponent-adjusted context.
The player's share of a team's passing-game involvement. It is the fastest way to see whether the receiver is a true focal point or more of a complementary piece.
A blended workload view that accounts for catches, designed touches, and any return-game involvement that shapes the overall profile.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Receiving | Receptions | 16 | #465/1110 | 58th pct | Volumevs FBS WR |
| Receiving | Receiving yards | 254 | #405/1107 | 64th pct | Volumevs FBS WR |
| Receiving | Receiving TD | 4 | #152/1111 | 86th pct | Scoringvs FBS WR |
| Receiving | Yards / catch | 15.9 | #213/1106 | 81st pct | Efficiencyvs FBS WR |
| Usage | Pass share | 8.9% | #537/1137 | 53rd pct | Air-game usagevs FBS WR |
| Receiving | Receiving LONG | 64 | #136/1105 | 88th pct | Metricvs FBS WR |
| Usage | 2nd-down usage | 4.5% | #575/1137 | 50th pct | Middle-down loadvs FBS WR |
| Usage | Standard-down usage | 4.2% | #494/1137 | 57th pct | Base-situation sharevs FBS WR |
| Usage | 1st-down usage | 4.1% | #547/1137 | 52nd pct | Early-down loadvs FBS WR |
| Usage | Passing-down usage | 4.1% | #804/1137 | 29th pct | Known-passing sharevs FBS WR |
| Usage | Role share | 4.1% | #596/1137 | 48th pct | Share of team offensevs FBS WR |
| Usage | 3rd-down usage | 3.9% | #742/1137 | 35th pct | Money-down loadvs FBS WR |
| Usage | Rush share | 0.0% | #391/1137 | 66th pct | Ground-game usagevs FBS WR |
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 · 6 games
Home vs Road
| REC/g | YDS/g | YPR | TD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home3g | 3.7 | 41.3 | 11.0 | 0.7 |
| Road3g | 1.7 | 43.3 | 26.0 | 0.7 |
Win vs Loss
| REC/g | YDS/g | YPR | TD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wins6g | 2.7 | 42.3 | 18.5 | 0.7 |
First half vs Second half
| REC/g | YDS/g | YPR | TD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-72g | 2.0 | 27.0 | 19.0 | 0.0 |
| Weeks 8+4g | 3.0 | 50.0 | 18.2 | 1.0 |
Pocket and defense-quality (clean vs. pressure) splits are coming soon.
Savant · Box-rate percentiles
Where this profile ranks vs the WR cohort
53Mid-pack
Elite: yards / catch (83rd). Concern: receptions (15th).
Percentiles versus same-position peers with enough snaps this season, based on box-score rates.
Advanced Savant · WR · 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
Noah ThomasGeorgiaHarrison Wallace IIIOle Miss· 55% simNik McMillanBuffalo· 54% simKyre DuplessisDelaware· 54% sim
Yards / catch
Long catch
Rec TDs
Rec yards
Receptions
Closest peers by overall box-score percentile profile at the same position.
Player DNA
The Jump-Ball Target
Wins contested catches at the goal line. Size and catch radius are the weapons.
WR
His 2025 production profile sits closest to Carlos Carriere’s 2021 season.
Carlos Carriere
78%match
#2
John Stephens
74%
#3
Michael Fitzgerald
71%
#4
John Mitchell
68%
#5
Justus Ross-Simmons
67%
Matches Carlos on
Total EPA (college ability)
Yards / reception
Reception volume
Differs from Carlos on
TD rate (higher)
Class year (higher)
Through 3 college seasons, his career arc tracks closest to Dai'Jean Dixon’s path through Nicholls.
Dai'Jean Dixon
100%match
#2
Jermaine Jackson
99%
#3
Terrace Marshall
96%
#4
Ben Ratzlaff
94%
#5
Jalen Camp
NFL Rd 6
93%
Matches Dai'Jean on
Yards per reception
As a senior, his production profile tracks closest to Justus Ross-Simmons's senior season at Syracuse (2025).
Justus Ross-Simmons
73%match
#2
Dan Dishman
61%
#3
Joseph Manjack
55%
#4
Rocky Beers
All-Mountain West
54%
#5
Lance Mason
All-Big Ten
44%
Matches Justus on
Total EPA (college ability)
Yards / reception
Weight
Differs from Justus on
Height (higher)
Supporting Cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Kirby Smart
Pass share
42.5%
417 pass / 565 run
Plays / game
70.1
14 games
OL sack rate (allowed)
6.2%
290 dropbacks · PBP
Scheme: Run-leaning.
Coaching Lineage · 2022–2025
1 coach2022
Kirby Smart
Georgia
2023
Kirby Smart
Georgia
2025
Kirby Smart
Georgia
Played his entire career under Kirby Smart.
Bio · Recruiting · Transfer · Roster
Off-field context — switch tabs to drill into recruit profile, transfer arc, or roster timeline.
HometownLeague City, TX
Height6'5"
Weight205 lb
Class4
PositionWR
Jersey5
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Current teamGeorgia
ConferenceSEC
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.
Roster Timeline
Team, conference, and class by season.