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Heisman / Players / Robbie Ouzts /Alabama

Robbie Ouzts

TE · Alabama · Sr · #45

Limited signal — not enough coverage for a story yet.

NOW IN NFLSeattle — drafted 2025, Rd 5, Pick 39, #175 overall

Where He Ended Up · NFL

SeattleEntering 2nd NFL season

#175Rd 5 · Pick 39
SeattleEntering 2nd NFL season

TE · ALABAMA · SEC

Robbie Ouzts

  • 4
  • #45
  • 6-4 | 270 lb
  • Rock Hill, SC

CFB Zeitgeist TE Score

Awaiting

Heisman Heat

#497

<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

CONSENSUS

All-American

Player Standing · 17 rungs

Tier 1 · 2-deep

R03 · Backup

Backup. On the two-deep, pushing for snaps.

Not on team2-deepStarterRecognizedEliteApex

Development Trajectory · receiving yards

2021–2024
8.02021
43.02022
33.02023
1082024

+1250%

Up 1250% from first season to most-recent.

Career Arc

HS
Recruit
★★★
#629 national
CFB
College
Alabama
2021–2024
NFL
NFL Draft
R5 &middot; #175
Seattle &middot; 2025

Identity & Role

The durable bio layer: position, size, hometown, and roster role.

PositionTE
Class4
Jersey45
Measurements6-4 | 270 lb
HometownRock Hill, SC
Primary teamAlabama

Recruiting Pedigree

How big the prospect was before college, and whether the later career arc beat that expectation.

Top pedigree 3-star No. 629 recruit
Composite rating 0.8730 HighSchool
Signed with -- 2021
Origin Rock Hill Rock Hill, SC, USA
Class Profile Context
2021 3-star | 0.8730 No. 629 recruit | HighSchool

Transfer Arc

Portal movement changes role, context, and perception. This keeps that path in one place.

Portal moves 0 No portal entry on file
Latest destination -- --
Transfer stars -- CFBD transfer rating context
Eligibility -- Transfer date TBD
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 16
Current nowcast#497Latest modeled ballot order
Season forecast#414Where the full season sim points
Win probability0.0%Chance to actually win the trophy
Finalist probability0.0%Chance to make the finalist tier
Ballot probability0.0%Chance to appear anywhere on a ballot
Best official finish--Best completed Heisman placement on file

Heisman 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

0.8730

#629 national

NFL Draft

2025 · Rd 5, Pick 39

#175 overall · Seattle

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

PENDING

The 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 Robbie Ouzts

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 Robbie Ouzts

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.

A 3-act season arc returns once this player has six or more games on the ledger.

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.

Robbie Ouzts's story is about how role and output meet each other. For Alabama, 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.

Current place #497 0.0% win | 0.0% finalist
Role load 1.7% Overall usage share
Profile quirk Development arc The card should explain why this profile stands out

2024 Season · Final

Traditional stats first. Advanced context underneath.

Last season

TE season snapshot

2024 season snapshot | final

2024 season snapshot | finalData: CFBD player stats + local Heisman modelPeer context: same position + same level
Receptions 8 2 rec TD | #215/475 (55th pct)
Receiving yards 108 13.5 per catch | #185/475 (61st pct)
Scrimmage yards 108 Total offensive yardage | #185/475 (61st pct)
Player identity What kind of player is this?

30-second read

What kind of player is this?

Big-play receiver against FBS receiving peers.

Big-play receiver

2024 Season · Final

2024 season snapshot | final

Receiving

REC
8 55th
YDS
108 61st
YPR
13.5 84th
TD
2 84th

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 rows Career row

Season context · Team result + system

2021Alabama12-1HC: Nick Saban · Balanced, fast tempo
2022Alabama11-2HC: Nick Saban · Balanced
2023Alabama12-2HC: Nick Saban · Run-heavy
2024Alabama9-4HC: Kalen DeBoer · Run-leaning
SeasonTeam
2024Alabama810813.52--
2023Alabama33311.01--
2022Alabama44310.80--
2021Alabama188.00--
Career4 loaded seasons1619212.03--
Advanced layer Usage, value, and context

Advanced metrics second

Advanced Metrics

Usage, value, and opponent-adjusted context.

Usage Value Context
Pass share

The tight end's share of the passing offense, which helps distinguish a featured receiving tight end from a secondary option.

Role share

A blended usage view that shows how often the offense flows through the tight end compared with other same-level peers.

Peer percentile

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.

Traditional first

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.

Usage 1.7% 3.7% pass-game share | #364/468 (22nd pct)
Return yards 0 0 return TD
Touchdowns 2 Across offense and returns | #79/475 (84th pct)
Open full stat explorer
0 metrics visible Showing all metrics
Group Metric Value Rank Pct Why it matters
Receiving Receptions 8 #215/475 55th pct Volumevs FBS TE
Receiving Receiving yards 108 #185/475 61st pct Volumevs FBS TE
Receiving Receiving TD 2 #79/475 84th pct Scoringvs FBS TE
Receiving Yards / catch 13.5 #79/475 84th pct Efficiencyvs FBS TE
Usage Pass share 3.7% #364/468 22nd pct Air-game usagevs FBS TE
Receiving Receiving LONG 44 #56/475 88th pct Metricvs FBS TE
Usage 2nd-down usage 3.4% #231/468 51st pct Middle-down loadvs FBS TE
Usage Standard-down usage 1.8% #370/468 21st pct Base-situation sharevs FBS TE
Usage Role share 1.7% #373/468 21st pct Share of team offensevs FBS TE
Usage Passing-down usage 1.5% #354/468 25th pct Known-passing sharevs FBS TE
Usage 3rd-down usage 1.2% #328/468 30th pct Money-down loadvs FBS TE
Usage 1st-down usage 0.9% #388/468 17th pct Early-down loadvs 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

StatusAwaiting 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 splits

Splits fill in once box scores from at least three games land for this season.

Box-score Savant card waits for a season-stat snapshot above the cohort floor. Returns once enough box-score volume lands.

Advanced Savant · TE · 2024

Percentile Card

Advanced opponent-adjusted percentile bars are coming soon for this player.

P4G5All FBS
EPA / dropback
awaiting
CPOE
awaiting
Success rate
awaiting
Explosive rate (20+)
awaiting
aDOT
awaiting
Deep-ball accuracy
awaiting
Pressure-to-sack
awaiting
3rd-down EPA
awaiting
Red-zone TD rate
awaiting
Play-action EPA
awaiting
Scramble EPA
awaiting
Turnover-worthy play rate
awaiting

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 returns once this player clears the Savant metric floor (4+ scored bars).
DNA Match awaiting data — similarity scores compute once season stats clear the volume gate for this position cohort.

Supporting Cast · Scheme

Staff and system around the player

2025 season

Head Coach

Kalen DeBoer

Pass share

53.4%

523 pass / 456 run

Plays / game

65.3

15 games

OL sack rate (allowed)

6.8%

384 dropbacks · PBP

Scheme: Balanced.

Coaching Lineage · 2021–2024

2 coaches
2021
Nick Saban
Alabama
2022
Nick Saban
Alabama
2023
Nick Saban
Alabama
2024
Kalen DeBoer
Alabama
era →

Coaching transition mid-career: Nick Saban → Kalen DeBoer. 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.

HometownRock Hill, SC
Height6'4"
Weight270 lb
Class4
PositionTE
Jersey45

Trophy Case · Detail

Every honor on the ledger, broken out by stream and selector.

Honors

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 Alabama TE4 #497 #414 0.0% 0.0% -- -- W16 snapshot | SEC
2023 Alabama TE4 #1228 #865 0.0% 0.0% -- -- W19 snapshot | SEC
2022 Alabama TE4 #1327 #912 0.0% 0.0% -- -- W20 snapshot | SEC
2021 Alabama TE4 #1696 #1168 0.0% 0.0% -- -- W20 snapshot | SEC

Roster Timeline

Team, conference, and class by season.

Season Team Conference Pos Class Bio
2024 Alabama SEC TE 4 No. 45 | 6-4 | 270 lb | Rock Hill, SC
2023 Alabama SEC TE 4 No. 45 | 6-4 | 270 lb | Rock Hill, SC
2022 Alabama SEC TE 4 No. 45 | 6-4 | 270 lb | Rock Hill, SC
2021 Alabama SEC TE 4 No. 45 | 6-4 | 270 lb | Rock Hill, SC