CFB Zeitgeist P Score
Awaiting
Ryan Eckley
Below the discourse floor — the honest stats-only state.
1 TACKLES · 0 SACKS
Where He Ended Up · NFL
Baltimore2026 NFL rookie season
P · MICHIGAN STATE · BIG TEN
CFB Zeitgeist P Score
Awaiting
Heisman Heat
#15794
<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 P AWARD
Ray Guy
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CONSENSUS
All-American
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Player Standing · 17 rungs
Tier 2 · StarterImpact starter. Producing measurable value above replacement.
Career arc · Season-by-season Standing
2 seasons on the ladder
2023
Michigan State · P
R09 · All-Conference HM / 2nd team
Recognized
2025
Michigan State · P
R09 · All-Conference HM / 2nd team
Recognized
Career Arc
The durable bio layer: position, size, hometown, and roster role.
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. | ||
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. | ||
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.
Selector Grid · 2025
NIL · Recruiting · NFL Draft
Market value, pedigree & pro outcome
NFL Draft
2026 · Rd 6, Pick 30
#211 overall · Baltimore
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.
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 reads how different fanbases talk about this player. Returns once weekly mentions clear the publish floor.
Rival Radar
No rival-bucket mentions in the current season.
Signature Story
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.
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.
The fast read on the thing that makes this player more than a generic stat line.
The useful clue on this card is not just the Heisman rank, but the broader honors spine. Ryan Eckley already has 4 loaded recognition items, which helps distinguish a player who is merely productive from one who is already earning selector-level validation.
Traditional stats first. Advanced context underneath.
Last season
2025 season snapshot | final
30-second read
This player profile will sharpen as more advanced context is loaded.
Game Log · Week-by-week
2025 season · 12 games
| Wk | Opp | PUNT | YDS | AVG | LONG | IN20 | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | W 23-6vs Western Michigan | 6 | 308 | 51.3 | 59 | 4 | |
| Wk 2 | W 42-40vs Boston College | 3 | 164 | 54.7 | 60 | 3 | |
| Wk 3 | W 41-24vs Youngstown State | 1 | 48 | 48.0 | 48 | 0 | |
| Wk 4 | L 31-45@ USC | 3 | 169 | 56.3 | 57 | 2 | |
| Wk 6 | L 27-38@ Nebraska | 4 | 204 | 51.0 | 54 | 0 | |
| Wk 7 | L 13-38vs UCLA | 3 | 135 | 45.0 | 48 | 0 | |
| Wk 8 | L 13-38@ Indiana | 1 | 50 | 50.0 | 50 | 0 | |
| Wk 9 | L 20-31vs Michigan | 7 | 332 | 47.4 | 55 | 2 | |
| Wk 10 | L 20-23@ Minnesota | 5 | 231 | 46.2 | 49 | 1 | |
| Wk 12 | L 10-28vs Penn State | 5 | 242 | 48.4 | 58 | 3 | |
| Wk 13 | L 17-20@ Iowa | 6 | 257 | 42.8 | 58 | 1 | |
| Wk 14 | W 38-28vs Maryland | 5 | 238 | 47.6 | 54 | 4 | |
| Total | 49 | 2378 | 49.1 | 60 | 20 |
Traditional history
Season rows up top, career context at the bottom.
Season context · Team result + system
Advanced metrics second
Usage, value, and opponent-adjusted context.
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.
| Group | Metric | Value | Rank | Pct | Why it matters |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Defense | Solo tackles | 1 | #63/282 | 78th pct | Volumevs FBS peers |
| Defense | Total tackles | 1 | #109/388 | 72nd pct | Volumevs FBS peers |
| Defense | Sacks | 0.0 | #15/390 | 96th pct | Disruptionvs FBS peers |
| Defense | TFL | 0.0 | #20/390 | 95th pct | Disruptionvs FBS peers |
| Kicking | Kicking FGA | 1 | #174/188 | 8th pct | Metricvs FBS peers |
| Punting | Punting YDS | 2,378 | #46/179 | 75th pct | Metricvs FBS peers |
| Punting | Punting LONG | 60 | #86/179 | 53rd pct | Metricvs FBS peers |
| Punting | Punting NO | 49 | #62/179 | 66th pct | Metricvs FBS peers |
| Punting | Punting YPP | 48 | #5/179 | 98th pct | Metricvs FBS peers |
| Punting | Punting IN 20 | 20 | #28/166 | 84th pct | Metricvs FBS peers |
| Punting | Punting TB | 1 | #111/142 | 23rd pct | Metricvs FBS peers |
Universal 17-step ladder. Tier pills below; accolade streams nested.
ALL-CONF HM
ALL-CONF HM · Rung 9 of 16
Why he’s here
All-Conference honorable mention / 2nd team — the recognition has started.
What moves him up
A best-at-position run lifts to 1st team.
What moves him down
A back-end conference finish drops out of the honor list.
Accolade streams
The Ray Guy 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 · 12 games
Home vs Road
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home7g | — | — | — | — |
| Road5g | — | — | — | — |
Win vs Loss
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wins4g | — | — | — | — |
| Losses8g | — | — | — | — |
First half vs Second half
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-76g | — | — | — | — |
| Weeks 8+6g | — | — | — | — |
Pocket and defense-quality (clean vs. pressure) splits are coming soon.
Advanced Savant · P · 2024
Advanced opponent-adjusted percentile bars are coming soon for this player.
Opponent-adjusted advanced metrics with a cohort filter.
Supporting Cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Jonathan Smith
Pass share
49.7%
378 pass / 382 run
Plays / game
63.3
12 games
OL sack rate (allowed)
11.2%
303 dropbacks · PBP
Scheme: Balanced.
Coaching Lineage · 2023–2025
2 coachesCoaching transition mid-career: Mel Tucker → Jonathan Smith. Worth noting in scheme + development context.
Off-field context — switch tabs to drill into recruit profile, transfer arc, or roster timeline.
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Trophy Case · Confirmed honors
What the selectors said
ALL-CONFERENCE · 1ST TEAM
All-Conf 1st team (2025)
All-Big Ten
Every honor on the ledger, broken out by stream and selector.
Conference-level recognition helps anchor whether a player is merely statistically loud or actually viewed as elite within his competitive lane.
Season-end distinction and week-by-week recognition on one timeline.
| Season | Honor | Scope | Team / Selector | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | All-Big Ten | all_conference | Michigan State | Big Ten | P |
| 2025 | All-Big Ten | all_conference | Michigan State | Big Ten | EDDL |
| 2024 | All-Big Ten | all_conference | Michigan State | Big Ten | P |
| 2023 | All-Big Ten | all_conference | Michigan State | Big Ten | P |
Modeled rank and official finish by season.
| Season | Team | Role | Latest Model | Forecast | Win | Finalist | Official Finish | Points | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Michigan State | P3 | #15794 | #15727 | 0.0% | 0.0% | -- | -- | W16 snapshot | Big Ten |
| 2023 | Michigan State | P3 | #15959 | #15972 | 0.0% | 0.0% | -- | -- | W19 snapshot | Big Ten |
| 2022 | Michigan State | P3 | #15264 | #15257 | 0.0% | 0.0% | -- | -- | W20 snapshot | Big Ten |
Team, conference, and class by season.
| Season | Team | Conference | Pos | Class | Bio |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Michigan State | Big Ten | P | 3 | No. 96 | 6-2 | 207 lb | Lithia, FL |
| 2024 | Michigan State | Big Ten | P | 3 | No. 96 | 6-2 | 207 lb | Lithia, FL |
| 2023 | Michigan State | Big Ten | P | 3 | No. 96 | 6-2 | 207 lb | Lithia, FL |
| 2022 | Michigan State | Big Ten | P | 3 | No. 96 | 6-2 | 207 lb | Lithia, FL |