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Heisman / Players / Spencer Fano /Utah

Spencer Fano

OL · Utah · Jr · #55

Limited signal — not enough coverage for a story yet.

2026 NFL DRAFTDrafted by Cleveland — Rd 1, Pick 9, #9 overall

Where He Ended Up · NFL

Cleveland2026 NFL rookie season

#9Rd 1 · Pick 9
Cleveland2026 NFL rookie season

OL · UTAH · BIG 12

Spencer Fano

  • 3
  • #55
  • 6-6 | 302 lb
  • Spanish Fork, UT

CFB Zeitgeist OL Score

Awaiting

Heisman Heat

#6432

<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 OL AWARD

Outland

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

Career Arc

HS
Recruit
★★★★
#96 national
CFB
College
Utah
2024
NFL
NFL Draft
R1 &middot; #9
Cleveland &middot; 2026

Identity & Role

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

PositionOL
Class3
Jersey55
Measurements6-6 | 302 lb
HometownSpanish Fork, UT
Primary teamUtah

Recruiting Pedigree

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

Top pedigree 4-star No. 96 recruit
Composite rating 0.9530 HighSchool
Signed with Utah 2023
Origin Timpview Provo, UT, USA
Class Profile Context
2023 4-star | 0.9530 No. 96 recruit | HighSchool | Utah

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#6432Latest modeled ballot order
Season forecast#6198Where 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.

Achievements

  • Honors Badge 0.7% Honors Badge Recognized on a major honors list (Heisman, All-American, Davey O'Brien, Maxwell, Walter Camp, Nagurski, Biletnikoff). Held by 0.7% of the 2025 pool. Recognized on: All-America (AFCA).

Selector Grid · 2025

AP
FWAA
AFCA
WCFF
SN
SI

Named Consensus All-American — recognized on 3+ of the 5 NCAA-recognized selector lists.

NIL · Recruiting · NFL Draft

Market value, pedigree & pro outcome

Recruit stars

★★★★☆

to Utah

Composite

0.9530

#96 national

NFL Draft

2026 · Rd 1, Pick 9

#9 overall · Cleveland

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 Spencer Fano

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 Spencer Fano

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.

Why the honors trail matters

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. Spencer Fano already has 15 loaded recognition items, which helps distinguish a player who is merely productive from one who is already earning selector-level validation.

Current place #6432 0.0% win | 0.0% finalist
Role load -- Role share still loading
Profile quirk Blue-chip pedigree No. 96 recruit

2024 Season · Final

Traditional stats first. Advanced context underneath.

Last season

OTHER season snapshot

2024 season snapshot | final

2024 season snapshot | finalData: CFBD player stats + local Heisman modelPeer context: same position + same level
Scrimmage yards 0 Combined rushing and receiving
Touchdowns 0 Across offense and returns
Usage -- Role share still loading
Player identity What kind of player is this?

30-second read

What kind of player is this?

This player profile will sharpen as more advanced context is loaded.

Balanced profile

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

2024Utah5-7HC: Kyle Whittingham · Balanced
Advanced layer Usage, value, and context

Advanced metrics second

Advanced Metrics

Usage, value, and opponent-adjusted context.

Usage Value Context
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.

Open full stat explorer
0 metrics visible Showing all metrics
Group Metric Value Rank Pct Why it matters
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

Player Standing

Universal 17-step ladder. Tier pills below; accolade streams nested.

UNANIMOUS AA

On-team2-deepStartingRecognizedEliteApex

UNANIMOUS AA · Rung 14 of 16

Why he’s here

Unanimous All-American — 1st team on all five NCAA-recognized selectors.

What moves him up

The only step up is a Player-of-the-Year invite.

What moves him down

Losing a selector drops this to Consensus.

Accolade streams

Status

Recognized on the Outland list (1).

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 · OL · 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

Kyle Whittingham

Pass share

39.8%

371 pass / 562 run

Plays / game

71.8

13 games

OL sack rate (allowed)

4.2%

289 dropbacks · PBP

Scheme: Run-heavy.

Coaching Lineage · 2024

1 coach
2024
Kyle Whittingham
Utah

Played his entire career under Kyle Whittingham.

Bio · Recruiting · Transfer · Roster

Off-field context — switch tabs to drill into recruit profile, transfer arc, or roster timeline.

HometownSpanish Fork, UT
Height6'6"
Weight302 lb
Class3
PositionOL
Jersey55

Trophy Case · Confirmed honors

What the selectors said

15 entries
🏆

ALL-AMERICA · CONSENSUS

Consensus AA (2025)

10 first-team selectors

🏅

POSITION AWARDS

Outland

2025 season

🎖

ALL-CONFERENCE

All-Conf mention (2025)

All-Big 12

Trophy Case · Detail

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

All-America

12 All-America selections

National selector recognition is one of the strongest non-Heisman signals on a player card and should sit near the top of the showcase.

All-Conference

2 all-conference honors

Conference-level recognition helps anchor whether a player is merely statistically loud or actually viewed as elite within his competitive lane.

Honors Timeline

Season-end distinction and week-by-week recognition on one timeline.

Season Honor Scope Team / Selector Context
2025 Outland position_award Utah | Outland winner | OT
2025 All-Big 12 all_conference Utah | Big 12 OT
2025 All-America (USA Today) all_america USA Today OL
2025 All-America (SI) all_america SI OL
2025 All-America (ESPN) all_america ESPN OL
2025 All-America (CBS) all_america CBS OL
2025 All-America (The Athletic) all_america The Athletic OL
2025 All-America (WCFF) all_america WCFF OL
2025 All-America (SN) all_america SN OL
2025 All-America (FWAA) all_america FWAA OL
2025 All-America (AP) all_america AP OL
2025 All-America (AFCA) all_america AFCA OL
2025 All-America (Consensus) all_america Utah | Consensus --
2024 All-Big 12 all_conference Utah | Big 12 OL
2024 All-America (PFF) all_america Utah | PFF OL

Heisman By Year

Modeled rank and official finish by season.

Season Team Role Latest Model Forecast Win Finalist Official Finish Points Context
2024 Utah OL3 #6432 #6198 0.0% 0.0% -- -- W16 snapshot | Big 12
2023 Utah OL3 #6613 #6417 0.0% 0.0% -- -- W19 snapshot | Pac-12

Roster Timeline

Team, conference, and class by season.

Season Team Conference Pos Class Bio
2025 Utah Big 12 OL 3 No. 55 | 6-6 | 302 lb | Spanish Fork, UT
2024 Utah Big 12 OL 3 No. 55 | 6-6 | 302 lb | Spanish Fork, UT
2023 Utah Pac-12 OL 3 No. 55 | 6-6 | 302 lb | Spanish Fork, UT