CFB Zeitgeist Score
51
Mid-pack in the position cohort. Carried by rec yards at the 50th percentile.
Sterling Berkhalter
Below the discourse floor — the honest stats-only state.
416 REC YDS · 30 REC · 2 REC TD
Where He Ended Up · Transfer
Transferred to Texas
2025Wake Forest
2026Texas
WR · WAKE FOREST · ACC
Sterling Berkhalter
- 4
- #4
- 6-3 | 203 lb
- Cincinnati, OH
Heisman Heat
#851
<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
2024–2025+118%
Up 118% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Wake Forest -> Texas | 4-star | 0.9100 | Immediate |
| 2025 | Cincinnati -> Wake Forest | 3-star | 0.8500 | Immediate |
| 2023 | North Carolina A&T -> Cincinnati | 3-star | 0.8600 | 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 Sterling Berkhalter
Fan sentiment ·
Belief Meter
67
Mixed Sentiment
Top Take
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Trajectory
Per-cohort trajectory lands when historical bucket data is aggregated.
Cohort divergence map
- Own fans · n=3
- National · n=5
Rival Radar
How rival fanbases talk about Sterling Berkhalter
No rival-bucket mentions in the current season.
2025 Signature · 2025 season
Yards per reception
13.9
yds
All FBS WRs, min 20 receptions
National rank #168 of 531
Percentile vs All FBS WRs, min 20 receptions 68th
Why it matters
#168 of 531 All FBS WRs at 13.9 yards per reception (30 catches).
Vs cohort
This player 13.9 (68th)
HIGH · n=30 cohort 531
- Also strong
- Receiving yards (total)#287 / 531
- Receiving TDs#302 / 531
Signature Moment
Week 2 vs Western Carolina — 72 ypr
Result W 42-10
The week the volume broke through — put up 72 yds vs Western Carolina.
Season Pace · Projection
Where the receiving totals stand
Through 12g
416Rec yards
30Receptions
2Rec TDs
Per game
34.7Rec yards
2Receptions
0Rec TDs
Projected (13g)
450.7Rec yards
32Receptions
2Rec TDs
To hit 700-yard receiver (currently 416): needs 284/game over remaining 1.
To hit 1,000-yard receiver (currently 416): needs 584/game over remaining 1.
To hit 60-catch season (currently 30): needs 30/game over remaining 1.
To hit 80-catch season (currently 30): needs 50/game over remaining 1.
To hit 8 receiving TDs (currently 2): needs 6/game over remaining 1.
To hit 10 receiving TDs (currently 2): needs 8/game over remaining 1.
What made this player interesting
The fast read on the thing that makes this player more than a generic stat line.
Sterling Berkhalter's story is about how role and output meet each other. For Wake Forest, 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?
Receiving weapon against FBS receiving peers.
2025 Season · Final
2025 season snapshot | final
Receiving
REC
30 75th
YDS
416 75th
YPR
13.9 67th
TD
2 75th
Game Log · Week-by-week
2025 season · 12 games
| Wk | Opp | REC | YDS | AVG | TD | LONG | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | W 10-9vs Kennesaw State | 3 | 34 | 11.3 | 0 | 18 | |
| Wk 2 | W 42-10vs Western Carolina | 2 | 72 | 36.0 | 1 | 51 | Season-high 72 yds |
| Wk 3 | L 24-34vs NC State | 3 | 43 | 14.3 | 0 | 26 | |
| Wk 5 | L 29-30vs Georgia Tech | 2 | 50 | 25.0 | 0 | 39 | |
| Wk 7 | W 39-14@ Oregon State | 3 | 26 | 8.7 | 0 | 11 | |
| Wk 9 | W 13-12vs SMU | 5 | 58 | 11.6 | 0 | 22 | |
| Wk 10 | L 7-42@ Florida State | 1 | 13 | 13.0 | 0 | 13 | |
| Wk 11 | W 16-9@ Virginia | 1 | 9 | 9.0 | 0 | 9 | |
| Wk 12 | W 28-12vs North Carolina | 2 | 19 | 9.5 | 0 | 13 | |
| Wk 13 | W 52-14vs Delaware | 2 | 42 | 21.0 | 1 | 23 | |
| Wk 14 | L 32-49@ Duke | 1 | 16 | 16.0 | 0 | 16 | |
| Bowl | W 43-29@ Mississippi State | 5 | 34 | 6.8 | 0 | 15 | |
| Total | 30 | 416 | 15.2 | 2 | 51 |
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
2024Cincinnati5-7HC: Scott Satterfield · Balanced
2025Wake Forest9-4HC: Jake Dickert · Balanced
| Season | Team | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Wake Forest | 30 | 416 | 13.9 | 2 | -- |
| 2024 | Cincinnati | 11 | 191 | 17.4 | 1 | -- |
| Career | 2 loaded seasons | 41 | 607 | 14.8 | 3 | -- |
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 | 30 | #282/1110 | 75th pct | Volumevs FBS WR |
| Receiving | Receiving yards | 416 | #278/1107 | 75th pct | Volumevs FBS WR |
| Receiving | Receiving TD | 2 | #281/1111 | 75th pct | Scoringvs FBS WR |
| Receiving | Yards / catch | 13.9 | #368/1106 | 67th pct | Efficiencyvs FBS WR |
| Usage | Pass share | 11.6% | #400/1137 | 65th pct | Air-game usagevs FBS WR |
| Receiving | Receiving LONG | 51 | #260/1105 | 77th pct | Metricvs FBS WR |
| Usage | Passing-down usage | 9.4% | #278/1137 | 76th pct | Known-passing sharevs FBS WR |
| Usage | 3rd-down usage | 9.2% | #282/1137 | 75th pct | Money-down loadvs FBS WR |
| Usage | Role share | 5.5% | #423/1137 | 63rd pct | Share of team offensevs FBS WR |
| Usage | 2nd-down usage | 5.4% | #459/1137 | 60th pct | Middle-down loadvs FBS WR |
| Usage | 1st-down usage | 3.8% | #580/1137 | 49th pct | Early-down loadvs FBS WR |
| Usage | Standard-down usage | 3.6% | #582/1137 | 49th pct | Base-situation sharevs 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 · 12 games
Home vs Road
| REC/g | YDS/g | YPR | TD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home7g | 2.7 | 45.4 | 18.4 | 0.3 |
| Road5g | 2.2 | 19.6 | 10.7 | 0.0 |
Win vs Loss
| REC/g | YDS/g | YPR | TD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wins8g | 2.9 | 36.8 | 14.2 | 0.2 |
| Losses4g | 1.8 | 30.5 | 17.1 | 0.0 |
First half vs Second half
| REC/g | YDS/g | YPR | TD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-76g | 3.0 | 43.2 | 17.0 | 0.2 |
| Weeks 8+6g | 2.0 | 26.2 | 13.3 | 0.2 |
Pocket and defense-quality (clean vs. pressure) splits are coming soon.
Savant · Box-rate percentiles
Where this profile ranks vs the WR cohort
51Mid-pack
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 · 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
Sterling BerkhalterWake ForestSean WilsonDelaware· 71% simRyan DavisUtah· 71% simNik McMillanBuffalo· 70% sim
Yards / catch
Long catch
Rec yards
Receptions
Rec TDs
Closest peers by overall box-score percentile profile at the same position.
Player DNA
The Possession Receiver
Reliable target who converts on critical downs. Not flashy; consistently productive.
WR
His 2025 production profile sits closest to Damonte Coxie’s 2020 season.
Damonte Coxie
82%match
#2
Donovan Ollie
83%
#3
Ja'Cyais Credle
81%
#4
CJ Windham
77%
#5
Darryl Jones
80%
Matches Damonte on
TD rate
Weight
Yards / reception
Differs from Damonte on
Class year (higher)
Reception volume (higher)
Through 3 college seasons, his career arc tracks closest to Landon Ruggieri’s path through Bryant.
Landon Ruggieri
99%match
#2
Noah Gray
NFL Rd 5
99%
#3
Nate Stewart
98%
#4
Brandon Smith
98%
#5
Miequle Brock
98%
Matches Landon on
Yards per reception
As a senior, his production profile tracks closest to Bralon Brown's senior season at Southern Miss (2025).
Bralon Brown
83%match
#2
Tre Mosley
80%
#3
Boobie Curry
79%
#4
Hal Presley
79%
#5
Andrew Erickson
78%
Matches Bralon on
Weight
Total EPA (college ability)
Yards / reception
Supporting Cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Jake Dickert
Pass share
48.0%
405 pass / 439 run
Plays / game
64.9
13 games
OL sack rate (allowed)
5.1%
293 dropbacks · PBP
Scheme: Balanced.
Coaching Lineage · 2024–2025
2 coaches2024
Dave Clawson
Wake Forest
2025era →
Jake Dickert
Wake Forest
Coaching transition mid-career: Dave Clawson → Jake Dickert. 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.
HometownCincinnati, OH
Height6'3"
Weight203 lb
Class4
PositionWR
Jersey4
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Current teamWake Forest
ConferenceACC
Joined2025
Career arc3 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 | Cincinnati | WR4 | #851 | #925 | 0.0% | 0.0% | -- | -- | W16 snapshot | Big 12 |
| 2023 | Cincinnati | WR4 | #4555 | #4957 | 0.0% | 0.0% | -- | -- | W19 snapshot | Big 12 |
Roster Timeline
Team, conference, and class by season.
| Season | Team | Conference | Pos | Class | Bio |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Wake Forest | ACC | WR | 4 | No. 4 | 6-3 | 203 lb | Cincinnati, OH |
| 2024 | Cincinnati | Big 12 | WR | 4 | No. 4 | 6-3 | 203 lb | Cincinnati, OH |
| 2023 | Cincinnati | Big 12 | WR | 4 | No. 4 | 6-3 | 203 lb | Cincinnati, OH |