CFB Zeitgeist Score
21
Below cohort in the position cohort. Carried by rec tds at the 66th percentile.
Titus Lyons
Below the discourse floor — the honest stats-only state.
94 REC YDS · 12 REC · 3 REC TD
2026 Outlook
Returning to Texas State for 2026
2026 Depth chart
Projected starter
Tight end · Texas State
Returning around him
- 93% of 2024 offensive production back (Strong continuity)
- Transfer portal: -4 net (17 in / 21 out)
2026 Award watch
No preseason watch lists yet (most drop June 15 – July 15)
Texas State · Last season: 7-6 · Talent rank #76 · 2026 recruiting class #101
TE · TEXAS STATE · SUN BELT
Titus Lyons
- 4
- #86
- 6-3 | 240 lb
- Pottsboro, TX
Heisman Heat
#4246
<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
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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+104%
Up 104% from first season to most-recent.
Career Arc
HS
Recruit
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CFB
College
Texas State
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 |
|---|---|---|
| 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 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 Titus Lyons
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 Titus Lyons
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 9g
94Rec yards
12Receptions
3Rec TDs
Per game
10.4Rec yards
1Receptions
0Rec TDs
Projected (13g)
135.8Rec yards
17Receptions
4Rec TDs
To hit 700-yard receiver (currently 94): needs 151.5/game over remaining 4.
To hit 1,000-yard receiver (currently 94): needs 226.5/game over remaining 4.
To hit 60-catch season (currently 12): needs 12/game over remaining 4.
To hit 80-catch season (currently 12): needs 17/game over remaining 4.
To hit 8 receiving TDs (currently 3): needs 1.2/game over remaining 4.
To hit 10 receiving TDs (currently 3): needs 1.8/game over remaining 4.
What made this player interesting
The fast read on the thing that makes this player more than a generic stat line.
Titus Lyons's story is about how role and output meet each other. For Texas State, 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
TE 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
12 65th
YDS
94 58th
YPR
7.8 28th
TD
3 91st
Game Log · Week-by-week
2025 season · 9 games
| Wk | Opp | REC | YDS | AVG | TD | LONG | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 2 | W 43-36@ UTSA | 1 | 2 | 2.0 | 0 | 2 | |
| Wk 3 | L 15-34@ Arizona State | 1 | 5 | 5.0 | 0 | 5 | |
| Wk 4 | W 35-3vs Nicholls | 1 | 8 | 8.0 | 0 | 8 | |
| Wk 6 | L 30-31@ Arkansas State | 2 | 18 | 9.0 | 1 | 13 | |
| Wk 8 | L 37-40@ Marshall | 4 | 27 | 6.8 | 1 | 16 | Season-high 27 yds |
| Wk 10 | L 20-52vs James Madison | 1 | 8 | 8.0 | 0 | 8 | |
| Wk 11 | L 39-42@ Louisiana | 1 | 24 | 24.0 | 1 | 24 | |
| Wk 12 | W 41-14@ Southern Miss | 1 | 2 | 2.0 | 0 | 2 | |
| Wk 14 | W 49-26vs South Alabama | — | — | — | — | — | |
| Total | 12 | 94 | 8.1 | 3 | 24 |
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 State4-8HC: Jake Spavital · Balanced
2023Texas State8-5HC: G.J. Kinne · Run-leaning
2025Texas State7-6HC: G.J. Kinne · Run-heavy
| Season | Team | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Texas State | 12 | 94 | 7.8 | 3 | -- |
| 2023 | Texas State | 5 | 26 | 5.2 | 0 | -- |
| 2022 | Texas State | 6 | 46 | 7.7 | 0 | -- |
| Career | 3 loaded seasons | 23 | 166 | 7.2 | 3 | -- |
Advanced layer Usage, value, and context
Advanced metrics second
Advanced Metrics
Usage, value, and opponent-adjusted context.
The tight end's share of the passing offense, which helps distinguish a featured receiving tight end from a secondary option.
A blended usage view that shows how often the offense flows through the tight end compared with other same-level peers.
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 | 12 | #166/475 | 65th pct | Volumevs FBS TE |
| Receiving | Receiving yards | 94 | #200/475 | 58th pct | Volumevs FBS TE |
| Receiving | Receiving TD | 3 | #45/475 | 91st pct | Scoringvs FBS TE |
| Receiving | Yards / catch | 7.8 | #343/475 | 28th pct | Efficiencyvs FBS TE |
| Usage | Pass share | 4.2% | #336/468 | 28th pct | Air-game usagevs FBS TE |
| Receiving | Receiving LONG | 24 | #203/475 | 57th pct | Metricvs FBS TE |
| Usage | 3rd-down usage | 5.5% | #129/468 | 73rd pct | Money-down loadvs FBS TE |
| Usage | Standard-down usage | 1.9% | #348/468 | 26th 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 | 1.2% | #369/468 | 21st pct | Known-passing sharevs FBS TE |
| Usage | 1st-down usage | 0.9% | #388/468 | 17th pct | Early-down loadvs FBS TE |
| Usage | 2nd-down usage | 0.5% | #399/468 | 15th pct | Middle-down loadvs FBS TE |
| Usage | Rush share | 0.0% | #58/468 | 88th pct | Ground-game usagevs FBS TE |
| Ball Security | Fumbles lost | 1 | #34/55 | 40th pct | Turnoversvs 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
Status—Awaiting 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
2025 season · 9 games
Home vs Road
| REC/g | YDS/g | YPR | TD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home3g | 0.7 | 5.3 | 8.0 | 0.0 |
| Road6g | 1.7 | 13.0 | 8.1 | 0.5 |
Win vs Loss
| REC/g | YDS/g | YPR | TD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wins4g | 0.8 | 3.0 | 4.0 | 0.0 |
| Losses5g | 1.8 | 16.4 | 10.6 | 0.6 |
First half vs Second half
| REC/g | YDS/g | YPR | TD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-74g | 1.2 | 8.2 | 6.0 | 0.2 |
| Weeks 8+5g | 1.4 | 12.2 | 10.2 | 0.4 |
Pocket and defense-quality (clean vs. pressure) splits are coming soon.
Savant · Box-rate percentiles
Where this profile ranks vs the TE cohort
21Below cohort
Concern: rec yards (2nd).
Percentiles versus same-position peers with enough snaps this season, based on box-score rates.
Advanced Savant · TE · 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
Titus LyonsTexas StateHayden HansenFlorida· 64% simBryce CaufieldOregon State· 63% simBrett NorfleetMissouri· 60% sim
Rec TDs
Fumbles lost
Long catch
Yards / catch
Receptions
Rec yards
Closest peers by overall box-score percentile profile at the same position.
Player DNA
The Complete TE
Dual-threat: blocks when needed, catches when needed. Coveted on both sides.
TE
His 2025 production profile sits closest to Matt Adcock’s 2025 season.
Matt Adcock
82%match
#2
Marshall Lang
68%
#3
Daniel Parker
65%
#4
Mata'ava Ta'ase
64%
#5
Nate Kurisky
64%
Matches Matt on
Yards / reception
Total EPA (college ability)
Weight
Differs from Matt on
Class year (higher)
EPA / play (adj) (lower)
Not enough data yet for this comparison.
As a senior, his production profile tracks closest to Deshaun Fenwick's senior season at Oregon State (2023).
Deshaun Fenwick
67%match
#2
Tanner Arkin
All-Mountain West
62%
#3
Michael Brescia
61%
#4
Jacob Orlando
53%
#5
Shane Calhoun
52%
Matches Deshaun on
Height
TD rate
Total EPA (college ability)
Differs from Deshaun on
Weight (higher)
Yards / reception (lower)
Supporting Cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
G.J. Kinne
Pass share
39.5%
358 pass / 549 run
Plays / game
69.8
13 games
OL sack rate (allowed)
9.4%
267 dropbacks · PBP
Scheme: Run-heavy.
Coaching Lineage · 2022–2025
2 coaches2022
Jake Spavital
Texas State
2023era →
G.J. Kinne
Texas State
2025
G.J. Kinne
Texas State
Coaching transition mid-career: Jake Spavital → G.J. Kinne. 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.
HometownPottsboro, TX
Height6'3"
Weight240 lb
Class4
PositionTE
Jersey86
No fields populated yet.
No fields populated yet.
Current teamTexas State
ConferenceSun Belt
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.
| Season | Team | Role | Latest Model | Forecast | Win | Finalist | Official Finish | Points | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Texas State | TE4 | #4246 | #4243 | 0.0% | 0.0% | -- | -- | W16 snapshot | Sun Belt |
| 2023 | Texas State | TE4 | #3788 | #3722 | 0.0% | 0.0% | -- | -- | W19 snapshot | Sun Belt |
| 2022 | Texas State | TE4 | #4236 | #4727 | 0.0% | 0.0% | -- | -- | W20 snapshot | Sun Belt |
Roster Timeline
Team, conference, and class by season.
| Season | Team | Conference | Pos | Class | Bio |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Texas State | Sun Belt | TE | 4 | No. 86 | 6-3 | 240 lb | Pottsboro, TX |
| 2024 | Texas State | Sun Belt | TE | 4 | No. 86 | 6-3 | 240 lb | Pottsboro, TX |
| 2023 | Texas State | Sun Belt | TE | 4 | No. 86 | 6-3 | 240 lb | Pottsboro, TX |
| 2022 | Texas State | Sun Belt | TE | 4 | No. 86 | 6-3 | 240 lb | Pottsboro, TX |