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Heisman / Players / Tony Johnson /Miami

Tony Johnson

WR · Miami · Sr · #17

Below the discourse floor — the honest stats-only state.

162 REC YDS · 7 REC · 0 REC TD

2026 RETURNINGReturning to Miami for 2026

2026 Outlook

Returning to Miami for 2026

2026 Depth chart

Projected starter

Wide receiver · Miami

Returning around him

  • 12% of 2024 offensive production back (Heavy turnover)
  • 9 Miami players drafted to NFL
  • Transfer portal: -6 net (13 in / 19 out)

2026 Award watch

No preseason watch lists yet (most drop June 15 – July 15)

Miami · Last season: 13-3 (AP #10) · Talent rank #15 · 2026 recruiting class #13

WR · MIAMI · ACC

Tony Johnson

  • 4
  • #17
  • 5-10 | 187 lb
  • Ocala, FL

CFB Zeitgeist Score

32

Below cohort in the position cohort. Carried by yards / catch at the 99th percentile.

Heisman Heat

#319

<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

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

2022–2025
2512022
4062023
4522024
1622025

-35%

Sharp dropoff (-35%) — career inflection point.

Career Arc

HS
Recruit
No recruit profile
CFB
College
3 teams
2022–2025
NFL
NFL Draft
Not drafted (yet)

Heisman futures · live sportsbook odds

#29 in market ▼ from #23 · 5 books

+35002.8% implied▲ tightened from +6600

Identity & Role

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

PositionWR
Class4
Jersey17
Measurements5-10 | 187 lb
HometownOcala, FL
Primary teamMiami

Recruiting Pedigree

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

Top pedigree Not on file No matched recruiting profile in the loaded archive
Composite rating -- Composite rating unavailable for this player
Signed with -- Commitment history unavailable
Origin -- Hometown and high school unavailable
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.

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#319Latest modeled ballot order
Season forecast#403Where 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.

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 Tony Johnson

Fan sentiment ·

Belief Meter

100

Grounded Optimism

Sample 1 mentions
Confidence BELOW-FLOOR

Top Take

Trajectory

Cohort divergence mapbearishbullishheatedcalmOwn fans: 1 mentions · belief +100 · "MIAMI HURRICANES beat STANFORD with dominant second-half performance. Is a deep "Own fansNational: 2 mentions · belief +0 · "8-yard TD pass from Brendan Sorsby to Tony Johnson finally gets Cincinnati into "National
  • Own fans · n=1
  • National · n=2

Rival Radar

How rival fanbases talk about Tony Johnson

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.

Season Pace · Projection

Where the receiving totals stand

projecting to 13-game
Through 4g
162Rec yards
7Receptions
0Rec TDs
Per game
40.5Rec yards
2Receptions
0Rec TDs
Projected (13g)
526.5Rec yards
23Receptions
0Rec TDs

To hit 700-yard receiver (currently 162): needs 59.8/game over remaining 9.

To hit 1,000-yard receiver (currently 162): needs 93.1/game over remaining 9.

To hit 60-catch season (currently 7): needs 5.9/game over remaining 9.

To hit 80-catch season (currently 7): needs 8.1/game over remaining 9.

To hit 8 receiving TDs (currently 0): needs 0.9/game over remaining 9.

To hit 10 receiving TDs (currently 0): needs 1.1/game over remaining 9.

What made this player interesting

The fast read on the thing that makes this player more than a generic stat line.

Tony Johnson's story is about how role and output meet each other. For Miami, 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 #319 0.0% win | 0.0% finalist
Role load 2.8% Overall usage share
Profile quirk Transfer path 0 portal moves

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
Receptions 7 0 rec TD | #667/1110 (40th pct)
Receiving yards 162 23.1 per catch | #521/1107 (53rd pct)
Scrimmage yards 162 Total offensive yardage | #521/1107 (53rd 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

2025 Season · Final

2025 season snapshot | final

Receiving

REC
7 40th
YDS
162 53rd
YPR
23.1 96th
TD
0 45th

Game Log · Week-by-week

2025 season · 4 games

Box score · CFBD
WkOppRECYDSAVGTDLONGNote
Wk 2W 45-3vs Bethune-Cookman12020.0020
Wk 3W 49-12vs South Florida26432.0051
Wk 9W 42-7vs Stanford36923.0032Season-high 69 yds
Wk 10L 20-26@ SMU199.009
Total716221.0051
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

2022Florida Atlantic5-7HC: Willie Taggart · Run-leaning
2023Florida Atlantic4-8HC: Tom Herman · Balanced
2024Cincinnati5-7HC: Scott Satterfield · Balanced
2025Miami13-3HC: Mario Cristobal · Balanced
SeasonTeam
2025Miami716223.10--
2024Cincinnati494529.26--
2023Florida Atlantic3640611.34--
2022Florida Atlantic2225111.43--
Career4 loaded seasons1141,27111.113--
SeasonTeam
2025Miami----------
2024Cincinnati213------
2023Florida Atlantic110------
2022Florida Atlantic16------
Career4 loaded seasons429------
Advanced layer Usage, value, and context

Advanced metrics second

Advanced Metrics

Usage, value, and opponent-adjusted context.

Usage Value Context
Pass share

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.

Role share

A blended workload view that accounts for catches, designed touches, and any return-game involvement that shapes the overall profile.

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 2.8% 5.8% pass-game share | #791/1137 (31st pct)
Return yards 0 0 return TD
Touchdowns 0 Across offense and returns | #615/1111 (45th pct)
Open full stat explorer
0 metrics visible Showing all metrics
Group Metric Value Rank Pct Why it matters
Receiving Receptions 7 #667/1110 40th pct Volumevs FBS WR
Receiving Receiving yards 162 #521/1107 53rd pct Volumevs FBS WR
Receiving Receiving TD 0 #615/1111 45th pct Scoringvs FBS WR
Receiving Yards / catch 23.1 #43/1106 96th pct Efficiencyvs FBS WR
Usage Pass share 5.8% #791/1137 31st pct Air-game usagevs FBS WR
Receiving Receiving LONG 51 #260/1105 77th pct Metricvs FBS WR
Usage 3rd-down usage 6.3% #524/1137 54th pct Money-down loadvs FBS WR
Usage Standard-down usage 3.0% #683/1137 40th pct Base-situation sharevs FBS WR
Usage 2nd-down usage 2.8% #837/1137 26th pct Middle-down loadvs FBS WR
Usage Role share 2.8% #812/1137 29th pct Share of team offensevs FBS WR
Usage Passing-down usage 2.2% #961/1137 16th pct Known-passing sharevs FBS WR
Usage 1st-down usage 1.9% #898/1137 21st pct Early-down loadvs 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

StatusAwaiting tracker

Heisman model tracks the top FBS contenders weekly; this player hasn't entered the watch list yet.

Splits · Per-game

2025 season · 4 games

Home/Road · Win/Loss · Season halves

Home vs Road

REC/gYDS/gYPRTD/g
Home3g2.051.025.00.0
Road1g1.09.09.00.0

Win vs Loss

REC/gYDS/gYPRTD/g
Wins3g2.051.025.00.0
Losses1g1.09.09.00.0

First half vs Second half

REC/gYDS/gYPRTD/g
Weeks 1-72g1.542.026.00.0
Weeks 8+2g2.039.016.00.0

Pocket and defense-quality (clean vs. pressure) splits are coming soon.

Savant · Box-rate percentiles

Where this profile ranks vs the WR cohort

32Below cohort
5 metrics · season cumulative

Elite: yards / catch (99th). Concern: receptions (0th).

Yards / catch#5 / 558 · 99th pct
23.1rece
Long catch#230 / 558 · 58th pct
51rece
Rec yards#509 / 558 · 9th pct
162rece
Rec TDs#482 / 558 · 7th pct
0rece
Receptions#559 / 558 · 0th pct
7rece

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
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 · Fingerprint match

Three closest profiles by box-rate percentile

3 peers · 5 metrics
Tony JohnsonMiamiNik McMillanBuffalo· 39% simHarrison Wallace IIIOle Miss· 37% simJacquon GibsonMassachusetts· 37% sim
Yards / catch
99
Johnson
84
McMillan
78
III
15
Gibson
Long catch
58
Johnson
65
McMillan
65
III
56
Gibson
Rec yards
9
Johnson
96
McMillan
94
III
74
Gibson
Rec TDs
7
Johnson
57
McMillan
68
III
7
Gibson
Receptions
0
Johnson
90
McMillan
90
III
92
Gibson

Closest peers by overall box-score percentile profile at the same position.

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

Mario Cristobal

Pass share

47.2%

496 pass / 554 run

Plays / game

65.6

16 games

OL sack rate (allowed)

4.1%

245 dropbacks · PBP

Scheme: Balanced.

Coaching Lineage · 2022–2025

1 coach
2022
Mario Cristobal
Miami
2023
Mario Cristobal
Miami
2024
Mario Cristobal
Miami
2025
Mario Cristobal
Miami

Played his entire career under Mario Cristobal.

Bio · Recruiting · Transfer · Roster

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

HometownOcala, FL
Height5'10"
Weight187 lb
Class4
PositionWR
Jersey17

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 Cincinnati WR4 #319 #403 0.0% 0.0% -- -- W16 snapshot | Big 12
2023 Florida Atlantic WR4 #1344 #1849 0.0% 0.0% -- -- W19 snapshot | American Athletic
2022 Florida Atlantic WR4 #1717 #2235 0.0% 0.0% -- -- W20 snapshot | Conference USA

Roster Timeline

Team, conference, and class by season.

Season Team Conference Pos Class Bio
2025 Miami ACC WR 4 No. 17 | 5-10 | 187 lb | Ocala, FL
2024 Cincinnati Big 12 WR 4 No. 17 | 5-10 | 187 lb | Ocala, FL
2023 Florida Atlantic American Athletic WR 4 No. 17 | 5-10 | 187 lb | Ocala, FL
2022 Florida Atlantic Conference USA WR 4 No. 17 | 5-10 | 187 lb | Ocala, FL