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Heisman / Players / Trey McBride /Colorado State

Trey McBride

TE · Colorado State · Jr · #85

Limited signal — not enough coverage for a story yet.

NOW IN NFLArizona — drafted 2022, Rd 2, Pick 23, #55 overall

Where He Ended Up · NFL

ArizonaEntering 5th NFL season

#55Rd 2 · Pick 23
ArizonaEntering 5th NFL season

TE · COLORADO STATE · MOUNTAIN WEST

Trey McBride

  • 3
  • #85
  • 6-4 | 260 lb
  • Fort Morgan, CO

CFB Zeitgeist TE Score

Awaiting

Heisman Heat

#1474

<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

CONSENSUS

All-American

Player Standing · 17 rungs

Tier 0 · Not on team

R01 · Scout team / redshirt

Scout team / redshirt. Developing behind the depth chart.

Not on team2-deepStarterRecognizedEliteApex

Career Arc

HS
Recruit
★★★
#1556 national
CFB
College
Colorado State
2021
NFL
NFL Draft
R2 &middot; #55
Arizona &middot; 2022

Identity & Role

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

PositionTE
Class3
Jersey85
Measurements6-4 | 260 lb
HometownFort Morgan, CO
Primary teamColorado State

Recruiting Pedigree

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

Top pedigree 3-star No. 1556 recruit
Composite rating 0.8311 HighSchool
Signed with Colorado State 2018
Origin Fort Morgan Fort Morgan, CO, USA
Class Profile Context
2018 3-star | 0.8311 No. 1556 recruit | HighSchool | Colorado State

Transfer Arc

Portal movement changes role, context, and perception. This keeps that path in one place.

Portal moves 1 Programs changed on file
Latest destination Colorado State 2021
Transfer stars 3-star CFBD transfer rating context
Eligibility TBD Aug 18, 2020
Season Move Context
2021 Colorado State -> Colorado State 3-star | TBD

Heisman Lens · 2021 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 20
Current nowcast#1474Latest modeled ballot order
Season forecast#2046Where 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.

NIL · Recruiting · NFL Draft

Market value, pedigree & pro outcome

Recruit stars

★★★☆☆

to Colorado State

Composite

0.8311

#1556 national

NFL Draft

2022 · Rd 2, Pick 23

#55 overall · Arizona

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 Trey McBride

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 Trey McBride

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. Trey McBride already has 9 loaded recognition items, which helps distinguish a player who is merely productive from one who is already earning selector-level validation.

Current place #1474 0.0% win | 0.0% finalist
Role load 11.7% Overall usage share
Profile quirk Honors spine 9 honors loaded

2021 Season · Final

Traditional stats first. Advanced context underneath.

Last season

TE season snapshot

2021 season snapshot | final

2021 season snapshot | finalData: CFBD player stats + local Heisman modelPeer context: same position + same level
Receptions 90 1 rec TD | #1/475 (100th pct)
Receiving yards 1,121 12.5 per catch | #1/475 (100th pct)
Scrimmage yards 1,190 Total offensive yardage | #1/475 (100th pct)
Player identity What kind of player is this?

30-second read

What kind of player is this?

Target magnet against FBS receiving peers.

Target magnet

2021 Season · Final

2021 season snapshot | final

Receiving

REC
90 100th
YDS
1,121 100th
YPR
12.5 79th
TD
1 71st

Rushing

CAR
1 51st
YDS
69 96th
YPC
69.0 100th
TD
1 94th

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

2021Colorado State3-9HC: Steve Addazio · Run-leaning, fast tempo
SeasonTeam
2021Colorado State901,12112.51--
Career1 loaded season901,12112.51--
Advanced layer Usage, value, and context

Advanced metrics second

Advanced Metrics

Usage, value, and opponent-adjusted context.

Usage Value Context
Pass share

The tight end's share of the passing offense, which helps distinguish a featured receiving tight end from a secondary option.

Role share

A blended usage view that shows how often the offense flows through the tight end compared with other same-level peers.

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 11.7% 26.0% pass-game share | #1/468 (100th pct)
Return yards 0 0 return TD
Touchdowns 2 Across offense and returns | #140/475 (71st pct)
Open full stat explorer
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Group Metric Value Rank Pct Why it matters
Receiving Receptions 90 #1/475 100th pct Volumevs FBS TE
Receiving Receiving yards 1,121 #1/475 100th pct Volumevs FBS TE
Receiving Receiving TD 1 #140/475 71st pct Scoringvs FBS TE
Receiving Yards / catch 12.5 #103/475 79th pct Efficiencyvs FBS TE
Usage Pass share 26.0% #1/468 100th pct Air-game usagevs FBS TE
Rushing Rushing LONG 69 #1/50 100th pct Metricvs FBS TE
Rushing Rushing yards 69 #3/53 96th pct Volumevs FBS TE
Rushing Yards / carry 69.0 #1/53 100th pct Efficiencyvs FBS TE
Rushing Carries 1 #30/59 51st pct Volumevs FBS TE
Rushing Rush TD 1 #5/62 94th pct Scoringvs FBS TE
Receiving Receiving LONG 50 #37/475 92nd pct Metricvs FBS TE
Usage 3rd-down usage 22.6% #1/468 100th pct Money-down loadvs FBS TE
Usage Passing-down usage 15.5% #3/468 100th pct Known-passing sharevs FBS TE
Usage Role share 11.7% #2/468 100th pct Share of team offensevs FBS TE
Usage Standard-down usage 9.7% #5/468 99th pct Base-situation sharevs FBS TE
Usage 1st-down usage 9.3% #4/468 99th pct Early-down loadvs FBS TE
Usage 2nd-down usage 7.7% #33/468 93rd pct Middle-down loadvs FBS TE
Usage Rush share 0.2% #54/468 89th 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

StatusAwaiting 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 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 · TE · 2021

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

Jay Norvell

Pass share

52.1%

393 pass / 362 run

Plays / game

62.9

12 games

OL sack rate (allowed)

11.1%

315 dropbacks · PBP

Scheme: Balanced.

Coaching Lineage · 2021

1 coach
2021
Steve Addazio
Colorado State

Played his entire career under Steve Addazio.

Bio · Recruiting · Transfer · Roster

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

HometownFort Morgan, CO
Height6'4"
Weight260 lb
Class3
PositionTE
Jersey85

Trophy Case · Confirmed honors

What the selectors said

9 entries
🏆

ALL-AMERICA · CONSENSUS

Consensus AA (2021)

5 first-team selectors

🏅

POSITION AWARDS

Mackey

2021 season

🎖

ALL-CONFERENCE

All-Conf mention (2021)

All-Mountain West

Trophy Case · Detail

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

All-America

6 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
2021 Mackey position_award Colorado State | Mackey winner | TE
2021 All-Mountain West all_conference Colorado State | Mountain West TE
2021 All-America (WCFF) all_america Colorado State | WCFF first | TE
2021 All-America (SN) all_america Colorado State | SN first | TE
2021 All-America (FWAA) all_america Colorado State | FWAA first | TE
2021 All-America (AP) all_america Colorado State | AP first | TE
2021 All-America (AFCA) all_america Colorado State | AFCA first | TE
2021 All-America (Consensus) all_america Colorado State | Consensus --
2020 All-Mountain West all_conference Colorado State | Mountain West TE

Heisman By Year

Modeled rank and official finish by season.

Season Team Role Latest Model Forecast Win Finalist Official Finish Points Context
2021 Colorado State TE3 #1474 #2046 0.0% 0.0% -- -- W20 snapshot | Mountain West

Roster Timeline

Team, conference, and class by season.

Season Team Conference Pos Class Bio
2021 Colorado State Mountain West TE 3 No. 85 | 6-4 | 260 lb | Fort Morgan, CO