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Heisman / Players / Zack Kuntz /Old Dominion

Zack Kuntz

TE · Old Dominion · Jr · #80

Limited signal — not enough coverage for a story yet.

NOW IN NFLNew York — drafted 2023, Rd 7, Pick 3, #220 overall

Where He Ended Up · NFL

New YorkEntering 4th NFL season

#220Rd 7 · Pick 3
New YorkEntering 4th NFL season

TE · OLD DOMINION · SUN BELT

Zack Kuntz

  • 3
  • #80
  • 6-8 | 251 lb
  • Camp Hill, PA

CFB Zeitgeist TE Score

Awaiting

Heisman Heat

#2707

<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 · Season-by-season Standing

2 seasons on the ladder

Peak: R09 All-Conference HM / 2nd team · 2021

2021

Old Dominion · TE

R09 · All-Conference HM / 2nd team

Recognized

2022

Old Dominion · TE

R09 · All-Conference HM / 2nd team

Recognized

NFL Draft 2023 · Rd 7, Pick 3 · #220 overall · New York

Development Trajectory · receiving yards

2021–2022
6922021
1442022

-79%

Sharp dropoff (-79%) — career inflection point.

Career Arc

HS
Recruit
★★★★
#150 national
CFB
College
Old Dominion
2021–2022
NFL
NFL Draft
R7 &middot; #220
New York &middot; 2023

Identity & Role

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

PositionTE
Class3
Jersey80
Measurements6-8 | 251 lb
HometownCamp Hill, PA
Primary teamOld Dominion

Recruiting Pedigree

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

Top pedigree 4-star No. 150 recruit
Composite rating 0.9377 HighSchool
Signed with Penn State 2018
Origin Camp Hill Camp Hill, PA, USA
Class Profile Context
2018 4-star | 0.9377 No. 150 recruit | HighSchool | Penn 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 Old Dominion 2021
Transfer stars 4-star CFBD transfer rating context
Eligibility Immediate Apr 11, 2021
Season Move Context
2021 Penn State -> Old Dominion 4-star | Immediate

Heisman Lens · 2022 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#2707Latest modeled ballot order
Season forecast#3365Where 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 Penn State

Composite

0.9377

#150 national

NFL Draft

2023 · Rd 7, Pick 3

#220 overall · New York

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 Zack Kuntz

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 Zack Kuntz

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. Zack Kuntz already has 2 loaded recognition items, which helps distinguish a player who is merely productive from one who is already earning selector-level validation.

Current place #2707 0.0% win | 0.0% finalist
Role load 9.1% Overall usage share
Profile quirk Blue-chip pedigree No. 150 recruit

2022 Season · Final

Traditional stats first. Advanced context underneath.

Last season

TE season snapshot

2022 season snapshot | final

2022 season snapshot | finalData: CFBD player stats + local Heisman modelPeer context: same position + same level
Receptions 12 2 rec TD | #166/475 (65th pct)
Receiving yards 144 12.0 per catch | #153/475 (68th pct)
Scrimmage yards 144 Total offensive yardage | #153/475 (68th pct)
Player identity What kind of player is this?

30-second read

What kind of player is this?

Receiving weapon against FBS receiving peers.

Balanced profile

2022 Season · Final

2022 season snapshot | final

Receiving

REC
12 65th
YDS
144 68th
YPR
12.0 74th
TD
2 84th

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

2021Old Dominion6-6HC: Ricky Rahne · Run-leaning, fast tempo
2022Old Dominion3-9HC: Ricky Rahne · Pass-leaning, slow tempo
SeasonTeam
2022Old Dominion1214412.02--
2021Old Dominion736929.55--
Career2 loaded seasons858369.87--
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 9.1% 18.5% pass-game share | #9/468 (98th pct)
Return yards 0 0 return TD
Touchdowns 2 Across offense and returns | #79/475 (84th pct)
Open full stat explorer
0 metrics visible Showing all metrics
Group Metric Value Rank Pct Why it matters
Receiving Receptions 12 #166/475 65th pct Volumevs FBS TE
Receiving Receiving yards 144 #153/475 68th pct Volumevs FBS TE
Receiving Receiving TD 2 #79/475 84th pct Scoringvs FBS TE
Receiving Yards / catch 12.0 #125/475 74th pct Efficiencyvs FBS TE
Usage Pass share 18.5% #9/468 98th pct Air-game usagevs FBS TE
Receiving Receiving LONG 34 #103/475 79th pct Metricvs FBS TE
Usage Passing-down usage 12.0% #8/468 99th pct Known-passing sharevs FBS TE
Usage 3rd-down usage 11.0% #17/468 97th pct Money-down loadvs FBS TE
Usage 2nd-down usage 9.1% #18/468 96th pct Middle-down loadvs FBS TE
Usage Role share 9.1% #7/468 99th pct Share of team offensevs FBS TE
Usage 1st-down usage 8.6% #6/468 99th pct Early-down loadvs FBS TE
Usage Standard-down usage 7.7% #16/468 97th pct Base-situation sharevs FBS TE
Usage Rush share 0.0% #58/468 88th pct Ground-game usagevs 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 · 2022

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

Ricky Rahne

Pass share

38.0%

330 pass / 539 run

Plays / game

66.8

13 games

OL sack rate (allowed)

6.4%

267 dropbacks · PBP

Scheme: Run-heavy.

Coaching Lineage · 2021–2022

1 coach
2021
Ricky Rahne
Old Dominion
2022
Ricky Rahne
Old Dominion

Played his entire career under Ricky Rahne.

Bio · Recruiting · Transfer · Roster

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

HometownCamp Hill, PA
Height6'8"
Weight251 lb
Class3
PositionTE
Jersey80

Trophy Case · Confirmed honors

What the selectors said

2 entries
🎖

ALL-CONFERENCE

All-Conf mention (2022)

All-Sun Belt

Trophy Case · Detail

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

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
2022 All-Sun Belt all_conference Old Dominion | Sun Belt TE
2021 All-Conference USA all_conference Old Dominion | Conference USA TE

Heisman By Year

Modeled rank and official finish by season.

Season Team Role Latest Model Forecast Win Finalist Official Finish Points Context
2022 Old Dominion TE3 #2707 #3365 0.0% 0.0% -- -- W20 snapshot | Sun Belt
2021 Old Dominion TE3 #1308 #1784 0.0% 0.0% -- -- W20 snapshot | Conference USA

Roster Timeline

Team, conference, and class by season.

Season Team Conference Pos Class Bio
2022 Old Dominion Sun Belt TE 3 No. 80 | 6-8 | 251 lb | Camp Hill, PA
2021 Old Dominion Conference USA TE 3 No. 80 | 6-8 | 251 lb | Camp Hill, PA