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Heisman / Players / Ahmari Harvey /Georgia Tech

Ahmari Harvey

DB · Georgia Tech · Sr · #3

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

26 TACKLES · 1 SACKS

2026 RETURNINGReturning to Georgia Tech for 2026

2026 Outlook

Returning to Georgia Tech for 2026

2026 Depth chart

Projected starter

Defensive back · Georgia Tech

Returning around him

  • 81% of 2024 offensive production back (Strong continuity)
  • 2 Georgia Tech players drafted to NFL
  • Transfer portal: -1 net (19 in / 20 out)

2026 Award watch

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

Georgia Tech · Last season: 9-4 (AP #24) · Talent rank #39 · 2026 recruiting class #21

DB · GEORGIA TECH · ACC

Ahmari Harvey

  • 4
  • #3
  • 6-0 | 195 lb
  • Tallahassee, FL

CFB Zeitgeist Score

60

Solid starter in the position cohort. Carried by passes defended at the 96th percentile.

Heisman Heat

#11616

<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 DB AWARD

Jim Thorpe

CONSENSUS

All-American

Player Standing · 17 rungs

Tier 1 · 2-deep

R04 · Rotational

Rotational. Earning real snaps in the rotation.

Not on team2-deepStarterRecognizedEliteApex

Career Arc

HS
Recruit
★★★★
#220 national
CFB
College
Georgia Tech
2022–2025
NFL
NFL Draft
Not drafted (yet)

Identity & Role

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

PositionDB
Class4
Jersey3
Measurements6-0 | 195 lb
HometownTallahassee, FL
Primary teamGeorgia Tech

Recruiting Pedigree

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

Top pedigree 4-star No. 220 recruit
Composite rating 0.9174 HighSchool
Signed with Auburn 2021
Origin Florida State University School Tallahassee, FL, USA
Class Profile Context
2021 4-star | 0.9174 No. 220 recruit | HighSchool | Auburn

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#11616Latest modeled ballot order
Season forecast#11573Where 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 Auburn

Composite

0.9174

#220 national

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 Ahmari Harvey

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 Ahmari Harvey

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 defensive totals stand

projecting to 13-game
Through 10g
26Tackles
3Tackles for loss
1Sacks
Per game
3Tackles
0.3Tackles for loss
0.1Sacks
Projected (13g)
34Tackles
3.9Tackles for loss
1.3Sacks

To hit 80-tackle season (currently 26): needs 18/game over remaining 3.

To hit 100-tackle season (currently 26): needs 24.7/game over remaining 3.

To hit 6-sack season (currently 1): needs 1.7/game over remaining 3.

To hit 10-sack season (currently 1): needs 3/game over remaining 3.

Why this is a rare defensive case

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

Ahmari Harvey is trying to climb the steepest award hill in college football: a defensive candidacy. The hook is the disruption profile on Georgia Tech's defense, with 1.0 sacks, 3.0 tackles for loss, and -- interceptions through the current loaded season. For a defender, the question is never just production; it is whether elite disruption and team context can become nationally undeniable.

Current place #11616 0.0% win | 0.0% finalist
Role load -- Role share still loading
Profile quirk Blue-chip pedigree No. 220 recruit

2025 Season · Final

Traditional stats first. Advanced context underneath.

Last season

DEF season snapshot

2025 season snapshot | final

2025 season snapshot | finalData: CFBD player stats + local Heisman modelPeer context: same position + same level
Total tackles 26 21 solo | #1609/4942 (67th pct)
TFL 3.0 Backfield disruption | #1006/4972 (80th pct)
Sacks 1.0 Pass-rush finish | #872/4972 (82nd pct)
Player identity What kind of player is this?

30-second read

What kind of player is this?

Coverage splash against FBS defenders.

Coverage splash

2025 Season · Final

2025 season snapshot | final

Tackling & Disruption

TOT
26 67th
SOLO
21 79th
TFL
3.0 80th
SACK
1.0 82nd

Coverage & Takeaways

PD
7 96th

Game Log · Week-by-week

2025 season · 10 games

Box score · CFBD
WkOppTKLSOLOTFLSACKINTPDNote
Wk 1W 27-20@ Colorado320.00.00
Wk 2W 59-12vs Gardner-Webb220.00.00
Wk 3W 24-21vs Clemson330.00.02
Wk 4W 45-24vs Temple220.00.00
Wk 5W 30-29@ Wake Forest542.00.01Season-high 5 tackles
Wk 7W 35-20vs Virginia Tech210.00.01
Wk 12W 36-34@ Boston College110.00.00
Wk 13L 28-42vs Pittsburgh221.01.02
Wk 14L 9-16vs Georgia420.00.01
BowlL 21-25@ BYU220.00.00
Total26213.01.07
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

2022Georgia Tech5-7HC: Brent Key · Balanced
2023Georgia Tech7-6HC: Brent Key · Run-leaning
2025Georgia Tech9-4HC: Brent Key · Run-leaning
SeasonTeam
2025Georgia Tech26213.01.07----
2023Georgia Tech29270.00.033--
2022Georgia Tech110.00.0------
Career3 loaded seasons56493.01.0103--
Advanced layer Usage, value, and context

Advanced metrics second

Advanced Metrics

Usage, value, and opponent-adjusted context.

Usage Value Context
Disruption stats

TFL, sacks, and QB hurries are grouped together because defensive Heisman cases are usually built on visible havoc, not on tackle counts alone.

Coverage splash

Pass breakups, interceptions, and forced fumbles matter because national awards voters respond to plays that change possessions and highlight reels.

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.

INT -- -- pick-six TD
Pass breakups 7 Coverage disruption | #85/2184 (96th pct)
QB pressures 0 Quarterback hurries
Open full stat explorer
0 metrics visible Showing all metrics
Group Metric Value Rank Pct Why it matters
Defense Total tackles 26 #1609/4942 67th pct Volumevs FBS DEF
Defense TFL 3.0 #1006/4972 80th pct Disruptionvs FBS DEF
Defense Sacks 1.0 #872/4972 82nd pct Disruptionvs FBS DEF
Defense Pass breakups 7 #85/2184 96th pct Coveragevs FBS DEF
Defense Solo tackles 21 #959/4584 79th pct Volumevs FBS DEF

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 Thorpe 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 · 10 games

Home/Road · Win/Loss · Season halves

Home vs Road

TKL/gTFL/gSACK/gPD/g
Home6g2.50.20.21.0
Road4g2.80.50.00.2

Win vs Loss

TKL/gTFL/gSACK/gPD/g
Wins7g2.60.30.00.6
Losses3g2.70.30.31.0

First half vs Second half

TKL/gTFL/gSACK/gPD/g
Weeks 1-77g2.70.30.00.6
Weeks 8+3g2.30.30.31.0

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

Savant · Box-rate percentiles

Where this profile ranks vs the DB cohort

60Solid starter
6 metrics · season cumulative

Elite: passes defended (96th). Concern: qb hurries (22nd).

Passes defended#85 / 2975 · 96th pct
7defe
Solo tackles#959 / 2975 · 67th pct
21defe
Sacks#847 / 2975 · 63rd pct
1.0defe
Tackles for loss#1001 / 2975 · 63rd pct
3.0defe
Tackles#1609 / 2975 · 45th pct
26defe
QB hurries#1662 / 2975 · 22nd pct
0defe

Percentiles versus same-position peers with enough snaps this season, based on box-score rates.

Advanced Savant · DB · 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 · 6 metrics
Ahmari HarveyGeorgia TechDalton JohnsonArizona· 74% simDevin LafayetteTroy· 74% simBrevin HamblinUtah State· 74% sim
Passes defended
96
Harvey
96
Johnson
91
Lafayette
98
Hamblin
Solo tackles
67
Harvey
97
Johnson
98
Lafayette
99
Hamblin
Sacks
63
Harvey
63
Johnson
63
Lafayette
74
Hamblin
Tackles for loss
63
Harvey
47
Johnson
56
Lafayette
56
Hamblin
Tackles
45
Harvey
98
Johnson
99
Lafayette
99
Hamblin
QB hurries
22
Harvey
22
Johnson
22
Lafayette
22
Hamblin

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

Player DNA

The Centerfielder

Single-high range who erases the deep middle of the field.

S

His 2025 production profile sits closest to Trey Creamer’s 2021 season.

Trey Creamer

86%match

Charlotte · 2021

#2

Decorian Patterson

Middle Tennessee · 2021

86%
#3

Jacobi Francis

Memphis · 2020

85%
#4

Jahari Rogers

Colorado State · 2025

85%
#5

Quincy Riley

Louisville · 2024

NFL Rd 4
84%

Matches Trey on

Height
Tackle volume
PD rate

Differs from Trey on

Class year (higher)

Not enough data yet for this comparison.

As a senior, his production profile tracks closest to Corey Thornton's senior season at UCF (2023).

Corey Thornton

86%match

UCF · 2023

#2

Christian Roland-Wallace

USC · 2023

86%
#3

De'Arre McDonald

Middle Tennessee · 2025

83%
#4

Ore Adeyi

Northwestern · 2025

81%
#5

Aydan White

NC State · 2023

All-ACC
81%

Matches Corey on

Class year
Weight
PD rate

Supporting Cast · Scheme

Staff and system around the player

2025 season

Head Coach

Brent Key

Pass share

46.1%

391 pass / 457 run

Plays / game

65.2

13 games

OL sack rate (allowed)

5.0%

221 dropbacks · PBP

Scheme: Run-leaning.

Coaching Lineage · 2022–2025

1 coach
2022
Brent Key
Georgia Tech
2023
Brent Key
Georgia Tech
2025
Brent Key
Georgia Tech

Played his entire career under Brent Key.

Bio · Recruiting · Transfer · Roster

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

HometownTallahassee, FL
Height6'0"
Weight195 lb
Class4
PositionDB
Jersey3

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 Georgia Tech DB4 #11616 #11573 0.0% 0.0% -- -- W16 snapshot | ACC
2023 Georgia Tech DB4 #10695 #11043 0.0% 0.0% -- -- W19 snapshot | ACC
2022 Georgia Tech DB4 #11993 #11946 0.0% 0.0% -- -- W20 snapshot | ACC
2021 Auburn DB4 #9954 #9703 0.0% 0.0% -- -- W20 snapshot | SEC

Roster Timeline

Team, conference, and class by season.

Season Team Conference Pos Class Bio
2025 Georgia Tech ACC DB 4 No. 3 | 6-0 | 195 lb | Tallahassee, FL
2024 Georgia Tech ACC DB 4 No. 3 | 6-0 | 195 lb | Tallahassee, FL
2023 Georgia Tech ACC DB 4 No. 3 | 6-0 | 195 lb | Tallahassee, FL
2022 Georgia Tech ACC DB 4 No. 3 | 6-0 | 195 lb | Tallahassee, FL
2021 Auburn SEC DB 4 No. 3 | 6-0 | 195 lb | Tallahassee, FL