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Heisman / Players / Ahmere Foster /Southern Miss

Ahmere Foster

S · Southern Miss · Jr · #41

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

47 TACKLES · 0 SACKS

2026 TRANSFERTransferred Southern Miss → Memphis for 2026

Where He Ended Up · Transfer

Transferred to Memphis

2025Southern Miss
2026Memphis

S · SOUTHERN MISS · SUN BELT

Ahmere Foster

  • 3
  • #41
  • 5-10 | 180 lb
  • Miami, FL

CFB Zeitgeist Score

52

Mid-pack in the position cohort. Carried by interceptions at the 90th percentile.

Heisman Heat

#11529

<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 2 · Starter

R05 · Part-time starter

Part-time starter. Splitting first-team reps.

Not on team2-deepStarterRecognizedEliteApex

Career Arc

HS
Recruit
★★★
#1396 national
CFB
College
2 teams
2023–2025
NFL
NFL Draft
Not drafted (yet)

Identity & Role

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

PositionS
Class3
Jersey41
Measurements5-10 | 180 lb
HometownMiami, FL
Primary teamSouthern Miss

Recruiting Pedigree

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

Top pedigree 3-star No. 1396 recruit
Composite rating 0.8500 HighSchool
Signed with Marshall 2023
Origin Columbus Miami, FL, USA
Class Profile Context
2023 3-star | 0.8500 No. 1396 recruit | HighSchool | Marshall

Transfer Arc

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

Portal moves 2 Programs changed on file
Latest destination Memphis 2026
Transfer stars 3-star CFBD transfer rating context
Eligibility Immediate Jan 5, 2026
Season Move Context
2026 Southern Miss -> Memphis 3-star | Immediate
2025 Marshall -> Southern Miss 3-star | Immediate

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#11529Latest modeled ballot order
Season forecast#11740Where 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 Marshall

Composite

0.8500

#1396 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 Ahmere Foster

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 Ahmere Foster

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

final
Through 13g
47Tackles
0.5Tackles for loss
0Sacks
Per game
4Tackles
0Tackles for loss
0Sacks
Final
47Tackles
0.5Tackles for loss
0Sacks

Why this is a rare defensive case

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

Ahmere Foster is trying to climb the steepest award hill in college football: a defensive candidacy. The hook is the disruption profile on Southern Miss's defense, with 0.0 sacks, 0.5 tackles for loss, and 3 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 #11529 0.0% win | 0.0% finalist
Role load -- Role share still loading
Profile quirk Transfer path 2 portal moves

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 47 16 solo | #680/4942 (86th pct)
TFL 0.5 Backfield disruption | #2658/4972 (47th pct)
Sacks 0.0 Pass-rush finish | #1762/4972 (65th pct)
Player identity What kind of player is this?

30-second read

What kind of player is this?

Coverage splash | High-volume tackler against FBS defenders.

Coverage splashHigh-volume tackler

2025 Season · Final

2025 season snapshot | final

Tackling & Disruption

TOT
47 86th
SOLO
16 71st
TFL
0.5 47th
SACK
0.0 65th
QBH
1 44th

Coverage & Takeaways

PD
2 64th
INT
3 94th

Game Log · Week-by-week

2025 season · 13 games

Box score · CFBD
WkOppTKLSOLOTFLSACKINTPDNote
Wk 1L 17-34vs Mississippi State510.00.00
Wk 2W 38-20vs Jackson State310.00.010
Wk 3W 38-22vs App State200.00.00
Wk 4L 20-30@ Louisiana Tech200.50.00
Wk 5W 42-25vs Jacksonville State110.00.00
Wk 7W 38-35@ Georgia Southern430.00.00
Wk 8W 22-10@ Louisiana440.00.010
Wk 9W 49-21vs UL Monroe300.00.01
Wk 11W 27-21@ Arkansas State410.00.010
Wk 12L 14-41vs Texas State710.00.00Season-high 7 tackles
Wk 13L 35-42@ South Alabama510.00.00
Wk 14L 18-28vs Troy410.00.00
BowlL 16-27vs Western Kentucky320.00.01
Total47160.50.032
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

2023Marshall6-7HC: Charles Huff · Balanced
2024Marshall10-3HC: Charles Huff · Run-leaning
2025Southern Miss7-6HC: Charles Huff · Balanced
SeasonTeam
2025Southern Miss47160.50.023--
2024Marshall37181.51.02----
2023Marshall28130.00.021--
Career3 loaded seasons112472.01.064--
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 3 0 pick-six TD | #56/869 (94th pct)
Pass breakups 2 Coverage disruption | #792/2184 (64th pct)
QB pressures 1 Quarterback hurries | #1051/1878 (44th pct)
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0 metrics visible Showing all metrics
Group Metric Value Rank Pct Why it matters
Defense Total tackles 47 #680/4942 86th pct Volumevs FBS DEF
Defense TFL 0.5 #2658/4972 47th pct Disruptionvs FBS DEF
Defense Sacks 0.0 #1762/4972 65th pct Disruptionvs FBS DEF
Defense Interceptions 3 #56/869 94th pct Takeawaysvs FBS DEF
Defense Pass breakups 2 #792/2184 64th pct Coveragevs FBS DEF
Defense QB hurries 1 #1051/1878 44th pct Disruptionvs FBS DEF
Defense INT return yards 54 #97/578 83rd pct Takeawaysvs FBS DEF
Defense INT return avg 18.0 #236/578 59th pct Takeawaysvs FBS DEF
Defense Solo tackles 16 #1348/4584 71st 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 · 13 games

Home/Road · Win/Loss · Season halves

Home vs Road

TKL/gTFL/gSACK/gPD/g
Home8g3.50.00.00.2
Road5g3.80.10.00.0

Win vs Loss

TKL/gTFL/gSACK/gPD/g
Wins7g3.00.00.00.1
Losses6g4.30.10.00.2

First half vs Second half

TKL/gTFL/gSACK/gPD/g
Weeks 1-77g2.90.10.00.1
Weeks 8+6g4.50.00.00.2

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

Savant · Box-rate percentiles

Where this profile ranks vs the S cohort

52Mid-pack
7 metrics · season cumulative

Elite: interceptions (89th). Concern: tackles for loss (18th).

Interceptions#56 / 817 · 90th pct
3inte
Tackles#680 / 2975 · 77th pct
47defe
Passes defended#777 / 2975 · 67th pct
2defe
QB hurries#1007 / 2975 · 55th pct
1defe
Solo tackles#1348 / 2975 · 53rd pct
16defe
Sacks#1575 / 2975 · 24th pct
0.0defe
Tackles for loss#2332 / 2975 · 18th pct
0.5defe

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

Advanced Savant · S · 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 · 7 metrics
Ahmere FosterSouthern MissBlake FletcherAir Force· 76% simTahj Ra-ElPurdue· 69% simDalton JohnsonArizona· 69% sim
Interceptions
90
Foster
95
Johnson
Tackles
77
Foster
99
Fletcher
99
Ra-El
98
Johnson
Passes defended
67
Foster
67
Fletcher
91
Ra-El
96
Johnson
QB hurries
55
Foster
92
Fletcher
22
Ra-El
22
Johnson
Solo tackles
53
Foster
91
Fletcher
100
Ra-El
97
Johnson
Sacks
24
Foster
24
Fletcher
24
Ra-El
63
Johnson
Tackles for loss
18
Foster
28
Fletcher
56
Ra-El
47
Johnson

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 Cam'Ron Silmon-Craig’s 2023 season.

Cam'Ron Silmon-Craig

91%match

Colorado · 2023

#2

Cale Sanders

SMU · 2024

83%
#3

Tre Young

South Alabama · 2021

84%
#4

Dwight Bootle II

Charlotte · 2025

81%
#5

Jeremiah Wilson

Florida State · 2025

82%

Matches Cam'Ron on

Height
Interceptions
Tackle volume

Not enough data yet for this comparison.

As a junior, his production profile tracks closest to Maurion Eleam's junior season at Louisiana (2025).

Maurion Eleam

86%match

Louisiana · 2025

#2

Audavion Collins

Penn State · 2025

84%
#3

Tyson Flowers

Virginia Tech · 2025

82%
#4

Kentrell Webb

Houston · 2024

82%
#5

Sharif Denson

Florida · 2025

79%

Matches Maurion on

Class year
Height
Tackle volume

Supporting Cast · Scheme

Staff and system around the player

2025 season

Head Coach

Charles Huff

Pass share

49.9%

454 pass / 456 run

Plays / game

70.0

13 games

OL sack rate (allowed)

6.3%

315 dropbacks · PBP

Scheme: Balanced.

Coaching Lineage · 2023–2025

3 coaches
2023
Will Hall
Southern Miss
2024
Reed Stringer
Southern Miss
era →
2025
Charles Huff
Southern Miss
era →

Played under 3 different head coaches: Will Hall, Reed Stringer, and Charles Huff. Multi-era developmental context.

Bio · Recruiting · Transfer · Roster

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

HometownMiami, FL
Height5'10"
Weight180 lb
Class3
PositionS
Jersey41

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 Marshall S3 #11529 #11740 0.0% 0.0% -- -- W16 snapshot | Sun Belt
2023 Marshall S3 #11708 #11847 0.0% 0.0% -- -- W19 snapshot | Sun Belt

Roster Timeline

Team, conference, and class by season.

Season Team Conference Pos Class Bio
2025 Southern Miss Sun Belt S 3 No. 41 | 5-10 | 180 lb | Miami, FL
2024 Marshall Sun Belt S 3 No. 41 | 5-10 | 180 lb | Miami, FL
2023 Marshall Sun Belt S 3 No. 41 | 5-10 | 180 lb | Miami, FL