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Heisman / Players / Antonio Stevens /Kennesaw State

Antonio Stevens

DB · Kennesaw State · Sr · #3

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

32 TACKLES · 0 SACKS

2026 RETURNINGReturning to Kennesaw State for 2026

2026 Outlook

Returning to Kennesaw State for 2026

2026 Depth chart

Projected starter

Defensive back · Kennesaw State

Returning around him

  • 46% of 2024 offensive production back (Moderate turnover)
  • Transfer portal: +10 net (29 in / 19 out)

2026 Award watch

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

Kennesaw State · Last season: 10-4 · Talent rank #132 · 2026 recruiting class #137

DB · KENNESAW STATE · CONFERENCE USA

Antonio Stevens

  • 4
  • #3
  • 6-2 | 216 lb
  • Nashville, TN

CFB Zeitgeist Score

44

Mid-pack in the position cohort. Carried by passes defended at the 86th percentile.

Heisman Heat

#14235

<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 0 · Not on team

R01 · Scout team / redshirt

Scout team / redshirt. Developing behind the depth chart.

Not on team2-deepStarterRecognizedEliteApex

Career Arc

HS
Recruit
★★★
#643 national
CFB
College
2 teams
2022–2025
NFL
NFL Draft
Not drafted (yet)

Identity & Role

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

PositionDB
Class4
Jersey3
Measurements6-2 | 216 lb
HometownNashville, TN
Primary teamKennesaw State

Recruiting Pedigree

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

Top pedigree 3-star No. 643 recruit
Composite rating 0.8722 HighSchool
Signed with -- 2020
Origin Battle Ground Academy Franklin, TN, USA
Class Profile Context
2020 3-star | 0.8722 No. 643 recruit | HighSchool

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#14235Latest modeled ballot order
Season forecast#14482Where 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 —

Composite

0.8722

#643 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 Antonio Stevens

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 Antonio Stevens

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
32Tackles
2Tackles for loss
0Sacks
Per game
3Tackles
0.2Tackles for loss
0Sacks
Projected (13g)
42Tackles
2.6Tackles for loss
0Sacks

To hit 80-tackle season (currently 32): needs 16/game over remaining 3.

To hit 100-tackle season (currently 32): needs 22.7/game over remaining 3.

To hit 6-sack season (currently 0): needs 2/game over remaining 3.

To hit 10-sack season (currently 0): needs 3.3/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.

Antonio Stevens is trying to climb the steepest award hill in college football: a defensive candidacy. The hook is the disruption profile on Kennesaw State's defense, with 0.0 sacks, 2.0 tackles for loss, and 1 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 #14235 0.0% win | 0.0% finalist
Role load -- Role share still loading
Profile quirk Transfer path 0 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 32 15 solo | #1250/4942 (75th pct)
TFL 2.0 Backfield disruption | #1443/4972 (71st 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 against FBS defenders.

Coverage splash

2025 Season · Final

2025 season snapshot | final

Tackling & Disruption

TOT
32 75th
SOLO
15 69th
TFL
2.0 71st
SACK
0.0 65th

Coverage & Takeaways

PD
4 84th
INT
1 65th

Game Log · Week-by-week

2025 season · 10 games

Box score · CFBD
WkOppTKLSOLOTFLSACKINTPDNote
Wk 1L 9-10@ Wake Forest520.00.00Season-high 5 tackles
Wk 2L 9-56@ Indiana200.00.01
Wk 3W 27-13vs Merrimack330.00.00
Wk 4W 28-21vs Arkansas State421.00.00
Wk 5W 24-16vs Middle Tennessee320.00.00
Wk 7W 35-7vs Louisiana Tech210.00.011
Wk 9W 45-26@ Florida International300.00.01
Wk 10W 33-20vs UTEP530.00.01
Wk 12L 26-35@ Jacksonville State410.00.00
Wk 15W 19-15@ Jacksonville State111.00.00
Total32152.00.014
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

2022Purdue8-6HC: Jeff Brohm · Pass-leaning
2023Purdue4-8HC: Ryan Walters · Run-leaning
2024Purdue1-11HC: Ryan Walters · Balanced, slow tempo
2025Kennesaw State10-4HC: Jerry Mack · Run-leaning
SeasonTeam
2025Kennesaw State32152.00.041--
2024Purdue46283.00.511--
2023Purdue17140.00.0------
2022Purdue540.00.0------
Career4 loaded seasons100615.00.552--
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 1 0 pick-six TD | #308/869 (65th pct)
Pass breakups 4 Coverage disruption | #340/2184 (84th pct)
QB pressures 0 Quarterback hurries
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Group Metric Value Rank Pct Why it matters
Defense Total tackles 32 #1250/4942 75th pct Volumevs FBS DEF
Defense TFL 2.0 #1443/4972 71st pct Disruptionvs FBS DEF
Defense Sacks 0.0 #1762/4972 65th pct Disruptionvs FBS DEF
Defense Interceptions 1 #308/869 65th pct Takeawaysvs FBS DEF
Defense Pass breakups 4 #340/2184 84th pct Coveragevs FBS DEF
Defense Solo tackles 15 #1434/4584 69th 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
Home5g3.40.20.00.4
Road5g3.00.20.00.4

Win vs Loss

TKL/gTFL/gSACK/gPD/g
Wins7g3.00.30.00.4
Losses3g3.70.00.00.3

First half vs Second half

TKL/gTFL/gSACK/gPD/g
Weeks 1-76g3.20.20.00.3
Weeks 8+4g3.20.20.00.5

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

Savant · Box-rate percentiles

Where this profile ranks vs the DB cohort

44Mid-pack
7 metrics · season cumulative

Elite: passes defended (85th). Concern: qb hurries (22nd).

Passes defended#340 / 2975 · 86th pct
4defe
Tackles#1250 / 2975 · 57th pct
32defe
Solo tackles#1434 / 2975 · 50th pct
15defe
Tackles for loss#1424 / 2975 · 47th pct
2.0defe
Interceptions#304 / 817 · 31st pct
1inte
Sacks#1575 / 2975 · 24th pct
0.0defe
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 · 7 metrics
Antonio StevensKennesaw StateTyler MartinMassachusetts· 77% simTahj Ra-ElPurdue· 73% simRobert FitzgeraldNorthwestern· 69% sim
Passes defended
86
Stevens
67
Martin
91
Ra-El
86
Fitzgerald
Tackles
57
Stevens
98
Martin
99
Ra-El
99
Fitzgerald
Solo tackles
50
Stevens
87
Martin
100
Ra-El
100
Fitzgerald
Tackles for loss
47
Stevens
63
Martin
56
Ra-El
85
Fitzgerald
Interceptions
31
Stevens
31
Martin
31
Fitzgerald
Sacks
24
Stevens
24
Martin
24
Ra-El
24
Fitzgerald
QB hurries
22
Stevens
22
Martin
22
Ra-El
55
Fitzgerald

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

Player DNA

The Hybrid Nickel

Moves between deep coverage and the slot — the modern positionless DB.

S

His 2025 production profile sits closest to Adonis Williams Jr.’s 2024 season.

Adonis Williams Jr.

80%match

Ohio · 2024

#2

Lantz Russell

UTEP · 2025

77%
#3

Jeremiah Wood

Ohio · 2023

79%
#4

J'Marick Woods

Duke · 2021

76%
#5

Myles Olufemi

Coastal Carolina · 2021

76%

Matches Adonis on

Height
Tackle volume
Weight

Not enough data yet for this comparison.

As a graduate, his production profile tracks closest to Marvae Myers-Glover's graduate season at Marshall (2025).

Marvae Myers-Glover

85%match

Marshall · 2025

#2

Hudson Clark

Arkansas · 2024

84%
#3

Tyrin Taylor

Jacksonville State · 2025

84%
#4

Jaelen Stokes

South Florida · 2025

82%
#5

John Humphrey

USC · 2024

83%

Matches Marvae on

Class year
Tackle volume
PD rate

Supporting Cast · Scheme

Staff and system around the player

2025 season

Head Coach

Jerry Mack

Pass share

44.2%

422 pass / 533 run

Plays / game

68.2

14 games

OL sack rate (allowed)

7.4%

282 dropbacks · PBP

Scheme: Run-leaning.

Coaching Lineage · 2022–2025

2 coaches
2022
Kennesaw State
2023
Kennesaw State
2024
Chandler Burks
Kennesaw State
era →
2025
Jerry Mack
Kennesaw State
era →

Coaching transition mid-career: Chandler Burks → Jerry Mack. Worth noting in scheme + development context.

Bio · Recruiting · Transfer · Roster

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

HometownNashville, TN
Height6'2"
Weight216 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 Purdue DB4 #14235 #14482 0.0% 0.0% -- -- W16 snapshot | Big Ten
2023 Purdue DB4 #12746 #12772 0.0% 0.0% -- -- W19 snapshot | Big Ten
2022 Purdue DB4 #10736 #10575 0.0% 0.0% -- -- W20 snapshot | Big Ten
2021 Purdue DB4 #9823 #9571 0.0% 0.0% -- -- W20 snapshot | Big Ten

Roster Timeline

Team, conference, and class by season.

Season Team Conference Pos Class Bio
2025 Kennesaw State Conference USA DB 4 No. 3 | 6-2 | 216 lb | Nashville, TN
2024 Purdue Big Ten DB 4 No. 3 | 6-2 | 216 lb | Nashville, TN
2023 Purdue Big Ten DB 4 No. 3 | 6-2 | 216 lb | Nashville, TN
2022 Purdue Big Ten DB 4 No. 3 | 6-2 | 216 lb | Nashville, TN
2021 Purdue Big Ten DB 4 No. 3 | 6-2 | 216 lb | Nashville, TN