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Heisman / Players / Braylin Presley /Tulsa

Braylin Presley

RB · Tulsa · Sr · #1

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

215 RUSH YDS · 1 RUSH TD · 32 CARRIES

2026 RETURNINGReturning to Tulsa for 2026

2026 Outlook

Returning to Tulsa for 2026

2026 Depth chart

Projected starter

Running back · Tulsa

Returning around him

  • 99% of 2024 offensive production back (Strong continuity)
  • Transfer portal: -1 net (21 in / 22 out)

2026 Award watch

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

Tulsa · Last season: 4-8 · Talent rank #85 · 2026 recruiting class #109

RB · TULSA · AMERICAN ATHLETIC

Braylin Presley

  • 4
  • #1
  • 5-6 | 170 lb
  • Tulsa, OK

CFB Zeitgeist Score

38

Mid-pack in the position cohort. Carried by yards / carry at the 94th percentile.

Heisman Heat

#1846

<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 RB AWARD

Doak Walker

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

Development Trajectory · rushing yards

2022–2025
3.02022
19.02023
27.02024
2152025

+7067%

Up 7067% from first season to most-recent.

Career Arc

HS
Recruit
★★★★
#369 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.

PositionRB
Class4
Jersey1
Measurements5-6 | 170 lb
HometownTulsa, OK
Primary teamTulsa

Recruiting Pedigree

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

Top pedigree 4-star No. 369 recruit
Composite rating 0.8955 HighSchool
Signed with Oklahoma State 2022
Origin Bixby Bixby, OK, USA
Class Profile Context
2022 4-star | 0.8955 No. 369 recruit | HighSchool | Oklahoma State

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#1846Latest modeled ballot order
Season forecast#2486Where 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 Oklahoma State

Composite

0.8955

#369 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 Braylin Presley

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 Braylin Presley

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 rushing totals stand

projecting to 13-game
Through 12g
215Rush yards
32Carries
1Rush TDs
Per game
17.9Rush yards
3Carries
0Rush TDs
Projected (13g)
232.9Rush yards
35Carries
1Rush TDs

To hit 750-yard season (currently 215): needs 535/game over remaining 1.

To hit 1,000-yard season (currently 215): needs 785/game over remaining 1.

To hit 1,500-yard season (currently 215): needs 1,285/game over remaining 1.

To hit 10 rushing TDs (currently 1): needs 9/game over remaining 1.

To hit 15 rushing TDs (currently 1): needs 14/game over remaining 1.

To hit 20 rushing TDs (currently 1): needs 19/game over remaining 1.

Why this is more than a rushing profile

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

Braylin Presley is not a one-lane back. The profile is interesting because the workload spills beyond pure rushing volume: 215 rushing yards, 18 catches, and 162 return yards for Tulsa. That kind of all-purpose footprint gives the card a much richer story than a basic carry total.

Current place #1846 0.0% win | 0.0% finalist
Role load 6.8% Overall usage share
Profile quirk Blue-chip pedigree No. 369 recruit

2025 Season · Final

Traditional stats first. Advanced context underneath.

Last season

RB season snapshot

2025 season snapshot | final

2025 season snapshot | finalData: CFBD player stats + local Heisman modelPeer context: same position + same level
Scrimmage yards 330 215 rush | 115 rec | #329/735 (55th pct)
Rush TD 1 32 carries | #323/739 (56th pct)
Yards/carry 6.7 Per-rush efficiency | #67/735 (91st pct)
Player identity What kind of player is this?

30-second read

What kind of player is this?

Efficient runner | Passing-game back against FBS RB peers.

Efficient runnerPassing-game back

2025 Season · Final

2025 season snapshot | final

Rushing

CAR
32 49th
YDS
215 55th
YPC
6.7 91st
TD
1 56th

Receiving

REC
18 83rd
YDS
115 74th
YPR
6.4 44th
TD
1 89th

Game Log · Week-by-week

2025 season · 12 games

Box score · CFBD
WkOppCARYDSAVGTDLONGNote
Wk 1W 35-7vs Abilene Christian7466.6016Season-high 46 yds
Wk 2L 14-21@ New Mexico State5142.8010
Wk 3L 23-42vs Navy23919.5028
Wk 4W 19-12@ Oklahoma State33210.7020
Wk 5L 14-31vs Tulane188.008
Wk 6L 7-45@ Memphis482.006
Wk 8L 27-41@ East Carolina221.002
Wk 9L 37-38vs Temple294.506
Wk 11L 21-40@ Florida Atlantic
Wk 12W 31-14vs Oregon State11111.0011
Wk 13W 26-25@ Army
Wk 14L 24-31vs UAB5469.2115
Total322157.5128
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

2022Oklahoma State7-6HC: Mike Gundy · Balanced, fast tempo
2023Tulsa4-8HC: Kevin Wilson · Run-heavy
2024Tulsa3-9HC: Kevin Wilson · Balanced
2025Tulsa4-8HC: Tre Lamb · Run-leaning
SeasonTeam
2025Tulsa322156.71--
2024Tulsa3279.01--
2023Tulsa6193.20--
2022Oklahoma State231.50--
Career4 loaded seasons432646.12--
SeasonTeam
2025Tulsa181156.41--
2024Tulsa9738.10--
2023Tulsa1112211.10--
2022Oklahoma State5265.20--
Career4 loaded seasons433367.81--
Advanced layer Usage, value, and context

Advanced metrics second

Advanced Metrics

Usage, value, and opponent-adjusted context.

Usage Value Context
Rushing WEPA

Opponent-adjusted rushing value. It helps separate empty volume from carries that actually move the scoreboard.

Role share

How much of the team's offense flows through this back once rushing work and receiving work are combined.

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.

Receiving work 18 115 rec yds | #96/552 (83rd pct)
Usage 6.8% 7.9% rush share | #448/738 (39th pct)
Rushing WEPA -- Adjusted value feed still loading
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Group Metric Value Rank Pct Why it matters
Rushing Rushing yards 215 #329/735 55th pct Volumevs FBS RB
Rushing Rush TD 1 #323/739 56th pct Scoringvs FBS RB
Rushing Yards / carry 6.7 #67/735 91st pct Efficiencyvs FBS RB
Receiving Receptions 18 #96/552 83rd pct Volumevs FBS RB
Receiving Receiving yards 115 #144/548 74th pct Volumevs FBS RB
Usage Role share 6.8% #448/738 39th pct Share of team offensevs FBS RB
Rushing Carries 32 #378/739 49th pct Volumevs FBS RB
Rushing Rushing LONG 28 #311/733 58th pct Metricvs FBS RB
Receiving Receiving LONG 22 #198/540 64th pct Metricvs FBS RB
Receiving Yards / catch 6.4 #310/548 44th pct Efficiencyvs FBS RB
Receiving Receiving TD 1 #60/552 89th pct Scoringvs FBS RB
Returns Kick return yards 162 #42/200 80th pct Volumevs FBS RB
Returns Kick return avg 18.0 #104/199 48th pct Efficiencyvs FBS RB
Returns Kick returns 9 #34/206 84th pct Volumevs FBS RB
Usage Rush share 7.9% #548/738 26th pct Ground-game usagevs FBS RB
Usage Standard-down usage 7.7% #438/738 41st pct Base-situation sharevs FBS RB
Usage 1st-down usage 7.0% #457/738 38th pct Early-down loadvs FBS RB
Usage 2nd-down usage 6.8% #485/738 34th pct Middle-down loadvs FBS RB
Usage 3rd-down usage 6.4% #373/738 50th pct Money-down loadvs FBS RB
Usage Pass share 5.9% #121/738 84th pct Air-game usagevs FBS RB
Usage Passing-down usage 4.8% #467/738 37th pct Known-passing sharevs FBS RB

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

Heisman model tracks the top FBS contenders weekly; this player hasn't entered the watch list yet.

Splits · Per-game

2025 season · 12 games

Home/Road · Win/Loss · Season halves

Home vs Road

YDS/gYPCTD/g
Home6g26.59.80.2
Road6g9.34.10.0

Win vs Loss

YDS/gYPCTD/g
Wins4g22.29.40.0
Losses8g15.86.70.1

First half vs Second half

YDS/gYPCTD/g
Weeks 1-76g24.58.30.0
Weeks 8+6g11.36.40.2

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

Savant · Box-rate percentiles

Where this profile ranks vs the RB cohort

38Mid-pack
7 metrics · season cumulative

Elite: yards / carry (94th). Concern: carries (0th).

Yards / carry#19 / 349 · 94th pct
6.7rush
Receptions#93 / 338 · 71st pct
18rece
Rec yards#134 / 338 · 61st pct
115rece
Long run#259 / 349 · 26th pct
28rush
Rush TDs#284 / 349 · 13th pct
1rush
Rush yards#323 / 349 · 8th pct
215rush
Carries#350 / 349 · 0th pct
32rush

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

Advanced Savant · RB · 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
Braylin PresleyTulsaKamari MoultonIowa· 51% simRashod DubinionApp State· 51% simJevon JacksonUAB· 49% sim
Yards / carry
94
Presley
62
Moulton
53
Dubinion
68
Jackson
Receptions
71
Presley
63
Moulton
86
Dubinion
75
Jackson
Rec yards
61
Presley
53
Moulton
77
Dubinion
61
Jackson
Long run
26
Presley
33
Moulton
39
Dubinion
70
Jackson
Rush TDs
13
Presley
62
Moulton
50
Dubinion
62
Jackson
Rush yards
8
Presley
84
Moulton
84
Dubinion
85
Jackson
Carries
0
Presley
86
Moulton
87
Dubinion
85
Jackson

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

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

Tre Lamb

Pass share

45.9%

407 pass / 480 run

Plays / game

73.9

12 games

OL sack rate (allowed)

6.2%

357 dropbacks · PBP

Scheme: Run-leaning.

Coaching Lineage · 2022–2025

3 coaches
2022
Philip Montgomery
Tulsa
2023
Kevin Wilson
Tulsa
era →
2024
Kevin Wilson
Tulsa
2025
Tre Lamb
Tulsa
era →

Played under 3 different head coaches: Philip Montgomery, Kevin Wilson, and Tre Lamb. Multi-era developmental context.

Bio · Recruiting · Transfer · Roster

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

HometownTulsa, OK
Height5'6"
Weight170 lb
Class4
PositionRB
Jersey1

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 Tulsa RB4 #1846 #2486 0.0% 0.0% -- -- W16 snapshot | American Athletic
2023 Tulsa RB4 #3224 #3616 0.0% 0.0% -- -- W19 snapshot | American Athletic
2022 Oklahoma State RB4 #2274 #2229 0.0% 0.0% -- -- W20 snapshot | Big 12

Roster Timeline

Team, conference, and class by season.

Season Team Conference Pos Class Bio
2025 Tulsa American Athletic RB 4 No. 1 | 5-6 | 170 lb | Tulsa, OK
2024 Tulsa American Athletic RB 4 No. 1 | 5-6 | 170 lb | Tulsa, OK
2023 Tulsa American Athletic RB 4 No. 1 | 5-6 | 170 lb | Tulsa, OK
2022 Oklahoma State Big 12 RB 4 No. 1 | 5-6 | 170 lb | Tulsa, OK