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Heisman / Players / Calvin Hill /Texas State

Calvin Hill

RB · Texas State · Jr · #11

Limited signal — not enough coverage for a story yet.

ALUMNUSTexas State 2023 alumnus

RB · TEXAS STATE · SUN BELT

Calvin Hill

  • 3
  • #11
  • 5-8 | 200 lb
  • Baytown, TX

CFB Zeitgeist RB Score

Awaiting

Heisman Heat

#2381

<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 0 · Not on team

R01 · Scout team / redshirt

Scout team / redshirt. Developing behind the depth chart.

Not on team2-deepStarterRecognizedEliteApex

Development Trajectory · rushing yards

2020–2023
5362020
7142021
3382022
98.02023

-82%

Sharp dropoff (-82%) — career inflection point.

Career Arc

HS
Recruit
★★★
#2404 national
CFB
College
Texas State
2020–2023
NFL
NFL Draft
Not drafted (yet)

Identity & Role

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

PositionRB
Class3
Jersey11
Measurements5-8 | 200 lb
HometownBaytown, TX
Primary teamTexas State

Recruiting Pedigree

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

Top pedigree 3-star No. 2404 recruit
Composite rating 0.8056 HighSchool
Signed with Texas State 2019
Origin Sterling Baytown, TX, USA
Class Profile Context
2019 3-star | 0.8056 No. 2404 recruit | HighSchool | Texas 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 UTEP 2024
Transfer stars 3-star CFBD transfer rating context
Eligibility Immediate Dec 11, 2023
Season Move Context
2024 Texas State -> UTEP 3-star | 0.8500 | Immediate

Heisman Lens · 2023 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 19
Current nowcast#2381Latest modeled ballot order
Season forecast#2454Where 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 Texas State

Composite

0.8056

#2404 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 Calvin Hill

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 Calvin Hill

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.

What made this player interesting

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

Calvin Hill's story is about how role and output meet each other. For Texas State, the card already shows enough current-season production to explain why he is on the serious-player board, and the next layer is determining whether the profile is just very good or actually distinctive.

Current place #2381 0.0% win | 0.0% finalist
Role load 16.2% Overall usage share
Profile quirk Development arc The card should explain why this profile stands out

2023 Season · Final

Traditional stats first. Advanced context underneath.

Last season

RB season snapshot

2023 season snapshot | final

2023 season snapshot | finalData: CFBD player stats + local Heisman modelPeer context: same position + same level
Scrimmage yards 126 98 rush | 28 rec | #436/735 (41st pct)
Rush TD 0 31 carries | #447/739 (40th pct)
Yards/carry 3.2 Per-rush efficiency | #611/735 (17th pct)
Player identity What kind of player is this?

30-second read

What kind of player is this?

Backfield contributor against FBS RB peers.

Balanced profile

2023 Season · Final

2023 season snapshot | final

Rushing

CAR
31 48th
YDS
98 41st
YPC
3.2 17th
TD
0 40th

Receiving

REC
4 38th
YDS
28 36th
YPR
7.0 51st
TD
0 70th

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

2020Texas State2-10HC: Jake Spavital · Balanced
2021Texas State4-8HC: Jake Spavital · Run-leaning
2022Texas State4-8HC: Jake Spavital · Balanced
2023Texas State8-5HC: G.J. Kinne · Run-leaning
SeasonTeam
2023Texas State31983.20--
2022Texas State763384.41--
2021Texas State1287145.63--
2020Texas State1015365.35--
Career4 loaded seasons3361,6865.09--
SeasonTeam
2023Texas State4287.00--
2022Texas State8465.80--
2021Texas State18784.30--
2020Texas State241737.20--
Career4 loaded seasons543256.00--
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 4 28 rec yds | #343/552 (38th pct)
Usage 16.2% 27.6% rush share | #151/738 (80th pct)
Rushing WEPA +0.19 Opponent-adjusted rush value | #67/362 (82nd pct)
Open full stat explorer
0 metrics visible Showing all metrics
Group Metric Value Rank Pct Why it matters
Rushing Rushing yards 98 #436/735 41st pct Volumevs FBS RB
Rushing Rush TD 0 #447/739 40th pct Scoringvs FBS RB
Rushing Yards / carry 3.2 #611/735 17th pct Efficiencyvs FBS RB
Receiving Receptions 4 #343/552 38th pct Volumevs FBS RB
Receiving Receiving yards 28 #354/548 36th pct Volumevs FBS RB
Value Rushing WEPA +0.19 #67/362 82nd pct Opponent-adjusted rushing value | 103 weighted playsvs FBS RB
Usage Role share 16.2% #151/738 80th pct Share of team offensevs FBS RB
Rushing Carries 31 #383/739 48th pct Volumevs FBS RB
Rushing Rushing LONG 13 #513/733 30th pct Metricvs FBS RB
Receiving Receiving LONG 8 #438/540 19th pct Metricvs FBS RB
Receiving Yards / catch 7.0 #267/548 51st pct Efficiencyvs FBS RB
Receiving Receiving TD 0 #169/552 70th pct Scoringvs FBS RB
Usage Rush share 27.6% #148/738 80th pct Ground-game usagevs FBS RB
Usage Standard-down usage 19.5% #138/738 81st pct Base-situation sharevs FBS RB
Usage 1st-down usage 18.9% #162/738 78th pct Early-down loadvs FBS RB
Usage 2nd-down usage 17.2% #136/738 82nd pct Middle-down loadvs FBS RB
Usage 3rd-down usage 10.6% #180/738 76th pct Money-down loadvs FBS RB
Usage Passing-down usage 10.2% #193/738 74th pct Known-passing sharevs FBS RB
Usage Pass share 5.0% #156/738 79th pct Air-game usagevs FBS RB
Ball Security Fumbles lost 0 #1/256 100th pct Turnoversvs 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 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 · RB · 2023

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

G.J. Kinne

Pass share

39.5%

358 pass / 549 run

Plays / game

69.8

13 games

OL sack rate (allowed)

9.4%

267 dropbacks · PBP

Scheme: Run-heavy.

Coaching Lineage · 2020–2023

2 coaches
2020
Jake Spavital
Texas State
2021
Jake Spavital
Texas State
2022
Jake Spavital
Texas State
2023
G.J. Kinne
Texas State
era →

Coaching transition mid-career: Jake Spavital → G.J. Kinne. 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.

HometownBaytown, TX
Height5'8"
Weight200 lb
Class3
PositionRB
Jersey11

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
2023 Texas State RB3 #2381 #2454 0.0% 0.0% -- -- W19 snapshot | Sun Belt
2022 Texas State RB3 #2475 #3030 0.0% 0.0% -- -- W20 snapshot | Sun Belt
2021 Texas State RB3 #902 #1315 0.0% 0.0% -- -- W20 snapshot | Sun Belt
2020 Texas State RB3 #36 #58 0.0% 0.0% -- -- W16 snapshot | Sun Belt

Roster Timeline

Team, conference, and class by season.

Season Team Conference Pos Class Bio
2023 Texas State Sun Belt RB 3 No. 11 | 5-8 | 200 lb | Baytown, TX
2022 Texas State Sun Belt RB 3 No. 11 | 5-8 | 200 lb | Baytown, TX
2021 Texas State Sun Belt RB 3 No. 11 | 5-8 | 200 lb | Baytown, TX
2020 Texas State Sun Belt RB 3 No. 11 | 5-8 | 200 lb | Baytown, TX