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OFFSEASON · SUMMER 2026 · COMMITMENT SEASON
Heisman / Players / Chris Edmonds /Bowling Green

Chris Edmonds

RB · Bowling Green · So · #23

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

26 RUSH YDS · 0 RUSH TD · 7 CARRIES

2026 RETURNINGReturning to Bowling Green for 2026

2026 Outlook

Returning to Bowling Green for 2026

2026 Depth chart

Projected starter

Running back · Bowling Green

Returning around him

  • 8% of 2024 offensive production back (Heavy turnover)
  • Transfer portal: -12 net (15 in / 27 out)

2026 Award watch

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

Bowling Green · Last season: 4-8 · Talent rank #107 · 2026 recruiting class #94

RB · BOWLING GREEN · MID-AMERICAN

Chris Edmonds

  • 2
  • #23
  • 5-10 | 210 lb
  • Toledo, OH

CFB Zeitgeist Score

9

Below cohort in the position cohort. Carried by fumbles lost at the 87th percentile.

Heisman Heat

#4041

<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 1 · 2-deep

R03 · Backup

Backup. On the two-deep, pushing for snaps.

Not on team2-deepStarterRecognizedEliteApex

Development Trajectory · rushing yards

2023–2025
5.02023
26.02025

+420%

Up 420% from first season to most-recent.

Career Arc

HS
Recruit
No recruit profile
CFB
College
Bowling Green
2023–2025
NFL
NFL Draft
Not drafted (yet)

Identity & Role

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

PositionRB
Class2
Jersey23
Measurements5-10 | 210 lb
HometownToledo, OH
Primary teamBowling Green

Recruiting Pedigree

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

Top pedigree Not on file No matched recruiting profile in the loaded archive
Composite rating -- Composite rating unavailable for this player
Signed with -- Commitment history unavailable
Origin -- Hometown and high school unavailable
Class Profile Context
No recruiting profile is on file for this player.

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#4041Latest modeled ballot order
Season forecast#4225Where 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.

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 Chris Edmonds

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 Chris Edmonds

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 2g
26Rush yards
7Carries
0Rush TDs
Per game
13Rush yards
4Carries
0Rush TDs
Projected (13g)
169Rush yards
46Carries
0Rush TDs

To hit 750-yard season (currently 26): needs 65.8/game over remaining 11.

To hit 1,000-yard season (currently 26): needs 88.5/game over remaining 11.

To hit 1,500-yard season (currently 26): needs 134/game over remaining 11.

To hit 10 rushing TDs (currently 0): needs 0.9/game over remaining 11.

To hit 15 rushing TDs (currently 0): needs 1.4/game over remaining 11.

To hit 20 rushing TDs (currently 0): needs 1.8/game over remaining 11.

What made this player interesting

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

Chris Edmonds's story is about how role and output meet each other. For Bowling Green, 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 #4041 0.0% win | 0.0% finalist
Role load 4.4% Overall usage share
Profile quirk Development arc The card should explain why this profile stands out

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 26 26 rush | -- rec | #583/735 (21st pct)
Rush TD 0 7 carries | #447/739 (40th pct)
Yards/carry 3.7 Per-rush efficiency | #549/735 (25th 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

2025 Season · Final

2025 season snapshot | final

Rushing

CAR
7 22nd
YDS
26 21st
YPC
3.7 25th
TD
0 40th

Game Log · Week-by-week

2025 season · 2 games

Box score · CFBD
WkOppCARYDSAVGTDLONGNote
Wk 8L 6-27vs Central Michigan177.007
Wk 10L 3-28vs Buffalo6193.2015Season-high 19 yds
Total7265.1015
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

2023Bowling Green7-6HC: Scot Loeffler · Run-leaning, slow tempo
2025Bowling Green4-8HC: Eddie George · Run-heavy
SeasonTeam
2025Bowling Green7263.70--
2023Bowling Green155.00--
Career2 loaded seasons8313.90--
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 -- -- rec yds
Usage 4.4% 8.5% rush share | #573/738 (22nd pct)
Rushing WEPA -- Adjusted value feed still loading
Open full stat explorer
0 metrics visible Showing all metrics
Group Metric Value Rank Pct Why it matters
Rushing Rushing yards 26 #583/735 21st pct Volumevs FBS RB
Rushing Rush TD 0 #447/739 40th pct Scoringvs FBS RB
Rushing Yards / carry 3.7 #549/735 25th pct Efficiencyvs FBS RB
Usage Role share 4.4% #573/738 22nd pct Share of team offensevs FBS RB
Rushing Rushing LONG 15 #465/733 37th pct Metricvs FBS RB
Rushing Carries 7 #578/739 22nd pct Volumevs FBS RB
Usage Rush share 8.5% #531/738 28th pct Ground-game usagevs FBS RB
Usage Standard-down usage 5.9% #518/738 30th pct Base-situation sharevs FBS RB
Usage 1st-down usage 3.8% #602/738 19th pct Early-down loadvs FBS RB
Usage 3rd-down usage 3.2% #535/738 28th pct Money-down loadvs FBS RB
Usage 2nd-down usage 2.4% #664/738 10th pct Middle-down loadvs FBS RB
Usage Passing-down usage 1.9% #618/738 16th pct Known-passing sharevs FBS RB
Usage Pass share 0.0% #564/738 24th 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

2025 season · 2 games

Home/Road · Win/Loss · Season halves

Home vs Road

YDS/gYPCTD/g
Home2g13.05.10.0

Win vs Loss

YDS/gYPCTD/g
Losses2g13.05.10.0

First half vs Second half

YDS/gYPCTD/g
Weeks 8+2g13.05.10.0

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

Savant · Box-rate percentiles

Where this profile ranks vs the RB cohort

9Below cohort
6 metrics · season cumulative

Elite: fumbles lost (86th). Concern: carries (0th).

Fumbles lost#1 / 201 · 87th pct
0fumb
Yards / carry#324 / 349 · 7th pct
3.7rush
Long run#332 / 349 · 4th pct
15rush
Rush TDs#326 / 349 · 3rd pct
0rush
Rush yards#350 / 349 · 0th pct
26rush
Carries#350 / 349 · 0th pct
7rush

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 · 6 metrics
Chris EdmondsBowling GreenTae MeadowsTroy· 40% simChavon WrightNorthern Illinois· 38% simJordan BrunsonMiami (OH)· 38% sim
Fumbles lost
87
Edmonds
49
Meadows
49
Wright
49
Brunson
Yards / carry
7
Edmonds
29
Meadows
33
Wright
41
Brunson
Long run
4
Edmonds
53
Meadows
49
Wright
73
Brunson
Rush TDs
3
Edmonds
72
Meadows
62
Wright
50
Brunson
Rush yards
0
Edmonds
74
Meadows
84
Wright
80
Brunson
Carries
0
Edmonds
84
Meadows
92
Wright
85
Brunson

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

Eddie George

Pass share

37.7%

281 pass / 465 run

Plays / game

62.2

12 games

OL sack rate (allowed)

10.9%

265 dropbacks · PBP

Scheme: Run-heavy.

Coaching Lineage · 2023–2025

2 coaches
2023
Scot Loeffler
Bowling Green
2025
Eddie George
Bowling Green
era →

Coaching transition mid-career: Scot Loeffler → Eddie George. 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.

HometownToledo, OH
Height5'10"
Weight210 lb
Class2
PositionRB
Jersey23

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 Bowling Green RB2 #4041 #4225 0.0% 0.0% -- -- W16 snapshot | Mid-American
2023 Bowling Green RB2 #2991 #2933 0.0% 0.0% -- -- W19 snapshot | Mid-American

Roster Timeline

Team, conference, and class by season.

Season Team Conference Pos Class Bio
2025 Bowling Green Mid-American RB 2 No. 23 | 5-10 | 210 lb | Toledo, OH
2024 Bowling Green Mid-American RB 2 No. 23 | 5-10 | 210 lb | Toledo, OH
2023 Bowling Green Mid-American RB 2 No. 23 | 5-10 | 210 lb | Toledo, OH