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Heisman / Players / Christopher Wallace Jr. /South Alabama

Christopher Wallace Jr.

S · South Alabama · Sr

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

73 TACKLES · 0 SACKS

2026 RETURNINGReturning to South Alabama for 2026

2026 Outlook

Returning to South Alabama for 2026

2026 Depth chart

Projected starter

Safety · South Alabama

Returning around him

  • 25% of 2024 offensive production back (Heavy turnover)
  • Transfer portal: -18 net (12 in / 30 out)

2026 Award watch

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

South Alabama · Last season: 4-8 · Talent rank #102 · 2026 recruiting class #118

S · SOUTH ALABAMA · SUN BELT

Christopher Wallace Jr.

  • 4
  • 5-11 | 198 lb
  • Mobile, AL

CFB Zeitgeist Score

47

Mid-pack in the position cohort. Carried by tackles for loss at the 69th percentile.

Heisman Heat

#13157

<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

R07 · Impact starter

Impact starter. Producing measurable value above replacement.

Not on team2-deepStarterRecognizedEliteApex

Career Arc

HS
Recruit
No recruit profile
CFB
College
South Alabama
2022–2025
NFL
NFL Draft
Not drafted (yet)

Identity & Role

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

PositionS
Class4
Jersey--
Measurements5-11 | 198 lb
HometownMobile, AL
Primary teamSouth Alabama

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#13157Latest modeled ballot order
Season forecast#13138Where 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 Christopher Wallace Jr.

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 Christopher Wallace Jr.

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 12g
73Tackles
3.5Tackles for loss
0Sacks
Per game
6Tackles
0.3Tackles for loss
0Sacks
Projected (13g)
79Tackles
3.8Tackles for loss
0Sacks

To hit 80-tackle season (currently 73): needs 7/game over remaining 1.

To hit 100-tackle season (currently 73): needs 27/game over remaining 1.

To hit 6-sack season (currently 0): needs 6/game over remaining 1.

To hit 10-sack season (currently 0): needs 10/game over remaining 1.

Why this is a rare defensive case

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

Christopher Wallace Jr. is trying to climb the steepest award hill in college football: a defensive candidacy. The hook is the disruption profile on South Alabama's defense, with 0.0 sacks, 3.5 tackles for loss, and -- 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 #13157 0.0% win | 0.0% finalist
Role load -- Role share still loading
Profile quirk Defensive rarity 0.0 sacks | 3.5 TFL

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 73 33 solo | #227/4942 (95th pct)
TFL 3.5 Backfield disruption | #869/4972 (83rd 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?

High-volume tackler against FBS defenders.

High-volume tackler

2025 Season · Final

2025 season snapshot | final

Tackling & Disruption

TOT
73 95th
SOLO
33 91st
TFL
3.5 83rd
SACK
0.0 65th

Game Log · Week-by-week

2025 season · 12 games

Box score · CFBD
WkOppTKLSOLOTFLSACKINTPDNote
Wk 1W 38-21vs Morgan State400.50.00
Wk 2L 31-33vs Tulane522.00.00
Wk 3L 15-31@ Auburn880.00.00
Wk 4L 20-38vs Coastal Carolina740.00.00
Wk 5L 22-36@ North Texas1360.00.00Season-high 13 tackles
Wk 6L 24-31@ Troy840.50.00
Wk 8L 14-15vs Arkansas State200.00.00
Wk 9W 38-31@ Georgia State620.00.00
Wk 10L 22-31vs Louisiana600.00.00
Wk 12W 26-14@ UL Monroe220.00.00
Wk 13W 42-35vs Southern Miss610.50.00
Wk 14L 26-49@ Texas State640.00.00
Total73333.50.00
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

2022South Alabama10-3HC: Kane Wommack · Balanced
2023South Alabama7-6HC: Kane Wommack · Balanced
2025South Alabama4-8HC: Major Applewhite · Run-heavy
SeasonTeam
2025South Alabama73333.50.0------
2023South Alabama531.00.0------
2022South Alabama110.00.0------
Career3 loaded seasons79374.50.0------
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 -- -- pick-six TD
Pass breakups 0 Coverage disruption
QB pressures 0 Quarterback hurries
Open full stat explorer
0 metrics visible Showing all metrics
Group Metric Value Rank Pct Why it matters
Defense Total tackles 73 #227/4942 95th pct Volumevs FBS DEF
Defense TFL 3.5 #869/4972 83rd pct Disruptionvs FBS DEF
Defense Sacks 0.0 #1762/4972 65th pct Disruptionvs FBS DEF
Defense Solo tackles 33 #417/4584 91st pct Volumevs FBS DEF
Defense Fumbles recovered 2 #13/736 98th pct Takeawaysvs FBS DEF
Ball Security Fumbles lost 0 #1/773 100th pct Turnoversvs 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 · 12 games

Home/Road · Win/Loss · Season halves

Home vs Road

TKL/gTFL/gSACK/gPD/g
Home6g5.00.50.00.0
Road6g7.20.10.00.0

Win vs Loss

TKL/gTFL/gSACK/gPD/g
Wins4g4.50.20.00.0
Losses8g6.90.30.00.0

First half vs Second half

TKL/gTFL/gSACK/gPD/g
Weeks 1-76g7.50.50.00.0
Weeks 8+6g4.70.10.00.0

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

Savant · Box-rate percentiles

Where this profile ranks vs the S cohort

47Mid-pack
7 metrics · season cumulative

Elite: tackles (92nd). Strength: solo tackles (85th). Concern: passes defended (17th).

Tackles#227 / 2975 · 92nd pct
73defe
Solo tackles#417 / 2975 · 85th pct
33defe
Tackles for loss#866 / 2975 · 69th pct
3.5defe
Forced fumbles#36 / 687 · 47th pct
0fumb
Sacks#1575 / 2975 · 24th pct
0.0defe
QB hurries#1662 / 2975 · 22nd pct
0defe
Passes defended#1916 / 2975 · 18th pct
0defe

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
Christopher Wallace Jr.South AlabamaTyler MartinMassachusetts· 81% simJonJon VaughnsUCLA· 80% simAhmaad MosesSMU· 72% sim
Tackles
92
Jr.
98
Martin
99
Vaughns
99
Moses
Solo tackles
85
Jr.
87
Martin
96
Vaughns
98
Moses
Tackles for loss
69
Jr.
63
Martin
85
Vaughns
83
Moses
Forced fumbles
47
Jr.
47
Martin
47
Vaughns
47
Moses
Sacks
24
Jr.
24
Martin
63
Vaughns
63
Moses
QB hurries
22
Jr.
22
Martin
22
Vaughns
22
Moses
Passes defended
18
Jr.
67
Martin
48
Vaughns
78
Moses

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

Player DNA

The Box Safety

Lives near the line of scrimmage as a de facto extra linebacker.

S

His 2025 production profile sits closest to Andre Turrentine’s 2025 season.

Andre Turrentine

85%match

Tennessee · 2025

#2

Devyn Bobby

Baylor · 2025

84%
#3

Trevian Thomas

Arkansas State · 2022

84%
#4

Devyn Bobby

Baylor · 2024

83%
#5

Elijah Hicks

California · 2021

NFL Rd 7
82%

Matches Andre on

Class year
Height
PD rate

Not enough data yet for this comparison.

As a senior, his production profile tracks closest to J.J. Roberts's senior season at Marshall (2023).

J.J. Roberts

89%match

Marshall · 2023

#2

Gunner Maldonado

Arizona · 2023

87%
#3

Henry Blackburn

Colorado State · 2023

87%
#4

Andre Turrentine

Tennessee · 2025

87%
#5

Kory Chapman

UTEP · 2024

86%

Matches J.J. on

Class year
Height
Tackle volume

Supporting Cast · Scheme

Staff and system around the player

2025 season

Head Coach

Major Applewhite

Pass share

37.0%

310 pass / 527 run

Plays / game

69.8

12 games

OL sack rate (allowed)

7.2%

249 dropbacks · PBP

Scheme: Run-heavy.

Coaching Lineage · 2022–2025

2 coaches
2022
Kane Wommack
South Alabama
2023
Kane Wommack
South Alabama
2025
Major Applewhite
South Alabama
era →

Coaching transition mid-career: Kane Wommack → Major Applewhite. 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.

HometownMobile, AL
Height5'11"
Weight198 lb
Class4
PositionS

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 South Alabama S4 #13157 #13138 0.0% 0.0% -- -- W16 snapshot | Sun Belt
2023 South Alabama S4 #12815 #12583 0.0% 0.0% -- -- W19 snapshot | Sun Belt
2022 South Alabama S4 #9628 #9059 0.0% 0.0% -- -- W20 snapshot | Sun Belt

Roster Timeline

Team, conference, and class by season.

Season Team Conference Pos Class Bio
2025 South Alabama Sun Belt S 4 5-11 | 198 lb | Mobile, AL
2024 South Alabama Sun Belt S 4 5-11 | 198 lb | Mobile, AL
2023 South Alabama Sun Belt S 4 5-11 | 198 lb | Mobile, AL
2022 South Alabama Sun Belt S 4 5-11 | 198 lb | Mobile, AL