CFB Zeitgeist Score
64
Solid starter in the position cohort. Carried by rush yards at the 80th percentile.
Coleman Bennett
Below the discourse floor — the honest stats-only state.
764 RUSH YDS · 4 RUSH TD · 157 CARRIES
2026 Outlook
Returning to Kennesaw State for 2026
2026 Depth chart
Projected starter
Running 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
RB · KENNESAW STATE · CONFERENCE USA
Coleman Bennett
- 4
- 6-0 | 210 lb
- Fort Lauderdale, FL
Heisman Heat
#1949
<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
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CONSENSUS
All-American
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Player Standing · 17 rungs
Tier 2 · StarterR05 · Part-time starter
Part-time starter. Splitting first-team reps.
Not on team2-deepStarterRecognizedEliteApex
Career arc · Season-by-season Standing
2 seasons on the ladder
2024
Rice · RB
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★
2025
Kennesaw State · RB
R09 · All-Conference HM / 2nd team
Recognized
Development Trajectory · rushing yards
2024–2025+2629%
Up 2629% from first season to most-recent.
Career Arc
HS
Recruit
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CFB
College
2 teams
NFL
NFL Draft
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Identity & Role
The durable bio layer: position, size, hometown, and roster role.
Recruiting Pedigree
How big the prospect was before college, and whether the later career arc beat that expectation.
| 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.
| Season | Move | Context |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Rice -> Kennesaw State | 2-star | 0.7900 | Immediate |
| 2024 | Bucknell -> Rice | 3-star | 0.8000 | Immediate |
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 16Heisman Futures
Not yet listed on major futures markets.
Achievements
- Program Benchmark 5.5% Program Benchmark Season leader for the program at the player's position across the headline volume metric (passing yards / rushing yards / receiving yards). Held by 5.5% of the 2025 pool. Team leader in receiving yards (314).
Selector Grid · 2025
AP—
FWAA—
AFCA—
WCFF—
SN—
SI—
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
PENDINGThe 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 Coleman Bennett
Fan sentiment ·
Belief Meter
50
Mixed Sentiment
Top Take
“”
Trajectory
Per-cohort trajectory lands when historical bucket data is aggregated.
Cohort divergence map
- Own fans · n=1
- National · n=2
Rival Radar
How rival fanbases talk about Coleman Bennett
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.
Season Pace · Projection
Where the rushing totals stand
Through 14g
764Rush yards
157Carries
4Rush TDs
Per game
54.6Rush yards
11Carries
0Rush TDs
Final
764Rush yards
157Carries
4Rush TDs
✓ Hit 750-yard season · finished with 764.
Why this is more than a rushing profile
The fast read on the thing that makes this player more than a generic stat line.
Coleman Bennett is not a one-lane back. The profile is interesting because the workload spills beyond pure rushing volume: 764 rushing yards, 27 catches, and 0 return yards for Kennesaw State. That kind of all-purpose footprint gives the card a much richer story than a basic carry total.
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
Player identity What kind of player is this?
30-second read
What kind of player is this?
Workhorse | Passing-game back against FBS RB peers.
2025 Season · Final
2025 season snapshot | final
Rushing
CAR
157 92nd
YDS
764 90th
YPC
4.9 59th
TD
4 79th
Receiving
REC
27 92nd
YDS
314 98th
YPR
11.6 86th
TD
3 99th
Game Log · Week-by-week
2025 season · 14 games
| Wk | Opp | CAR | YDS | AVG | TD | LONG | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | L 9-10@ Wake Forest | 17 | 66 | 3.9 | 1 | 19 | |
| Wk 2 | L 9-56@ Indiana | 5 | 34 | 6.8 | 0 | 26 | |
| Wk 3 | W 27-13vs Merrimack | 10 | 39 | 3.9 | 0 | 15 | |
| Wk 4 | W 28-21vs Arkansas State | 15 | 52 | 3.5 | 1 | 10 | |
| Wk 5 | W 24-16vs Middle Tennessee | 12 | 101 | 8.4 | 0 | 30 | Season-high 101 yds |
| Wk 7 | W 35-7vs Louisiana Tech | 17 | 73 | 4.3 | 0 | 29 | |
| Wk 9 | W 45-26@ Florida International | 4 | 18 | 4.5 | 0 | 11 | |
| Wk 10 | W 33-20vs UTEP | 1 | -1 | -1.0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Wk 11 | W 24-21@ New Mexico State | 16 | 86 | 5.4 | 0 | 23 | |
| Wk 12 | L 26-35@ Jacksonville State | 12 | 47 | 3.9 | 0 | 15 | |
| Wk 13 | W 41-34vs Missouri State | 8 | 27 | 3.4 | 0 | 8 | |
| Wk 14 | W 48-42@ Liberty | 14 | 92 | 6.6 | 1 | 23 | |
| Wk 15 | W 19-15@ Jacksonville State | 17 | 82 | 4.8 | 1 | 20 | |
| Bowl | L 6-41@ Western Michigan | 9 | 48 | 5.3 | 0 | 23 | |
| Total | 157 | 764 | 4.5 | 4 | 30 |
Season-by-season tables Career rows + per-season box score
Traditional history
Traditional Stats
Season rows up top, career context at the bottom.
Season context · Team result + system
2024Rice4-8HC: Mike Bloomgren · Pass-leaning
2025Kennesaw State10-4HC: Jerry Mack · Run-leaning
| Season | Team | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Kennesaw State | 157 | 764 | 4.9 | 4 | -- |
| 2024 | Rice | 2 | 28 | 14.0 | 1 | -- |
| Career | 2 loaded seasons | 159 | 792 | 5.0 | 5 | -- |
| Season | Team | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Kennesaw State | 27 | 314 | 11.6 | 3 | -- |
| 2024 | Rice | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Career | 2 loaded seasons | 27 | 314 | 11.6 | 3 | -- |
Advanced layer Usage, value, and context
Advanced metrics second
Advanced Metrics
Usage, value, and opponent-adjusted context.
Opponent-adjusted rushing value. It helps separate empty volume from carries that actually move the scoreboard.
How much of the team's offense flows through this back once rushing work and receiving work are combined.
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.
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.
Open full stat explorer
| Group | Metric | Value | Rank | Pct | Why it matters |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rushing | Rushing yards | 764 | #71/735 | 90th pct | Volumevs FBS RB |
| Rushing | Rush TD | 4 | #154/739 | 79th pct | Scoringvs FBS RB |
| Rushing | Yards / carry | 4.9 | #305/735 | 59th pct | Efficiencyvs FBS RB |
| Receiving | Receptions | 27 | #46/552 | 92nd pct | Volumevs FBS RB |
| Receiving | Receiving yards | 314 | #14/548 | 98th pct | Volumevs FBS RB |
| Value | Rushing WEPA | +0.16 | #111/362 | 70th pct | Opponent-adjusted rushing value | 148 weighted playsvs FBS RB |
| Usage | Role share | 20.2% | #93/738 | 88th pct | Share of team offensevs FBS RB |
| Rushing | Carries | 157 | #60/739 | 92nd pct | Volumevs FBS RB |
| Rushing | Rushing LONG | 30 | #297/733 | 60th pct | Metricvs FBS RB |
| Receiving | Receiving LONG | 76 | #7/540 | 99th pct | Metricvs FBS RB |
| Receiving | Yards / catch | 11.6 | #76/548 | 86th pct | Efficiencyvs FBS RB |
| Receiving | Receiving TD | 3 | #5/552 | 99th pct | Scoringvs FBS RB |
| Usage | Rush share | 31.9% | #105/738 | 86th pct | Ground-game usagevs FBS RB |
| Usage | Standard-down usage | 23.1% | #93/738 | 88th pct | Base-situation sharevs FBS RB |
| Usage | 1st-down usage | 21.9% | #108/738 | 86th pct | Early-down loadvs FBS RB |
| Usage | 2nd-down usage | 20.5% | #87/738 | 88th pct | Middle-down loadvs FBS RB |
| Usage | 3rd-down usage | 15.7% | #64/738 | 91st pct | Money-down loadvs FBS RB |
| Usage | Passing-down usage | 14.3% | #76/738 | 90th pct | Known-passing sharevs FBS RB |
| Usage | Pass share | 8.0% | #55/738 | 93rd pct | Air-game usagevs FBS RB |
Player Standing
Universal 17-step ladder. Tier pills below; accolade streams nested.
ALL-CONF HM
On-team2-deepStartingRecognizedEliteApex
ALL-CONF HM · Rung 9 of 16
Why he’s here
All-Conference honorable mention / 2nd team — the recognition has started.
What moves him up
A best-at-position run lifts to 1st team.
What moves him down
A back-end conference finish drops out of the honor list.
Accolade streams
Status—Awaiting tracker
Heisman model tracks the top FBS contenders weekly; this player hasn't entered the watch list yet.
Splits · Per-game
2025 season · 14 games
Home vs Road
| YDS/g | YPC | TD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Home6g | 48.5 | 3.8 | 0.2 |
| Road8g | 59.1 | 5.2 | 0.4 |
Win vs Loss
| YDS/g | YPC | TD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wins10g | 56.9 | 4.4 | 0.3 |
| Losses4g | 48.8 | 5.0 | 0.2 |
First half vs Second half
| YDS/g | YPC | TD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-77g | 59.0 | 5.2 | 0.3 |
| Weeks 8+7g | 50.1 | 3.9 | 0.3 |
Pocket and defense-quality (clean vs. pressure) splits are coming soon.
Savant · Box-rate percentiles
Where this profile ranks vs the RB cohort
64Solid starter
Elite: rec yards (96th). Strength: receptions (86th). Concern: long run (28th).
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
Advanced Savant
Opponent-adjusted advanced metrics with a cohort filter.
wepa_rushing0.16Mid (p50–p75) (n=178)
Peer Comparator · Fingerprint match
Three closest profiles by box-rate percentile
Coleman BennettKennesaw StateRashod DubinionApp State· 91% simDean ConnorsHouston· 83% simAl-Jay HendersonBuffalo· 83% sim
Rec yards
Receptions
Carries
Rush yards
Rush TDs
Yards / carry
Long run
Closest peers by overall box-score percentile profile at the same position.
Player DNA
The Balanced Back
Plays within the scheme — consistent production without a dominant dimension.
RB
His 2025 production profile sits closest to Ari Broussard’s 2021 season.
Ari Broussard
79%match
#2
Demie Sumo
78%
#3
Owen Burk
75%
#4
Star Thomas
78%
#5
Donerio Davenport
76%
Matches Ari on
EPA / carry (adj)
Rush TD rate
Total rush EPA (college ability)
Through 3 college seasons, his career arc tracks closest to Antonio Harris’s path through Purdue.
Antonio Harris
99%match
#2
Kierre Crossley
99%
#3
Gerrid Doaks
All-AACNFL Rd 7
97%
#4
Dominic Richardson
96%
#5
Christian Clark
96%
Matches Antonio on
Height
Weight
Yards per carry
As a senior, his production profile tracks closest to Myles Montgomery's senior season at UCF (2025).
Myles Montgomery
79%match
#2
Demie Sumo
78%
#3
Larry McCammon III
All-Conference USA
76%
#4
Anthony Watkins
All-AAC
76%
#5
Michel Dukes
75%
Matches Myles on
Yards / reception
Weight
Total rush EPA (college ability)
Supporting Cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
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 · 2024–2025
2 coaches2024
Chandler Burks
Kennesaw State
2025era →
Jerry Mack
Kennesaw State
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.
HometownFort Lauderdale, FL
Height6'0"
Weight210 lb
Class4
PositionRB
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Current teamKennesaw State
ConferenceConference USA
Joined2025
Career arc2 season(s)
Trophy Case · Confirmed honors
What the selectors said
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ALL-CONFERENCE
All-Conf mention (2025)
All-Conference USA
Trophy Case · Detail
Every honor on the ledger, broken out by stream and selector.
1 all-conference honor
Conference-level recognition helps anchor whether a player is merely statistically loud or actually viewed as elite within his competitive lane.
Honors Timeline
Season-end distinction and week-by-week recognition on one timeline.
| Season | Honor | Scope | Team / Selector | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | All-Conference USA | all_conference | Kennesaw State | Conference USA | RB |
Heisman By Year
Modeled rank and official finish by season.
| Season | Team | Role | Latest Model | Forecast | Win | Finalist | Official Finish | Points | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Rice | RB4 | #1949 | #2803 | 0.0% | 0.0% | -- | -- | W16 snapshot | American Athletic |
Roster Timeline
Team, conference, and class by season.
| Season | Team | Conference | Pos | Class | Bio |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Kennesaw State | Conference USA | RB | 4 | 6-0 | 210 lb | Fort Lauderdale, FL |
| 2024 | Rice | American Athletic | RB | 4 | 6-0 | 210 lb | Fort Lauderdale, FL |