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OFFSEASON · SUMMER 2026 · COMMITMENT SEASON
Heisman / Players / Dakereon Joyner /South Carolina

Dakereon Joyner

RB · South Carolina · Sr · #5

Limited signal — not enough coverage for a story yet.

ALUMNUSSouth Carolina 2023 alumnus

RB · SOUTH CAROLINA · SEC

Dakereon Joyner

  • 4
  • #5
  • 6-1 | 229 lb
  • North Charleston, SC

CFB Zeitgeist RB Score

Awaiting

Heisman Heat

#924

<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 0 · Not on team

R01 · Scout team / redshirt

Scout team / redshirt. Developing behind the depth chart.

Not on team2-deepStarterRecognizedEliteApex

Career arc · Season-by-season Standing

3 seasons on the ladder

Peak: R09 All-Conference HM / 2nd team · 2023

2021

South Carolina · RB

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2022

South Carolina · RB

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★

2023

South Carolina · RB

R09 · All-Conference HM / 2nd team

Recognized

Development Trajectory · rushing yards

2021–2023
77.02021
56.02022
1202023

+56%

Up 56% from first season to most-recent.

Career Arc

HS
Recruit
★★★★
#206 national
CFB
College
South Carolina
2021–2023
NFL
NFL Draft
—
Not drafted (yet)

Identity & Role

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

PositionRB
Class4
Jersey5
Measurements6-1 | 229 lb
HometownNorth Charleston, SC
Primary teamSouth Carolina

Recruiting Pedigree

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

Top pedigree 4-star No. 206 recruit
Composite rating 0.9199 HighSchool
Signed with South Carolina 2018
Origin Fort Dorchester North Charleston, SC, USA
Class Profile Context
2018 4-star | 0.9199 No. 206 recruit | HighSchool | South Carolina

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 · 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#924Latest modeled ballot order
Season forecast#1064Where 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 South Carolina

Composite

0.9199

#206 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 Dakereon Joyner

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 Dakereon Joyner

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.

Why the honors trail matters

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

The useful clue on this card is not just the Heisman rank, but the broader honors spine. Dakereon Joyner already has 1 loaded recognition item, which helps distinguish a player who is merely productive from one who is already earning selector-level validation.

Current place #924 0.0% win | 0.0% finalist
Role load 8.3% Overall usage share
Profile quirk Blue-chip pedigree No. 206 recruit

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 237 120 rush | 117 rec | #411/735 (44th pct)
Rush TD 5 50 carries | #115/739 (85th pct)
Yards/carry 2.4 Per-rush efficiency | #672/735 (9th pct)
Player identity What kind of player is this?

30-second read

What kind of player is this?

Passing-game back against FBS RB peers.

Passing-game back

2023 Season · Final

2023 season snapshot | final

Rushing

CAR
50 58th
YDS
120 44th
YPC
2.4 9th
TD
5 85th

Receiving

REC
21 88th
YDS
117 74th
YPR
5.6 33rd
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

2021South Carolina6-6HC: Shane Beamer · Run-leaning
2022South Carolina8-5HC: Shane Beamer · Balanced
2023South Carolina5-7HC: Shane Beamer · Balanced
SeasonTeam
2023South Carolina501202.45--
2022South Carolina12564.72--
2021South Carolina18774.30--
Career3 loaded seasons802533.27--
SeasonTeam
2023South Carolina211175.60--
2022South Carolina812015.01--
2021South Carolina242219.21--
Career3 loaded seasons534588.62--
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 21 117 rec yds | #68/552 (88th pct)
Usage 8.3% 4.7% rush share | #380/738 (49th pct)
Rushing WEPA -- Adjusted value feed still loading
Open full stat explorer
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Group Metric Value Rank Pct Why it matters
Rushing Rushing yards 120 #411/735 44th pct Volumevs FBS RB
Rushing Rush TD 5 #115/739 85th pct Scoringvs FBS RB
Rushing Yards / carry 2.4 #672/735 9th pct Efficiencyvs FBS RB
Receiving Receptions 21 #68/552 88th pct Volumevs FBS RB
Receiving Receiving yards 117 #142/548 74th pct Volumevs FBS RB
Usage Role share 8.3% #380/738 49th pct Share of team offensevs FBS RB
Rushing Carries 50 #313/739 58th pct Volumevs FBS RB
Rushing Rushing LONG 16 #448/733 39th pct Metricvs FBS RB
Receiving Receiving LONG 27 #142/540 74th pct Metricvs FBS RB
Receiving Yards / catch 5.6 #366/548 33rd pct Efficiencyvs FBS RB
Receiving Receiving TD 0 #169/552 70th pct Scoringvs FBS RB
Returns Kick return yards 64 #86/200 57th pct Volumevs FBS RB
Returns Kick return avg 16.0 #132/199 34th pct Efficiencyvs FBS RB
Returns Kick returns 4 #69/206 67th pct Volumevs FBS RB
Usage Pass share 12.5% #7/738 99th pct Air-game usagevs FBS RB
Usage 1st-down usage 9.8% #364/738 51st pct Early-down loadvs FBS RB
Usage Standard-down usage 8.9% #384/738 48th pct Base-situation sharevs FBS RB
Usage 2nd-down usage 7.5% #449/738 39th pct Middle-down loadvs FBS RB
Usage Passing-down usage 7.1% #338/738 54th pct Known-passing sharevs FBS RB
Usage 3rd-down usage 6.9% #344/738 54th pct Money-down loadvs FBS RB
Usage Rush share 4.7% #643/738 13th pct Ground-game usagevs FBS RB
Ball Security Fumbles lost 2 #205/256 20th 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

Status—Awaiting 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

Shane Beamer

Pass share

45.5%

340 pass / 407 run

Plays / game

62.2

12 games

OL sack rate (allowed)

13.0%

316 dropbacks · PBP

Scheme: Run-leaning.

Coaching Lineage · 2021–2023

1 coach
2021
Shane Beamer
South Carolina
2022
Shane Beamer
South Carolina
2023
Shane Beamer
South Carolina

Played his entire career under Shane Beamer.

Bio · Recruiting · Transfer · Roster

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

HometownNorth Charleston, SC
Height6'1"
Weight229 lb
Class4
PositionRB
Jersey5

Trophy Case · Confirmed honors

What the selectors said

1 entries
🎖

ALL-CONFERENCE

All-Conf mention (2023)

All-SEC

Trophy Case · Detail

Every honor on the ledger, broken out by stream and selector.

All-Conference

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
2023 All-SEC all_conference South Carolina | SEC AP

Heisman By Year

Modeled rank and official finish by season.

Season Team Role Latest Model Forecast Win Finalist Official Finish Points Context
2023 South Carolina RB4 #924 #1064 0.0% 0.0% -- -- W19 snapshot | SEC
2022 South Carolina RB4 #617 #564 0.0% 0.0% -- -- W20 snapshot | SEC
2021 South Carolina RB4 #1433 #1601 0.0% 0.0% -- -- W20 snapshot | SEC

Roster Timeline

Team, conference, and class by season.

Season Team Conference Pos Class Bio
2023 South Carolina SEC RB 4 No. 5 | 6-1 | 229 lb | North Charleston, SC
2022 South Carolina SEC RB 4 No. 5 | 6-1 | 229 lb | North Charleston, SC
2021 South Carolina SEC RB 4 No. 5 | 6-1 | 229 lb | North Charleston, SC