CFB Zeitgeist Score
9
Below cohort in the position cohort. Carried by yards / carry at the 15th percentile.
Damari Alston
Below the discourse floor — the honest stats-only state.
128 RUSH YDS · 1 RUSH TD · 32 CARRIES
Where He Ended Up · Transfer
Transferred to Tulsa
2025Auburn
2026Tulsa
RB · AUBURN · SEC
Damari Alston
- 4
- 5-9 | 214 lb
- Atlanta, GA
Heisman Heat
#537
<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 · StarterR06 · Starter
Starter. A locked-in starting role.
Not on team2-deepStarterRecognizedEliteApex
Development Trajectory · rushing yards
2022–2025+51%
Up 51% from first season to most-recent.
Career Arc
HS
Recruit
★★★★
CFB
College
Auburn
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 |
|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 4-star | 0.8995 | No. 328 recruit | HighSchool | Auburn |
Transfer Arc
Portal movement changes role, context, and perception. This keeps that path in one place.
| Season | Move | Context |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Auburn -> Tulsa | 3-star | 0.8600 | 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.
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 Auburn
Composite
0.8995
#328 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
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 Damari Alston
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 Damari Alston
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 4g
128Rush yards
32Carries
1Rush TDs
Per game
32Rush yards
8Carries
0Rush TDs
Projected (13g)
416Rush yards
104Carries
3Rush TDs
To hit 750-yard season (currently 128): needs 69.1/game over remaining 9.
To hit 1,000-yard season (currently 128): needs 96.9/game over remaining 9.
To hit 1,500-yard season (currently 128): needs 152.4/game over remaining 9.
To hit 10 rushing TDs (currently 1): needs 1/game over remaining 9.
To hit 15 rushing TDs (currently 1): needs 1.6/game over remaining 9.
To hit 20 rushing TDs (currently 1): needs 2.1/game over remaining 9.
What made this player interesting
The fast read on the thing that makes this player more than a generic stat line.
Damari Alston's story is about how role and output meet each other. For Auburn, 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.
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?
Backfield contributor against FBS RB peers.
2025 Season · Final
2025 season snapshot | final
Rushing
CAR
32 49th
YDS
128 45th
YPC
4.0 34th
TD
1 56th
Receiving
REC
4 38th
YDS
29 37th
YPR
7.3 56th
TD
0 70th
Game Log · Week-by-week
2025 season · 4 games
| Wk | Opp | CAR | YDS | AVG | TD | LONG | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | W 38-24@ Baylor | 16 | 84 | 5.3 | 1 | 11 | Season-high 84 yds |
| Wk 4 | L 17-24@ Oklahoma | 7 | 25 | 3.6 | 0 | 15 | |
| Wk 5 | L 10-16@ Texas A&M | 2 | 10 | 5.0 | 0 | 5 | |
| Wk 7 | L 10-20vs Georgia | 7 | 9 | 1.3 | 0 | 5 | |
| Total | 32 | 128 | 3.8 | 1 | 15 |
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
2022Auburn5-7HC: Cadillac Williams · Run-heavy
2023Auburn6-7HC: Hugh Freeze · Run-heavy
2024Auburn5-7HC: Hugh Freeze · Balanced
2025Auburn5-7HC: Hugh Freeze · Run-leaning
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 | 128 | #402/735 | 45th pct | Volumevs FBS RB |
| Rushing | Rush TD | 1 | #323/739 | 56th pct | Scoringvs FBS RB |
| Rushing | Yards / carry | 4.0 | #489/735 | 34th pct | Efficiencyvs FBS RB |
| Receiving | Receptions | 4 | #343/552 | 38th pct | Volumevs FBS RB |
| Receiving | Receiving yards | 29 | #347/548 | 37th pct | Volumevs FBS RB |
| Value | Rushing WEPA | +0.15 | #126/362 | 65th pct | Opponent-adjusted rushing value | 34 weighted playsvs FBS RB |
| Usage | Role share | 14.0% | #203/738 | 73rd pct | Share of team offensevs FBS RB |
| Rushing | Carries | 32 | #378/739 | 49th pct | Volumevs FBS RB |
| Rushing | Rushing LONG | 15 | #465/733 | 37th pct | Metricvs FBS RB |
| Receiving | Receiving LONG | 12 | #365/540 | 33rd pct | Metricvs FBS RB |
| Receiving | Yards / catch | 7.3 | #241/548 | 56th pct | Efficiencyvs FBS RB |
| Receiving | Receiving TD | 0 | #169/552 | 70th pct | Scoringvs FBS RB |
| Usage | Rush share | 24.4% | #192/738 | 74th pct | Ground-game usagevs FBS RB |
| Usage | Standard-down usage | 17.9% | #167/738 | 78th pct | Base-situation sharevs FBS RB |
| Usage | 1st-down usage | 16.8% | #191/738 | 74th pct | Early-down loadvs FBS RB |
| Usage | 3rd-down usage | 14.5% | #76/738 | 90th pct | Money-down loadvs FBS RB |
| Usage | 2nd-down usage | 11.5% | #288/738 | 61st pct | Middle-down loadvs FBS RB |
| Usage | Passing-down usage | 5.8% | #410/738 | 45th pct | Known-passing sharevs FBS RB |
| Usage | Pass share | 3.1% | #298/738 | 60th pct | Air-game usagevs 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
2025 season · 4 games
Home vs Road
| YDS/g | YPC | TD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Home1g | 9.0 | 1.3 | 0.0 |
| Road3g | 39.7 | 4.6 | 0.3 |
Win vs Loss
| YDS/g | YPC | TD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wins1g | 84.0 | 5.3 | 1.0 |
| Losses3g | 14.7 | 3.3 | 0.0 |
First half vs Second half
| YDS/g | YPC | TD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-74g | 32.0 | 3.8 | 0.2 |
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
Concern: carries (0th).
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_rushing0.15Mid (p50–p75) (n=178)
Peer Comparator · Fingerprint match
Three closest profiles by box-rate percentile
Damari AlstonAuburnTae MeadowsTroy· 47% simChavon WrightNorthern Illinois· 46% simJordan BrunsonMiami (OH)· 46% sim
Rec yards
Yards / carry
Rush TDs
Receptions
Long run
Rush yards
Carries
Closest peers by overall box-score percentile profile at the same position.
Supporting Cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Hugh Freeze
Pass share
44.7%
360 pass / 445 run
Plays / game
67.1
12 games
OL sack rate (allowed)
13.3%
308 dropbacks · PBP
Scheme: Run-leaning.
Coaching Lineage · 2022–2025
2 coaches2022
Cadillac Williams
Auburn
2023era →
Hugh Freeze
Auburn
2024
Hugh Freeze
Auburn
2025
Hugh Freeze
Auburn
Coaching transition mid-career: Cadillac Williams → Hugh Freeze. 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.
HometownAtlanta, GA
Height5'9"
Weight214 lb
Class4
PositionRB
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Current teamAuburn
ConferenceSEC
Joined2025
Career arc4 season(s)
Trophy Case · Detail
Every honor on the ledger, broken out by stream and selector.
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.
Roster Timeline
Team, conference, and class by season.