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Heisman / Players / Daylen Everette /Georgia

Daylen Everette

DB · Georgia · Sr · #6

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

48 TACKLES · 0 SACKS

2026 NFL DRAFTDrafted by Pittsburgh — Rd 3, Pick 21, #85 overall

Where He Ended Up · NFL

Pittsburgh2026 NFL rookie season

#85Rd 3 · Pick 21
Pittsburgh2026 NFL rookie season

DB · GEORGIA · SEC

Daylen Everette

  • 4
  • #6
  • 6-1 | 190 lb
  • Norfolk, VA

CFB Zeitgeist Score

48

Mid-pack in the position cohort. Carried by passes defended at the 98th percentile.

Heisman Heat

#2837

<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
★★★★★
#28 national
CFB
College
Georgia
2022–2025
NFL
NFL Draft
R3 &middot; #85
Pittsburgh &middot; 2026

Identity & Role

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

PositionDB
Class4
Jersey6
Measurements6-1 | 190 lb
HometownNorfolk, VA
Primary teamGeorgia

Recruiting Pedigree

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

Top pedigree 5-star No. 28 recruit
Composite rating 0.9874 HighSchool
Signed with Georgia 2022
Origin IMG Academy Bradenton, FL, USA
Class Profile Context
2022 5-star | 0.9874 No. 28 recruit | HighSchool | Georgia

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#2837Latest modeled ballot order
Season forecast#3123Where 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 Georgia

Composite

0.9874

#28 national

NFL Draft

2026 · Rd 3, Pick 21

#85 overall · Pittsburgh

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 Daylen Everette

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 Daylen Everette

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

final
Through 13g
48Tackles
0Tackles for loss
0Sacks
Per game
4Tackles
0Tackles for loss
0Sacks
Final
48Tackles
0Tackles for loss
0Sacks

Why this is a rare defensive case

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

Daylen Everette is trying to climb the steepest award hill in college football: a defensive candidacy. The hook is the disruption profile on Georgia's defense, with 0.0 sacks, 0.0 tackles for loss, and 1 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 #2837 0.0% win | 0.0% finalist
Role load -- Role share still loading
Profile quirk Blue-chip pedigree No. 28 recruit

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 48 29 solo | #649/4942 (87th pct)
TFL 0.0 Backfield disruption | #3020/4972 (39th 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?

Coverage splash | High-volume tackler against FBS defenders.

Coverage splashHigh-volume tackler

2025 Season · Final

2025 season snapshot | final

Tackling & Disruption

TOT
48 87th
SOLO
29 88th
TFL
0.0 39th
SACK
0.0 65th
QBH
1 44th

Coverage & Takeaways

PD
8 98th
INT
1 65th

Game Log · Week-by-week

2025 season · 13 games

Box score · CFBD
WkOppTKLSOLOTFLSACKINTPDNote
Wk 2W 28-6vs Austin Peay110.00.01
Wk 3W 44-41@ Tennessee510.00.00
Wk 5L 21-24vs Alabama650.00.00
Wk 6W 35-14vs Kentucky210.00.00
Wk 7W 20-10@ Auburn540.00.02
Wk 8W 43-35vs Ole Miss310.00.01
Wk 10W 24-20@ Florida410.00.00
Wk 11W 41-21@ Mississippi State220.00.01
Wk 12W 35-10vs Texas530.00.00
Wk 13W 35-3vs Charlotte100.00.00
Wk 14W 16-9@ Georgia Tech320.00.00
Wk 15W 28-7@ Alabama220.00.011
BowlL 34-39vs Ole Miss960.00.02
Total48290.00.018
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

2022Georgia15-0HC: Kirby Smart · Balanced
2023Georgia13-1HC: Kirby Smart · Balanced
2024Georgia11-3HC: Kirby Smart · Pass-leaning
2025Georgia12-2HC: Kirby Smart · Run-leaning
SeasonTeam
2025Georgia48290.00.081--
2024Georgia58452.01.033--
2023Georgia29233.00.051--
2022Georgia13100.00.01----
Career4 loaded seasons1481075.01.0175--
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 1 0 pick-six TD | #308/869 (65th pct)
Pass breakups 8 Coverage disruption | #45/2184 (98th pct)
QB pressures 1 Quarterback hurries | #1051/1878 (44th pct)
Open full stat explorer
0 metrics visible Showing all metrics
Group Metric Value Rank Pct Why it matters
Defense Total tackles 48 #649/4942 87th pct Volumevs FBS DEF
Defense TFL 0.0 #3020/4972 39th pct Disruptionvs FBS DEF
Defense Sacks 0.0 #1762/4972 65th pct Disruptionvs FBS DEF
Defense Interceptions 1 #308/869 65th pct Takeawaysvs FBS DEF
Defense Pass breakups 8 #45/2184 98th pct Coveragevs FBS DEF
Defense QB hurries 1 #1051/1878 44th pct Disruptionvs FBS DEF
Defense INT return avg 30.0 #93/578 84th pct Takeawaysvs FBS DEF
Defense INT return yards 30 #216/578 63rd pct Takeawaysvs FBS DEF
Defense Solo tackles 29 #559/4584 88th pct Volumevs FBS DEF
Defense Defensive TD 1 #23/200 89th pct Scoringvs FBS DEF
Defense Fumbles recovered 1 #103/736 86th 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 · 13 games

Home/Road · Win/Loss · Season halves

Home vs Road

TKL/gTFL/gSACK/gPD/g
Home7g3.90.00.00.6
Road6g3.50.00.00.7

Win vs Loss

TKL/gTFL/gSACK/gPD/g
Wins11g3.00.00.00.5
Losses2g7.50.00.01.0

First half vs Second half

TKL/gTFL/gSACK/gPD/g
Weeks 1-76g4.70.00.00.8
Weeks 8+7g2.90.00.00.4

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

Savant · Box-rate percentiles

Where this profile ranks vs the DB cohort

48Mid-pack
8 metrics · season cumulative

Elite: passes defended (97th). Strength: solo tackles (80th). Concern: tackles for loss (7th).

Passes defended#45 / 2975 · 98th pct
8defe
Solo tackles#559 / 2975 · 80th pct
29defe
Tackles#649 / 2975 · 78th pct
48defe
QB hurries#1007 / 2975 · 55th pct
1defe
Forced fumbles#36 / 687 · 47th pct
0fumb
Interceptions#304 / 817 · 31st pct
1inte
Sacks#1575 / 2975 · 24th pct
0.0defe
Tackles for loss#2548 / 2975 · 7th pct
0.0defe

Percentiles versus same-position peers with enough snaps this season, based on box-score rates.

Advanced Savant · DB · 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 · 8 metrics
Daylen EveretteGeorgiaBlake FletcherAir Force· 76% simTahj Ra-ElPurdue· 75% simTyler MartinMassachusetts· 74% sim
Passes defended
98
Everette
67
Fletcher
91
Ra-El
67
Martin
Solo tackles
80
Everette
91
Fletcher
100
Ra-El
87
Martin
Tackles
78
Everette
99
Fletcher
99
Ra-El
98
Martin
QB hurries
55
Everette
92
Fletcher
22
Ra-El
22
Martin
Forced fumbles
47
Everette
47
Ra-El
47
Martin
Interceptions
31
Everette
31
Martin
Sacks
24
Everette
24
Fletcher
24
Ra-El
24
Martin
Tackles for loss
7
Everette
28
Fletcher
56
Ra-El
63
Martin

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

Player DNA

The Centerfielder

Single-high range who erases the deep middle of the field.

S

His 2025 production profile sits closest to Latrell McCutchin’s 2025 season.

Latrell McCutchin

86%match

Houston · 2025

#2

Jermari Harris

Iowa · 2023

85%
#3

Adrian Maddox

UAB · 2024

83%
#4

Marcus Allen

North Carolina · 2023

NFL Rd 5
81%
#5

Riley Moss

Iowa · 2022

All-Big TenNFL Rd 3 · Pk 20
81%

Matches Latrell on

Class year
Height
PD rate

Not enough data yet for this comparison.

As a senior, his production profile tracks closest to Damaje Yancey's senior season at Troy (2024).

Damaje Yancey

97%match

Troy · 2024

#2

Latrell McCutchin

Houston · 2025

90%
#3

Josh Proctor

Ohio State · 2023

All-Big Ten
87%
#4

EJ Jackson

App State · 2023

84%
#5

Christian Charles

Virginia · 2025

82%

Matches Damaje on

Class year
Height
Tackle volume

Supporting Cast · Scheme

Staff and system around the player

2025 season

Head Coach

Kirby Smart

Pass share

42.5%

417 pass / 565 run

Plays / game

70.1

14 games

OL sack rate (allowed)

6.2%

290 dropbacks · PBP

Scheme: Run-leaning.

Coaching Lineage · 2022–2025

1 coach
2022
Kirby Smart
Georgia
2023
Kirby Smart
Georgia
2024
Kirby Smart
Georgia
2025
Kirby Smart
Georgia

Played his entire career under Kirby Smart.

Bio · Recruiting · Transfer · Roster

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

HometownNorfolk, VA
Height6'1"
Weight190 lb
Class4
PositionDB
Jersey6

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 Georgia DB4 #2837 #3123 0.0% 0.0% -- -- W16 snapshot | SEC
2023 Georgia DB4 #3087 #3010 0.0% 0.0% -- -- W19 snapshot | SEC
2022 Georgia DB4 #3759 #3392 0.0% 0.0% -- -- W20 snapshot | SEC

Roster Timeline

Team, conference, and class by season.

Season Team Conference Pos Class Bio
2025 Georgia SEC DB 4 No. 6 | 6-1 | 190 lb | Norfolk, VA
2024 Georgia SEC DB 4 No. 6 | 6-1 | 190 lb | Norfolk, VA
2023 Georgia SEC DB 4 No. 6 | 6-1 | 190 lb | Norfolk, VA
2022 Georgia SEC DB 4 No. 6 | 6-1 | 190 lb | Norfolk, VA