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Devyn Bobby

S · Baylor · Sr · #3

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

77 TACKLES · 0 SACKS

2026 RETURNINGReturning to Baylor for 2026

2026 Outlook

Returning to Baylor for 2026

2026 Depth chart

Projected starter

Safety · Baylor

Returning around him

  • 82% of 2024 offensive production back (Strong continuity)
  • 2 Baylor players drafted to NFL
  • Transfer portal: -1 net (31 in / 32 out)

2026 Award watch

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

Baylor · Last season: 5-7 · Talent rank #35 · 2026 recruiting class #36

S · BAYLOR · BIG 12

Devyn Bobby

  • 4
  • #3
  • 5-11 | 198 lb
  • Desoto, TX

CFB Zeitgeist Score

51

Mid-pack in the position cohort. Carried by solo tackles at the 98th percentile.

Heisman Heat

#9530

<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
★★★
#964 national
CFB
College
Baylor
2022–2025
NFL
NFL Draft
Not drafted (yet)

Identity & Role

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

PositionS
Class4
Jersey3
Measurements5-11 | 198 lb
HometownDesoto, TX
Primary teamBaylor

Recruiting Pedigree

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

Top pedigree 3-star No. 964 recruit
Composite rating 0.8611 HighSchool
Signed with -- 2022
Origin DeSoto DeSoto, TX, USA
Class Profile Context
2022 3-star | 0.8611 No. 964 recruit | HighSchool

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#9530Latest modeled ballot order
Season forecast#10059Where 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 —

Composite

0.8611

#964 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 Devyn Bobby

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 Devyn Bobby

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
77Tackles
1.5Tackles for loss
0Sacks
Per game
6Tackles
0.1Tackles for loss
0Sacks
Projected (13g)
83Tackles
1.6Tackles for loss
0Sacks

To hit 80-tackle season (currently 77): needs 3/game over remaining 1.

To hit 100-tackle season (currently 77): needs 23/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.

Devyn Bobby is trying to climb the steepest award hill in college football: a defensive candidacy. The hook is the disruption profile on Baylor's defense, with 0.0 sacks, 1.5 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 #9530 0.0% win | 0.0% finalist
Role load -- Role share still loading
Profile quirk Defensive rarity 0.0 sacks | 1.5 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 77 51 solo | #179/4942 (96th pct)
TFL 1.5 Backfield disruption | #1771/4972 (64th 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
77 96th
SOLO
51 99th
TFL
1.5 64th
SACK
0.0 65th

Coverage & Takeaways

PD
2 64th

Game Log · Week-by-week

2025 season · 12 games

Box score · CFBD
WkOppTKLSOLOTFLSACKINTPDNote
Wk 1L 24-38vs Auburn660.00.00
Wk 2W 48-45@ SMU840.00.00
Wk 3W 42-7vs Samford210.00.00
Wk 4L 24-27vs Arizona State750.50.00
Wk 5W 45-27@ Oklahoma State440.00.01
Wk 6W 35-34vs Kansas State660.00.00
Wk 8L 36-42@ TCU730.00.00
Wk 9L 20-41@ Cincinnati830.00.00
Wk 10W 30-3vs UCF860.00.01
Wk 12L 28-55vs Utah1171.00.00Season-high 11 tackles
Wk 13L 17-41@ Arizona620.00.00
Wk 14L 24-31vs Houston440.00.00
Total77511.50.02
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

2022Baylor6-7HC: Dave Aranda · Run-leaning
2023Baylor3-9HC: Dave Aranda · Balanced
2024Baylor8-5HC: Dave Aranda · Run-leaning
2025Baylor5-7HC: Dave Aranda · Pass-leaning, fast tempo
SeasonTeam
2025Baylor77511.50.02----
2024Baylor75503.00.023--
2023Baylor74521.00.061--
2022Baylor1290.00.01----
Career4 loaded seasons2381625.50.0114--
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 2 Coverage disruption | #792/2184 (64th pct)
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 77 #179/4942 96th pct Volumevs FBS DEF
Defense TFL 1.5 #1771/4972 64th pct Disruptionvs FBS DEF
Defense Sacks 0.0 #1762/4972 65th pct Disruptionvs FBS DEF
Defense Pass breakups 2 #792/2184 64th pct Coveragevs FBS DEF
Defense Solo tackles 51 #61/4584 99th pct Volumevs 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
Home7g6.30.20.00.1
Road5g6.60.00.00.2

Win vs Loss

TKL/gTFL/gSACK/gPD/g
Wins5g5.60.00.00.4
Losses7g7.00.20.00.0

First half vs Second half

TKL/gTFL/gSACK/gPD/g
Weeks 1-76g5.50.10.00.2
Weeks 8+6g7.30.20.00.2

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

Savant · Box-rate percentiles

Where this profile ranks vs the S cohort

51Mid-pack
6 metrics · season cumulative

Elite: solo tackles (97th). Strength: tackles (93rd). Concern: qb hurries (22nd).

Solo tackles#61 / 2975 · 98th pct
51defe
Tackles#179 / 2975 · 94th pct
77defe
Passes defended#777 / 2975 · 67th pct
2defe
Tackles for loss#1711 / 2975 · 39th pct
1.5defe
Sacks#1575 / 2975 · 24th pct
0.0defe
QB hurries#1662 / 2975 · 22nd 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 · 6 metrics
Devyn BobbyBaylorTyler MartinMassachusetts· 89% simTahj Ra-ElPurdue· 88% simDevin LafayetteTroy· 80% sim
Solo tackles
98
Bobby
87
Martin
100
Ra-El
98
Lafayette
Tackles
94
Bobby
98
Martin
99
Ra-El
99
Lafayette
Passes defended
67
Bobby
67
Martin
91
Ra-El
91
Lafayette
Tackles for loss
39
Bobby
63
Martin
56
Ra-El
56
Lafayette
Sacks
24
Bobby
24
Martin
24
Ra-El
63
Lafayette
QB hurries
22
Bobby
22
Martin
22
Ra-El
22
Lafayette

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 Tyrone Lewis’s 2024 season.

Tyrone Lewis

92%match

Louisiana · 2024

All-Sun Belt
#2

Devyn Bobby

Baylor · 2024

91%
#3

Tyrone Lewis

Louisiana · 2023

88%
#4

Dalton Johnson

Arizona · 2024

NFL Rd 5
88%
#5

Greg Grate Jr

Middle Tennessee · 2020

87%

Matches Tyrone on

Weight
Height
PD rate

Not enough data yet for this comparison.

As a senior, his production profile tracks closest to Dalton Johnson's senior season at Arizona (2024).

Dalton Johnson

98%match

Arizona · 2024

All-Big 12NFL Rd 5
#2

Fred Perry

West Virginia · 2025

All-Conference USA
92%
#3

Gunner Maldonado

Arizona · 2023

91%
#4

Tyrone Lewis

Louisiana · 2023

All-Sun Belt
90%
#5

J.J. Roberts

Marshall · 2023

88%

Matches Dalton on

Class year
Height
PD rate

Supporting Cast · Scheme

Staff and system around the player

2025 season

Head Coach

Dave Aranda

Pass share

55.5%

510 pass / 409 run

Plays / game

76.6

12 games

OL sack rate (allowed)

5.0%

417 dropbacks · PBP

Scheme: Pass-leaning, fast tempo.

Coaching Lineage · 2022–2025

1 coach
2022
Dave Aranda
Baylor
2023
Dave Aranda
Baylor
2024
Dave Aranda
Baylor
2025
Dave Aranda
Baylor

Played his entire career under Dave Aranda.

Bio · Recruiting · Transfer · Roster

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

HometownDesoto, TX
Height5'11"
Weight198 lb
Class4
PositionS
Jersey3

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 Baylor S4 #9530 #10059 0.0% 0.0% -- -- W16 snapshot | Big 12
2023 Baylor S4 #12777 #13264 0.0% 0.0% -- -- W19 snapshot | Big 12
2022 Baylor S4 #11106 #11036 0.0% 0.0% -- -- W20 snapshot | Big 12

Roster Timeline

Team, conference, and class by season.

Season Team Conference Pos Class Bio
2025 Baylor Big 12 S 4 No. 3 | 5-11 | 198 lb | Desoto, TX
2024 Baylor Big 12 S 4 No. 3 | 5-11 | 198 lb | Desoto, TX
2023 Baylor Big 12 S 4 No. 3 | 5-11 | 198 lb | Desoto, TX
2022 Baylor Big 12 S 4 No. 3 | 5-11 | 198 lb | Desoto, TX