CFB Zeitgeist RB Score
Awaiting
DJ Giddens
Limited signal — not enough coverage for a story yet.
Where He Ended Up · NFL
IndianapolisEntering 2nd NFL season
#151Rd 5 · Pick 14
IndianapolisEntering 2nd NFL season
RB · KANSAS STATE · BIG 12
DJ Giddens
- 3
- #31
- 6-1 | 212 lb
- Junction City, KS
Heisman Heat
#1501
<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 1 · 2-deepR03 · Backup
Backup. On the two-deep, pushing for snaps.
Not on team2-deepStarterRecognizedEliteApex
Development Trajectory · rushing yards
2022–2023+137%
Up 137% from first season to most-recent.
Career Arc
HS
Recruit
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CFB
College
Kansas State
NFL
NFL Draft
R5 · #151
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 |
|---|---|---|
| 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 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
NFL Draft
2025 · Rd 5, Pick 14
#151 overall · Indianapolis
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 DJ Giddens
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 DJ Giddens
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.
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 this is more than a rushing profile
The fast read on the thing that makes this player more than a generic stat line.
DJ Giddens is not a one-lane back. The profile is interesting because the workload spills beyond pure rushing volume: 1,226 rushing yards, 29 catches, and 0 return yards for Kansas State. That kind of all-purpose footprint gives the card a much richer story than a basic carry total.
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
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.
2023 Season · Final
2023 season snapshot | final
Rushing
CAR
223 98th
YDS
1,226 98th
YPC
5.5 74th
TD
10 96th
Receiving
REC
29 94th
YDS
323 98th
YPR
11.1 84th
TD
3 99th
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 context · Team result + system
2022Kansas State10-4HC: Chris Klieman · Run-leaning
2023Kansas State9-4HC: Chris Klieman · Run-leaning
| Season | Team | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | Kansas State | 223 | 1,226 | 5.5 | 10 | -- |
| 2022 | Kansas State | 89 | 518 | 5.8 | 6 | -- |
| Career | 2 loaded seasons | 312 | 1,744 | 5.6 | 16 | -- |
| Season | Team | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | Kansas State | 29 | 323 | 11.1 | 3 | -- |
| 2022 | Kansas State | 8 | 98 | 12.2 | 0 | -- |
| Career | 2 loaded seasons | 37 | 421 | 11.4 | 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 | 1,226 | #16/735 | 98th pct | Volumevs FBS RB |
| Rushing | Rush TD | 10 | #33/739 | 96th pct | Scoringvs FBS RB |
| Rushing | Yards / carry | 5.5 | #192/735 | 74th pct | Efficiencyvs FBS RB |
| Receiving | Receptions | 29 | #36/552 | 94th pct | Volumevs FBS RB |
| Receiving | Receiving yards | 323 | #13/548 | 98th pct | Volumevs FBS RB |
| Rushing | Carries | 223 | #14/739 | 98th pct | Volumevs FBS RB |
| Rushing | Rushing LONG | 43 | #211/733 | 71st pct | Metricvs FBS RB |
| Receiving | Receiving LONG | 61 | #30/540 | 95th pct | Metricvs FBS RB |
| Receiving | Yards / catch | 11.1 | #86/548 | 84th pct | Efficiencyvs FBS RB |
| Receiving | Receiving TD | 3 | #5/552 | 99th pct | Scoringvs 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.
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.
Advanced opponent-adjusted metrics are coming soon for this player. Selected cohort: P4.
Supporting Cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Chris Klieman
Pass share
46.4%
342 pass / 395 run
Plays / game
61.4
12 games
OL sack rate (allowed)
4.5%
288 dropbacks · PBP
Scheme: Run-leaning, slow tempo.
Coaching Lineage · 2022–2023
1 coach2022
Chris Klieman
Kansas State
2023
Chris Klieman
Kansas State
Played his entire career under Chris Klieman.
Bio · Recruiting · Transfer · Roster
Off-field context — switch tabs to drill into recruit profile, transfer arc, or roster timeline.
HometownJunction City, KS
Height6'1"
Weight212 lb
Class3
PositionRB
Jersey31
No fields populated yet.
No fields populated yet.
Current teamKansas State
ConferenceBig 12
Joined2024
Career arc4 season(s)
Trophy Case · Confirmed honors
What the selectors said
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ALL-CONFERENCE
All-Conf mention (2024)
All-Big 12
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | All-Big 12 | all_conference | Kansas State | Big 12 | RB |
Heisman By Year
Modeled rank and official finish by season.
| Season | Team | Role | Latest Model | Forecast | Win | Finalist | Official Finish | Points | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Kansas State | RB3 | #1501 | #1380 | 0.0% | 0.0% | -- | -- | W16 snapshot | Big 12 |
| 2023 | Kansas State | RB3 | #60 | #77 | 0.0% | 0.0% | -- | -- | W19 snapshot | Big 12 |
| 2022 | Kansas State | RB3 | #149 | #145 | 0.0% | 0.0% | -- | -- | W20 snapshot | Big 12 |
| 2021 | Kansas State | RB3 | #2430 | #2256 | 0.0% | 0.0% | -- | -- | W20 snapshot | Big 12 |
Roster Timeline
Team, conference, and class by season.
| Season | Team | Conference | Pos | Class | Bio |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Kansas State | Big 12 | RB | 3 | No. 31 | 6-1 | 212 lb | Junction City, KS |
| 2023 | Kansas State | Big 12 | RB | 3 | No. 31 | 6-1 | 212 lb | Junction City, KS |
| 2022 | Kansas State | Big 12 | RB | 3 | No. 31 | 6-1 | 212 lb | Junction City, KS |
| 2021 | Kansas State | Big 12 | RB | 3 | No. 31 | 6-1 | 212 lb | Junction City, KS |