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Henry Rutledge

RB · Charlotte · Sr · #21

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

11 RUSH YDS · 0 RUSH TD · 2 CARRIES

2026 RETURNINGReturning to Charlotte for 2026

2026 Outlook

Returning to Charlotte for 2026

Updated May 27

2026 Depth chart

Returning starter

Running back · Charlotte

Returning around him

  • 24% of 2024 offensive production back (Heavy turnover)
  • Transfer portal: -8 net (19 in / 27 out)

2026 Award watch

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

Charlotte · Last season: 1-11 · Talent rank #108 · 2026 recruiting class #135

RB · CHARLOTTE · AMERICAN ATHLETIC

Henry Rutledge

  • 4
  • #21
  • 5-8 | 185 lb
  • Charlotte, NC

CFB Zeitgeist Score

19

Below cohort in the position cohort. Carried by yards / carry at the 71st percentile.

Heisman Heat

#1553

<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

CONSENSUS

All-American

Player Standing · 17 rungs

Tier 1 · 2-deep

R03 · Backup

Backup. On the two-deep, pushing for snaps.

Not on team2-deepStarterRecognizedEliteApex

Development Trajectory · rushing yards

2021–2025
8.02021
91.02022
1742023
72.02024
11.02025

+38%

Up 38% from first season to most-recent.

Career Arc

HS
Recruit
No recruit profile
CFB
College
Charlotte
2021–2025
NFL
NFL Draft
Not drafted (yet)

Identity & Role

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

PositionRB
Class4
Jersey21
Measurements5-8 | 185 lb
HometownCharlotte, NC
Primary teamCharlotte

Recruiting Pedigree

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

Top pedigree Not on file No matched recruiting profile in the loaded archive
Composite rating -- Composite rating unavailable for this player
Signed with -- Commitment history unavailable
Origin -- Hometown and high school unavailable
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.

Portal moves 1 Programs changed on file
Latest destination -- 2025
Transfer stars -- CFBD transfer rating context
Eligibility Withdrawn Jan 22, 2025
Season Move Context
2025 Charlotte -> -- Withdrawn

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#1553Latest modeled ballot order
Season forecast#2304Where 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.

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 Henry Rutledge

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 Henry Rutledge

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.

What made this player interesting

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

Henry Rutledge's story is about how role and output meet each other. For Charlotte, 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.

Current place #1553 0.0% win | 0.0% finalist
Role load 2.9% Overall usage share
Profile quirk Development arc The card should explain why this profile stands out

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
Scrimmage yards 11 11 rush | -- rec | #649/735 (12th pct)
Rush TD 0 2 carries | #447/739 (40th pct)
Yards/carry 5.5 Per-rush efficiency | #192/735 (74th pct)
Player identity What kind of player is this?

30-second read

What kind of player is this?

Backfield contributor against FBS RB peers.

Balanced profile

2025 Season · Final

2025 season snapshot | final

Rushing

CAR
2 10th
YDS
11 12th
YPC
5.5 74th
TD
0 40th

Game Log · Week-by-week

2025 season · 1 games

Box score · CFBD
WkOppCARYDSAVGTDLONGNote
Wk 2L 3-20vs North Carolina2115.5014Season-high 11 yds
Total2115.5014
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

2021Charlotte5-7HC: Will Healy · Balanced
2022Charlotte3-9HC: Peter Rossomando · Balanced
2023Charlotte3-9HC: Biff Poggi · Run-leaning
2024Charlotte5-7HC: Biff Poggi · Balanced, slow tempo
2025Charlotte1-11HC: Tim Albin · Balanced, slow tempo
SeasonTeam
2025Charlotte2115.50--
2024Charlotte11726.50--
2023Charlotte1517411.60--
2022Charlotte18915.10--
2021Charlotte188.00--
Career5 loaded seasons473567.60--
SeasonTeam
2025Charlotte----------
2024Charlotte10828.21--
2023Charlotte4194.80--
2022Charlotte1218915.81--
2021Charlotte----------
Career5 loaded seasons2629011.22--
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 -- -- rec yds
Usage 2.9% 7.4% rush share | #646/738 (13th pct)
Rushing WEPA -- Adjusted value feed still loading
Open full stat explorer
0 metrics visible Showing all metrics
Group Metric Value Rank Pct Why it matters
Rushing Rushing yards 11 #649/735 12th pct Volumevs FBS RB
Rushing Rush TD 0 #447/739 40th pct Scoringvs FBS RB
Rushing Yards / carry 5.5 #192/735 74th pct Efficiencyvs FBS RB
Usage Role share 2.9% #646/738 13th pct Share of team offensevs FBS RB
Rushing Rushing LONG 14 #488/733 34th pct Metricvs FBS RB
Rushing Carries 2 #667/739 10th pct Volumevs FBS RB
Usage Rush share 7.4% #565/738 24th pct Ground-game usagevs FBS RB
Usage 2nd-down usage 4.8% #571/738 23rd pct Middle-down loadvs FBS RB
Usage Standard-down usage 4.7% #577/738 22nd pct Base-situation sharevs FBS RB
Usage 1st-down usage 3.1% #638/738 14th pct Early-down loadvs FBS RB
Usage 3rd-down usage 0.0% #622/738 16th pct Money-down loadvs FBS RB
Usage Pass share 0.0% #564/738 24th pct Air-game usagevs FBS RB
Usage Passing-down usage 0.0% #648/738 12th pct Known-passing sharevs 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

StatusAwaiting tracker

Heisman model tracks the top FBS contenders weekly; this player hasn't entered the watch list yet.

Splits · Per-game

2025 season · 1 games

Home/Road · Win/Loss · Season halves

Home vs Road

YDS/gYPCTD/g
Home1g11.05.50.0

Win vs Loss

YDS/gYPCTD/g
Losses1g11.05.50.0

First half vs Second half

YDS/gYPCTD/g
Weeks 1-71g11.05.50.0

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

Savant · Box-rate percentiles

Where this profile ranks vs the RB cohort

19Below cohort
5 metrics · season cumulative

Concern: carries (0th).

Yards / carry#98 / 349 · 71st pct
5.5rush
Rush TDs#326 / 349 · 3rd pct
0rush
Long run#338 / 349 · 3rd pct
14rush
Rush yards#350 / 349 · 0th pct
11rush
Carries#350 / 349 · 0th pct
2rush

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
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 · 5 metrics
Henry RutledgeCharlotteRashod DubinionApp State· 39% simKamari MoultonIowa· 38% simJeremiah CobbAuburn· 35% sim
Yards / carry
71
Rutledge
53
Dubinion
62
Moulton
71
Cobb
Rush TDs
3
Rutledge
50
Dubinion
62
Moulton
62
Cobb
Long run
3
Rutledge
39
Dubinion
33
Moulton
51
Cobb
Rush yards
0
Rutledge
84
Dubinion
84
Moulton
88
Cobb
Carries
0
Rutledge
87
Dubinion
86
Moulton
88
Cobb

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

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

Tim Albin

Pass share

51.4%

379 pass / 358 run

Plays / game

61.4

12 games

OL sack rate (allowed)

8.9%

302 dropbacks · PBP

Scheme: Balanced, slow tempo.

Coaching Lineage · 2021–2025

4 coaches
2021
Will Healy
Charlotte
2022
Peter Rossomando
Charlotte
era →
2023
Biff Poggi
Charlotte
era →
2024
Biff Poggi
Charlotte
2025
Tim Albin
Charlotte
era →

Played under 4 different head coaches: Will Healy, Peter Rossomando, Biff Poggi, and Tim Albin. Multi-era developmental context.

Bio · Recruiting · Transfer · Roster

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

HometownCharlotte, NC
Height5'8"
Weight185 lb
Class4
PositionRB
Jersey21

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 Charlotte RB4 #1553 #2304 0.0% 0.0% -- -- W16 snapshot | American Athletic
2023 Charlotte RB4 #2671 #3471 0.0% 0.0% -- -- W19 snapshot | American Athletic
2022 Charlotte RB4 #2480 #3136 0.0% 0.0% -- -- W20 snapshot | Conference USA
2021 Charlotte RB4 #2730 #2905 0.0% 0.0% -- -- W20 snapshot | Conference USA

Roster Timeline

Team, conference, and class by season.

Season Team Conference Pos Class Bio
2025 Charlotte American Athletic RB 4 No. 21 | 5-8 | 185 lb | Charlotte, NC
2024 Charlotte American Athletic RB 4 No. 21 | 5-8 | 185 lb | Charlotte, NC
2023 Charlotte American Athletic RB 4 No. 21 | 5-8 | 185 lb | Charlotte, NC
2022 Charlotte Conference USA RB 4 No. 21 | 5-8 | 185 lb | Charlotte, NC
2021 Charlotte Conference USA RB 4 No. 21 | 5-8 | 185 lb | Charlotte, NC