CFB Zeitgeist Score
43
Mid-pack in the position cohort. Carried by sacks at the 51st percentile.
Jaden Yates
Below the discourse floor — the honest stats-only state.
55 TACKLES · 0.5 SACKS
Where He Ended Up · Transfer
Transferred to Houston
2025Ole Miss
2026Houston
LB · OLE MISS · SEC
Jaden Yates
- 3
- #30
- 6-1 | 215 lb
- Columbus, OH
Heisman Heat
#10145
<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 LB AWARD
Butkus
—
CONSENSUS
All-American
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Player Standing · 17 rungs
Tier 2 · StarterR05 · Part-time starter
Part-time starter. Splitting first-team reps.
Not on team2-deepStarterRecognizedEliteApex
Career arc · Season-by-season Standing
3 seasons on the ladder
2023
Marshall · LB
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★
2024
Marshall · LB
R09 · All-Conference HM / 2nd team
Recognized
2025
Ole Miss · LB
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Career Arc
HS
Recruit
★★★
CFB
College
2 teams
NFL
NFL Draft
—
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 |
|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 3-star | 0.8458 | No. 1547 recruit | HighSchool | Marshall |
Transfer Arc
Portal movement changes role, context, and perception. This keeps that path in one place.
| Season | Move | Context |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Ole Miss -> Houston | 3-star | 0.8600 | Immediate |
| 2025 | Marshall -> Ole Miss | 3-star | 0.8500 | 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 Marshall
Composite
0.8458
#1547 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 Jaden Yates
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 Jaden Yates
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 defensive totals stand
Through 15g
55Tackles
1.5Tackles for loss
0.5Sacks
Per game
4Tackles
0.1Tackles for loss
0Sacks
Final
55Tackles
1.5Tackles for loss
0.5Sacks
Why this is a rare defensive case
The fast read on the thing that makes this player more than a generic stat line.
Jaden Yates is trying to climb the steepest award hill in college football: a defensive candidacy. The hook is the disruption profile on Ole Miss's defense, with 0.5 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.
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
Player identity What kind of player is this?
30-second read
What kind of player is this?
High-volume tackler against FBS defenders.
2025 Season · Final
2025 season snapshot | final
Tackling & Disruption
TOT
55 90th
SOLO
16 71st
TFL
1.5 64th
SACK
0.5 70th
Game Log · Week-by-week
2025 season · 15 games
| Wk | Opp | TKL | SOLO | TFL | SACK | INT | PD | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | W 63-7vs Georgia State | 8 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 2 | W 30-23@ Kentucky | 6 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 3 | W 41-35vs Arkansas | 4 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 4 | W 45-10vs Tulane | 11 | 4 | 0.5 | 0.0 | — | 0 | Season-high 11 tackles |
| Wk 5 | W 24-19vs LSU | 3 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 7 | W 24-21vs Washington State | 4 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 8 | L 35-43@ Georgia | 2 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 9 | W 34-26@ Oklahoma | 5 | 0 | 0.5 | 0.5 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 10 | W 30-14vs South Carolina | 2 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 11 | W 49-0vs The Citadel | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 12 | W 34-24vs Florida | 1 | 0 | 0.5 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 14 | W 38-19@ Mississippi State | 2 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Bowl | W 41-10vs Tulane | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Bowl | W 39-34@ Georgia | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Bowl | L 27-31vs Miami | 4 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Total | 55 | 16 | 1.5 | 0.5 | — | 0 |
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
2023Marshall6-7HC: Charles Huff · Balanced
2024Marshall10-3HC: Charles Huff · Run-leaning
2025Ole Miss13-2HC: Lane Kiffin · Balanced
Advanced layer Usage, value, and context
Advanced metrics second
Advanced Metrics
Usage, value, and opponent-adjusted context.
TFL, sacks, and QB hurries are grouped together because defensive Heisman cases are usually built on visible havoc, not on tackle counts alone.
Pass breakups, interceptions, and forced fumbles matter because national awards voters respond to plays that change possessions and highlight reels.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Defense | Total tackles | 55 | #484/4942 | 90th pct | Volumevs FBS DEF |
| Defense | TFL | 1.5 | #1771/4972 | 64th pct | Disruptionvs FBS DEF |
| Defense | Sacks | 0.5 | #1501/4972 | 70th pct | Disruptionvs FBS DEF |
| Defense | Solo tackles | 16 | #1348/4584 | 71st 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
Status—Awaiting tracker
The Butkus 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 · 15 games
Home vs Road
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home10g | 3.9 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| Road5g | 3.2 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.0 |
Win vs Loss
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wins13g | 3.8 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| Losses2g | 3.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
First half vs Second half
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-79g | 4.7 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| Weeks 8+6g | 2.2 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.0 |
Pocket and defense-quality (clean vs. pressure) splits are coming soon.
Savant · Box-rate percentiles
Where this profile ranks vs the LB cohort
43Mid-pack
Elite: tackles (83rd). Concern: passes defended (17th).
Percentiles versus same-position peers with enough snaps this season, based on box-score rates.
Advanced Savant · LB · 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.
Peer Comparator · Fingerprint match
Three closest profiles by box-rate percentile
Jaden YatesOle MissTyler MartinMassachusetts· 71% simJonJon VaughnsUCLA· 70% simMichael MontgomerySouthern Miss· 66% sim
Tackles
Solo tackles
Sacks
Tackles for loss
QB hurries
Passes defended
Closest peers by overall box-score percentile profile at the same position.
Player DNA
The Balanced Linebacker
Solid in every phase without a signature dimension.
LB
His 2025 production profile sits closest to Kalib Fortner’s 2023 season.
Kalib Fortner
87%match
#2
Jake St. Andre
86%
#3
Oscar Moore
83%
#4
KJ Robertson
81%
#5
Caleb Bonner
80%
Matches Kalib on
PD rate
TFL rate
Weight
Not enough data yet for this comparison.
As a junior, his production profile tracks closest to Stone Combs's junior season at Nevada (2024).
Stone Combs
89%match
#2
Antwan Peek Jr.
88%
#3
Marvin Burks Jr.
87%
#4
Brenden Jordan
86%
#5
Abram Wright
86%
Matches Stone on
Class year
Tackle volume
Sack rate
Supporting Cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Lane Kiffin
Pass share
48.2%
521 pass / 560 run
Plays / game
72.1
15 games
OL sack rate (allowed)
4.5%
330 dropbacks · PBP
Scheme: Balanced.
Coaching Lineage · 2023–2025
1 coach2023
Lane Kiffin
Ole Miss
2024
Lane Kiffin
Ole Miss
2025
Lane Kiffin
Ole Miss
Played his entire career under Lane Kiffin.
Bio · Recruiting · Transfer · Roster
Off-field context — switch tabs to drill into recruit profile, transfer arc, or roster timeline.
HometownColumbus, OH
Height6'1"
Weight215 lb
Class3
PositionLB
Jersey30
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Current teamOle Miss
ConferenceSEC
Joined2025
Career arc3 season(s)
Trophy Case · Confirmed honors
What the selectors said
🎖
ALL-CONFERENCE
All-Conf mention (2024)
All-Sun Belt
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-Sun Belt | all_conference | Marshall | Sun Belt | LB |
Heisman By Year
Modeled rank and official finish by season.
Roster Timeline
Team, conference, and class by season.