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OFFSEASON · SUMMER 2026 · COMMITMENT SEASON
Heisman / Players / Jerome Ford /Cincinnati

Jerome Ford

RB · Cincinnati · Jr · #24

Limited signal — not enough coverage for a story yet.

NOW IN NFLCleveland — drafted 2022, Rd 5, Pick 13, #156 overall

Where He Ended Up · NFL

ClevelandEntering 5th NFL season

#156Rd 5 · Pick 13
ClevelandEntering 5th NFL season
View college career stats ↓

RB · CINCINNATI · AMERICAN ATHLETIC

Jerome Ford

  • 3
  • #24
  • 5-11 | 215 lb
  • Seffner, FL

CFB Zeitgeist RB Score

Awaiting

Heisman Heat

#32

1.4% 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

1.4%

TOP RB AWARD

Doak Walker

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CONSENSUS

All-American

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Player Standing · 17 rungs

Tier 1 · 2-deep

R02 · Deep reserve

Deep reserve. In the program, working up the two-deep.

Not on team2-deepStarterRecognizedEliteApex

Career Arc

HS
Recruit
★★★★
#370 national
CFB
College
Cincinnati
2021
NFL
NFL Draft
R5 · #156
Cleveland · 2022

Identity & Role

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

PositionRB
Class3
Jersey24
Measurements5-11 | 215 lb
HometownSeffner, FL
Primary teamCincinnati

Recruiting Pedigree

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

Top pedigree 4-star No. 370 recruit
Composite rating 0.8909 HighSchool
Signed with Alabama 2018
Origin Armwood TAMPA, FL, USA
Class Profile Context
2018 4-star | 0.8909 No. 370 recruit | HighSchool | Alabama

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 · 2021 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 20
Current nowcast#32Latest modeled ballot order
Season forecast#26Where the full season sim points
Win probability1.4%Chance to actually win the trophy
Finalist probability0.0%Chance to make the finalist tier
Ballot probability45.9%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 Alabama

Composite

0.8909

#370 national

NFL Draft

2022 · Rd 5, Pick 13

#156 overall · Cleveland

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 Jerome Ford

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 Jerome Ford

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.

Why the honors trail matters

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

The useful clue on this card is not just the Heisman rank, but the broader honors spine. Jerome Ford already has 1 loaded recognition item, which helps distinguish a player who is merely productive from one who is already earning selector-level validation.

Current place #32 1.4% win | 0.0% finalist
Role load 30.0% Overall usage share
Profile quirk Blue-chip pedigree No. 370 recruit

2021 Season · Final

Traditional stats first. Advanced context underneath.

Last season

RB season snapshot

2021 season snapshot | final

2021 season snapshot | finalData: CFBD player stats + local Heisman modelPeer context: same position + same level
Scrimmage yards 1,539 1,319 rush | 220 rec | #11/735 (99th pct)
Rush TD 19 215 carries | #3/739 (100th pct)
Yards/carry 6.1 Per-rush efficiency | #104/735 (86th pct)
Player identity What kind of player is this?

30-second read

What kind of player is this?

Workhorse | Efficient runner | Passing-game back against FBS RB peers.

WorkhorseEfficient runnerPassing-game back

2021 Season · Final

2021 season snapshot | final

Rushing

CAR
215 98th
YDS
1,319 99th
YPC
6.1 86th
TD
19 100th

Receiving

REC
21 88th
YDS
220 93rd
YPR
10.5 81st
TD
1 89th

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 rows Career row

Season context · Team result + system

2021Cincinnati13-0HC: Luke Fickell · Run-leaning
SeasonTeam
2021Cincinnati2151,3196.119--
Career1 loaded season2151,3196.119--
SeasonTeam
2021Cincinnati2122010.51--
Career1 loaded season2122010.51--
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 21 220 rec yds | #68/552 (88th pct)
Usage 30.0% 53.0% rush share | #11/738 (99th pct)
Rushing WEPA +0.45 Opponent-adjusted rush value | #1/362 (100th pct)
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Group Metric Value Rank Pct Why it matters
Rushing Rushing yards 1,319 #11/735 99th pct Volumevs FBS RB
Rushing Rush TD 19 #3/739 100th pct Scoringvs FBS RB
Rushing Yards / carry 6.1 #104/735 86th pct Efficiencyvs FBS RB
Receiving Receptions 21 #68/552 88th pct Volumevs FBS RB
Receiving Receiving yards 220 #41/548 93rd pct Volumevs FBS RB
Value Rushing WEPA +0.45 #1/362 100th pct Opponent-adjusted rushing value | 212 weighted playsvs FBS RB
Usage Role share 30.0% #11/738 99th pct Share of team offensevs FBS RB
Rushing Carries 215 #18/739 98th pct Volumevs FBS RB
Rushing Rushing LONG 79 #27/733 96th pct Metricvs FBS RB
Receiving Receiving LONG 34 #102/540 81st pct Metricvs FBS RB
Receiving Yards / catch 10.5 #104/548 81st pct Efficiencyvs FBS RB
Receiving Receiving TD 1 #60/552 89th pct Scoringvs FBS RB
Usage Rush share 53.0% #7/738 99th pct Ground-game usagevs FBS RB
Usage Standard-down usage 35.0% #11/738 99th pct Base-situation sharevs FBS RB
Usage 1st-down usage 33.9% #16/738 98th pct Early-down loadvs FBS RB
Usage 2nd-down usage 30.2% #20/738 97th pct Middle-down loadvs FBS RB
Usage 3rd-down usage 19.7% #29/738 96th pct Money-down loadvs FBS RB
Usage Passing-down usage 16.7% #43/738 94th pct Known-passing sharevs FBS RB
Usage Pass share 5.8% #126/738 83rd pct Air-game usagevs FBS RB
Ball Security Fumbles lost 2 #205/256 20th pct Turnoversvs 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.

Box-score Savant card waits for a season-stat snapshot above the cohort floor. Returns once enough box-score volume lands.

Advanced Savant · RB · 2021

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 returns once this player clears the Savant metric floor (4+ scored bars).
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

Scott Satterfield

Pass share

47.8%

363 pass / 396 run

Plays / game

58.4

13 games

OL sack rate (allowed)

2.6%

266 dropbacks · PBP

Scheme: Balanced, slow tempo.

Coaching Lineage · 2021

1 coach
2021
Luke Fickell
Cincinnati

Played his entire career under Luke Fickell.

Bio · Recruiting · Transfer · Roster

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

HometownSeffner, FL
Height5'11"
Weight215 lb
Class3
PositionRB
Jersey24

Trophy Case · Confirmed honors

What the selectors said

1 entries
🎖

ALL-CONFERENCE

All-Conf mention (2021)

All-AAC

Trophy Case · Detail

Every honor on the ledger, broken out by stream and selector.

All-Conference

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
2021 All-AAC all_conference Cincinnati | AAC RB

Heisman By Year

Modeled rank and official finish by season.

Season Team Role Latest Model Forecast Win Finalist Official Finish Points Context
2021 Cincinnati RB3 #32 #26 1.4% 0.0% -- -- W20 snapshot | American Athletic

Roster Timeline

Team, conference, and class by season.

Season Team Conference Pos Class Bio
2021 Cincinnati American Athletic RB 3 No. 24 | 5-11 | 215 lb | Seffner, FL