CFB Zeitgeist RB Score
Awaiting
Jordan Byrd
Limited signal — not enough coverage for a story yet.
RB · SAN DIEGO STATE · MOUNTAIN WEST
Jordan Byrd
- 4
- #15
- 5-9 | 170 lb
- Albuquerque, NM
Heisman Heat
#1162
<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 0 · Not on teamR01 · Scout team / redshirt
Scout team / redshirt. Developing behind the depth chart.
Not on team2-deepStarterRecognizedEliteApex
Career arc · Season-by-season Standing
2 seasons on the ladder
★
2021
San Diego State · RB
R09 · All-Conference HM / 2nd team
Recognized
2022
San Diego State · RB
R09 · All-Conference HM / 2nd team
Recognized
Development Trajectory · rushing yards
2021–2022+59%
Up 59% from first season to most-recent.
Career Arc
HS
Recruit
★★★
CFB
College
San Diego State
NFL
NFL Draft
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 3-star | 0.8183 | No. 1835 recruit | HighSchool | San Diego State |
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 · 2022 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 20Heisman 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 San Diego State
Composite
0.8183
#1835 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 Jordan Byrd
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 Jordan Byrd
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.
Jordan Byrd is not a one-lane back. The profile is interesting because the workload spills beyond pure rushing volume: 390 rushing yards, 10 catches, and 689 return yards for San Diego State. That kind of all-purpose footprint gives the card a much richer story than a basic carry total.
2022 Season · Final
Traditional stats first. Advanced context underneath.
Last season
RB season snapshot
2022 season snapshot | final
2022 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?
Backfield contributor against FBS RB peers.
2022 Season · Final
2022 season snapshot | final
Rushing
CAR
102 78th
YDS
390 71st
YPC
3.8 27th
TD
3 73rd
Receiving
REC
10 61st
YDS
60 54th
YPR
6.0 38th
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 context · Team result + system
2021San Diego State11-2HC: Brady Hoke · Run-heavy
2022San Diego State7-6HC: Brady Hoke · Run-leaning, slow tempo
| Season | Team | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | San Diego State | 102 | 390 | 3.8 | 3 | -- |
| 2021 | San Diego State | 36 | 245 | 6.8 | 3 | -- |
| Career | 2 loaded seasons | 138 | 635 | 4.6 | 6 | -- |
| Season | Team | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | San Diego State | 10 | 60 | 6.0 | 1 | -- |
| 2021 | San Diego State | 13 | 76 | 5.8 | 0 | -- |
| Career | 2 loaded seasons | 23 | 136 | 5.9 | 1 | -- |
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 | 390 | #213/735 | 71st pct | Volumevs FBS RB |
| Rushing | Rush TD | 3 | #204/739 | 73rd pct | Scoringvs FBS RB |
| Rushing | Yards / carry | 3.8 | #534/735 | 27th pct | Efficiencyvs FBS RB |
| Receiving | Receptions | 10 | #217/552 | 61st pct | Volumevs FBS RB |
| Receiving | Receiving yards | 60 | #251/548 | 54th pct | Volumevs FBS RB |
| Usage | Role share | 4.8% | #552/738 | 25th pct | Share of team offensevs FBS RB |
| Rushing | Carries | 102 | #160/739 | 78th pct | Volumevs FBS RB |
| Rushing | Rushing LONG | 53 | #147/733 | 80th pct | Metricvs FBS RB |
| Receiving | Receiving LONG | 16 | #277/540 | 49th pct | Metricvs FBS RB |
| Receiving | Yards / catch | 6.0 | #340/548 | 38th pct | Efficiencyvs FBS RB |
| Receiving | Receiving TD | 1 | #60/552 | 89th pct | Scoringvs FBS RB |
| Returns | Kick return yards | 571 | #2/200 | 100th pct | Volumevs FBS RB |
| Returns | Punt return yards | 118 | #8/27 | 74th pct | Volumevs FBS RB |
| Returns | Kick return avg | 24.8 | #29/199 | 86th pct | Efficiencyvs FBS RB |
| Returns | Kick returns | 23 | #2/206 | 100th pct | Volumevs FBS RB |
| Returns | Punt returns | 20 | #2/29 | 97th pct | Volumevs FBS RB |
| Returns | Punt return avg | 5.9 | #20/27 | 30th pct | Efficiencyvs FBS RB |
| Returns | Kick return TD | 1 | #3/14 | 86th pct | Scoringvs FBS RB |
| Returns | Punt return TD | 1 | #1/5 | 100th pct | Scoringvs FBS RB |
| Usage | Rush share | 6.3% | #589/738 | 20th pct | Ground-game usagevs FBS RB |
| Usage | 2nd-down usage | 5.9% | #525/738 | 29th pct | Middle-down loadvs FBS RB |
| Usage | Standard-down usage | 4.9% | #566/738 | 23rd pct | Base-situation sharevs FBS RB |
| Usage | Passing-down usage | 4.7% | #476/738 | 36th pct | Known-passing sharevs FBS RB |
| Usage | 1st-down usage | 4.6% | #569/738 | 23rd pct | Early-down loadvs FBS RB |
| Usage | 3rd-down usage | 4.1% | #486/738 | 34th pct | Money-down loadvs FBS RB |
| Usage | Pass share | 2.8% | #333/738 | 55th pct | Air-game usagevs FBS RB |
| Ball Security | Fumbles lost | 3 | #250/256 | 3rd 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.
Advanced Savant · RB · 2022
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
Sean Lewis
Pass share
35.3%
290 pass / 532 run
Plays / game
63.2
13 games
OL sack rate (allowed)
7.6%
224 dropbacks · PBP
Scheme: Run-heavy.
Coaching Lineage · 2021–2022
1 coach2021
Brady Hoke
San Diego State
2022
Brady Hoke
San Diego State
Played his entire career under Brady Hoke.
Bio · Recruiting · Transfer · Roster
Off-field context — switch tabs to drill into recruit profile, transfer arc, or roster timeline.
HometownAlbuquerque, NM
Height5'9"
Weight170 lb
Class4
PositionRB
Jersey15
No fields populated yet.
No fields populated yet.
Current teamSan Diego State
ConferenceMountain West
Joined2022
Career arc2 season(s)
Trophy Case · Confirmed honors
What the selectors said
🎖
ALL-CONFERENCE
All-Conf mention (2022)
All-Mountain West
Trophy Case · Detail
Every honor on the ledger, broken out by stream and selector.
3 all-conference honors
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | All-Mountain West | all_conference | San Diego State | Mountain West | RET |
| 2021 | All-Mountain West | all_conference | San Diego State | Mountain West | RET |
| 2020 | All-Mountain West | all_conference | San Diego State | Mountain West | RET |
Heisman By Year
Modeled rank and official finish by season.
| Season | Team | Role | Latest Model | Forecast | Win | Finalist | Official Finish | Points | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | San Diego State | RB4 | #1162 | #1278 | 0.0% | 0.0% | -- | -- | W20 snapshot | Mountain West |
| 2021 | San Diego State | RB4 | #878 | #813 | 0.0% | 0.0% | -- | -- | W20 snapshot | Mountain West |
Roster Timeline
Team, conference, and class by season.
| Season | Team | Conference | Pos | Class | Bio |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | San Diego State | Mountain West | RB | 4 | No. 15 | 5-9 | 170 lb | Albuquerque, NM |
| 2021 | San Diego State | Mountain West | RB | 4 | No. 15 | 5-9 | 170 lb | Albuquerque, NM |