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Heisman / Players / Jordan Dunbar /Missouri State

Jordan Dunbar

CB · Missouri State · Sr · #12

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

21 TACKLES · 0 SACKS

2026 RETURNINGReturning to Missouri State for 2026

2026 Outlook

Returning to Missouri State for 2026

2026 Depth chart

Projected starter

Cornerback · Missouri State

Returning around him

  • Transfer portal: +8 net (19 in / 11 out)

2026 Award watch

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

Missouri State · Last season: 7-6 · Talent rank #129 · 2026 recruiting class #133

CB · MISSOURI STATE · CONFERENCE USA

Jordan Dunbar

  • 4
  • #12
  • 6-0 | 195 lb
  • Syracuse, NY

CFB Zeitgeist Score

47

Mid-pack in the position cohort. Carried by passes defended at the 99th percentile.

Heisman Heat

#10191

<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 DB AWARD

Jim Thorpe

CONSENSUS

All-American

Player Standing · 17 rungs

Tier 1 · 2-deep

R04 · Rotational

Rotational. Earning real snaps in the rotation.

Not on team2-deepStarterRecognizedEliteApex

Career Arc

HS
Recruit
★★★
#2785 national
CFB
College
2 teams
2021–2025
NFL
NFL Draft
Not drafted (yet)

Identity & Role

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

PositionCB
Class4
Jersey12
Measurements6-0 | 195 lb
HometownSyracuse, NY
Primary teamMissouri State

Recruiting Pedigree

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

Top pedigree 3-star No. 2785 recruit
Composite rating 0.8007 HighSchool
Signed with Rice 2020
Origin Iona Preparatory School Syracuse, NY, USA
Class Profile Context
2020 3-star | 0.8007 No. 2785 recruit | HighSchool | Rice

Transfer Arc

Portal movement changes role, context, and perception. This keeps that path in one place.

Portal moves 2 Programs changed on file
Latest destination Missouri State 2025
Transfer stars 3-star CFBD transfer rating context
Eligibility Immediate May 2, 2025
Season Move Context
2025 Bowling Green -> Missouri State 3-star | 0.8300 | Immediate
2024 Rice -> Kansas State 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 16
Current nowcast#10191Latest modeled ballot order
Season forecast#9920Where 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.

NIL · Recruiting · NFL Draft

Market value, pedigree & pro outcome

Recruit stars

★★★☆☆

to Rice

Composite

0.8007

#2785 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

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 Jordan Dunbar

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 Dunbar

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.

Season Pace · Projection

Where the defensive totals stand

projecting to 13-game
Through 11g
21Tackles
1Tackles for loss
0Sacks
Per game
2Tackles
0.1Tackles for loss
0Sacks
Projected (13g)
25Tackles
1.2Tackles for loss
0Sacks

To hit 80-tackle season (currently 21): needs 29.5/game over remaining 2.

To hit 100-tackle season (currently 21): needs 39.5/game over remaining 2.

To hit 6-sack season (currently 0): needs 3/game over remaining 2.

To hit 10-sack season (currently 0): needs 5/game over remaining 2.

Why this is a rare defensive case

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

Jordan Dunbar is trying to climb the steepest award hill in college football: a defensive candidacy. The hook is the disruption profile on Missouri State's defense, with 0.0 sacks, 1.0 tackles for loss, and 2 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.

Current place #10191 0.0% win | 0.0% finalist
Role load -- Role share still loading
Profile quirk Transfer path 2 portal moves

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
Total tackles 21 15 solo | #1929/4942 (61st pct)
TFL 1.0 Backfield disruption | #2051/4972 (59th pct)
Sacks 0.0 Pass-rush finish | #1762/4972 (65th pct)
Player identity What kind of player is this?

30-second read

What kind of player is this?

Coverage splash against FBS defenders.

Coverage splash

2025 Season · Final

2025 season snapshot | final

Tackling & Disruption

TOT
21 61st
SOLO
15 69th
TFL
1.0 59th
SACK
0.0 65th

Coverage & Takeaways

PD
11 99th
INT
2 87th

Game Log · Week-by-week

2025 season · 11 games

Box score · CFBD
WkOppTKLSOLOTFLSACKINTPDNote
Wk 1L 13-73@ USC310.00.00
Wk 2W 21-20@ Marshall100.00.01
Wk 3L 10-28vs SMU420.00.02Season-high 4 tackles
Wk 5L 22-27vs Western Kentucky110.00.00
Wk 7W 22-20@ Middle Tennessee110.00.02
Wk 9W 24-17@ New Mexico State110.00.012
Wk 10W 28-21vs Florida International000.00.01
Wk 11W 21-17@ Liberty331.00.011
Wk 12W 38-24vs UTEP330.00.01
Wk 13L 34-41@ Kennesaw State110.00.01
Wk 14L 30-42vs Louisiana Tech320.00.00
Total21151.00.0211
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

2021Rice4-8HC: Mike Bloomgren · Run-leaning
2022Rice5-8HC: Mike Bloomgren · Run-leaning
2025Missouri State7-6HC: Ryan Beard · Balanced
SeasonTeam
2025Missouri State21151.00.0112--
2022Rice24200.00.06----
2021Rice29220.00.09----
Career3 loaded seasons74571.00.0262--
Advanced layer Usage, value, and context

Advanced metrics second

Advanced Metrics

Usage, value, and opponent-adjusted context.

Usage Value Context
Disruption stats

TFL, sacks, and QB hurries are grouped together because defensive Heisman cases are usually built on visible havoc, not on tackle counts alone.

Coverage splash

Pass breakups, interceptions, and forced fumbles matter because national awards voters respond to plays that change possessions and highlight reels.

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.

INT 2 0 pick-six TD | #114/869 (87th pct)
Pass breakups 11 Coverage disruption | #12/2184 (99th pct)
QB pressures 0 Quarterback hurries
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Group Metric Value Rank Pct Why it matters
Defense Total tackles 21 #1929/4942 61st pct Volumevs FBS DEF
Defense TFL 1.0 #2051/4972 59th pct Disruptionvs FBS DEF
Defense Sacks 0.0 #1762/4972 65th pct Disruptionvs FBS DEF
Defense Interceptions 2 #114/869 87th pct Takeawaysvs FBS DEF
Defense Pass breakups 11 #12/2184 99th pct Coveragevs FBS DEF
Defense Solo tackles 15 #1434/4584 69th pct Volumevs FBS DEF
Defense INT return yards 4 #484/578 16th pct Takeawaysvs FBS DEF
Defense INT return avg 2.0 #512/578 12th pct Takeawaysvs 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

StatusAwaiting tracker

The Thorpe 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 · 11 games

Home/Road · Win/Loss · Season halves

Home vs Road

TKL/gTFL/gSACK/gPD/g
Home5g2.20.00.00.8
Road6g1.70.20.01.2

Win vs Loss

TKL/gTFL/gSACK/gPD/g
Wins6g1.50.20.01.3
Losses5g2.40.00.00.6

First half vs Second half

TKL/gTFL/gSACK/gPD/g
Weeks 1-75g2.00.00.01.0
Weeks 8+6g1.80.20.01.0

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

Savant · Box-rate percentiles

Where this profile ranks vs the CB cohort

47Mid-pack
7 metrics · season cumulative

Elite: passes defended (99th). Concern: qb hurries (22nd).

Passes defended#12 / 2975 · 99th pct
11defe
Interceptions#114 / 817 · 75th pct
2inte
Solo tackles#1434 / 2975 · 50th pct
15defe
Tackles#1929 / 2975 · 34th pct
21defe
Tackles for loss#1936 / 2975 · 28th pct
1.0defe
Sacks#1575 / 2975 · 24th pct
0.0defe
QB hurries#1662 / 2975 · 22nd pct
0defe

Percentiles versus same-position peers with enough snaps this season, based on box-score rates.

Advanced Savant · CB · 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 · 7 metrics
Jordan DunbarMissouri StateDalton JohnsonArizona· 65% simTahj Ra-ElPurdue· 65% simDevin LafayetteTroy· 64% sim
Passes defended
99
Dunbar
96
Johnson
91
Ra-El
91
Lafayette
Interceptions
75
Dunbar
95
Johnson
75
Lafayette
Solo tackles
50
Dunbar
97
Johnson
100
Ra-El
98
Lafayette
Tackles
34
Dunbar
98
Johnson
99
Ra-El
99
Lafayette
Tackles for loss
28
Dunbar
47
Johnson
56
Ra-El
56
Lafayette
Sacks
24
Dunbar
63
Johnson
24
Ra-El
63
Lafayette
QB hurries
22
Dunbar
22
Johnson
22
Ra-El
22
Lafayette

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

Player DNA

The Ball Hawk

Reads the quarterback's eyes and takes the ball away.

CB

His 2025 production profile sits closest to Kenneth Harris’s 2021 season.

Kenneth Harris

86%match

Arkansas State · 2021

#2

Christian Gray

Notre Dame · 2025

76%
#3

Jaylon Jones

Georgia State · 2022

NFL Rd 7
55%
#4

Starling Thomas V

UAB · 2022

All-Conference USA
54%
#5

Kalen King

Penn State · 2022

All-Big TenNFL Rd 7
53%

Matches Kenneth on

Interceptions
Weight
Height

Differs from Kenneth on

Tackle volume (higher)

Not enough data yet for this comparison.

As a senior, his production profile tracks closest to Michael Dansby's senior season at Arizona (2025).

Michael Dansby

86%match

Arizona · 2025

NFL Rd 7
#2

Colby Dempsey

UAB · 2024

56%
#3

Khary Crump

Rice · 2025

34%
#4

Trey Amos

Alabama · 2023

NFL Rd 2 · Pk 29
25%
#5

Quinyon Mitchell

Toledo · 2023

1st-team All-AmericanNFL Rd 1 · Pk 22
27%

Matches Michael on

Class year
PD rate
Tackle volume

Supporting Cast · Scheme

Staff and system around the player

2025 season

Head Coach

Ryan Beard

Pass share

51.9%

433 pass / 401 run

Plays / game

64.2

13 games

OL sack rate (allowed)

13.0%

307 dropbacks · PBP

Scheme: Balanced.

Coaching Lineage · 2021–2025

1 coach
2021
Missouri State
2022
Missouri State
2025
Ryan Beard
Missouri State
era →

Played his entire career under Ryan Beard.

Bio · Recruiting · Transfer · Roster

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

HometownSyracuse, NY
Height6'0"
Weight195 lb
Class4
PositionCB
Jersey12

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 Kansas State CB4 #10191 #9920 0.0% 0.0% -- -- W16 snapshot | Big 12
2023 Rice CB4 #13231 #13070 0.0% 0.0% -- -- W19 snapshot | American Athletic
2022 Rice CB4 #14090 #14317 0.0% 0.0% -- -- W20 snapshot | Conference USA
2021 Rice CB4 #13240 #13502 0.0% 0.0% -- -- W20 snapshot | Conference USA

Roster Timeline

Team, conference, and class by season.

Season Team Conference Pos Class Bio
2025 Missouri State Conference USA CB 4 No. 12 | 6-0 | 195 lb | Syracuse, NY
2024 Kansas State Big 12 CB 4 No. 12 | 6-0 | 195 lb | Syracuse, NY
2023 Rice American Athletic CB 4 No. 12 | 6-0 | 195 lb | Syracuse, NY
2022 Rice Conference USA CB 4 No. 12 | 6-0 | 195 lb | Syracuse, NY
2021 Rice Conference USA CB 4 No. 12 | 6-0 | 195 lb | Syracuse, NY