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Joshua Singh

DL · Vanderbilt · Sr · #99

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

27 TACKLES · 1 SACKS

2026 RETURNINGReturning to Vanderbilt for 2026

2026 Outlook

Returning to Vanderbilt for 2026

2026 Depth chart

Projected starter

Defensive line · Vanderbilt

Returning around him

  • 86% of 2024 offensive production back (Strong continuity)
  • 1 Vanderbilt player drafted to NFL
  • Transfer portal: -1 net (18 in / 19 out)

2026 Award watch

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

Vanderbilt · Last season: 10-3 (AP #13) · Talent rank #55 · 2026 recruiting class #76

DL · VANDERBILT · SEC

Joshua Singh

  • 4
  • #99
  • 6-0 | 285 lb
  • Laie, HI

CFB Zeitgeist Score

63

Solid starter in the position cohort. Carried by tackles for loss at the 85th percentile.

Heisman Heat

#7573

<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 DEFENSE AWARD

Nagurski

CONSENSUS

All-American

Player Standing · 17 rungs

Tier 2 · Starter

R05 · Part-time starter

Part-time starter. Splitting first-team reps.

Not on team2-deepStarterRecognizedEliteApex

Career Arc

HS
Recruit
No recruit profile
CFB
College
2 teams
2023–2025
NFL
NFL Draft
Not drafted (yet)

Identity & Role

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

PositionDL
Class4
Jersey99
Measurements6-0 | 285 lb
HometownLaie, HI
Primary teamVanderbilt

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 Vanderbilt 2025
Transfer stars 3-star CFBD transfer rating context
Eligibility Immediate Apr 23, 2025
Season Move Context
2025 BYU -> Vanderbilt 3-star | 0.8400 | 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#7573Latest modeled ballot order
Season forecast#7453Where 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 Joshua Singh

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 Joshua Singh

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
27Tackles
6Tackles for loss
1Sacks
Per game
2Tackles
0.5Tackles for loss
0.1Sacks
Projected (13g)
32Tackles
7.1Tackles for loss
1.2Sacks

To hit 80-tackle season (currently 27): needs 26.5/game over remaining 2.

To hit 100-tackle season (currently 27): needs 36.5/game over remaining 2.

To hit 6-sack season (currently 1): needs 2.5/game over remaining 2.

To hit 10-sack season (currently 1): needs 4.5/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.

Joshua Singh is trying to climb the steepest award hill in college football: a defensive candidacy. The hook is the disruption profile on Vanderbilt's defense, with 1.0 sacks, 6.0 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.

Current place #7573 0.0% win | 0.0% finalist
Role load -- Role share still loading
Profile quirk Transfer path 1 portal move

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 27 11 solo | #1543/4942 (69th pct)
TFL 6.0 Backfield disruption | #406/4972 (92nd pct)
Sacks 1.0 Pass-rush finish | #872/4972 (82nd pct)
Player identity What kind of player is this?

30-second read

What kind of player is this?

High-disruption defender against FBS defenders.

High-disruption defender

2025 Season · Final

2025 season snapshot | final

Tackling & Disruption

TOT
27 69th
SOLO
11 60th
TFL
6.0 92nd
SACK
1.0 82nd
QBH
4 85th

Coverage & Takeaways

PD
1 43rd

Game Log · Week-by-week

2025 season · 11 games

Box score · CFBD
WkOppTKLSOLOTFLSACKINTPDNote
Wk 2W 44-20@ Virginia Tech110.00.00
Wk 4W 70-21vs Georgia State110.00.00
Wk 5W 55-35vs Utah State000.00.00
Wk 6L 14-30@ Alabama422.01.01
Wk 8W 31-24vs LSU421.50.00
Wk 9W 17-10vs Missouri600.50.00Season-high 6 tackles
Wk 10L 31-34@ Texas100.00.00
Wk 11W 45-38vs Auburn420.00.00
Wk 13W 45-17vs Kentucky210.00.00
Wk 14W 45-24@ Tennessee111.00.00
BowlL 27-34vs Iowa311.00.00
Total27116.01.01
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

2023BYU5-7HC: Kalani Sitake · Balanced
2024BYU11-2HC: Kalani Sitake · Run-leaning
2025Vanderbilt10-3HC: Clark Lea · Balanced, slow tempo
SeasonTeam
2025Vanderbilt27116.01.01----
2024BYU1031.50.0------
2023BYU331.00.0------
Career3 loaded seasons40178.51.01----
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 -- -- pick-six TD
Pass breakups 1 Coverage disruption | #1241/2184 (43rd pct)
QB pressures 4 Quarterback hurries | #291/1878 (85th pct)
Open full stat explorer
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Group Metric Value Rank Pct Why it matters
Defense Total tackles 27 #1543/4942 69th pct Volumevs FBS DEF
Defense TFL 6.0 #406/4972 92nd pct Disruptionvs FBS DEF
Defense Sacks 1.0 #872/4972 82nd pct Disruptionvs FBS DEF
Defense Pass breakups 1 #1241/2184 43rd pct Coveragevs FBS DEF
Defense QB hurries 4 #291/1878 85th pct Disruptionvs FBS DEF
Defense Solo tackles 11 #1855/4584 60th 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

StatusAwaiting tracker

The Lombardi 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
Home7g2.90.40.00.0
Road4g1.80.80.20.2

Win vs Loss

TKL/gTFL/gSACK/gPD/g
Wins8g2.40.40.00.0
Losses3g2.71.00.30.3

First half vs Second half

TKL/gTFL/gSACK/gPD/g
Weeks 1-75g1.80.60.20.2
Weeks 8+6g3.00.50.00.0

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

Savant · Box-rate percentiles

Where this profile ranks vs the DL cohort

63Solid starter
6 metrics · season cumulative

Elite: qb hurries (87th). Strength: tackles for loss (85th).

QB hurries#288 / 2975 · 88th pct
4defe
Tackles for loss#406 / 2975 · 85th pct
6.0defe
Sacks#847 / 2975 · 63rd pct
1.0defe
Passes defended#1191 / 2975 · 48th pct
1defe
Tackles#1543 / 2975 · 47th pct
27defe
Solo tackles#1855 / 2975 · 35th pct
11defe

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

Advanced Savant · DL · 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 · 6 metrics
Joshua SinghVanderbiltTrey FieldsNorth Texas· 66% simRay ConeyTulsa· 66% simTreylin PayneTexas State· 66% sim
QB hurries
88
Singh
95
Fields
88
Coney
82
Payne
Tackles for loss
85
Singh
87
Fields
90
Coney
87
Payne
Sacks
63
Singh
63
Fields
80
Coney
80
Payne
Passes defended
48
Singh
67
Fields
67
Coney
67
Payne
Tackles
47
Singh
98
Fields
100
Coney
98
Payne
Solo tackles
35
Singh
96
Fields
93
Coney
95
Payne

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

Player DNA

The 3-Tech Penetrator

Disruptive interior rusher who lives in the backfield.

IDL

His 2025 production profile sits closest to Traevon Mitchell’s 2025 season.

Traevon Mitchell

86%match

South Florida · 2025

#2

George Wolo

Buffalo · 2024

85%
#3

Thomas Gore

Georgia State · 2021

85%
#4

Tim Hardiman

Arkansas State · 2023

85%
#5

Mario Kendricks

Virginia Tech · 2022

84%

Matches Traevon on

Class year
Height
Weight

Not enough data yet for this comparison.

As a junior, his production profile tracks closest to Nico Ezidore's junior season at Texas State (2022).

Nico Ezidore

86%match

Texas State · 2022

All-Sun Belt
#2

Noah Shannon

Iowa · 2022

84%
#3

Tim Hardiman

Arkansas State · 2023

83%
#4

Samuela Tuihalamaka

Oklahoma State · 2022

82%
#5

Jaxon Player

Baylor · 2022

All-AAC
81%

Matches Nico on

Class year
Weight
TFL rate

Supporting Cast · Scheme

Staff and system around the player

2025 season

Head Coach

Clark Lea

Pass share

50.4%

400 pass / 394 run

Plays / game

61.1

13 games

OL sack rate (allowed)

7.3%

274 dropbacks · PBP

Scheme: Balanced, slow tempo.

Coaching Lineage · 2023–2025

1 coach
2023
Clark Lea
Vanderbilt
2024
Clark Lea
Vanderbilt
2025
Clark Lea
Vanderbilt

Played his entire career under Clark Lea.

Bio · Recruiting · Transfer · Roster

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

HometownLaie, HI
Height6'0"
Weight285 lb
Class4
PositionDL
Jersey99

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 BYU DL4 #7573 #7453 0.0% 0.0% -- -- W16 snapshot | Big 12
2023 BYU DL4 #13357 #13388 0.0% 0.0% -- -- W19 snapshot | Big 12
2022 BYU DL4 #13164 #12944 0.0% 0.0% -- -- W20 snapshot | FBS Independents

Roster Timeline

Team, conference, and class by season.

Season Team Conference Pos Class Bio
2025 Vanderbilt SEC DL 4 No. 99 | 6-0 | 285 lb | Laie, HI
2024 BYU Big 12 DL 4 No. 99 | 6-0 | 285 lb | Laie, HI
2023 BYU Big 12 DL 4 No. 99 | 6-0 | 285 lb | Laie, HI
2022 BYU FBS Independents DL 4 No. 99 | 6-0 | 285 lb | Laie, HI