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Heisman / Players / Kedrick Bingley-Jones /Mississippi State

Kedrick Bingley-Jones

DL · Mississippi State · Sr · #22

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

25 TACKLES · 0 SACKS

2026 TRANSFERTransferred Mississippi State → Alabama for 2026

Where He Ended Up · Transfer

Transferred to Alabama

2025Mississippi State
2026Alabama

DL · MISSISSIPPI STATE · SEC

Kedrick Bingley-Jones

  • 4
  • #22
  • 6-4 | 320 lb
  • Concord, NC

CFB Zeitgeist Score

31

Below cohort in the position cohort. Carried by qb hurries at the 55th percentile.

Heisman Heat

#14398

<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
★★★★
#152 national
CFB
College
2 teams
2022–2025
NFL
NFL Draft
Not drafted (yet)

Identity & Role

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

PositionDL
Class4
Jersey22
Measurements6-4 | 320 lb
HometownConcord, NC
Primary teamMississippi State

Recruiting Pedigree

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

Top pedigree 4-star No. 152 recruit
Composite rating 0.9331 HighSchool
Signed with North Carolina 2020
Origin Providence Day School Charlotte, NC, USA
Class Profile Context
2020 4-star | 0.9331 No. 152 recruit | HighSchool | North Carolina

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 Alabama 2026
Transfer stars 3-star CFBD transfer rating context
Eligibility Immediate Jan 12, 2026
Season Move Context
2026 Mississippi State -> Alabama 3-star | 0.8600 | Immediate
2024 North Carolina -> Mississippi State 3-star | 0.8300 | 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#14398Latest modeled ballot order
Season forecast#14534Where 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 North Carolina

Composite

0.9331

#152 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 Kedrick Bingley-Jones

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 Kedrick Bingley-Jones

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

final
Through 13g
25Tackles
0.5Tackles for loss
0Sacks
Per game
2Tackles
0Tackles for loss
0Sacks
Final
25Tackles
0.5Tackles for loss
0Sacks

Why this is a rare defensive case

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

Kedrick Bingley-Jones is trying to climb the steepest award hill in college football: a defensive candidacy. The hook is the disruption profile on Mississippi State's defense, with 0.0 sacks, 0.5 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.

Current place #14398 0.0% win | 0.0% finalist
Role load -- Role share still loading
Profile quirk Blue-chip pedigree No. 152 recruit

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 25 3 solo | #1667/4942 (66th pct)
TFL 0.5 Backfield disruption | #2658/4972 (47th 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?

Defensive contributor against FBS defenders.

Balanced profile

2025 Season · Final

2025 season snapshot | final

Tackling & Disruption

TOT
25 66th
SOLO
3 28th
TFL
0.5 47th
SACK
0.0 65th
QBH
1 44th

Coverage & Takeaways

PD
1 43rd

Game Log · Week-by-week

2025 season · 13 games

Box score · CFBD
WkOppTKLSOLOTFLSACKINTPDNote
Wk 1W 34-17@ Southern Miss100.00.00
Wk 2W 24-20vs Arizona State300.00.00Season-high 3 tackles
Wk 3W 63-0vs Alcorn State300.50.00
Wk 4W 38-10vs Northern Illinois100.00.00
Wk 5L 34-41vs Tennessee310.00.00
Wk 6L 9-31@ Texas A&M200.00.00
Wk 8L 21-23@ Florida210.00.00
Wk 9L 38-45vs Texas200.00.01
Wk 10W 38-35@ Arkansas210.00.00
Wk 11L 21-41vs Georgia200.00.00
Wk 12L 27-49@ Missouri200.00.00
Wk 14L 19-38vs Ole Miss000.00.00
BowlL 29-43vs Wake Forest200.00.00
Total2530.50.01
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

2022North Carolina9-5HC: Mack Brown · Balanced
2023North Carolina8-5HC: Mack Brown · Balanced
2025Mississippi State5-8HC: Jeff Lebby · Run-leaning
SeasonTeam
2025Mississippi State2530.50.01----
2023North Carolina221.00.0------
2022North Carolina510.00.0------
Career3 loaded seasons3261.50.01----
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 1 Quarterback hurries | #1051/1878 (44th pct)
Open full stat explorer
0 metrics visible Showing all metrics
Group Metric Value Rank Pct Why it matters
Defense Total tackles 25 #1667/4942 66th pct Volumevs FBS DEF
Defense TFL 0.5 #2658/4972 47th pct Disruptionvs FBS DEF
Defense Sacks 0.0 #1762/4972 65th pct Disruptionvs FBS DEF
Defense Pass breakups 1 #1241/2184 43rd pct Coveragevs FBS DEF
Defense QB hurries 1 #1051/1878 44th pct Disruptionvs FBS DEF
Defense Solo tackles 3 #3280/4584 28th 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 · 13 games

Home/Road · Win/Loss · Season halves

Home vs Road

TKL/gTFL/gSACK/gPD/g
Home8g2.00.10.00.1
Road5g1.80.00.00.0

Win vs Loss

TKL/gTFL/gSACK/gPD/g
Wins5g2.00.10.00.0
Losses8g1.90.00.00.1

First half vs Second half

TKL/gTFL/gSACK/gPD/g
Weeks 1-77g2.10.10.00.0
Weeks 8+6g1.70.00.00.2

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

Savant · Box-rate percentiles

Where this profile ranks vs the DL cohort

31Below cohort
6 metrics · season cumulative

Concern: solo tackles (1st).

QB hurries#1007 / 2975 · 55th pct
1defe
Passes defended#1191 / 2975 · 48th pct
1defe
Tackles#1667 / 2975 · 43rd pct
25defe
Sacks#1575 / 2975 · 24th pct
0.0defe
Tackles for loss#2332 / 2975 · 18th pct
0.5defe
Solo tackles#2892 / 2975 · 2nd pct
3defe

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
Kedrick Bingley-JonesMississippi StateBlake FletcherAir Force· 53% simTyler MartinMassachusetts· 52% simTahj Ra-ElPurdue· 47% sim
QB hurries
55
Bingley-Jones
92
Fletcher
22
Martin
22
Ra-El
Passes defended
48
Bingley-Jones
67
Fletcher
67
Martin
91
Ra-El
Tackles
43
Bingley-Jones
99
Fletcher
98
Martin
99
Ra-El
Sacks
24
Bingley-Jones
24
Fletcher
24
Martin
24
Ra-El
Tackles for loss
18
Bingley-Jones
28
Fletcher
63
Martin
56
Ra-El
Solo tackles
2
Bingley-Jones
91
Fletcher
87
Martin
100
Ra-El

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

Player DNA

The Nose Anchor

Two-gap space-eater who occupies blockers and frees the linebackers.

IDL

His 2025 production profile sits closest to PJ Mustipher’s 2022 season.

PJ Mustipher

92%match

Penn State · 2022

#2

Domonique Orange

Iowa State · 2025

NFL Rd 3 · Pk 18
92%
#3

Eric Taylor

Mississippi State · 2023

91%
#4

Logan Richter

Minnesota · 2023

89%
#5

Joshua Harris

Ole Miss · 2023

89%

Matches PJ on

Weight
Sack rate
TFL rate

Not enough data yet for this comparison.

As a senior, his production profile tracks closest to Domonique Orange's senior season at Iowa State (2025).

Domonique Orange

94%match

Iowa State · 2025

NFL Rd 3 · Pk 18
#2

Logan Richter

Minnesota · 2023

92%
#3

Joshua Harris

Ole Miss · 2023

90%
#4

Tymon Mitchell

TCU · 2023

89%
#5

Kevin Penn

UAB · 2024

87%

Matches Domonique on

Class year
Height
Sack rate

Supporting Cast · Scheme

Staff and system around the player

2025 season

Head Coach

Jeff Lebby

Pass share

41.8%

390 pass / 543 run

Plays / game

71.8

13 games

OL sack rate (allowed)

12.7%

308 dropbacks · PBP

Scheme: Run-leaning.

Coaching Lineage · 2022–2025

3 coaches
2022
Mike Leach
Mississippi State
2023
Greg Knox
Mississippi State
era →
2025
Jeff Lebby
Mississippi State
era →

Played under 3 different head coaches: Mike Leach, Greg Knox, and Jeff Lebby. Multi-era developmental context.

Bio · Recruiting · Transfer · Roster

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

HometownConcord, NC
Height6'4"
Weight320 lb
Class4
PositionDL
Jersey22

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 Mississippi State DL4 #14398 #14534 0.0% 0.0% -- -- W16 snapshot | SEC
2023 North Carolina DL4 #11070 #10906 0.0% 0.0% -- -- W19 snapshot | ACC
2022 North Carolina DL4 #12326 #12142 0.0% 0.0% -- -- W20 snapshot | ACC
2021 North Carolina DL4 #11676 #11473 0.0% 0.0% -- -- W20 snapshot | ACC

Roster Timeline

Team, conference, and class by season.

Season Team Conference Pos Class Bio
2025 Mississippi State SEC DL 4 No. 22 | 6-4 | 320 lb | Concord, NC
2024 Mississippi State SEC DL 4 No. 22 | 6-4 | 320 lb | Concord, NC
2023 North Carolina ACC DL 4 No. 22 | 6-4 | 320 lb | Concord, NC
2022 North Carolina ACC DL 4 No. 22 | 6-4 | 320 lb | Concord, NC
2021 North Carolina ACC DL 4 No. 22 | 6-4 | 320 lb | Concord, NC