CFB Zeitgeist Score
91
Elite in the position cohort. Carried by sacks at the 98th percentile.
Keyshaun Elliott
Below the discourse floor — the honest stats-only state.
98 TACKLES · 7 SACKS
Where He Ended Up · NFL
Chicago2026 NFL rookie season
#166Rd 5 · Pick 26
Chicago2026 NFL rookie season
LB · ARIZONA STATE · BIG 12
Keyshaun Elliott
- 4
- #44
- 6-2 | 235 lb
- Richmond, MO
Heisman Heat
#9563
<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 LB AWARD
Butkus
—
CONSENSUS
All-American
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Player Standing · 17 rungs
Tier 2 · StarterR06 · Starter
Starter. A locked-in starting role.
Not on team2-deepStarterRecognizedEliteApex
Career arc · Season-by-season Standing
3 seasons on the ladder
2022
New Mexico State · LB
—
★
2023
New Mexico State · LB
R09 · All-Conference HM / 2nd team
Recognized
2025
Arizona State · LB
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NFL Draft 2026 · Rd 5, Pick 26 · #166 overall · Chicago
Career Arc
HS
Recruit
★★★
CFB
College
2 teams
NFL
NFL Draft
R5 · #166
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 |
|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 3-star | 0.8204 | No. 1890 recruit | HighSchool | New Mexico State |
Transfer Arc
Portal movement changes role, context, and perception. This keeps that path in one place.
| Season | Move | Context |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | New Mexico State -> Arizona State | 3-star | 0.8700 | 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 16Heisman 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 New Mexico State
Composite
0.8204
#1890 national
NFL Draft
2026 · Rd 5, Pick 26
#166 overall · Chicago
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 Keyshaun Elliott
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 Keyshaun Elliott
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.
Season Pace · Projection
Where the defensive totals stand
Through 12g
98Tackles
14Tackles for loss
7Sacks
Per game
8Tackles
1.2Tackles for loss
0.6Sacks
Projected (13g)
106Tackles
15.2Tackles for loss
7.6Sacks
✓ Hit 80-tackle season · finished with 98.
To hit 100-tackle season (currently 98): needs 2/game over remaining 1.
✓ Hit 6-sack season · finished with 7.
To hit 10-sack season (currently 7): needs 3/game over remaining 1.
Why this is a rare defensive case
The fast read on the thing that makes this player more than a generic stat line.
Keyshaun Elliott is trying to climb the steepest award hill in college football: a defensive candidacy. The hook is the disruption profile on Arizona State's defense, with 7.0 sacks, 14.0 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.
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
Player identity What kind of player is this?
30-second read
What kind of player is this?
High-disruption defender | High-volume tackler against FBS defenders.
2025 Season · Final
2025 season snapshot | final
Tackling & Disruption
TOT
98 99th
SOLO
54 99th
TFL
14.0 99th
SACK
7.0 99th
QBH
4 85th
Coverage & Takeaways
PD
2 64th
Game Log · Week-by-week
2025 season · 12 games
| Wk | Opp | TKL | SOLO | TFL | SACK | INT | PD | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | W 38-19vs Northern Arizona | 5 | 1 | 1.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 2 | L 20-24@ Mississippi State | 8 | 3 | 1.0 | 1.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 3 | W 34-15vs Texas State | 7 | 7 | 1.0 | 1.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 4 | W 27-24@ Baylor | 10 | 8 | 2.0 | 1.0 | — | 1 | |
| Wk 5 | W 27-24vs TCU | 7 | 3 | 2.5 | 1.0 | — | 0 | 2.5 TFL |
| Wk 7 | L 10-42@ Utah | 7 | 3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 8 | W 26-22vs Texas Tech | 10 | 5 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 9 | L 16-24vs Houston | 13 | 5 | 1.5 | 0.0 | — | 0 | Season-high 13 tackles |
| Wk 10 | W 24-19@ Iowa State | 10 | 5 | 1.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 12 | W 25-23vs West Virginia | 5 | 4 | 1.0 | 1.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 13 | W 42-17@ Colorado | 7 | 6 | 2.0 | 2.0 | — | 1 | 2 sacks |
| Wk 14 | L 7-23vs Arizona | 9 | 4 | 1.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Total | 98 | 54 | 14.0 | 7.0 | — | 2 |
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
2022New Mexico State7-6HC: Jerry Kill · Run-leaning, slow tempo
2023New Mexico State10-5HC: Jerry Kill · Run-leaning, slow tempo
2025Arizona State8-5HC: Kenny Dillingham · Balanced
| Season | Team | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Arizona State | 98 | 54 | 14.0 | 7.0 | 2 | -- | -- |
| 2023 | New Mexico State | 110 | 58 | 10.0 | 2.5 | 6 | -- | -- |
| 2022 | New Mexico State | 27 | 16 | 1.5 | 0.0 | -- | -- | -- |
| Career | 3 loaded seasons | 235 | 128 | 25.5 | 9.5 | 8 | -- | -- |
Advanced layer Usage, value, and context
Advanced metrics second
Advanced Metrics
Usage, value, and opponent-adjusted context.
TFL, sacks, and QB hurries are grouped together because defensive Heisman cases are usually built on visible havoc, not on tackle counts alone.
Pass breakups, interceptions, and forced fumbles matter because national awards voters respond to plays that change possessions and highlight reels.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Defense | Total tackles | 98 | #55/4942 | 99th pct | Volumevs FBS DEF |
| Defense | TFL | 14.0 | #33/4972 | 99th pct | Disruptionvs FBS DEF |
| Defense | Sacks | 7.0 | #39/4972 | 99th pct | Disruptionvs FBS DEF |
| Defense | Pass breakups | 2 | #792/2184 | 64th pct | Coveragevs FBS DEF |
| Defense | QB hurries | 4 | #291/1878 | 85th pct | Disruptionvs FBS DEF |
| Defense | Solo tackles | 54 | #46/4584 | 99th 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
Status—Awaiting tracker
The Butkus 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 · 12 games
Home vs Road
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home7g | 8.0 | 1.1 | 0.4 | 0.0 |
| Road5g | 8.4 | 1.2 | 0.8 | 0.4 |
Win vs Loss
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wins8g | 7.6 | 1.3 | 0.8 | 0.2 |
| Losses4g | 9.2 | 0.9 | 0.2 | 0.0 |
First half vs Second half
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-76g | 7.3 | 1.2 | 0.7 | 0.2 |
| Weeks 8+6g | 9.0 | 1.1 | 0.5 | 0.2 |
Pocket and defense-quality (clean vs. pressure) splits are coming soon.
Savant · Box-rate percentiles
Where this profile ranks vs the LB cohort
91Elite
Elite: tackles for loss (98th). Strength: sacks (98th).
Percentiles versus same-position peers with enough snaps this season, based on box-score rates.
Advanced Savant · LB · 2024
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.
Peer Comparator · Fingerprint match
Three closest profiles by box-rate percentile
Keyshaun ElliottArizona StateMani PowellPurdue· 97% simKaleb Elarms-OrrTCU· 96% simMac HarrisSouth Florida· 95% sim
Tackles for loss
Sacks
Solo tackles
Tackles
QB hurries
Passes defended
Closest peers by overall box-score percentile profile at the same position.
Player DNA
The Thumper
Downhill striker who fills the run lane and blitzes off the edge.
LB
His 2025 production profile sits closest to K'Von Sherman’s 2025 season.
K'Von Sherman
79%match
#2
Karson Sharar
NFL Rd 6
78%
#3
Jalen Mackie
75%
#4
Marlowe Wax
75%
#5
Aiden Fisher
All-Big TenNFL Rd 7
75%
Matches K'Von on
Tackle volume
TFL rate
PD rate
Differs from K'Von on
Class year (higher)
Not enough data yet for this comparison.
As a senior, his production profile tracks closest to Alex Howard's senior season at Duke (2024).
Alex Howard
84%match
#2
Aiden Fisher
All-Big TenNFL Rd 7
81%
#3
Teddye Buchanan
NFL Rd 4
78%
#4
Aaron Casey
All-Big Ten
78%
#5
Marlowe Wax
77%
Matches Alex on
Sack rate
Weight
PD rate
Supporting Cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Kenny Dillingham
Pass share
47.1%
429 pass / 482 run
Plays / game
70.1
13 games
OL sack rate (allowed)
7.8%
345 dropbacks · PBP
Scheme: Balanced.
Coaching Lineage · 2022–2025
2 coaches2022
Herm Edwards
Arizona State
2023era →
Kenny Dillingham
Arizona State
2025
Kenny Dillingham
Arizona State
Coaching transition mid-career: Herm Edwards → Kenny Dillingham. Worth noting in scheme + development context.
Bio · Recruiting · Transfer · Roster
Off-field context — switch tabs to drill into recruit profile, transfer arc, or roster timeline.
HometownRichmond, MO
Height6'2"
Weight235 lb
Class4
PositionLB
Jersey44
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Current teamArizona State
ConferenceBig 12
Joined2025
Career arc4 season(s)
Trophy Case · Confirmed honors
What the selectors said
🎖
ALL-CONFERENCE
All-Conf mention (2024)
All-Big 12
Trophy Case · Detail
Every honor on the ledger, broken out by stream and selector.
2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | All-Big 12 | all_conference | Arizona State | Big 12 | LB |
| 2023 | All-Conference USA | all_conference | New Mexico State | Conference USA | LB |
Heisman By Year
Modeled rank and official finish by season.
| Season | Team | Role | Latest Model | Forecast | Win | Finalist | Official Finish | Points | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Arizona State | LB4 | #9563 | #9188 | 0.0% | 0.0% | -- | -- | W16 snapshot | Big 12 |
| 2023 | New Mexico State | LB4 | #9333 | #9929 | 0.0% | 0.0% | -- | -- | W19 snapshot | Conference USA |
| 2022 | New Mexico State | LB4 | #9900 | #10016 | 0.0% | 0.0% | -- | -- | W20 snapshot | FBS Independents |
Roster Timeline
Team, conference, and class by season.
| Season | Team | Conference | Pos | Class | Bio |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Arizona State | Big 12 | LB | 4 | No. 44 | 6-2 | 235 lb | Richmond, MO |
| 2024 | Arizona State | Big 12 | LB | 4 | No. 44 | 6-2 | 235 lb | Richmond, MO |
| 2023 | New Mexico State | Conference USA | LB | 4 | No. 44 | 6-2 | 235 lb | Richmond, MO |
| 2022 | New Mexico State | FBS Independents | LB | 4 | No. 44 | 6-2 | 235 lb | Richmond, MO |