CFB Zeitgeist RB Score
Awaiting
Kyle Monangai
Limited signal — not enough coverage for a story yet.
Where He Ended Up · NFL
ChicagoEntering 2nd NFL season
#233Rd 7 · Pick 17
ChicagoEntering 2nd NFL season
RB · RUTGERS · BIG TEN
Kyle Monangai
- 4
- #5
- 5-9 | 209 lb
- Roseland, NJ
Heisman Heat
#34
<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
4 seasons on the ladder
2021
Rutgers · RB
—
2022
Rutgers · RB
—
★
2023
Rutgers · RB
R09 · All-Conference HM / 2nd team
Recognized
2024
Rutgers · RB
R09 · All-Conference HM / 2nd team
Recognized
NFL Draft 2025 · Rd 7, Pick 17 · #233 overall · Chicago
Development Trajectory · rushing yards
2021–2024+444%
Up 444% from first season to most-recent.
Career Arc
HS
Recruit
★★★
CFB
College
Rutgers
NFL
NFL Draft
R7 · #233
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 |
|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 3-star | 0.8267 | No. 1965 recruit | HighSchool | Rutgers |
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 · 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 Rutgers
Composite
0.8267
#1965 national
NFL Draft
2025 · Rd 7, Pick 17
#233 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 Kyle Monangai
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 Kyle Monangai
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 the honors trail matters
The fast read on the thing that makes this player more than a generic stat line.
The useful clue on this card is not just the Heisman rank, but the broader honors spine. Kyle Monangai already has 3 loaded recognition items, which helps distinguish a player who is merely productive from one who is already earning selector-level validation.
2024 Season · Final
Traditional stats first. Advanced context underneath.
Last season
RB season snapshot
2024 season snapshot | final
2024 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?
Workhorse | Passing-game back against FBS RB peers.
2024 Season · Final
2024 season snapshot | final
Rushing
CAR
256 100th
YDS
1,279 98th
YPC
5.0 62nd
TD
13 98th
Receiving
REC
14 72nd
YDS
75 61st
YPR
5.4 30th
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
2021Rutgers5-7HC: Greg Schiano · Run-leaning
2022Rutgers4-8HC: Greg Schiano · Run-leaning
2023Rutgers7-6HC: Greg Schiano · Run-heavy, slow tempo
2024Rutgers7-6HC: Greg Schiano · Run-leaning, fast tempo
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 | 1,279 | #14/735 | 98th pct | Volumevs FBS RB |
| Rushing | Rush TD | 13 | #16/739 | 98th pct | Scoringvs FBS RB |
| Rushing | Yards / carry | 5.0 | #280/735 | 62nd pct | Efficiencyvs FBS RB |
| Receiving | Receptions | 14 | #153/552 | 72nd pct | Volumevs FBS RB |
| Receiving | Receiving yards | 75 | #215/548 | 61st pct | Volumevs FBS RB |
| Value | Rushing WEPA | +0.23 | #35/362 | 91st pct | Opponent-adjusted rushing value | 247 weighted playsvs FBS RB |
| Usage | Role share | 34.9% | #3/738 | 100th pct | Share of team offensevs FBS RB |
| Rushing | Carries | 256 | #3/739 | 100th pct | Volumevs FBS RB |
| Rushing | Rushing LONG | 62 | #99/733 | 87th pct | Metricvs FBS RB |
| Receiving | Receiving LONG | 14 | #323/540 | 40th pct | Metricvs FBS RB |
| Receiving | Yards / catch | 5.4 | #384/548 | 30th pct | Efficiencyvs FBS RB |
| Receiving | Receiving TD | 1 | #60/552 | 89th pct | Scoringvs FBS RB |
| Usage | Rush share | 59.6% | #4/738 | 100th pct | Ground-game usagevs FBS RB |
| Usage | Standard-down usage | 40.5% | #2/738 | 100th pct | Base-situation sharevs FBS RB |
| Usage | 1st-down usage | 38.7% | #7/738 | 99th pct | Early-down loadvs FBS RB |
| Usage | 2nd-down usage | 35.8% | #4/738 | 100th pct | Middle-down loadvs FBS RB |
| Usage | 3rd-down usage | 28.5% | #5/738 | 99th pct | Money-down loadvs FBS RB |
| Usage | Passing-down usage | 20.5% | #21/738 | 97th pct | Known-passing sharevs FBS RB |
| Usage | Pass share | 4.2% | #215/738 | 71st pct | Air-game usagevs 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 · 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.
Supporting Cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Greg Schiano
Pass share
45.1%
378 pass / 460 run
Plays / game
69.8
12 games
OL sack rate (allowed)
11.1%
359 dropbacks · PBP
Scheme: Run-leaning.
Coaching Lineage · 2021–2024
1 coach2021
Greg Schiano
Rutgers
2022
Greg Schiano
Rutgers
2023
Greg Schiano
Rutgers
2024
Greg Schiano
Rutgers
Played his entire career under Greg Schiano.
Bio · Recruiting · Transfer · Roster
Off-field context — switch tabs to drill into recruit profile, transfer arc, or roster timeline.
HometownRoseland, NJ
Height5'9"
Weight209 lb
Class4
PositionRB
Jersey5
No fields populated yet.
No fields populated yet.
Current teamRutgers
ConferenceBig Ten
Joined2024
Career arc4 season(s)
Trophy Case · Confirmed honors
What the selectors said
🥈
ALL-CONFERENCE · 1ST TEAM
All-Conf 1st team (2024)
All-Big Ten
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | All-Big Ten | all_conference | Rutgers | Big Ten | RB |
| 2024 | All-Big Ten | all_conference | Big Ten | -- |
| 2023 | All-Big Ten | all_conference | Rutgers | Big Ten | RB |
Heisman By Year
Modeled rank and official finish by season.
| Season | Team | Role | Latest Model | Forecast | Win | Finalist | Official Finish | Points | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Rutgers | RB4 | #34 | #38 | 0.0% | 0.0% | -- | -- | W16 snapshot | Big Ten |
| 2023 | Rutgers | RB4 | #265 | #392 | 0.0% | 0.0% | -- | -- | W19 snapshot | Big Ten |
| 2022 | Rutgers | RB4 | #1324 | #1859 | 0.0% | 0.0% | -- | -- | W20 snapshot | Big Ten |
| 2021 | Rutgers | RB4 | #458 | #476 | 0.0% | 0.0% | -- | -- | W20 snapshot | Big Ten |
Roster Timeline
Team, conference, and class by season.