CFB Zeitgeist Score
85
All-Conference in the position cohort. Carried by sacks at the 80th percentile.
Ray Coney
Below the discourse floor — the honest stats-only state.
128 TACKLES · 2 SACKS
Where He Ended Up · Transfer
Transferred to Texas A&M
2025Tulsa
2026Texas A&M
LB · TULSA · AMERICAN ATHLETIC
Ray Coney
- 3
- 6-2 | 240 lb
- Fairfield, OH
Heisman Heat
Awaiting
Not on the live Heisman board this week.
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
—
TOP LB AWARD
Butkus
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CONSENSUS
All-American
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Player Standing · 17 rungs
Tier 2 · StarterR07 · Impact starter
Impact starter. Producing measurable value above replacement.
Not on team2-deepStarterRecognizedEliteApex
Career Arc
HS
Recruit
★★★
CFB
College
Tulsa
NFL
NFL Draft
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 3-star | 0.8200 | No. 2075 recruit | HighSchool | East Tennessee State |
Transfer Arc
Portal movement changes role, context, and perception. This keeps that path in one place.
| Season | Move | Context |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Tulsa -> Texas A&M | 3-star | 0.8600 | Immediate |
| 2025 | East Tennessee State -> Tulsa | 2-star | Immediate |
Heisman Lens
Where the model places this player relative to the rest of the Heisman field.
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 East Tennessee State
Composite
0.8200
#2075 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
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 Ray Coney
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 Ray Coney
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
128Tackles
7Tackles for loss
2Sacks
Per game
11Tackles
0.6Tackles for loss
0.2Sacks
Projected (13g)
139Tackles
7.6Tackles for loss
2.2Sacks
✓ Hit 80-tackle season · finished with 128.
✓ Hit 100-tackle season · finished with 128.
To hit 6-sack season (currently 2): needs 4/game over remaining 1.
To hit 10-sack season (currently 2): needs 8/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.
Ray Coney is trying to climb the steepest award hill in college football: a defensive candidacy. The hook is the disruption profile on Tulsa's defense, with 2.0 sacks, 7.0 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
128 100th
SOLO
41 96th
TFL
7.0 94th
SACK
2.0 90th
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 35-7vs Abilene Christian | 14 | 5 | 1.5 | 0.0 | — | 0 | Season-high 14 tackles |
| Wk 2 | L 14-21@ New Mexico State | 8 | 4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 1 | |
| Wk 3 | L 23-42vs Navy | 14 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 4 | W 19-12@ Oklahoma State | 13 | 9 | 1.5 | 1.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 5 | L 14-31vs Tulane | 7 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 1 | |
| Wk 6 | L 7-45@ Memphis | 8 | 3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 8 | L 27-41@ East Carolina | 12 | 5 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 9 | L 37-38vs Temple | 13 | 2 | 1.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 11 | L 21-40@ Florida Atlantic | 4 | 3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 12 | W 31-14vs Oregon State | 10 | 2 | 1.5 | 1.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 13 | W 26-25@ Army | 13 | 3 | 1.5 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 14 | L 24-31vs UAB | 12 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Total | 128 | 41 | 7.0 | 2.0 | — | 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
2025Tulsa4-8HC: Tre Lamb · Run-leaning
| Season | Team | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Tulsa | 128 | 41 | 7.0 | 2.0 | 2 | -- | -- |
| Career | 1 loaded season | 128 | 41 | 7.0 | 2.0 | 2 | -- | -- |
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 | 128 | #8/4942 | 100th pct | Volumevs FBS DEF |
| Defense | TFL | 7.0 | #277/4972 | 94th pct | Disruptionvs FBS DEF |
| Defense | Sacks | 2.0 | #491/4972 | 90th 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 | 41 | #188/4584 | 96th 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 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home6g | 11.7 | 0.7 | 0.2 | 0.2 |
| Road6g | 9.7 | 0.5 | 0.2 | 0.2 |
Win vs Loss
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wins4g | 12.5 | 1.5 | 0.5 | 0.0 |
| Losses8g | 9.8 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.2 |
First half vs Second half
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-76g | 10.7 | 0.5 | 0.2 | 0.3 |
| Weeks 8+6g | 10.7 | 0.7 | 0.2 | 0.0 |
Pocket and defense-quality (clean vs. pressure) splits are coming soon.
Savant · Box-rate percentiles
Where this profile ranks vs the LB cohort
85All-Conference
Elite: tackles (99th). Strength: solo tackles (93rd).
Percentiles versus same-position peers with enough snaps this season, based on box-score rates.
Advanced Savant · LB · 2025
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
Ray ConeyTulsaTreylin PayneTexas State· 97% simJaylen WesterWestern Kentucky· 96% simJaxton EckNew Mexico· 96% sim
Tackles
Solo tackles
Tackles for loss
QB hurries
Sacks
Passes defended
Closest peers by overall box-score percentile profile at the same position.
Player DNA
The Every-Down Linebacker
Leads the team in tackles and rarely leaves the field.
LB
His 2025 production profile sits closest to Jackson Mitchell’s 2022 season.
Jackson Mitchell
78%match
#2
Kaleb Elarms-Orr
NFL Rd 4
76%
#3
Bumper Pool
76%
#4
Chase Kline
All-MAC
74%
#5
Bryce Gallagher
All-Big Ten
72%
Matches Jackson on
Tackle volume
Class year
Sack rate
Not enough data yet for this comparison.
As a junior, his production profile tracks closest to Jaxton Eck's junior season at New Mexico (2025).
Jaxton Eck
85%match
All-Mountain West
#2
Carson Schwesinger
All-Big TenNFL Rd 2 · Pk 1
83%
#3
Jihaad Campbell
NFL Rd 1 · Pk 31
74%
#4
Ethan Wesloski
73%
#5
Easton Gibbs
73%
Matches Jaxton on
Class year
TFL rate
Sack rate
Supporting Cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Tre Lamb
Pass share
45.9%
407 pass / 480 run
Plays / game
73.9
12 games
OL sack rate (allowed)
6.2%
357 dropbacks · PBP
Scheme: Run-leaning.
Coaching Lineage · 2025
1 coach2025
Tre Lamb
Tulsa
Played his entire career under Tre Lamb.
Bio · Recruiting · Transfer · Roster
Off-field context — switch tabs to drill into recruit profile, transfer arc, or roster timeline.
HometownFairfield, OH
Height6'2"
Weight240 lb
Class3
PositionLB
No fields populated yet.
No fields populated yet.
Current teamTulsa
ConferenceAmerican Athletic
Joined2025
Career arc1 season(s)
Trophy Case · Detail
Every honor on the ledger, broken out by stream and selector.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| This player hasn’t appeared on a Heisman ballot tracked by the model. | |||||||||
Roster Timeline
Team, conference, and class by season.
| Season | Team | Conference | Pos | Class | Bio |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Tulsa | American Athletic | LB | 3 | 6-2 | 240 lb | Fairfield, OH |