CFB Zeitgeist Score
41
Mid-pack in the position cohort. Carried by sacks at the 63rd percentile.
Robby Harrison
Below the discourse floor — the honest stats-only state.
16 TACKLES · 1 SACKS
Where He Ended Up · Transfer
Transferred to Colorado State
DL · WESTERN KENTUCKY · CONFERENCE USA
CFB Zeitgeist Score
41
Mid-pack in the position cohort. Carried by sacks at the 63rd percentile.
Heisman Heat
#5594
<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
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CONSENSUS
All-American
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Player Standing · 17 rungs
Tier 2 · StarterPart-time starter. Splitting first-team reps.
Career Arc
The durable bio layer: position, size, hometown, and roster role.
How big the prospect was before college, and whether the later career arc beat that expectation.
| Class | Profile | Context |
|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 3-star | 0.8444 | No. 1414 recruit | HighSchool | Arizona State |
Portal movement changes role, context, and perception. This keeps that path in one place.
| Season | Move | Context |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Western Kentucky -> Colorado State | 3-star | 0.8400 | Immediate |
| 2025 | Indiana -> Western Kentucky | 3-star | 0.8200 | Immediate |
| 2023 | Arizona State -> Indiana | 3-star | 0.8500 | Immediate |
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.
Selector Grid · 2025
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 Arizona State
Composite
0.8444
#1414 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.
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 reads how different fanbases talk about this player. Returns once weekly mentions clear the publish floor.
Rival Radar
No rival-bucket mentions in the current season.
Signature Story
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
To hit 80-tackle season (currently 16): needs 16/game over remaining 4.
To hit 100-tackle season (currently 16): needs 21/game over remaining 4.
To hit 6-sack season (currently 1): needs 1.2/game over remaining 4.
To hit 10-sack season (currently 1): needs 2.2/game over remaining 4.
The fast read on the thing that makes this player more than a generic stat line.
Robby Harrison is trying to climb the steepest award hill in college football: a defensive candidacy. The hook is the disruption profile on Western Kentucky's defense, with 1.0 sacks, 2.0 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.
Traditional stats first. Advanced context underneath.
Last season
2025 season snapshot | final
30-second read
Defensive contributor against FBS defenders.
2025 season snapshot | final
Tackling & Disruption
Game Log · Week-by-week
2025 season · 9 games
| Wk | Opp | TKL | SOLO | TFL | SACK | INT | PD | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | W 41-24vs Sam Houston | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | Season-high 5 tackles |
| Wk 1 | W 55-6vs North Alabama | 5 | 4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | Season-high 5 tackles |
| Wk 2 | L 21-45@ Toledo | 2 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 4 | W 31-16vs Nevada | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 8 | L 6-25vs Florida International | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 9 | W 28-27@ Louisiana Tech | 2 | 0 | 0.5 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 10 | W 35-16vs New Mexico State | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 13 | L 10-13@ LSU | 1 | 0 | 0.5 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 14 | L 34-37@ Jacksonville State | 3 | 3 | 1.0 | 1.0 | — | 0 | |
| Total | 16 | 8 | 2.0 | 1.0 | — | 0 |
Traditional history
Season rows up top, career context at the bottom.
Season context · Team result + system
| Season | Team | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Western Kentucky | 16 | 8 | 2.0 | 1.0 | -- | -- | -- |
| 2024 | Indiana | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| 2023 | Indiana | 3 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | -- | -- | -- |
| Career | 3 loaded seasons | 19 | 9 | 2.0 | 1.0 | -- | -- | -- |
Advanced metrics second
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.
| Group | Metric | Value | Rank | Pct | Why it matters |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Defense | Total tackles | 16 | #2295/4942 | 54th pct | Volumevs FBS DEF |
| Defense | TFL | 2.0 | #1443/4972 | 71st pct | Disruptionvs FBS DEF |
| Defense | Sacks | 1.0 | #872/4972 | 82nd pct | Disruptionvs FBS DEF |
| Defense | QB hurries | 1 | #1051/1878 | 44th pct | Disruptionvs FBS DEF |
| Defense | Solo tackles | 8 | #2283/4584 | 50th pct | Volumevs FBS DEF |
Universal 17-step ladder. Tier pills below; accolade streams nested.
AWAITING CLASSIFICATION
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
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 · 9 games
Home vs Road
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home5g | 1.6 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| Road4g | 2.0 | 0.5 | 0.2 | 0.0 |
Win vs Loss
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wins5g | 1.8 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| Losses4g | 1.8 | 0.4 | 0.2 | 0.0 |
First half vs Second half
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-74g | 2.2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| Weeks 8+5g | 1.4 | 0.4 | 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 DL cohort
Concern: passes defended (17th).
Percentiles versus same-position peers with enough snaps this season, based on box-score rates.
Advanced Savant · DL · 2024
Advanced opponent-adjusted percentile bars are coming soon for this player.
Opponent-adjusted advanced metrics with a cohort filter.
Peer Comparator · Fingerprint match
Three closest profiles by box-rate percentile
Closest peers by overall box-score percentile profile at the same position.
Player DNA
Two-gap space-eater who occupies blockers and frees the linebackers.
His 2025 production profile sits closest to Chris McClellan’s 2022 season.
Chris McClellan
PJ Mustipher
Jacob Slade
T.J. Pesefea
Fabien Lovett Sr.
Matches Chris on
Not enough data yet for this comparison.
As a junior, his production profile tracks closest to Kayden McDonald's junior season at Ohio State (2025).
Kayden McDonald
Jayvon Parker
Mason Graham
A'Mauri Washington
R.J. Jackson
Matches Kayden on
Supporting Cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Tyson Helton
Pass share
54.9%
492 pass / 404 run
Plays / game
68.9
13 games
OL sack rate (allowed)
5.5%
366 dropbacks · PBP
Scheme: Balanced.
Coaching Lineage · 2023–2025
1 coachPlayed his entire career under Tyson Helton.
Off-field context — switch tabs to drill into recruit profile, transfer arc, or roster timeline.
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Every honor on the ledger, broken out by stream and selector.
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.
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. | ||||
Modeled rank and official finish by season.
| Season | Team | Role | Latest Model | Forecast | Win | Finalist | Official Finish | Points | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Indiana | DL3 | #5594 | #5266 | 0.0% | 0.0% | -- | -- | W16 snapshot | Big Ten |
| 2023 | Indiana | DL3 | #13902 | #14024 | 0.0% | 0.0% | -- | -- | W19 snapshot | Big Ten |
| 2022 | Arizona State | DL3 | #14103 | #14117 | 0.0% | 0.0% | -- | -- | W20 snapshot | Pac-12 |
Team, conference, and class by season.
| Season | Team | Conference | Pos | Class | Bio |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Western Kentucky | Conference USA | DL | 3 | No. 13 | 6-4 | 320 lb | Greenwood, SC |
| 2024 | Indiana | Big Ten | DL | 3 | No. 13 | 6-4 | 320 lb | Greenwood, SC |
| 2023 | Indiana | Big Ten | DL | 3 | No. 13 | 6-4 | 320 lb | Greenwood, SC |
| 2022 | Arizona State | Pac-12 | DL | 3 | No. 13 | 6-4 | 320 lb | Greenwood, SC |