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Heisman / Players / Robert Edmonson /Colorado State

Robert Edmonson

LB · Colorado State · So · #45

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

47 TACKLES · 1 SACKS

2026 TRANSFERTransferred Colorado State → Illinois for 2026

Where He Ended Up · Transfer

Transferred to Illinois

2025Colorado State
2026Illinois

LB · COLORADO STATE · MOUNTAIN WEST

Robert Edmonson

  • 2
  • #45
  • 6-3 | 210 lb
  • Houston, TX

CFB Zeitgeist Score

65

Solid starter in the position cohort. Carried by tackles for loss at the 73rd percentile.

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

CONSENSUS

All-American

Player Standing · 17 rungs

Tier 2 · Starter

R06 · Starter

Starter. A locked-in starting role.

Not on team2-deepStarterRecognizedEliteApex

Career Arc

HS
Recruit
No recruit profile
CFB
College
Colorado State
2025
NFL
NFL Draft
Not drafted (yet)

Identity & Role

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

PositionLB
Class2
Jersey45
Measurements6-3 | 210 lb
HometownHouston, TX
Primary teamColorado State

Recruiting Pedigree

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

Top pedigree Not on file No matched recruiting profile in the loaded archive
Composite rating -- Composite rating unavailable for this player
Signed with -- Commitment history unavailable
Origin -- Hometown and high school unavailable
Class Profile Context
No recruiting profile is on file for this player.

Transfer Arc

Portal movement changes role, context, and perception. This keeps that path in one place.

Portal moves 1 Programs changed on file
Latest destination Illinois 2026
Transfer stars 3-star CFBD transfer rating context
Eligibility Immediate Jan 10, 2026
Season Move Context
2026 Colorado State -> Illinois 3-star | 0.8700 | Immediate

Heisman Lens

Where the model places this player relative to the rest of the Heisman field.

Current nowcast--Latest modeled ballot order
Season forecast--Where the full season sim points
Win probability--Chance to actually win the trophy
Finalist probability--Chance to make the finalist tier
Ballot probability--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.

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 Robert Edmonson

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 Robert Edmonson

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

projecting to 13-game
Through 10g
47Tackles
4Tackles for loss
1Sacks
Per game
5Tackles
0.4Tackles for loss
0.1Sacks
Projected (13g)
61Tackles
5.2Tackles for loss
1.3Sacks

To hit 80-tackle season (currently 47): needs 11/game over remaining 3.

To hit 100-tackle season (currently 47): needs 17.7/game over remaining 3.

To hit 6-sack season (currently 1): needs 1.7/game over remaining 3.

To hit 10-sack season (currently 1): needs 3/game over remaining 3.

Why this is a rare defensive case

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

Robert Edmonson is trying to climb the steepest award hill in college football: a defensive candidacy. The hook is the disruption profile on Colorado State's defense, with 1.0 sacks, 4.0 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.

Current place -- -- win | -- finalist
Role load -- Role share still loading
Profile quirk Defensive rarity 1.0 sacks | 4.0 TFL

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 47 26 solo | #680/4942 (86th pct)
TFL 4.0 Backfield disruption | #738/4972 (85th pct)
Sacks 1.0 Pass-rush finish | #872/4972 (82nd pct)
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.

High-disruption defenderHigh-volume tackler

2025 Season · Final

2025 season snapshot | final

Tackling & Disruption

TOT
47 86th
SOLO
26 85th
TFL
4.0 85th
SACK
1.0 82nd
QBH
5 90th

Game Log · Week-by-week

2025 season · 10 games

Box score · CFBD
WkOppTKLSOLOTFLSACKINTPDNote
Wk 1L 21-38@ Washington881.01.00
Wk 2W 21-17vs Northern Colorado210.00.00
Wk 5L 3-20vs Washington State200.50.00
Wk 6L 24-45@ San Diego State530.00.00
Wk 7W 49-21vs Fresno State952.00.00Season-high 9 tackles
Wk 8L 19-31vs Hawai'i600.50.00
Wk 9L 0-28@ Wyoming420.00.00
Wk 12L 17-20@ New Mexico310.00.00
Wk 13L 21-49@ Boise State550.00.00
Wk 14L 21-42vs Air Force310.00.00
Total47264.01.00
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

2025Colorado State2-10HC: Jay Norvell · Balanced
SeasonTeam
2025Colorado State47264.01.0------
Career1 loaded season47264.01.0------
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 0 Coverage disruption
QB pressures 5 Quarterback hurries | #188/1878 (90th pct)
Open full stat explorer
0 metrics visible Showing all metrics
Group Metric Value Rank Pct Why it matters
Defense Total tackles 47 #680/4942 86th pct Volumevs FBS DEF
Defense TFL 4.0 #738/4972 85th pct Disruptionvs FBS DEF
Defense Sacks 1.0 #872/4972 82nd pct Disruptionvs FBS DEF
Defense QB hurries 5 #188/1878 90th pct Disruptionvs FBS DEF
Defense Solo tackles 26 #696/4584 85th 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 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 · 10 games

Home/Road · Win/Loss · Season halves

Home vs Road

TKL/gTFL/gSACK/gPD/g
Home5g4.40.60.00.0
Road5g5.00.20.20.0

Win vs Loss

TKL/gTFL/gSACK/gPD/g
Wins2g5.51.00.00.0
Losses8g4.50.20.10.0

First half vs Second half

TKL/gTFL/gSACK/gPD/g
Weeks 1-75g5.20.70.20.0
Weeks 8+5g4.20.10.00.0

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

Savant · Box-rate percentiles

Where this profile ranks vs the LB cohort

65Solid starter
6 metrics · season cumulative

Elite: qb hurries (92nd). Concern: passes defended (17th).

QB hurries#188 / 2975 · 92nd pct
5defe
Tackles#680 / 2975 · 77th pct
47defe
Solo tackles#696 / 2975 · 76th pct
26defe
Tackles for loss#736 / 2975 · 73rd pct
4.0defe
Sacks#847 / 2975 · 63rd pct
1.0defe
Passes defended#1916 / 2975 · 18th pct
0defe

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
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
Robert EdmonsonColorado StateMarcAnthony ParkerNavy· 85% simMicah DaveyUTEP· 84% simEthan WesloskiNorth Texas· 83% sim
QB hurries
92
Edmonson
88
Parker
82
Davey
95
Wesloski
Tackles
77
Edmonson
98
Parker
99
Davey
99
Wesloski
Solo tackles
76
Edmonson
96
Parker
99
Davey
99
Wesloski
Tackles for loss
73
Edmonson
87
Parker
91
Davey
95
Wesloski
Sacks
63
Edmonson
80
Parker
63
Davey
74
Wesloski
Passes defended
18
Edmonson
18
Parker
18
Davey
18
Wesloski

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

Player DNA

The Balanced Linebacker

Solid in every phase without a signature dimension.

LB

His 2025 production profile sits closest to Demarco Ward’s 2025 season.

Demarco Ward

76%match

Memphis · 2025

#2

Jimmy Ciarlo

Army · 2023

71%
#3

Kedrick Walker

Georgia State · 2025

71%
#4

Ethan Powell

San José State · 2025

71%
#5

Thomas Pickens

Memphis · 2021

69%

Matches Demarco on

Tackle volume
TFL rate
Weight

Differs from Demarco on

Height (higher)

Not enough data yet for this comparison.

As a sophomore, his production profile tracks closest to Demarco Ward's sophomore season at Memphis (2025).

Demarco Ward

83%match

Memphis · 2025

#2

Se'Von McDowell

Coastal Carolina · 2025

82%
#3

T.J. Capers

Louisville · 2025

81%
#4

Trey Reddick

Maryland · 2025

79%
#5

Cole Sullivan

Michigan · 2025

79%

Matches Demarco on

Weight
Tackle volume
TFL rate

Supporting Cast · Scheme

Staff and system around the player

2025 season

Head Coach

Jay Norvell

Pass share

52.1%

393 pass / 362 run

Plays / game

62.9

12 games

OL sack rate (allowed)

11.1%

315 dropbacks · PBP

Scheme: Balanced.

Coaching Lineage · 2025

1 coach
2025
Jay Norvell
Colorado State

Played his entire career under Jay Norvell.

Bio · Recruiting · Transfer · Roster

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

HometownHouston, TX
Height6'3"
Weight210 lb
Class2
PositionLB
Jersey45

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
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 Colorado State Mountain West LB 2 No. 45 | 6-3 | 210 lb | Houston, TX