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Robert Spears-Jennings

DB · Oklahoma · Sr · #3

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

59 TACKLES · 0 SACKS

2026 NFL DRAFTDrafted by Pittsburgh — Rd 7, Pick 8, #224 overall

Where He Ended Up · NFL

Pittsburgh2026 NFL rookie season

#224Rd 7 · Pick 8
Pittsburgh2026 NFL rookie season

DB · OKLAHOMA · SEC

Robert Spears-Jennings

  • 4
  • #3
  • 6-0 | 213 lb
  • Broken Arrow, OK

CFB Zeitgeist Score

46

Mid-pack in the position cohort. Carried by passes defended at the 67th percentile.

Heisman Heat

#8839

<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 DB AWARD

Jim Thorpe

CONSENSUS

All-American

Player Standing · 17 rungs

Tier 2 · Starter

R07 · Impact starter

Impact starter. Producing measurable value above replacement.

Not on team2-deepStarterRecognizedEliteApex

Career Arc

HS
Recruit
★★★★
#130 national
CFB
College
Oklahoma
2022–2025
NFL
NFL Draft
R7 &middot; #224
Pittsburgh &middot; 2026

Identity & Role

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

PositionDB
Class4
Jersey3
Measurements6-0 | 213 lb
HometownBroken Arrow, OK
Primary teamOklahoma

Recruiting Pedigree

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

Top pedigree 4-star No. 130 recruit
Composite rating 0.9483 HighSchool
Signed with Oklahoma 2022
Origin Broken Arrow Broken Arrow, OK, USA
Class Profile Context
2022 4-star | 0.9483 No. 130 recruit | HighSchool | Oklahoma

Transfer Arc

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

Portal moves 0 No portal entry on file
Latest destination -- --
Transfer stars -- CFBD transfer rating context
Eligibility -- Transfer date TBD
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 16
Current nowcast#8839Latest modeled ballot order
Season forecast#8604Where the full season sim points
Win probability0.0%Chance to actually win the trophy
Finalist probability0.0%Chance to make the finalist tier
Ballot probability0.0%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.

NIL · Recruiting · NFL Draft

Market value, pedigree & pro outcome

Recruit stars

★★★★☆

to Oklahoma

Composite

0.9483

#130 national

NFL Draft

2026 · Rd 7, Pick 8

#224 overall · Pittsburgh

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 Spears-Jennings

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 Spears-Jennings

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

final
Through 13g
59Tackles
1.5Tackles for loss
0Sacks
Per game
5Tackles
0.1Tackles for loss
0Sacks
Final
59Tackles
1.5Tackles for loss
0Sacks

Why this is a rare defensive case

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

Robert Spears-Jennings is trying to climb the steepest award hill in college football: a defensive candidacy. The hook is the disruption profile on Oklahoma's defense, with 0.0 sacks, 1.5 tackles for loss, and 1 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 #8839 0.0% win | 0.0% finalist
Role load -- Role share still loading
Profile quirk Blue-chip pedigree No. 130 recruit

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 59 33 solo | #413/4942 (92nd pct)
TFL 1.5 Backfield disruption | #1771/4972 (64th pct)
Sacks 0.0 Pass-rush finish | #1762/4972 (65th pct)
Player identity What kind of player is this?

30-second read

What kind of player is this?

High-volume tackler against FBS defenders.

High-volume tackler

2025 Season · Final

2025 season snapshot | final

Tackling & Disruption

TOT
59 92nd
SOLO
33 91st
TFL
1.5 64th
SACK
0.0 65th

Coverage & Takeaways

PD
2 64th
INT
1 65th

Game Log · Week-by-week

2025 season · 13 games

Box score · CFBD
WkOppTKLSOLOTFLSACKINTPDNote
Wk 1W 35-3vs Illinois State110.00.00
Wk 2W 24-13vs Michigan510.00.00
Wk 3W 42-3@ Temple110.00.00
Wk 4W 24-17vs Auburn320.00.00
Wk 6W 44-0vs Kent State210.00.00
Wk 7L 6-23@ Texas420.00.00
Wk 8W 26-7@ South Carolina870.00.00
Wk 9L 26-34vs Ole Miss1181.00.00Season-high 11 tackles
Wk 10W 33-27@ Tennessee840.00.010
Wk 12W 23-21@ Alabama540.00.00
Wk 13W 17-6vs Missouri610.00.02
Wk 14W 17-13vs LSU310.50.00
BowlL 24-34vs Alabama200.00.00
Total59331.50.012
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

2022Oklahoma6-7HC: Brent Venables · Run-leaning, fast tempo
2023Oklahoma10-3HC: Brent Venables · Balanced
2024Oklahoma6-7HC: Brent Venables · Run-leaning
2025Oklahoma10-3HC: Brent Venables · Balanced
SeasonTeam
2025Oklahoma59331.50.021--
2024Oklahoma66435.02.511--
2023Oklahoma35181.00.01----
2022Oklahoma1370.50.0------
Career4 loaded seasons1731018.02.542--
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 1 0 pick-six TD | #308/869 (65th pct)
Pass breakups 2 Coverage disruption | #792/2184 (64th pct)
QB pressures 0 Quarterback hurries
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Group Metric Value Rank Pct Why it matters
Defense Total tackles 59 #413/4942 92nd pct Volumevs FBS DEF
Defense TFL 1.5 #1771/4972 64th pct Disruptionvs FBS DEF
Defense Sacks 0.0 #1762/4972 65th pct Disruptionvs FBS DEF
Defense Interceptions 1 #308/869 65th pct Takeawaysvs FBS DEF
Defense Pass breakups 2 #792/2184 64th pct Coveragevs FBS DEF
Defense INT return avg 37.0 #60/578 90th pct Takeawaysvs FBS DEF
Defense INT return yards 37 #167/578 71st pct Takeawaysvs FBS DEF
Defense Solo tackles 33 #417/4584 91st 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 Thorpe 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 · 13 games

Home/Road · Win/Loss · Season halves

Home vs Road

TKL/gTFL/gSACK/gPD/g
Home8g4.10.20.00.2
Road5g5.20.00.00.0

Win vs Loss

TKL/gTFL/gSACK/gPD/g
Wins10g4.20.10.00.2
Losses3g5.70.30.00.0

First half vs Second half

TKL/gTFL/gSACK/gPD/g
Weeks 1-77g2.60.00.00.0
Weeks 8+6g6.80.20.00.3

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

Savant · Box-rate percentiles

Where this profile ranks vs the DB cohort

46Mid-pack
7 metrics · season cumulative

Elite: tackles (85th). Strength: solo tackles (85th). Concern: qb hurries (22nd).

Tackles#413 / 2975 · 86th pct
59defe
Solo tackles#417 / 2975 · 85th pct
33defe
Passes defended#777 / 2975 · 67th pct
2defe
Tackles for loss#1711 / 2975 · 39th pct
1.5defe
Interceptions#304 / 817 · 31st pct
1inte
Sacks#1575 / 2975 · 24th pct
0.0defe
QB hurries#1662 / 2975 · 22nd pct
0defe

Percentiles versus same-position peers with enough snaps this season, based on box-score rates.

Advanced Savant · DB · 2024

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 · 7 metrics
Robert Spears-JenningsOklahomaTyler MartinMassachusetts· 90% simTahj Ra-ElPurdue· 86% simRobert FitzgeraldNorthwestern· 76% sim
Tackles
86
Spears-Jennings
98
Martin
99
Ra-El
99
Fitzgerald
Solo tackles
85
Spears-Jennings
87
Martin
100
Ra-El
100
Fitzgerald
Passes defended
67
Spears-Jennings
67
Martin
91
Ra-El
86
Fitzgerald
Tackles for loss
39
Spears-Jennings
63
Martin
56
Ra-El
85
Fitzgerald
Interceptions
31
Spears-Jennings
31
Martin
31
Fitzgerald
Sacks
24
Spears-Jennings
24
Martin
24
Ra-El
24
Fitzgerald
QB hurries
22
Spears-Jennings
22
Martin
22
Ra-El
55
Fitzgerald

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

Player DNA

The Hybrid Nickel

Moves between deep coverage and the slot — the modern positionless DB.

S

His 2025 production profile sits closest to Tyler Rudolph’s 2024 season.

Tyler Rudolph

86%match

Massachusetts · 2024

#2

Will Boler

UAB · 2021

85%
#3

Sanoussi Kane

Purdue · 2022

NFL Rd 7
84%
#4

Brenden Jordan

Texas Tech · 2025

83%
#5

Demani Richardson

Texas A&M · 2023

81%

Matches Tyler on

Height
PD rate
Tackle volume

Not enough data yet for this comparison.

As a senior, his production profile tracks closest to Taj Ward's senior season at Cincinnati (2023).

Taj Ward

88%match

Cincinnati · 2023

#2

James Gordon Iv

South Florida · 2023

87%
#3

Shilo Sanders

Colorado · 2024

87%
#4

Desmond Tisdol

Florida Atlantic · 2023

86%
#5

Nate Bauer

Toledo · 2023

All-MAC
88%

Matches Taj on

Class year
Height
PD rate

Supporting Cast · Scheme

Staff and system around the player

2025 season

Head Coach

Brent Venables

Pass share

50.4%

429 pass / 423 run

Plays / game

65.5

13 games

OL sack rate (allowed)

7.0%

345 dropbacks · PBP

Scheme: Balanced.

Coaching Lineage · 2022–2025

1 coach
2022
Brent Venables
Oklahoma
2023
Brent Venables
Oklahoma
2024
Brent Venables
Oklahoma
2025
Brent Venables
Oklahoma

Played his entire career under Brent Venables.

Bio · Recruiting · Transfer · Roster

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

HometownBroken Arrow, OK
Height6'0"
Weight213 lb
Class4
PositionDB
Jersey3

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
2024 Oklahoma DB4 #8839 #8604 0.0% 0.0% -- -- W16 snapshot | SEC
2023 Oklahoma DB4 #7037 #6924 0.0% 0.0% -- -- W19 snapshot | Big 12
2022 Oklahoma DB4 #11264 #11195 0.0% 0.0% -- -- W20 snapshot | Big 12

Roster Timeline

Team, conference, and class by season.

Season Team Conference Pos Class Bio
2025 Oklahoma SEC DB 4 No. 3 | 6-0 | 213 lb | Broken Arrow, OK
2024 Oklahoma SEC DB 4 No. 3 | 6-0 | 213 lb | Broken Arrow, OK
2023 Oklahoma Big 12 DB 4 No. 3 | 6-0 | 213 lb | Broken Arrow, OK
2022 Oklahoma Big 12 DB 4 No. 3 | 6-0 | 213 lb | Broken Arrow, OK