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OFFSEASON · SUMMER 2026 · COMMITMENT SEASON
Heisman / Players / Sedrick Irvin /Stanford

Sedrick Irvin

RB · Stanford · Jr · #26

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

118 RUSH YDS · 1 RUSH TD · 41 CARRIES

2026 RETURNINGReturning to Stanford for 2026

2026 Outlook

Returning to Stanford for 2026

2026 Depth chart

Projected starter

Running back · Stanford

Returning around him

  • 19% of 2024 offensive production back (Heavy turnover)
  • 2 Stanford players drafted to NFL
  • Transfer portal: -6 net (6 in / 12 out)

2026 Award watch

No preseason watch lists yet (most drop June 15 – July 15)

Stanford · Last season: 4-8 · Talent rank #46 · 2026 recruiting class #56

RB · STANFORD · ACC

Sedrick Irvin

  • 3
  • #26
  • 5-10 | 205 lb
  • Miami, FL

CFB Zeitgeist Score

4

Below cohort in the position cohort. Carried by rush tds at the 13th percentile.

Heisman Heat

#1139

<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

CONSENSUS

All-American

Player Standing · 17 rungs

Tier 2 · Starter

R05 · Part-time starter

Part-time starter. Splitting first-team reps.

Not on team2-deepStarterRecognizedEliteApex

Development Trajectory · rushing yards

2023–2025
1132023
69.02024
1182025

+4%

Modest growth (4%) across the multi-season window.

Career Arc

HS
Recruit
★★★
#521 national
CFB
College
Stanford
2023–2025
NFL
NFL Draft
Not drafted (yet)

Identity & Role

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

PositionRB
Class3
Jersey26
Measurements5-10 | 205 lb
HometownMiami, FL
Primary teamStanford

Recruiting Pedigree

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

Top pedigree 3-star No. 521 recruit
Composite rating 0.8850 HighSchool
Signed with Stanford 2023
Origin Columbus Miami, FL, USA
Class Profile Context
2023 3-star | 0.8850 No. 521 recruit | HighSchool | Stanford

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#1139Latest modeled ballot order
Season forecast#1440Where 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 Stanford

Composite

0.8850

#521 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

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 Sedrick Irvin

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 Sedrick Irvin

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 rushing totals stand

projecting to 13-game
Through 10g
118Rush yards
41Carries
1Rush TDs
Per game
11.8Rush yards
4Carries
0Rush TDs
Projected (13g)
153.4Rush yards
53Carries
1Rush TDs

To hit 750-yard season (currently 118): needs 210.7/game over remaining 3.

To hit 1,000-yard season (currently 118): needs 294/game over remaining 3.

To hit 1,500-yard season (currently 118): needs 460.7/game over remaining 3.

To hit 10 rushing TDs (currently 1): needs 3/game over remaining 3.

To hit 15 rushing TDs (currently 1): needs 4.7/game over remaining 3.

To hit 20 rushing TDs (currently 1): needs 6.3/game over remaining 3.

What made this player interesting

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

Sedrick Irvin's story is about how role and output meet each other. For Stanford, the card already shows enough current-season production to explain why he is on the serious-player board, and the next layer is determining whether the profile is just very good or actually distinctive.

Current place #1139 0.0% win | 0.0% finalist
Role load 7.0% Overall usage share
Profile quirk Development arc The card should explain why this profile stands out

2025 Season · Final

Traditional stats first. Advanced context underneath.

Last season

RB season snapshot

2025 season snapshot | final

2025 season snapshot | finalData: CFBD player stats + local Heisman modelPeer context: same position + same level
Scrimmage yards 131 118 rush | 13 rec | #414/735 (44th pct)
Rush TD 1 41 carries | #323/739 (56th pct)
Yards/carry 2.9 Per-rush efficiency | #643/735 (13th pct)
Player identity What kind of player is this?

30-second read

What kind of player is this?

Backfield contributor against FBS RB peers.

Balanced profile

2025 Season · Final

2025 season snapshot | final

Rushing

CAR
41 54th
YDS
118 44th
YPC
2.9 13th
TD
1 56th

Receiving

REC
2 25th
YDS
13 22nd
YPR
6.5 45th
TD
0 70th

Game Log · Week-by-week

2025 season · 10 games

Box score · CFBD
WkOppCARYDSAVGTDLONGNote
Wk 1L 20-23@ Hawai'i10464.6015Season-high 46 yds
Wk 2L 3-27@ BYU111.001
Wk 3W 30-20vs Boston College1-1-1.000
Wk 4L 20-48@ Virginia252.506
Wk 5W 30-29vs San José State111.011
Wk 8W 20-13vs Florida State111.001
Wk 9L 7-42@ Miami331.005
Wk 10L 20-35vs Pittsburgh8243.0011
Wk 11L 15-20@ North Carolina492.305
Wk 14L 20-49vs Notre Dame10292.905
Total411181.8115
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

2023Stanford3-9HC: Troy Taylor · Balanced
2024Stanford3-9HC: Troy Taylor · Run-leaning
2025Stanford4-8HC: Frank Reich · Balanced
SeasonTeam
2025Stanford411182.91--
2024Stanford18693.80--
2023Stanford261134.31--
Career3 loaded seasons853003.52--
SeasonTeam
2025Stanford2136.50--
2024Stanford510721.40--
2023Stanford294.50--
Career3 loaded seasons912914.30--
Advanced layer Usage, value, and context

Advanced metrics second

Advanced Metrics

Usage, value, and opponent-adjusted context.

Usage Value Context
Rushing WEPA

Opponent-adjusted rushing value. It helps separate empty volume from carries that actually move the scoreboard.

Role share

How much of the team's offense flows through this back once rushing work and receiving work are combined.

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.

Receiving work 2 13 rec yds | #414/552 (25th pct)
Usage 7.0% 14.3% rush share | #431/738 (42nd pct)
Rushing WEPA +0.08 Opponent-adjusted rush value | #247/362 (32nd pct)
Open full stat explorer
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Group Metric Value Rank Pct Why it matters
Rushing Rushing yards 118 #414/735 44th pct Volumevs FBS RB
Rushing Rush TD 1 #323/739 56th pct Scoringvs FBS RB
Rushing Yards / carry 2.9 #643/735 13th pct Efficiencyvs FBS RB
Receiving Receptions 2 #414/552 25th pct Volumevs FBS RB
Receiving Receiving yards 13 #431/548 22nd pct Volumevs FBS RB
Value Rushing WEPA +0.08 #247/362 32nd pct Opponent-adjusted rushing value | 42 weighted playsvs FBS RB
Usage Role share 7.0% #431/738 42nd pct Share of team offensevs FBS RB
Rushing Carries 41 #341/739 54th pct Volumevs FBS RB
Rushing Rushing LONG 15 #465/733 37th pct Metricvs FBS RB
Receiving Receiving LONG 8 #438/540 19th pct Metricvs FBS RB
Receiving Yards / catch 6.5 #302/548 45th pct Efficiencyvs FBS RB
Receiving Receiving TD 0 #169/552 70th pct Scoringvs FBS RB
Usage Rush share 14.3% #368/738 50th pct Ground-game usagevs FBS RB
Usage 1st-down usage 9.1% #384/738 48th pct Early-down loadvs FBS RB
Usage Standard-down usage 8.3% #415/738 44th pct Base-situation sharevs FBS RB
Usage 2nd-down usage 6.8% #485/738 34th pct Middle-down loadvs FBS RB
Usage Passing-down usage 4.4% #488/738 34th pct Known-passing sharevs FBS RB
Usage 3rd-down usage 3.6% #518/738 30th pct Money-down loadvs FBS RB
Usage Pass share 1.2% #480/738 35th 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

StatusAwaiting tracker

Heisman model tracks the top FBS contenders weekly; this player hasn't entered the watch list yet.

Splits · Per-game

2025 season · 10 games

Home/Road · Win/Loss · Season halves

Home vs Road

YDS/gYPCTD/g
Home5g10.81.40.2
Road5g12.82.30.0

Win vs Loss

YDS/gYPCTD/g
Wins3g0.30.30.3
Losses7g16.72.50.0

First half vs Second half

YDS/gYPCTD/g
Weeks 1-75g10.41.60.2
Weeks 8+5g13.22.00.0

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

Savant · Box-rate percentiles

Where this profile ranks vs the RB cohort

4Below cohort
7 metrics · season cumulative

Concern: rush yards (0th).

Rush TDs#284 / 349 · 13th pct
1rush
Rec yards#311 / 338 · 8th pct
13rece
Receptions#318 / 338 · 5th pct
2rece
Long run#332 / 349 · 4th pct
15rush
Carries#342 / 349 · 2nd pct
41rush
Yards / carry#346 / 349 · 1st pct
2.9rush
Rush yards#348 / 349 · 0th pct
118rush

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

Advanced Savant · RB · 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.

wepa_rushing0.08Low (p25–p50) (n=178)

Peer Comparator · Fingerprint match

Three closest profiles by box-rate percentile

3 peers · 7 metrics
Sedrick IrvinStanfordJordan BrunsonMiami (OH)· 45% simChavon WrightNorthern Illinois· 45% simTae MeadowsTroy· 45% sim
Rush TDs
13
Irvin
50
Brunson
62
Wright
72
Meadows
Rec yards
8
Irvin
3
Brunson
10
Wright
38
Meadows
Receptions
5
Irvin
2
Brunson
32
Wright
45
Meadows
Long run
4
Irvin
73
Brunson
49
Wright
53
Meadows
Carries
2
Irvin
85
Brunson
92
Wright
84
Meadows
Yards / carry
1
Irvin
41
Brunson
33
Wright
29
Meadows
Rush yards
0
Irvin
80
Brunson
84
Wright
74
Meadows

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

Player DNA

The Balanced Back

Plays within the scheme — consistent production without a dominant dimension.

RB

His 2025 production profile sits closest to Tae Meadows’s 2025 season.

Tae Meadows

82%match

Troy · 2025

#2

Nay'Quan Wright

Florida · 2022

82%
#3

Anthony Grant

Nebraska · 2023

82%
#4

Nathaniel Peat

Missouri · 2023

81%
#5

Jamale Carothers

Navy · 2020

78%

Matches Tae on

Receiving share
Weight
EPA / carry (adj)

Differs from Tae on

Recruiting rating (higher)

Through 3 college seasons, his career arc tracks closest to Jordan Gant’s path through Akron.

Jordan Gant

100%match

Akron · 2025

All-MAC
#2

Gerrid Doaks

Cincinnati · 2020

All-AACNFL Rd 7
94%
#3

Zach Evans

North Texas · 2024

92%
#4

Kirby Vorhees

Washington State · 2025

91%
#5

J'mari Taylor

Virginia · 2025

91%

Matches Jordan on

Height
Weight
Yards per carry

As a junior, his production profile tracks closest to Tae Meadows's junior season at Troy (2025).

Tae Meadows

84%match

Troy · 2025

#2

Charvis Thornton

Louisiana Tech · 2023

76%
#3

Nathaniel Peat

Missouri · 2022

75%
#4

Nay'Quan Wright

Florida · 2022

74%
#5

Reggie Love III

Illinois · 2022

73%

Matches Tae on

Receiving share
EPA / carry (adj)
Weight

Supporting Cast · Scheme

Staff and system around the player

2025 season

Head Coach

Frank Reich

Pass share

50.4%

391 pass / 385 run

Plays / game

64.7

12 games

OL sack rate (allowed)

12.5%

337 dropbacks · PBP

Scheme: Balanced.

Coaching Lineage · 2023–2025

2 coaches
2023
Troy Taylor
Stanford
2024
Troy Taylor
Stanford
2025
Frank Reich
Stanford
era →

Coaching transition mid-career: Troy Taylor → Frank Reich. Worth noting in scheme + development context.

Bio · Recruiting · Transfer · Roster

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

HometownMiami, FL
Height5'10"
Weight205 lb
Class3
PositionRB
Jersey26

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 Stanford RB3 #1139 #1440 0.0% 0.0% -- -- W16 snapshot | ACC
2023 Stanford RB3 #2549 #3189 0.0% 0.0% -- -- W19 snapshot | Pac-12

Roster Timeline

Team, conference, and class by season.

Season Team Conference Pos Class Bio
2025 Stanford ACC RB 3 No. 26 | 5-10 | 205 lb | Miami, FL
2024 Stanford ACC RB 3 No. 26 | 5-10 | 205 lb | Miami, FL
2023 Stanford Pac-12 RB 3 No. 26 | 5-10 | 205 lb | Miami, FL