CFB Zeitgeist Score
77
All-Conference in the position cohort. Carried by tackles for loss at the 90th percentile.
Taurean York
Below the discourse floor — the honest stats-only state.
72 TACKLES · 1 SACKS
2026 Outlook
Returning to Texas A&M for 2026
2026 Depth chart
Projected starter
Linebacker · Texas A&M
Returning around him
- 75% of 2024 offensive production back (Strong continuity)
- 10 Texas A&M players drafted to NFL
- Transfer portal: -2 net (19 in / 21 out)
2026 Award watch
No preseason watch lists yet (most drop June 15 – July 15)
Texas A&M · Last season: 11-2 (AP #7) · Talent rank #8 · 2026 recruiting class #9
LB · TEXAS A&M · SEC
Taurean York
- 3
- #21
- 5-10 | 227 lb
- Temple, TX
Heisman Heat
#10066
<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 LB AWARD
Butkus
—
CONSENSUS
All-American
—
Player Standing · 17 rungs
Tier 2 · StarterR07 · Impact starter
Impact starter. Producing measurable value above replacement.
Not on team2-deepStarterRecognizedEliteApex
Career arc · Season-by-season Standing
2 seasons on the ladder
2023
Texas A&M · LB
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★
2025
Texas A&M · LB
R09 · All-Conference HM / 2nd team
Recognized
Career Arc
HS
Recruit
★★★
CFB
College
Texas A&M
NFL
NFL Draft
—
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 | 0.8653 | No. 970 recruit | HighSchool |
Transfer Arc
Portal movement changes role, context, and perception. This keeps that path in one place.
| 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 16Heisman Futures
Not yet listed on major futures markets.
No achievements unlocked yet this season.
Selector Grid · 2025
AP—
FWAA—
AFCA—
WCFF—
SN—
SI—
NIL · Recruiting · NFL Draft
Market value, pedigree & pro outcome
Recruit stars
★★★☆☆
to —
Composite
0.8653
#970 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 Taurean York
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 Taurean York
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 13g
72Tackles
7Tackles for loss
1Sacks
Per game
6Tackles
0.5Tackles for loss
0.1Sacks
Final
72Tackles
7Tackles for loss
1Sacks
Why this is a rare defensive case
The fast read on the thing that makes this player more than a generic stat line.
Taurean York is trying to climb the steepest award hill in college football: a defensive candidacy. The hook is the disruption profile on Texas A&M's defense, with 1.0 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
72 95th
SOLO
32 90th
TFL
7.0 94th
SACK
1.0 82nd
QBH
5 90th
Coverage & Takeaways
PD
3 76th
Game Log · Week-by-week
2025 season · 13 games
| Wk | Opp | TKL | SOLO | TFL | SACK | INT | PD | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | W 42-24vs UTSA | 10 | 4 | 1.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 2 | W 44-22vs Utah State | 2 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 3 | W 41-40@ Notre Dame | 5 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 5 | W 16-10vs Auburn | 7 | 6 | 2.0 | 1.0 | — | 1 | |
| Wk 6 | W 31-9vs Mississippi State | 10 | 4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 7 | W 34-17vs Florida | 5 | 2 | 0.5 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 8 | W 45-42@ Arkansas | 2 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 9 | W 49-25@ LSU | 4 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 11 | W 38-17@ Missouri | 2 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 1 | |
| Wk 12 | W 31-30vs South Carolina | 8 | 5 | 1.5 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 13 | W 48-0vs Samford | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 14 | L 17-27@ Texas | 11 | 6 | 1.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | Season-high 11 tackles |
| Bowl | L 3-10vs Miami | 5 | 1 | 1.0 | 0.0 | — | 1 | |
| Total | 72 | 32 | 7.0 | 1.0 | — | 3 |
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
2023Texas A&M7-6HC: Elijah Robinson · Balanced
2025Texas A&M11-2HC: Mike Elko · Run-leaning
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 | 72 | #242/4942 | 95th pct | Volumevs FBS DEF |
| Defense | TFL | 7.0 | #277/4972 | 94th pct | Disruptionvs FBS DEF |
| Defense | Sacks | 1.0 | #872/4972 | 82nd pct | Disruptionvs FBS DEF |
| Defense | Pass breakups | 3 | #521/2184 | 76th pct | Coveragevs FBS DEF |
| Defense | QB hurries | 5 | #188/1878 | 90th pct | Disruptionvs FBS DEF |
| Defense | Solo tackles | 32 | #448/4584 | 90th pct | Volumevs FBS DEF |
| Defense | Fumbles recovered | 1 | #103/736 | 86th pct | Takeawaysvs FBS DEF |
| Ball Security | Fumbles lost | 0 | #1/773 | 100th pct | Turnoversvs FBS DEF |
Player Standing
Universal 17-step ladder. Tier pills below; accolade streams nested.
ALL-CONF HM
On-team2-deepStartingRecognizedEliteApex
ALL-CONF HM · Rung 9 of 16
Why he’s here
All-Conference honorable mention / 2nd team — the recognition has started.
What moves him up
A best-at-position run lifts to 1st team.
What moves him down
A back-end conference finish drops out of the honor list.
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 · 13 games
Home vs Road
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home8g | 6.0 | 0.8 | 0.1 | 0.2 |
| Road5g | 4.8 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.2 |
Win vs Loss
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wins11g | 5.1 | 0.5 | 0.1 | 0.2 |
| Losses2g | 8.0 | 1.0 | 0.0 | 0.5 |
First half vs Second half
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-77g | 6.3 | 0.6 | 0.1 | 0.3 |
| Weeks 8+6g | 4.7 | 0.4 | 0.0 | 0.2 |
Pocket and defense-quality (clean vs. pressure) splits are coming soon.
Savant · Box-rate percentiles
Where this profile ranks vs the LB cohort
77All-Conference
Elite: qb hurries (92nd). Strength: tackles (91st).
Percentiles versus same-position peers with enough snaps this season, based on box-score rates.
Advanced Savant · LB · 2024
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
Taurean YorkTexas A&MTrey FieldsNorth Texas· 93% simBryce BoettcherOregon· 91% simJaxton EckNew Mexico· 90% sim
QB hurries
Tackles
Tackles for loss
Solo tackles
Passes defended
Sacks
Forced fumbles
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 Daylen Gill’s 2022 season.
Daylen Gill
79%match
#2
Tyreke Davis
77%
#3
Ahmad Walker
76%
#4
Bryun Parham
70%
#5
Aiden Hall
70%
Matches Daylen on
Tackle volume
PD rate
Weight
Differs from Daylen on
Height (lower)
Not enough data yet for this comparison.
As a junior, his production profile tracks closest to Aiden Hall's junior season at Wake Forest (2025).
Aiden Hall
78%match
#2
Malik Mustapha
All-ACCNFL Rd 4
75%
#3
Robert Woodyard Jr.
75%
#4
Daylen Gill
73%
#5
Caleb Downs
ThorpeLott IMPACTConsensus All-AmericanNFL Rd 1 · Pk 11
72%
Matches Aiden on
Tackle volume
Weight
TFL rate
Differs from Aiden on
Height (lower)
Supporting Cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Mike Elko
Pass share
45.8%
407 pass / 482 run
Plays / game
68.4
13 games
OL sack rate (allowed)
3.8%
286 dropbacks · PBP
Scheme: Run-leaning.
Coaching Lineage · 2023–2025
2 coaches2023
Elijah Robinson
Texas A&M
2025era →
Mike Elko
Texas A&M
Coaching transition mid-career: Elijah Robinson → Mike Elko. 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.
HometownTemple, TX
Height5'10"
Weight227 lb
Class3
PositionLB
Jersey21
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Current teamTexas A&M
ConferenceSEC
Joined2025
Career arc3 season(s)
Trophy Case · Confirmed honors
What the selectors said
🎖
ALL-CONFERENCE
All-Conf mention (2025)
All-SEC
Trophy Case · Detail
Every honor on the ledger, broken out by stream and selector.
1 all-conference honor
Conference-level recognition helps anchor whether a player is merely statistically loud or actually viewed as elite within his competitive lane.
Honors Timeline
Season-end distinction and week-by-week recognition on one timeline.
| Season | Honor | Scope | Team / Selector | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | All-SEC | all_conference | Texas A&M | SEC | LB |
Heisman By Year
Modeled rank and official finish by season.
Roster Timeline
Team, conference, and class by season.