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Tyreek Chappell

CB · Texas A&M · Sr · #7

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

34 TACKLES · 0 SACKS

2026 RETURNINGReturning to Texas A&M for 2026

2026 Outlook

Returning to Texas A&M for 2026

2026 Depth chart

Projected starter

Cornerback · 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

CB · TEXAS A&M · SEC

Tyreek Chappell

  • 4
  • #7
  • 5-11 | 180 lb
  • Philadelphia, PA

CFB Zeitgeist Score

52

Mid-pack in the position cohort. Carried by passes defended at the 86th percentile.

Heisman Heat

#9974

<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

R06 · Starter

Starter. A locked-in starting role.

Not on team2-deepStarterRecognizedEliteApex

Career Arc

HS
Recruit
★★★
#600 national
CFB
College
Texas A&M
2021–2025
NFL
NFL Draft
Not drafted (yet)

Identity & Role

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

PositionCB
Class4
Jersey7
Measurements5-11 | 180 lb
HometownPhiladelphia, PA
Primary teamTexas A&M

Recruiting Pedigree

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

Top pedigree 3-star No. 600 recruit
Composite rating 0.8741 HighSchool
Signed with Texas A&M 2021
Origin Northeast Philadelphia, PA, USA
Class Profile Context
2021 3-star | 0.8741 No. 600 recruit | HighSchool | Texas A&M

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 -- 2024
Transfer stars 3-star CFBD transfer rating context
Eligibility Withdrawn Dec 6, 2023
Season Move Context
2024 Texas A&M -> -- 3-star | 0.8800 | Withdrawn

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#9974Latest modeled ballot order
Season forecast#9766Where 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 Texas A&M

Composite

0.8741

#600 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 Tyreek Chappell

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 Tyreek Chappell

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 11g
34Tackles
3Tackles for loss
0Sacks
Per game
3Tackles
0.3Tackles for loss
0Sacks
Projected (13g)
40Tackles
3.5Tackles for loss
0Sacks

To hit 80-tackle season (currently 34): needs 23/game over remaining 2.

To hit 100-tackle season (currently 34): needs 33/game over remaining 2.

To hit 6-sack season (currently 0): needs 3/game over remaining 2.

To hit 10-sack season (currently 0): needs 5/game over remaining 2.

Why this is a rare defensive case

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

Tyreek Chappell 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 0.0 sacks, 3.0 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 #9974 0.0% win | 0.0% finalist
Role load -- Role share still loading
Profile quirk Defensive rarity 0.0 sacks | 3.0 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 34 23 solo | #1138/4942 (77th pct)
TFL 3.0 Backfield disruption | #1006/4972 (80th 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?

Coverage splash against FBS defenders.

Coverage splash

2025 Season · Final

2025 season snapshot | final

Tackling & Disruption

TOT
34 77th
SOLO
23 82nd
TFL
3.0 80th
SACK
0.0 65th

Coverage & Takeaways

PD
4 84th

Game Log · Week-by-week

2025 season · 11 games

Box score · CFBD
WkOppTKLSOLOTFLSACKINTPDNote
Wk 1W 42-24vs UTSA320.50.00
Wk 2W 44-22vs Utah State331.00.01
Wk 3W 41-40@ Notre Dame530.00.00Season-high 5 tackles
Wk 5W 16-10vs Auburn220.00.00
Wk 6W 31-9vs Mississippi State310.00.00
Wk 7W 34-17vs Florida520.50.02
Wk 9W 49-25@ LSU430.00.00
Wk 11W 38-17@ Missouri211.00.00
Wk 12W 31-30vs South Carolina540.00.00
Wk 13W 48-0vs Samford000.00.01
Wk 14L 17-27@ Texas220.00.00
Total34233.00.04
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

2021Texas A&M8-4HC: Jimbo Fisher · Balanced
2022Texas A&M5-7HC: Jimbo Fisher · Balanced
2023Texas A&M7-6HC: Elijah Robinson · Balanced
2025Texas A&M11-2HC: Mike Elko · Run-leaning
SeasonTeam
2025Texas A&M34233.00.04----
2023Texas A&M21130.50.061--
2022Texas A&M44312.50.08----
2021Texas A&M41313.00.091--
Career4 loaded seasons140989.00.0272--
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 4 Coverage disruption | #340/2184 (84th pct)
QB pressures 0 Quarterback hurries
Open full stat explorer
0 metrics visible Showing all metrics
Group Metric Value Rank Pct Why it matters
Defense Total tackles 34 #1138/4942 77th pct Volumevs FBS DEF
Defense TFL 3.0 #1006/4972 80th pct Disruptionvs FBS DEF
Defense Sacks 0.0 #1762/4972 65th pct Disruptionvs FBS DEF
Defense Pass breakups 4 #340/2184 84th pct Coveragevs FBS DEF
Defense Solo tackles 23 #839/4584 82nd 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 · 11 games

Home/Road · Win/Loss · Season halves

Home vs Road

TKL/gTFL/gSACK/gPD/g
Home7g3.00.30.00.6
Road4g3.20.20.00.0

Win vs Loss

TKL/gTFL/gSACK/gPD/g
Wins10g3.20.30.00.4
Losses1g2.00.00.00.0

First half vs Second half

TKL/gTFL/gSACK/gPD/g
Weeks 1-76g3.50.30.00.5
Weeks 8+5g2.60.20.00.2

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

Savant · Box-rate percentiles

Where this profile ranks vs the CB cohort

52Mid-pack
6 metrics · season cumulative

Elite: passes defended (85th). Concern: qb hurries (22nd).

Passes defended#340 / 2975 · 86th pct
4defe
Solo tackles#839 / 2975 · 71st pct
23defe
Tackles for loss#1001 / 2975 · 63rd pct
3.0defe
Tackles#1138 / 2975 · 61st pct
34defe
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 · CB · 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 · 6 metrics
Tyreek ChappellTexas A&MTyler MartinMassachusetts· 82% simTahj Ra-ElPurdue· 80% simDevin LafayetteTroy· 75% sim
Passes defended
86
Chappell
67
Martin
91
Ra-El
91
Lafayette
Solo tackles
71
Chappell
87
Martin
100
Ra-El
98
Lafayette
Tackles for loss
63
Chappell
63
Martin
56
Ra-El
56
Lafayette
Tackles
61
Chappell
98
Martin
99
Ra-El
99
Lafayette
Sacks
24
Chappell
24
Martin
24
Ra-El
63
Lafayette
QB hurries
22
Chappell
22
Martin
22
Ra-El
22
Lafayette

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

Player DNA

The Cover Corner

Steady in coverage; doesn't get beat deep and rarely gives up the big play.

CB

His 2025 production profile sits closest to Jaylon Jones’s 2021 season.

Jaylon Jones

88%match

Georgia State · 2021

NFL Rd 7
#2

Kamden Garrett

BYU · 2023

87%
#3

Jaylin Davies

UCLA · 2023

86%
#4

Kaleno Levine

Troy · 2025

86%
#5

Kayin Lee

Auburn · 2025

85%

Matches Jaylon on

PD rate
Weight
Height

Not enough data yet for this comparison.

As a graduate, his production profile tracks closest to Jakob Robinson's graduate season at BYU (2024).

Jakob Robinson

93%match

BYU · 2024

#2

Derrick Canteen

Cincinnati · 2024

All-Sun Belt
89%
#3

Jonathan McGill

SMU · 2024

All-AAC
81%
#4

D.J. Graham

Kansas · 2025

80%
#5

Dashawn Jones

Alabama · 2025

79%

Matches Jakob on

Class year
Height
PD rate

Supporting Cast · Scheme

Staff and system around the player

2025 season

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 · 2021–2025

3 coaches
2021
Jimbo Fisher
Texas A&M
2022
Jimbo Fisher
Texas A&M
2023
Elijah Robinson
Texas A&M
era →
2025
Mike Elko
Texas A&M
era →

Played under 3 different head coaches: Jimbo Fisher, Elijah Robinson, and Mike Elko. Multi-era developmental context.

Bio · Recruiting · Transfer · Roster

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

HometownPhiladelphia, PA
Height5'11"
Weight180 lb
Class4
PositionCB
Jersey7

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 Texas A&M CB4 #9974 #9766 0.0% 0.0% -- -- W16 snapshot | SEC
2023 Texas A&M CB4 #8344 #8408 0.0% 0.0% -- -- W19 snapshot | SEC
2022 Texas A&M CB4 #9067 #9308 0.0% 0.0% -- -- W20 snapshot | SEC
2021 Texas A&M CB4 #5573 #5817 0.0% 0.0% -- -- W20 snapshot | SEC

Roster Timeline

Team, conference, and class by season.

Season Team Conference Pos Class Bio
2025 Texas A&M SEC CB 4 No. 7 | 5-11 | 180 lb | Philadelphia, PA
2024 Texas A&M SEC CB 4 No. 7 | 5-11 | 180 lb | Philadelphia, PA
2023 Texas A&M SEC CB 4 No. 7 | 5-11 | 180 lb | Philadelphia, PA
2022 Texas A&M SEC CB 4 No. 7 | 5-11 | 180 lb | Philadelphia, PA
2021 Texas A&M SEC CB 4 No. 7 | 5-11 | 180 lb | Philadelphia, PA