CFB Zeitgeist Score
74
Solid starter in the position cohort. Carried by rush yards at the 93rd percentile.
Anthony Hankerson
Below the discourse floor — the honest stats-only state.
1,088 RUSH YDS · 9 RUSH TD · 247 CARRIES
2026 Outlook
Returning to Oregon State for 2026
2026 Depth chart
Projected starter
Running back · Oregon State
Returning around him
- 52% of 2024 offensive production back (Solid continuity)
- Transfer portal: -15 net (20 in / 35 out)
2026 Award watch
- Doak Walker
Oregon State · Last season: 2-10 · Talent rank #60 · 2026 recruiting class #64
RB · OREGON STATE · PAC-12
Anthony Hankerson
- 4
- 5-8 | 206 lb
- Boynton Beach, FL
Heisman Heat
#1919
<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 · StarterR07 · Impact starter
Impact starter. Producing measurable value above replacement.
Not on team2-deepStarterRecognizedEliteApex
Development Trajectory · rushing yards
2022–2025+297%
Up 297% from first season to most-recent.
Career Arc
HS
Recruit
★★★
CFB
College
2 teams
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 |
|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 3-star | 0.8737 | No. 690 recruit | HighSchool |
Transfer Arc
Portal movement changes role, context, and perception. This keeps that path in one place.
| Season | Move | Context |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Colorado -> Oregon State | 3-star | 0.8800 | Immediate |
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.
Achievements
- Program Benchmark 5.5% Program Benchmark Season leader for the program at the player's position across the headline volume metric (passing yards / rushing yards / receiving yards). Held by 5.5% of the 2025 pool. Team leader in rushing yards (1088).
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 —
Composite
0.8737
#690 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 Anthony Hankerson
Fan sentiment ·
Belief Meter
50
Mixed Sentiment
Top Take
“”
Trajectory
Per-cohort trajectory lands when historical bucket data is aggregated.
Cohort divergence map
- Own fans · n=1
Rival Radar
How rival fanbases talk about Anthony Hankerson
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 rushing totals stand
Through 12g
1,088Rush yards
247Carries
9Rush TDs
Per game
90.7Rush yards
21Carries
1Rush TDs
Projected (13g)
1,179Rush yards
268Carries
10Rush TDs
✓ Hit 750-yard season · finished with 1,088.
✓ Hit 1,000-yard season · finished with 1,088.
To hit 1,500-yard season (currently 1,088): needs 412/game over remaining 1.
To hit 10 rushing TDs (currently 9): needs 1/game over remaining 1.
To hit 15 rushing TDs (currently 9): needs 6/game over remaining 1.
To hit 20 rushing TDs (currently 9): needs 11/game over remaining 1.
What made this player interesting
The fast read on the thing that makes this player more than a generic stat line.
Anthony Hankerson's story is about how role and output meet each other. For Oregon State, 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.
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
Player identity What kind of player is this?
30-second read
What kind of player is this?
Workhorse | Passing-game back against FBS RB peers.
2025 Season · Final
2025 season snapshot | final
Rushing
CAR
247 99th
YDS
1,088 97th
YPC
4.4 44th
TD
9 94th
Receiving
REC
22 89th
YDS
123 77th
YPR
5.6 33rd
TD
0 70th
Game Log · Week-by-week
2025 season · 12 games
| Wk | Opp | CAR | YDS | AVG | TD | LONG | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | L 15-34vs California | 15 | 42 | 2.8 | 1 | 14 | |
| Wk 2 | L 27-36vs Fresno State | 25 | 136 | 5.4 | 0 | 26 | |
| Wk 3 | L 14-45@ Texas Tech | 11 | 12 | 1.1 | 0 | 3 | |
| Wk 4 | L 7-41@ Oregon | 14 | 38 | 2.7 | 1 | 17 | |
| Wk 5 | L 24-27vs Houston | 23 | 74 | 3.2 | 0 | 14 | |
| Wk 6 | L 23-27@ App State | 19 | 64 | 3.4 | 0 | 23 | |
| Wk 7 | L 14-39vs Wake Forest | 22 | 101 | 4.6 | 0 | 16 | |
| Wk 8 | W 45-13vs Lafayette | 25 | 204 | 8.2 | 4 | 65 | Season-high 204 yds |
| Wk 10 | W 10-7vs Washington State | 25 | 134 | 5.4 | 1 | 37 | |
| Wk 11 | L 17-21vs Sam Houston | 33 | 166 | 5.0 | 2 | 19 | 166-yard day |
| Wk 12 | L 14-31@ Tulsa | 19 | 46 | 2.4 | 0 | 8 | |
| Wk 14 | L 8-32@ Washington State | 16 | 71 | 4.4 | 0 | 11 | |
| Total | 247 | 1088 | 4.0 | 9 | 65 |
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
2022Colorado1-11HC: Mike Sanford Jr. · Balanced, slow tempo
2023Colorado4-8HC: Deion Sanders · Pass-leaning
2025Oregon State2-10HC: Trent Bray · Balanced
| Season | Team | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Oregon State | 247 | 1,088 | 4.4 | 9 | -- |
| 2023 | Colorado | 78 | 319 | 4.1 | 1 | -- |
| 2022 | Colorado | 68 | 274 | 4.0 | 3 | -- |
| Career | 3 loaded seasons | 393 | 1,681 | 4.3 | 13 | -- |
| Season | Team | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Oregon State | 22 | 123 | 5.6 | 0 | -- |
| 2023 | Colorado | 16 | 71 | 4.4 | 1 | -- |
| 2022 | Colorado | 5 | 24 | 4.8 | 0 | -- |
| Career | 3 loaded seasons | 43 | 218 | 5.1 | 1 | -- |
Advanced layer Usage, value, and context
Advanced metrics second
Advanced Metrics
Usage, value, and opponent-adjusted context.
Opponent-adjusted rushing value. It helps separate empty volume from carries that actually move the scoreboard.
How much of the team's offense flows through this back once rushing work and receiving work are combined.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rushing | Rushing yards | 1,088 | #25/735 | 97th pct | Volumevs FBS RB |
| Rushing | Rush TD | 9 | #43/739 | 94th pct | Scoringvs FBS RB |
| Rushing | Yards / carry | 4.4 | #409/735 | 44th pct | Efficiencyvs FBS RB |
| Receiving | Receptions | 22 | #63/552 | 89th pct | Volumevs FBS RB |
| Receiving | Receiving yards | 123 | #128/548 | 77th pct | Volumevs FBS RB |
| Value | Rushing WEPA | +0.00 | #346/362 | 5th pct | Opponent-adjusted rushing value | 223 weighted playsvs FBS RB |
| Usage | Role share | 33.6% | #4/738 | 100th pct | Share of team offensevs FBS RB |
| Rushing | Carries | 247 | #6/739 | 99th pct | Volumevs FBS RB |
| Rushing | Rushing LONG | 65 | #81/733 | 89th pct | Metricvs FBS RB |
| Receiving | Receiving LONG | 14 | #323/540 | 40th pct | Metricvs FBS RB |
| Receiving | Yards / catch | 5.6 | #366/548 | 33rd pct | Efficiencyvs FBS RB |
| Receiving | Receiving TD | 0 | #169/552 | 70th pct | Scoringvs FBS RB |
| Usage | Rush share | 64.4% | #1/738 | 100th pct | Ground-game usagevs FBS RB |
| Usage | 1st-down usage | 40.9% | #4/738 | 100th pct | Early-down loadvs FBS RB |
| Usage | Standard-down usage | 40.1% | #2/738 | 100th pct | Base-situation sharevs FBS RB |
| Usage | 2nd-down usage | 32.1% | #13/738 | 98th pct | Middle-down loadvs FBS RB |
| Usage | 3rd-down usage | 21.1% | #21/738 | 97th pct | Money-down loadvs FBS RB |
| Usage | Passing-down usage | 19.3% | #22/738 | 97th pct | Known-passing sharevs FBS RB |
| Usage | Pass share | 7.9% | #58/738 | 92nd pct | Air-game usagevs FBS RB |
| Ball Security | Fumbles lost | 0 | #1/256 | 100th pct | Turnoversvs 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
Status—Awaiting tracker
Heisman model tracks the top FBS contenders weekly; this player hasn't entered the watch list yet.
Splits · Per-game
2025 season · 12 games
Home vs Road
| YDS/g | YPC | TD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Home7g | 122 | 4.9 | 1.1 |
| Road5g | 46.2 | 2.8 | 0.2 |
Win vs Loss
| YDS/g | YPC | TD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wins2g | 169 | 6.8 | 2.5 |
| Losses10g | 75.0 | 3.5 | 0.4 |
First half vs Second half
| YDS/g | YPC | TD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-77g | 66.7 | 3.3 | 0.3 |
| Weeks 8+5g | 124 | 5.1 | 1.4 |
Pocket and defense-quality (clean vs. pressure) splits are coming soon.
Savant · Box-rate percentiles
Where this profile ranks vs the RB cohort
74Solid starter
Elite: carries (98th). Strength: rush yards (92nd). Concern: yards / carry (28th).
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
Advanced Savant
Opponent-adjusted advanced metrics with a cohort filter.
wepa_rushing0Below (<p25) (n=178)
Peer Comparator · Fingerprint match
Three closest profiles by box-rate percentile
Anthony HankersonOregon StateTJ HardenSMU· 90% simRoman HembyIndiana· 89% simCarson HansenIowa State· 88% sim
Carries
Rush yards
Rush TDs
Fumbles lost
Receptions
Long run
Rec yards
Yards / carry
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 Anthony Hankerson’s 2022 season.
Anthony Hankerson
85%match
#2
Daba Fofana
77%
#3
Kevorian Barnes
78%
#4
Calvin Tyler Jr.
76%
#5
Christian Beal-Smith
73%
Matches Anthony on
Total rush EPA (college ability)
EPA / carry (adj)
Height
Differs from Anthony on
Class year (higher)
Through 4 college seasons, his career arc tracks closest to Dedrick Parson’s path through Hawai'i.
Dedrick Parson
97%match
#2
Gerrid Doaks
All-AACNFL Rd 7
94%
#3
Calvin Tyler Jr.
92%
#4
Zach Evans
92%
#5
Christian Beal-Smith
90%
Matches Dedrick on
Height
Yards per carry
Weight
As a senior, his production profile tracks closest to Pat Garwo III's senior season at Boston College (2023).
Pat Garwo III
77%match
#2
Justice Ellison
75%
#3
Sam Franklin
74%
#4
Reese White
70%
#5
Isaiah Woullard
69%
Matches Pat on
Yards / carry
Weight
Height
Supporting Cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Trent Bray
Pass share
51.7%
431 pass / 403 run
Plays / game
69.5
12 games
OL sack rate (allowed)
7.0%
369 dropbacks · PBP
Scheme: Balanced.
Coaching Lineage · 2022–2025
2 coaches2022
Jonathan Smith
Oregon State
2023
Jonathan Smith
Oregon State
2025era →
Trent Bray
Oregon State
Coaching transition mid-career: Jonathan Smith → Trent Bray. 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.
HometownBoynton Beach, FL
Height5'8"
Weight206 lb
Class4
PositionRB
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Current teamOregon State
ConferencePac-12
Joined2025
Career arc4 season(s)
Trophy Case · Detail
Every honor on the ledger, broken out by stream and selector.
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 | Oregon State | RB4 | #1919 | #1945 | 0.0% | 0.0% | -- | -- | W16 snapshot | Pac-12 |
| 2023 | Colorado | RB4 | #1119 | #1407 | 0.0% | 0.0% | -- | -- | W19 snapshot | Pac-12 |
| 2022 | Colorado | RB4 | #1723 | #2522 | 0.0% | 0.0% | -- | -- | W20 snapshot | Pac-12 |
Roster Timeline
Team, conference, and class by season.
| Season | Team | Conference | Pos | Class | Bio |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Oregon State | Pac-12 | RB | 4 | 5-8 | 206 lb | Boynton Beach, FL |
| 2024 | Oregon State | Pac-12 | RB | 4 | 5-8 | 206 lb | Boynton Beach, FL |
| 2023 | Colorado | Pac-12 | RB | 4 | 5-8 | 206 lb | Boynton Beach, FL |
| 2022 | Colorado | Pac-12 | RB | 4 | 5-8 | 206 lb | Boynton Beach, FL |