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Heisman / Players / Armondous Cooley /Tulane

Armondous Cooley

DL · Tulane · Sr · #92

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

11 TACKLES · 0 SACKS

2026 RETURNINGReturning to Tulane for 2026

2026 Outlook

Returning to Tulane for 2026

2026 Depth chart

Projected starter

Defensive line · Tulane

Returning around him

  • 15% of 2024 offensive production back (Heavy turnover)
  • Transfer portal: -7 net (20 in / 27 out)

2026 Award watch

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

Tulane · Last season: 11-3 (AP #17) · Talent rank #68 · 2026 recruiting class #74

DL · TULANE · AMERICAN ATHLETIC

Armondous Cooley

  • 4
  • #92
  • 6-3 | 305 lb
  • Shubuta, MS

CFB Zeitgeist Score

23

Below cohort in the position cohort. Carried by qb hurries at the 55th percentile.

Heisman Heat

#15155

<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 DEFENSE AWARD

Nagurski

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

Career Arc

HS
Recruit
★★★
#693 national
CFB
College
2 teams
2022–2025
NFL
NFL Draft
Not drafted (yet)

Identity & Role

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

PositionDL
Class4
Jersey92
Measurements6-3 | 305 lb
HometownShubuta, MS
Primary teamTulane

Recruiting Pedigree

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

Top pedigree 3-star No. 693 recruit
Composite rating 0.8696 HighSchool
Signed with -- 2020
Origin Wayne County Waynesboro, MS, USA
Class Profile Context
2020 3-star | 0.8696 No. 693 recruit | HighSchool

Transfer Arc

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

Portal moves 2 Programs changed on file
Latest destination Tulane 2025
Transfer stars 3-star CFBD transfer rating context
Eligibility Immediate Apr 29, 2025
Season Move Context
2025 Southern Miss -> Tulane 3-star | 0.8300 | Immediate
2022 Mississippi State -> Southern Miss 3-star | 0.8500 | 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 16
Current nowcast#15155Latest modeled ballot order
Season forecast#15322Where 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 —

Composite

0.8696

#693 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 Armondous Cooley

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 Armondous Cooley

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 7g
11Tackles
0.5Tackles for loss
0Sacks
Per game
2Tackles
0.1Tackles for loss
0Sacks
Projected (13g)
20Tackles
0.9Tackles for loss
0Sacks

To hit 80-tackle season (currently 11): needs 11.5/game over remaining 6.

To hit 100-tackle season (currently 11): needs 14.8/game over remaining 6.

To hit 6-sack season (currently 0): needs 1/game over remaining 6.

To hit 10-sack season (currently 0): needs 1.7/game over remaining 6.

Why this is a rare defensive case

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

Armondous Cooley is trying to climb the steepest award hill in college football: a defensive candidacy. The hook is the disruption profile on Tulane's defense, with 0.0 sacks, 0.5 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 #15155 0.0% win | 0.0% finalist
Role load -- Role share still loading
Profile quirk Transfer path 2 portal moves

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 11 6 solo | #2749/4942 (44th pct)
TFL 0.5 Backfield disruption | #2658/4972 (47th 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?

Defensive contributor against FBS defenders.

Balanced profile

2025 Season · Final

2025 season snapshot | final

Tackling & Disruption

TOT
11 44th
SOLO
6 43rd
TFL
0.5 47th
SACK
0.0 65th
QBH
1 44th

Game Log · Week-by-week

2025 season · 7 games

Box score · CFBD
WkOppTKLSOLOTFLSACKINTPDNote
Wk 1W 23-3vs Northwestern110.00.00
Wk 2W 33-31@ South Alabama310.00.00Season-high 3 tackles
Wk 5W 31-14@ Tulsa110.00.00
Wk 7W 26-19vs East Carolina220.00.00
Wk 8W 24-17vs Army100.00.00
Wk 12W 35-24vs Florida Atlantic110.00.00
Wk 15W 34-21vs North Texas200.50.00
Total1160.50.00
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

2022Southern Miss7-6HC: Will Hall · Run-leaning
2025Tulane11-3HC: Jon Sumrall · Run-leaning
SeasonTeam
2025Tulane1160.50.0------
2022Southern Miss1563.52.0------
Career2 loaded seasons26124.02.0------
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 0 Coverage disruption
QB pressures 1 Quarterback hurries | #1051/1878 (44th pct)
Open full stat explorer
0 metrics visible Showing all metrics
Group Metric Value Rank Pct Why it matters
Defense Total tackles 11 #2749/4942 44th pct Volumevs FBS DEF
Defense TFL 0.5 #2658/4972 47th pct Disruptionvs FBS DEF
Defense Sacks 0.0 #1762/4972 65th pct Disruptionvs FBS DEF
Defense QB hurries 1 #1051/1878 44th pct Disruptionvs FBS DEF
Defense Solo tackles 6 #2592/4584 43rd 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 Lombardi 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 · 7 games

Home/Road · Win/Loss · Season halves

Home vs Road

TKL/gTFL/gSACK/gPD/g
Home5g1.40.10.00.0
Road2g2.00.00.00.0

Win vs Loss

TKL/gTFL/gSACK/gPD/g
Wins7g1.60.10.00.0

First half vs Second half

TKL/gTFL/gSACK/gPD/g
Weeks 1-74g1.80.00.00.0
Weeks 8+3g1.30.20.00.0

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

Savant · Box-rate percentiles

Where this profile ranks vs the DL cohort

23Below cohort
6 metrics · season cumulative

Concern: tackles (5th).

QB hurries#1007 / 2975 · 55th pct
1defe
Sacks#1575 / 2975 · 24th pct
0.0defe
Tackles for loss#2332 / 2975 · 18th pct
0.5defe
Passes defended#1916 / 2975 · 18th pct
0defe
Solo tackles#2560 / 2975 · 12th pct
6defe
Tackles#2749 / 2975 · 6th pct
11defe

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

Advanced Savant · DL · 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
Armondous CooleyTulaneBlake FletcherAir Force· 44% simTyler MartinMassachusetts· 43% simJonJon VaughnsUCLA· 37% sim
QB hurries
55
Cooley
92
Fletcher
22
Martin
22
Vaughns
Sacks
24
Cooley
24
Fletcher
24
Martin
63
Vaughns
Tackles for loss
18
Cooley
28
Fletcher
63
Martin
85
Vaughns
Passes defended
18
Cooley
67
Fletcher
67
Martin
48
Vaughns
Solo tackles
12
Cooley
91
Fletcher
87
Martin
96
Vaughns
Tackles
6
Cooley
99
Fletcher
98
Martin
99
Vaughns

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

Player DNA

The Nose Anchor

Two-gap space-eater who occupies blockers and frees the linebackers.

IDL

His 2025 production profile sits closest to Keivie Rose’s 2024 season.

Keivie Rose

94%match

Arkansas · 2024

#2

Kyron Mims

Ball State · 2022

92%
#3

Jackie Marshall

Baylor · 2022

NFL Rd 6
92%
#4

Tommy Dunn

Kansas · 2023

92%
#5

Jayden Simon

UConn · 2024

91%

Matches Keivie on

Weight
Sack rate
TFL rate

Not enough data yet for this comparison.

As a junior, his production profile tracks closest to Kyron Mims's junior season at Ball State (2022).

Kyron Mims

99%match

Ball State · 2022

#2

Marquis Burks

Auburn · 2022

96%
#3

Isaiah Nichols

Arkansas · 2022

91%
#4

M.J. Webb

South Carolina · 2022

91%
#5

Taishan Holmes

Northwestern · 2022

89%

Matches Kyron on

Class year
Height
Sack rate

Supporting Cast · Scheme

Staff and system around the player

2025 season

Head Coach

Jon Sumrall

Pass share

45.8%

424 pass / 501 run

Plays / game

66.1

14 games

OL sack rate (allowed)

3.4%

294 dropbacks · PBP

Scheme: Run-leaning.

Coaching Lineage · 2022–2025

2 coaches
2022
Willie Fritz
Tulane
2025
Jon Sumrall
Tulane
era →

Coaching transition mid-career: Willie Fritz → Jon Sumrall. 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.

HometownShubuta, MS
Height6'3"
Weight305 lb
Class4
PositionDL
Jersey92

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 Southern Miss DL4 #15155 #15322 0.0% 0.0% -- -- W16 snapshot | Sun Belt
2023 Southern Miss DL4 #15147 #15222 0.0% 0.0% -- -- W19 snapshot | Sun Belt
2022 Southern Miss DL4 #9195 #9662 0.0% 0.0% -- -- W20 snapshot | Sun Belt
2021 Mississippi State DL4 #10922 #10815 0.0% 0.0% -- -- W20 snapshot | SEC

Roster Timeline

Team, conference, and class by season.

Season Team Conference Pos Class Bio
2025 Tulane American Athletic DL 4 No. 92 | 6-3 | 305 lb | Shubuta, MS
2024 Southern Miss Sun Belt DL 4 No. 92 | 6-3 | 305 lb | Shubuta, MS
2023 Southern Miss Sun Belt DL 4 No. 92 | 6-3 | 305 lb | Shubuta, MS
2022 Southern Miss Sun Belt DL 4 No. 92 | 6-3 | 305 lb | Shubuta, MS
2021 Mississippi State SEC DL 4 No. 92 | 6-3 | 305 lb | Shubuta, MS