CFB Zeitgeist Score
10
Below cohort in the position cohort. Carried by rush tds at the 13th percentile.
C.J. Stokes
Below the discourse floor — the honest stats-only state.
149 RUSH YDS · 1 RUSH TD · 48 CARRIES
2026 Outlook
Returning to Charlotte for 2026
2026 Depth chart
Projected starter
Running back · Charlotte
Returning around him
- 24% of 2024 offensive production back (Heavy turnover)
- Transfer portal: -8 net (19 in / 27 out)
2026 Award watch
No preseason watch lists yet (most drop June 15 – July 15)
Charlotte · Last season: 1-11 · Talent rank #108 · 2026 recruiting class #135
RB · CHARLOTTE · AMERICAN ATHLETIC
C.J. Stokes
- 3
- #23
- 5-10 | 200 lb
- Columbia, SC
Heisman Heat
#2143
<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
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CONSENSUS
All-American
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Player Standing · 17 rungs
Tier 1 · 2-deepR04 · Rotational
Rotational. Earning real snaps in the rotation.
Not on team2-deepStarterRecognizedEliteApex
Development Trajectory · rushing yards
2022–2025-45%
Sharp dropoff (-45%) — career inflection point.
Career Arc
HS
Recruit
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CFB
College
2 teams
NFL
NFL Draft
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| No recruiting profile is on file for this player. | ||
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—
Selector recognition fills in once the major honors lists (AP, FWAA, AFCA, Walter Camp, Sporting News, SI) are scraped and ingested.
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 C.J. Stokes
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 C.J. Stokes
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 5g
149Rush yards
48Carries
1Rush TDs
Per game
29.8Rush yards
10Carries
0Rush TDs
Projected (13g)
387.4Rush yards
125Carries
3Rush TDs
To hit 750-yard season (currently 149): needs 75.1/game over remaining 8.
To hit 1,000-yard season (currently 149): needs 106.4/game over remaining 8.
To hit 1,500-yard season (currently 149): needs 168.9/game over remaining 8.
To hit 10 rushing TDs (currently 1): needs 1.1/game over remaining 8.
To hit 15 rushing TDs (currently 1): needs 1.8/game over remaining 8.
To hit 20 rushing TDs (currently 1): needs 2.4/game over remaining 8.
What made this player interesting
The fast read on the thing that makes this player more than a generic stat line.
C.J. Stokes's story is about how role and output meet each other. For Charlotte, 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?
Backfield contributor against FBS RB peers.
2025 Season · Final
2025 season snapshot | final
Rushing
CAR
48 57th
YDS
149 49th
YPC
3.1 16th
TD
1 56th
Receiving
REC
5 43rd
YDS
37 42nd
YPR
7.4 57th
TD
0 70th
Game Log · Week-by-week
2025 season · 5 games
| Wk | Opp | CAR | YDS | AVG | TD | LONG | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | L 11-34vs App State | 15 | 49 | 3.3 | 0 | 9 | |
| Wk 2 | L 3-20vs North Carolina | 10 | 7 | 0.7 | 0 | 5 | |
| Wk 3 | W 42-35vs Monmouth | 7 | 40 | 5.7 | 0 | 16 | |
| Wk 4 | L 17-28vs Rice | 3 | -1 | -0.3 | 0 | 7 | |
| Wk 6 | L 26-54@ South Florida | 13 | 54 | 4.2 | 1 | 21 | Season-high 54 yds |
| Total | 48 | 149 | 2.7 | 1 | 21 |
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
2022Michigan13-1HC: Jim Harbaugh · Run-heavy
2023Michigan15-0HC: Jim Harbaugh · Run-heavy, slow tempo
2024Charlotte5-7HC: Biff Poggi · Balanced, slow tempo
2025Charlotte1-11HC: Tim Albin · Balanced, slow tempo
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 | 149 | #376/735 | 49th pct | Volumevs FBS RB |
| Rushing | Rush TD | 1 | #323/739 | 56th pct | Scoringvs FBS RB |
| Rushing | Yards / carry | 3.1 | #619/735 | 16th pct | Efficiencyvs FBS RB |
| Receiving | Receptions | 5 | #315/552 | 43rd pct | Volumevs FBS RB |
| Receiving | Receiving yards | 37 | #317/548 | 42nd pct | Volumevs FBS RB |
| Value | Rushing WEPA | -0.06 | #360/362 | 1st pct | Opponent-adjusted rushing value | 45 weighted playsvs FBS RB |
| Usage | Role share | 17.4% | #122/738 | 84th pct | Share of team offensevs FBS RB |
| Rushing | Carries | 48 | #320/739 | 57th pct | Volumevs FBS RB |
| Rushing | Rushing LONG | 21 | #389/733 | 47th pct | Metricvs FBS RB |
| Receiving | Receiving LONG | 11 | #395/540 | 27th pct | Metricvs FBS RB |
| Receiving | Yards / catch | 7.4 | #237/548 | 57th pct | Efficiencyvs FBS RB |
| Receiving | Receiving TD | 0 | #169/552 | 70th pct | Scoringvs FBS RB |
| Usage | Rush share | 31.4% | #111/738 | 85th pct | Ground-game usagevs FBS RB |
| Usage | 1st-down usage | 20.1% | #141/738 | 81st pct | Early-down loadvs FBS RB |
| Usage | Standard-down usage | 18.6% | #154/738 | 79th pct | Base-situation sharevs FBS RB |
| Usage | 2nd-down usage | 15.1% | #176/738 | 76th pct | Middle-down loadvs FBS RB |
| Usage | Passing-down usage | 15.0% | #68/738 | 91st pct | Known-passing sharevs FBS RB |
| Usage | 3rd-down usage | 13.9% | #97/738 | 87th pct | Money-down loadvs FBS RB |
| Usage | Pass share | 5.0% | #156/738 | 79th pct | Air-game usagevs FBS RB |
| Ball Security | Fumbles lost | 2 | #205/256 | 20th 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 · 5 games
Home vs Road
| YDS/g | YPC | TD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Home4g | 23.8 | 2.4 | 0.0 |
| Road1g | 54.0 | 4.2 | 1.0 |
Win vs Loss
| YDS/g | YPC | TD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wins1g | 40.0 | 5.7 | 0.0 |
| Losses4g | 27.2 | 2.0 | 0.2 |
First half vs Second half
| YDS/g | YPC | TD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-75g | 29.8 | 2.7 | 0.2 |
Pocket and defense-quality (clean vs. pressure) splits are coming soon.
Savant · Box-rate percentiles
Where this profile ranks vs the RB cohort
10Below cohort
Concern: yards / carry (2nd).
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_rushing-0.06Below (<p25) (n=178)
Peer Comparator · Fingerprint match
Three closest profiles by box-rate percentile
C.J. StokesCharlotteTae MeadowsTroy· 51% simChavon WrightNorthern Illinois· 50% simJordan BrunsonMiami (OH)· 50% sim
Rec yards
Receptions
Fumbles lost
Rush TDs
Long run
Carries
Rush 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 Marcel Murray’s 2020 season.
Marcel Murray
72%match
#2
Joshua Fields
69%
#3
Micah Kelly
73%
#4
Amir Rasul
71%
#5
Kevorian Barnes
71%
Matches Marcel on
Rush TD rate
Height
Yards / carry
Differs from Marcel on
Class year (higher)
Receiving share (higher)
Not enough data yet for this comparison.
As a senior, his production profile tracks closest to Kevorian Barnes's senior season at UTSA (2024).
Kevorian Barnes
65%match
#2
Juma Otoviano
59%
#3
Matt Jones
58%
#4
Shadrick Byrd
57%
#5
Dallan Hayden
55%
Matches Kevorian on
Height
Yards / reception
Differs from Kevorian on
Class year (lower)
EPA / carry (adj) (lower)
Weight (lower)
Supporting Cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Tim Albin
Pass share
51.4%
379 pass / 358 run
Plays / game
61.4
12 games
OL sack rate (allowed)
8.9%
302 dropbacks · PBP
Scheme: Balanced, slow tempo.
Coaching Lineage · 2022–2025
3 coaches2022
Peter Rossomando
Charlotte
2023era →
Biff Poggi
Charlotte
2024
Biff Poggi
Charlotte
2025era →
Tim Albin
Charlotte
Played under 3 different head coaches: Peter Rossomando, Biff Poggi, and Tim Albin. Multi-era developmental context.
Bio · Recruiting · Transfer · Roster
Off-field context — switch tabs to drill into recruit profile, transfer arc, or roster timeline.
HometownColumbia, SC
Height5'10"
Weight200 lb
Class3
PositionRB
Jersey23
No fields populated yet.
No fields populated yet.
Current teamCharlotte
ConferenceAmerican Athletic
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.
Roster Timeline
Team, conference, and class by season.
| Season | Team | Conference | Pos | Class | Bio |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Charlotte | American Athletic | RB | 3 | No. 23 | 5-10 | 200 lb | Columbia, SC |
| 2024 | Charlotte | American Athletic | RB | 3 | No. 23 | 5-10 | 200 lb | Columbia, SC |
| 2023 | Michigan | Big Ten | RB | 3 | No. 23 | 5-10 | 200 lb | Columbia, SC |
| 2022 | Michigan | Big Ten | RB | 3 | No. 23 | 5-10 | 200 lb | Columbia, SC |