CFB Zeitgeist Score
6
Below cohort in the position cohort. Carried by rush tds at the 13th percentile.
Caleb Hood
Below the discourse floor — the honest stats-only state.
44 RUSH YDS · 1 RUSH TD · 16 CARRIES
2026 Outlook
Returning to North Carolina for 2026
2026 Depth chart
Returning starter
Running back · North Carolina
Returning around him
- 16% of 2024 offensive production back (Heavy turnover)
- Transfer portal: -11 net (20 in / 31 out)
2026 Award watch
No preseason watch lists yet (most drop June 15 – July 15)
North Carolina · Last season: 4-8 · Talent rank #31 · 2026 recruiting class #41
RB · NORTH CAROLINA · ACC
Caleb Hood
- 4
- #4
- 6-0 | 220 lb
- Rockingham, NC
Heisman Heat
#2007
<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 2 · StarterR05 · Part-time starter
Part-time starter. Splitting first-team reps.
Not on team2-deepStarterRecognizedEliteApex
Development Trajectory · rushing yards
2021–2025-55%
Sharp dropoff (-55%) — career inflection point.
Career Arc
HS
Recruit
★★★
CFB
College
North Carolina
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 |
|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 3-star | 0.8689 | No. 702 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—
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
0.8689
#702 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 Caleb Hood
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 Caleb Hood
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
44Rush yards
16Carries
1Rush TDs
Per game
8.8Rush yards
3Carries
0Rush TDs
Projected (13g)
114.4Rush yards
42Carries
3Rush TDs
To hit 750-yard season (currently 44): needs 88.2/game over remaining 8.
To hit 1,000-yard season (currently 44): needs 119.5/game over remaining 8.
To hit 1,500-yard season (currently 44): needs 182/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.
Caleb Hood's story is about how role and output meet each other. For North Carolina, 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
16 36th
YDS
44 27th
YPC
2.8 11th
TD
1 56th
Receiving
REC
6 47th
YDS
29 37th
YPR
4.8 22nd
TD
0 70th
Game Log · Week-by-week
2025 season · 5 games
| Wk | Opp | CAR | YDS | AVG | TD | LONG | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | L 14-48vs TCU | 10 | 31 | 3.1 | 1 | 9 | Season-high 31 yds |
| Wk 2 | W 20-3@ Charlotte | 5 | 15 | 3.0 | 0 | 7 | |
| Wk 4 | L 9-34@ UCF | — | — | — | — | — | |
| Wk 6 | L 10-38vs Clemson | 1 | -2 | -2.0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Wk 8 | L 18-21@ California | — | — | — | — | — | |
| Total | 16 | 44 | 1.4 | 1 | 9 |
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
2021North Carolina6-6HC: Mack Brown · Run-leaning
2022North Carolina9-5HC: Mack Brown · Balanced
2023North Carolina8-5HC: Mack Brown · Balanced
2025North Carolina4-8HC: Bill Belichick · Balanced, slow tempo
| Season | Team | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | North Carolina | 16 | 44 | 2.8 | 1 | -- |
| 2023 | North Carolina | 15 | 43 | 2.9 | 1 | -- |
| 2022 | North Carolina | 43 | 250 | 5.8 | 0 | -- |
| 2021 | North Carolina | 22 | 97 | 4.4 | 1 | -- |
| Career | 4 loaded seasons | 96 | 434 | 4.5 | 3 | -- |
| Season | Team | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | North Carolina | 6 | 29 | 4.8 | 0 | -- |
| 2023 | North Carolina | 1 | 9 | 9.0 | 0 | -- |
| 2022 | North Carolina | 13 | 119 | 9.2 | 1 | -- |
| 2021 | North Carolina | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Career | 4 loaded seasons | 20 | 157 | 7.8 | 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 | 44 | #538/735 | 27th pct | Volumevs FBS RB |
| Rushing | Rush TD | 1 | #323/739 | 56th pct | Scoringvs FBS RB |
| Rushing | Yards / carry | 2.8 | #653/735 | 11th pct | Efficiencyvs FBS RB |
| Receiving | Receptions | 6 | #291/552 | 47th pct | Volumevs FBS RB |
| Receiving | Receiving yards | 29 | #347/548 | 37th pct | Volumevs FBS RB |
| Usage | Role share | 12.9% | #227/738 | 69th pct | Share of team offensevs FBS RB |
| Rushing | Carries | 16 | #475/739 | 36th pct | Volumevs FBS RB |
| Rushing | Rushing LONG | 9 | #583/733 | 21st pct | Metricvs FBS RB |
| Receiving | Receiving LONG | 15 | #296/540 | 45th pct | Metricvs FBS RB |
| Receiving | Yards / catch | 4.8 | #428/548 | 22nd pct | Efficiencyvs FBS RB |
| Receiving | Receiving TD | 0 | #169/552 | 70th pct | Scoringvs FBS RB |
| Usage | Rush share | 18.5% | #281/738 | 62nd pct | Ground-game usagevs FBS RB |
| Usage | 1st-down usage | 14.7% | #234/738 | 68th pct | Early-down loadvs FBS RB |
| Usage | 2nd-down usage | 14.0% | #210/738 | 72nd pct | Middle-down loadvs FBS RB |
| Usage | Passing-down usage | 14.0% | #88/738 | 88th pct | Known-passing sharevs FBS RB |
| Usage | Standard-down usage | 12.4% | #288/738 | 61st pct | Base-situation sharevs FBS RB |
| Usage | 3rd-down usage | 10.8% | #178/738 | 76th pct | Money-down loadvs FBS RB |
| Usage | Pass share | 7.3% | #72/738 | 90th pct | Air-game usagevs 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 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Home2g | 14.5 | 0.6 | 0.5 |
| Road3g | 5.0 | 3.0 | 0.0 |
Win vs Loss
| YDS/g | YPC | TD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wins1g | 15.0 | 3.0 | 0.0 |
| Losses4g | 7.2 | 0.6 | 0.2 |
First half vs Second half
| YDS/g | YPC | TD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-74g | 11.0 | 1.4 | 0.2 |
| Weeks 8+1g | — | — | — |
Pocket and defense-quality (clean vs. pressure) splits are coming soon.
Savant · Box-rate percentiles
Where this profile ranks vs the RB cohort
6Below cohort
Concern: carries (0th).
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.
Advanced opponent-adjusted metrics are coming soon for this player. Selected cohort: P4.
Peer Comparator · Fingerprint match
Three closest profiles by box-rate percentile
Caleb HoodNorth CarolinaTae MeadowsTroy· 46% simChavon WrightNorthern Illinois· 45% simJordan BrunsonMiami (OH)· 43% sim
Receptions
Rec yards
Rush TDs
Yards / carry
Rush yards
Long run
Carries
Closest peers by overall box-score percentile profile at the same position.
Supporting Cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Bill Belichick
Pass share
51.1%
355 pass / 340 run
Plays / game
57.9
12 games
OL sack rate (allowed)
8.4%
262 dropbacks · PBP
Scheme: Balanced, slow tempo.
Coaching Lineage · 2021–2025
2 coaches2021
Mack Brown
North Carolina
2022
Mack Brown
North Carolina
2023
Mack Brown
North Carolina
2025era →
Bill Belichick
North Carolina
Coaching transition mid-career: Mack Brown → Bill Belichick. 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.
HometownRockingham, NC
Height6'0"
Weight220 lb
Class4
PositionRB
Jersey4
No fields populated yet.
No fields populated yet.
Current teamNorth Carolina
ConferenceACC
Joined2025
Career arc5 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 | North Carolina | RB4 | #2007 | #2076 | 0.0% | 0.0% | -- | -- | W16 snapshot | ACC |
| 2023 | North Carolina | RB4 | #1350 | #1189 | 0.0% | 0.0% | -- | -- | W19 snapshot | ACC |
| 2022 | North Carolina | RB4 | #724 | #683 | 0.0% | 0.0% | -- | -- | W20 snapshot | ACC |
| 2021 | North Carolina | RB4 | #1260 | #1192 | 0.0% | 0.0% | -- | -- | W20 snapshot | ACC |
Roster Timeline
Team, conference, and class by season.
| Season | Team | Conference | Pos | Class | Bio |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | North Carolina | ACC | RB | 4 | No. 4 | 6-0 | 220 lb | Rockingham, NC |
| 2024 | North Carolina | ACC | RB | 4 | No. 4 | 6-0 | 220 lb | Rockingham, NC |
| 2023 | North Carolina | ACC | RB | 4 | No. 4 | 6-0 | 220 lb | Rockingham, NC |
| 2022 | North Carolina | ACC | RB | 4 | No. 4 | 6-0 | 220 lb | Rockingham, NC |
| 2021 | North Carolina | ACC | RB | 4 | No. 4 | 6-0 | 220 lb | Rockingham, NC |