CFB Zeitgeist FB Score
Awaiting
Daba Fofana
Limited signal — not enough coverage for a story yet.
FB · NAVY · AMERICAN ATHLETIC
Daba Fofana
- 4
- #45
- 5-8 | 213 lb
- Cumming, GA
Heisman Heat
#412
<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 0 · Not on teamR01 · Scout team / redshirt
Scout team / redshirt. Developing behind the depth chart.
Not on team2-deepStarterRecognizedEliteApex
Development Trajectory · rushing yards
2022–2024-66%
Sharp dropoff (-66%) — career inflection point.
Career Arc
HS
Recruit
★★
CFB
College
Navy
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 | 2-star | 0.7856 | No. 2604 recruit | HighSchool | Navy |
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 Navy
Composite
0.7856
#2604 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 Daba Fofana
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 Daba Fofana
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.
Scenario Explorer
Available for players with a qualifying signature metric (passing yards, rushing yards, receiving yards, sacks, etc.). The slider projects how a season finishes if the current pace holds.
What made this player interesting
The fast read on the thing that makes this player more than a generic stat line.
Daba Fofana's story is about how role and output meet each other. For Navy, 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.
2024 Season · Final
Traditional stats first. Advanced context underneath.
Last season
OTHER season snapshot
2024 season snapshot | final
2024 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?
This player profile will sharpen as more advanced context is loaded.
Game Log
Week-by-week box
No per-game rows for this season yet — the table fills in as box scores arrive.
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
2022Navy4-8HC: Ken Niumatalolo · Run-heavy
2023Navy5-7HC: Brian Newberry · Run-heavy, slow tempo
2024Navy10-3HC: Brian Newberry · Run-heavy
Advanced layer Usage, value, and context
Advanced metrics second
Advanced Metrics
Usage, value, and opponent-adjusted context.
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 | 263 | #1/53 | 100th pct | Volumevs FBS peers |
| Rushing | Carries | 60 | #1/50 | 100th pct | Volumevs FBS peers |
| Rushing | Rushing LONG | 49 | #1/29 | 100th pct | Metricvs FBS peers |
| Rushing | Yards / carry | 4.4 | #20/49 | 61st pct | Efficiencyvs FBS peers |
| Rushing | Rush TD | 2 | #2/54 | 98th pct | Scoringvs FBS peers |
| Receiving | Receiving LONG | 3 | #4/15 | 80th pct | Metricvs FBS peers |
| Receiving | Receiving yards | 3 | #4/17 | 82nd pct | Volumevs FBS peers |
| Receiving | Yards / catch | 3.0 | #3/15 | 87th pct | Efficiencyvs FBS peers |
| Receiving | Receptions | 1 | #2/16 | 94th pct | Volumevs FBS peers |
| Receiving | Receiving TD | 0 | #5/18 | 78th pct | Scoringvs FBS peers |
| Usage | Rush share | 10.2% | #2/6 | 83rd pct | Ground-game usagevs FBS peers |
| Usage | 1st-down usage | 9.8% | #2/6 | 83rd pct | Early-down loadvs FBS peers |
| Usage | Standard-down usage | 8.9% | #3/6 | 67th pct | Base-situation sharevs FBS peers |
| Usage | Role share | 7.8% | #3/6 | 67th pct | Share of team offensevs FBS peers |
| Usage | 2nd-down usage | 7.7% | #2/6 | 83rd pct | Middle-down loadvs FBS peers |
| Usage | Passing-down usage | 5.3% | #2/6 | 83rd pct | Known-passing sharevs FBS peers |
| Usage | 3rd-down usage | 4.4% | #4/6 | 50th pct | Money-down loadvs FBS peers |
| Usage | Pass share | 0.5% | #3/6 | 67th pct | Air-game usagevs FBS peers |
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 splits
Splits fill in once box scores from at least three games land for this season.
Advanced Savant · FB · 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.
Supporting Cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Brian Newberry
Pass share
22.5%
182 pass / 626 run
Plays / game
62.2
13 games
OL sack rate (allowed)
7.2%
138 dropbacks · PBP
Scheme: Run-heavy.
Coaching Lineage · 2022–2024
2 coaches2022
Ken Niumatalolo
Navy
2023era →
Brian Newberry
Navy
2024
Brian Newberry
Navy
Coaching transition mid-career: Ken Niumatalolo → Brian Newberry. 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.
HometownCumming, GA
Height5'8"
Weight213 lb
Class4
PositionFB
Jersey45
No fields populated yet.
No fields populated yet.
Current teamNavy
ConferenceAmerican Athletic
Joined2024
Career arc3 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 | Navy | FB4 | #412 | #377 | 0.0% | 0.0% | -- | -- | W16 snapshot | American Athletic |
| 2023 | Navy | FB4 | #1443 | #1851 | 0.0% | 0.0% | -- | -- | W19 snapshot | American Athletic |
| 2022 | Navy | FB4 | #1164 | #1507 | 0.0% | 0.0% | -- | -- | W20 snapshot | American Athletic |
Roster Timeline
Team, conference, and class by season.