CFB Zeitgeist Score
40
Mid-pack in the position cohort. Carried by passes defended at the 78th percentile.
DeVonta Smith
Below the discourse floor — the honest stats-only state.
20 TACKLES · 0 SACKS
Where He Ended Up · NFL
PhiladelphiaEntering 6th NFL season
#10Rd 1 · Pick 10
PhiladelphiaEntering 6th NFL season
CB · NOTRE DAME · FBS INDEPENDENTS
DeVonta Smith
- 4
- 5-11 | 196 lb
- Cincinnati, OH
Heisman Heat
#4350
<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 DB AWARD
Jim Thorpe
—
CONSENSUS
All-American
—
Player Standing · 17 rungs
Tier 5 · ApexR16 · POTY / Heisman winner
Position-of-the-Year / Heisman winner. The trophy is in the case.
Not on team2-deepStarterRecognizedEliteApex
Career Arc
HS
Recruit
★★★★
CFB
College
2 teams
NFL
NFL Draft
R1 · #10
Heisman futures · live sportsbook odds
#8 in market ▼ from #6 · 4 books
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 | 4-star | 0.9114 | No. 250 recruit | HighSchool | Alabama |
| 2020 | 4-star | 0.9730 | No. 56 recruit | HighSchool | Alabama |
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 Alabama
Composite
0.9114
#250 national
NFL Draft
2021 · Rd 1, Pick 10
#10 overall · Philadelphia
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 DeVonta Smith
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 DeVonta Smith
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 defensive totals stand
Through 7g
20Tackles
1Tackles for loss
0Sacks
Per game
3Tackles
0.1Tackles for loss
0Sacks
Projected (13g)
37Tackles
1.9Tackles for loss
0Sacks
To hit 80-tackle season (currently 20): needs 10/game over remaining 6.
To hit 100-tackle season (currently 20): needs 13.3/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.
DeVonta Smith is trying to climb the steepest award hill in college football: a defensive candidacy. The hook is the disruption profile on Notre Dame's defense, with 0.0 sacks, 1.0 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.
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
Player identity What kind of player is this?
30-second read
What kind of player is this?
Defensive contributor against FBS defenders.
2025 Season · Final
2025 season snapshot | final
Tackling & Disruption
TOT
20 60th
SOLO
18 74th
TFL
1.0 59th
SACK
0.0 65th
Coverage & Takeaways
PD
3 76th
Game Log · Week-by-week
2025 season · 7 games
| Wk | Opp | TKL | SOLO | TFL | SACK | INT | PD | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | L 24-27@ Miami | 1 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 5 | W 56-13@ Arkansas | 1 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 10 | W 25-10@ Boston College | 2 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 1 | |
| Wk 11 | W 49-10vs Navy | 5 | 4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | Season-high 5 tackles |
| Wk 12 | W 37-15@ Pittsburgh | 3 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 1 | |
| Wk 13 | W 70-7vs Syracuse | 3 | 3 | 1.0 | 0.0 | — | 1 | |
| Wk 14 | W 49-20@ Stanford | 5 | 5 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Total | 20 | 18 | 1.0 | 0.0 | — | 3 |
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
2021Alabama12-1HC: Nick Saban · Balanced, fast tempo
2023Alabama12-2HC: Nick Saban · Run-heavy
2024Alabama9-4HC: Kalen DeBoer · Run-leaning
2025Notre Dame10-2HC: Marcus Freeman · Run-leaning, slow tempo
| Season | Team | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Notre Dame | 20 | 18 | 1.0 | 0.0 | 3 | -- | -- |
| 2024 | Alabama | 30 | 18 | 0.5 | 0.0 | 5 | -- | -- |
| 2023 | Alabama | 4 | 3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | -- | -- | -- |
| 2021 | Alabama | 2 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | -- | -- | -- |
| Career | 4 loaded seasons | 56 | 40 | 1.5 | 0.0 | 8 | -- | -- |
Advanced layer Usage, value, and context
Advanced metrics second
Advanced Metrics
Usage, value, and opponent-adjusted context.
TFL, sacks, and QB hurries are grouped together because defensive Heisman cases are usually built on visible havoc, not on tackle counts alone.
Pass breakups, interceptions, and forced fumbles matter because national awards voters respond to plays that change possessions and highlight reels.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Defense | Total tackles | 20 | #1998/4942 | 60th pct | Volumevs FBS DEF |
| Defense | TFL | 1.0 | #2051/4972 | 59th pct | Disruptionvs FBS DEF |
| Defense | Sacks | 0.0 | #1762/4972 | 65th pct | Disruptionvs FBS DEF |
| Defense | Pass breakups | 3 | #521/2184 | 76th pct | Coveragevs FBS DEF |
| Defense | Solo tackles | 18 | #1178/4584 | 74th pct | Volumevs FBS DEF |
| Defense | Fumbles recovered | 1 | #103/736 | 86th pct | Takeawaysvs FBS DEF |
| Ball Security | Fumbles lost | 0 | #1/773 | 100th pct | Turnoversvs 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
Status—Awaiting tracker
The Thorpe 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 vs Road
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home2g | 4.0 | 0.5 | 0.0 | 0.5 |
| Road5g | 2.4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.4 |
Win vs Loss
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wins6g | 3.2 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.5 |
| Losses1g | 1.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
First half vs Second half
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-72g | 1.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| Weeks 8+5g | 3.6 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.6 |
Pocket and defense-quality (clean vs. pressure) splits are coming soon.
Savant · Box-rate percentiles
Where this profile ranks vs the CB cohort
40Mid-pack
Concern: qb hurries (22nd).
Percentiles versus same-position peers with enough snaps this season, based on box-score rates.
Advanced Savant · CB · 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
DeVonta SmithNotre DameTyler MartinMassachusetts· 70% simTahj Ra-ElPurdue· 68% simDalton JohnsonArizona· 66% sim
Passes defended
Solo tackles
Forced fumbles
Tackles
Tackles for loss
Sacks
QB hurries
Closest peers by overall box-score percentile profile at the same position.
Player DNA
The Cover Corner
Steady in coverage; doesn't get beat deep and rarely gives up the big play.
CB
His 2025 production profile sits closest to DeVonta Smith’s 2024 season.
DeVonta Smith
88%match
NFL Rd 1 · Pk 10
#2
Teldrick Ross
88%
#3
Tavyn Jackson
85%
#4
Jalen Burton
85%
#5
Adrian Cole
82%
Matches DeVonta on
PD rate
Weight
Height
Differs from DeVonta on
Tackle volume (lower)
Not enough data yet for this comparison.
As a senior, his production profile tracks closest to Avarion Cole's senior season at Western Kentucky (2025).
Avarion Cole
100%match
#2
Theran Johnson
All-Big Ten
94%
#3
Jer'Marius Lewis
92%
#4
Al-Ma'Hi Ali
92%
#5
Kyndrich Breedlove
92%
Matches Avarion on
Class year
Height
PD rate
Supporting Cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Marcus Freeman
Pass share
44.0%
321 pass / 409 run
Plays / game
60.8
12 games
OL sack rate (allowed)
4.7%
257 dropbacks · PBP
Scheme: Run-leaning, slow tempo.
Coaching Lineage · 2021–2025
2 coaches2021
Brian Kelly
Notre Dame
2023era →
Marcus Freeman
Notre Dame
2024
Marcus Freeman
Notre Dame
2025
Marcus Freeman
Notre Dame
Coaching transition mid-career: Brian Kelly → Marcus Freeman. 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.
HometownCincinnati, OH
Height5'11"
Weight196 lb
Class4
PositionCB
No fields populated yet.
No fields populated yet.
Current teamNotre Dame
ConferenceFBS Independents
Joined2025
Career arc5 season(s)
Trophy Case · Confirmed honors
What the selectors said
🏆
ALL-AMERICA · CONSENSUS
Consensus AA (2020)
10 first-team selectors
🏅
POSITION AWARDS
Heisman, Walter Camp, Maxwell
2020 season
🎖
ALL-CONFERENCE
All-Conf mention (2020)
All-SEC
Trophy Case · Detail
Every honor on the ledger, broken out by stream and selector.
Heisman Trophy winner
Won the award in 2020. This should always live at the front of the card's trophy case.
1 finalist season
Invited into the official finalist tier in 2020. That belongs in the trophy case, not buried in a table.
11 All-America selections
National selector recognition is one of the strongest non-Heisman signals on a player card and should sit near the top of the showcase.
1 all-conference honor
Conference-level recognition helps anchor whether a player is merely statistically loud or actually viewed as elite within his competitive lane.
Heisman votes in 1 season
Even lower-volume award recognition is worth preserving because it marks seasons where a player entered the national conversation.
Honors Timeline
Season-end distinction and week-by-week recognition on one timeline.
| Season | Honor | Scope | Team / Selector | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Walter Camp | position_award | Alabama | Walter Camp | winner | WR |
| 2020 | Paul Hornung | position_award | Alabama | Paul Hornung | winner | ATH |
| 2020 | Maxwell | position_award | Alabama | Maxwell | winner | WR |
| 2020 | Heisman | position_award | Alabama | Heisman | winner | WR |
| 2020 | Biletnikoff | position_award | Alabama | Biletnikoff | winner | WR |
| 2020 | All-SEC | all_conference | Alabama | SEC | WR |
| 2020 | All-America (CBS) | all_america | Alabama | CBS | first | AP-RET |
| 2020 | All-America (USA Today) | all_america | Alabama | USA Today | first | WR |
| 2020 | All-America (ESPN) | all_america | Alabama | ESPN | first | WR |
| 2020 | All-America (CBS) | all_america | Alabama | CBS | first | WR |
| 2020 | All-America (The Athletic) | all_america | Alabama | The Athletic | first | WR |
| 2020 | All-America (WCFF) | all_america | Alabama | WCFF | first | WR |
| 2020 | All-America (SN) | all_america | Alabama | SN | first | WR |
| 2020 | All-America (FWAA) | all_america | Alabama | FWAA | first | WR |
| 2020 | All-America (AP) | all_america | Alabama | AP | first | WR |
| 2020 | All-America (AFCA) | all_america | Alabama | AFCA | first | WR |
| 2020 | All-America (Consensus) | all_america | Alabama | Consensus | -- |
Heisman By Year
Modeled rank and official finish by season.
| Season | Team | Role | Latest Model | Forecast | Win | Finalist | Official Finish | Points | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Alabama | CB4 | #4350 | #4297 | 0.0% | 0.0% | -- | -- | W16 snapshot | SEC |
| 2023 | Alabama | CB4 | #5431 | #5146 | 0.0% | 0.0% | -- | -- | W19 snapshot | SEC |
| 2022 | Alabama | CB4 | #4549 | #4149 | 0.0% | 0.0% | -- | -- | W20 snapshot | SEC |
| 2021 | Alabama | CB4 | #4220 | #3769 | 0.0% | 0.0% | -- | -- | W20 snapshot | SEC |
| 2020 | Alabama | CB-- | -- | -- | -- | -- | Winner | 1856 | SEC | Won the trophy |
Roster Timeline
Team, conference, and class by season.
| Season | Team | Conference | Pos | Class | Bio |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Notre Dame | FBS Independents | CB | 4 | 5-11 | 196 lb | Cincinnati, OH |
| 2024 | Alabama | SEC | CB | 4 | 5-11 | 196 lb | Cincinnati, OH |
| 2023 | Alabama | SEC | CB | 4 | 5-11 | 196 lb | Cincinnati, OH |
| 2022 | Alabama | SEC | CB | 4 | 5-11 | 196 lb | Cincinnati, OH |
| 2021 | Alabama | SEC | CB | 4 | 5-11 | 196 lb | Cincinnati, OH |