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OFFSEASON · SUMMER 2026 · COMMITMENT SEASON
Heisman / Players / Devyn Ford /Notre Dame

Devyn Ford

RB · Notre Dame · Sr · #22

Limited signal — not enough coverage for a story yet.

ALUMNUSNotre Dame 2023 alumnus

RB · NOTRE DAME · FBS INDEPENDENTS

Devyn Ford

  • 4
  • #22
  • 5-11 | 200 lb
  • Stafford, VA

CFB Zeitgeist RB Score

Awaiting

Heisman Heat

#1158

<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-deep

R02 · Deep reserve

Deep reserve. In the program, working up the two-deep.

Not on team2-deepStarterRecognizedEliteApex

Development Trajectory · rushing yards

2021–2023
61.02021
37.02022
44.02023

-28%

Sharp dropoff (-28%) — career inflection point.

Career Arc

HS
Recruit
★★★★
#79 national
CFB
College
2 teams
2021–2023
NFL
NFL Draft
—
Not drafted (yet)

Identity & Role

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

PositionRB
Class4
Jersey22
Measurements5-11 | 200 lb
HometownStafford, VA
Primary teamNotre Dame

Recruiting Pedigree

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

Top pedigree 4-star No. 120 recruit
Composite rating 0.9516 HighSchool
Signed with Notre Dame 2022
Origin John Burroughs School St. Louis, MO, USA
Class Profile Context
2022 4-star | 0.9516 No. 120 recruit | HighSchool | Notre Dame
2019 4-star | 0.9643 No. 79 recruit | HighSchool | Penn State

Transfer Arc

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

Portal moves 0 No portal entry on file
Latest destination -- --
Transfer stars -- CFBD transfer rating context
Eligibility -- Transfer date TBD
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 16
Current nowcast#1158Latest modeled ballot order
Season forecast#875Where 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 Notre Dame

Composite

0.9516

#120 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 Devyn Ford

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 Devyn Ford

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.

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.

Devyn Ford's story is about how role and output meet each other. For Notre Dame, 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.

Current place #1158 0.0% win | 0.0% finalist
Role load 3.8% Overall usage share
Profile quirk Blue-chip pedigree No. 120 recruit

2023 Season · Final

Traditional stats first. Advanced context underneath.

Last season

RB season snapshot

2023 season snapshot | final

2023 season snapshot | finalData: CFBD player stats + local Heisman modelPeer context: same position + same level
Scrimmage yards 78 44 rush | 34 rec | #538/735 (27th pct)
Rush TD 0 8 carries | #447/739 (40th pct)
Yards/carry 5.5 Per-rush efficiency | #192/735 (74th pct)
Player identity What kind of player is this?

30-second read

What kind of player is this?

Backfield contributor against FBS RB peers.

Balanced profile

2023 Season · Final

2023 season snapshot | final

Rushing

CAR
8 25th
YDS
44 27th
YPC
5.5 74th
TD
0 40th

Receiving

REC
4 38th
YDS
34 40th
YPR
8.5 67th
TD
1 89th

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 rows Career row

Season context · Team result + system

2021Penn State7-5HC: James Franklin · Balanced
2022Penn State11-2HC: James Franklin · Run-leaning
2023Notre Dame10-3HC: Marcus Freeman · Run-leaning, slow tempo
SeasonTeam
2023Notre Dame8445.50--
2022Penn State7375.30--
2021Penn State14614.40--
Career3 loaded seasons291424.90--
SeasonTeam
2023Notre Dame4348.51--
2022Penn State5316.20--
2021Penn State3186.00--
Career3 loaded seasons12836.91--
Advanced layer Usage, value, and context

Advanced metrics second

Advanced Metrics

Usage, value, and opponent-adjusted context.

Usage Value Context
Rushing WEPA

Opponent-adjusted rushing value. It helps separate empty volume from carries that actually move the scoreboard.

Role share

How much of the team's offense flows through this back once rushing work and receiving work are combined.

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.

Receiving work 4 34 rec yds | #343/552 (38th pct)
Usage 3.8% 6.5% rush share | #603/738 (18th pct)
Rushing WEPA -- Adjusted value feed still loading
Open full stat explorer
0 metrics visible Showing all metrics
Group Metric Value Rank Pct Why it matters
Rushing Rushing yards 44 #538/735 27th pct Volumevs FBS RB
Rushing Rush TD 0 #447/739 40th pct Scoringvs FBS RB
Rushing Yards / carry 5.5 #192/735 74th pct Efficiencyvs FBS RB
Receiving Receptions 4 #343/552 38th pct Volumevs FBS RB
Receiving Receiving yards 34 #330/548 40th pct Volumevs FBS RB
Usage Role share 3.8% #603/738 18th pct Share of team offensevs FBS RB
Rushing Rushing LONG 19 #413/733 44th pct Metricvs FBS RB
Rushing Carries 8 #558/739 25th pct Volumevs FBS RB
Receiving Receiving LONG 12 #365/540 33rd pct Metricvs FBS RB
Receiving Yards / catch 8.5 #183/548 67th pct Efficiencyvs FBS RB
Receiving Receiving TD 1 #60/552 89th pct Scoringvs FBS RB
Returns Kick return yards 148 #46/200 78th pct Volumevs FBS RB
Returns Kick return avg 18.5 #100/199 50th pct Efficiencyvs FBS RB
Returns Kick returns 8 #40/206 81st pct Volumevs FBS RB
Usage Rush share 6.5% #586/738 21st pct Ground-game usagevs FBS RB
Usage Standard-down usage 4.9% #566/738 23rd pct Base-situation sharevs FBS RB
Usage 2nd-down usage 4.5% #576/738 22nd pct Middle-down loadvs FBS RB
Usage 1st-down usage 4.4% #577/738 22nd pct Early-down loadvs FBS RB
Usage 3rd-down usage 2.0% #597/738 19th pct Money-down loadvs FBS RB
Usage Passing-down usage 1.8% #625/738 15th pct Known-passing sharevs FBS RB
Usage Pass share 1.6% #442/738 40th pct Air-game usagevs FBS RB
Ball Security Fumbles lost 1 #78/256 70th 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 splits

Splits fill in once box scores from at least three games land for this season.

Box-score Savant card waits for a season-stat snapshot above the cohort floor. Returns once enough box-score volume lands.

Advanced Savant · RB · 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 returns once this player clears the Savant metric floor (4+ scored bars).
DNA Match awaiting data — similarity scores compute once season stats clear the volume gate for this position cohort.

Supporting Cast · Scheme

Staff and system around the player

2025 season

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 · 2021–2023

2 coaches
2021
Brian Kelly
Notre Dame
2022
Marcus Freeman
Notre Dame
era →
2023
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.

HometownStafford, VA
Height5'11"
Weight200 lb
Class4
PositionRB
Jersey22

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 Notre Dame RB4 #1158 #875 0.0% 0.0% -- -- W16 snapshot | FBS Independents
2023 Notre Dame RB4 #907 #702 0.0% 0.0% -- -- W19 snapshot | FBS Independents
2022 Penn State RB4 #900 #637 0.0% 0.0% -- -- W20 snapshot | Big Ten
2021 Penn State RB4 #1309 #1082 0.0% 0.0% -- -- W20 snapshot | Big Ten

Roster Timeline

Team, conference, and class by season.

Season Team Conference Pos Class Bio
2024 Notre Dame FBS Independents RB 4 No. 22 | 5-11 | 200 lb | Stafford, VA
2023 Notre Dame FBS Independents RB 4 No. 22 | 5-11 | 200 lb | Stafford, VA
2022 Penn State Big Ten RB 4 No. 22 | 5-11 | 200 lb | Stafford, VA
2021 Penn State Big Ten RB 4 No. 22 | 5-11 | 200 lb | Stafford, VA