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Heisman / Players / Eric Gray /Oklahoma

Eric Gray

RB · Oklahoma · Sr

Limited signal — not enough coverage for a story yet.

NOW IN NFLNew York — drafted 2023, Rd 5, Pick 38, #172 overall

Where He Ended Up · NFL

New YorkEntering 4th NFL season

#172Rd 5 · Pick 38
New YorkEntering 4th NFL season

RB · OKLAHOMA · BIG 12

Eric Gray

  • 4
  • 5-10 | 211 lb
  • Memphis, TN

CFB Zeitgeist RB Score

Awaiting

Heisman Heat

#177

<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

CONSENSUS

All-American

Player Standing · 17 rungs

Tier 0 · Not on team

R01 · Scout team / redshirt

Scout team / redshirt. Developing behind the depth chart.

Not on team2-deepStarterRecognizedEliteApex

Development Trajectory · rushing yards

2021–2022
4122021
1,3642022

+231%

Up 231% from first season to most-recent.

Career Arc

HS
Recruit
★★★★
#185 national
CFB
College
Oklahoma
2021–2022
NFL
NFL Draft
R5 &middot; #172
New York &middot; 2023

Identity & Role

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

PositionRB
Class4
Jersey--
Measurements5-10 | 211 lb
HometownMemphis, TN
Primary teamOklahoma

Recruiting Pedigree

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

Top pedigree 4-star No. 185 recruit
Composite rating 0.9243 HighSchool
Signed with Tennessee 2019
Origin Lausanne Collegiate School Memphis, TN, USA
Class Profile Context
2019 4-star | 0.9243 No. 185 recruit | HighSchool | Tennessee

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 · 2022 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 20
Current nowcast#177Latest modeled ballot order
Season forecast#265Where 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 Tennessee

Composite

0.9243

#185 national

NFL Draft

2023 · Rd 5, Pick 38

#172 overall · New York

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 Eric Gray

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 Eric Gray

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.

Why this is more than a rushing profile

The fast read on the thing that makes this player more than a generic stat line.

Eric Gray is not a one-lane back. The profile is interesting because the workload spills beyond pure rushing volume: 1,364 rushing yards, 33 catches, and 0 return yards for Oklahoma. That kind of all-purpose footprint gives the card a much richer story than a basic carry total.

Current place #177 0.0% win | 0.0% finalist
Role load 13.3% Overall usage share
Profile quirk Blue-chip pedigree No. 185 recruit

2022 Season · Final

Traditional stats first. Advanced context underneath.

Last season

RB season snapshot

2022 season snapshot | final

2022 season snapshot | finalData: CFBD player stats + local Heisman modelPeer context: same position + same level
Scrimmage yards 1,593 1,364 rush | 229 rec | #9/735 (99th pct)
Rush TD 11 213 carries | #27/739 (96th pct)
Yards/carry 6.4 Per-rush efficiency | #86/735 (88th pct)
Player identity What kind of player is this?

30-second read

What kind of player is this?

Workhorse | Efficient runner | Passing-game back against FBS RB peers.

WorkhorseEfficient runnerPassing-game back

2022 Season · Final

2022 season snapshot | final

Rushing

CAR
213 98th
YDS
1,364 99th
YPC
6.4 88th
TD
11 96th

Receiving

REC
33 96th
YDS
229 94th
YPR
6.9 49th
TD
0 70th

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

2021Oklahoma10-2HC: Bob Stoops · Balanced
2022Oklahoma6-7HC: Brent Venables · Run-leaning, fast tempo
SeasonTeam
2022Oklahoma2131,3646.411--
2021Oklahoma784125.32--
Career2 loaded seasons2911,7766.113--
SeasonTeam
2022Oklahoma332296.90--
2021Oklahoma2322910.02--
Career2 loaded seasons564588.22--
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 33 229 rec yds | #24/552 (96th pct)
Usage 13.3% 20.1% rush share | #218/738 (71st pct)
Rushing WEPA +0.14 Opponent-adjusted rush value | #141/362 (61st pct)
Open full stat explorer
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Group Metric Value Rank Pct Why it matters
Rushing Rushing yards 1,364 #9/735 99th pct Volumevs FBS RB
Rushing Rush TD 11 #27/739 96th pct Scoringvs FBS RB
Rushing Yards / carry 6.4 #86/735 88th pct Efficiencyvs FBS RB
Receiving Receptions 33 #24/552 96th pct Volumevs FBS RB
Receiving Receiving yards 229 #36/548 94th pct Volumevs FBS RB
Value Rushing WEPA +0.14 #141/362 61st pct Opponent-adjusted rushing value | 63 weighted playsvs FBS RB
Usage Role share 13.3% #218/738 71st pct Share of team offensevs FBS RB
Rushing Carries 213 #18/739 98th pct Volumevs FBS RB
Rushing Rushing LONG 54 #136/733 82nd pct Metricvs FBS RB
Receiving Receiving LONG 24 #174/540 68th pct Metricvs FBS RB
Receiving Yards / catch 6.9 #281/548 49th pct Efficiencyvs FBS RB
Receiving Receiving TD 0 #169/552 70th pct Scoringvs FBS RB
Usage Rush share 20.1% #260/738 65th pct Ground-game usagevs FBS RB
Usage 1st-down usage 16.2% #204/738 72nd pct Early-down loadvs FBS RB
Usage Standard-down usage 14.9% #222/738 70th pct Base-situation sharevs FBS RB
Usage 2nd-down usage 11.9% #270/738 64th pct Middle-down loadvs FBS RB
Usage Passing-down usage 9.3% #231/738 69th pct Known-passing sharevs FBS RB
Usage 3rd-down usage 7.9% #292/738 61st pct Money-down loadvs FBS RB
Usage Pass share 6.9% #87/738 88th 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

StatusAwaiting 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 · 2022

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

Brent Venables

Pass share

50.4%

429 pass / 423 run

Plays / game

65.5

13 games

OL sack rate (allowed)

7.0%

345 dropbacks · PBP

Scheme: Balanced.

Coaching Lineage · 2021–2022

2 coaches
2021
Bob Stoops
Oklahoma
2022
Brent Venables
Oklahoma
era →

Coaching transition mid-career: Bob Stoops → Brent Venables. 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.

HometownMemphis, TN
Height5'10"
Weight211 lb
Class4
PositionRB

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
2022 Oklahoma RB4 #177 #265 0.0% 0.0% -- -- W20 snapshot | Big 12
2021 Oklahoma RB4 #215 #167 0.0% 0.0% -- -- W20 snapshot | Big 12

Roster Timeline

Team, conference, and class by season.

Season Team Conference Pos Class Bio
2022 Oklahoma Big 12 RB 4 5-10 | 211 lb | Memphis, TN
2021 Oklahoma Big 12 RB 4 5-10 | 211 lb | Memphis, TN