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Jerrion Ealy

RB · Ole Miss · So · #9

Limited signal — not enough coverage for a story yet.

ALUMNUSOle Miss 2021 alumnus

RB · OLE MISS · SEC

Jerrion Ealy

  • 2
  • #9
  • 5-8 | 190 lb
  • Walnut Grove, MS

CFB Zeitgeist RB Score

Awaiting

Heisman Heat

#71

<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 1 · 2-deep

R02 · Deep reserve

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

Not on team2-deepStarterRecognizedEliteApex

Career Arc

HS
Recruit
★★★★★
#29 national
CFB
College
Ole Miss
2021
NFL
NFL Draft
Not drafted (yet)

Identity & Role

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

PositionRB
Class2
Jersey9
Measurements5-8 | 190 lb
HometownWalnut Grove, MS
Primary teamOle Miss

Recruiting Pedigree

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

Top pedigree 5-star No. 29 recruit
Composite rating 0.9870 HighSchool
Signed with Ole Miss 2019
Origin Jackson Prep Flowood, MS, USA
Class Profile Context
2019 5-star | 0.9870 No. 29 recruit | HighSchool | Ole Miss

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 · 2021 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#71Latest modeled ballot order
Season forecast#60Where 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 Ole Miss

Composite

0.9870

#29 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 Jerrion Ealy

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 Jerrion Ealy

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.

Jerrion Ealy is not a one-lane back. The profile is interesting because the workload spills beyond pure rushing volume: 768 rushing yards, 32 catches, and 306 return yards for Ole Miss. That kind of all-purpose footprint gives the card a much richer story than a basic carry total.

Current place #71 0.0% win | 0.0% finalist
Role load 18.5% Overall usage share
Profile quirk Blue-chip pedigree No. 29 recruit

2021 Season · Final

Traditional stats first. Advanced context underneath.

Last season

RB season snapshot

2021 season snapshot | final

2021 season snapshot | finalData: CFBD player stats + local Heisman modelPeer context: same position + same level
Scrimmage yards 986 768 rush | 218 rec | #70/735 (91st pct)
Rush TD 5 133 carries | #115/739 (85th pct)
Yards/carry 5.8 Per-rush efficiency | #139/735 (81st 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

2021 Season · Final

2021 season snapshot | final

Rushing

CAR
133 88th
YDS
768 91st
YPC
5.8 81st
TD
5 85th

Receiving

REC
32 95th
YDS
218 93rd
YPR
6.8 48th
TD
2 97th

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

2021Ole Miss10-2HC: Lane Kiffin · Run-leaning, fast tempo
SeasonTeam
2021Ole Miss1337685.85--
Career1 loaded season1337685.85--
SeasonTeam
2021Ole Miss322186.82--
Career1 loaded season322186.82--
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 32 218 rec yds | #28/552 (95th pct)
Usage 18.5% 27.6% rush share | #109/738 (85th pct)
Rushing WEPA +0.35 Opponent-adjusted rush value | #3/362 (99th pct)
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Group Metric Value Rank Pct Why it matters
Rushing Rushing yards 768 #70/735 91st pct Volumevs FBS RB
Rushing Rush TD 5 #115/739 85th pct Scoringvs FBS RB
Rushing Yards / carry 5.8 #139/735 81st pct Efficiencyvs FBS RB
Receiving Receptions 32 #28/552 95th pct Volumevs FBS RB
Receiving Receiving yards 218 #42/548 93rd pct Volumevs FBS RB
Value Rushing WEPA +0.35 #3/362 99th pct Opponent-adjusted rushing value | 134 weighted playsvs FBS RB
Usage Role share 18.5% #109/738 85th pct Share of team offensevs FBS RB
Rushing Carries 133 #89/739 88th pct Volumevs FBS RB
Rushing Rushing LONG 70 #62/733 92nd pct Metricvs FBS RB
Receiving Receiving LONG 22 #198/540 64th pct Metricvs FBS RB
Receiving Yards / catch 6.8 #287/548 48th pct Efficiencyvs FBS RB
Receiving Receiving TD 2 #20/552 97th pct Scoringvs FBS RB
Returns Kick return yards 306 #21/200 90th pct Volumevs FBS RB
Returns Kick return avg 23.5 #40/199 80th pct Efficiencyvs FBS RB
Returns Kick returns 13 #15/206 93rd pct Volumevs FBS RB
Usage Rush share 27.6% #148/738 80th pct Ground-game usagevs FBS RB
Usage Standard-down usage 20.7% #115/738 85th pct Base-situation sharevs FBS RB
Usage 1st-down usage 20.4% #134/738 82nd pct Early-down loadvs FBS RB
Usage 3rd-down usage 17.2% #46/738 94th pct Money-down loadvs FBS RB
Usage 2nd-down usage 16.5% #142/738 81st pct Middle-down loadvs FBS RB
Usage Passing-down usage 13.8% #93/738 88th pct Known-passing sharevs FBS RB
Usage Pass share 7.7% #64/738 91st pct Air-game usagevs FBS RB
Ball Security Fumbles lost 0 #1/256 100th 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 · 2021

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

Lane Kiffin

Pass share

48.2%

521 pass / 560 run

Plays / game

72.1

15 games

OL sack rate (allowed)

4.5%

330 dropbacks · PBP

Scheme: Balanced.

Coaching Lineage · 2021

1 coach
2021
Lane Kiffin
Ole Miss

Played his entire career under Lane Kiffin.

Bio · Recruiting · Transfer · Roster

Off-field context — switch tabs to drill into recruit profile, transfer arc, or roster timeline.

HometownWalnut Grove, MS
Height5'8"
Weight190 lb
Class2
PositionRB
Jersey9

Trophy Case · Confirmed honors

What the selectors said

3 entries
🥈

ALL-CONFERENCE · 1ST TEAM

All-Conf 1st team (2021)

All-SEC

Trophy Case · Detail

Every honor on the ledger, broken out by stream and selector.

All-Conference

3 all-conference honors

Conference-level recognition helps anchor whether a player is merely statistically loud or actually viewed as elite within his competitive lane.

Honors Timeline

Season-end distinction and week-by-week recognition on one timeline.

Season Honor Scope Team / Selector Context
2021 All-SEC all_conference Ole Miss | SEC RB
2021 All-SEC all_conference Ole Miss | SEC AP
2020 All-SEC all_conference Ole Miss | SEC AP

Heisman By Year

Modeled rank and official finish by season.

Season Team Role Latest Model Forecast Win Finalist Official Finish Points Context
2021 Ole Miss RB2 #71 #60 0.0% 0.0% -- -- W20 snapshot | SEC

Roster Timeline

Team, conference, and class by season.

Season Team Conference Pos Class Bio
2021 Ole Miss SEC RB 2 No. 9 | 5-8 | 190 lb | Walnut Grove, MS