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Heisman / Players / Jimmy Wyrick /UTSA

Jimmy Wyrick

S · UTSA · So · #18

Below the discourse floor — the honest stats-only state.

62 TACKLES · 0 SACKS

IN PORTALIn transfer portal — destination TBD (from UTSA)

In Portal · 2026

In transfer portal

2025UTSA
DestinationTBD

S · UTSA · AMERICAN ATHLETIC

Jimmy Wyrick

  • 2
  • #18
  • 5-10 | 185 lb
  • Dallas, TX

CFB Zeitgeist Score

48

Mid-pack in the position cohort. Carried by passes defended at the 98th percentile.

Heisman Heat

#12962

<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 2 · Starter

R07 · Impact starter

Impact starter. Producing measurable value above replacement.

Not on team2-deepStarterRecognizedEliteApex

Career Arc

HS
Recruit
★★★
#683 national
CFB
College
2 teams
2021–2025
NFL
NFL Draft
Not drafted (yet)

Identity & Role

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

PositionS
Class2
Jersey18
Measurements5-10 | 185 lb
HometownDallas, TX
Primary teamUTSA

Recruiting Pedigree

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

Top pedigree 3-star No. 683 recruit
Composite rating 0.8704 HighSchool
Signed with -- 2021
Origin South Oak Cliff Dallas, TX, USA
Class Profile Context
2021 3-star | 0.8704 No. 683 recruit | HighSchool

Transfer Arc

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

Portal moves 2 Programs changed on file
Latest destination -- 2026
Transfer stars 3-star CFBD transfer rating context
Eligibility Immediate Dec 20, 2025
Season Move Context
2026 UTSA -> -- 3-star | 0.8500 | Immediate
2024 Stanford -> UTSA 3-star | Immediate

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#12962Latest modeled ballot order
Season forecast#13045Where 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 —

Composite

0.8704

#683 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 Jimmy Wyrick

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 Jimmy Wyrick

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.

Season Pace · Projection

Where the defensive totals stand

final
Through 13g
62Tackles
0.5Tackles for loss
0Sacks
Per game
5Tackles
0Tackles for loss
0Sacks
Final
62Tackles
0.5Tackles for loss
0Sacks

Why this is a rare defensive case

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

Jimmy Wyrick is trying to climb the steepest award hill in college football: a defensive candidacy. The hook is the disruption profile on UTSA's defense, with 0.0 sacks, 0.5 tackles for loss, and 1 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.

Current place #12962 0.0% win | 0.0% finalist
Role load -- Role share still loading
Profile quirk Transfer path 2 portal moves

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
Total tackles 62 42 solo | #373/4942 (92nd pct)
TFL 0.5 Backfield disruption | #2658/4972 (47th pct)
Sacks 0.0 Pass-rush finish | #1762/4972 (65th pct)
Player identity What kind of player is this?

30-second read

What kind of player is this?

Coverage splash | High-volume tackler against FBS defenders.

Coverage splashHigh-volume tackler

2025 Season · Final

2025 season snapshot | final

Tackling & Disruption

TOT
62 92nd
SOLO
42 96th
TFL
0.5 47th
SACK
0.0 65th

Coverage & Takeaways

PD
8 98th
INT
1 65th

Game Log · Week-by-week

2025 season · 13 games

Box score · CFBD
WkOppTKLSOLOTFLSACKINTPDNote
Wk 1L 24-42@ Texas A&M540.00.00
Wk 2L 36-43vs Texas State640.00.00
Wk 3W 48-20vs Incarnate Word440.00.00
Wk 4W 17-16@ Colorado State1150.50.00Season-high 11 tackles
Wk 6L 21-27@ Temple220.00.02
Wk 7W 61-13vs Rice220.00.01
Wk 8L 17-55@ North Texas310.00.02
Wk 10W 48-26vs Tulane750.00.01
Wk 11L 23-55@ South Florida630.00.00
Wk 12W 28-7@ Charlotte220.00.00
Wk 13W 58-24vs East Carolina440.00.01
Wk 14L 24-27vs Army960.00.01
BowlW 57-20vs Florida International100.00.010
Total62420.50.018
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

2021Stanford3-9HC: David Shaw · Balanced, slow tempo
2022Stanford3-9HC: David Shaw · Balanced
2023Stanford3-9HC: Troy Taylor · Balanced
2024UTSA7-6HC: Jeff Traylor · Balanced, fast tempo
2025UTSA7-6HC: Jeff Traylor · Balanced
SeasonTeam
2025UTSA62420.50.081--
2024UTSA1070.00.0------
2023Stanford110.00.01----
2022Stanford530.00.01----
2021Stanford22150.00.051--
Career5 loaded seasons100680.50.0152--
Advanced layer Usage, value, and context

Advanced metrics second

Advanced Metrics

Usage, value, and opponent-adjusted context.

Usage Value Context
Disruption stats

TFL, sacks, and QB hurries are grouped together because defensive Heisman cases are usually built on visible havoc, not on tackle counts alone.

Coverage splash

Pass breakups, interceptions, and forced fumbles matter because national awards voters respond to plays that change possessions and highlight reels.

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.

INT 1 0 pick-six TD | #308/869 (65th pct)
Pass breakups 8 Coverage disruption | #45/2184 (98th pct)
QB pressures 0 Quarterback hurries
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Group Metric Value Rank Pct Why it matters
Defense Total tackles 62 #373/4942 92nd pct Volumevs FBS DEF
Defense TFL 0.5 #2658/4972 47th pct Disruptionvs FBS DEF
Defense Sacks 0.0 #1762/4972 65th pct Disruptionvs FBS DEF
Defense Interceptions 1 #308/869 65th pct Takeawaysvs FBS DEF
Defense Pass breakups 8 #45/2184 98th pct Coveragevs FBS DEF
Defense Solo tackles 42 #165/4584 96th pct Volumevs FBS DEF
Defense Fumbles recovered 2 #13/736 98th 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

StatusAwaiting 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 · 13 games

Home/Road · Win/Loss · Season halves

Home vs Road

TKL/gTFL/gSACK/gPD/g
Home7g4.70.00.00.6
Road6g4.80.10.00.7

Win vs Loss

TKL/gTFL/gSACK/gPD/g
Wins7g4.40.10.00.4
Losses6g5.20.00.00.8

First half vs Second half

TKL/gTFL/gSACK/gPD/g
Weeks 1-77g4.40.10.00.4
Weeks 8+6g5.20.00.00.8

Pocket and defense-quality (clean vs. pressure) splits are coming soon.

Savant · Box-rate percentiles

Where this profile ranks vs the S cohort

48Mid-pack
8 metrics · season cumulative

Elite: passes defended (97th). Strength: solo tackles (94th). Concern: tackles for loss (18th).

Passes defended#45 / 2975 · 98th pct
8defe
Solo tackles#165 / 2975 · 94th pct
42defe
Tackles#373 / 2975 · 87th pct
62defe
Forced fumbles#36 / 687 · 47th pct
0fumb
Interceptions#304 / 817 · 31st pct
1inte
Sacks#1575 / 2975 · 24th pct
0.0defe
QB hurries#1662 / 2975 · 22nd pct
0defe
Tackles for loss#2332 / 2975 · 18th pct
0.5defe

Percentiles versus same-position peers with enough snaps this season, based on box-score rates.

Advanced Savant · S · 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 · Fingerprint match

Three closest profiles by box-rate percentile

3 peers · 8 metrics
Jimmy WyrickUTSATahj Ra-ElPurdue· 85% simTyler MartinMassachusetts· 80% simBrevin HamblinUtah State· 77% sim
Passes defended
98
Wyrick
91
Ra-El
67
Martin
98
Hamblin
Solo tackles
94
Wyrick
100
Ra-El
87
Martin
99
Hamblin
Tackles
87
Wyrick
99
Ra-El
98
Martin
99
Hamblin
Forced fumbles
47
Wyrick
47
Ra-El
47
Martin
47
Hamblin
Interceptions
31
Wyrick
31
Martin
31
Hamblin
Sacks
24
Wyrick
24
Ra-El
24
Martin
74
Hamblin
QB hurries
22
Wyrick
22
Ra-El
22
Martin
22
Hamblin
Tackles for loss
18
Wyrick
56
Ra-El
63
Martin
56
Hamblin

Closest peers by overall box-score percentile profile at the same position.

Player DNA

The Box Safety

Lives near the line of scrimmage as a de facto extra linebacker.

S

His 2025 production profile sits closest to Jonathan McGill’s 2022 season.

Jonathan McGill

75%match

Stanford · 2022

#2

Robert Kennedy

Old Dominion · 2022

74%
#3

Mac McWilliams

UAB · 2023

NFL Rd 5
70%
#4

C.J. Coldon

Wyoming · 2021

All-Mountain West
70%
#5

Brent Gordon Jr.

Louisiana · 2025

70%

Matches Jonathan on

Interceptions
PD rate
Weight

Differs from Jonathan on

Class year (lower)

Not enough data yet for this comparison.

As a graduate, his production profile tracks closest to Marcus Williams's graduate season at Rice (2025).

Marcus Williams

2%match

Rice · 2025

#2

Jyron Gilmore

Georgia Tech · 2025

0%
#3

Jaheem Joseph

UNLV · 2025

0%
#4

J'Dan Burnett

Tulsa · 2025

0%
#5

Isaac Walker

Jacksonville State · 2025

All-Sun Belt
0%

Matches Marcus on

Tackle volume
Weight
Height

Differs from Marcus on

Class year (lower)
PD rate (higher)

Supporting Cast · Scheme

Staff and system around the player

2025 season

Head Coach

Jeff Traylor

Pass share

50.7%

446 pass / 434 run

Plays / game

67.7

13 games

OL sack rate (allowed)

6.0%

281 dropbacks · PBP

Scheme: Balanced.

Coaching Lineage · 2021–2025

1 coach
2021
Jeff Traylor
UTSA
2022
Jeff Traylor
UTSA
2023
Jeff Traylor
UTSA
2024
Jeff Traylor
UTSA
2025
Jeff Traylor
UTSA

Played his entire career under Jeff Traylor.

Bio · Recruiting · Transfer · Roster

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

HometownDallas, TX
Height5'10"
Weight185 lb
Class2
PositionS
Jersey18

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 UTSA S2 #12962 #13045 0.0% 0.0% -- -- W16 snapshot | American Athletic
2023 Stanford S2 #15311 #15453 0.0% 0.0% -- -- W19 snapshot | Pac-12
2022 Stanford S2 #14173 #14333 0.0% 0.0% -- -- W20 snapshot | Pac-12
2021 Stanford S2 #11199 #11464 0.0% 0.0% -- -- W20 snapshot | Pac-12

Roster Timeline

Team, conference, and class by season.

Season Team Conference Pos Class Bio
2025 UTSA American Athletic S 2 No. 18 | 5-10 | 185 lb | Dallas, TX
2024 UTSA American Athletic S 2 No. 18 | 5-10 | 185 lb | Dallas, TX
2023 Stanford Pac-12 S 2 No. 18 | 5-10 | 185 lb | Dallas, TX
2022 Stanford Pac-12 S 2 No. 18 | 5-10 | 185 lb | Dallas, TX
2021 Stanford Pac-12 S 2 No. 18 | 5-10 | 185 lb | Dallas, TX