CFB Zeitgeist Score
1
Below cohort in the position cohort. Carried by rush tds at the 3rd percentile.
John Emery Jr.
Below the discourse floor — the honest stats-only state.
4 RUSH YDS · 0 RUSH TD · 4 CARRIES
2026 Outlook
Returning to UTSA for 2026
2026 Depth chart
Returning starter
Running back · UTSA
Returning around him
- 96% of 2024 offensive production back (Strong continuity)
- Transfer portal: -2 net (21 in / 23 out)
2026 Award watch
No preseason watch lists yet (most drop June 15 – July 15)
UTSA · Last season: 7-6 · Talent rank #65 · 2026 recruiting class #107
RB · UTSA · AMERICAN ATHLETIC
John Emery Jr.
- 4
- #14
- 6-0 | 220 lb
- Saint Rose, LA
Heisman Heat
#520
<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 2 · StarterR05 · Part-time starter
Part-time starter. Splitting first-team reps.
Not on team2-deepStarterRecognizedEliteApex
Development Trajectory · rushing yards
2022–2025-99%
Sharp dropoff (-99%) — career inflection point.
Career Arc
HS
Recruit
★★★★★
CFB
College
2 teams
NFL
NFL Draft
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 5-star | 0.9929 | No. 13 recruit | HighSchool | LSU |
Transfer Arc
Portal movement changes role, context, and perception. This keeps that path in one place.
| Season | Move | Context |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | LSU -> UTSA | 3-star | 0.8500 | Immediate |
| 2024 | LSU -> LSU | 3-star | 0.8600 | 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 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 LSU
Composite
0.9929
#13 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
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 John Emery Jr.
Fan sentiment ·
Belief Meter
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Awaiting per-cohort signal
Top Take
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Trajectory
Per-cohort trajectory lands when historical bucket data is aggregated.
Cohort divergence map
- National · n=2
Rival Radar
How rival fanbases talk about John Emery Jr.
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.
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.
John Emery Jr.'s story is about how role and output meet each other. For UTSA, 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.
2025 Season · Final
Traditional stats first. Advanced context underneath.
Last season
RB 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?
Backfield contributor against FBS RB peers.
2025 Season · Final
2025 season snapshot | final
Rushing
CAR
4 16th
YDS
4 6th
YPC
1.0 3rd
TD
0 40th
Game Log · Week-by-week
2025 season · 1 games
| Wk | Opp | CAR | YDS | AVG | TD | LONG | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 7 | W 61-13vs Rice | 4 | 4 | 1.0 | 0 | 11 | Season-high 4 yds |
| Total | 4 | 4 | 1.0 | 0 | 11 |
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
2022LSU10-4HC: Brian Kelly · Balanced
2023LSU10-3HC: Brian Kelly · Balanced
2024LSU9-4HC: Brian Kelly · Pass-leaning, fast tempo
2025UTSA7-6HC: Jeff Traylor · Balanced
Advanced layer Usage, value, and context
Advanced metrics second
Advanced Metrics
Usage, value, and opponent-adjusted context.
Opponent-adjusted rushing value. It helps separate empty volume from carries that actually move the scoreboard.
How much of the team's offense flows through this back once rushing work and receiving work are combined.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rushing | Rushing yards | 4 | #693/735 | 6th pct | Volumevs FBS RB |
| Rushing | Rush TD | 0 | #447/739 | 40th pct | Scoringvs FBS RB |
| Rushing | Yards / carry | 1.0 | #714/735 | 3rd pct | Efficiencyvs FBS RB |
| Usage | Role share | 7.0% | #431/738 | 42nd pct | Share of team offensevs FBS RB |
| Rushing | Rushing LONG | 11 | #546/733 | 26th pct | Metricvs FBS RB |
| Rushing | Carries | 4 | #620/739 | 16th pct | Volumevs FBS RB |
| Usage | Rush share | 12.1% | #418/738 | 43rd pct | Ground-game usagevs FBS RB |
| Usage | 3rd-down usage | 11.1% | #167/738 | 78th pct | Money-down loadvs FBS RB |
| Usage | Standard-down usage | 7.3% | #461/738 | 38th pct | Base-situation sharevs FBS RB |
| Usage | Passing-down usage | 6.3% | #385/738 | 48th pct | Known-passing sharevs FBS RB |
| Usage | 2nd-down usage | 5.3% | #547/738 | 26th pct | Middle-down loadvs FBS RB |
| Usage | 1st-down usage | 3.7% | #607/738 | 18th pct | Early-down loadvs FBS RB |
| Usage | Pass share | 0.0% | #564/738 | 24th pct | Air-game usagevs 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
2025 season · 1 games
Home vs Road
| YDS/g | YPC | TD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Home1g | 4.0 | 1.0 | 0.0 |
Win vs Loss
| YDS/g | YPC | TD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wins1g | 4.0 | 1.0 | 0.0 |
First half vs Second half
| YDS/g | YPC | TD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-71g | 4.0 | 1.0 | 0.0 |
Pocket and defense-quality (clean vs. pressure) splits are coming soon.
Savant · Box-rate percentiles
Where this profile ranks vs the RB cohort
1Below cohort
Concern: carries (0th).
Percentiles versus same-position peers with enough snaps this season, based on box-score rates.
Advanced Savant · RB · 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
John Emery Jr.UTSATae MeadowsTroy· 35% simAl-Jay HendersonBuffalo· 35% simRashod DubinionApp State· 35% sim
Rush TDs
Long run
Rush yards
Yards / carry
Carries
Closest peers by overall box-score percentile profile at the same position.
Supporting Cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
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 · 2022–2025
1 coach2022
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.
HometownSaint Rose, LA
Height6'0"
Weight220 lb
Class4
PositionRB
Jersey14
No fields populated yet.
No fields populated yet.
Current teamUTSA
ConferenceAmerican Athletic
Joined2025
Career arc5 season(s)
Trophy Case · Detail
Every honor on the ledger, broken out by stream and selector.
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 | LSU | RB4 | #520 | #466 | 0.0% | 0.0% | -- | -- | W16 snapshot | SEC |
| 2023 | LSU | RB4 | #780 | #602 | 0.0% | 0.0% | -- | -- | W19 snapshot | SEC |
| 2022 | LSU | RB4 | #223 | #231 | 0.0% | 0.0% | -- | -- | W20 snapshot | SEC |
| 2021 | LSU | RB4 | #2458 | #2348 | 0.0% | 0.0% | -- | -- | W20 snapshot | SEC |
Roster Timeline
Team, conference, and class by season.
| Season | Team | Conference | Pos | Class | Bio |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | UTSA | American Athletic | RB | 4 | No. 14 | 6-0 | 220 lb | Saint Rose, LA |
| 2024 | LSU | SEC | RB | 4 | No. 14 | 6-0 | 220 lb | Saint Rose, LA |
| 2023 | LSU | SEC | RB | 4 | No. 14 | 6-0 | 220 lb | Saint Rose, LA |
| 2022 | LSU | SEC | RB | 4 | No. 14 | 6-0 | 220 lb | Saint Rose, LA |
| 2021 | LSU | SEC | RB | 4 | No. 14 | 6-0 | 220 lb | Saint Rose, LA |