CFB Zeitgeist Score
46
Mid-pack in the position cohort. Carried by yards / carry at the 49th percentile.
Joseph Himon II
Below the discourse floor — the honest stats-only state.
486 RUSH YDS · 1 RUSH TD · 99 CARRIES
2026 Outlook
Returning to Northwestern for 2026
2026 Depth chart
Projected starter
Running back · Northwestern
Returning around him
- 68% of 2024 offensive production back (Solid continuity)
- 2 Northwestern players drafted to NFL
- Transfer portal: +9 net (17 in / 8 out)
2026 Award watch
No preseason watch lists yet (most drop June 15 – July 15)
Northwestern · Last season: 7-6 · Talent rank #57 · 2026 recruiting class #66
RB · NORTHWESTERN · BIG TEN
Joseph Himon II
- 3
- #6
- 5-9 | 190 lb
- Little Rock, AR
Heisman Heat
#418
<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
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Player Standing · 17 rungs
Tier 2 · StarterR06 · Starter
Starter. A locked-in starting role.
Not on team2-deepStarterRecognizedEliteApex
Development Trajectory · rushing yards
2022–2025+1468%
Up 1468% from first season to most-recent.
Career Arc
HS
Recruit
★★★
CFB
College
Northwestern
NFL
NFL Draft
—
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 |
|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 3-star | 0.8752 | No. 650 recruit | HighSchool |
Transfer Arc
Portal movement changes role, context, and perception. This keeps that path in one place.
| 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 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 —
Composite
0.8752
#650 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 Joseph Himon II
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 Joseph Himon II
No rival-bucket mentions in the current season.
2025 Signature · 2025 season
Rushing WEPA per carry
+0.090
EPA
P4 + Notre Dame RBs, min 80 carries
National rank #46 of 66
Percentile vs P4 + Notre Dame RBs, min 80 carries 31st
Why it matters
#46 of 66 P4 + Notre Dame RBs by rushing weighted- EPA per carry — +0.090 EPA/carry on 91 carries.
Vs cohort
This player +0.090 (31th)
MODERATE · n=91 cohort 66
- Also strong
- Yards per carry#40 / 69
- Rushing yards (total)#56 / 69
Signature Moment
Week 8 vs Purdue — 87 ypc
Result W 19-0
The week the volume broke through — put up 87 yds vs Purdue.
Season Pace · Projection
Where the rushing totals stand
Through 11g
486Rush yards
99Carries
1Rush TDs
Per game
44.2Rush yards
9Carries
0Rush TDs
Projected (13g)
574.4Rush yards
117Carries
1Rush TDs
To hit 750-yard season (currently 486): needs 132/game over remaining 2.
To hit 1,000-yard season (currently 486): needs 257/game over remaining 2.
To hit 1,500-yard season (currently 486): needs 507/game over remaining 2.
To hit 10 rushing TDs (currently 1): needs 4.5/game over remaining 2.
To hit 15 rushing TDs (currently 1): needs 7/game over remaining 2.
To hit 20 rushing TDs (currently 1): needs 9.5/game over remaining 2.
What made this player interesting
The fast read on the thing that makes this player more than a generic stat line.
Joseph Himon II's story is about how role and output meet each other. For Northwestern, 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?
Passing-game back against FBS RB peers.
2025 Season · Final
2025 season snapshot | final
Rushing
CAR
99 78th
YDS
486 77th
YPC
4.9 59th
TD
1 56th
Receiving
REC
21 88th
YDS
118 75th
YPR
5.6 33rd
TD
0 70th
Game Log · Week-by-week
2025 season · 11 games
| Wk | Opp | CAR | YDS | AVG | TD | LONG | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | L 3-23@ Tulane | 8 | 38 | 4.8 | 0 | 8 | |
| Wk 2 | W 42-7vs Western Illinois | 8 | 40 | 5.0 | 0 | 16 | |
| Wk 3 | L 14-34vs Oregon | 12 | 59 | 4.9 | 0 | 9 | |
| Wk 5 | W 17-14vs UCLA | 8 | 58 | 7.3 | 0 | 24 | |
| Wk 6 | W 42-7vs UL Monroe | 2 | 13 | 6.5 | 0 | 10 | |
| Wk 7 | W 22-21@ Penn State | 13 | 65 | 5.0 | 0 | 17 | |
| Wk 8 | W 19-0vs Purdue | 22 | 87 | 4.0 | 0 | 37 | Season-high 87 yds |
| Wk 9 | L 21-28@ Nebraska | 8 | 37 | 4.6 | 0 | 17 | |
| Wk 12 | L 22-24vs Michigan | 9 | 31 | 3.4 | 0 | 17 | |
| Wk 13 | W 38-35vs Minnesota | 7 | 47 | 6.7 | 1 | 20 | |
| Wk 14 | L 13-20@ Illinois | 2 | 11 | 5.5 | 0 | 6 | |
| Total | 99 | 486 | 5.2 | 1 | 37 |
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
2022Northwestern1-11HC: Pat Fitzgerald · Balanced
2023Northwestern8-5HC: David Braun · Run-leaning
2024Northwestern4-8HC: David Braun · Balanced, slow tempo
2025Northwestern7-6HC: David Braun · Run-leaning
| Season | Team | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Northwestern | 99 | 486 | 4.9 | 1 | -- |
| 2024 | Northwestern | 52 | 257 | 4.9 | 2 | -- |
| 2023 | Northwestern | 35 | 136 | 3.9 | 0 | -- |
| 2022 | Northwestern | 4 | 31 | 7.8 | 0 | -- |
| Career | 4 loaded seasons | 190 | 910 | 4.8 | 3 | -- |
| Season | Team | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Northwestern | 21 | 118 | 5.6 | 0 | -- |
| 2024 | Northwestern | 15 | 96 | 6.4 | 1 | -- |
| 2023 | Northwestern | 18 | 219 | 12.2 | 1 | -- |
| 2022 | Northwestern | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Career | 4 loaded seasons | 54 | 433 | 8.0 | 2 | -- |
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 | 486 | #168/735 | 77th pct | Volumevs FBS RB |
| Rushing | Rush TD | 1 | #323/739 | 56th pct | Scoringvs FBS RB |
| Rushing | Yards / carry | 4.9 | #305/735 | 59th pct | Efficiencyvs FBS RB |
| Receiving | Receptions | 21 | #68/552 | 88th pct | Volumevs FBS RB |
| Receiving | Receiving yards | 118 | #138/548 | 75th pct | Volumevs FBS RB |
| Value | Rushing WEPA | +0.09 | #226/362 | 38th pct | Opponent-adjusted rushing value | 91 weighted playsvs FBS RB |
| Usage | Role share | 16.6% | #137/738 | 82nd pct | Share of team offensevs FBS RB |
| Rushing | Carries | 99 | #166/739 | 78th pct | Volumevs FBS RB |
| Rushing | Rushing LONG | 37 | #253/733 | 66th pct | Metricvs FBS RB |
| Receiving | Receiving LONG | 16 | #277/540 | 49th pct | Metricvs FBS RB |
| Receiving | Yards / catch | 5.6 | #366/548 | 33rd pct | Efficiencyvs FBS RB |
| Receiving | Receiving TD | 0 | #169/552 | 70th pct | Scoringvs FBS RB |
| Returns | Kick return yards | 131 | #51/200 | 75th pct | Volumevs FBS RB |
| Returns | Kick return avg | 26.2 | #20/199 | 90th pct | Efficiencyvs FBS RB |
| Returns | Kick returns | 5 | #59/206 | 72nd pct | Volumevs FBS RB |
| Usage | Rush share | 24.9% | #183/738 | 75th pct | Ground-game usagevs FBS RB |
| Usage | 2nd-down usage | 21.2% | #82/738 | 89th pct | Middle-down loadvs FBS RB |
| Usage | 1st-down usage | 18.7% | #164/738 | 78th pct | Early-down loadvs FBS RB |
| Usage | Standard-down usage | 18.2% | #163/738 | 78th pct | Base-situation sharevs FBS RB |
| Usage | Passing-down usage | 12.8% | #113/738 | 85th pct | Known-passing sharevs FBS RB |
| Usage | 3rd-down usage | 7.4% | #319/738 | 57th pct | Money-down loadvs FBS RB |
| Usage | Pass share | 7.1% | #81/738 | 89th 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 · 11 games
Home vs Road
| YDS/g | YPC | TD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Home7g | 47.9 | 5.4 | 0.1 |
| Road4g | 37.8 | 5.0 | 0.0 |
Win vs Loss
| YDS/g | YPC | TD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wins6g | 51.7 | 5.8 | 0.2 |
| Losses5g | 35.2 | 4.6 | 0.0 |
First half vs Second half
| YDS/g | YPC | TD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-76g | 45.5 | 5.6 | 0.0 |
| Weeks 8+5g | 42.6 | 4.8 | 0.2 |
Pocket and defense-quality (clean vs. pressure) splits are coming soon.
Savant · Box-rate percentiles
Where this profile ranks vs the RB cohort
46Mid-pack
Concern: rush tds (12th).
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.
wepa_rushing0.09Low (p25–p50) (n=178)
Peer Comparator · Fingerprint match
Three closest profiles by box-rate percentile
Joseph Himon IINorthwesternRashod DubinionApp State· 76% simKamari MoultonIowa· 73% simJevon JacksonUAB· 70% sim
Receptions
Rec yards
Carries
Rush yards
Yards / carry
Long run
Rush TDs
Closest peers by overall box-score percentile profile at the same position.
Player DNA
The Satellite Back
Deployed as a receiver as much as a runner. Value is in space, not between the tackles.
RB
His 2025 production profile sits closest to Jamal Jones’s 2020 season.
Jamal Jones
80%match
#2
Maquel Haywood
78%
#3
Robert Briggs
79%
#4
Patrick Smith
76%
#5
Jermaine Brown Jr.
70%
Matches Jamal on
Height
Yards / carry
Receiving share
Through 3 college seasons, his career arc tracks closest to Joshua Samuel’s path through Austin Peay.
Joshua Samuel
98%match
#2
Garrett Groshek
94%
#3
Dedrick Mills
92%
#4
Demetric Felton
NFL Rd 6
92%
#5
Kaegun Williams
91%
Matches Joshua on
Yards per carry
As a senior, his production profile tracks closest to Robert Briggs's senior season at Southern Miss (2025).
Robert Briggs
82%match
#2
Braylon McReynolds
69%
#3
Ron Cook Jr.
65%
#4
Hahsaun Wilson
65%
#5
Aidan Laughery
All-Big Ten
63%
Matches Robert on
Total rush EPA (college ability)
Weight
EPA / carry (adj)
Differs from Robert on
Recruiting rating (higher)
Supporting Cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
David Braun
Pass share
46.0%
378 pass / 444 run
Plays / game
63.2
13 games
OL sack rate (allowed)
5.1%
255 dropbacks · PBP
Scheme: Run-leaning.
Coaching Lineage · 2022–2025
2 coaches2022
Pat Fitzgerald
Northwestern
2023era →
David Braun
Northwestern
2024
David Braun
Northwestern
2025
David Braun
Northwestern
Coaching transition mid-career: Pat Fitzgerald → David Braun. 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.
HometownLittle Rock, AR
Height5'9"
Weight190 lb
Class3
PositionRB
Jersey6
No fields populated yet.
No fields populated yet.
Current teamNorthwestern
ConferenceBig Ten
Joined2025
Career arc4 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 | Northwestern | RB3 | #418 | #513 | 0.0% | 0.0% | -- | -- | W16 snapshot | Big Ten |
| 2023 | Northwestern | RB3 | #1198 | #1207 | 0.0% | 0.0% | -- | -- | W19 snapshot | Big Ten |
| 2022 | Northwestern | RB3 | #2655 | #3205 | 0.0% | 0.0% | -- | -- | W20 snapshot | Big Ten |
Roster Timeline
Team, conference, and class by season.
| Season | Team | Conference | Pos | Class | Bio |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Northwestern | Big Ten | RB | 3 | No. 6 | 5-9 | 190 lb | Little Rock, AR |
| 2024 | Northwestern | Big Ten | RB | 3 | No. 6 | 5-9 | 190 lb | Little Rock, AR |
| 2023 | Northwestern | Big Ten | RB | 3 | No. 6 | 5-9 | 190 lb | Little Rock, AR |
| 2022 | Northwestern | Big Ten | RB | 3 | No. 6 | 5-9 | 190 lb | Little Rock, AR |