CFB Zeitgeist RB Score
Awaiting
Kaleb Johnson
Limited signal — not enough coverage for a story yet.
Where He Ended Up · NFL
PittsburghEntering 2nd NFL season
#83Rd 3 · Pick 19
PittsburghEntering 2nd NFL season
RB · IOWA · BIG TEN
Kaleb Johnson
- 3
- #2
- 6-0 | 225 lb
- Hamilton, OH
Heisman Heat
#17
0.8% 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
0.8%
TOP RB AWARD
Doak Walker
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CONSENSUS
All-American
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Player Standing · 17 rungs
Tier 3 · RecognizedR11 · National watch / fringe AA
National watch / fringe All-America. Knocking on the All-America door.
Not on team2-deepStarterRecognizedEliteApex
Career arc · Season-by-season Standing
3 seasons on the ladder
2022
Iowa · RB
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2023
Iowa · RB
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★
2024
Iowa · RB
R13 · Consensus All-American
Elite
NFL Draft 2025 · Rd 3, Pick 19 · #83 overall · Pittsburgh
Development Trajectory · rushing yards
2022–2024+97%
Up 97% from first season to most-recent.
Career Arc
HS
Recruit
★★★★
CFB
College
Iowa
NFL
NFL Draft
R3 · #83
Heisman futures · live sportsbook odds
#29 in market ▼ from #23 · 5 books
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 | 0.8889 | No. 435 recruit | HighSchool | Iowa |
| 2021 | 4-star | 0.8956 | No. 354 recruit | HighSchool | Iowa |
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 Iowa
Composite
0.8889
#435 national
NFL Draft
2025 · Rd 3, Pick 19
#83 overall · Pittsburgh
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 Kaleb Johnson
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 Kaleb Johnson
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.
Kaleb Johnson's story is about how role and output meet each other. For Iowa, 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.
2024 Season · Final
Traditional stats first. Advanced context underneath.
Last season
RB season snapshot
2024 season snapshot | final
2024 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?
Workhorse | Efficient runner | Passing-game back against FBS RB peers.
2024 Season · Final
2024 season snapshot | final
Rushing
CAR
240 99th
YDS
1,537 100th
YPC
6.4 88th
TD
21 100th
Receiving
REC
22 89th
YDS
188 88th
YPR
8.5 67th
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 context · Team result + system
2022Iowa8-5HC: Kirk Ferentz · Run-leaning, slow tempo
2023Iowa10-4HC: Kirk Ferentz · Run-leaning, slow tempo
2024Iowa8-5HC: Kirk Ferentz · Run-heavy
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 | 1,537 | #4/735 | 100th pct | Volumevs FBS RB |
| Rushing | Rush TD | 21 | #3/739 | 100th pct | Scoringvs FBS RB |
| Rushing | Yards / carry | 6.4 | #86/735 | 88th pct | Efficiencyvs FBS RB |
| Receiving | Receptions | 22 | #63/552 | 89th pct | Volumevs FBS RB |
| Receiving | Receiving yards | 188 | #69/548 | 88th pct | Volumevs FBS RB |
| Value | Rushing WEPA | +0.39 | #2/362 | 100th pct | Opponent-adjusted rushing value | 245 weighted playsvs FBS RB |
| Usage | Role share | 37.2% | #2/738 | 100th pct | Share of team offensevs FBS RB |
| Rushing | Carries | 240 | #8/739 | 99th pct | Volumevs FBS RB |
| Rushing | Rushing LONG | 75 | #36/733 | 95th pct | Metricvs FBS RB |
| Receiving | Receiving LONG | 72 | #15/540 | 97th pct | Metricvs FBS RB |
| Receiving | Yards / catch | 8.5 | #183/548 | 67th pct | Efficiencyvs FBS RB |
| Receiving | Receiving TD | 2 | #20/552 | 97th pct | Scoringvs FBS RB |
| Usage | Rush share | 53.4% | #7/738 | 99th pct | Ground-game usagevs FBS RB |
| Usage | 1st-down usage | 49.0% | #1/738 | 100th pct | Early-down loadvs FBS RB |
| Usage | Standard-down usage | 41.6% | #2/738 | 100th pct | Base-situation sharevs FBS RB |
| Usage | 2nd-down usage | 34.8% | #5/738 | 99th pct | Middle-down loadvs FBS RB |
| Usage | Passing-down usage | 24.9% | #7/738 | 99th pct | Known-passing sharevs FBS RB |
| Usage | 3rd-down usage | 17.9% | #43/738 | 94th pct | Money-down loadvs FBS RB |
| Usage | Pass share | 8.9% | #46/738 | 94th 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 splits
Splits fill in once box scores from at least three games land for this season.
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.
Supporting Cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Kirk Ferentz
Pass share
36.6%
286 pass / 495 run
Plays / game
60.1
13 games
OL sack rate (allowed)
7.9%
228 dropbacks · PBP
Scheme: Run-heavy, slow tempo.
Coaching Lineage · 2022–2024
1 coach2022
Kirk Ferentz
Iowa
2023
Kirk Ferentz
Iowa
2024
Kirk Ferentz
Iowa
Played his entire career under Kirk Ferentz.
Bio · Recruiting · Transfer · Roster
Off-field context — switch tabs to drill into recruit profile, transfer arc, or roster timeline.
HometownHamilton, OH
Height6'0"
Weight225 lb
Class3
PositionRB
Jersey2
No fields populated yet.
No fields populated yet.
Current teamIowa
ConferenceBig Ten
Joined2024
Career arc3 season(s)
Trophy Case · Confirmed honors
What the selectors said
🏆
ALL-AMERICA · CONSENSUS
Consensus AA (2024)
4 first-team selectors
🥈
ALL-CONFERENCE · 1ST TEAM
All-Conf 1st team (2024)
All-Big Ten
Trophy Case · Detail
Every honor on the ledger, broken out by stream and selector.
5 All-America selections
National selector recognition is one of the strongest non-Heisman signals on a player card and should sit near the top of the showcase.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | All-America (USA Today) | all_america | Iowa | USA Today | RB |
| 2024 | All-America (SN) | all_america | Iowa | SN | RB |
| 2024 | All-America (FWAA) | all_america | Iowa | FWAA | RB |
| 2024 | All-America (WCFF) | all_america | Iowa | WCFF | RB |
| 2024 | All-America (Consensus) | all_america | Iowa | Consensus | -- |
| 2024 | All-Big Ten | all_conference | Iowa | Big Ten | RB |
| 2024 | All-Big Ten | all_conference | Iowa | Big Ten | AMEC |
| 2024 | All-Big Ten | all_conference | Big Ten | -- |
Heisman By Year
Modeled rank and official finish by season.
Roster Timeline
Team, conference, and class by season.