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Khary Crump

CB · Rice · Sr · #12

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

14 TACKLES · 0 SACKS

2026 RETURNINGReturning to Rice for 2026

2026 Outlook

Returning to Rice for 2026

2026 Depth chart

Projected starter

Cornerback · Rice

Returning around him

  • 75% of 2024 offensive production back (Strong continuity)
  • Transfer portal: -2 net (20 in / 22 out)

2026 Award watch

No preseason watch lists yet (most drop June 15 – July 15)

Rice · Last season: 5-8 · Talent rank #106 · 2026 recruiting class #100

CB · RICE · AMERICAN ATHLETIC

Khary Crump

  • 4
  • #12
  • 6-0 | 172 lb
  • Los Angeles, CA

CFB Zeitgeist Score

30

Below cohort in the position cohort. Carried by passes defended at the 94th percentile.

Heisman Heat

#13500

<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

R05 · Part-time starter

Part-time starter. Splitting first-team reps.

Not on team2-deepStarterRecognizedEliteApex

Career Arc

HS
Recruit
★★★
#929 national
CFB
College
2 teams
2022–2025
NFL
NFL Draft
Not drafted (yet)

Identity & Role

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

PositionCB
Class4
Jersey12
Measurements6-0 | 172 lb
HometownLos Angeles, CA
Primary teamRice

Recruiting Pedigree

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

Top pedigree 3-star No. 929 recruit
Composite rating 0.8596 HighSchool
Signed with -- 2020
Origin Culver City Culver City, CA, USA
Class Profile Context
2020 3-star | 0.8596 No. 929 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 Houston Christian 2024
Transfer stars 3-star CFBD transfer rating context
Eligibility Immediate May 1, 2024
Season Move Context
2024 Michigan State -> Houston Christian 3-star | Immediate
2021 Arizona -> Michigan State 3-star | Immediate

Heisman Lens · 2023 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 19
Current nowcast#13500Latest modeled ballot order
Season forecast#13595Where 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

0.8596

#929 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 Khary Crump

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 Khary Crump

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

projecting to 13-game
Through 6g
14Tackles
0Tackles for loss
0Sacks
Per game
2Tackles
0Tackles for loss
0Sacks
Projected (13g)
30Tackles
0Tackles for loss
0Sacks

To hit 80-tackle season (currently 14): needs 9.4/game over remaining 7.

To hit 100-tackle season (currently 14): needs 12.3/game over remaining 7.

To hit 6-sack season (currently 0): needs 0.9/game over remaining 7.

To hit 10-sack season (currently 0): needs 1.4/game over remaining 7.

Why this is a rare defensive case

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

Khary Crump is trying to climb the steepest award hill in college football: a defensive candidacy. The hook is the disruption profile on Rice's defense, with 0.0 sacks, 0.0 tackles for loss, and -- 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 #13500 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 14 7 solo | #2476/4942 (50th pct)
TFL 0.0 Backfield disruption | #3020/4972 (39th 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 against FBS defenders.

Coverage splash

2025 Season · Final

2025 season snapshot | final

Tackling & Disruption

TOT
14 50th
SOLO
7 48th
TFL
0.0 39th
SACK
0.0 65th

Coverage & Takeaways

PD
6 93rd

Game Log · Week-by-week

2025 season · 6 games

Box score · CFBD
WkOppTKLSOLOTFLSACKINTPDNote
Wk 1W 14-12@ Louisiana320.00.00Season-high 3 tackles
Wk 2L 9-35vs Houston300.00.02
Wk 3W 38-17vs Prairie View A&M210.00.02
Wk 4W 28-17@ Charlotte220.00.02
Wk 5L 13-21@ Navy200.00.00
Wk 7L 13-61@ UTSA220.00.00
Total1470.00.06
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

2022Michigan State5-7HC: Mel Tucker · Balanced
2023Michigan State4-8HC: Mel Tucker · Balanced
2025Rice5-8HC: Scott Abell · Run-heavy
SeasonTeam
2025Rice1470.00.06----
2023Michigan State1--0.00.0------
2022Michigan State110.00.01----
Career3 loaded seasons1680.00.07----
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 -- -- pick-six TD
Pass breakups 6 Coverage disruption | #144/2184 (93rd pct)
QB pressures 0 Quarterback hurries
Open full stat explorer
0 metrics visible Showing all metrics
Group Metric Value Rank Pct Why it matters
Defense Total tackles 14 #2476/4942 50th pct Volumevs FBS DEF
Defense TFL 0.0 #3020/4972 39th pct Disruptionvs FBS DEF
Defense Sacks 0.0 #1762/4972 65th pct Disruptionvs FBS DEF
Defense Pass breakups 6 #144/2184 93rd pct Coveragevs FBS DEF
Defense Solo tackles 7 #2403/4584 48th pct Volumevs 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 · 6 games

Home/Road · Win/Loss · Season halves

Home vs Road

TKL/gTFL/gSACK/gPD/g
Home2g2.50.00.02.0
Road4g2.20.00.00.5

Win vs Loss

TKL/gTFL/gSACK/gPD/g
Wins3g2.30.00.01.3
Losses3g2.30.00.00.7

First half vs Second half

TKL/gTFL/gSACK/gPD/g
Weeks 1-76g2.30.00.01.0

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

Savant · Box-rate percentiles

Where this profile ranks vs the CB cohort

30Below cohort
6 metrics · season cumulative

Elite: passes defended (93rd). Concern: tackles for loss (7th).

Passes defended#144 / 2975 · 94th pct
6defe
Sacks#1575 / 2975 · 24th pct
0.0defe
QB hurries#1662 / 2975 · 22nd pct
0defe
Solo tackles#2397 / 2975 · 17th pct
7defe
Tackles#2476 / 2975 · 16th pct
14defe
Tackles for loss#2548 / 2975 · 7th pct
0.0defe

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

Advanced Savant · CB · 2023

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 · 6 metrics
Khary CrumpRiceTyler MartinMassachusetts· 49% simTahj Ra-ElPurdue· 48% simDalton JohnsonArizona· 48% sim
Passes defended
94
Crump
67
Martin
91
Ra-El
96
Johnson
Sacks
24
Crump
24
Martin
24
Ra-El
63
Johnson
QB hurries
22
Crump
22
Martin
22
Ra-El
22
Johnson
Solo tackles
17
Crump
87
Martin
100
Ra-El
97
Johnson
Tackles
16
Crump
98
Martin
99
Ra-El
98
Johnson
Tackles for loss
7
Crump
63
Martin
56
Ra-El
47
Johnson

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

Player DNA

The Ball Hawk

Reads the quarterback's eyes and takes the ball away.

CB

His 2025 production profile sits closest to Colby Dempsey’s 2024 season.

Colby Dempsey

64%match

UAB · 2024

#2

Aydan White

NC State · 2021

61%
#3

Darrell Luter Jr.

South Alabama · 2021

All-Sun BeltNFL Rd 5
59%
#4

Jaylon Jones

Georgia State · 2022

NFL Rd 7
57%
#5

Dorian Jackson

Western Michigan · 2021

57%

Matches Colby on

PD rate
Class year
Tackle volume

Differs from Colby on

Height (higher)
Weight (lower)

Not enough data yet for this comparison.

As a senior, his production profile tracks closest to Trey Amos's senior season at Alabama (2023).

Trey Amos

78%match

Alabama · 2023

NFL Rd 2 · Pk 29
#2

Micah Abraham

Marshall · 2023

All-Sun BeltNFL Rd 6
77%
#3

Lu-Magia Hearns III

California · 2024

70%
#4

Quinyon Mitchell

Toledo · 2023

1st-team All-AmericanNFL Rd 1 · Pk 22
48%
#5

Elijah Jones

Boston College · 2023

NFL Rd 3 · Pk 27
44%

Matches Trey on

Class year
Tackle volume
PD rate

Differs from Trey on

Weight (lower)

Supporting Cast · Scheme

Staff and system around the player

2025 season

Head Coach

Scott Abell

Pass share

26.0%

224 pass / 636 run

Plays / game

66.2

13 games

OL sack rate (allowed)

11.6%

147 dropbacks · PBP

Scheme: Run-heavy.

Coaching Lineage · 2022–2025

2 coaches
2022
Mike Bloomgren
Rice
2023
Mike Bloomgren
Rice
2025
Scott Abell
Rice
era →

Coaching transition mid-career: Mike Bloomgren → Scott Abell. 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.

HometownLos Angeles, CA
Height6'0"
Weight172 lb
Class4
PositionCB
Jersey12

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
2023 Michigan State CB4 #13500 #13595 0.0% 0.0% -- -- W19 snapshot | Big Ten
2022 Michigan State CB4 #13352 #13331 0.0% 0.0% -- -- W20 snapshot | Big Ten
2021 Michigan State CB4 #8009 #7660 0.0% 0.0% -- -- W20 snapshot | Big Ten

Roster Timeline

Team, conference, and class by season.

Season Team Conference Pos Class Bio
2025 Rice American Athletic CB 4 No. 12 | 6-0 | 172 lb | Los Angeles, CA
2023 Michigan State Big Ten CB 4 No. 12 | 6-0 | 172 lb | Los Angeles, CA
2022 Michigan State Big Ten CB 4 No. 12 | 6-0 | 172 lb | Los Angeles, CA
2021 Michigan State Big Ten CB 4 No. 12 | 6-0 | 172 lb | Los Angeles, CA