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Heisman / Players / Kwinten Ives /Nebraska

Kwinten Ives

RB · Nebraska · So · #28

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

133 RUSH YDS · 2 RUSH TD · 20 CARRIES

2026 RETURNINGReturning to Nebraska for 2026

2026 Outlook

Returning to Nebraska for 2026

2026 Depth chart

Projected starter

Running back · Nebraska

Returning around him

  • 59% of 2024 offensive production back (Solid continuity)
  • 1 Nebraska player drafted to NFL
  • Transfer portal: -3 net (16 in / 19 out)

2026 Award watch

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

Nebraska · Last season: 7-6 (AP #25) · Talent rank #20 · 2026 recruiting class #22

RB · NEBRASKA · BIG TEN

Kwinten Ives

  • 2
  • #28
  • 6-3 | 215 lb
  • Beverly, NJ

CFB Zeitgeist Score

30

Below cohort in the position cohort. Carried by yards / carry at the 94th percentile.

Heisman Heat

#1212

<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

Player Standing · 17 rungs

Tier 1 · 2-deep

R04 · Rotational

Rotational. Earning real snaps in the rotation.

Not on team2-deepStarterRecognizedEliteApex

Development Trajectory · rushing yards

2024–2025
7.02024
1332025

+1800%

Up 1800% from first season to most-recent.

Career Arc

HS
Recruit
★★★
#980 national
CFB
College
Nebraska
2023–2025
NFL
NFL Draft
Not drafted (yet)

Identity & Role

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

PositionRB
Class2
Jersey28
Measurements6-3 | 215 lb
HometownBeverly, NJ
Primary teamNebraska

Recruiting Pedigree

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

Top pedigree 3-star No. 980 recruit
Composite rating 0.8650 HighSchool
Signed with -- 2023
Origin Palmyra Palmyra, NJ, USA
Class Profile Context
2023 3-star | 0.8650 No. 980 recruit | HighSchool

Transfer Arc

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

Portal moves 0 No portal entry on file
Latest destination -- --
Transfer stars -- CFBD transfer rating context
Eligibility -- Transfer date TBD
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 16
Current nowcast#1212Latest modeled ballot order
Season forecast#1126Where 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

0.8650

#980 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 Kwinten Ives

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 Kwinten Ives

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 rushing totals stand

projecting to 13-game
Through 3g
133Rush yards
20Carries
2Rush TDs
Per game
44.3Rush yards
7Carries
1Rush TDs
Projected (13g)
576.3Rush yards
87Carries
9Rush TDs

To hit 750-yard season (currently 133): needs 61.7/game over remaining 10.

To hit 1,000-yard season (currently 133): needs 86.7/game over remaining 10.

To hit 1,500-yard season (currently 133): needs 136.7/game over remaining 10.

To hit 10 rushing TDs (currently 2): needs 0.8/game over remaining 10.

To hit 15 rushing TDs (currently 2): needs 1.3/game over remaining 10.

To hit 20 rushing TDs (currently 2): needs 1.8/game over remaining 10.

What made this player interesting

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

Kwinten Ives's story is about how role and output meet each other. For Nebraska, 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.

Current place #1212 0.0% win | 0.0% finalist
Role load 10.9% Overall usage share
Profile quirk Development arc The card should explain why this profile stands out

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
Scrimmage yards 176 133 rush | 43 rec | #393/735 (47th pct)
Rush TD 2 20 carries | #247/739 (67th pct)
Yards/carry 6.7 Per-rush efficiency | #67/735 (91st pct)
Player identity What kind of player is this?

30-second read

What kind of player is this?

Efficient runner against FBS RB peers.

Efficient runner

2025 Season · Final

2025 season snapshot | final

Rushing

CAR
20 39th
YDS
133 47th
YPC
6.7 91st
TD
2 67th

Receiving

REC
3 33rd
YDS
43 45th
YPR
14.3 93rd
TD
0 70th

Game Log · Week-by-week

2025 season · 3 games

Box score · CFBD
WkOppCARYDSAVGTDLONGNote
Wk 2W 68-0vs Akron4348.5128
Wk 3W 59-7vs Houston Christian12857.1120Season-high 85 yds
BowlL 22-44@ Utah4143.506
Total201336.4228
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

2023Nebraska5-7HC: Matt Rhule · Run-heavy, slow tempo
2024Nebraska7-6HC: Matt Rhule · Balanced
2025Nebraska7-6HC: Matt Rhule · Run-leaning
SeasonTeam
2025Nebraska201336.72--
2024Nebraska671.21--
2023Nebraska----------
Career3 loaded seasons261405.43--
SeasonTeam
2025Nebraska34314.30--
2024Nebraska----------
2023Nebraska----------
Career3 loaded seasons34314.30--
Advanced layer Usage, value, and context

Advanced metrics second

Advanced Metrics

Usage, value, and opponent-adjusted context.

Usage Value Context
Rushing WEPA

Opponent-adjusted rushing value. It helps separate empty volume from carries that actually move the scoreboard.

Role share

How much of the team's offense flows through this back once rushing work and receiving work are combined.

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.

Receiving work 3 43 rec yds | #371/552 (33rd pct)
Usage 10.9% 18.9% rush share | #291/738 (61st pct)
Rushing WEPA -- Adjusted value feed still loading
Open full stat explorer
0 metrics visible Showing all metrics
Group Metric Value Rank Pct Why it matters
Rushing Rushing yards 133 #393/735 47th pct Volumevs FBS RB
Rushing Rush TD 2 #247/739 67th pct Scoringvs FBS RB
Rushing Yards / carry 6.7 #67/735 91st pct Efficiencyvs FBS RB
Receiving Receptions 3 #371/552 33rd pct Volumevs FBS RB
Receiving Receiving yards 43 #302/548 45th pct Volumevs FBS RB
Usage Role share 10.9% #291/738 61st pct Share of team offensevs FBS RB
Rushing Rushing LONG 28 #311/733 58th pct Metricvs FBS RB
Rushing Carries 20 #449/739 39th pct Volumevs FBS RB
Receiving Receiving LONG 21 #218/540 60th pct Metricvs FBS RB
Receiving Yards / catch 14.3 #39/548 93rd pct Efficiencyvs FBS RB
Receiving Receiving TD 0 #169/552 70th pct Scoringvs FBS RB
Usage Rush share 18.9% #274/738 63rd pct Ground-game usagevs FBS RB
Usage 3rd-down usage 13.9% #97/738 87th pct Money-down loadvs FBS RB
Usage Standard-down usage 13.1% #267/738 64th pct Base-situation sharevs FBS RB
Usage 1st-down usage 10.6% #334/738 55th pct Early-down loadvs FBS RB
Usage 2nd-down usage 9.2% #375/738 49th pct Middle-down loadvs FBS RB
Usage Pass share 2.9% #318/738 57th pct Air-game usagevs FBS RB
Usage Passing-down usage 2.3% #603/738 18th pct Known-passing sharevs 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

StatusAwaiting tracker

Heisman model tracks the top FBS contenders weekly; this player hasn't entered the watch list yet.

Splits · Per-game

2025 season · 3 games

Home/Road · Win/Loss · Season halves

Home vs Road

YDS/gYPCTD/g
Home2g59.57.81.0
Road1g14.03.50.0

Win vs Loss

YDS/gYPCTD/g
Wins2g59.57.81.0
Losses1g14.03.50.0

First half vs Second half

YDS/gYPCTD/g
Weeks 1-73g44.36.40.7

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

Savant · Box-rate percentiles

Where this profile ranks vs the RB cohort

30Below cohort
7 metrics · season cumulative

Elite: yards / carry (94th). Concern: carries (0th).

Yards / carry#19 / 349 · 94th pct
6.7rush
Rush TDs#236 / 349 · 26th pct
2rush
Long run#259 / 349 · 26th pct
28rush
Rec yards#254 / 338 · 25th pct
43rece
Receptions#305 / 338 · 8th pct
3rece
Rush yards#346 / 349 · 1st pct
133rush
Carries#350 / 349 · 0th pct
20rush

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
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 · 7 metrics
Kwinten IvesNebraskaJeremiah CobbAuburn· 47% simJordan BrunsonMiami (OH)· 47% simKamari MoultonIowa· 46% sim
Yards / carry
94
Ives
71
Cobb
41
Brunson
62
Moulton
Rush TDs
26
Ives
62
Cobb
50
Brunson
62
Moulton
Long run
26
Ives
51
Cobb
73
Brunson
33
Moulton
Rec yards
25
Ives
47
Cobb
3
Brunson
53
Moulton
Receptions
8
Ives
45
Cobb
2
Brunson
63
Moulton
Rush yards
1
Ives
88
Cobb
80
Brunson
84
Moulton
Carries
0
Ives
88
Cobb
85
Brunson
86
Moulton

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

DNA Match awaiting data — similarity scores compute once season stats clear the volume gate for this position cohort.

Supporting Cast · Scheme

Staff and system around the player

2025 season

Head Coach

Matt Rhule

Pass share

46.4%

378 pass / 437 run

Plays / game

62.7

13 games

OL sack rate (allowed)

9.5%

315 dropbacks · PBP

Scheme: Run-leaning.

Coaching Lineage · 2023–2025

1 coach
2023
Matt Rhule
Nebraska
2024
Matt Rhule
Nebraska
2025
Matt Rhule
Nebraska

Played his entire career under Matt Rhule.

Bio · Recruiting · Transfer · Roster

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

HometownBeverly, NJ
Height6'3"
Weight215 lb
Class2
PositionRB
Jersey28

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 Nebraska RB2 #1212 #1126 0.0% 0.0% -- -- W16 snapshot | Big Ten
2023 Nebraska RB2 #3222 #3253 0.0% 0.0% -- -- W19 snapshot | Big Ten

Roster Timeline

Team, conference, and class by season.

Season Team Conference Pos Class Bio
2025 Nebraska Big Ten RB 2 No. 28 | 6-3 | 215 lb | Beverly, NJ
2024 Nebraska Big Ten RB 2 No. 28 | 6-3 | 215 lb | Beverly, NJ
2023 Nebraska Big Ten RB 2 No. 28 | 6-3 | 215 lb | Beverly, NJ