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Kyron Chambers

CB · SMU · Jr · #21

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

30 TACKLES · 0 SACKS

2026 TRANSFERTransferred SMU → UNLV for 2026

Where He Ended Up · Transfer

Transferred to UNLV

2025SMU
2026UNLV

CB · SMU · ACC

Kyron Chambers

  • 3
  • #21
  • 6-0 | 200 lb
  • Dallas, TX

CFB Zeitgeist Score

45

Mid-pack in the position cohort. Carried by passes defended at the 67th percentile.

Heisman Heat

#6876

<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 1 · 2-deep

R04 · Rotational

Rotational. Earning real snaps in the rotation.

Not on team2-deepStarterRecognizedEliteApex

Career Arc

HS
Recruit
★★★
#578 national
CFB
College
SMU
2024–2025
NFL
NFL Draft
Not drafted (yet)

Identity & Role

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

PositionCB
Class3
Jersey21
Measurements6-0 | 200 lb
HometownDallas, TX
Primary teamSMU

Recruiting Pedigree

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

Top pedigree 3-star No. 578 recruit
Composite rating 0.8793 HighSchool
Signed with -- 2022
Origin South Oak Cliff Dallas, TX, USA
Class Profile Context
2022 3-star | 0.8793 No. 578 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 UNLV 2026
Transfer stars 3-star CFBD transfer rating context
Eligibility Immediate Jan 16, 2026
Season Move Context
2026 SMU -> UNLV 3-star | 0.8600 | Immediate
2023 TCU -> SMU 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 16
Current nowcast#6876Latest modeled ballot order
Season forecast#6828Where 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

0.8793

#578 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 Kyron Chambers

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 Kyron Chambers

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 10g
30Tackles
2.5Tackles for loss
0Sacks
Per game
3Tackles
0.2Tackles for loss
0Sacks
Projected (13g)
39Tackles
3.2Tackles for loss
0Sacks

To hit 80-tackle season (currently 30): needs 16.7/game over remaining 3.

To hit 100-tackle season (currently 30): needs 23.3/game over remaining 3.

To hit 6-sack season (currently 0): needs 2/game over remaining 3.

To hit 10-sack season (currently 0): needs 3.3/game over remaining 3.

Why this is a rare defensive case

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

Kyron Chambers is trying to climb the steepest award hill in college football: a defensive candidacy. The hook is the disruption profile on SMU's defense, with 0.0 sacks, 2.5 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 #6876 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 30 19 solo | #1362/4942 (72nd pct)
TFL 2.5 Backfield disruption | #1236/4972 (75th 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?

Defensive contributor against FBS defenders.

Balanced profile

2025 Season · Final

2025 season snapshot | final

Tackling & Disruption

TOT
30 72nd
SOLO
19 76th
TFL
2.5 75th
SACK
0.0 65th

Coverage & Takeaways

PD
2 64th

Game Log · Week-by-week

2025 season · 10 games

Box score · CFBD
WkOppTKLSOLOTFLSACKINTPDNote
Wk 1W 42-13vs East Texas A&M110.00.00
Wk 3W 28-10@ Missouri State221.00.00
Wk 6W 31-18vs Syracuse320.00.00
Wk 7W 34-10vs Stanford310.00.01
Wk 8W 35-24@ Clemson430.00.00
Wk 9L 12-13@ Wake Forest210.00.00
Wk 10W 26-20vs Miami540.00.01Season-high 5 tackles
Wk 11W 45-13@ Boston College100.00.00
Wk 13W 38-6vs Louisville520.50.00
Wk 14L 35-38@ California431.00.00
Total30192.50.02
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

2024SMU11-3HC: Rhett Lashlee · Run-leaning
2025SMU9-4HC: Rhett Lashlee · Balanced
SeasonTeam
2025SMU30192.50.02----
2024SMU930.00.01----
Career2 loaded seasons39222.50.03----
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 2 Coverage disruption | #792/2184 (64th 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 30 #1362/4942 72nd pct Volumevs FBS DEF
Defense TFL 2.5 #1236/4972 75th pct Disruptionvs FBS DEF
Defense Sacks 0.0 #1762/4972 65th pct Disruptionvs FBS DEF
Defense Pass breakups 2 #792/2184 64th pct Coveragevs FBS DEF
Defense Solo tackles 19 #1095/4584 76th 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 · 10 games

Home/Road · Win/Loss · Season halves

Home vs Road

TKL/gTFL/gSACK/gPD/g
Home5g3.40.10.00.4
Road5g2.60.40.00.0

Win vs Loss

TKL/gTFL/gSACK/gPD/g
Wins8g3.00.20.00.2
Losses2g3.00.50.00.0

First half vs Second half

TKL/gTFL/gSACK/gPD/g
Weeks 1-74g2.20.20.00.2
Weeks 8+6g3.50.20.00.2

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

Savant · Box-rate percentiles

Where this profile ranks vs the CB cohort

45Mid-pack
6 metrics · season cumulative

Concern: qb hurries (22nd).

Passes defended#777 / 2975 · 67th pct
2defe
Solo tackles#1095 / 2975 · 62nd pct
19defe
Tackles for loss#1222 / 2975 · 56th pct
2.5defe
Tackles#1362 / 2975 · 53rd pct
30defe
Sacks#1575 / 2975 · 24th pct
0.0defe
QB hurries#1662 / 2975 · 22nd pct
0defe

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

Advanced Savant · CB · 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 · 6 metrics
Kyron ChambersSMUTyler MartinMassachusetts· 79% simTahj Ra-ElPurdue· 74% simDevin LafayetteTroy· 70% sim
Passes defended
67
Chambers
67
Martin
91
Ra-El
91
Lafayette
Solo tackles
62
Chambers
87
Martin
100
Ra-El
98
Lafayette
Tackles for loss
56
Chambers
63
Martin
56
Ra-El
56
Lafayette
Tackles
53
Chambers
98
Martin
99
Ra-El
99
Lafayette
Sacks
24
Chambers
24
Martin
24
Ra-El
63
Lafayette
QB hurries
22
Chambers
22
Martin
22
Ra-El
22
Lafayette

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

Player DNA

The Cover Corner

Steady in coverage; doesn't get beat deep and rarely gives up the big play.

CB

His 2025 production profile sits closest to Stephen Hall’s 2023 season.

Stephen Hall

84%match

Washington State · 2023

#2

Anthony Romphf

Western Michigan · 2022

83%
#3

Cam Smith

Oklahoma State · 2022

83%
#4

Bryce Hampton

Purdue · 2022

81%
#5

Christian Roland-Wallace

Arizona · 2021

81%

Matches Stephen on

PD rate
Height
Weight

Differs from Stephen on

Tackle volume (higher)

Not enough data yet for this comparison.

As a sophomore, his production profile tracks closest to Sanchez Blake Jr.'s sophomore season at Memphis (2021).

Sanchez Blake Jr.

90%match

Memphis · 2021

#2

Phillip Hill

North Texas · 2023

90%
#3

Anthony Crenshaw

Delaware · 2025

89%
#4

Nasir Greer

Wake Forest · 2021

89%
#5

Kyler McMichael

North Carolina · 2021

88%

Matches Sanchez on

Class year
Height
PD rate

Differs from Sanchez on

Tackle volume (lower)

Supporting Cast · Scheme

Staff and system around the player

2025 season

Head Coach

Rhett Lashlee

Pass share

53.7%

460 pass / 396 run

Plays / game

65.8

13 games

OL sack rate (allowed)

5.4%

333 dropbacks · PBP

Scheme: Balanced.

Coaching Lineage · 2024–2025

1 coach
2024
Rhett Lashlee
SMU
2025
Rhett Lashlee
SMU

Played his entire career under Rhett Lashlee.

Bio · Recruiting · Transfer · Roster

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

HometownDallas, TX
Height6'0"
Weight200 lb
Class3
PositionCB
Jersey21

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 SMU CB3 #6876 #6828 0.0% 0.0% -- -- W16 snapshot | ACC
2023 SMU CB3 #9113 #8567 0.0% 0.0% -- -- W19 snapshot | American Athletic
2022 TCU CB3 #6255 #6071 0.0% 0.0% -- -- W20 snapshot | Big 12

Roster Timeline

Team, conference, and class by season.

Season Team Conference Pos Class Bio
2025 SMU ACC CB 3 No. 21 | 6-0 | 200 lb | Dallas, TX
2024 SMU ACC CB 3 No. 21 | 6-0 | 200 lb | Dallas, TX
2023 SMU American Athletic CB 3 No. 21 | 6-0 | 200 lb | Dallas, TX
2022 TCU Big 12 CB 3 No. 21 | 6-0 | 200 lb | Dallas, TX