CFB Zeitgeist Score
76
All-Conference in the position cohort. Carried by sacks at the 97th percentile.
Landon Robinson
Below the discourse floor — the honest stats-only state.
64 TACKLES · 6 SACKS
Where He Ended Up · NFL
Cincinnati2026 NFL rookie season
DT · NAVY · AMERICAN ATHLETIC
CFB Zeitgeist Score
76
All-Conference in the position cohort. Carried by sacks at the 97th percentile.
Heisman Heat
#5702
<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 DEFENSE AWARD
Nagurski
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CONSENSUS
All-American
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Player Standing · 17 rungs
Tier 2 · StarterImpact starter. Producing measurable value above replacement.
Career arc · Season-by-season Standing
3 seasons on the ladder
2023
Navy · DT
—
2024
Navy · DT
R09 · All-Conference HM / 2nd team
Recognized
2025
Navy · DT
R12 · All-American
Elite
Career Arc
The durable bio layer: position, size, hometown, and roster role.
How big the prospect was before college, and whether the later career arc beat that expectation.
| Class | Profile | Context |
|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 3-star | 0.8156 | No. 2118 recruit | HighSchool | Navy |
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. | ||
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.
Achievements
Selector Grid · 2025
NIL · Recruiting · NFL Draft
Market value, pedigree & pro outcome
Recruit stars
★★★☆☆
to Navy
Composite
0.8156
#2118 national
NFL Draft
2026 · Rd 7, Pick 10
#226 overall · Cincinnati
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.
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 reads how different fanbases talk about this player. Returns once weekly mentions clear the publish floor.
Rival Radar
No rival-bucket mentions in the current season.
Signature Story
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.
Season Pace · Projection
Where the defensive totals stand
✓ Hit 6-sack season · finished with 6.
The fast read on the thing that makes this player more than a generic stat line.
Landon Robinson is trying to climb the steepest award hill in college football: a defensive candidacy. The hook is the disruption profile on Navy's defense, with 6.0 sacks, 8.0 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.
Traditional stats first. Advanced context underneath.
Last season
2025 season snapshot | final
30-second read
High-disruption defender | High-volume tackler against FBS defenders.
2025 season snapshot | final
Tackling & Disruption
Game Log · Week-by-week
2025 season · 13 games
| Wk | Opp | TKL | SOLO | TFL | SACK | INT | PD | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | W 52-7vs VMI | 3 | 1 | 2.0 | 2.0 | — | 0 | 2 sacks |
| Wk 2 | W 38-24vs UAB | 10 | 2 | 1.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | Season-high 10 tackles |
| Wk 3 | W 42-23@ Tulsa | 6 | 2 | 1.0 | 1.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 5 | W 21-13vs Rice | 2 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 6 | W 34-31vs Air Force | 7 | 2 | 1.5 | 1.5 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 7 | W 32-31@ Temple | 5 | 4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 9 | W 42-32vs Florida Atlantic | 4 | 3 | 0.5 | 0.5 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 10 | L 17-31@ North Texas | 5 | 4 | 1.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 11 | L 10-49@ Notre Dame | 5 | 3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 12 | W 41-38vs South Florida | 3 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 14 | W 28-17@ Memphis | 4 | 2 | 1.0 | 1.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 16 | W 17-16vs Army | 4 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Bowl | W 35-13@ Cincinnati | 6 | 6 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Total | 64 | 30 | 8.0 | 6.0 | — | 0 |
Traditional history
Season rows up top, career context at the bottom.
Season context · Team result + system
Advanced metrics second
Usage, value, and opponent-adjusted context.
TFL, sacks, and QB hurries are grouped together because defensive Heisman cases are usually built on visible havoc, not on tackle counts alone.
Pass breakups, interceptions, and forced fumbles matter because national awards voters respond to plays that change possessions and highlight reels.
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.
| Group | Metric | Value | Rank | Pct | Why it matters |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Defense | Total tackles | 64 | #340/4942 | 93rd pct | Volumevs FBS DEF |
| Defense | TFL | 8.0 | #198/4972 | 96th pct | Disruptionvs FBS DEF |
| Defense | Sacks | 6.0 | #74/4972 | 99th pct | Disruptionvs FBS DEF |
| Defense | QB hurries | 7 | #69/1878 | 96th pct | Disruptionvs FBS DEF |
| Defense | Solo tackles | 30 | #515/4584 | 89th pct | Volumevs FBS DEF |
| Defense | Fumbles recovered | 1 | #103/736 | 86th pct | Takeawaysvs FBS DEF |
| Ball Security | Fumbles lost | 0 | #1/773 | 100th pct | Turnoversvs FBS DEF |
Universal 17-step ladder. Tier pills below; accolade streams nested.
ALL-AMERICAN
ALL-AMERICAN · Rung 12 of 16
Why he’s here
All-American — named 1st team by at least one NCAA-recognized selector.
What moves him up
Add selectors to reach Consensus (3 of 5).
What moves him down
Lose the selector and this slips to national-watch territory.
Accolade streams
Listed 1st-team by 4 selectors — on the doorstep of Consensus All-American.
Splits · Per-game
2025 season · 13 games
Home vs Road
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home7g | 4.7 | 0.7 | 0.6 | 0.0 |
| Road6g | 5.2 | 0.5 | 0.3 | 0.0 |
Win vs Loss
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wins11g | 4.9 | 0.6 | 0.5 | 0.0 |
| Losses2g | 5.0 | 0.5 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
First half vs Second half
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-77g | 5.6 | 0.8 | 0.6 | 0.0 |
| Weeks 8+6g | 4.2 | 0.4 | 0.2 | 0.0 |
Pocket and defense-quality (clean vs. pressure) splits are coming soon.
Savant · Box-rate percentiles
Where this profile ranks vs the DT cohort
Elite: sacks (97th). Strength: qb hurries (96th). Concern: passes defended (17th).
Percentiles versus same-position peers with enough snaps this season, based on box-score rates.
Advanced Savant · DT · 2024
Advanced opponent-adjusted percentile bars are coming soon for this player.
Opponent-adjusted advanced metrics with a cohort filter.
Peer Comparator · Fingerprint match
Three closest profiles by box-rate percentile
Closest peers by overall box-score percentile profile at the same position.
Player DNA
Stout at the point of attack; controls his gap and stacks blocks.
His 2025 production profile sits closest to Lama Lavea’s 2024 season.
Lama Lavea
Realus George
Miguel Jackson
George Wolo
Denzel Lowry
Matches Lama on
Not enough data yet for this comparison.
As a junior, his production profile tracks closest to Joseph Anderson's junior season at Tulsa (2022).
Joseph Anderson
Realus George
Jayden Jernigan
Elijah Chatman
Trill Carter
Matches Joseph on
Supporting Cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Brian Newberry
Pass share
22.5%
182 pass / 626 run
Plays / game
62.2
13 games
OL sack rate (allowed)
7.2%
138 dropbacks · PBP
Scheme: Run-heavy.
Coaching Lineage · 2023–2025
1 coachPlayed his entire career under Brian Newberry.
Off-field context — switch tabs to drill into recruit profile, transfer arc, or roster timeline.
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Trophy Case · Confirmed honors
What the selectors said
ALL-AMERICA
Named All-American (2025)
4 selectors honored him
ALL-CONFERENCE
All-Conf mention (2024)
All-AAC
Every honor on the ledger, broken out by stream and selector.
National selector recognition is one of the strongest non-Heisman signals on a player card and should sit near the top of the showcase.
Conference-level recognition helps anchor whether a player is merely statistically loud or actually viewed as elite within his competitive lane.
Season-end distinction and week-by-week recognition on one timeline.
| Season | Honor | Scope | Team / Selector | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | All-America (USA Today) | all_america | USA Today | DL |
| 2025 | All-America (SI) | all_america | SI | DL |
| 2025 | All-America (FWAA) | all_america | FWAA | DL |
| 2025 | All-America (AP) | all_america | AP | DL |
| 2024 | All-AAC | all_conference | Navy | AAC | DL |
Modeled rank and official finish by season.
| Season | Team | Role | Latest Model | Forecast | Win | Finalist | Official Finish | Points | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Navy | DT4 | #5702 | #6597 | 0.0% | 0.0% | -- | -- | W16 snapshot | American Athletic |
| 2023 | Navy | DT4 | #9774 | #10393 | 0.0% | 0.0% | -- | -- | W19 snapshot | American Athletic |
| 2022 | Navy | DT4 | #12818 | #12893 | 0.0% | 0.0% | -- | -- | W20 snapshot | American Athletic |
Team, conference, and class by season.
| Season | Team | Conference | Pos | Class | Bio |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Navy | American Athletic | DT | 4 | No. 96 | 6-0 | 287 lb | Fairlawn, OH |
| 2024 | Navy | American Athletic | DT | 4 | No. 96 | 6-0 | 287 lb | Fairlawn, OH |
| 2023 | Navy | American Athletic | DT | 4 | No. 96 | 6-0 | 287 lb | Fairlawn, OH |
| 2022 | Navy | American Athletic | DT | 4 | No. 96 | 6-0 | 287 lb | Fairlawn, OH |