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Louis Frye

S · Temple · Sr · #14

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

20 TACKLES · 0 SACKS

2026 RETURNINGReturning to Temple for 2026

2026 Outlook

Returning to Temple for 2026

2026 Depth chart

Projected starter

Safety · Temple

Returning around him

  • 100% of 2024 offensive production back (Strong continuity)
  • Transfer portal: -2 net (23 in / 25 out)

2026 Award watch

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

Temple · Last season: 5-7 · Talent rank #113 · 2026 recruiting class #123

S · TEMPLE · AMERICAN ATHLETIC

Louis Frye

  • 4
  • #14
  • 6-0 | 210 lb
  • Teaneck, NJ

CFB Zeitgeist Score

39

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

Heisman Heat

#14474

<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
No recruit profile
CFB
College
2 teams
2021–2025
NFL
NFL Draft
Not drafted (yet)

Identity & Role

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

PositionS
Class4
Jersey14
Measurements6-0 | 210 lb
HometownTeaneck, NJ
Primary teamTemple

Recruiting Pedigree

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

Top pedigree Not on file No matched recruiting profile in the loaded archive
Composite rating -- Composite rating unavailable for this player
Signed with -- Commitment history unavailable
Origin -- Hometown and high school unavailable
Class Profile Context
No recruiting profile is on file for this player.

Transfer Arc

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

Portal moves 1 Programs changed on file
Latest destination Temple 2024
Transfer stars -- CFBD transfer rating context
Eligibility Immediate Dec 24, 2023
Season Move Context
2024 Northern Illinois -> Temple 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#14474Latest modeled ballot order
Season forecast#14670Where 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.

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 Louis Frye

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 Louis Frye

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
20Tackles
1.5Tackles for loss
0Sacks
Per game
3Tackles
0.2Tackles for loss
0Sacks
Projected (13g)
43Tackles
3.2Tackles for loss
0Sacks

To hit 80-tackle season (currently 20): needs 8.6/game over remaining 7.

To hit 100-tackle season (currently 20): needs 11.4/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.

Louis Frye is trying to climb the steepest award hill in college football: a defensive candidacy. The hook is the disruption profile on Temple's defense, with 0.0 sacks, 1.5 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 #14474 0.0% win | 0.0% finalist
Role load -- Role share still loading
Profile quirk Transfer path 1 portal move

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 20 13 solo | #1998/4942 (60th pct)
TFL 1.5 Backfield disruption | #1771/4972 (64th 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
20 60th
SOLO
13 65th
TFL
1.5 64th
SACK
0.0 65th

Coverage & Takeaways

PD
2 64th

Game Log · Week-by-week

2025 season · 6 games

Box score · CFBD
WkOppTKLSOLOTFLSACKINTPDNote
Wk 1W 42-10@ Massachusetts310.00.01
Wk 2W 55-7vs Howard110.00.00
Wk 3L 3-42vs Oklahoma420.50.01
Wk 8W 49-14@ Charlotte530.00.00Season-high 5 tackles
Wk 10L 14-45vs East Carolina430.00.00
Wk 13L 13-37vs Tulane331.00.00
Total20131.50.02
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

2021Northern Illinois9-4HC: Thomas Hammock · Run-heavy, fast tempo
2022Northern Illinois3-9HC: Thomas Hammock · Run-leaning
2024Temple3-9HC: Everett Withers · Balanced
2025Temple5-7HC: K.C. Keeler · Balanced, slow tempo
SeasonTeam
2025Temple20131.50.02----
2024Temple16100.00.01----
2022Northern Illinois7--0.00.0------
2021Northern Illinois970.00.0------
Career4 loaded seasons52301.50.03----
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
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0 metrics visible Showing all metrics
Group Metric Value Rank Pct Why it matters
Defense Total tackles 20 #1998/4942 60th pct Volumevs FBS DEF
Defense TFL 1.5 #1771/4972 64th 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 13 #1622/4584 65th pct Volumevs FBS DEF
Defense Defensive TD 1 #23/200 89th pct Scoringvs 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

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
Home4g3.00.40.00.2
Road2g4.00.00.00.5

Win vs Loss

TKL/gTFL/gSACK/gPD/g
Wins3g3.00.00.00.3
Losses3g3.70.50.00.3

First half vs Second half

TKL/gTFL/gSACK/gPD/g
Weeks 1-73g2.70.20.00.7
Weeks 8+3g4.00.30.00.0

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

Savant · Box-rate percentiles

Where this profile ranks vs the S cohort

39Mid-pack
7 metrics · season cumulative

Concern: qb hurries (22nd).

Passes defended#777 / 2975 · 67th pct
2defe
Forced fumbles#36 / 687 · 47th pct
0fumb
Solo tackles#1622 / 2975 · 44th pct
13defe
Tackles for loss#1711 / 2975 · 39th pct
1.5defe
Tackles#1998 / 2975 · 32nd pct
20defe
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 · S · 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
Louis FryeTempleTyler MartinMassachusetts· 69% simTahj Ra-ElPurdue· 65% simDalton JohnsonArizona· 63% sim
Passes defended
67
Frye
67
Martin
91
Ra-El
96
Johnson
Forced fumbles
47
Frye
47
Martin
47
Ra-El
47
Johnson
Solo tackles
44
Frye
87
Martin
100
Ra-El
97
Johnson
Tackles for loss
39
Frye
63
Martin
56
Ra-El
47
Johnson
Tackles
32
Frye
98
Martin
99
Ra-El
98
Johnson
Sacks
24
Frye
24
Martin
24
Ra-El
63
Johnson
QB hurries
22
Frye
22
Martin
22
Ra-El
22
Johnson

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

Player DNA

The Hybrid Nickel

Moves between deep coverage and the slot — the modern positionless DB.

S

His 2025 production profile sits closest to Kamari Ramsey’s 2025 season.

Kamari Ramsey

81%match

USC · 2025

NFL Rd 5
#2

Dezjhon Malone

Oklahoma · 2024

79%
#3

Ryan Huff

App State · 2021

78%
#4

Shawn Preston

Mississippi State · 2022

77%
#5

Jaylen Reed

Penn State · 2022

NFL Rd 6
76%

Matches Kamari on

Height
Tackle volume
PD rate

Differs from Kamari on

Class year (higher)

Not enough data yet for this comparison.

As a senior, his production profile tracks closest to Jalen Harrell's senior season at Massachusetts (2024).

Jalen Harrell

94%match

Massachusetts · 2024

#2

Decorian Patterson

UCF · 2023

87%
#3

Dezjhon Malone

Oklahoma · 2024

86%
#4

Dashawn Jones

Alabama · 2024

86%
#5

Lionell Whitaker

Coastal Carolina · 2025

85%

Matches Jalen on

Class year
Weight
Tackle volume

Supporting Cast · Scheme

Staff and system around the player

2025 season

Head Coach

K.C. Keeler

Pass share

47.0%

348 pass / 392 run

Plays / game

61.7

12 games

OL sack rate (allowed)

7.5%

254 dropbacks · PBP

Scheme: Balanced, slow tempo.

Coaching Lineage · 2021–2025

4 coaches
2021
Rod Carey
Temple
2022
Stan Drayton
Temple
era →
2024
Everett Withers
Temple
era →
2025
K.C. Keeler
Temple
era →

Played under 4 different head coaches: Rod Carey, Stan Drayton, Everett Withers, and K.C. Keeler. Multi-era developmental context.

Bio · Recruiting · Transfer · Roster

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

HometownTeaneck, NJ
Height6'0"
Weight210 lb
Class4
PositionS
Jersey14

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 Temple S4 #14474 #14670 0.0% 0.0% -- -- W16 snapshot | American Athletic
2023 Northern Illinois S4 #12468 #12301 0.0% 0.0% -- -- W19 snapshot | Mid-American
2022 Northern Illinois S4 #14780 #14874 0.0% 0.0% -- -- W20 snapshot | Mid-American
2021 Northern Illinois S4 #13639 #13625 0.0% 0.0% -- -- W20 snapshot | Mid-American

Roster Timeline

Team, conference, and class by season.

Season Team Conference Pos Class Bio
2025 Temple American Athletic S 4 No. 14 | 6-0 | 210 lb | Teaneck, NJ
2024 Temple American Athletic S 4 No. 14 | 6-0 | 210 lb | Teaneck, NJ
2023 Northern Illinois Mid-American S 4 No. 14 | 6-0 | 210 lb | Teaneck, NJ
2022 Northern Illinois Mid-American S 4 No. 14 | 6-0 | 210 lb | Teaneck, NJ
2021 Northern Illinois Mid-American S 4 No. 14 | 6-0 | 210 lb | Teaneck, NJ