CFB Zeitgeist LB Score
Awaiting
Oluwafemi Oladejo
Limited signal — not enough coverage for a story yet.
Where He Ended Up · NFL
TennesseeEntering 2nd NFL season
#52Rd 2 · Pick 20
TennesseeEntering 2nd NFL season
LB · UCLA · BIG TEN
Oluwafemi Oladejo
- 4
- #2
- 6-3 | 250 lb
- Elk Grove, CA
Heisman Heat
#7923
<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 LB AWARD
Butkus
—
CONSENSUS
All-American
—
Player Standing · 17 rungs
Tier 1 · 2-deepR02 · Deep reserve
Deep reserve. In the program, working up the two-deep.
Not on team2-deepStarterRecognizedEliteApex
Career Arc
HS
Recruit
★★★
CFB
College
2 teams
NFL
NFL Draft
R2 · #52
Identity & Role
The durable bio layer: position, size, hometown, and roster role.
Recruiting Pedigree
How big the prospect was before college, and whether the later career arc beat that expectation.
| Class | Profile | Context |
|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 3-star | 0.8644 | No. 809 recruit | HighSchool |
Transfer Arc
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. | ||
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 16Heisman 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
0.8644
#809 national
NFL Draft
2025 · Rd 2, Pick 20
#52 overall · Tennessee
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.
The Room on Oluwafemi Oladejo
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 Oluwafemi Oladejo
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.
Scenario Explorer
Available for players with a qualifying signature metric (passing yards, rushing yards, receiving yards, sacks, etc.). The slider projects how a season finishes if the current pace holds.
Why this is a rare defensive case
The fast read on the thing that makes this player more than a generic stat line.
Oluwafemi Oladejo is trying to climb the steepest award hill in college football: a defensive candidacy. The hook is the disruption profile on UCLA's defense, with 4.5 sacks, 13.5 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.
2024 Season · Final
Traditional stats first. Advanced context underneath.
Last season
DEF season snapshot
2024 season snapshot | final
2024 season snapshot | finalData: CFBD player stats + local Heisman modelPeer context: same position + same level
Player identity What kind of player is this?
30-second read
What kind of player is this?
High-disruption defender | High-volume tackler against FBS defenders.
2024 Season · Final
2024 season snapshot | final
Tackling & Disruption
TOT
57 91st
SOLO
30 89th
TFL
13.5 99th
SACK
4.5 97th
QBH
6 94th
Coverage & Takeaways
PD
2 64th
Game Log
Week-by-week box
No per-game rows for this season yet — the table fills in as box scores arrive.
Season-by-season tables Career rows + per-season box score
Traditional history
Traditional Stats
Season rows up top, career context at the bottom.
Season context · Team result + system
2022California4-8HC: Justin Wilcox · Pass-leaning
2023UCLA8-5HC: Chip Kelly · Run-leaning
2024UCLA5-7HC: Deshaun Foster · Balanced, slow tempo
| Season | Team | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | UCLA | 57 | 30 | 13.5 | 4.5 | 2 | -- | -- |
| 2023 | UCLA | 53 | 27 | 2.0 | 0.0 | 3 | 1 | -- |
| 2022 | California | 69 | 29 | 3.0 | 0.0 | 1 | -- | -- |
| Career | 3 loaded seasons | 179 | 86 | 18.5 | 4.5 | 6 | 1 | -- |
Advanced layer Usage, value, and context
Advanced metrics second
Advanced Metrics
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.
Open full stat explorer
| Group | Metric | Value | Rank | Pct | Why it matters |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Defense | Total tackles | 57 | #449/4942 | 91st pct | Volumevs FBS DEF |
| Defense | TFL | 13.5 | #36/4972 | 99th pct | Disruptionvs FBS DEF |
| Defense | Sacks | 4.5 | #136/4972 | 97th pct | Disruptionvs FBS DEF |
| Defense | Pass breakups | 2 | #792/2184 | 64th pct | Coveragevs FBS DEF |
| Defense | QB hurries | 6 | #117/1878 | 94th pct | Disruptionvs FBS DEF |
| Defense | Solo tackles | 30 | #515/4584 | 89th 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
Status—Awaiting tracker
The Butkus 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 splits
Splits fill in once box scores from at least three games land for this season.
Advanced Savant · LB · 2024
Percentile Card
Advanced opponent-adjusted percentile bars are coming soon for this player.
P4G5All FBS
Advanced Savant
Opponent-adjusted advanced metrics with a cohort filter.
Advanced opponent-adjusted metrics are coming soon for this player. Selected cohort: P4.
Supporting Cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Deshaun Foster
Pass share
48.9%
358 pass / 374 run
Plays / game
61.0
12 games
OL sack rate (allowed)
9.3%
280 dropbacks · PBP
Scheme: Balanced, slow tempo.
Coaching Lineage · 2022–2024
2 coaches2022
Chip Kelly
UCLA
2023
Chip Kelly
UCLA
2024era →
Deshaun Foster
UCLA
Coaching transition mid-career: Chip Kelly → Deshaun Foster. 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.
HometownElk Grove, CA
Height6'3"
Weight250 lb
Class4
PositionLB
Jersey2
No fields populated yet.
No fields populated yet.
Current teamUCLA
ConferenceBig Ten
Joined2024
Career arc3 season(s)
Trophy Case · Detail
Every honor on the ledger, broken out by stream and selector.
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 | UCLA | LB4 | #7923 | #8921 | 0.0% | 0.0% | -- | -- | W16 snapshot | Big Ten |
| 2023 | UCLA | LB4 | #7772 | #7897 | 0.0% | 0.0% | -- | -- | W19 snapshot | Pac-12 |
| 2022 | California | LB4 | #11737 | #12000 | 0.0% | 0.0% | -- | -- | W20 snapshot | Pac-12 |
Roster Timeline
Team, conference, and class by season.
| Season | Team | Conference | Pos | Class | Bio |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | UCLA | Big Ten | LB | 4 | No. 2 | 6-3 | 250 lb | Elk Grove, CA |
| 2023 | UCLA | Pac-12 | LB | 4 | No. 2 | 6-3 | 250 lb | Elk Grove, CA |
| 2022 | California | Pac-12 | LB | 4 | No. 2 | 6-3 | 250 lb | Elk Grove, CA |