CFB Zeitgeist Score
53
Mid-pack in the position cohort. Carried by yards / carry at the 49th percentile.
Rahsul Faison
Below the discourse floor — the honest stats-only state.
470 RUSH YDS · 3 RUSH TD · 96 CARRIES
2026 Outlook
Returning to South Carolina for 2026
2026 Depth chart
Projected starter
Running back · South Carolina
Returning around him
- 62% of 2024 offensive production back (Solid continuity)
- 3 South Carolina players drafted to NFL
- Transfer portal: +1 net (25 in / 24 out)
2026 Award watch
No preseason watch lists yet (most drop June 15 – July 15)
South Carolina · Last season: 4-8 (AP #11) · Talent rank #18 · 2026 recruiting class #18
RB · SOUTH CAROLINA · SEC
Rahsul Faison
- 4
- #1
- 6-0 | 218 lb
- Pottstown, PA
Heisman Heat
#3985
<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
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CONSENSUS
All-American
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Player Standing · 17 rungs
Tier 2 · StarterR07 · Impact starter
Impact starter. Producing measurable value above replacement.
Not on team2-deepStarterRecognizedEliteApex
Development Trajectory · rushing yards
2023–2025-36%
Sharp dropoff (-36%) — career inflection point.
Career Arc
HS
Recruit
★★
CFB
College
2 teams
NFL
NFL Draft
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 2-star | 0.7783 | No. 3427 recruit | HighSchool | Marshall |
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.
Achievements
- Program Benchmark 5.5% Program Benchmark Season leader for the program at the player's position across the headline volume metric (passing yards / rushing yards / receiving yards). Held by 5.5% of the 2025 pool. Team leader in rushing yards (470).
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 Marshall
Composite
0.7783
#3427 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
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 Rahsul Faison
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 Rahsul Faison
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.
Season Pace · Projection
Where the rushing totals stand
Through 12g
470Rush yards
96Carries
3Rush TDs
Per game
39.2Rush yards
8Carries
0Rush TDs
Projected (13g)
509.2Rush yards
104Carries
3Rush TDs
To hit 750-yard season (currently 470): needs 280/game over remaining 1.
To hit 1,000-yard season (currently 470): needs 530/game over remaining 1.
To hit 1,500-yard season (currently 470): needs 1,030/game over remaining 1.
To hit 10 rushing TDs (currently 3): needs 7/game over remaining 1.
To hit 15 rushing TDs (currently 3): needs 12/game over remaining 1.
To hit 20 rushing TDs (currently 3): needs 17/game over remaining 1.
Why the honors trail matters
The fast read on the thing that makes this player more than a generic stat line.
The useful clue on this card is not just the Heisman rank, but the broader honors spine. Rahsul Faison already has 1 loaded recognition item, which helps distinguish a player who is merely productive from one who is already earning selector-level validation.
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
Player identity What kind of player is this?
30-second read
What kind of player is this?
Passing-game back against FBS RB peers.
2025 Season · Final
2025 season snapshot | final
Rushing
CAR
96 76th
YDS
470 76th
YPC
4.9 59th
TD
3 73rd
Receiving
REC
19 86th
YDS
118 75th
YPR
6.2 41st
TD
0 70th
Game Log · Week-by-week
2025 season · 12 games
| Wk | Opp | CAR | YDS | AVG | TD | LONG | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | W 24-11vs Virginia Tech | 7 | 40 | 5.7 | 0 | 30 | |
| Wk 2 | W 38-10vs South Carolina State | 5 | 21 | 4.2 | 0 | 6 | |
| Wk 3 | L 7-31vs Vanderbilt | 15 | 74 | 4.9 | 1 | 16 | Season-high 74 yds |
| Wk 4 | L 20-29@ Missouri | 6 | 5 | 0.8 | 0 | 2 | |
| Wk 5 | W 35-13vs Kentucky | 8 | 23 | 2.9 | 2 | 12 | |
| Wk 7 | L 10-20@ LSU | 13 | 68 | 5.2 | 0 | 14 | |
| Wk 8 | L 7-26vs Oklahoma | 10 | 50 | 5.0 | 0 | 36 | |
| Wk 9 | L 22-29vs Alabama | 5 | 17 | 3.4 | 0 | 13 | |
| Wk 10 | L 14-30@ Ole Miss | 12 | 52 | 4.3 | 0 | 12 | |
| Wk 12 | L 30-31@ Texas A&M | 5 | 26 | 5.2 | 0 | 22 | |
| Wk 13 | W 51-7vs Coastal Carolina | 5 | 57 | 11.4 | 0 | 46 | |
| Wk 14 | L 14-28vs Clemson | 5 | 37 | 7.4 | 0 | 16 | |
| Total | 96 | 470 | 5.0 | 3 | 46 |
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
2023Utah State6-7HC: Blake Anderson · Run-leaning
2025South Carolina4-8HC: Shane Beamer · Run-leaning
| Season | Team | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | South Carolina | 96 | 470 | 4.9 | 3 | -- |
| 2023 | Utah State | 118 | 736 | 6.2 | 5 | -- |
| Career | 2 loaded seasons | 214 | 1,206 | 5.6 | 8 | -- |
| Season | Team | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | South Carolina | 19 | 118 | 6.2 | 0 | -- |
| 2023 | Utah State | 11 | 52 | 4.7 | 0 | -- |
| Career | 2 loaded seasons | 30 | 170 | 5.7 | 0 | -- |
Advanced layer Usage, value, and context
Advanced metrics second
Advanced Metrics
Usage, value, and opponent-adjusted context.
Opponent-adjusted rushing value. It helps separate empty volume from carries that actually move the scoreboard.
How much of the team's offense flows through this back once rushing work and receiving work are combined.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rushing | Rushing yards | 470 | #175/735 | 76th pct | Volumevs FBS RB |
| Rushing | Rush TD | 3 | #204/739 | 73rd pct | Scoringvs FBS RB |
| Rushing | Yards / carry | 4.9 | #305/735 | 59th pct | Efficiencyvs FBS RB |
| Receiving | Receptions | 19 | #78/552 | 86th pct | Volumevs FBS RB |
| Receiving | Receiving yards | 118 | #138/548 | 75th pct | Volumevs FBS RB |
| Value | Rushing WEPA | +0.18 | #84/362 | 77th pct | Opponent-adjusted rushing value | 94 weighted playsvs FBS RB |
| Usage | Role share | 15.8% | #158/738 | 79th pct | Share of team offensevs FBS RB |
| Rushing | Carries | 96 | #180/739 | 76th pct | Volumevs FBS RB |
| Rushing | Rushing LONG | 46 | #191/733 | 74th pct | Metricvs FBS RB |
| Receiving | Receiving LONG | 33 | #106/540 | 81st pct | Metricvs FBS RB |
| Receiving | Yards / catch | 6.2 | #327/548 | 41st pct | Efficiencyvs FBS RB |
| Receiving | Receiving TD | 0 | #169/552 | 70th pct | Scoringvs FBS RB |
| Usage | Rush share | 25.6% | #171/738 | 77th pct | Ground-game usagevs FBS RB |
| Usage | 1st-down usage | 20.0% | #144/738 | 81st pct | Early-down loadvs FBS RB |
| Usage | Standard-down usage | 18.6% | #154/738 | 79th pct | Base-situation sharevs FBS RB |
| Usage | 2nd-down usage | 15.4% | #164/738 | 78th pct | Middle-down loadvs FBS RB |
| Usage | Passing-down usage | 10.8% | #173/738 | 77th pct | Known-passing sharevs FBS RB |
| Usage | 3rd-down usage | 9.3% | #224/738 | 70th pct | Money-down loadvs FBS RB |
| Usage | Pass share | 6.5% | #100/738 | 87th pct | Air-game usagevs FBS RB |
| Ball Security | Fumbles lost | 0 | #1/256 | 100th pct | Turnoversvs 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
Status—Awaiting tracker
Heisman model tracks the top FBS contenders weekly; this player hasn't entered the watch list yet.
Splits · Per-game
2025 season · 12 games
Home vs Road
| YDS/g | YPC | TD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Home8g | 39.9 | 5.6 | 0.4 |
| Road4g | 37.8 | 3.9 | 0.0 |
Win vs Loss
| YDS/g | YPC | TD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wins4g | 35.2 | 6.0 | 0.5 |
| Losses8g | 41.1 | 4.5 | 0.1 |
First half vs Second half
| YDS/g | YPC | TD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-76g | 38.5 | 3.9 | 0.5 |
| Weeks 8+6g | 39.8 | 6.1 | 0.0 |
Pocket and defense-quality (clean vs. pressure) splits are coming soon.
Savant · Box-rate percentiles
Where this profile ranks vs the RB cohort
53Mid-pack
Elite: fumbles lost (86th).
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
Advanced Savant
Opponent-adjusted advanced metrics with a cohort filter.
wepa_rushing0.18Mid (p50–p75) (n=178)
Peer Comparator · Fingerprint match
Three closest profiles by box-rate percentile
Rahsul FaisonSouth CarolinaJevon JacksonUAB· 76% simKamari MoultonIowa· 76% simJevyon DuckerTemple· 75% sim
Fumbles lost
Receptions
Rec yards
Long run
Rush yards
Yards / carry
Carries
Rush TDs
Closest peers by overall box-score percentile profile at the same position.
Player DNA
The Workhorse
Built to take 20+ carries per game. Volume is the value.
RB
His 2025 production profile sits closest to Ari Broussard’s 2021 season.
Ari Broussard
82%match
#2
Owen Burk
80%
#3
Kobe Lewis
77%
#4
British Brooks
77%
#5
Dylan Carson
75%
Matches Ari on
Weight
Rush TD rate
Total rush EPA (college ability)
Differs from Ari on
EPA / carry (adj) (higher)
Not enough data yet for this comparison.
As a junior, his production profile tracks closest to Owen Burk's junior season at Air Force (2023).
Owen Burk
89%match
#2
Kobe Lewis
89%
#3
Dylan Carson
82%
#4
British Brooks
83%
#5
Montrell Johnson
82%
Matches Owen on
Total rush EPA (college ability)
EPA / carry (adj)
Weight
Supporting Cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Shane Beamer
Pass share
45.5%
340 pass / 407 run
Plays / game
62.2
12 games
OL sack rate (allowed)
13.0%
316 dropbacks · PBP
Scheme: Run-leaning.
Coaching Lineage · 2023–2025
1 coach2023
Shane Beamer
South Carolina
2025
Shane Beamer
South Carolina
Played his entire career under Shane Beamer.
Bio · Recruiting · Transfer · Roster
Off-field context — switch tabs to drill into recruit profile, transfer arc, or roster timeline.
HometownPottstown, PA
Height6'0"
Weight218 lb
Class4
PositionRB
Jersey1
No fields populated yet.
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Current teamSouth Carolina
ConferenceSEC
Joined2025
Career arc3 season(s)
Trophy Case · Confirmed honors
What the selectors said
🎖
ALL-CONFERENCE
All-Conf mention (2024)
All-Mountain West
Trophy Case · Detail
Every honor on the ledger, broken out by stream and selector.
1 all-conference honor
Conference-level recognition helps anchor whether a player is merely statistically loud or actually viewed as elite within his competitive lane.
Honors Timeline
Season-end distinction and week-by-week recognition on one timeline.
| Season | Honor | Scope | Team / Selector | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | All-Mountain West | all_conference | Utah State | Mountain West | RB |
Heisman By Year
Modeled rank and official finish by season.
| Season | Team | Role | Latest Model | Forecast | Win | Finalist | Official Finish | Points | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Utah State | RB4 | #3985 | #4330 | 0.0% | 0.0% | -- | -- | W16 snapshot | Mountain West |
| 2023 | Utah State | RB4 | #674 | #872 | 0.0% | 0.0% | -- | -- | W19 snapshot | Mountain West |
Roster Timeline
Team, conference, and class by season.
| Season | Team | Conference | Pos | Class | Bio |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | South Carolina | SEC | RB | 4 | No. 1 | 6-0 | 218 lb | Pottstown, PA |
| 2024 | Utah State | Mountain West | RB | 4 | No. 1 | 6-0 | 218 lb | Pottstown, PA |
| 2023 | Utah State | Mountain West | RB | 4 | No. 1 | 6-0 | 218 lb | Pottstown, PA |