CFB Zeitgeist Score
30
Below cohort in the position cohort. Carried by yards / carry at the 37th percentile.
Rocko Griffin
Below the discourse floor — the honest stats-only state.
245 RUSH YDS · 2 RUSH TD · 53 CARRIES
2026 Outlook
Returning to Massachusetts for 2026
2026 Depth chart
Projected starter
Running back · Massachusetts
Returning around him
- 76% of 2024 offensive production back (Strong continuity)
- Transfer portal: +3 net (22 in / 19 out)
2026 Award watch
No preseason watch lists yet (most drop June 15 – July 15)
Massachusetts · Last season: 0-12 · Talent rank #118 · 2026 recruiting class #136
RB · MASSACHUSETTS · MID-AMERICAN
Rocko Griffin
- 3
- #24
- 5-9 | 200 lb
- Rincon, GA
Heisman Heat
#2527
<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 · StarterR05 · Part-time starter
Part-time starter. Splitting first-team reps.
Not on team2-deepStarterRecognizedEliteApex
Development Trajectory · rushing yards
2021–2025-53%
Sharp dropoff (-53%) — career inflection point.
Career Arc
HS
Recruit
★★★
CFB
College
3 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 3-star | 0.8530 | No. 1123 recruit | HighSchool |
Transfer Arc
Portal movement changes role, context, and perception. This keeps that path in one place.
| Season | Move | Context |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | UTSA -> Massachusetts | 3-star | 0.8000 | Immediate |
| 2023 | Vanderbilt -> UTSA | 3-star | 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 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
0.8530
#1123 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 Rocko Griffin
Fan sentiment ·
Belief Meter
50
Mixed Sentiment
Top Take
“”
Trajectory
Per-cohort trajectory lands when historical bucket data is aggregated.
Cohort divergence map
- Own fans · n=1
Rival Radar
How rival fanbases talk about Rocko Griffin
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 9g
245Rush yards
53Carries
2Rush TDs
Per game
27.2Rush yards
6Carries
0Rush TDs
Projected (13g)
353.9Rush yards
77Carries
3Rush TDs
To hit 750-yard season (currently 245): needs 126.2/game over remaining 4.
To hit 1,000-yard season (currently 245): needs 188.8/game over remaining 4.
To hit 1,500-yard season (currently 245): needs 313.8/game over remaining 4.
To hit 10 rushing TDs (currently 2): needs 2/game over remaining 4.
To hit 15 rushing TDs (currently 2): needs 3.2/game over remaining 4.
To hit 20 rushing TDs (currently 2): needs 4.5/game over remaining 4.
What made this player interesting
The fast read on the thing that makes this player more than a generic stat line.
Rocko Griffin's story is about how role and output meet each other. For Massachusetts, the card already shows enough current-season production to explain why he is on the serious-player board, and the next layer is determining whether the profile is just very good or actually distinctive.
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?
Backfield contributor against FBS RB peers.
2025 Season · Final
2025 season snapshot | final
Rushing
CAR
53 59th
YDS
245 59th
YPC
4.6 51st
TD
2 67th
Receiving
REC
10 61st
YDS
61 55th
YPR
6.1 40th
TD
0 70th
Game Log · Week-by-week
2025 season · 9 games
| Wk | Opp | CAR | YDS | AVG | TD | LONG | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | L 10-42vs Temple | 10 | 94 | 9.4 | 1 | 41 | Season-high 94 yds |
| Wk 2 | L 26-27vs Bryant | 10 | 20 | 2.0 | 0 | 9 | |
| Wk 3 | L 7-47@ Iowa | 10 | 28 | 2.8 | 0 | 8 | |
| Wk 5 | L 6-42@ Missouri | 5 | 23 | 4.6 | 0 | 7 | |
| Wk 9 | L 13-38@ Central Michigan | 7 | 56 | 8.0 | 1 | 43 | |
| Wk 11 | L 10-44@ Akron | 3 | -5 | -1.7 | 0 | 2 | |
| Wk 12 | L 3-45vs Northern Illinois | 3 | 5 | 1.7 | 0 | 3 | |
| Wk 13 | L 14-42@ Ohio | 2 | -2 | -1.0 | 0 | 1 | |
| Wk 14 | L 14-45vs Bowling Green | 3 | 26 | 8.7 | 0 | 20 | |
| Total | 53 | 245 | 3.8 | 2 | 43 |
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
2021Vanderbilt2-10HC: Clark Lea · Balanced
2022Vanderbilt5-7HC: Clark Lea · Run-leaning
2023UTSA9-4HC: Jeff Traylor · Run-leaning
2024UTSA7-6HC: Jeff Traylor · Balanced, fast tempo
2025Massachusetts0-12HC: Joe Harasymiak · Balanced
| Season | Team | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Massachusetts | 53 | 245 | 4.6 | 2 | -- |
| 2024 | UTSA | 17 | 44 | 2.6 | 0 | -- |
| 2023 | UTSA | 91 | 483 | 5.3 | 6 | -- |
| 2022 | Vanderbilt | 9 | 86 | 9.6 | 1 | -- |
| 2021 | Vanderbilt | 145 | 517 | 3.6 | 4 | -- |
| Career | 5 loaded seasons | 315 | 1,375 | 4.4 | 13 | -- |
| Season | Team | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Massachusetts | 10 | 61 | 6.1 | 0 | -- |
| 2024 | UTSA | 3 | 16 | 5.3 | 0 | -- |
| 2023 | UTSA | 9 | 30 | 3.3 | 0 | -- |
| 2022 | Vanderbilt | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| 2021 | Vanderbilt | 10 | 41 | 4.1 | 0 | -- |
| Career | 5 loaded seasons | 32 | 148 | 4.6 | 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 | 245 | #305/735 | 59th pct | Volumevs FBS RB |
| Rushing | Rush TD | 2 | #247/739 | 67th pct | Scoringvs FBS RB |
| Rushing | Yards / carry | 4.6 | #364/735 | 51st pct | Efficiencyvs FBS RB |
| Receiving | Receptions | 10 | #217/552 | 61st pct | Volumevs FBS RB |
| Receiving | Receiving yards | 61 | #248/548 | 55th pct | Volumevs FBS RB |
| Value | Rushing WEPA | +0.18 | #84/362 | 77th pct | Opponent-adjusted rushing value | 43 weighted playsvs FBS RB |
| Usage | Role share | 11.0% | #287/738 | 61st pct | Share of team offensevs FBS RB |
| Rushing | Carries | 53 | #302/739 | 59th pct | Volumevs FBS RB |
| Rushing | Rushing LONG | 43 | #211/733 | 71st pct | Metricvs FBS RB |
| Receiving | Receiving LONG | 18 | #258/540 | 52nd pct | Metricvs FBS RB |
| Receiving | Yards / catch | 6.1 | #332/548 | 40th pct | Efficiencyvs FBS RB |
| Receiving | Receiving TD | 0 | #169/552 | 70th pct | Scoringvs FBS RB |
| Usage | Rush share | 22.8% | #216/738 | 71st pct | Ground-game usagevs FBS RB |
| Usage | 1st-down usage | 13.6% | #257/738 | 65th pct | Early-down loadvs FBS RB |
| Usage | Standard-down usage | 13.0% | #269/738 | 64th pct | Base-situation sharevs FBS RB |
| Usage | 2nd-down usage | 11.0% | #303/738 | 59th pct | Middle-down loadvs FBS RB |
| Usage | 3rd-down usage | 8.1% | #284/738 | 62nd pct | Money-down loadvs FBS RB |
| Usage | Passing-down usage | 7.6% | #318/738 | 57th pct | Known-passing sharevs FBS RB |
| Usage | Pass share | 2.4% | #369/738 | 50th pct | Air-game usagevs FBS RB |
| Ball Security | Fumbles lost | 1 | #78/256 | 70th 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 · 9 games
Home vs Road
| YDS/g | YPC | TD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Home4g | 36.2 | 5.5 | 0.2 |
| Road5g | 20.0 | 2.5 | 0.2 |
Win vs Loss
| YDS/g | YPC | TD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Losses9g | 27.2 | 3.8 | 0.2 |
First half vs Second half
| YDS/g | YPC | TD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-74g | 41.2 | 4.7 | 0.2 |
| Weeks 8+5g | 16.0 | 3.1 | 0.2 |
Pocket and defense-quality (clean vs. pressure) splits are coming soon.
Savant · Box-rate percentiles
Where this profile ranks vs the RB cohort
30Below cohort
Concern: rush yards (13th).
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
Rocko GriffinMassachusettsTae MeadowsTroy· 63% simChavon WrightNorthern Illinois· 59% simJordan BrunsonMiami (OH)· 59% sim
Fumbles lost
Long run
Receptions
Yards / carry
Rec yards
Rush TDs
Carries
Rush yards
Closest peers by overall box-score percentile profile at the same position.
Player DNA
The Balanced Back
Plays within the scheme — consistent production without a dominant dimension.
RB
His 2025 production profile sits closest to Jo'Nathan Silver’s 2025 season.
Jo'Nathan Silver
79%match
#2
Maquel Haywood
76%
#3
Mario Anderson
78%
#4
Marion Lukes
76%
#5
Nelson Smith
68%
Matches Jo'Nathan on
Yards / carry
Yards / reception
Receiving share
Differs from Jo'Nathan on
Class year (lower)
Height (lower)
Through 6 college seasons, his career arc tracks closest to Darius Wilson’s path through William & Mary.
Darius Wilson
97%match
#2
Deon Jackson
94%
#3
Tae Meadows
92%
#4
Lloyd Avant
91%
#5
Javin Gordon
90%
Matches Darius on
Yards per carry
Supporting Cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Joe Harasymiak
Pass share
54.2%
415 pass / 351 run
Plays / game
63.8
12 games
OL sack rate (allowed)
9.9%
342 dropbacks · PBP
Scheme: Balanced.
Coaching Lineage · 2021–2025
4 coaches2021
Alex Miller
Massachusetts
2022era →
Don Brown
Massachusetts
2023
Don Brown
Massachusetts
2024era →
Shane Montgomery
Massachusetts
2025era →
Joe Harasymiak
Massachusetts
Played under 4 different head coaches: Alex Miller, Don Brown, Shane Montgomery, and Joe Harasymiak. Multi-era developmental context.
Bio · Recruiting · Transfer · Roster
Off-field context — switch tabs to drill into recruit profile, transfer arc, or roster timeline.
HometownRincon, GA
Height5'9"
Weight200 lb
Class3
PositionRB
Jersey24
No fields populated yet.
No fields populated yet.
Current teamMassachusetts
ConferenceMid-American
Joined2025
Career arc5 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 | UTSA | RB3 | #2527 | #3052 | 0.0% | 0.0% | -- | -- | W16 snapshot | American Athletic |
| 2023 | UTSA | RB3 | #311 | #358 | 0.0% | 0.0% | -- | -- | W19 snapshot | American Athletic |
| 2022 | Vanderbilt | RB3 | #1840 | #2238 | 0.0% | 0.0% | -- | -- | W20 snapshot | SEC |
| 2021 | Vanderbilt | RB3 | #816 | #1186 | 0.0% | 0.0% | -- | -- | W20 snapshot | SEC |
Roster Timeline
Team, conference, and class by season.
| Season | Team | Conference | Pos | Class | Bio |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Massachusetts | Mid-American | RB | 3 | No. 24 | 5-9 | 200 lb | Rincon, GA |
| 2024 | UTSA | American Athletic | RB | 3 | No. 24 | 5-9 | 200 lb | Rincon, GA |
| 2023 | UTSA | American Athletic | RB | 3 | No. 24 | 5-9 | 200 lb | Rincon, GA |
| 2022 | Vanderbilt | SEC | RB | 3 | No. 24 | 5-9 | 200 lb | Rincon, GA |
| 2021 | Vanderbilt | SEC | RB | 3 | No. 24 | 5-9 | 200 lb | Rincon, GA |