CFB Zeitgeist Score
13
Below cohort in the position cohort. Carried by rush tds at the 26th percentile.
Sesi Vailahi
Below the discourse floor — the honest stats-only state.
152 RUSH YDS · 2 RUSH TD · 42 CARRIES
Where He Ended Up · Transfer
Transferred to Utah State
2025Oklahoma State
2026Utah State
RB · OKLAHOMA STATE · BIG 12
Sesi Vailahi
- 2
- #3
- 5-9 | 206 lb
- Salt Lake City, UT
Heisman Heat
#2317
<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 · StarterR06 · Starter
Starter. A locked-in starting role.
Not on team2-deepStarterRecognizedEliteApex
Development Trajectory · rushing yards
2023–2025+463%
Up 463% from first season to most-recent.
Career Arc
HS
Recruit
★★★
CFB
College
Oklahoma State
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 |
|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 3-star | 0.8211 | No. 2041 recruit | HighSchool | Oklahoma State |
Transfer Arc
Portal movement changes role, context, and perception. This keeps that path in one place.
| Season | Move | Context |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Oklahoma State -> Utah State | 3-star | 0.8500 | 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 Oklahoma State
Composite
0.8211
#2041 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 Sesi Vailahi
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 Sesi Vailahi
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
152Rush yards
42Carries
2Rush TDs
Per game
16.9Rush yards
5Carries
0Rush TDs
Projected (13g)
219.6Rush yards
61Carries
3Rush TDs
To hit 750-yard season (currently 152): needs 149.5/game over remaining 4.
To hit 1,000-yard season (currently 152): needs 212/game over remaining 4.
To hit 1,500-yard season (currently 152): needs 337/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.
Sesi Vailahi's story is about how role and output meet each other. For Oklahoma State, 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
42 54th
YDS
152 49th
YPC
3.6 24th
TD
2 67th
Receiving
REC
8 55th
YDS
54 51st
YPR
6.8 48th
TD
0 70th
Game Log · Week-by-week
2025 season · 9 games
| Wk | Opp | CAR | YDS | AVG | TD | LONG | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | W 27-7vs UT Martin | 9 | 32 | 3.6 | 1 | 10 | |
| Wk 4 | L 12-19vs Tulsa | — | — | — | — | — | |
| Wk 7 | L 17-39vs Houston | 7 | 27 | 3.9 | 0 | 7 | |
| Wk 8 | L 17-49vs Cincinnati | 7 | 38 | 5.4 | 0 | 14 | Season-high 38 yds |
| Wk 9 | L 0-42@ Texas Tech | 6 | 16 | 2.7 | 0 | 4 | |
| Wk 10 | L 21-38@ Kansas | 5 | 7 | 1.4 | 1 | 4 | |
| Wk 12 | L 6-14vs Kansas State | 2 | 11 | 5.5 | 0 | 8 | |
| Wk 13 | L 14-17@ UCF | 5 | 19 | 3.8 | 0 | 7 | |
| Wk 14 | L 13-20vs Iowa State | 1 | 2 | 2.0 | 0 | 2 | |
| Total | 42 | 152 | 3.5 | 2 | 14 |
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
2023Oklahoma State10-4HC: Mike Gundy · Pass-leaning
2025Oklahoma State1-11HC: Mike Gundy · Balanced
| Season | Team | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Oklahoma State | 42 | 152 | 3.6 | 2 | -- |
| 2023 | Oklahoma State | 6 | 27 | 4.5 | 0 | -- |
| Career | 2 loaded seasons | 48 | 179 | 3.7 | 2 | -- |
| Season | Team | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Oklahoma State | 8 | 54 | 6.8 | 0 | -- |
| 2023 | Oklahoma State | 2 | 12 | 6.0 | 0 | -- |
| Career | 2 loaded seasons | 10 | 66 | 6.6 | 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 | 152 | #373/735 | 49th pct | Volumevs FBS RB |
| Rushing | Rush TD | 2 | #247/739 | 67th pct | Scoringvs FBS RB |
| Rushing | Yards / carry | 3.6 | #561/735 | 24th pct | Efficiencyvs FBS RB |
| Receiving | Receptions | 8 | #248/552 | 55th pct | Volumevs FBS RB |
| Receiving | Receiving yards | 54 | #267/548 | 51st pct | Volumevs FBS RB |
| Usage | Role share | 9.1% | #351/738 | 53rd pct | Share of team offensevs FBS RB |
| Rushing | Carries | 42 | #338/739 | 54th pct | Volumevs FBS RB |
| Rushing | Rushing LONG | 14 | #488/733 | 34th pct | Metricvs FBS RB |
| Receiving | Receiving LONG | 16 | #277/540 | 49th pct | Metricvs FBS RB |
| Receiving | Yards / catch | 6.8 | #287/548 | 48th pct | Efficiencyvs FBS RB |
| Receiving | Receiving TD | 0 | #169/552 | 70th pct | Scoringvs FBS RB |
| Usage | Rush share | 14.8% | #355/738 | 52nd pct | Ground-game usagevs FBS RB |
| Usage | 2nd-down usage | 11.6% | #282/738 | 62nd pct | Middle-down loadvs FBS RB |
| Usage | 3rd-down usage | 9.8% | #208/738 | 72nd pct | Money-down loadvs FBS RB |
| Usage | Passing-down usage | 9.4% | #229/738 | 69th pct | Known-passing sharevs FBS RB |
| Usage | Standard-down usage | 8.9% | #384/738 | 48th pct | Base-situation sharevs FBS RB |
| Usage | 1st-down usage | 7.0% | #457/738 | 38th pct | Early-down loadvs FBS RB |
| Usage | Pass share | 3.3% | #280/738 | 62nd pct | Air-game usagevs FBS RB |
| Ball Security | Fumbles lost | 2 | #205/256 | 20th 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 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Home6g | 18.3 | 4.1 | 0.2 |
| Road3g | 14.0 | 2.6 | 0.3 |
Win vs Loss
| YDS/g | YPC | TD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wins1g | 32.0 | 3.6 | 1.0 |
| Losses8g | 15.0 | 3.5 | 0.1 |
First half vs Second half
| YDS/g | YPC | TD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-73g | 19.7 | 3.8 | 0.3 |
| Weeks 8+6g | 15.5 | 3.5 | 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
13Below cohort
Concern: long run (2nd).
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.
Advanced opponent-adjusted metrics are coming soon for this player. Selected cohort: P4.
Peer Comparator · Fingerprint match
Three closest profiles by box-rate percentile
Sesi VailahiOklahoma StateTae MeadowsTroy· 52% simChavon WrightNorthern Illinois· 50% simSire GainesBoise State· 49% sim
Rec yards
Receptions
Rush TDs
Fumbles lost
Yards / carry
Rush yards
Carries
Long run
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 Will Jones’s 2021 season.
Will Jones
72%match
#2
Sedrick Alexander
71%
#3
Juma Otoviano
68%
#4
Jordan Lovett
67%
#5
Jaquari Lewis
67%
Matches Will on
Yards / carry
Rush TD rate
Differs from Will on
Class year (lower)
EPA / carry (adj) (lower)
Height (lower)
Through 2 college seasons, his career arc tracks closest to Julien Gums’s path through Nicholls.
Julien Gums
96%match
#2
Jonathan DeBique
95%
#3
Jason Collins Jr.
93%
#4
Fredderick Graves
92%
#5
Kennieth Lacy
90%
Matches Julien on
Yards per carry
As a junior, his production profile tracks closest to Jordan Lovett's junior season at Troy (2025).
Jordan Lovett
70%match
#2
Alexander Diggs
67%
#3
Parker Jenkins
66%
#4
Brian Smith
64%
#5
Isaiah Johnson
62%
Matches Jordan on
Total rush EPA (college ability)
Height
Receiving share
Differs from Jordan on
Rush TD rate (higher)
Weight (higher)
Supporting Cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Mike Gundy
Pass share
47.5%
365 pass / 403 run
Plays / game
64.0
12 games
OL sack rate (allowed)
9.9%
223 dropbacks · PBP
Scheme: Balanced.
Coaching Lineage · 2023–2025
1 coach2023
Mike Gundy
Oklahoma State
2025
Mike Gundy
Oklahoma State
Played his entire career under Mike Gundy.
Bio · Recruiting · Transfer · Roster
Off-field context — switch tabs to drill into recruit profile, transfer arc, or roster timeline.
HometownSalt Lake City, UT
Height5'9"
Weight206 lb
Class2
PositionRB
Jersey3
No fields populated yet.
No fields populated yet.
Current teamOklahoma State
ConferenceBig 12
Joined2025
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 | Oklahoma State | RB2 | #2317 | #2380 | 0.0% | 0.0% | -- | -- | W16 snapshot | Big 12 |
| 2023 | Oklahoma State | RB2 | #1773 | #1697 | 0.0% | 0.0% | -- | -- | W19 snapshot | Big 12 |
Roster Timeline
Team, conference, and class by season.
| Season | Team | Conference | Pos | Class | Bio |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Oklahoma State | Big 12 | RB | 2 | No. 3 | 5-9 | 206 lb | Salt Lake City, UT |
| 2024 | Oklahoma State | Big 12 | RB | 2 | No. 3 | 5-9 | 206 lb | Salt Lake City, UT |
| 2023 | Oklahoma State | Big 12 | RB | 2 | No. 3 | 5-9 | 206 lb | Salt Lake City, UT |