CFB Zeitgeist Score
45
Mid-pack in the position cohort. Carried by interceptions at the 75th percentile.
Tacario Davis
Below the discourse floor — the honest stats-only state.
20 TACKLES · 0 SACKS
Where He Ended Up · NFL
Cincinnati2026 NFL rookie season
#72Rd 3 · Pick 8
Cincinnati2026 NFL rookie season
CB · WASHINGTON · BIG TEN
Tacario Davis
- 4
- #8
- 6-4 | 200 lb
- Long Beach, CA
Heisman Heat
#11112
<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 2 · StarterR07 · Impact starter
Impact starter. Producing measurable value above replacement.
Not on team2-deepStarterRecognizedEliteApex
Career arc · Season-by-season Standing
4 seasons on the ladder
2022
Arizona · CB
—
2023
Arizona · CB
—
★
2024
Arizona · CB
R09 · All-Conference HM / 2nd team
Recognized
2025
Washington · CB
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NFL Draft 2026 · Rd 3, Pick 8 · #72 overall · Cincinnati
Career Arc
HS
Recruit
★★★
CFB
College
2 teams
NFL
NFL Draft
R3 · #72
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 |
|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 3-star | 0.8544 | No. 1140 recruit | HighSchool |
Transfer Arc
Portal movement changes role, context, and perception. This keeps that path in one place.
| Season | Move | Context |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Arizona -> Washington | 4-star | 0.9300 | Immediate |
| 2024 | Arizona -> -- | 4-star | 0.9200 | Withdrawn |
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
0.8544
#1140 national
NFL Draft
2026 · Rd 3, Pick 8
#72 overall · Cincinnati
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 Tacario Davis
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 Tacario Davis
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 defensive totals stand
Through 8g
20Tackles
1Tackles for loss
0Sacks
Per game
2Tackles
0.1Tackles for loss
0Sacks
Projected (13g)
32Tackles
1.6Tackles for loss
0Sacks
To hit 80-tackle season (currently 20): needs 12/game over remaining 5.
To hit 100-tackle season (currently 20): needs 16/game over remaining 5.
To hit 6-sack season (currently 0): needs 1.2/game over remaining 5.
To hit 10-sack season (currently 0): needs 2/game over remaining 5.
Why this is a rare defensive case
The fast read on the thing that makes this player more than a generic stat line.
Tacario Davis is trying to climb the steepest award hill in college football: a defensive candidacy. The hook is the disruption profile on Washington's defense, with 0.0 sacks, 1.0 tackles for loss, and 2 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.
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
Player identity What kind of player is this?
30-second read
What kind of player is this?
Coverage splash against FBS defenders.
2025 Season · Final
2025 season snapshot | final
Tackling & Disruption
TOT
20 60th
SOLO
16 71st
TFL
1.0 59th
SACK
0.0 65th
Coverage & Takeaways
PD
4 84th
INT
2 87th
Game Log · Week-by-week
2025 season · 8 games
| Wk | Opp | TKL | SOLO | TFL | SACK | INT | PD | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | W 38-21vs Colorado State | 1 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 2 | |
| Wk 2 | W 70-10vs UC Davis | — | — | — | — | 1 | — | |
| Wk 7 | W 38-19vs Rutgers | 4 | 3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 1 | |
| Wk 8 | L 7-24@ Michigan | 5 | 4 | 1.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | Season-high 5 tackles |
| Wk 9 | W 42-25vs Illinois | 4 | 4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1 | 0 | |
| Wk 11 | L 10-13@ Wisconsin | 3 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 12 | W 49-13vs Purdue | 2 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 1 | |
| Wk 13 | W 48-14@ UCLA | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Total | 20 | 16 | 1.0 | 0.0 | 2 | 4 |
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
2022Arizona5-7HC: Jedd Fisch · Pass-leaning
2023Arizona10-3HC: Jedd Fisch · Balanced
2024Arizona4-8HC: Brent Brennan · Pass-leaning
2025Washington9-4HC: Jedd Fisch · Run-leaning
| Season | Team | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Washington | 20 | 16 | 1.0 | 0.0 | 4 | 2 | -- |
| 2024 | Arizona | 39 | 25 | 2.0 | 0.0 | 6 | -- | -- |
| 2023 | Arizona | 25 | 13 | 0.5 | 0.0 | 15 | 1 | -- |
| 2022 | Arizona | 7 | 5 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1 | -- | -- |
| Career | 4 loaded seasons | 91 | 59 | 3.5 | 0.0 | 26 | 3 | -- |
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 | 20 | #1998/4942 | 60th pct | Volumevs FBS DEF |
| Defense | TFL | 1.0 | #2051/4972 | 59th pct | Disruptionvs FBS DEF |
| Defense | Sacks | 0.0 | #1762/4972 | 65th pct | Disruptionvs FBS DEF |
| Defense | Interceptions | 2 | #114/869 | 87th pct | Takeawaysvs FBS DEF |
| Defense | Pass breakups | 4 | #340/2184 | 84th pct | Coveragevs FBS DEF |
| Defense | INT return yards | 34 | #189/578 | 67th pct | Takeawaysvs FBS DEF |
| Defense | INT return avg | 17.0 | #253/578 | 56th pct | Takeawaysvs FBS DEF |
| Defense | Solo tackles | 16 | #1348/4584 | 71st 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 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 · 8 games
Home vs Road
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home5g | 2.2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.8 |
| Road3g | 3.0 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
Win vs Loss
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wins6g | 2.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.7 |
| Losses2g | 4.0 | 0.5 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
First half vs Second half
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-73g | 1.7 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1.0 |
| Weeks 8+5g | 3.0 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.2 |
Pocket and defense-quality (clean vs. pressure) splits are coming soon.
Savant · Box-rate percentiles
Where this profile ranks vs the CB cohort
45Mid-pack
Elite: passes defended (85th). Concern: qb hurries (22nd).
Percentiles versus same-position peers with enough snaps this season, based on box-score rates.
Advanced Savant · CB · 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
Tacario DavisWashingtonTahj Ra-ElPurdue· 65% simDalton JohnsonArizona· 65% simDevin LafayetteTroy· 64% sim
Passes defended
Interceptions
Solo tackles
Tackles
Tackles for loss
Sacks
QB hurries
Closest peers by overall box-score percentile profile at the same position.
Player DNA
The Press Corner
Long and physical; jams receivers off their route at the line.
CB
His 2025 production profile sits closest to Jamari Brown’s 2021 season.
Jamari Brown
81%match
#2
DeCarlos Nicholson
74%
#3
Ezekiel Blake
74%
#4
Ricky Fletcher
74%
#5
Elijah Clark
73%
Matches Jamari on
PD rate
Weight
Height
Differs from Jamari on
Tackle volume (lower)
Not enough data yet for this comparison.
As a senior, his production profile tracks closest to Mory Bamba's senior season at BYU (2025).
Mory Bamba
83%match
#2
Rashad Battle
74%
#3
Cam Hart
NFL Rd 5
70%
#4
Justin Hodges
69%
#5
Virdel Edwards II
69%
Matches Mory on
Class year
Tackle volume
PD rate
Supporting Cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Jedd Fisch
Pass share
44.9%
370 pass / 454 run
Plays / game
63.4
13 games
OL sack rate (allowed)
9.3%
268 dropbacks · PBP
Scheme: Run-leaning.
Coaching Lineage · 2022–2025
2 coaches2022
Kalen DeBoer
Washington
2023
Kalen DeBoer
Washington
2024era →
Jedd Fisch
Washington
2025
Jedd Fisch
Washington
Coaching transition mid-career: Kalen DeBoer → Jedd Fisch. 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.
HometownLong Beach, CA
Height6'4"
Weight200 lb
Class4
PositionCB
Jersey8
No fields populated yet.
No fields populated yet.
Current teamWashington
ConferenceBig Ten
Joined2025
Career arc4 season(s)
Trophy Case · Confirmed honors
What the selectors said
🎖
ALL-CONFERENCE
All-Conf mention (2024)
All-Big 12
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-Big 12 | all_conference | Arizona | Big 12 | DB |
Heisman By Year
Modeled rank and official finish by season.
Roster Timeline
Team, conference, and class by season.
| Season | Team | Conference | Pos | Class | Bio |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Washington | Big Ten | CB | 4 | No. 8 | 6-4 | 200 lb | Long Beach, CA |
| 2024 | Arizona | Big 12 | CB | 4 | No. 8 | 6-4 | 200 lb | Long Beach, CA |
| 2023 | Arizona | Pac-12 | CB | 4 | No. 8 | 6-4 | 200 lb | Long Beach, CA |
| 2022 | Arizona | Pac-12 | CB | 4 | No. 8 | 6-4 | 200 lb | Long Beach, CA |