CFB Zeitgeist Score
52
Mid-pack in the position cohort. Carried by passes defended at the 98th percentile.
Tank Pearson
Below the discourse floor — the honest stats-only state.
49 TACKLES · 0 SACKS
2026 Outlook
Returning to Ohio for 2026
2026 Depth chart
Projected starter
Cornerback · Ohio
Returning around him
- 65% of 2024 offensive production back (Solid continuity)
- Transfer portal: +2 net (18 in / 16 out)
2026 Award watch
No preseason watch lists yet (most drop June 15 – July 15)
Ohio · Last season: 9-4 · Talent rank #126 · 2026 recruiting class #121
CB · OHIO · MID-AMERICAN
Tank Pearson
- 4
- #7
- 5-9 | 178 lb
- Oxford, MS
Heisman Heat
#8593
<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
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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
Career arc · Season-by-season Standing
3 seasons on the ladder
2023
Ohio · CB
—
2024
Ohio · CB
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★
2025
Ohio · CB
R09 · All-Conference HM / 2nd team
Recognized
Career Arc
HS
Recruit
★★★
CFB
College
Ohio
NFL
NFL Draft
—
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 | 0.8400 | No. 115 recruit | JUCO | Ohio |
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—
NIL · Recruiting · NFL Draft
Market value, pedigree & pro outcome
Recruit stars
★★★☆☆
to Ohio
Composite
0.8400
#115 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 Tank Pearson
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 Tank Pearson
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 11g
49Tackles
0Tackles for loss
0Sacks
Per game
4Tackles
0Tackles for loss
0Sacks
Projected (13g)
58Tackles
0Tackles for loss
0Sacks
To hit 80-tackle season (currently 49): needs 15.5/game over remaining 2.
To hit 100-tackle season (currently 49): needs 25.5/game over remaining 2.
To hit 6-sack season (currently 0): needs 3/game over remaining 2.
To hit 10-sack season (currently 0): needs 5/game over remaining 2.
Why this is a rare defensive case
The fast read on the thing that makes this player more than a generic stat line.
Tank Pearson is trying to climb the steepest award hill in college football: a defensive candidacy. The hook is the disruption profile on Ohio's defense, with 0.0 sacks, 0.0 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 | High-volume tackler against FBS defenders.
2025 Season · Final
2025 season snapshot | final
Tackling & Disruption
TOT
49 87th
SOLO
38 94th
TFL
0.0 39th
SACK
0.0 65th
Coverage & Takeaways
PD
8 98th
INT
2 87th
Game Log · Week-by-week
2025 season · 11 games
| Wk | Opp | TKL | SOLO | TFL | SACK | INT | PD | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | L 31-34@ Rutgers | 6 | 4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | Season-high 6 tackles |
| Wk 2 | W 17-10vs West Virginia | 2 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 3 | L 9-37@ Ohio State | 6 | 6 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 2 | |
| Wk 4 | W 52-35vs Gardner-Webb | 1 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 5 | W 35-20vs Bowling Green | 6 | 4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1 | 0 | |
| Wk 6 | L 14-20@ Ball State | 4 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 2 | |
| Wk 8 | W 48-21vs Northern Illinois | 4 | 4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 2 | |
| Wk 9 | W 28-21@ Eastern Michigan | 4 | 3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 2 | |
| Wk 12 | L 13-17@ Western Michigan | 5 | 5 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 13 | W 42-14vs Massachusetts | 5 | 3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1 | 0 | |
| Wk 14 | W 31-26@ Buffalo | 6 | 5 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Total | 49 | 38 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 2 | 8 |
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
2023Ohio10-3HC: Tim Albin · Run-leaning
2024Ohio11-3HC: Tim Albin · Run-heavy
2025Ohio9-4HC: Brian Smith · Run-heavy
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 | 49 | #628/4942 | 87th pct | Volumevs FBS DEF |
| Defense | TFL | 0.0 | #3020/4972 | 39th 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 | 8 | #45/2184 | 98th pct | Coveragevs FBS DEF |
| Defense | INT return yards | 57 | #87/578 | 85th pct | Takeawaysvs FBS DEF |
| Defense | Solo tackles | 38 | #271/4584 | 94th pct | Volumevs FBS DEF |
| Defense | INT return avg | 28.5 | #111/578 | 81st pct | Takeawaysvs FBS DEF |
Player Standing
Universal 17-step ladder. Tier pills below; accolade streams nested.
ALL-CONF HM
On-team2-deepStartingRecognizedEliteApex
ALL-CONF HM · Rung 9 of 16
Why he’s here
All-Conference honorable mention / 2nd team — the recognition has started.
What moves him up
A best-at-position run lifts to 1st team.
What moves him down
A back-end conference finish drops out of the honor list.
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 · 11 games
Home vs Road
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home5g | 3.6 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.4 |
| Road6g | 5.2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1.0 |
Win vs Loss
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wins7g | 4.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.6 |
| Losses4g | 5.2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1.0 |
First half vs Second half
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-76g | 4.2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.7 |
| Weeks 8+5g | 4.8 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.8 |
Pocket and defense-quality (clean vs. pressure) splits are coming soon.
Savant · Box-rate percentiles
Where this profile ranks vs the CB cohort
52Mid-pack
Elite: passes defended (97th). Strength: solo tackles (90th). Concern: tackles for loss (7th).
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
Tank PearsonOhioTahj Ra-ElPurdue· 78% simDalton JohnsonArizona· 76% simDevin LafayetteTroy· 75% sim
Passes defended
Solo tackles
Tackles
Interceptions
Sacks
QB hurries
Tackles for loss
Closest peers by overall box-score percentile profile at the same position.
Player DNA
The Volume Tackler
Targeted often and asked to tackle in space on the perimeter.
CB
His 2025 production profile sits closest to Tre'Vius Hodges-Tomlinson’s 2021 season.
Tre'Vius Hodges-Tomlinson
87%match
NFL Rd 6
#2
Michael McMorris
84%
#3
A.J. Odums
79%
#4
Logan Wilson
77%
#5
Michael McMorris
71%
Matches Tre'Vius on
PD rate
Weight
Height
Differs from Tre'Vius on
Tackle volume (higher)
Not enough data yet for this comparison.
As a junior, his production profile tracks closest to Demetries Ford's junior season at Arizona State (2023).
Demetries Ford
88%match
#2
Ronald Kent Jr.
86%
#3
Jaden Dedman
85%
#4
Te'Cory Couch
83%
#5
Tyson Durant
85%
Matches Demetries on
Class year
Height
PD rate
Differs from Demetries on
Tackle volume (higher)
Supporting Cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Brian Smith
Pass share
36.6%
311 pass / 539 run
Plays / game
65.4
13 games
OL sack rate (allowed)
9.4%
278 dropbacks · PBP
Scheme: Run-heavy.
Coaching Lineage · 2023–2025
2 coaches2023
Tim Albin
Ohio
2024
Tim Albin
Ohio
2025era →
Brian Smith
Ohio
Coaching transition mid-career: Tim Albin → Brian Smith. 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.
HometownOxford, MS
Height5'9"
Weight178 lb
Class4
PositionCB
Jersey7
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Current teamOhio
ConferenceMid-American
Joined2025
Career arc3 season(s)
Trophy Case · Confirmed honors
What the selectors said
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ALL-CONFERENCE
All-Conf mention (2025)
All-MAC
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | All-MAC | all_conference | Ohio | MAC | DB |
Heisman By Year
Modeled rank and official finish by season.
Roster Timeline
Team, conference, and class by season.