CFB Zeitgeist Score
66
Solid starter in the position cohort. Carried by yards / carry at the 84th percentile.
Tawee Walker
Filling the Shoesas of 2026-06-22
Tawee Walker is a cornerstone for Cincinnati — measured against the line he joined.
709RUSH YDS4RUSH TD120CARRIES
RUSHING VALUE · WEPA
+0.15
via your WEPA model · 2025 · 116 plays
Read the story so far
AI narrative · updated 2026-06-22 · compiled from CFB Zeitgeist data
2026 Outlook
Returning to Cincinnati for 2026
2026 Depth chart
Projected starter
Running back · Cincinnati
Returning around him
- 79% of 2024 offensive production back (Strong continuity)
- 4 Cincinnati players drafted to NFL
- Transfer portal: -1 net (22 in / 23 out)
2026 Award watch
No preseason watch lists yet (most drop June 15 – July 15)
Cincinnati · Last season: 7-6 (AP #22) · Talent rank #73 · 2026 recruiting class #61
RB · CINCINNATI · BIG 12
Tawee Walker
- 4
- #3
- 5-8 | 218 lb
- North Las Vegas, NV
Heisman Heat
#195
<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
2022–2025+1044%
Up 1044% from first season to most-recent.
Career Arc
HS
Recruit
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| No recruiting profile is on file for this player. | ||
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 (709).
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.
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 Tawee Walker
Fan sentiment ·
Belief Meter
50
Mixed Sentiment
Top Take
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Trajectory
Per-cohort trajectory lands when historical bucket data is aggregated.
Cohort divergence map
- Own fans · n=2
Rival Radar
How rival fanbases talk about Tawee Walker
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
709Rush yards
120Carries
4Rush TDs
Per game
59.1Rush yards
10Carries
0Rush TDs
Projected (13g)
768.1Rush yards
130Carries
4Rush TDs
To hit 750-yard season (currently 709): needs 41/game over remaining 1.
To hit 1,000-yard season (currently 709): needs 291/game over remaining 1.
To hit 1,500-yard season (currently 709): needs 791/game over remaining 1.
To hit 10 rushing TDs (currently 4): needs 6/game over remaining 1.
To hit 15 rushing TDs (currently 4): needs 11/game over remaining 1.
To hit 20 rushing TDs (currently 4): needs 16/game over remaining 1.
What made this player interesting
The fast read on the thing that makes this player more than a generic stat line.
Tawee Walker's story is about how role and output meet each other. For Cincinnati, 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?
Workhorse | Efficient runner | Passing-game back against FBS RB peers.
2025 Season · Final
2025 season snapshot | final
Rushing
CAR
120 85th
YDS
709 89th
YPC
5.9 83rd
TD
4 79th
Receiving
REC
18 83rd
YDS
78 62nd
YPR
4.3 19th
TD
1 89th
Game Log · Week-by-week
2025 season · 12 games
| Wk | Opp | CAR | YDS | AVG | TD | LONG | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | L 17-20vs Nebraska | 7 | 53 | 7.6 | 0 | 11 | |
| Wk 2 | W 34-20vs Bowling Green | 11 | 32 | 2.9 | 0 | 9 | |
| Wk 3 | W 70-0vs Northwestern State | 6 | 66 | 11.0 | 1 | 22 | |
| Wk 5 | W 37-34@ Kansas | 18 | 73 | 4.1 | 2 | 17 | |
| Wk 6 | W 38-30vs Iowa State | 14 | 89 | 6.4 | 0 | 17 | |
| Wk 7 | W 20-11vs UCF | 8 | 31 | 3.9 | 0 | 10 | |
| Wk 8 | W 49-17@ Oklahoma State | 7 | 38 | 5.4 | 0 | 15 | |
| Wk 9 | W 41-20vs Baylor | 19 | 84 | 4.4 | 1 | 11 | |
| Wk 10 | L 14-45@ Utah | 7 | 67 | 9.6 | 0 | 41 | |
| Wk 12 | L 24-30vs Arizona | 12 | 119 | 9.9 | 0 | 54 | Season-high 119 yds |
| Wk 13 | L 14-26vs BYU | 5 | 9 | 1.8 | 0 | 5 | |
| Wk 14 | L 23-45@ TCU | 6 | 48 | 8.0 | 0 | 20 | |
| Total | 120 | 709 | 6.2 | 4 | 54 |
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
2022Oklahoma6-7HC: Brent Venables · Run-leaning, fast tempo
2023Oklahoma10-3HC: Brent Venables · Balanced
2024Wisconsin5-7HC: Luke Fickell · Run-leaning
2025Cincinnati7-6HC: Scott Satterfield · Balanced, slow tempo
| Season | Team | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Cincinnati | 120 | 709 | 5.9 | 4 | -- |
| 2024 | Wisconsin | 190 | 864 | 4.5 | 10 | -- |
| 2023 | Oklahoma | 102 | 513 | 5.0 | 7 | -- |
| 2022 | Oklahoma | 18 | 62 | 3.4 | 0 | -- |
| Career | 4 loaded seasons | 430 | 2,148 | 5.0 | 21 | -- |
| Season | Team | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Cincinnati | 18 | 78 | 4.3 | 1 | -- |
| 2024 | Wisconsin | 11 | 21 | 1.9 | 0 | -- |
| 2023 | Oklahoma | 10 | 81 | 8.1 | 0 | -- |
| 2022 | Oklahoma | 1 | 7 | 7.0 | 0 | -- |
| Career | 4 loaded seasons | 40 | 187 | 4.7 | 1 | -- |
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.
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| Group | Metric | Value | Rank | Pct | Why it matters |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rushing | Rushing yards | 709 | #85/735 | 89th pct | Volumevs FBS RB |
| Rushing | Rush TD | 4 | #154/739 | 79th pct | Scoringvs FBS RB |
| Rushing | Yards / carry | 5.9 | #126/735 | 83rd pct | Efficiencyvs FBS RB |
| Receiving | Receptions | 18 | #96/552 | 83rd pct | Volumevs FBS RB |
| Receiving | Receiving yards | 78 | #208/548 | 62nd pct | Volumevs FBS RB |
| Value | Rushing WEPA | +0.15 | #126/362 | 65th pct | Opponent-adjusted rushing value | 116 weighted playsvs FBS RB |
| Usage | Role share | 18.0% | #114/738 | 85th pct | Share of team offensevs FBS RB |
| Rushing | Carries | 120 | #115/739 | 85th pct | Volumevs FBS RB |
| Rushing | Rushing LONG | 54 | #136/733 | 82nd pct | Metricvs FBS RB |
| Receiving | Receiving LONG | 13 | #347/540 | 36th pct | Metricvs FBS RB |
| Receiving | Yards / catch | 4.3 | #447/548 | 19th pct | Efficiencyvs FBS RB |
| Receiving | Receiving TD | 1 | #60/552 | 89th pct | Scoringvs FBS RB |
| Usage | Rush share | 32.4% | #101/738 | 86th pct | Ground-game usagevs FBS RB |
| Usage | 1st-down usage | 22.1% | #105/738 | 86th pct | Early-down loadvs FBS RB |
| Usage | Standard-down usage | 21.0% | #109/738 | 85th pct | Base-situation sharevs FBS RB |
| Usage | 2nd-down usage | 19.1% | #107/738 | 86th pct | Middle-down loadvs FBS RB |
| Usage | Passing-down usage | 10.9% | #168/738 | 77th pct | Known-passing sharevs FBS RB |
| Usage | 3rd-down usage | 6.0% | #397/738 | 46th pct | Money-down loadvs FBS RB |
| Usage | Pass share | 5.2% | #144/738 | 81st 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 · 12 games
Home vs Road
| YDS/g | YPC | TD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Home8g | 60.4 | 6.0 | 0.2 |
| Road4g | 56.5 | 6.8 | 0.5 |
Win vs Loss
| YDS/g | YPC | TD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wins7g | 59.0 | 5.4 | 0.6 |
| Losses5g | 59.2 | 7.4 | 0.0 |
First half vs Second half
| YDS/g | YPC | TD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-76g | 57.3 | 6.0 | 0.5 |
| Weeks 8+6g | 60.8 | 6.5 | 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
66Solid starter
Elite: yards / carry (84th).
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_rushing0.15Mid (p50–p75) (n=178)
Peer Comparator · Fingerprint match
Three closest profiles by box-rate percentile
Tawee WalkerCincinnatiJevon JacksonUAB· 87% simJeremiah CobbAuburn· 84% simJevyon DuckerTemple· 84% sim
Yards / carry
Rush yards
Receptions
Carries
Long run
Rush TDs
Fumbles lost
Rec yards
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 Jevon Jackson’s 2025 season.
Jevon Jackson
64%match
#2
Noah Whittington
64%
#3
Noah Whittington
64%
#4
Corey Kiner
64%
#5
Jonah Coleman
All-Big TenNFL Rd 4
63%
Matches Jevon on
Total rush EPA (college ability)
Receiving share
Weight
Differs from Jevon on
EPA / carry (adj) (higher)
Yards / carry (higher)
Not enough data yet for this comparison.
As a senior, his production profile tracks closest to Jevon Jackson's senior season at UAB (2025).
Jevon Jackson
73%match
#2
Montrell Johnson
71%
#3
Jalen John
70%
#4
Harrison Waylee
All-MAC
70%
#5
Corey Kiner
68%
Matches Jevon on
Yards / carry
Receiving share
Weight
Differs from Jevon on
EPA / carry (adj) (higher)
Supporting Cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Scott Satterfield
Pass share
47.8%
363 pass / 396 run
Plays / game
58.4
13 games
OL sack rate (allowed)
2.6%
266 dropbacks · PBP
Scheme: Balanced, slow tempo.
Coaching Lineage · 2022–2025
2 coaches2022
Luke Fickell
Cincinnati
2023era →
Scott Satterfield
Cincinnati
2024
Scott Satterfield
Cincinnati
2025
Scott Satterfield
Cincinnati
Coaching transition mid-career: Luke Fickell → Scott Satterfield. 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.
HometownNorth Las Vegas, NV
Height5'8"
Weight218 lb
Class4
PositionRB
Jersey3
No fields populated yet.
No fields populated yet.
Current teamCincinnati
ConferenceBig 12
Joined2025
Career arc4 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.
Roster Timeline
Team, conference, and class by season.
| Season | Team | Conference | Pos | Class | Bio |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Cincinnati | Big 12 | RB | 4 | No. 3 | 5-8 | 218 lb | North Las Vegas, NV |
| 2024 | Wisconsin | Big Ten | RB | 4 | No. 3 | 5-8 | 218 lb | North Las Vegas, NV |
| 2023 | Oklahoma | Big 12 | RB | 4 | No. 3 | 5-8 | 218 lb | North Las Vegas, NV |
| 2022 | Oklahoma | Big 12 | RB | 4 | No. 3 | 5-8 | 218 lb | North Las Vegas, NV |