CFB Zeitgeist Score
24
Below cohort in the position cohort. Carried by rush tds at the 38th percentile.
Trenten Howland
Below the discourse floor — the honest stats-only state.
243 RUSH YDS · 3 RUSH TD · 63 CARRIES
2026 Outlook
Returning to Oklahoma State for 2026
2026 Depth chart
Returning starter
Running back · Oklahoma State
Returning around him
- 44% of 2024 offensive production back (Moderate turnover)
- Transfer portal: -10 net (55 in / 65 out)
2026 Award watch
No preseason watch lists yet (most drop June 15 – July 15)
Oklahoma State · Last season: 1-11 · Talent rank #49 · 2026 recruiting class #53
RB · OKLAHOMA STATE · BIG 12
Trenten Howland
- 4
- #24
- 6-2 | 247 lb
- Joliet, IL
Heisman Heat
#1953
<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
2021–2025+1115%
Up 1115% from first season to most-recent.
Career Arc
HS
Recruit
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CFB
College
2 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.
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.
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 Trenten Howland
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 Trenten Howland
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
243Rush yards
63Carries
3Rush TDs
Per game
27Rush yards
7Carries
0Rush TDs
Projected (13g)
351Rush yards
91Carries
4Rush TDs
To hit 750-yard season (currently 243): needs 126.8/game over remaining 4.
To hit 1,000-yard season (currently 243): needs 189.2/game over remaining 4.
To hit 1,500-yard season (currently 243): needs 314.2/game over remaining 4.
To hit 10 rushing TDs (currently 3): needs 1.8/game over remaining 4.
To hit 15 rushing TDs (currently 3): needs 3/game over remaining 4.
To hit 20 rushing TDs (currently 3): needs 4.2/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.
Trenten Howland'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
63 64th
YDS
243 58th
YPC
3.9 30th
TD
3 73rd
Receiving
REC
6 47th
YDS
37 42nd
YPR
6.2 41st
TD
0 70th
Game Log · Week-by-week
2025 season · 9 games
| Wk | Opp | CAR | YDS | AVG | TD | LONG | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 2 | L 3-69@ Oregon | 6 | 31 | 5.2 | 0 | 8 | |
| Wk 5 | L 27-45vs Baylor | 16 | 84 | 5.3 | 2 | 18 | Season-high 84 yds |
| Wk 6 | L 13-41@ Arizona | 4 | -8 | -2.0 | 0 | 5 | |
| Wk 7 | L 17-39vs Houston | 1 | 1 | 1.0 | 0 | 1 | |
| Wk 8 | L 17-49vs Cincinnati | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Wk 9 | L 0-42@ Texas Tech | 13 | 58 | 4.5 | 0 | 12 | |
| Wk 10 | L 21-38@ Kansas | 4 | 4 | 1.0 | 0 | 5 | |
| Wk 12 | L 6-14vs Kansas State | 4 | 36 | 9.0 | 0 | 24 | |
| Wk 14 | L 13-20vs Iowa State | 14 | 37 | 2.6 | 1 | 8 | |
| Total | 63 | 243 | 3.0 | 3 | 24 |
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
2021Indiana2-10HC: Tom Allen · Pass-heavy, slow tempo
2022Indiana4-8HC: Tom Allen · Pass-leaning
2023Indiana3-9HC: Tom Allen · Run-leaning
2025Oklahoma State1-11HC: Mike Gundy · Balanced
| Season | Team | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Oklahoma State | 63 | 243 | 3.9 | 3 | -- |
| 2023 | Indiana | 76 | 354 | 4.7 | 2 | -- |
| 2022 | Indiana | 2 | 12 | 6.0 | 0 | -- |
| 2021 | Indiana | 6 | 20 | 3.3 | 0 | -- |
| Career | 4 loaded seasons | 147 | 629 | 4.3 | 5 | -- |
| Season | Team | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Oklahoma State | 6 | 37 | 6.2 | 0 | -- |
| 2023 | Indiana | 3 | 22 | 7.3 | 0 | -- |
| 2022 | Indiana | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| 2021 | Indiana | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Career | 4 loaded seasons | 9 | 59 | 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 | 243 | #307/735 | 58th pct | Volumevs FBS RB |
| Rushing | Rush TD | 3 | #204/739 | 73rd pct | Scoringvs FBS RB |
| Rushing | Yards / carry | 3.9 | #516/735 | 30th pct | Efficiencyvs FBS RB |
| Receiving | Receptions | 6 | #291/552 | 47th pct | Volumevs FBS RB |
| Receiving | Receiving yards | 37 | #317/548 | 42nd pct | Volumevs FBS RB |
| Value | Rushing WEPA | +0.10 | #209/362 | 43rd pct | Opponent-adjusted rushing value | 62 weighted playsvs FBS RB |
| Usage | Role share | 10.6% | #299/738 | 60th pct | Share of team offensevs FBS RB |
| Rushing | Carries | 63 | #264/739 | 64th pct | Volumevs FBS RB |
| Rushing | Rushing LONG | 24 | #347/733 | 53rd pct | Metricvs FBS RB |
| Receiving | Receiving LONG | 11 | #395/540 | 27th pct | Metricvs FBS RB |
| Receiving | Yards / catch | 6.2 | #327/548 | 41st pct | Efficiencyvs FBS RB |
| Receiving | Receiving TD | 0 | #169/552 | 70th pct | Scoringvs FBS RB |
| Usage | Rush share | 17.9% | #296/738 | 60th pct | Ground-game usagevs FBS RB |
| Usage | Standard-down usage | 12.6% | #277/738 | 63rd pct | Base-situation sharevs FBS RB |
| Usage | 1st-down usage | 12.1% | #296/738 | 60th pct | Early-down loadvs FBS RB |
| Usage | 2nd-down usage | 12.1% | #262/738 | 65th pct | Middle-down loadvs FBS RB |
| Usage | 3rd-down usage | 7.6% | #309/738 | 58th pct | Money-down loadvs FBS RB |
| Usage | Passing-down usage | 7.1% | #338/738 | 54th pct | Known-passing sharevs FBS RB |
| Usage | Pass share | 3.3% | #280/738 | 62nd pct | Air-game usagevs FBS RB |
| Ball Security | Fumbles lost | 0 | #1/256 | 100th 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 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Home5g | 31.6 | 3.6 | 0.6 |
| Road4g | 21.2 | 2.2 | 0.0 |
Win vs Loss
| YDS/g | YPC | TD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Losses9g | 27.0 | 3.0 | 0.3 |
First half vs Second half
| YDS/g | YPC | TD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-74g | 27.0 | 2.4 | 0.5 |
| Weeks 8+5g | 27.0 | 3.4 | 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
24Below cohort
Elite: fumbles lost (86th). Concern: yards / carry (11th).
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_rushing0.1Low (p25–p50) (n=178)
Peer Comparator · Fingerprint match
Three closest profiles by box-rate percentile
Trenten HowlandOklahoma StateTae MeadowsTroy· 61% simChavon WrightNorthern Illinois· 59% simJordan BrunsonMiami (OH)· 57% sim
Fumbles lost
Rush TDs
Carries
Receptions
Rec yards
Long run
Rush yards
Yards / carry
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 Anthony Adkins’s 2021 season.
Anthony Adkins
79%match
#2
Tyson Riley
73%
#3
Kaden Feagin
78%
#4
Jakobi Buchanan
66%
#5
Trenten Howland
64%
Matches Anthony on
Yards / carry
Total rush EPA (college ability)
Weight
Differs from Anthony on
Rush TD rate (lower)
Through 4 college seasons, his career arc tracks closest to Dedrick Mills’s path through Nebraska.
Dedrick Mills
96%match
#2
Garrett Groshek
96%
#3
Joshua Samuel
96%
#4
Greg McCrae
96%
#5
Narii Gaither
93%
Matches Dedrick on
Yards per carry
As a graduate, his production profile tracks closest to Joshua McCray's graduate season at Georgia (2025).
Joshua McCray
58%match
#2
Tucker Gleason
All-MAC
46%
#3
KJ Jefferson
All-SEC
45%
#4
Rashad Amos
All-MAC
33%
#5
Braylon Braxton
All-Sun Belt
26%
Matches Joshua on
Total rush EPA (college ability)
Receiving share
Height
Differs from Joshua on
Weight (higher)
Yards / carry (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 · 2021–2025
1 coach2021
Mike Gundy
Oklahoma State
2022
Mike Gundy
Oklahoma State
2023
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.
HometownJoliet, IL
Height6'2"
Weight247 lb
Class4
PositionRB
Jersey24
No fields populated yet.
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Current teamOklahoma State
ConferenceBig 12
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 | Oklahoma State | RB4 | #1953 | #2011 | 0.0% | 0.0% | -- | -- | W16 snapshot | Big 12 |
| 2023 | Indiana | RB4 | #1129 | #1440 | 0.0% | 0.0% | -- | -- | W19 snapshot | Big Ten |
| 2022 | Indiana | RB4 | #2547 | #2953 | 0.0% | 0.0% | -- | -- | W20 snapshot | Big Ten |
| 2021 | Indiana | RB4 | #2325 | #2561 | 0.0% | 0.0% | -- | -- | W20 snapshot | Big Ten |
Roster Timeline
Team, conference, and class by season.
| Season | Team | Conference | Pos | Class | Bio |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Oklahoma State | Big 12 | RB | 4 | No. 24 | 6-2 | 247 lb | Joliet, IL |
| 2024 | Oklahoma State | Big 12 | RB | 4 | No. 24 | 6-2 | 247 lb | Joliet, IL |
| 2023 | Indiana | Big Ten | RB | 4 | No. 24 | 6-2 | 247 lb | Joliet, IL |
| 2022 | Indiana | Big Ten | RB | 4 | No. 24 | 6-2 | 247 lb | Joliet, IL |
| 2021 | Indiana | Big Ten | RB | 4 | No. 24 | 6-2 | 247 lb | Joliet, IL |