CFB Zeitgeist Score
23
Below cohort in the position cohort. Carried by yards / carry at the 65th percentile.
Tye Edwards
Below the discourse floor — the honest stats-only state.
143 RUSH YDS · 3 RUSH TD · 27 CARRIES
In Portal · 2026
In transfer portal
2025West Virginia
DestinationTBD
RB · WEST VIRGINIA · BIG 12
Tye Edwards
- 4
- #2
- 6-2 | 225 lb
- Palatka, FL
Heisman Heat
#1465
<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 1 · 2-deepR04 · Rotational
Rotational. Earning real snaps in the rotation.
Not on team2-deepStarterRecognizedEliteApex
Development Trajectory · rushing yards
2022–2025+225%
Up 225% from first season to most-recent.
Career Arc
HS
Recruit
★★★
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 |
|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 3-star | 0.8433 | No. 56 recruit | JUCO | UTSA |
Transfer Arc
Portal movement changes role, context, and perception. This keeps that path in one place.
| Season | Move | Context |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 | West Virginia -> -- | 3-star | Immediate |
| 2025 | Northern Iowa -> West Virginia | 3-star | 0.8600 | Immediate |
| 2023 | UTSA -> -- | 3-star | Immediate |
Heisman Lens · 2022 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 20Heisman 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 UTSA
Composite
0.8433
#56 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 Tye Edwards
Fan sentiment ·
Belief Meter
83
Grounded Optimism
Top Take
“”
Trajectory
Per-cohort trajectory lands when historical bucket data is aggregated.
Cohort divergence map
- Own fans · n=3
Rival Radar
How rival fanbases talk about Tye Edwards
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 2g
143Rush yards
27Carries
3Rush TDs
Per game
71.5Rush yards
14Carries
2Rush TDs
Projected (13g)
929.5Rush yards
176Carries
20Rush TDs
To hit 750-yard season (currently 143): needs 55.2/game over remaining 11.
To hit 1,000-yard season (currently 143): needs 77.9/game over remaining 11.
To hit 1,500-yard season (currently 143): needs 123.4/game over remaining 11.
To hit 10 rushing TDs (currently 3): needs 0.6/game over remaining 11.
To hit 15 rushing TDs (currently 3): needs 1.1/game over remaining 11.
To hit 20 rushing TDs (currently 3): needs 1.5/game over remaining 11.
What made this player interesting
The fast read on the thing that makes this player more than a generic stat line.
Tye Edwards's story is about how role and output meet each other. For West Virginia, 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
27 46th
YDS
143 48th
YPC
5.3 69th
TD
3 73rd
Receiving
REC
1 16th
YDS
-4 1st
YPR
-4.0 1st
TD
0 70th
Game Log · Week-by-week
2025 season · 2 games
| Wk | Opp | CAR | YDS | AVG | TD | LONG | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 3 | W 31-24vs Pittsburgh | 25 | 141 | 5.6 | 3 | 27 | Season-high 141 yds |
| Wk 6 | L 24-38@ BYU | 2 | 2 | 1.0 | 0 | 1 | |
| Total | 27 | 143 | 3.3 | 3 | 27 |
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
2022UTSA11-3HC: Jeff Traylor · Balanced
2025West Virginia4-8HC: Rich Rodriguez · Run-heavy
| Season | Team | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | West Virginia | 27 | 143 | 5.3 | 3 | -- |
| 2022 | UTSA | 14 | 44 | 3.1 | 0 | -- |
| Career | 2 loaded seasons | 41 | 187 | 4.6 | 3 | -- |
| Season | Team | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | West Virginia | 1 | -4 | -4.0 | 0 | -- |
| 2022 | UTSA | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Career | 2 loaded seasons | 1 | -4 | -4.0 | 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 | 143 | #381/735 | 48th pct | Volumevs FBS RB |
| Rushing | Rush TD | 3 | #204/739 | 73rd pct | Scoringvs FBS RB |
| Rushing | Yards / carry | 5.3 | #228/735 | 69th pct | Efficiencyvs FBS RB |
| Receiving | Receptions | 1 | #467/552 | 16th pct | Volumevs FBS RB |
| Receiving | Receiving yards | -4 | #544/548 | 1st pct | Volumevs FBS RB |
| Usage | Role share | 15.8% | #158/738 | 79th pct | Share of team offensevs FBS RB |
| Rushing | Carries | 27 | #398/739 | 46th pct | Volumevs FBS RB |
| Rushing | Rushing LONG | 27 | #321/733 | 56th pct | Metricvs FBS RB |
| Receiving | Receiving TD | 0 | #169/552 | 70th pct | Scoringvs FBS RB |
| Receiving | Yards / catch | -4.0 | #544/548 | 1st pct | Efficiencyvs FBS RB |
| Usage | Rush share | 23.4% | #206/738 | 72nd pct | Ground-game usagevs FBS RB |
| Usage | Standard-down usage | 21.9% | #102/738 | 86th pct | Base-situation sharevs FBS RB |
| Usage | 1st-down usage | 18.8% | #162/738 | 78th pct | Early-down loadvs FBS RB |
| Usage | 3rd-down usage | 12.9% | #121/738 | 84th pct | Money-down loadvs FBS RB |
| Usage | 2nd-down usage | 12.8% | #246/738 | 67th pct | Middle-down loadvs FBS RB |
| Usage | Pass share | 1.9% | #412/738 | 44th pct | Air-game usagevs FBS RB |
| Usage | Passing-down usage | 0.0% | #648/738 | 12th pct | Known-passing sharevs 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 · 2 games
Home vs Road
| YDS/g | YPC | TD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Home1g | 141 | 5.6 | 3.0 |
| Road1g | 2.0 | 1.0 | 0.0 |
Win vs Loss
| YDS/g | YPC | TD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wins1g | 141 | 5.6 | 3.0 |
| Losses1g | 2.0 | 1.0 | 0.0 |
First half vs Second half
| YDS/g | YPC | TD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-72g | 71.5 | 3.3 | 1.5 |
Pocket and defense-quality (clean vs. pressure) splits are coming soon.
Savant · Box-rate percentiles
Where this profile ranks vs the RB cohort
23Below cohort
Concern: rec yards (0th).
Percentiles versus same-position peers with enough snaps this season, based on box-score rates.
Advanced Savant · RB · 2022
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
Tye EdwardsWest VirginiaJordan BrunsonMiami (OH)· 52% simChavon WrightNorthern Illinois· 49% simTae MeadowsTroy· 48% sim
Yards / carry
Rush TDs
Long run
Receptions
Rush yards
Carries
Rec yards
Closest peers by overall box-score percentile profile at the same position.
Supporting Cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Rich Rodriguez
Pass share
38.7%
327 pass / 517 run
Plays / game
70.3
12 games
OL sack rate (allowed)
10.7%
272 dropbacks · PBP
Scheme: Run-heavy.
Coaching Lineage · 2022–2025
2 coaches2022
Neal Brown
West Virginia
2025era →
Rich Rodriguez
West Virginia
Coaching transition mid-career: Neal Brown → Rich Rodriguez. 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.
HometownPalatka, FL
Height6'2"
Weight225 lb
Class4
PositionRB
Jersey2
No fields populated yet.
No fields populated yet.
Current teamWest Virginia
ConferenceBig 12
Joined2025
Career arc2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | UTSA | RB4 | #1465 | #1174 | 0.0% | 0.0% | -- | -- | W20 snapshot | Conference USA |
Roster Timeline
Team, conference, and class by season.
| Season | Team | Conference | Pos | Class | Bio |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | West Virginia | Big 12 | RB | 4 | No. 2 | 6-2 | 225 lb | Palatka, FL |
| 2022 | UTSA | Conference USA | RB | 4 | No. 2 | 6-2 | 225 lb | Palatka, FL |