CFB Zeitgeist Score
70
Solid starter in the position cohort. Carried by sacks at the 93rd percentile.
Tyree Morris
Below the discourse floor — the honest stats-only state.
46 TACKLES · 4 SACKS
2026 Outlook
Returning to Utah State for 2026
2026 Depth chart
Projected starter
Defensive tackle · Utah State
Returning around him
- 63% of 2024 offensive production back (Solid continuity)
- Transfer portal: +10 net (29 in / 19 out)
2026 Award watch
No preseason watch lists yet (most drop June 15 – July 15)
Utah State · Last season: 6-7 · Talent rank #114 · 2026 recruiting class #87
DT · UTAH STATE · MOUNTAIN WEST
Tyree Morris
- 3
- 6-5 | 285 lb
- Mechanicsburg, PA
Heisman Heat
Awaiting
Not on the live Heisman board this week.
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
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TOP DEFENSE AWARD
Nagurski
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CONSENSUS
All-American
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Player Standing · 17 rungs
Tier 2 · StarterR05 · Part-time starter
Part-time starter. Splitting first-team reps.
Not on team2-deepStarterRecognizedEliteApex
Career Arc
HS
Recruit
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CFB
College
Utah State
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
Where the model places this player relative to the rest of the Heisman field.
Heisman 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 Tyree Morris
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 Tyree Morris
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 12g
46Tackles
5.5Tackles for loss
4Sacks
Per game
4Tackles
0.5Tackles for loss
0.3Sacks
Projected (13g)
50Tackles
6.0Tackles for loss
4.3Sacks
To hit 80-tackle season (currently 46): needs 34/game over remaining 1.
To hit 100-tackle season (currently 46): needs 54/game over remaining 1.
To hit 6-sack season (currently 4): needs 2/game over remaining 1.
To hit 10-sack season (currently 4): needs 6/game over remaining 1.
Why this is a rare defensive case
The fast read on the thing that makes this player more than a generic stat line.
Tyree Morris is trying to climb the steepest award hill in college football: a defensive candidacy. The hook is the disruption profile on Utah State's defense, with 4.0 sacks, 5.5 tackles for loss, and -- 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?
High-disruption defender | High-volume tackler against FBS defenders.
2025 Season · Final
2025 season snapshot | final
Tackling & Disruption
TOT
46 86th
SOLO
14 67th
TFL
5.5 90th
SACK
4.0 97th
QBH
1 44th
Coverage & Takeaways
PD
1 43rd
Game Log · Week-by-week
2025 season · 12 games
| Wk | Opp | TKL | SOLO | TFL | SACK | INT | PD | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | W 28-16vs UTEP | 3 | 2 | 1.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 2 | L 22-44@ Texas A&M | 2 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 3 | W 49-30vs Air Force | 10 | 0 | 0.5 | 0.5 | — | 0 | Season-high 10 tackles |
| Wk 4 | W 48-7vs McNeese | 9 | 1 | 0.5 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 7 | L 26-44@ Hawai'i | 2 | 1 | 1.0 | 1.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 8 | W 30-25vs San José State | 3 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 9 | L 14-33@ New Mexico | 2 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 11 | W 51-14vs Nevada | 4 | 1 | 1.5 | 1.5 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 12 | L 26-29@ UNLV | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 13 | W 28-17@ Fresno State | 5 | 4 | 1.0 | 1.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 14 | L 24-25vs Boise State | 2 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 1 | |
| Bowl | L 21-34vs Washington State | 3 | 3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Total | 46 | 14 | 5.5 | 4.0 | — | 1 |
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
2025Utah State6-7HC: Bronco Mendenhall · Balanced
| Season | Team | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Utah State | 46 | 14 | 5.5 | 4.0 | 1 | -- | -- |
| Career | 1 loaded season | 46 | 14 | 5.5 | 4.0 | 1 | -- | -- |
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 | 46 | #706/4942 | 86th pct | Volumevs FBS DEF |
| Defense | TFL | 5.5 | #477/4972 | 90th pct | Disruptionvs FBS DEF |
| Defense | Sacks | 4.0 | #169/4972 | 97th pct | Disruptionvs FBS DEF |
| Defense | Pass breakups | 1 | #1241/2184 | 43rd pct | Coveragevs FBS DEF |
| Defense | QB hurries | 1 | #1051/1878 | 44th pct | Disruptionvs FBS DEF |
| Defense | Solo tackles | 14 | #1520/4584 | 67th 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 Lombardi 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 · 12 games
Home vs Road
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home7g | 4.9 | 0.5 | 0.3 | 0.1 |
| Road5g | 2.4 | 0.4 | 0.4 | 0.0 |
Win vs Loss
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wins6g | 5.7 | 0.8 | 0.5 | 0.0 |
| Losses6g | 2.0 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.2 |
First half vs Second half
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-76g | 4.8 | 0.5 | 0.2 | 0.0 |
| Weeks 8+6g | 2.8 | 0.4 | 0.4 | 0.2 |
Pocket and defense-quality (clean vs. pressure) splits are coming soon.
Savant · Box-rate percentiles
Where this profile ranks vs the DT cohort
70Solid starter
Elite: sacks (93rd). Strength: tackles for loss (82nd).
Percentiles versus same-position peers with enough snaps this season, based on box-score rates.
Advanced Savant · DT · 2025
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
Tyree MorrisUtah StateJackson KuwatchMiami (OH)· 78% simMichael MontgomerySouthern Miss· 77% simJohnny Chaney Jr.Florida International· 76% sim
Sacks
Tackles for loss
Tackles
QB hurries
Passes defended
Solo tackles
Closest peers by overall box-score percentile profile at the same position.
Player DNA
The Two-Gap Base
Stout at the point of attack; controls his gap and stacks blocks.
IDL
His 2025 production profile sits closest to Will Whitson’s 2023 season.
Will Whitson
89%match
#2
Joe Golden
87%
#3
Stephon Wright
86%
#4
Kwabena Bonsu
86%
#5
Aaron Graves
86%
Matches Will on
Height
TFL rate
Weight
Not enough data yet for this comparison.
As a sophomore, his production profile tracks closest to Colby Wooden's sophomore season at Auburn (2021).
Colby Wooden
91%match
All-SECNFL Rd 4
#2
Beau Robbins
86%
#3
Anthony Smith
85%
#4
Reggie Grimes
84%
#5
Esezi Otomewo
NFL Rd 5
83%
Matches Colby on
Class year
Height
Weight
Supporting Cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Bronco Mendenhall
Pass share
47.9%
403 pass / 439 run
Plays / game
64.8
13 games
OL sack rate (allowed)
12.7%
339 dropbacks · PBP
Scheme: Balanced.
Coaching Lineage · 2025
1 coach2025
Bronco Mendenhall
Utah State
Played his entire career under Bronco Mendenhall.
Bio · Recruiting · Transfer · Roster
Off-field context — switch tabs to drill into recruit profile, transfer arc, or roster timeline.
HometownMechanicsburg, PA
Height6'5"
Weight285 lb
Class3
PositionDT
No fields populated yet.
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Current teamUtah State
ConferenceMountain West
Joined2025
Career arc1 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| This player hasn’t appeared on a Heisman ballot tracked by the model. | |||||||||
Roster Timeline
Team, conference, and class by season.
| Season | Team | Conference | Pos | Class | Bio |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Utah State | Mountain West | DT | 3 | 6-5 | 285 lb | Mechanicsburg, PA |