CFB Zeitgeist Score
42
Mid-pack in the position cohort. Carried by rush yards at the 47th percentile.
Viron Ellison Jr.
Below the discourse floor — the honest stats-only state.
462 RUSH YDS · 4 RUSH TD · 117 CARRIES
2026 Outlook
Returning to Delaware for 2026
2026 Depth chart
Projected starter
Running back · Delaware
Returning around him
- Transfer portal: +5 net (13 in / 8 out)
2026 Award watch
No preseason watch lists yet (most drop June 15 – July 15)
Delaware · Last season: 7-6 · Talent rank #133 · 2026 recruiting class #134
RB · DELAWARE · CONFERENCE USA
Viron Ellison Jr.
- 2
- #23
- 6-0 | 195 lb
- Lewisville, TX
Heisman Heat
#835
<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 · StarterR06 · Starter
Starter. A locked-in starting role.
Not on team2-deepStarterRecognizedEliteApex
Development Trajectory · rushing yards
2024–2025+31%
Up 31% from first season to most-recent.
Career Arc
HS
Recruit
★★★
CFB
College
2 teams
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 |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 3-star | 0.8522 | No. 1503 recruit | HighSchool | Tulsa |
Transfer Arc
Portal movement changes role, context, and perception. This keeps that path in one place.
| Season | Move | Context |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Tulsa -> -- | 3-star | Withdrawn |
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.
NIL · Recruiting · NFL Draft
Market value, pedigree & pro outcome
Recruit stars
★★★☆☆
to Tulsa
Composite
0.8522
#1503 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 Viron Ellison Jr.
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 Viron Ellison Jr.
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 13g
462Rush yards
117Carries
4Rush TDs
Per game
35.5Rush yards
9Carries
0Rush TDs
Final
462Rush yards
117Carries
4Rush TDs
What made this player interesting
The fast read on the thing that makes this player more than a generic stat line.
Viron Ellison Jr.'s story is about how role and output meet each other. For Delaware, 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?
Passing-game back against FBS RB peers.
2025 Season · Final
2025 season snapshot | final
Rushing
CAR
117 83rd
YDS
462 75th
YPC
3.9 30th
TD
4 79th
Receiving
REC
21 88th
YDS
191 88th
YPR
9.1 72nd
TD
2 97th
Game Log · Week-by-week
2025 season · 13 games
| Wk | Opp | CAR | YDS | AVG | TD | LONG | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | W 35-17vs Delaware State | 5 | 21 | 4.2 | 0 | 9 | |
| Wk 2 | L 7-31@ Colorado | 6 | 17 | 2.8 | 0 | 6 | |
| Wk 3 | W 44-41vs UConn | 11 | 56 | 5.1 | 0 | 13 | |
| Wk 4 | W 38-16@ Florida International | 11 | 58 | 5.3 | 0 | 20 | |
| Wk 6 | L 24-27vs Western Kentucky | 4 | 11 | 2.8 | 0 | 9 | |
| Wk 8 | L 25-38@ Jacksonville State | 8 | 15 | 1.9 | 3 | 4 | 3 rushing TDs |
| Wk 9 | W 31-28vs Middle Tennessee | 11 | 30 | 2.7 | 0 | 6 | |
| Wk 10 | L 30-59@ Liberty | 6 | 24 | 4.0 | 0 | 7 | |
| Wk 11 | W 25-24vs Louisiana Tech | 4 | 16 | 4.0 | 0 | 7 | |
| Wk 12 | L 23-26@ Sam Houston | 19 | 97 | 5.1 | 1 | 17 | Season-high 97 yds |
| Wk 13 | L 14-52@ Wake Forest | 9 | 34 | 3.8 | 0 | 9 | |
| Wk 14 | W 61-31vs UTEP | 13 | 45 | 3.5 | 0 | 16 | |
| Bowl | W 20-13vs Louisiana | 10 | 38 | 3.8 | 0 | 11 | |
| Total | 117 | 462 | 3.8 | 4 | 20 |
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
2024Tulsa3-9HC: Kevin Wilson · Balanced
2025Delaware7-6HC: Ryan Carty · Pass-leaning
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 | 462 | #184/735 | 75th pct | Volumevs FBS RB |
| Rushing | Rush TD | 4 | #154/739 | 79th pct | Scoringvs FBS RB |
| Rushing | Yards / carry | 3.9 | #516/735 | 30th pct | Efficiencyvs FBS RB |
| Receiving | Receptions | 21 | #68/552 | 88th pct | Volumevs FBS RB |
| Receiving | Receiving yards | 191 | #66/548 | 88th pct | Volumevs FBS RB |
| Value | Rushing WEPA | +0.11 | #192/362 | 47th pct | Opponent-adjusted rushing value | 115 weighted playsvs FBS RB |
| Usage | Role share | 14.9% | #181/738 | 76th pct | Share of team offensevs FBS RB |
| Rushing | Carries | 117 | #124/739 | 83rd pct | Volumevs FBS RB |
| Rushing | Rushing LONG | 20 | #400/733 | 46th pct | Metricvs FBS RB |
| Receiving | Receiving LONG | 43 | #59/540 | 89th pct | Metricvs FBS RB |
| Receiving | Yards / catch | 9.1 | #157/548 | 72nd pct | Efficiencyvs FBS RB |
| Receiving | Receiving TD | 2 | #20/552 | 97th pct | Scoringvs FBS RB |
| Usage | Rush share | 30.3% | #119/738 | 84th pct | Ground-game usagevs FBS RB |
| Usage | Standard-down usage | 18.3% | #160/738 | 78th pct | Base-situation sharevs FBS RB |
| Usage | 1st-down usage | 15.9% | #209/738 | 72nd pct | Early-down loadvs FBS RB |
| Usage | 2nd-down usage | 15.3% | #168/738 | 77th pct | Middle-down loadvs FBS RB |
| Usage | 3rd-down usage | 12.1% | #143/738 | 81st pct | Money-down loadvs FBS RB |
| Usage | Passing-down usage | 7.7% | #310/738 | 58th pct | Known-passing sharevs FBS RB |
| Usage | Pass share | 4.9% | #165/738 | 78th pct | Air-game usagevs FBS RB |
| Ball Security | Fumbles lost | 2 | #205/256 | 20th 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 · 13 games
Home vs Road
| YDS/g | YPC | TD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Home7g | 31.0 | 3.7 | 0.0 |
| Road6g | 40.8 | 3.8 | 0.7 |
Win vs Loss
| YDS/g | YPC | TD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wins7g | 37.7 | 4.1 | 0.0 |
| Losses6g | 33.0 | 3.4 | 0.7 |
First half vs Second half
| YDS/g | YPC | TD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-76g | 33.5 | 4.0 | 0.0 |
| Weeks 8+7g | 37.3 | 3.6 | 0.6 |
Pocket and defense-quality (clean vs. pressure) splits are coming soon.
Savant · Box-rate percentiles
Where this profile ranks vs the RB cohort
42Mid-pack
Elite: rec yards (81st). Concern: long run (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_rushing0.11Low (p25–p50) (n=178)
Peer Comparator · Fingerprint match
Three closest profiles by box-rate percentile
Viron Ellison Jr.DelawareAl-Jay HendersonBuffalo· 80% simRashod DubinionApp State· 77% simSeth McGowanKentucky· 75% sim
Rec yards
Receptions
Carries
Rush TDs
Rush yards
Fumbles lost
Yards / carry
Long run
Closest peers by overall box-score percentile profile at the same position.
Player DNA
The Balanced Back
Plays within the scheme — consistent production without a dominant dimension.
RB
His 2025 production profile sits closest to Alex Fontenot’s 2021 season.
Alex Fontenot
74%match
#2
Jaiden Credle
71%
#3
Frank Peasant
72%
#4
Diore Hubbard
70%
#5
Trent Battle
70%
Matches Alex on
Total rush EPA (college ability)
Receiving share
Differs from Alex on
Class year (lower)
Yards / reception (higher)
Rush TD rate (lower)
Through 2 college seasons, his career arc tracks closest to Darius Wilson’s path through William & Mary.
Darius Wilson
95%match
#2
Deon Jackson
92%
#3
Alex Fontenot
88%
#4
Deion Smith
88%
#5
Willie Shaw III
86%
Matches Darius on
Yards per carry
As a sophomore, his production profile tracks closest to Diore Hubbard's sophomore season at West Virginia (2025).
Diore Hubbard
76%match
#2
Lequint Allen
NFL Rd 7
72%
#3
Anthony Williams Jr.
71%
#4
Chavon Mceachern
68%
#5
Sedrick Alexander
69%
Matches Diore on
Total rush EPA (college ability)
Rush TD rate
Weight
Differs from Diore on
Class year (higher)
Height (higher)
Supporting Cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Ryan Carty
Pass share
57.4%
541 pass / 401 run
Plays / game
72.5
13 games
OL sack rate (allowed)
6.7%
387 dropbacks · PBP
Scheme: Pass-leaning.
Coaching Lineage · 2024–2025
1 coach2024
—
Delaware
2025era →
Ryan Carty
Delaware
Played his entire career under Ryan Carty.
Bio · Recruiting · Transfer · Roster
Off-field context — switch tabs to drill into recruit profile, transfer arc, or roster timeline.
HometownLewisville, TX
Height6'0"
Weight195 lb
Class2
PositionRB
Jersey23
No fields populated yet.
No fields populated yet.
Current teamDelaware
ConferenceConference USA
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Tulsa | RB2 | #835 | #1223 | 0.0% | 0.0% | -- | -- | W16 snapshot | American Athletic |
Roster Timeline
Team, conference, and class by season.