CFB Zeitgeist Score
78
All-Conference in the position cohort. Carried by sacks at the 89th percentile.
Zxavian Harris
Below the discourse floor — the honest stats-only state.
58 TACKLES · 3 SACKS
2026 Outlook
Returning to Ole Miss for 2026
2026 Depth chart
Projected starter
Defensive tackle · Ole Miss
Returning around him
2026 Award watch
No preseason watch lists yet (most drop June 15 – July 15)
Ole Miss · Last season: 13-2 (AP #6) · Talent rank #21 · 2026 recruiting class #16
DT · OLE MISS · SEC
CFB Zeitgeist Score
78
All-Conference in the position cohort. Carried by sacks at the 89th percentile.
Heisman Heat
#6579
<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 DEFENSE AWARD
Nagurski
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CONSENSUS
All-American
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Player Standing · 17 rungs
Tier 2 · StarterImpact starter. Producing measurable value above replacement.
Career Arc
The durable bio layer: position, size, hometown, and roster role.
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. | ||
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. | ||
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.
Selector Grid · 2025
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.
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 reads how different fanbases talk about this player. Returns once weekly mentions clear the publish floor.
Rival Radar
No rival-bucket mentions in the current season.
Signature Story
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
The fast read on the thing that makes this player more than a generic stat line.
Zxavian Harris is trying to climb the steepest award hill in college football: a defensive candidacy. The hook is the disruption profile on Ole Miss's defense, with 3.0 sacks, 9.0 tackles for loss, and 1 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.
Traditional stats first. Advanced context underneath.
Last season
2025 season snapshot | final
30-second read
High-disruption defender | High-volume tackler against FBS defenders.
2025 season snapshot | final
Tackling & Disruption
Coverage & Takeaways
Game Log · Week-by-week
2025 season · 15 games
| Wk | Opp | TKL | SOLO | TFL | SACK | INT | PD | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | W 63-7vs Georgia State | 5 | 1 | 1.5 | 1.0 | 1 | 0 | Season-high 10 tackles |
| Wk 2 | W 30-23@ Kentucky | 6 | 4 | 1.0 | 1.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 3 | W 41-35vs Arkansas | 6 | 4 | 1.0 | 0.0 | — | 1 | |
| Wk 4 | W 45-10vs Tulane | 4 | 2 | 1.5 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 5 | W 24-19vs LSU | 2 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 7 | W 24-21vs Washington State | 2 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 8 | L 35-43@ Georgia | 6 | 4 | 2.0 | 1.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 9 | W 34-26@ Oklahoma | 3 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 10 | W 30-14vs South Carolina | 3 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 11 | W 49-0vs The Citadel | 2 | 1 | 0.5 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 12 | W 34-24vs Florida | 1 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 1 | |
| Wk 14 | W 38-19@ Mississippi State | 3 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Bowl | W 41-10vs Tulane | 3 | 1 | 0.5 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Bowl | W 39-34@ Georgia | 10 | 5 | 1.0 | 0.0 | — | 1 | |
| Bowl | L 27-31vs Miami | 2 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Total | 58 | 27 | 9.0 | 3.0 | 1 | 3 |
Traditional history
Season rows up top, career context at the bottom.
Season context · Team result + system
Advanced metrics second
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.
| Group | Metric | Value | Rank | Pct | Why it matters |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Defense | Total tackles | 58 | #433/4942 | 91st pct | Volumevs FBS DEF |
| Defense | TFL | 9.0 | #142/4972 | 97th pct | Disruptionvs FBS DEF |
| Defense | Sacks | 3.0 | #292/4972 | 94th pct | Disruptionvs FBS DEF |
| Defense | Interceptions | 1 | #308/869 | 65th pct | Takeawaysvs FBS DEF |
| Defense | Pass breakups | 3 | #521/2184 | 76th pct | Coveragevs FBS DEF |
| Defense | QB hurries | 7 | #69/1878 | 96th pct | Disruptionvs FBS DEF |
| Defense | Solo tackles | 27 | #649/4584 | 86th pct | Volumevs FBS DEF |
| Defense | INT return avg | 1.0 | #543/578 | 6th pct | Takeawaysvs FBS DEF |
| Defense | INT return yards | 1 | #546/578 | 6th pct | Takeawaysvs FBS DEF |
Universal 17-step ladder. Tier pills below; accolade streams nested.
AWAITING CLASSIFICATION
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
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 · 15 games
Home vs Road
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home10g | 3.0 | 0.5 | 0.1 | 0.2 |
| Road5g | 5.6 | 0.8 | 0.4 | 0.2 |
Win vs Loss
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wins13g | 3.8 | 0.5 | 0.2 | 0.2 |
| Losses2g | 4.0 | 1.0 | 0.5 | 0.0 |
First half vs Second half
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-79g | 4.4 | 0.7 | 0.2 | 0.2 |
| Weeks 8+6g | 3.0 | 0.4 | 0.2 | 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
Elite: qb hurries (96th). Strength: tackles for loss (94th).
Percentiles versus same-position peers with enough snaps this season, based on box-score rates.
Advanced Savant · DT · 2024
Advanced opponent-adjusted percentile bars are coming soon for this player.
Opponent-adjusted advanced metrics with a cohort filter.
Peer Comparator · Fingerprint match
Three closest profiles by box-rate percentile
Closest peers by overall box-score percentile profile at the same position.
Player DNA
Two-gap space-eater who occupies blockers and frees the linebackers.
His 2025 production profile sits closest to Deven Eastern’s 2025 season.
Deven Eastern
Zxavian Harris
Ralfs Rusins
Yilanan Ouattara
Ty Robinson
Matches Deven on
Differs from Deven on
Not enough data yet for this comparison.
As a senior, his production profile tracks closest to Deven Eastern's senior season at Minnesota (2025).
Deven Eastern
Ty Robinson
Zion Logue
Myles Murphy
Eric Gregory
Matches Deven on
Supporting Cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Lane Kiffin
Pass share
48.2%
521 pass / 560 run
Plays / game
72.1
15 games
OL sack rate (allowed)
4.5%
330 dropbacks · PBP
Scheme: Balanced.
Coaching Lineage · 2022–2025
1 coachPlayed his entire career under Lane Kiffin.
Off-field context — switch tabs to drill into recruit profile, transfer arc, or roster timeline.
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Every honor on the ledger, broken out by stream and selector.
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.
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. | ||||
Modeled rank and official finish by season.
Team, conference, and class by season.