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Amir Renwick

LB · UConn · Sr · #9

Below the discourse floor — the honest stats-only state.

24 TACKLES · 2.5 SACKS

2026 RETURNINGReturning to UConn for 2026

2026 Outlook

Returning to UConn for 2026

2026 Depth chart

Projected starter

Linebacker · UConn

Returning around him

  • 68% of 2024 offensive production back (Solid continuity)
  • 1 UConn player drafted to NFL
  • Transfer portal: +8 net (53 in / 45 out)

2026 Award watch

No preseason watch lists yet (most drop June 15 – July 15)

UConn · Last season: 9-4 · Talent rank #97 · 2026 recruiting class #114

LB · UCONN · FBS INDEPENDENTS

Amir Renwick

  • 4
  • #9
  • 6-2 | 220 lb
  • Baltimore, MD

CFB Zeitgeist Score

49

Mid-pack in the position cohort. Carried by sacks at the 85th percentile.

Heisman Heat

#8923

<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 LB AWARD

Butkus

CONSENSUS

All-American

Player Standing · 17 rungs

Tier 1 · 2-deep

R03 · Backup

Backup. On the two-deep, pushing for snaps.

Not on team2-deepStarterRecognizedEliteApex

Career Arc

HS
Recruit
No recruit profile
CFB
College
UConn
2024–2025
NFL
NFL Draft
Not drafted (yet)

Identity & Role

The durable bio layer: position, size, hometown, and roster role.

PositionLB
Class4
Jersey9
Measurements6-2 | 220 lb
HometownBaltimore, MD
Primary teamUConn

Recruiting Pedigree

How big the prospect was before college, and whether the later career arc beat that expectation.

Top pedigree Not on file No matched recruiting profile in the loaded archive
Composite rating -- Composite rating unavailable for this player
Signed with -- Commitment history unavailable
Origin -- Hometown and high school unavailable
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.

Portal moves 0 No portal entry on file
Latest destination -- --
Transfer stars -- CFBD transfer rating context
Eligibility -- Transfer date TBD
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 16
Current nowcast#8923Latest modeled ballot order
Season forecast#8936Where the full season sim points
Win probability0.0%Chance to actually win the trophy
Finalist probability0.0%Chance to make the finalist tier
Ballot probability0.0%Chance to appear anywhere on a ballot
Best official finish--Best completed Heisman placement on file

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

PENDING

The 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 Amir Renwick

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 Amir Renwick

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.

A 3-act season arc returns once this player has six or more games on the ledger.

Season Pace · Projection

Where the defensive totals stand

projecting to 13-game
Through 8g
24Tackles
2.5Tackles for loss
2.5Sacks
Per game
3Tackles
0.3Tackles for loss
0.3Sacks
Projected (13g)
39Tackles
4.1Tackles for loss
4.1Sacks

To hit 80-tackle season (currently 24): needs 11.2/game over remaining 5.

To hit 100-tackle season (currently 24): needs 15.2/game over remaining 5.

To hit 6-sack season (currently 2.5): needs 0.7/game over remaining 5.

To hit 10-sack season (currently 2.5): needs 1.5/game over remaining 5.

Why this is a rare defensive case

The fast read on the thing that makes this player more than a generic stat line.

Amir Renwick is trying to climb the steepest award hill in college football: a defensive candidacy. The hook is the disruption profile on UConn's defense, with 2.5 sacks, 2.5 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.

Current place #8923 0.0% win | 0.0% finalist
Role load -- Role share still loading
Profile quirk Defensive rarity 2.5 sacks | 2.5 TFL

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
Total tackles 24 12 solo | #1737/4942 (65th pct)
TFL 2.5 Backfield disruption | #1236/4972 (75th pct)
Sacks 2.5 Pass-rush finish | #393/4972 (92nd pct)
Player identity What kind of player is this?

30-second read

What kind of player is this?

High-disruption defender against FBS defenders.

High-disruption defender

2025 Season · Final

2025 season snapshot | final

Tackling & Disruption

TOT
24 65th
SOLO
12 62nd
TFL
2.5 75th
SACK
2.5 92nd
QBH
1 44th

Coverage & Takeaways

INT
1 65th

Game Log · Week-by-week

2025 season · 8 games

Box score · CFBD
WkOppTKLSOLOTFLSACKINTPDNote
Wk 1W 59-13vs Central Connecticut100.00.00
Wk 2L 20-27@ Syracuse110.00.00
Wk 6W 51-10vs Florida International1071.01.010Season-high 10 tackles
Wk 8W 38-23@ Boston College511.51.50
Wk 9L 34-37@ Rice420.00.00
Wk 10W 38-19vs UAB110.00.00
Wk 11W 37-34vs Duke100.00.00
Wk 13W 48-45@ Florida Atlantic100.00.00
Total24122.52.510
Season-by-season tables Career rows + per-season box score

Traditional history

Traditional Stats

Season rows up top, career context at the bottom.

Season rows Career row

Season context · Team result + system

2024UConn9-4HC: Jim Mora · Run-leaning
2025UConn9-4HC: Jim Mora · Balanced
SeasonTeam
2025UConn24122.52.5--1--
2024UConn35142.00.01----
Career2 loaded seasons59264.52.511--
Advanced layer Usage, value, and context

Advanced metrics second

Advanced Metrics

Usage, value, and opponent-adjusted context.

Usage Value Context
Disruption stats

TFL, sacks, and QB hurries are grouped together because defensive Heisman cases are usually built on visible havoc, not on tackle counts alone.

Coverage splash

Pass breakups, interceptions, and forced fumbles matter because national awards voters respond to plays that change possessions and highlight reels.

Peer percentile

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.

Traditional first

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.

INT 1 0 pick-six TD | #308/869 (65th pct)
Pass breakups 0 Coverage disruption
QB pressures 1 Quarterback hurries | #1051/1878 (44th pct)
Open full stat explorer
0 metrics visible Showing all metrics
Group Metric Value Rank Pct Why it matters
Defense Total tackles 24 #1737/4942 65th pct Volumevs FBS DEF
Defense TFL 2.5 #1236/4972 75th pct Disruptionvs FBS DEF
Defense Sacks 2.5 #393/4972 92nd pct Disruptionvs FBS DEF
Defense Interceptions 1 #308/869 65th pct Takeawaysvs FBS DEF
Defense QB hurries 1 #1051/1878 44th pct Disruptionvs FBS DEF
Defense INT return avg 27.0 #124/578 79th pct Takeawaysvs FBS DEF
Defense INT return yards 27 #245/578 58th pct Takeawaysvs FBS DEF
Defense Solo tackles 12 #1735/4584 62nd 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

StatusAwaiting tracker

The Butkus 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 · 8 games

Home/Road · Win/Loss · Season halves

Home vs Road

TKL/gTFL/gSACK/gPD/g
Home4g3.20.20.20.0
Road4g2.80.40.40.0

Win vs Loss

TKL/gTFL/gSACK/gPD/g
Wins6g3.20.40.40.0
Losses2g2.50.00.00.0

First half vs Second half

TKL/gTFL/gSACK/gPD/g
Weeks 1-73g4.00.30.30.0
Weeks 8+5g2.40.30.30.0

Pocket and defense-quality (clean vs. pressure) splits are coming soon.

Savant · Box-rate percentiles

Where this profile ranks vs the LB cohort

49Mid-pack
7 metrics · season cumulative

Elite: sacks (85th). Concern: passes defended (17th).

Sacks#389 / 2975 · 85th pct
2.5defe
Tackles for loss#1222 / 2975 · 56th pct
2.5defe
QB hurries#1007 / 2975 · 55th pct
1defe
Tackles#1737 / 2975 · 40th pct
24defe
Solo tackles#1735 / 2975 · 40th pct
12defe
Interceptions#304 / 817 · 31st pct
1inte
Passes defended#1916 / 2975 · 18th pct
0defe

Percentiles versus same-position peers with enough snaps this season, based on box-score rates.

Advanced Savant · LB · 2024

Percentile Card

Advanced opponent-adjusted percentile bars are coming soon for this player.

P4G5All FBS
EPA / dropback
awaiting
CPOE
awaiting
Success rate
awaiting
Explosive rate (20+)
awaiting
aDOT
awaiting
Deep-ball accuracy
awaiting
Pressure-to-sack
awaiting
3rd-down EPA
awaiting
Red-zone TD rate
awaiting
Play-action EPA
awaiting
Scramble EPA
awaiting
Turnover-worthy play rate
awaiting

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

3 peers · 7 metrics
Amir RenwickUConnMarcAnthony ParkerNavy· 65% simDaniel WingateMaryland· 64% simQuinton UrwilerNorthern Illinois· 63% sim
Sacks
85
Renwick
80
Parker
74
Wingate
74
Urwiler
Tackles for loss
56
Renwick
87
Parker
87
Wingate
91
Urwiler
QB hurries
55
Renwick
88
Parker
72
Wingate
72
Urwiler
Tackles
40
Renwick
98
Parker
98
Wingate
100
Urwiler
Solo tackles
40
Renwick
96
Parker
99
Wingate
100
Urwiler
Interceptions
31
Renwick
31
Parker
31
Wingate
31
Urwiler
Passes defended
18
Renwick
18
Parker
48
Wingate
48
Urwiler

Closest peers by overall box-score percentile profile at the same position.

Player DNA

The Balanced Linebacker

Solid in every phase without a signature dimension.

LB

His 2025 production profile sits closest to Bryce Edmondson’s 2024 season.

Bryce Edmondson

79%match

Memphis · 2024

#2

Blaise Tita

Rice · 2024

78%
#3

Andre White

Georgia Tech · 2023

78%
#4

Layton Jordan

Temple · 2023

78%
#5

Ja'Len Sims

Southern Miss · 2023

76%

Matches Bryce on

Height
Weight
TFL rate

Differs from Bryce on

Sack rate (higher)

Not enough data yet for this comparison.

As a sophomore, his production profile tracks closest to Blaise Tita's sophomore season at Rice (2024).

Blaise Tita

84%match

Rice · 2024

#2

Jameer Lewis

Southern Miss · 2025

80%
#3

Grant Trueman

Eastern Michigan · 2021

79%
#4

West Weeks

LSU · 2022

79%
#5

Shawn Jennings

South Alabama · 2021

78%

Matches Blaise on

Class year
Height
Tackle volume

Differs from Blaise on

Sack rate (higher)

Supporting Cast · Scheme

Staff and system around the player

2025 season

Head Coach

Jim Mora

Pass share

53.5%

451 pass / 392 run

Plays / game

64.8

13 games

OL sack rate (allowed)

4.5%

314 dropbacks · PBP

Scheme: Balanced.

Coaching Lineage · 2024–2025

1 coach
2024
Jim Mora
UConn
2025
Jim Mora
UConn

Played his entire career under Jim Mora.

Bio · Recruiting · Transfer · Roster

Off-field context — switch tabs to drill into recruit profile, transfer arc, or roster timeline.

HometownBaltimore, MD
Height6'2"
Weight220 lb
Class4
PositionLB
Jersey9

Trophy Case · Detail

Every honor on the ledger, broken out by stream and selector.

Honors

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 UConn LB4 #8923 #8936 0.0% 0.0% -- -- W16 snapshot | FBS Independents
2023 UConn LB4 #13752 #13888 0.0% 0.0% -- -- W19 snapshot | FBS Independents

Roster Timeline

Team, conference, and class by season.

Season Team Conference Pos Class Bio
2025 UConn FBS Independents LB 4 No. 9 | 6-2 | 220 lb | Baltimore, MD
2024 UConn FBS Independents LB 4 No. 9 | 6-2 | 220 lb | Baltimore, MD
2023 UConn FBS Independents LB 4 No. 9 | 6-2 | 220 lb | Baltimore, MD