CFB Zeitgeist Score
78
All-Conference in the position cohort. Carried by sacks at the 91st percentile.
Anthony Hill Jr.
Below the discourse floor — the honest stats-only state.
70 TACKLES · 3.5 SACKS
Where He Ended Up · NFL
Tennessee2026 NFL rookie season
#60Rd 2 · Pick 28
Tennessee2026 NFL rookie season
LB · TEXAS · SEC
Anthony Hill Jr.
- 3
- 6-3 | 238 lb
- Denton, TX
Heisman Heat
#620
<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
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Player Standing · 17 rungs
Tier 2 · StarterR07 · Impact starter
Impact starter. Producing measurable value above replacement.
Not on team2-deepStarterRecognizedEliteApex
Career arc · Season-by-season Standing
3 seasons on the ladder
2023
Texas · LB
—
★
2024
Texas · LB
R11 · National watch / fringe AA
Recognized
2025
Texas · LB
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NFL Draft 2026 · Rd 2, Pick 28 · #60 overall · Tennessee
Career Arc
HS
Recruit
★★★★★
CFB
College
Texas
NFL
NFL Draft
R2 · #60
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 |
|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 5-star | 0.9868 | No. 19 recruit | HighSchool | Texas |
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 · 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 Texas
Composite
0.9868
#19 national
NFL Draft
2026 · Rd 2, Pick 28
#60 overall · Tennessee
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 Anthony Hill 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 Anthony Hill 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 defensive totals stand
Through 10g
70Tackles
6.5Tackles for loss
3.5Sacks
Per game
7Tackles
0.7Tackles for loss
0.3Sacks
Projected (13g)
91Tackles
8.5Tackles for loss
4.5Sacks
To hit 80-tackle season (currently 70): needs 3.3/game over remaining 3.
To hit 100-tackle season (currently 70): needs 10/game over remaining 3.
To hit 6-sack season (currently 3.5): needs 0.8/game over remaining 3.
To hit 10-sack season (currently 3.5): needs 2.2/game over remaining 3.
Why this is a rare defensive case
The fast read on the thing that makes this player more than a generic stat line.
Anthony Hill Jr. is trying to climb the steepest award hill in college football: a defensive candidacy. The hook is the disruption profile on Texas's defense, with 3.5 sacks, 6.5 tackles for loss, and 2 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 | Coverage splash | High-volume tackler against FBS defenders.
2025 Season · Final
2025 season snapshot | final
Tackling & Disruption
TOT
70 95th
SOLO
37 93rd
TFL
6.5 93rd
SACK
3.5 95th
QBH
5 90th
Coverage & Takeaways
PD
1 43rd
INT
2 87th
Game Log · Week-by-week
2025 season · 10 games
| Wk | Opp | TKL | SOLO | TFL | SACK | INT | PD | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | L 7-14@ Ohio State | 6 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 2 | W 38-7vs San José State | 6 | 5 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 3 | W 27-10vs UTEP | 3 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 4 | W 55-0vs Sam Houston | 2 | 2 | 1.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 6 | L 21-29@ Florida | 14 | 3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | Season-high 14 tackles |
| Wk 7 | W 23-6vs Oklahoma | 7 | 4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 8 | W 16-13@ Kentucky | 12 | 8 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1 | 1 | |
| Wk 9 | W 45-38@ Mississippi State | 10 | 6 | 3.5 | 2.5 | — | 0 | 2.5 sacks |
| Wk 10 | W 34-31vs Vanderbilt | 4 | 3 | 1.5 | 1.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 12 | L 10-35@ Georgia | 6 | 3 | 0.5 | 0.0 | 1 | 0 | |
| Total | 70 | 37 | 6.5 | 3.5 | 2 | 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
2023Texas12-2HC: Steve Sarkisian · Balanced
2024Texas13-3HC: Steve Sarkisian · Balanced, fast tempo
2025Texas10-3HC: Steve Sarkisian · Balanced
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 | 70 | #268/4942 | 95th pct | Volumevs FBS DEF |
| Defense | TFL | 6.5 | #340/4972 | 93rd pct | Disruptionvs FBS DEF |
| Defense | Sacks | 3.5 | #233/4972 | 95th pct | Disruptionvs FBS DEF |
| Defense | Interceptions | 2 | #114/869 | 87th pct | Takeawaysvs FBS DEF |
| Defense | Pass breakups | 1 | #1241/2184 | 43rd pct | Coveragevs FBS DEF |
| Defense | QB hurries | 5 | #188/1878 | 90th pct | Disruptionvs FBS DEF |
| Defense | Solo tackles | 37 | #303/4584 | 93rd pct | Volumevs FBS DEF |
| Defense | INT return yards | 3 | #511/578 | 12th pct | Takeawaysvs FBS DEF |
| Defense | INT return avg | 1.5 | #533/578 | 8th pct | Takeawaysvs FBS DEF |
| Defense | Fumbles recovered | 1 | #103/736 | 86th pct | Takeawaysvs FBS DEF |
| Ball Security | Fumbles lost | 0 | #1/773 | 100th pct | Turnoversvs 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 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 · 10 games
Home vs Road
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home5g | 4.4 | 0.5 | 0.2 | 0.0 |
| Road5g | 9.6 | 0.8 | 0.5 | 0.2 |
Win vs Loss
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wins7g | 6.3 | 0.9 | 0.5 | 0.1 |
| Losses3g | 8.7 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
First half vs Second half
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-76g | 6.3 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| Weeks 8+4g | 8.0 | 1.4 | 0.9 | 0.2 |
Pocket and defense-quality (clean vs. pressure) splits are coming soon.
Savant · Box-rate percentiles
Where this profile ranks vs the LB cohort
78All-Conference
Elite: qb hurries (92nd). Strength: sacks (91st).
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
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
Anthony Hill Jr.TexasAmare CampbellPenn State· 94% simOumar DiomandeUConn· 94% simMaverick BaranowskiMinnesota· 93% sim
QB hurries
Sacks
Tackles
Solo tackles
Tackles for loss
Interceptions
Passes defended
Forced fumbles
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 Ryan Selig’s 2021 season.
Ryan Selig
86%match
#2
Trevor Brohard
84%
#3
Jaden Hunter
81%
#4
Chris Russell
80%
#5
Ryan Selig
80%
Matches Ryan on
PD rate
TFL rate
Tackle volume
Not enough data yet for this comparison.
As a junior, his production profile tracks closest to Johnny Hodges's junior season at TCU (2022).
Johnny Hodges
84%match
All-Big 12
#2
Drayk Bowen
83%
#3
Dion Hunter
83%
#4
Kamren Robinson
81%
#5
Trevin Wallace
NFL Rd 3 · Pk 8
80%
Matches Johnny on
Weight
TFL rate
Tackle volume
Supporting Cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Steve Sarkisian
Pass share
50.2%
419 pass / 415 run
Plays / game
64.2
13 games
OL sack rate (allowed)
7.6%
288 dropbacks · PBP
Scheme: Balanced.
Coaching Lineage · 2023–2025
1 coach2023
Steve Sarkisian
Texas
2024
Steve Sarkisian
Texas
2025
Steve Sarkisian
Texas
Played his entire career under Steve Sarkisian.
Bio · Recruiting · Transfer · Roster
Off-field context — switch tabs to drill into recruit profile, transfer arc, or roster timeline.
HometownDenton, TX
Height6'3"
Weight238 lb
Class3
PositionLB
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Current teamTexas
ConferenceSEC
Joined2025
Career arc3 season(s)
Trophy Case · Confirmed honors
What the selectors said
🥇
ALL-AMERICA
Named All-American (2024)
3 selectors honored him
🎖
ALL-CONFERENCE
All-Conf mention (2024)
All-SEC
Trophy Case · Detail
Every honor on the ledger, broken out by stream and selector.
3 All-America selections
National selector recognition is one of the strongest non-Heisman signals on a player card and should sit near the top of the showcase.
1 all-conference honor
Conference-level recognition helps anchor whether a player is merely statistically loud or actually viewed as elite within his competitive lane.
Honors Timeline
Season-end distinction and week-by-week recognition on one timeline.
| Season | Honor | Scope | Team / Selector | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | All-SEC | all_conference | SEC | LB |
| 2024 | All-America (SI) | all_america | SI | LB |
| 2024 | All-America (ESPN) | all_america | ESPN | LB |
| 2024 | All-America (The Athletic) | all_america | The Athletic | LB |
Heisman By Year
Modeled rank and official finish by season.
Roster Timeline
Team, conference, and class by season.