CFB Zeitgeist Score
64
Solid starter in the position cohort. Carried by sacks at the 74th percentile.
Brevin Hamblin
Below the discourse floor — the honest stats-only state.
110 TACKLES · 1.5 SACKS
2026 Outlook
Returning to Utah State for 2026
2026 Depth chart
Projected starter
Safety · 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
S · UTAH STATE · MOUNTAIN WEST
Brevin Hamblin
- 3
- 6-5 | 200 lb
- Syracuse, UT
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 DB AWARD
Jim Thorpe
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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
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 |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Utah Tech -> Utah State | 3-star | 0.8300 | Immediate |
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 Brevin Hamblin
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 Brevin Hamblin
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 13g
110Tackles
2.5Tackles for loss
1.5Sacks
Per game
8Tackles
0.2Tackles for loss
0.1Sacks
Final
110Tackles
2.5Tackles for loss
1.5Sacks
✓ Hit 80-tackle season · finished with 110.
✓ Hit 100-tackle season · finished with 110.
Why this is a rare defensive case
The fast read on the thing that makes this player more than a generic stat line.
Brevin Hamblin 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 1.5 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.
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
110 99th
SOLO
58 99th
TFL
2.5 75th
SACK
1.5 85th
Coverage & Takeaways
PD
8 98th
INT
1 65th
Game Log · Week-by-week
2025 season · 13 games
| Wk | Opp | TKL | SOLO | TFL | SACK | INT | PD | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | W 28-16vs UTEP | 8 | 5 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 2 | L 22-44@ Texas A&M | 8 | 5 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 3 | W 49-30vs Air Force | 7 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 3 | |
| Wk 4 | W 48-7vs McNeese | 3 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 5 | L 35-55@ Vanderbilt | 7 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 7 | L 26-44@ Hawai'i | 8 | 7 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 1 | |
| Wk 8 | W 30-25vs San José State | 9 | 5 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 1 | |
| Wk 9 | L 14-33@ New Mexico | 11 | 5 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 1 | |
| Wk 11 | W 51-14vs Nevada | 8 | 3 | 1.5 | 1.0 | 1 | 0 | |
| Wk 12 | L 26-29@ UNLV | 11 | 5 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 13 | W 28-17@ Fresno State | 4 | 4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 14 | L 24-25vs Boise State | 14 | 5 | 0.5 | 0.5 | — | 0 | Season-high 14 tackles |
| Bowl | L 21-34vs Washington State | 12 | 9 | 0.5 | 0.0 | — | 2 | |
| Total | 110 | 58 | 2.5 | 1.5 | 1 | 8 |
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 | 110 | 58 | 2.5 | 1.5 | 8 | 1 | -- |
| Career | 1 loaded season | 110 | 58 | 2.5 | 1.5 | 8 | 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 | 110 | #26/4942 | 99th pct | Volumevs FBS DEF |
| Defense | TFL | 2.5 | #1236/4972 | 75th pct | Disruptionvs FBS DEF |
| Defense | Sacks | 1.5 | #724/4972 | 85th pct | Disruptionvs FBS DEF |
| Defense | Interceptions | 1 | #308/869 | 65th pct | Takeawaysvs FBS DEF |
| Defense | Pass breakups | 8 | #45/2184 | 98th pct | Coveragevs FBS DEF |
| Defense | Solo tackles | 58 | #29/4584 | 99th pct | Volumevs FBS DEF |
| Defense | INT return avg | 38.0 | #58/578 | 90th pct | Takeawaysvs FBS DEF |
| Defense | INT return yards | 38 | #164/578 | 72nd pct | Takeawaysvs FBS DEF |
| Defense | Defensive TD | 1 | #23/200 | 89th pct | Scoringvs FBS DEF |
| Defense | Fumbles recovered | 1 | #103/736 | 86th pct | Takeawaysvs FBS DEF |
| Defense | Pick-six TD | 1 | #13/119 | 90th pct | Scoringvs 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 Thorpe 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 · 13 games
Home vs Road
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home7g | 8.7 | 0.4 | 0.2 | 0.9 |
| Road6g | 8.2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.3 |
Win vs Loss
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wins6g | 6.5 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.7 |
| Losses7g | 10.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.6 |
First half vs Second half
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-77g | 7.6 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.9 |
| Weeks 8+6g | 9.5 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.3 |
Pocket and defense-quality (clean vs. pressure) splits are coming soon.
Savant · Box-rate percentiles
Where this profile ranks vs the S cohort
64Solid starter
Elite: tackles (99th). Strength: solo tackles (98th). Concern: qb hurries (22nd).
Percentiles versus same-position peers with enough snaps this season, based on box-score rates.
Advanced Savant · S · 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
Brevin HamblinUtah StateOwen LongColorado State· 90% simNick AndersenWake Forest· 86% simDevin LafayetteTroy· 83% sim
Tackles
Solo tackles
Passes defended
Sacks
Tackles for loss
Forced fumbles
Interceptions
QB hurries
Closest peers by overall box-score percentile profile at the same position.
Player DNA
The Box Safety
Lives near the line of scrimmage as a de facto extra linebacker.
S
His 2025 production profile sits closest to Nico Bolden’s 2022 season.
Nico Bolden
51%match
All-MAC
#2
Kendarin Ray
54%
#3
Donovan McMillon
53%
#4
Tahj Ra-El
48%
#5
Trey Dean
53%
Matches Nico on
Tackle volume
Class year
Differs from Nico on
Height (higher)
Weight (lower)
PD rate (higher)
Not enough data yet for this comparison.
As a junior, his production profile tracks closest to Drew Sanders's junior season at Arkansas (2022).
Drew Sanders
77%match
1st-team All-AmericanNFL Rd 3 · Pk 4
#2
Daniel Wingate
63%
#3
DeMarvion Overshown
All-Big 12NFL Rd 3 · Pk 27
56%
#4
Dallas Gant
All-MAC
55%
#5
Matthew Bailey
58%
Matches Drew on
Class year
Height
Tackle volume
Differs from Drew on
Weight (lower)
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.
HometownSyracuse, UT
Height6'5"
Weight200 lb
Class3
PositionS
No fields populated yet.
No fields populated yet.
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 | S | 3 | 6-5 | 200 lb | Syracuse, UT |