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Colson Yankoff

RB · UCLA · Sr · #7

Limited signal — not enough coverage for a story yet.

ALUMNUSUCLA 2023 alumnusAs of Jun 22, 2026

RB · UCLA · PAC-12

Colson Yankoff

4
#7
6-4 | 225 lb
Coeur d'Alene, ID

CFB Zeitgeist RB Score

Awaiting

Heisman Heat

#1217

<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 1 · 2-deep

R02 · Deep reserve

Deep reserve. In the program, working up the two-deep.

Not on team2-deepStarterRecognizedEliteApex

Development Trajectory · rushing yards

2022–2023

1742022

83.02023

-52%

Sharp dropoff (-52%) — career inflection point.

Career Arc

Recruit

★★★★

#91 national

CFB

College

UCLA

2021–2023

NFL

NFL Draft

—

Not drafted (yet)

Identity & Role

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

PositionRB

Class4

Jersey7

Measurements6-4 | 225 lb

HometownCoeur d'Alene, ID

Primary teamUCLA

Recruiting Pedigree

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

Top pedigree 4-star No. 91 recruit

Composite rating 0.9564 HighSchool

Signed with Washington 2018

Origin Coeur d'Alene Coeur d'Alene, ID, USA

Class	Profile	Context
2018	4-star \| 0.9564	No. 91 recruit \| HighSchool \| Washington

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 · 2023 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 19

Current nowcast#1217Latest modeled ballot order

Season forecast#1123Where 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.

NIL · Recruiting · NFL Draft

Market value, pedigree & pro outcome

Recruit stars

★★★★☆

to Washington

Composite

0.9564

#91 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.

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 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.

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.

Scenario Explorer

Available for players with a qualifying signature metric (passing yards, rushing yards, receiving yards, sacks, etc.). The slider projects how a season finishes if the current pace holds.

Why this is more than a rushing profile

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

Colson Yankoff is not a one-lane back. The profile is interesting because the workload spills beyond pure rushing volume: 83 rushing yards, 2 catches, and 334 return yards for UCLA. That kind of all-purpose footprint gives the card a much richer story than a basic carry total.

Current place #1217 0.0% win | 0.0% finalist

Role load -- Role share still loading

Profile quirk Blue-chip pedigree No. 91 recruit

2023 Season · Final

Traditional stats first. Advanced context underneath.

Last season

RB season snapshot

2023 season snapshot | final

2023 season snapshot | finalData: CFBD player stats + local Heisman modelPeer context: same position + same level

Scrimmage yards 78 83 rush | -5 rec | #462/735 (37th pct)

Rush TD 1 13 carries | #323/739 (56th pct)

Yards/carry 6.4 Per-rush efficiency | #86/735 (88th pct)

Player identity What kind of player is this?

30-second read

What kind of player is this?

Efficient runner against FBS RB peers.

Efficient runner

Rushing

CAR

13 32nd

YDS

83 37th

YPC

6.4 88th

1 56th

Receiving

REC

2 25th

YDS

-5 0th

YPR

-2.5 1st

0 70th

Game Log

Week-by-week box

No per-game rows for this season yet — the table fills in as box scores arrive.

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

2021UCLA8-4HC: Chip Kelly · Run-heavy

2022UCLA9-4HC: Chip Kelly · Run-leaning

2023UCLA8-5HC: Chip Kelly · Run-leaning

Season	Team
2023	UCLA	13	83	6.4	1	--
2022	UCLA	34	174	5.1	1	--
2021	UCLA	--	--	--	--	--
Career	3 loaded seasons	47	257	5.5	2	--

Season	Team
2023	UCLA	2	-5	-2.5	0	--
2022	UCLA	6	40	6.7	2	--
2021	UCLA	--	--	--	--	--
Career	3 loaded seasons	8	35	4.4	2	--

Advanced layer Usage, value, and context

Advanced metrics second

Advanced Metrics

Usage, value, and opponent-adjusted context.

Usage Value Context

Rushing WEPA

Opponent-adjusted rushing value. It helps separate empty volume from carries that actually move the scoreboard.

Role share

How much of the team's offense flows through this back once rushing work and receiving work are combined.

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.

Receiving work 2 -5 rec yds | #414/552 (25th pct)

Usage -- Role share still loading

Rushing WEPA -- Adjusted value feed still loading

Open full stat explorer

Group	Metric	Value	Rank	Pct	Why it matters
Rushing	Rushing yards	83	#462/735	37th pct	Volumevs FBS RB
Rushing	Rush TD	1	#323/739	56th pct	Scoringvs FBS RB
Rushing	Yards / carry	6.4	#86/735	88th pct	Efficiencyvs FBS RB
Receiving	Receptions	2	#414/552	25th pct	Volumevs FBS RB
Receiving	Receiving yards	-5	#547/548	0th pct	Volumevs FBS RB
Rushing	Rushing LONG	25	#335/733	54th pct	Metricvs FBS RB
Rushing	Carries	13	#504/739	32nd pct	Volumevs FBS RB
Receiving	Receiving TD	0	#169/552	70th pct	Scoringvs FBS RB
Receiving	Receiving LONG	-2	#540/540	0th pct	Metricvs FBS RB
Receiving	Yards / catch	-2.5	#542/548	1st pct	Efficiencyvs FBS RB
Returns	Kick return yards	334	#17/200	92nd pct	Volumevs FBS RB
Returns	Kick return avg	20.9	#68/199	66th pct	Efficiencyvs FBS RB
Returns	Kick returns	16	#10/206	96th pct	Volumevs FBS RB
Ball Security	Fumbles lost	2	#205/256	20th pct	Turnoversvs FBS RB

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 splits

Splits fill in once box scores from at least three games land for this season.

Box-score Savant card waits for a season-stat snapshot above the cohort floor. Returns once enough box-score volume lands.

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 opponent-adjusted metrics are coming soon for this player. Selected cohort: P4.

Peer Comparator returns once this player clears the Savant metric floor (4+ scored bars).

DNA Match awaiting data — similarity scores compute once season stats clear the volume gate for this position cohort.

Supporting Cast · Scheme

Staff and system around the player

2025 season

Head Coach

Deshaun Foster

Pass share

48.9%

358 pass / 374 run

Plays / game

61.0

12 games

OL sack rate (allowed)

9.3%

280 dropbacks · PBP

Scheme: Balanced, slow tempo.

Coaching Lineage · 2021–2023

1 coach

2021

Chip Kelly

UCLA

2022

Chip Kelly

UCLA

2023

Chip Kelly

UCLA

Played his entire career under Chip Kelly.

HometownCoeur d'Alene, ID

Height6'4"

Weight225 lb

Class4

PositionRB

Jersey7

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
2023	UCLA	RB4	#1217	#1123	0.0%	0.0%	--	--	W19 snapshot \| Pac-12
2022	UCLA	RB4	#526	#454	0.0%	0.0%	--	--	W20 snapshot \| Pac-12
2021	UCLA	RB4	#2213	#1964	0.0%	0.0%	--	--	W20 snapshot \| Pac-12

Roster Timeline

Team, conference, and class by season.

Season	Team	Conference	Pos	Class	Bio
2023	UCLA	Pac-12	RB	4	No. 7 \| 6-4 \| 225 lb \| Coeur d'Alene, ID
2022	UCLA	Pac-12	RB	4	No. 7 \| 6-4 \| 225 lb \| Coeur d'Alene, ID
2021	UCLA	Pac-12	RB	4	No. 7 \| 6-4 \| 225 lb \| Coeur d'Alene, ID

Colson Yankoff

R02 · Deep reserve

-52%

Identity & Role

Recruiting Pedigree

Transfer Arc

Heisman Lens · 2023 Season · Final

The Room on Colson Yankoff

How rival fanbases talk about Colson Yankoff

Awaiting candidate metric

Why this is more than a rushing profile

2023 Season · Final

RB season snapshot

What kind of player is this?

2023 Season · Final

Traditional Stats

Advanced Metrics

Player Standing

Percentile Card

Advanced Savant

Bio · Recruiting · Transfer · Roster

Trophy Case · Detail

No formal honors on the ledger yet

Honors Timeline

Heisman By Year

Roster Timeline