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Heisman / Players / Damien Martinez /Miami

Damien Martinez

RB · Miami · Jr · #6

Limited signal — not enough coverage for a story yet.

NOW IN NFLSeattle — drafted 2025, Rd 7, Pick 7, #223 overall

Where He Ended Up · NFL

SeattleEntering 2nd NFL season

#223Rd 7 · Pick 7
SeattleEntering 2nd NFL season

RB · MIAMI · ACC

Damien Martinez

  • 3
  • #6
  • 6-0 | 232 lb
  • Lewisville, TX

CFB Zeitgeist RB Score

Awaiting

Heisman Heat

#23

1.2% 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

1.2%

TOP RB AWARD

Doak Walker

CONSENSUS

All-American

Player Standing · 17 rungs

Tier 3 · Recognized

R11 · National watch / fringe AA

National watch / fringe All-America. Knocking on the All-America door.

Not on team2-deepStarterRecognizedEliteApex

Career arc · Season-by-season Standing

3 seasons on the ladder

Peak: R08 Watch-list name · 2024

2022

Oregon State · RB

2023

Oregon State · RB

2024

Miami · RB

R08 · Watch-list name

Recognized

NFL Draft 2025 · Rd 7, Pick 7 · #223 overall · Seattle

Development Trajectory · rushing yards

2022–2024
9822022
1,1852023
1,0022024

+2%

Modest growth (2%) across the multi-season window.

Career Arc

HS
Recruit
★★★
#600 national
CFB
College
2 teams
2022–2024
NFL
NFL Draft
R7 · #223
Seattle · 2025

Identity & Role

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

PositionRB
Class3
Jersey6
Measurements6-0 | 232 lb
HometownLewisville, TX
Primary teamMiami

Recruiting Pedigree

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

Top pedigree 3-star No. 600 recruit
Composite rating 0.8781 HighSchool
Signed with Oregon State 2022
Origin Lewisville Lewisville, TX, USA
Class Profile Context
2022 3-star | 0.8781 No. 600 recruit | HighSchool | Oregon State

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#23Latest modeled ballot order
Season forecast#17Where the full season sim points
Win probability1.2%Chance to actually win the trophy
Finalist probability0.0%Chance to make the finalist tier
Ballot probability50.2%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 Oregon State

Composite

0.8781

#600 national

NFL Draft

2025 · Rd 7, Pick 7

#223 overall · Seattle

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 Damien Martinez

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 Damien Martinez

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 the transfer arc matters

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

Damien Martinez's card is compelling because the national relevance arrived fast after a change in surroundings. The transfer path matters: when a player changes programs and still rises into the #23 tier, it usually means the role, production, and team fit all clicked immediately.

Current place #23 1.2% win | 0.0% finalist
Role load 19.2% Overall usage share
Profile quirk Transfer path 0 portal moves

2024 Season · Final

Traditional stats first. Advanced context underneath.

Last season

RB season snapshot

2024 season snapshot | final

2024 season snapshot | finalData: CFBD player stats + local Heisman modelPeer context: same position + same level
Scrimmage yards 1,206 1,002 rush | 204 rec | #40/735 (95th pct)
Rush TD 10 159 carries | #33/739 (96th pct)
Yards/carry 6.3 Per-rush efficiency | #93/735 (87th pct)
Player identity What kind of player is this?

30-second read

What kind of player is this?

Workhorse | Efficient runner | Passing-game back against FBS RB peers.

WorkhorseEfficient runnerPassing-game back

2024 Season · Final

2024 season snapshot | final

Rushing

CAR
159 92nd
YDS
1,002 95th
YPC
6.3 87th
TD
10 96th

Receiving

REC
17 80th
YDS
204 90th
YPR
12.0 88th
TD
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

2022Oregon State10-3HC: Jonathan Smith · Run-heavy
2023Oregon State8-5HC: Jonathan Smith · Run-leaning
2024Miami10-3HC: Mario Cristobal · Balanced, fast tempo
SeasonTeam
2024Miami1591,0026.310--
2023Oregon State1941,1856.19--
2022Oregon State1619826.17--
Career3 loaded seasons5143,1696.226--
SeasonTeam
2024Miami1720412.00--
2023Oregon State1112611.50--
2022Oregon State46115.20--
Career3 loaded seasons3239112.20--
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 17 204 rec yds | #111/552 (80th pct)
Usage 19.2% 37.9% rush share | #101/738 (86th pct)
Rushing WEPA +0.37 Opponent-adjusted rush value | #2/362 (100th pct)
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Group Metric Value Rank Pct Why it matters
Rushing Rushing yards 1,002 #40/735 95th pct Volumevs FBS RB
Rushing Rush TD 10 #33/739 96th pct Scoringvs FBS RB
Rushing Yards / carry 6.3 #93/735 87th pct Efficiencyvs FBS RB
Receiving Receptions 17 #111/552 80th pct Volumevs FBS RB
Receiving Receiving yards 204 #54/548 90th pct Volumevs FBS RB
Value Rushing WEPA +0.37 #2/362 100th pct Opponent-adjusted rushing value | 156 weighted playsvs FBS RB
Usage Role share 19.2% #101/738 86th pct Share of team offensevs FBS RB
Rushing Carries 159 #57/739 92nd pct Volumevs FBS RB
Rushing Rushing LONG 75 #36/733 95th pct Metricvs FBS RB
Receiving Receiving LONG 36 #90/540 84th pct Metricvs FBS RB
Receiving Yards / catch 12.0 #65/548 88th pct Efficiencyvs FBS RB
Receiving Receiving TD 0 #169/552 70th pct Scoringvs FBS RB
Usage Rush share 37.9% #72/738 90th pct Ground-game usagevs FBS RB
Usage 1st-down usage 22.5% #103/738 86th pct Early-down loadvs FBS RB
Usage Standard-down usage 22.1% #102/738 86th pct Base-situation sharevs FBS RB
Usage 2nd-down usage 17.2% #136/738 82nd pct Middle-down loadvs FBS RB
Usage 3rd-down usage 15.2% #69/738 91st pct Money-down loadvs FBS RB
Usage Passing-down usage 11.0% #165/738 78th pct Known-passing sharevs FBS RB
Usage Pass share 3.9% #237/738 68th pct Air-game usagevs FBS RB

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

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.

Advanced Savant · RB · 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 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

Mario Cristobal

Pass share

47.2%

496 pass / 554 run

Plays / game

65.6

16 games

OL sack rate (allowed)

4.1%

245 dropbacks · PBP

Scheme: Balanced.

Coaching Lineage · 2022–2024

1 coach
2022
Mario Cristobal
Miami
2023
Mario Cristobal
Miami
2024
Mario Cristobal
Miami

Played his entire career under Mario Cristobal.

Bio · Recruiting · Transfer · Roster

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

HometownLewisville, TX
Height6'0"
Weight232 lb
Class3
PositionRB
Jersey6

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 Miami RB3 #23 #17 1.2% 0.0% -- -- W16 snapshot | ACC
2023 Oregon State RB3 #116 #126 0.0% 0.0% -- -- W19 snapshot | Pac-12
2022 Oregon State RB3 #136 #129 0.0% 0.0% -- -- W20 snapshot | Pac-12

Roster Timeline

Team, conference, and class by season.

Season Team Conference Pos Class Bio
2024 Miami ACC RB 3 No. 6 | 6-0 | 232 lb | Lewisville, TX
2023 Oregon State Pac-12 RB 3 No. 6 | 6-0 | 232 lb | Lewisville, TX
2022 Oregon State Pac-12 RB 3 No. 6 | 6-0 | 232 lb | Lewisville, TX