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David Fisher

CB · North Texas · Sr · #1

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

48 TACKLES · 0 SACKS

2026 RETURNINGReturning to North Texas for 2026

2026 Outlook

Returning to North Texas for 2026

2026 Depth chart

Projected starter

Cornerback · North Texas

Returning around him

  • 56% of 2024 offensive production back (Solid continuity)
  • Transfer portal: +11 net (49 in / 38 out)

2026 Award watch

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

North Texas · Last season: 12-2 (AP #23) · Talent rank #96 · 2026 recruiting class #112

CB · NORTH TEXAS · AMERICAN ATHLETIC

David Fisher

  • 4
  • #1
  • 5-11 | 182 lb
  • Houston, TX

CFB Zeitgeist Score

57

Solid starter in the position cohort. Carried by passes defended at the 94th percentile.

Heisman Heat

#10840

<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 DB AWARD

Jim Thorpe

CONSENSUS

All-American

Player Standing · 17 rungs

Tier 2 · Starter

R07 · Impact starter

Impact starter. Producing measurable value above replacement.

Not on team2-deepStarterRecognizedEliteApex

Career Arc

HS
Recruit
No recruit profile
CFB
College
2 teams
2023–2025
NFL
NFL Draft
Not drafted (yet)

Identity & Role

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

PositionCB
Class4
Jersey1
Measurements5-11 | 182 lb
HometownHouston, TX
Primary teamNorth Texas

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#10840Latest modeled ballot order
Season forecast#10699Where 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 David Fisher

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 David Fisher

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

final
Through 13g
48Tackles
3Tackles for loss
0Sacks
Per game
4Tackles
0.2Tackles for loss
0Sacks
Final
48Tackles
3Tackles for loss
0Sacks

Why this is a rare defensive case

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

David Fisher is trying to climb the steepest award hill in college football: a defensive candidacy. The hook is the disruption profile on North Texas's defense, with 0.0 sacks, 3.0 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 #10840 0.0% win | 0.0% finalist
Role load -- Role share still loading
Profile quirk Transfer path 0 portal moves

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 48 32 solo | #649/4942 (87th pct)
TFL 3.0 Backfield disruption | #1006/4972 (80th pct)
Sacks 0.0 Pass-rush finish | #1762/4972 (65th pct)
Player identity What kind of player is this?

30-second read

What kind of player is this?

Coverage splash | High-volume tackler against FBS defenders.

Coverage splashHigh-volume tackler

2025 Season · Final

2025 season snapshot | final

Tackling & Disruption

TOT
48 87th
SOLO
32 90th
TFL
3.0 80th
SACK
0.0 65th
QBH
1 44th

Coverage & Takeaways

PD
6 93rd
INT
1 65th

Game Log · Week-by-week

2025 season · 13 games

Box score · CFBD
WkOppTKLSOLOTFLSACKINTPDNote
Wk 2W 33-30@ Western Michigan410.00.00
Wk 3W 59-10vs Washington State000.00.00
Wk 4W 45-38@ Army430.00.01
Wk 5W 36-22vs South Alabama210.00.01
Wk 7L 36-63vs South Florida850.00.01Season-high 8 tackles
Wk 8W 55-17vs UTSA211.00.01
Wk 9W 54-20@ Charlotte220.00.01
Wk 10W 31-17vs Navy420.00.00
Wk 12W 53-24@ UAB661.00.010
Wk 13W 56-24@ Rice841.00.00
Wk 14W 52-25vs Temple220.00.01
Wk 15L 21-34@ Tulane330.00.00
BowlW 49-47@ San Diego State320.00.00
Total48323.00.016
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

2023Sam Houston3-9HC: K.C. Keeler · Balanced
2025North Texas12-2HC: Eric Morris · Balanced
SeasonTeam
2025North Texas48323.00.061--
2023Sam Houston21160.00.03----
Career2 loaded seasons69483.00.091--
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 6 Coverage disruption | #144/2184 (93rd pct)
QB pressures 1 Quarterback hurries | #1051/1878 (44th pct)
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Group Metric Value Rank Pct Why it matters
Defense Total tackles 48 #649/4942 87th pct Volumevs FBS DEF
Defense TFL 3.0 #1006/4972 80th pct Disruptionvs FBS DEF
Defense Sacks 0.0 #1762/4972 65th pct Disruptionvs FBS DEF
Defense Interceptions 1 #308/869 65th pct Takeawaysvs FBS DEF
Defense Pass breakups 6 #144/2184 93rd pct Coveragevs FBS DEF
Defense QB hurries 1 #1051/1878 44th pct Disruptionvs FBS DEF
Defense INT return avg 39.0 #55/578 91st pct Takeawaysvs FBS DEF
Defense INT return yards 39 #159/578 73rd pct Takeawaysvs FBS DEF
Defense Solo tackles 32 #448/4584 90th 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 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/Road · Win/Loss · Season halves

Home vs Road

TKL/gTFL/gSACK/gPD/g
Home6g3.00.20.00.7
Road7g4.30.30.00.3

Win vs Loss

TKL/gTFL/gSACK/gPD/g
Wins11g3.40.30.00.5
Losses2g5.50.00.00.5

First half vs Second half

TKL/gTFL/gSACK/gPD/g
Weeks 1-76g3.50.00.00.5
Weeks 8+7g3.90.40.00.4

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

Savant · Box-rate percentiles

Where this profile ranks vs the CB cohort

57Solid starter
7 metrics · season cumulative

Elite: passes defended (93rd). Strength: solo tackles (84th). Concern: sacks (23rd).

Passes defended#144 / 2975 · 94th pct
6defe
Solo tackles#448 / 2975 · 84th pct
32defe
Tackles#649 / 2975 · 78th pct
48defe
Tackles for loss#1001 / 2975 · 63rd pct
3.0defe
QB hurries#1007 / 2975 · 55th pct
1defe
Interceptions#304 / 817 · 31st pct
1inte
Sacks#1575 / 2975 · 24th pct
0.0defe

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

Advanced Savant · CB · 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
David FisherNorth TexasRobert FitzgeraldNorthwestern· 87% simTahj Ra-ElPurdue· 82% simTyler MartinMassachusetts· 82% sim
Passes defended
94
Fisher
86
Fitzgerald
91
Ra-El
67
Martin
Solo tackles
84
Fisher
100
Fitzgerald
100
Ra-El
87
Martin
Tackles
78
Fisher
99
Fitzgerald
99
Ra-El
98
Martin
Tackles for loss
63
Fisher
85
Fitzgerald
56
Ra-El
63
Martin
QB hurries
55
Fisher
55
Fitzgerald
22
Ra-El
22
Martin
Interceptions
31
Fisher
31
Fitzgerald
31
Martin
Sacks
24
Fisher
24
Fitzgerald
24
Ra-El
24
Martin

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

Player DNA

The Volume Tackler

Targeted often and asked to tackle in space on the perimeter.

CB

His 2025 production profile sits closest to Jon Johnson’s 2025 season.

Jon Johnson

91%match

New Mexico · 2025

#2

Jaylin Davies

UCLA · 2023

88%
#3

Kaleno Levine

Troy · 2025

88%
#4

Tyreek Chappell

Texas A&M · 2025

84%
#5

Chandler Rivers

Duke · 2023

NFL Rd 5
85%

Matches Jon on

Class year
Height
Weight

Not enough data yet for this comparison.

As a junior, his production profile tracks closest to Jakob Robinson's junior season at BYU (2022).

Jakob Robinson

92%match

BYU · 2022

#2

Dadrian Taylor

UTSA · 2022

91%
#3

Markevious Brown

Purdue · 2023

90%
#4

Jaheim Wilson-Jones

Hawai'i · 2025

91%
#5

Sage Ryan

LSU · 2023

89%

Matches Jakob on

Class year
Height
PD rate

Supporting Cast · Scheme

Staff and system around the player

2025 season

Head Coach

Eric Morris

Pass share

48.5%

475 pass / 504 run

Plays / game

69.9

14 games

OL sack rate (allowed)

5.9%

321 dropbacks · PBP

Scheme: Balanced.

Coaching Lineage · 2023–2025

1 coach
2023
Eric Morris
North Texas
2025
Eric Morris
North Texas

Played his entire career under Eric Morris.

Bio · Recruiting · Transfer · Roster

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

HometownHouston, TX
Height5'11"
Weight182 lb
Class4
PositionCB
Jersey1

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 Sam Houston CB4 #10840 #10699 0.0% 0.0% -- -- W16 snapshot | Conference USA
2023 Sam Houston CB4 #12829 #13015 0.0% 0.0% -- -- W19 snapshot | Conference USA

Roster Timeline

Team, conference, and class by season.

Season Team Conference Pos Class Bio
2025 North Texas American Athletic CB 4 No. 1 | 5-11 | 182 lb | Houston, TX
2024 Sam Houston Conference USA CB 4 No. 1 | 5-11 | 182 lb | Houston, TX
2023 Sam Houston Conference USA CB 4 No. 1 | 5-11 | 182 lb | Houston, TX