CFB Zeitgeist Score
61
Solid starter in the position cohort. Carried by rush tds at the 84th percentile.
Duncan Brune
Below the discourse floor — the honest stats-only state.
585 RUSH YDS · 8 RUSH TD · 120 CARRIES
2026 Outlook
Returning to Ohio for 2026
2026 Depth chart
Projected starter
Running back · Ohio
Returning around him
- 65% of 2024 offensive production back (Solid continuity)
- Transfer portal: +2 net (18 in / 16 out)
2026 Award watch
No preseason watch lists yet (most drop June 15 – July 15)
Ohio · Last season: 9-4 · Talent rank #126 · 2026 recruiting class #121
RB · OHIO · MID-AMERICAN
Duncan Brune
- 2
- #6
- 5-11 | 210 lb
- Cologne
Heisman Heat
#1764
<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 2 · StarterR06 · Starter
Starter. A locked-in starting role.
Not on team2-deepStarterRecognizedEliteApex
Development Trajectory · rushing yards
2024–2025+596%
Up 596% from first season to most-recent.
Career Arc
HS
Recruit
★★★
CFB
College
Ohio
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 |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 3-star | 0.8230 | No. 2229 recruit | HighSchool | Ohio |
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 Ohio
Composite
0.8230
#2229 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.
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 Duncan Brune
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 Duncan Brune
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 rushing totals stand
Through 13g
585Rush yards
120Carries
8Rush TDs
Per game
45Rush yards
9Carries
1Rush TDs
Final
585Rush yards
120Carries
8Rush TDs
What made this player interesting
The fast read on the thing that makes this player more than a generic stat line.
Duncan Brune's story is about how role and output meet each other. For Ohio, the card already shows enough current-season production to explain why he is on the serious-player board, and the next layer is determining whether the profile is just very good or actually distinctive.
2025 Season · Final
Traditional stats first. Advanced context underneath.
Last season
RB 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?
Backfield contributor against FBS RB peers.
2025 Season · Final
2025 season snapshot | final
Rushing
CAR
120 85th
YDS
585 84th
YPC
4.9 59th
TD
8 93rd
Receiving
REC
5 43rd
YDS
57 53rd
YPR
11.4 86th
TD
0 70th
Game Log · Week-by-week
2025 season · 13 games
| Wk | Opp | CAR | YDS | AVG | TD | LONG | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | L 31-34@ Rutgers | 6 | 22 | 3.7 | 0 | 8 | |
| Wk 2 | W 17-10vs West Virginia | 9 | 29 | 3.2 | 0 | 6 | |
| Wk 3 | L 9-37@ Ohio State | 9 | 19 | 2.1 | 0 | 6 | |
| Wk 4 | W 52-35vs Gardner-Webb | 16 | 88 | 5.5 | 3 | 20 | 3 rushing TDs |
| Wk 5 | W 35-20vs Bowling Green | 7 | 57 | 8.1 | 0 | 33 | |
| Wk 6 | L 14-20@ Ball State | 8 | 26 | 3.3 | 1 | 7 | |
| Wk 8 | W 48-21vs Northern Illinois | 16 | 126 | 7.9 | 2 | 66 | Season-high 126 yds |
| Wk 9 | W 28-21@ Eastern Michigan | 7 | 14 | 2.0 | 0 | 6 | |
| Wk 11 | W 24-20vs Miami (OH) | 3 | 12 | 4.0 | 0 | 4 | |
| Wk 12 | L 13-17@ Western Michigan | 5 | 15 | 3.0 | 0 | 4 | |
| Wk 13 | W 42-14vs Massachusetts | 14 | 84 | 6.0 | 2 | 29 | |
| Wk 14 | W 31-26@ Buffalo | 12 | 69 | 5.8 | 0 | 20 | |
| Bowl | W 17-10vs UNLV | 8 | 24 | 3.0 | 0 | 5 | |
| Total | 120 | 585 | 4.4 | 8 | 66 |
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
2024Ohio11-3HC: Tim Albin · Run-heavy
2025Ohio9-4HC: Brian Smith · Run-heavy
Advanced layer Usage, value, and context
Advanced metrics second
Advanced Metrics
Usage, value, and opponent-adjusted context.
Opponent-adjusted rushing value. It helps separate empty volume from carries that actually move the scoreboard.
How much of the team's offense flows through this back once rushing work and receiving work are combined.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rushing | Rushing yards | 585 | #122/735 | 84th pct | Volumevs FBS RB |
| Rushing | Rush TD | 8 | #51/739 | 93rd pct | Scoringvs FBS RB |
| Rushing | Yards / carry | 4.9 | #305/735 | 59th pct | Efficiencyvs FBS RB |
| Receiving | Receptions | 5 | #315/552 | 43rd pct | Volumevs FBS RB |
| Receiving | Receiving yards | 57 | #257/548 | 53rd pct | Volumevs FBS RB |
| Value | Rushing WEPA | +0.10 | #209/362 | 43rd pct | Opponent-adjusted rushing value | 104 weighted playsvs FBS RB |
| Usage | Role share | 14.1% | #201/738 | 73rd pct | Share of team offensevs FBS RB |
| Rushing | Carries | 120 | #115/739 | 85th pct | Volumevs FBS RB |
| Rushing | Rushing LONG | 66 | #77/733 | 90th pct | Metricvs FBS RB |
| Receiving | Receiving LONG | 32 | #114/540 | 79th pct | Metricvs FBS RB |
| Receiving | Yards / catch | 11.4 | #80/548 | 86th pct | Efficiencyvs FBS RB |
| Receiving | Receiving TD | 0 | #169/552 | 70th pct | Scoringvs FBS RB |
| Returns | Kick return yards | 37 | #114/200 | 44th pct | Volumevs FBS RB |
| Returns | Kick return avg | 18.5 | #100/199 | 50th pct | Efficiencyvs FBS RB |
| Returns | Kick returns | 2 | #109/206 | 48th pct | Volumevs FBS RB |
| Usage | Rush share | 22.1% | #228/738 | 69th pct | Ground-game usagevs FBS RB |
| Usage | 1st-down usage | 16.9% | #187/738 | 75th pct | Early-down loadvs FBS RB |
| Usage | Standard-down usage | 16.0% | #210/738 | 72nd pct | Base-situation sharevs FBS RB |
| Usage | 2nd-down usage | 14.1% | #206/738 | 72nd pct | Middle-down loadvs FBS RB |
| Usage | Passing-down usage | 9.6% | #223/738 | 70th pct | Known-passing sharevs FBS RB |
| Usage | 3rd-down usage | 9.2% | #227/738 | 69th pct | Money-down loadvs FBS RB |
| Usage | Pass share | 1.7% | #433/738 | 41st pct | Air-game usagevs FBS RB |
| Ball Security | Fumbles lost | 0 | #1/256 | 100th pct | Turnoversvs 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
Status—Awaiting tracker
Heisman model tracks the top FBS contenders weekly; this player hasn't entered the watch list yet.
Splits · Per-game
2025 season · 13 games
Home vs Road
| YDS/g | YPC | TD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Home7g | 60.0 | 5.4 | 1.0 |
| Road6g | 27.5 | 3.3 | 0.2 |
Win vs Loss
| YDS/g | YPC | TD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wins9g | 55.9 | 5.1 | 0.8 |
| Losses4g | 20.5 | 3.0 | 0.2 |
First half vs Second half
| YDS/g | YPC | TD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-77g | 37.9 | 4.1 | 0.6 |
| Weeks 8+6g | 53.3 | 4.8 | 0.7 |
Pocket and defense-quality (clean vs. pressure) splits are coming soon.
Savant · Box-rate percentiles
Where this profile ranks vs the RB cohort
61Solid starter
Elite: fumbles lost (86th). Strength: rush tds (84th). Concern: receptions (17th).
Percentiles versus same-position peers with enough snaps this season, based on box-score rates.
Advanced Savant · RB · 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.
wepa_rushing0.1Low (p25–p50) (n=178)
Peer Comparator · Fingerprint match
Three closest profiles by box-rate percentile
Duncan BruneOhioQuinton JacksonRice· 87% simBill DavisLouisiana· 86% simCaleb KomolafeNorthwestern· 84% sim
Fumbles lost
Rush TDs
Long run
Carries
Rush yards
Yards / carry
Rec yards
Receptions
Closest peers by overall box-score percentile profile at the same position.
Player DNA
The Balanced Back
Plays within the scheme — consistent production without a dominant dimension.
RB
His 2025 production profile sits closest to Bryson Kuzdzal’s 2025 season.
Bryson Kuzdzal
82%match
#2
Nasjza Bryant
76%
#3
Billy Lucas
75%
#4
DK Billingsley
74%
#5
Nelson Smith
68%
Matches Bryson on
Receiving share
EPA / carry (adj)
Total rush EPA (college ability)
Differs from Bryson on
Class year (lower)
Not enough data yet for this comparison.
As a sophomore, his production profile tracks closest to Bryson Kuzdzal's sophomore season at Michigan (2025).
Bryson Kuzdzal
83%match
#2
Makenzie McGill
77%
#3
Scottre Humphrey
All-Mountain West
75%
#4
Brock Sturges
74%
#5
Daelen Alexander
72%
Matches Bryson on
Receiving share
EPA / carry (adj)
Total rush EPA (college ability)
Differs from Bryson on
Class year (lower)
Supporting Cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Brian Smith
Pass share
36.6%
311 pass / 539 run
Plays / game
65.4
13 games
OL sack rate (allowed)
9.4%
278 dropbacks · PBP
Scheme: Run-heavy.
Coaching Lineage · 2024–2025
2 coaches2024
Tim Albin
Ohio
2025era →
Brian Smith
Ohio
Coaching transition mid-career: Tim Albin → Brian Smith. Worth noting in scheme + development context.
Bio · Recruiting · Transfer · Roster
Off-field context — switch tabs to drill into recruit profile, transfer arc, or roster timeline.
HometownCologne
Height5'11"
Weight210 lb
Class2
PositionRB
Jersey6
No fields populated yet.
No fields populated yet.
Current teamOhio
ConferenceMid-American
Joined2025
Career arc2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Ohio | RB2 | #1764 | #2199 | 0.0% | 0.0% | -- | -- | W16 snapshot | Mid-American |
Roster Timeline
Team, conference, and class by season.