Edward Saydee Player Card

Player Standing · 17 rungs

Tier 0 · Not on team

R01 · Scout team / redshirt

Scout team / redshirt. Developing behind the depth chart.

Not on team2-deepStarterRecognizedEliteApex

Development Trajectory · rushing yards

2021–2023

3302021

6392022

2302023

-30%

Sharp dropoff (-30%) — career inflection point.

Career Arc

HS

Recruit

★★★

#2188 national

CFB

College

Temple

2021–2023

NFL

NFL Draft

—

Not drafted (yet)

Identity & Role

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

PositionRB

Class4

Jersey2

Measurements5-11 | 215 lb

HometownPhiladelphia, PA

Primary teamTemple

Recruiting Pedigree

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

Top pedigree 3-star No. 2188 recruit

Composite rating 0.8119 HighSchool

Signed with Temple 2019

Origin William Penn Charter Philadelphia, PA, USA

Class	Profile	Context
2019	3-star \| 0.8119	No. 2188 recruit \| HighSchool \| Temple

Transfer Arc

Portal movement changes role, context, and perception. This keeps that path in one place.

Portal moves 1 Programs changed on file

Latest destination Gardner-Webb 2024

Transfer stars 3-star CFBD transfer rating context

Eligibility Immediate Dec 4, 2023

Season	Move	Context
2024	Temple -> Gardner-Webb	3-star \| Immediate

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#2284Latest modeled ballot order

Season forecast#3061Where 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 Temple

Composite

0.8119

#2188 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.

What made this player interesting

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

Edward Saydee's story is about how role and output meet each other. For Temple, 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.

Current place #2284 0.0% win | 0.0% finalist

Role load 15.7% Overall usage share

Profile quirk Development arc 93 return yds

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 394 230 rush | 164 rec | #319/735 (57th pct)

Rush TD 0 68 carries | #447/739 (40th pct)

Yards/carry 3.4 Per-rush efficiency | #591/735 (20th pct)

Player identity What kind of player is this?

30-second read

What kind of player is this?

Passing-game back against FBS RB peers.

Passing-game back

Rushing

CAR

68 66th

YDS

230 57th

YPC

3.4 20th

TD

0 40th

Receiving

REC

18 83rd

YDS

164 85th

YPR

9.1 72nd

TD

2 97th

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

2021Temple3-9HC: Rod Carey · Balanced, slow tempo

2022Temple3-9HC: Stan Drayton · Pass-leaning

2023Temple3-9HC: Stan Drayton · Pass-leaning

Season	Team
2023	Temple	68	230	3.4	0	--
2022	Temple	149	639	4.3	6	--
2021	Temple	88	330	3.8	3	--
Career	3 loaded seasons	305	1,199	3.9	9	--

Season	Team
2023	Temple	18	164	9.1	2	--
2022	Temple	36	262	7.3	0	--
2021	Temple	14	135	9.6	0	--
Career	3 loaded seasons	68	561	8.2	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 18 164 rec yds | #96/552 (83rd pct)

Usage 15.7% 28.8% rush share | #164/738 (78th pct)

Rushing WEPA +0.17 Opponent-adjusted rush value | #102/362 (72nd pct)

Open full stat explorer

Group	Metric	Value	Rank	Pct	Why it matters
Rushing	Rushing yards	230	#319/735	57th pct	Volumevs FBS RB
Rushing	Rush TD	0	#447/739	40th pct	Scoringvs FBS RB
Rushing	Yards / carry	3.4	#591/735	20th pct	Efficiencyvs FBS RB
Receiving	Receptions	18	#96/552	83rd pct	Volumevs FBS RB
Receiving	Receiving yards	164	#84/548	85th pct	Volumevs FBS RB
Value	Rushing WEPA	+0.17	#102/362	72nd pct	Opponent-adjusted rushing value \| 87 weighted playsvs FBS RB
Usage	Role share	15.7%	#164/738	78th pct	Share of team offensevs FBS RB
Rushing	Carries	68	#249/739	66th pct	Volumevs FBS RB
Rushing	Rushing LONG	21	#389/733	47th pct	Metricvs FBS RB
Receiving	Receiving LONG	17	#264/540	51st pct	Metricvs FBS RB
Receiving	Yards / catch	9.1	#157/548	72nd pct	Efficiencyvs FBS RB
Receiving	Receiving TD	2	#20/552	97th pct	Scoringvs FBS RB
Returns	Kick return yards	93	#61/200	70th pct	Volumevs FBS RB
Returns	Kick return avg	15.5	#140/199	30th pct	Efficiencyvs FBS RB
Returns	Kick returns	6	#49/206	77th pct	Volumevs FBS RB
Usage	Rush share	28.8%	#138/738	81st pct	Ground-game usagevs FBS RB
Usage	2nd-down usage	19.0%	#110/738	85th pct	Middle-down loadvs FBS RB
Usage	Standard-down usage	16.9%	#191/738	74th pct	Base-situation sharevs FBS RB
Usage	1st-down usage	16.5%	#201/738	73rd pct	Early-down loadvs FBS RB
Usage	Passing-down usage	13.4%	#101/738	86th pct	Known-passing sharevs FBS RB
Usage	3rd-down usage	8.8%	#255/738	66th pct	Money-down loadvs FBS RB
Usage	Pass share	4.7%	#179/738	76th pct	Air-game usagevs FBS RB
Ball Security	Fumbles lost	1	#78/256	70th 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

K.C. Keeler

Pass share

47.0%

348 pass / 392 run

Plays / game

61.7

12 games

OL sack rate (allowed)

7.5%

254 dropbacks · PBP

Scheme: Balanced, slow tempo.

Coaching Lineage · 2021–2023

2 coaches

2021

Rod Carey

Temple

2022

Stan Drayton

Temple

era →

2023

Stan Drayton

Temple

Coaching transition mid-career: Rod Carey → Stan Drayton. Worth noting in scheme + development context.

HometownPhiladelphia, PA

Height5'11"

Weight215 lb

Class4

PositionRB

Jersey2

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	Temple	RB4	#2284	#3061	0.0%	0.0%	--	--	W19 snapshot \| American Athletic
2022	Temple	RB4	#965	#1433	0.0%	0.0%	--	--	W20 snapshot \| American Athletic
2021	Temple	RB4	#1006	#1345	0.0%	0.0%	--	--	W20 snapshot \| American Athletic

Roster Timeline

Team, conference, and class by season.

Season	Team	Conference	Pos	Class	Bio
2023	Temple	American Athletic	RB	4	No. 2 \| 5-11 \| 215 lb \| Philadelphia, PA
2022	Temple	American Athletic	RB	4	No. 2 \| 5-11 \| 215 lb \| Philadelphia, PA
2021	Temple	American Athletic	RB	4	No. 2 \| 5-11 \| 215 lb \| Philadelphia, PA

Edward Saydee

R01 · Scout team / redshirt

-30%

Identity & Role

Recruiting Pedigree

Transfer Arc

Heisman Lens · 2023 Season · Final

The Room on Edward Saydee

How rival fanbases talk about Edward Saydee

Awaiting candidate metric

What made this player interesting

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