CFB Zeitgeist Score
81
All-Conference in the position cohort. Carried by sacks at the 89th percentile.
Eric Gentry
Below the discourse floor — the honest stats-only state.
71 TACKLES · 3 SACKS
2026 Outlook
Returning to USC for 2026
2026 Depth chart
Projected starter
Linebacker · USC
Returning around him
- 37% of 2024 offensive production back (Moderate turnover)
- 3 USC players drafted to NFL
- Transfer portal: -13 net (9 in / 22 out)
2026 Award watch
No preseason watch lists yet (most drop June 15 – July 15)
USC · Last season: 9-4 (AP #16) · Talent rank #17 · 2026 recruiting class #14
LB · USC · BIG TEN
Eric Gentry
- 4
- #18
- 6-6 | 225 lb
- Philadelphia, PA
Heisman Heat
#8149
<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 LB AWARD
Butkus
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CONSENSUS
All-American
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Player Standing · 17 rungs
Tier 2 · StarterR07 · Impact starter
Impact starter. Producing measurable value above replacement.
Not on team2-deepStarterRecognizedEliteApex
Career Arc
HS
Recruit
★★★
CFB
College
2 teams
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 |
|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 3-star | 0.8656 | No. 776 recruit | HighSchool | Arizona State |
Transfer Arc
Portal movement changes role, context, and perception. This keeps that path in one place.
| Season | Move | Context |
|---|---|---|
| 2022 | Arizona State -> USC | 4-star | 0.9300 | Immediate |
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 Arizona State
Composite
0.8656
#776 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 Eric Gentry
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 Eric Gentry
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 defensive totals stand
Through 11g
71Tackles
7Tackles for loss
3Sacks
Per game
6Tackles
0.6Tackles for loss
0.3Sacks
Projected (13g)
84Tackles
8.3Tackles for loss
3.5Sacks
To hit 80-tackle season (currently 71): needs 4.5/game over remaining 2.
To hit 100-tackle season (currently 71): needs 14.5/game over remaining 2.
To hit 6-sack season (currently 3): needs 1.5/game over remaining 2.
To hit 10-sack season (currently 3): needs 3.5/game over remaining 2.
Why this is a rare defensive case
The fast read on the thing that makes this player more than a generic stat line.
Eric Gentry is trying to climb the steepest award hill in college football: a defensive candidacy. The hook is the disruption profile on USC's defense, with 3.0 sacks, 7.0 tackles for loss, and -- 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.
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
Player identity What kind of player is this?
30-second read
What kind of player is this?
High-disruption defender | High-volume tackler against FBS defenders.
2025 Season · Final
2025 season snapshot | final
Tackling & Disruption
TOT
71 95th
SOLO
49 98th
TFL
7.0 94th
SACK
3.0 94th
QBH
1 44th
Coverage & Takeaways
PD
2 64th
Game Log · Week-by-week
2025 season · 11 games
| Wk | Opp | TKL | SOLO | TFL | SACK | INT | PD | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | W 73-13vs Missouri State | 3 | 3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 2 | W 59-20vs Georgia Southern | 10 | 10 | 2.0 | 1.0 | — | 0 | Season-high 10 tackles |
| Wk 3 | W 33-17@ Purdue | 8 | 8 | 3.0 | 2.0 | — | 0 | 2 sacks |
| Wk 4 | W 45-31vs Michigan State | 6 | 6 | 2.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 5 | L 32-34@ Illinois | 8 | 3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 7 | W 31-13vs Michigan | 6 | 5 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 1 | |
| Wk 8 | L 24-34@ Notre Dame | 7 | 4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 10 | W 21-17@ Nebraska | 8 | 3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 12 | W 26-21vs Iowa | 3 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 13 | L 27-42@ Oregon | 7 | 3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 14 | W 29-10vs UCLA | 5 | 3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 1 | |
| Total | 71 | 49 | 7.0 | 3.0 | — | 2 |
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
2021Arizona State8-4HC: Herm Edwards · Run-heavy
2022USC11-3HC: Lincoln Riley · Balanced
2023USC8-5HC: Lincoln Riley · Pass-leaning, slow tempo
2024USC7-6HC: Lincoln Riley · Pass-leaning
2025USC9-4HC: Lincoln Riley · Balanced
| Season | Team | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | USC | 71 | 49 | 7.0 | 3.0 | 2 | -- | -- |
| 2024 | USC | 33 | 22 | 6.5 | 2.0 | 1 | -- | -- |
| 2023 | USC | 43 | 25 | 3.0 | 1.0 | 3 | 1 | -- |
| 2022 | USC | 60 | 45 | 3.5 | 2.0 | 2 | 1 | -- |
| 2021 | Arizona State | 45 | 26 | 5.0 | 1.0 | 2 | -- | -- |
| Career | 5 loaded seasons | 252 | 167 | 25.0 | 9.0 | 10 | 2 | -- |
Advanced layer Usage, value, and context
Advanced metrics second
Advanced Metrics
Usage, value, and opponent-adjusted context.
TFL, sacks, and QB hurries are grouped together because defensive Heisman cases are usually built on visible havoc, not on tackle counts alone.
Pass breakups, interceptions, and forced fumbles matter because national awards voters respond to plays that change possessions and highlight reels.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Defense | Total tackles | 71 | #253/4942 | 95th pct | Volumevs FBS DEF |
| Defense | TFL | 7.0 | #277/4972 | 94th pct | Disruptionvs FBS DEF |
| Defense | Sacks | 3.0 | #292/4972 | 94th pct | Disruptionvs FBS DEF |
| Defense | Pass breakups | 2 | #792/2184 | 64th pct | Coveragevs FBS DEF |
| Defense | QB hurries | 1 | #1051/1878 | 44th pct | Disruptionvs FBS DEF |
| Defense | Solo tackles | 49 | #82/4584 | 98th 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
Status—Awaiting tracker
The Butkus 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 · 11 games
Home vs Road
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home6g | 5.5 | 0.7 | 0.2 | 0.3 |
| Road5g | 7.6 | 0.6 | 0.4 | 0.0 |
Win vs Loss
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wins8g | 6.1 | 0.9 | 0.4 | 0.2 |
| Losses3g | 7.3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
First half vs Second half
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-76g | 6.8 | 1.2 | 0.5 | 0.2 |
| Weeks 8+5g | 6.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.2 |
Pocket and defense-quality (clean vs. pressure) splits are coming soon.
Savant · Box-rate percentiles
Where this profile ranks vs the LB cohort
81All-Conference
Elite: solo tackles (97th). Strength: tackles (91st).
Percentiles versus same-position peers with enough snaps this season, based on box-score rates.
Advanced Savant · LB · 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.
Advanced opponent-adjusted metrics are coming soon for this player. Selected cohort: P4.
Peer Comparator · Fingerprint match
Three closest profiles by box-rate percentile
Eric GentryUSCJaden DuggerLouisiana· 93% simTJ DotteryOle Miss· 93% simJordan CrookArizona State· 91% sim
Solo tackles
Tackles
Tackles for loss
Sacks
Passes defended
QB hurries
Closest peers by overall box-score percentile profile at the same position.
Player DNA
The Every-Down Linebacker
Leads the team in tackles and rarely leaves the field.
LB
His 2025 production profile sits closest to Eric Gentry’s 2022 season.
Eric Gentry
73%match
#2
Javin Wright
71%
#3
DeMarvion Overshown
NFL Rd 3 · Pk 27
66%
#4
Luke Pirris
65%
#5
Derek Mcdonald
64%
Matches Eric on
Weight
Sack rate
Tackle volume
Differs from Eric on
Class year (higher)
Not enough data yet for this comparison.
As a graduate, his production profile tracks closest to Javin Wright's graduate season at Nebraska (2025).
Javin Wright
76%match
#2
Justin Barron
70%
#3
Seth Coleman
68%
#4
Xavian Sorey Jr.
66%
#5
Brandon George
62%
Matches Javin on
Weight
Sack rate
PD rate
Differs from Javin on
Tackle volume (lower)
Supporting Cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Lincoln Riley
Pass share
50.4%
420 pass / 414 run
Plays / game
64.2
13 games
OL sack rate (allowed)
3.8%
313 dropbacks · PBP
Scheme: Balanced.
Coaching Lineage · 2021–2025
2 coaches2021
Donte Williams
USC
2022era →
Lincoln Riley
USC
2023
Lincoln Riley
USC
2024
Lincoln Riley
USC
2025
Lincoln Riley
USC
Coaching transition mid-career: Donte Williams → Lincoln Riley. 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.
HometownPhiladelphia, PA
Height6'6"
Weight225 lb
Class4
PositionLB
Jersey18
No fields populated yet.
No fields populated yet.
Current teamUSC
ConferenceBig Ten
Joined2025
Career arc5 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 | USC | LB4 | #8149 | #8435 | 0.0% | 0.0% | -- | -- | W16 snapshot | Big Ten |
| 2023 | USC | LB4 | #10401 | #10594 | 0.0% | 0.0% | -- | -- | W19 snapshot | Pac-12 |
| 2022 | USC | LB4 | #4681 | #5106 | 0.0% | 0.0% | -- | -- | W20 snapshot | Pac-12 |
| 2021 | Arizona State | LB4 | #7362 | #7513 | 0.0% | 0.0% | -- | -- | W20 snapshot | Pac-12 |
Roster Timeline
Team, conference, and class by season.
| Season | Team | Conference | Pos | Class | Bio |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | USC | Big Ten | LB | 4 | No. 18 | 6-6 | 225 lb | Philadelphia, PA |
| 2024 | USC | Big Ten | LB | 4 | No. 18 | 6-6 | 225 lb | Philadelphia, PA |
| 2023 | USC | Pac-12 | LB | 4 | No. 18 | 6-6 | 225 lb | Philadelphia, PA |
| 2022 | USC | Pac-12 | LB | 4 | No. 18 | 6-6 | 225 lb | Philadelphia, PA |
| 2021 | Arizona State | Pac-12 | LB | 4 | No. 18 | 6-6 | 225 lb | Philadelphia, PA |