CFB Zeitgeist Score
33
Below cohort in the position cohort. Carried by rush tds at the 80th percentile.
Frank Peasant
Below the discourse floor — the honest stats-only state.
279 RUSH YDS · 7 RUSH TD · 63 CARRIES
2026 Outlook
Returning to Memphis for 2026
2026 Depth chart
Returning starter
Running back · Memphis
Returning around him
- 12% of 2024 offensive production back (Heavy turnover)
- 1 Memphis player drafted to NFL
- Transfer portal: +4 net (51 in / 47 out)
2026 Award watch
No preseason watch lists yet (most drop June 15 – July 15)
Memphis · Last season: 8-5 (AP #22) · Talent rank #59 · 2026 recruiting class #60
RB · MEMPHIS · AMERICAN ATHLETIC
Frank Peasant
- 4
- #22
- 5-11 | 205 lb
- Pensacola, FL
Heisman Heat
#4219
<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
—
CONSENSUS
All-American
—
Player Standing · 17 rungs
Tier 2 · StarterR06 · Starter
Starter. A locked-in starting role.
Not on team2-deepStarterRecognizedEliteApex
Development Trajectory · rushing yards
2020–2025+272%
Up 272% from first season to most-recent.
Career Arc
HS
Recruit
★★★
CFB
College
2 teams
NFL
NFL Draft
—
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 |
|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 3-star | 0.8367 | No. 1654 recruit | HighSchool | Middle Tennessee |
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 Middle Tennessee
Composite
0.8367
#1654 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 Frank Peasant
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 Frank Peasant
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
279Rush yards
63Carries
7Rush TDs
Per game
21.5Rush yards
5Carries
1Rush TDs
Final
279Rush yards
63Carries
7Rush TDs
What made this player interesting
The fast read on the thing that makes this player more than a generic stat line.
Frank Peasant's story is about how role and output meet each other. For Memphis, 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
63 64th
YDS
279 63rd
YPC
4.4 44th
TD
7 92nd
Receiving
REC
9 57th
YDS
11 19th
YPR
1.2 4th
TD
0 70th
Game Log · Week-by-week
2025 season · 13 games
| Wk | Opp | CAR | YDS | AVG | TD | LONG | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | W 45-10vs Chattanooga | 6 | 61 | 10.2 | 1 | 18 | Season-high 61 yds |
| Wk 2 | W 38-16@ Georgia State | 4 | 16 | 4.0 | 0 | 13 | |
| Wk 3 | W 28-7@ Troy | 6 | 39 | 6.5 | 0 | 11 | |
| Wk 4 | W 32-31vs Arkansas | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Wk 5 | W 55-26@ Florida Atlantic | 2 | 3 | 1.5 | 0 | 3 | |
| Wk 6 | W 45-7vs Tulsa | 4 | 16 | 4.0 | 1 | 10 | |
| Wk 8 | L 24-31@ UAB | 1 | 4 | 4.0 | 0 | 4 | |
| Wk 9 | W 34-31vs South Florida | 2 | 26 | 13.0 | 1 | 19 | |
| Wk 10 | W 38-14@ Rice | 10 | 24 | 2.4 | 3 | 9 | 3 rushing TDs |
| Wk 11 | L 32-38vs Tulane | 4 | 18 | 4.5 | 1 | 14 | |
| Wk 12 | L 27-31@ East Carolina | 5 | 17 | 3.4 | 0 | 14 | |
| Wk 14 | L 17-28vs Navy | 6 | 30 | 5.0 | 0 | 19 | |
| Bowl | L 7-31@ NC State | 12 | 25 | 2.1 | 0 | 10 | |
| Total | 63 | 279 | 4.7 | 7 | 19 |
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
2020Middle Tennessee3-6HC: Rick Stockstill · Balanced
2021Middle Tennessee6-6HC: Rick Stockstill · Balanced, fast tempo
2022Middle Tennessee8-5HC: Rick Stockstill · Balanced
2023Middle Tennessee4-8HC: Rick Stockstill · Balanced
2025Memphis8-5HC: Ryan Silverfield · Run-leaning
| Season | Team | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Memphis | 63 | 279 | 4.4 | 7 | -- |
| 2023 | Middle Tennessee | 82 | 306 | 3.7 | 4 | -- |
| 2022 | Middle Tennessee | 182 | 774 | 4.3 | 9 | -- |
| 2021 | Middle Tennessee | 79 | 303 | 3.8 | 3 | -- |
| 2020 | Middle Tennessee | 18 | 75 | 4.2 | 1 | -- |
| Career | 5 loaded seasons | 424 | 1,737 | 4.1 | 24 | -- |
| Season | Team | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Memphis | 9 | 11 | 1.2 | 0 | -- |
| 2023 | Middle Tennessee | 16 | 121 | 7.6 | 0 | -- |
| 2022 | Middle Tennessee | 28 | 286 | 10.2 | 2 | -- |
| 2021 | Middle Tennessee | 6 | 26 | 4.3 | 0 | -- |
| 2020 | Middle Tennessee | 3 | 2 | 0.7 | 0 | -- |
| Career | 5 loaded seasons | 62 | 446 | 7.2 | 2 | -- |
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 | 279 | #274/735 | 63rd pct | Volumevs FBS RB |
| Rushing | Rush TD | 7 | #62/739 | 92nd pct | Scoringvs FBS RB |
| Rushing | Yards / carry | 4.4 | #409/735 | 44th pct | Efficiencyvs FBS RB |
| Receiving | Receptions | 9 | #236/552 | 57th pct | Volumevs FBS RB |
| Receiving | Receiving yards | 11 | #447/548 | 19th pct | Volumevs FBS RB |
| Value | Rushing WEPA | +0.08 | #247/362 | 32nd pct | Opponent-adjusted rushing value | 52 weighted playsvs FBS RB |
| Usage | Role share | 7.7% | #395/738 | 47th pct | Share of team offensevs FBS RB |
| Rushing | Carries | 63 | #264/739 | 64th pct | Volumevs FBS RB |
| Rushing | Rushing LONG | 19 | #413/733 | 44th pct | Metricvs FBS RB |
| Receiving | Receiving LONG | 5 | #482/540 | 11th pct | Metricvs FBS RB |
| Receiving | Yards / catch | 1.2 | #525/548 | 4th pct | Efficiencyvs FBS RB |
| Receiving | Receiving TD | 0 | #169/552 | 70th pct | Scoringvs FBS RB |
| Usage | Rush share | 13.5% | #392/738 | 47th pct | Ground-game usagevs FBS RB |
| Usage | 2nd-down usage | 8.6% | #408/738 | 45th pct | Middle-down loadvs FBS RB |
| Usage | 3rd-down usage | 8.3% | #268/738 | 64th pct | Money-down loadvs FBS RB |
| Usage | Standard-down usage | 8.1% | #424/738 | 43rd pct | Base-situation sharevs FBS RB |
| Usage | Passing-down usage | 6.9% | #355/738 | 52nd pct | Known-passing sharevs FBS RB |
| Usage | 1st-down usage | 6.5% | #479/738 | 35th pct | Early-down loadvs FBS RB |
| Usage | Pass share | 2.0% | #401/738 | 46th pct | Air-game usagevs FBS RB |
| Ball Security | Fumbles lost | 1 | #78/256 | 70th 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 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Home6g | 25.2 | 6.1 | 0.7 |
| Road7g | 18.3 | 3.4 | 0.4 |
Win vs Loss
| YDS/g | YPC | TD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wins8g | 23.1 | 5.2 | 0.8 |
| Losses5g | 18.8 | 3.8 | 0.2 |
First half vs Second half
| YDS/g | YPC | TD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-77g | 22.9 | 4.0 | 0.3 |
| Weeks 8+6g | 19.8 | 5.4 | 0.8 |
Pocket and defense-quality (clean vs. pressure) splits are coming soon.
Savant · Box-rate percentiles
Where this profile ranks vs the RB cohort
33Below cohort
Concern: rec yards (6th).
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_rushing0.08Low (p25–p50) (n=178)
Peer Comparator · Fingerprint match
Three closest profiles by box-rate percentile
Frank PeasantMemphisTae MeadowsTroy· 66% simChavon WrightNorthern Illinois· 64% simJordan GantAkron· 63% sim
Rush TDs
Fumbles lost
Receptions
Yards / carry
Carries
Rush yards
Long run
Rec yards
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 Ronald Awatt’s 2020 season.
Ronald Awatt
52%match
#2
Juwaun Price
51%
#3
Nelson Smith
39%
#4
Anderson Castle
47%
#5
Brian Snead
51%
Matches Ronald on
Weight
Yards / carry
Class year
Differs from Ronald on
Rush TD rate (higher)
Height (lower)
Not enough data yet for this comparison.
Supporting Cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Ryan Silverfield
Pass share
46.9%
412 pass / 466 run
Plays / game
67.5
13 games
OL sack rate (allowed)
11.2%
285 dropbacks · PBP
Scheme: Run-leaning.
Coaching Lineage · 2020–2025
1 coach2020
Ryan Silverfield
Memphis
2021
Ryan Silverfield
Memphis
2022
Ryan Silverfield
Memphis
2023
Ryan Silverfield
Memphis
2025
Ryan Silverfield
Memphis
Played his entire career under Ryan Silverfield.
Bio · Recruiting · Transfer · Roster
Off-field context — switch tabs to drill into recruit profile, transfer arc, or roster timeline.
HometownPensacola, FL
Height5'11"
Weight205 lb
Class4
PositionRB
Jersey22
No fields populated yet.
No fields populated yet.
Current teamMemphis
ConferenceAmerican Athletic
Joined2025
Career arc6 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 | Middle Tennessee | RB4 | #4219 | #4700 | 0.0% | 0.0% | -- | -- | W16 snapshot | Conference USA |
| 2023 | Middle Tennessee | RB4 | #1197 | #1524 | 0.0% | 0.0% | -- | -- | W19 snapshot | Conference USA |
| 2022 | Middle Tennessee | RB4 | #472 | #673 | 0.0% | 0.0% | -- | -- | W20 snapshot | Conference USA |
| 2021 | Middle Tennessee | RB4 | #1146 | #1456 | 0.0% | 0.0% | -- | -- | W20 snapshot | Conference USA |
| 2020 | Middle Tennessee | RB4 | #271 | #313 | 0.0% | 0.0% | -- | -- | W16 snapshot | Conference USA |
Roster Timeline
Team, conference, and class by season.
| Season | Team | Conference | Pos | Class | Bio |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Memphis | American Athletic | RB | 4 | No. 22 | 5-11 | 205 lb | Pensacola, FL |
| 2024 | Middle Tennessee | Conference USA | RB | 4 | No. 22 | 5-11 | 205 lb | Pensacola, FL |
| 2023 | Middle Tennessee | Conference USA | RB | 4 | No. 22 | 5-11 | 205 lb | Pensacola, FL |
| 2022 | Middle Tennessee | Conference USA | RB | 4 | No. 22 | 5-11 | 205 lb | Pensacola, FL |
| 2021 | Middle Tennessee | Conference USA | RB | 4 | No. 22 | 5-11 | 205 lb | Pensacola, FL |
| 2020 | Middle Tennessee | Conference USA | RB | 4 | No. 22 | 5-11 | 205 lb | Pensacola, FL |