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Heisman / Players / Giuseppe Sessi /Navy

Giuseppe Sessi

S · Navy · Jr · #16

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

81 TACKLES · 0 SACKS

2026 RETURNINGReturning to Navy for 2026

2026 Outlook

Returning to Navy for 2026

2026 Depth chart

Projected starter

Safety · Navy

Returning around him

  • 97% of 2024 offensive production back (Strong continuity)
  • 2 Navy players drafted to NFL
  • Transfer portal: -3 net (0 in / 3 out)

2026 Award watch

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

Navy · Last season: 11-2 (AP #22) · 2026 recruiting class #131

S · NAVY · AMERICAN ATHLETIC

Giuseppe Sessi

  • 3
  • #16
  • 5-11 | 204 lb
  • San Antonio, TX

CFB Zeitgeist Score

40

Mid-pack in the position cohort. Carried by solo tackles at the 97th percentile.

Heisman Heat

#9664

<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
Navy
2024–2025
NFL
NFL Draft
Not drafted (yet)

Identity & Role

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

PositionS
Class3
Jersey16
Measurements5-11 | 204 lb
HometownSan Antonio, TX
Primary teamNavy

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#9664Latest modeled ballot order
Season forecast#9308Where 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 Giuseppe Sessi

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 Giuseppe Sessi

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
81Tackles
0.5Tackles for loss
0Sacks
Per game
6Tackles
0Tackles for loss
0Sacks
Final
81Tackles
0.5Tackles for loss
0Sacks

✓ Hit 80-tackle season · finished with 81.

Why this is a rare defensive case

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

Giuseppe Sessi is trying to climb the steepest award hill in college football: a defensive candidacy. The hook is the disruption profile on Navy's defense, with 0.0 sacks, 0.5 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.

Current place #9664 0.0% win | 0.0% finalist
Role load -- Role share still loading
Profile quirk Defensive rarity 0.0 sacks | 0.5 TFL

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 81 50 solo | #135/4942 (97th pct)
TFL 0.5 Backfield disruption | #2658/4972 (47th 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?

High-volume tackler against FBS defenders.

High-volume tackler

2025 Season · Final

2025 season snapshot | final

Tackling & Disruption

TOT
81 97th
SOLO
50 98th
TFL
0.5 47th
SACK
0.0 65th

Game Log · Week-by-week

2025 season · 13 games

Box score · CFBD
WkOppTKLSOLOTFLSACKINTPDNote
Wk 1W 52-7vs VMI310.00.00
Wk 2W 38-24vs UAB530.00.00
Wk 3W 42-23@ Tulsa310.00.00
Wk 5W 21-13vs Rice510.00.00
Wk 6W 34-31vs Air Force640.00.00
Wk 7W 32-31@ Temple1180.50.00Season-high 11 tackles
Wk 9W 42-32vs Florida Atlantic750.00.00
Wk 10L 17-31@ North Texas1060.00.00
Wk 11L 10-49@ Notre Dame740.00.00
Wk 12W 41-38vs South Florida840.00.00
Wk 14W 28-17@ Memphis850.00.00
Wk 16W 17-16vs Army330.00.00
BowlW 35-13@ Cincinnati550.00.00
Total81500.50.00
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

2024Navy10-3HC: Brian Newberry · Run-heavy
2025Navy11-2HC: Brian Newberry · Run-heavy
SeasonTeam
2025Navy81500.50.0------
2024Navy1590.00.0------
Career2 loaded seasons96590.50.0------
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 -- -- pick-six TD
Pass breakups 0 Coverage disruption
QB pressures 0 Quarterback hurries
Open full stat explorer
0 metrics visible Showing all metrics
Group Metric Value Rank Pct Why it matters
Defense Total tackles 81 #135/4942 97th pct Volumevs FBS DEF
Defense TFL 0.5 #2658/4972 47th pct Disruptionvs FBS DEF
Defense Sacks 0.0 #1762/4972 65th pct Disruptionvs FBS DEF
Defense Solo tackles 50 #77/4584 98th pct Volumevs FBS DEF
Defense Fumbles recovered 1 #103/736 86th pct Takeawaysvs FBS DEF
Ball Security Fumbles lost 0 #1/773 100th pct Turnoversvs 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
Home7g5.30.00.00.0
Road6g7.30.10.00.0

Win vs Loss

TKL/gTFL/gSACK/gPD/g
Wins11g5.80.00.00.0
Losses2g8.50.00.00.0

First half vs Second half

TKL/gTFL/gSACK/gPD/g
Weeks 1-77g5.40.10.00.0
Weeks 8+6g7.20.00.00.0

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

Savant · Box-rate percentiles

Where this profile ranks vs the S cohort

40Mid-pack
7 metrics · season cumulative

Elite: solo tackles (97th). Strength: tackles (95th). Concern: passes defended (17th).

Solo tackles#77 / 2975 · 97th pct
50defe
Tackles#135 / 2975 · 95th pct
81defe
Forced fumbles#36 / 687 · 47th pct
0fumb
Sacks#1575 / 2975 · 24th pct
0.0defe
QB hurries#1662 / 2975 · 22nd pct
0defe
Tackles for loss#2332 / 2975 · 18th pct
0.5defe
Passes defended#1916 / 2975 · 18th pct
0defe

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

Advanced Savant · S · 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
Giuseppe SessiNavyTyler MartinMassachusetts· 75% simTahj Ra-ElPurdue· 69% simJonJon VaughnsUCLA· 68% sim
Solo tackles
97
Sessi
87
Martin
100
Ra-El
96
Vaughns
Tackles
95
Sessi
98
Martin
99
Ra-El
99
Vaughns
Forced fumbles
47
Sessi
47
Martin
47
Ra-El
47
Vaughns
Sacks
24
Sessi
24
Martin
24
Ra-El
63
Vaughns
QB hurries
22
Sessi
22
Martin
22
Ra-El
22
Vaughns
Tackles for loss
18
Sessi
63
Martin
56
Ra-El
85
Vaughns
Passes defended
18
Sessi
67
Martin
91
Ra-El
48
Vaughns

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

Player DNA

The Box Safety

Lives near the line of scrimmage as a de facto extra linebacker.

S

His 2025 production profile sits closest to Eric Monroe’s 2021 season.

Eric Monroe

86%match

Texas Tech · 2021

#2

Sean Mahone

West Virginia · 2021

85%
#3

Trey Washington

Ole Miss · 2023

85%
#4

Fred Peters

Mississippi State · 2021

84%
#5

Louis Moore

Indiana · 2023

82%

Matches Eric on

Tackle volume
Height
Weight

Not enough data yet for this comparison.

As a sophomore, his production profile tracks closest to Jammie Robinson's sophomore season at Florida State (2021).

Jammie Robinson

79%match

Florida State · 2021

All-ACCNFL Rd 5
#2

Nephi Sewell

Utah · 2021

78%
#3

Omar Thornton

Boston College · 2025

78%
#4

Louis Moore

Indiana · 2023

All-Big Ten
77%
#5

Durante Jones

UConn · 2022

76%

Matches Jammie on

Class year
Height
Weight

Supporting Cast · Scheme

Staff and system around the player

2025 season

Head Coach

Brian Newberry

Pass share

22.5%

182 pass / 626 run

Plays / game

62.2

13 games

OL sack rate (allowed)

7.2%

138 dropbacks · PBP

Scheme: Run-heavy.

Coaching Lineage · 2024–2025

1 coach
2024
Brian Newberry
Navy
2025
Brian Newberry
Navy

Played his entire career under Brian Newberry.

Bio · Recruiting · Transfer · Roster

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

HometownSan Antonio, TX
Height5'11"
Weight204 lb
Class3
PositionS
Jersey16

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 Navy S3 #9664 #9308 0.0% 0.0% -- -- W16 snapshot | American Athletic
2023 Navy S3 #13755 #13653 0.0% 0.0% -- -- W19 snapshot | American Athletic

Roster Timeline

Team, conference, and class by season.

Season Team Conference Pos Class Bio
2025 Navy American Athletic S 3 No. 16 | 5-11 | 204 lb | San Antonio, TX
2024 Navy American Athletic S 3 No. 16 | 5-11 | 204 lb | San Antonio, TX
2023 Navy American Athletic S 3 No. 16 | 5-11 | 204 lb | San Antonio, TX