CFB Zeitgeist Score
39
Mid-pack in the position cohort. Carried by rush tds at the 50th percentile.
Isaiah Jacobs
Below the discourse floor — the honest stats-only state.
342 RUSH YDS · 4 RUSH TD · 79 CARRIES
2026 Outlook
Returning to UAB for 2026
2026 Depth chart
Returning starter
Running back · UAB
Returning around him
- 73% of 2024 offensive production back (Strong continuity)
- Transfer portal: +5 net (38 in / 33 out)
2026 Award watch
No preseason watch lists yet (most drop June 15 – July 15)
UAB · Last season: 4-8 · Talent rank #103 · 2026 recruiting class #125
RB · UAB · AMERICAN ATHLETIC
Isaiah Jacobs
- 4
- #3
- 5-10 | 220 lb
- Tulsa, OK
Heisman Heat
#1428
<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 · StarterR05 · Part-time starter
Part-time starter. Splitting first-team reps.
Not on team2-deepStarterRecognizedEliteApex
Development Trajectory · rushing yards
2021–2025+195%
Up 195% from first season to most-recent.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 3-star | 0.8833 | No. 478 recruit | HighSchool | Maryland |
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 Maryland
Composite
0.8833
#478 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 Isaiah Jacobs
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 Isaiah Jacobs
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 12g
342Rush yards
79Carries
4Rush TDs
Per game
28.5Rush yards
7Carries
0Rush TDs
Projected (13g)
370.5Rush yards
86Carries
4Rush TDs
To hit 750-yard season (currently 342): needs 408/game over remaining 1.
To hit 1,000-yard season (currently 342): needs 658/game over remaining 1.
To hit 1,500-yard season (currently 342): needs 1,158/game over remaining 1.
To hit 10 rushing TDs (currently 4): needs 6/game over remaining 1.
To hit 15 rushing TDs (currently 4): needs 11/game over remaining 1.
To hit 20 rushing TDs (currently 4): needs 16/game over remaining 1.
What made this player interesting
The fast read on the thing that makes this player more than a generic stat line.
Isaiah Jacobs's story is about how role and output meet each other. For UAB, 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?
Passing-game back against FBS RB peers.
2025 Season · Final
2025 season snapshot | final
Rushing
CAR
79 71st
YDS
342 68th
YPC
4.3 41st
TD
4 79th
Receiving
REC
15 75th
YDS
82 64th
YPR
5.5 33rd
TD
1 89th
Game Log · Week-by-week
2025 season · 12 games
| Wk | Opp | CAR | YDS | AVG | TD | LONG | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | W 52-42vs Alabama State | 8 | 42 | 5.3 | 1 | 21 | |
| Wk 2 | L 24-38@ Navy | 5 | 16 | 3.2 | 0 | 9 | |
| Wk 3 | W 31-28vs Akron | 6 | 37 | 6.2 | 0 | 15 | |
| Wk 4 | L 24-56@ Tennessee | 6 | 19 | 3.2 | 1 | 6 | |
| Wk 6 | L 13-31vs Army | 2 | 8 | 4.0 | 0 | 6 | |
| Wk 7 | L 33-53@ Florida Atlantic | 9 | 32 | 3.6 | 0 | 8 | |
| Wk 8 | W 31-24vs Memphis | 8 | 24 | 3.0 | 0 | 13 | |
| Wk 10 | L 19-38@ UConn | 3 | 12 | 4.0 | 0 | 6 | |
| Wk 11 | L 17-24@ Rice | 3 | 6 | 2.0 | 0 | 3 | |
| Wk 12 | L 24-53vs North Texas | 9 | 24 | 2.7 | 1 | 6 | |
| Wk 13 | L 18-48vs South Florida | 6 | 38 | 6.3 | 1 | 16 | |
| Wk 14 | W 31-24@ Tulsa | 14 | 84 | 6.0 | 0 | 23 | Season-high 84 yds |
| Total | 79 | 342 | 4.1 | 4 | 23 |
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
2021Maryland6-6HC: Mike Locksley · Balanced, fast tempo
2023UAB4-8HC: Trent Dilfer · Balanced
2024UAB3-9HC: Trent Dilfer · Balanced
2025UAB4-8HC: Trent Dilfer · Balanced
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 | 342 | #238/735 | 68th pct | Volumevs FBS RB |
| Rushing | Rush TD | 4 | #154/739 | 79th pct | Scoringvs FBS RB |
| Rushing | Yards / carry | 4.3 | #435/735 | 41st pct | Efficiencyvs FBS RB |
| Receiving | Receptions | 15 | #140/552 | 75th pct | Volumevs FBS RB |
| Receiving | Receiving yards | 82 | #201/548 | 64th pct | Volumevs FBS RB |
| Value | Rushing WEPA | +0.06 | #279/362 | 23rd pct | Opponent-adjusted rushing value | 69 weighted playsvs FBS RB |
| Usage | Role share | 11.6% | #267/738 | 64th pct | Share of team offensevs FBS RB |
| Rushing | Carries | 79 | #213/739 | 71st pct | Volumevs FBS RB |
| Rushing | Rushing LONG | 23 | #358/733 | 51st pct | Metricvs FBS RB |
| Receiving | Receiving LONG | 23 | #190/540 | 65th pct | Metricvs FBS RB |
| Receiving | Yards / catch | 5.5 | #370/548 | 33rd pct | Efficiencyvs FBS RB |
| Receiving | Receiving TD | 1 | #60/552 | 89th pct | Scoringvs FBS RB |
| Returns | Kick return yards | 56 | #95/200 | 53rd pct | Volumevs FBS RB |
| Returns | Kick return avg | 18.7 | #98/199 | 51st pct | Efficiencyvs FBS RB |
| Returns | Kick returns | 3 | #85/206 | 59th pct | Volumevs FBS RB |
| Usage | Rush share | 21.1% | #246/738 | 67th pct | Ground-game usagevs FBS RB |
| Usage | Standard-down usage | 13.5% | #253/738 | 66th pct | Base-situation sharevs FBS RB |
| Usage | 2nd-down usage | 12.5% | #251/738 | 66th pct | Middle-down loadvs FBS RB |
| Usage | 1st-down usage | 12.1% | #296/738 | 60th pct | Early-down loadvs FBS RB |
| Usage | 3rd-down usage | 9.7% | #214/738 | 71st pct | Money-down loadvs FBS RB |
| Usage | Passing-down usage | 7.5% | #323/738 | 56th pct | Known-passing sharevs FBS RB |
| Usage | Pass share | 4.5% | #188/738 | 75th 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 · 12 games
Home vs Road
| YDS/g | YPC | TD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Home6g | 28.8 | 4.6 | 0.5 |
| Road6g | 28.2 | 3.7 | 0.2 |
Win vs Loss
| YDS/g | YPC | TD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wins4g | 46.8 | 5.1 | 0.2 |
| Losses8g | 19.4 | 3.6 | 0.4 |
First half vs Second half
| YDS/g | YPC | TD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-76g | 25.7 | 4.2 | 0.3 |
| Weeks 8+6g | 31.3 | 4.0 | 0.3 |
Pocket and defense-quality (clean vs. pressure) splits are coming soon.
Savant · Box-rate percentiles
Where this profile ranks vs the RB cohort
39Mid-pack
Elite: fumbles lost (86th). Concern: long run (16th).
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_rushing0.06Below (<p25) (n=178)
Peer Comparator · Fingerprint match
Three closest profiles by box-rate percentile
Isaiah JacobsUABTae MeadowsTroy· 70% simKamari MoultonIowa· 69% simSeth McGowanKentucky· 68% sim
Fumbles lost
Receptions
Rush TDs
Rec yards
Carries
Rush yards
Yards / carry
Long run
Closest peers by overall box-score percentile profile at the same position.
Player DNA
The Workhorse
Built to take 20+ carries per game. Volume is the value.
RB
His 2025 production profile sits closest to B.J. Smith’s 2021 season.
B.J. Smith
80%match
#2
Toa Taua
77%
#3
Cody Schrader
72%
#4
Cam Porter
71%
#5
British Brooks
70%
Matches B.J. on
Rush TD rate
Receiving share
Weight
Not enough data yet for this comparison.
As a graduate, his production profile tracks closest to Tavierre Dunlap's graduate season at Eastern Michigan (2025).
Tavierre Dunlap
77%match
#2
Rashad Amos
All-MAC
72%
#3
Oscar Adaway III
72%
#4
Marcus Major
71%
#5
George Hart III
70%
Matches Tavierre on
Yards / carry
Total rush EPA (college ability)
Weight
Differs from Tavierre on
Height (lower)
Supporting Cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Trent Dilfer
Pass share
53.0%
438 pass / 389 run
Plays / game
68.9
12 games
OL sack rate (allowed)
8.5%
352 dropbacks · PBP
Scheme: Balanced.
Coaching Lineage · 2021–2025
2 coaches2021
Bill Clark
UAB
2023era →
Trent Dilfer
UAB
2024
Trent Dilfer
UAB
2025
Trent Dilfer
UAB
Coaching transition mid-career: Bill Clark → Trent Dilfer. 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.
HometownTulsa, OK
Height5'10"
Weight220 lb
Class4
PositionRB
Jersey3
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Current teamUAB
ConferenceAmerican Athletic
Joined2025
Career arc4 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.
Roster Timeline
Team, conference, and class by season.