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Heisman / Players / Jahari Rogers /Colorado State

Jahari Rogers

DB · Colorado State · Sr · #4

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

31 TACKLES · 0.5 SACKS

2026 RETURNINGReturning to Colorado State for 2026

2026 Outlook

Returning to Colorado State for 2026

2026 Depth chart

Projected starter

Defensive back · Colorado State

Returning around him

  • 50% of 2024 offensive production back (Solid continuity)
  • Transfer portal: -7 net (31 in / 38 out)

2026 Award watch

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

Colorado State · Last season: 2-10 · Talent rank #92 · 2026 recruiting class #106

DB · COLORADO STATE · MOUNTAIN WEST

Jahari Rogers

  • 4
  • #4
  • 6-0 | 190 lb
  • Arlington, TX

CFB Zeitgeist Score

60

Solid starter in the position cohort. Carried by passes defended at the 98th percentile.

Heisman Heat

#6235

<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 1 · 2-deep

R04 · Rotational

Rotational. Earning real snaps in the rotation.

Not on team2-deepStarterRecognizedEliteApex

Career Arc

HS
Recruit
★★★★
#87 national
CFB
College
2 teams
2021–2025
NFL
NFL Draft
Not drafted (yet)

Identity & Role

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

PositionDB
Class4
Jersey4
Measurements6-0 | 190 lb
HometownArlington, TX
Primary teamColorado State

Recruiting Pedigree

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

Top pedigree 4-star No. 87 recruit
Composite rating 0.9630 HighSchool
Signed with Florida 2020
Origin Arlington Arlington, TX, USA
Class Profile Context
2020 4-star | 0.9630 No. 87 recruit | HighSchool | Florida

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#6235Latest modeled ballot order
Season forecast#6266Where 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 Florida

Composite

0.9630

#87 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

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 Jahari Rogers

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 Jahari Rogers

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

projecting to 13-game
Through 12g
31Tackles
3.5Tackles for loss
0.5Sacks
Per game
3Tackles
0.3Tackles for loss
0Sacks
Projected (13g)
34Tackles
3.8Tackles for loss
0.5Sacks

To hit 80-tackle season (currently 31): needs 49/game over remaining 1.

To hit 100-tackle season (currently 31): needs 69/game over remaining 1.

To hit 6-sack season (currently 0.5): needs 5.5/game over remaining 1.

To hit 10-sack season (currently 0.5): needs 9.5/game over remaining 1.

Why this is a rare defensive case

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

Jahari Rogers is trying to climb the steepest award hill in college football: a defensive candidacy. The hook is the disruption profile on Colorado State's defense, with 0.5 sacks, 3.5 tackles for loss, and 1 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 #6235 0.0% win | 0.0% finalist
Role load -- Role share still loading
Profile quirk Blue-chip pedigree No. 87 recruit

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 31 21 solo | #1302/4942 (74th pct)
TFL 3.5 Backfield disruption | #869/4972 (83rd pct)
Sacks 0.5 Pass-rush finish | #1501/4972 (70th pct)
Player identity What kind of player is this?

30-second read

What kind of player is this?

Coverage splash against FBS defenders.

Coverage splash

2025 Season · Final

2025 season snapshot | final

Tackling & Disruption

TOT
31 74th
SOLO
21 79th
TFL
3.5 83rd
SACK
0.5 70th
QBH
1 44th

Coverage & Takeaways

PD
8 98th
INT
1 65th

Game Log · Week-by-week

2025 season · 12 games

Box score · CFBD
WkOppTKLSOLOTFLSACKINTPDNote
Wk 1L 21-38@ Washington110.00.01
Wk 2W 21-17vs Northern Colorado510.00.011Season-high 5 tackles
Wk 4L 16-17vs UTSA441.00.00
Wk 5L 3-20vs Washington State320.00.02
Wk 6L 24-45@ San Diego State220.00.00
Wk 7W 49-21vs Fresno State210.50.51
Wk 8L 19-31vs Hawai'i530.00.01
Wk 9L 0-28@ Wyoming111.00.01
Wk 11L 10-42vs UNLV210.00.01
Wk 12L 17-20@ New Mexico331.00.00
Wk 13L 21-49@ Boise State110.00.00
Wk 14L 21-42vs Air Force210.00.00
Total31213.50.518
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

2021SMU8-4HC: Jim Leavitt · Balanced
2022SMU7-6HC: Rhett Lashlee · Balanced, fast tempo
2023SMU11-3HC: Rhett Lashlee · Run-leaning
2024SMU11-3HC: Rhett Lashlee · Run-leaning
2025Colorado State2-10HC: Jay Norvell · Balanced
SeasonTeam
2025Colorado State31213.50.581--
2024SMU330.00.03----
2023SMU16151.00.0--1--
2022SMU24191.00.032--
2021SMU26240.00.08----
Career5 loaded seasons100825.50.5224--
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 1 0 pick-six TD | #308/869 (65th pct)
Pass breakups 8 Coverage disruption | #45/2184 (98th pct)
QB pressures 1 Quarterback hurries | #1051/1878 (44th pct)
Open full stat explorer
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Group Metric Value Rank Pct Why it matters
Defense Total tackles 31 #1302/4942 74th pct Volumevs FBS DEF
Defense TFL 3.5 #869/4972 83rd pct Disruptionvs FBS DEF
Defense Sacks 0.5 #1501/4972 70th pct Disruptionvs FBS DEF
Defense Interceptions 1 #308/869 65th pct Takeawaysvs FBS DEF
Defense Pass breakups 8 #45/2184 98th pct Coveragevs FBS DEF
Defense QB hurries 1 #1051/1878 44th pct Disruptionvs FBS DEF
Defense Solo tackles 21 #959/4584 79th pct Volumevs FBS DEF
Defense INT return avg 16.0 #267/578 54th pct Takeawaysvs FBS DEF
Defense INT return yards 16 #350/578 40th pct Takeawaysvs 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 · 12 games

Home/Road · Win/Loss · Season halves

Home vs Road

TKL/gTFL/gSACK/gPD/g
Home7g3.30.20.10.9
Road5g1.60.40.00.4

Win vs Loss

TKL/gTFL/gSACK/gPD/g
Wins2g3.50.20.21.0
Losses10g2.40.30.00.6

First half vs Second half

TKL/gTFL/gSACK/gPD/g
Weeks 1-76g2.80.20.10.8
Weeks 8+6g2.30.30.00.5

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

Savant · Box-rate percentiles

Where this profile ranks vs the DB cohort

60Solid starter
7 metrics · season cumulative

Elite: passes defended (97th).

Passes defended#45 / 2975 · 98th pct
8defe
Tackles for loss#866 / 2975 · 69th pct
3.5defe
Solo tackles#959 / 2975 · 67th pct
21defe
Tackles#1302 / 2975 · 55th pct
31defe
QB hurries#1007 / 2975 · 55th pct
1defe
Sacks#1367 / 2975 · 51st pct
0.5defe
Interceptions#304 / 817 · 31st pct
1inte

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

Advanced Savant · DB · 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
Jahari RogersColorado StateKeaton ThomasBaylor· 76% simRobert FitzgeraldNorthwestern· 76% simBaron HopsonKennesaw State· 76% sim
Passes defended
98
Rogers
78
Thomas
86
Fitzgerald
94
Hopson
Tackles for loss
69
Rogers
90
Thomas
85
Fitzgerald
96
Hopson
Solo tackles
67
Rogers
99
Thomas
100
Fitzgerald
100
Hopson
Tackles
55
Rogers
98
Thomas
99
Fitzgerald
100
Hopson
QB hurries
55
Rogers
55
Thomas
55
Fitzgerald
72
Hopson
Sacks
51
Rogers
63
Thomas
24
Fitzgerald
51
Hopson
Interceptions
31
Rogers
31
Thomas
31
Fitzgerald
31
Hopson

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

Player DNA

The Centerfielder

Single-high range who erases the deep middle of the field.

S

His 2025 production profile sits closest to Decorian Patterson’s 2021 season.

Decorian Patterson

87%match

Middle Tennessee · 2021

#2

Marcellas Dial

South Carolina · 2023

All-SECNFL Rd 6
85%
#3

Ahmari Harvey

Georgia Tech · 2025

85%
#4

Jaden Robinson

Oregon State · 2023

81%
#5

Justin Walley

Minnesota · 2021

NFL Rd 3 · Pk 16
82%

Matches Decorian on

PD rate
Weight
Interceptions

Differs from Decorian on

Class year (higher)

Not enough data yet for this comparison.

Supporting Cast · Scheme

Staff and system around the player

2025 season

Head Coach

Jay Norvell

Pass share

52.1%

393 pass / 362 run

Plays / game

62.9

12 games

OL sack rate (allowed)

11.1%

315 dropbacks · PBP

Scheme: Balanced.

Coaching Lineage · 2021–2025

2 coaches
2021
Steve Addazio
Colorado State
2022
Jay Norvell
Colorado State
era →
2023
Jay Norvell
Colorado State
2024
Jay Norvell
Colorado State
2025
Jay Norvell
Colorado State

Coaching transition mid-career: Steve Addazio → Jay Norvell. 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.

HometownArlington, TX
Height6'0"
Weight190 lb
Class4
PositionDB
Jersey4

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 SMU DB4 #6235 #6266 0.0% 0.0% -- -- W16 snapshot | ACC
2023 SMU DB4 #7793 #7677 0.0% 0.0% -- -- W19 snapshot | American Athletic
2022 SMU DB4 #12009 #12282 0.0% 0.0% -- -- W20 snapshot | American Athletic
2021 SMU DB4 #10043 #9966 0.0% 0.0% -- -- W20 snapshot | American Athletic

Roster Timeline

Team, conference, and class by season.

Season Team Conference Pos Class Bio
2025 Colorado State Mountain West DB 4 No. 4 | 6-0 | 190 lb | Arlington, TX
2024 SMU ACC DB 4 No. 4 | 6-0 | 190 lb | Arlington, TX
2023 SMU American Athletic DB 4 No. 4 | 6-0 | 190 lb | Arlington, TX
2022 SMU American Athletic DB 4 No. 4 | 6-0 | 190 lb | Arlington, TX
2021 SMU American Athletic DB 4 No. 4 | 6-0 | 190 lb | Arlington, TX