CFB Zeitgeist Score
4
Below cohort in the position cohort. Carried by fumbles lost at the 49th percentile.
Jalen Hampton
Below the discourse floor — the honest stats-only state.
27 RUSH YDS · 0 RUSH TD · 11 CARRIES
2026 Outlook
Returning to Western Kentucky for 2026
2026 Depth chart
Returning starter
Running back · Western Kentucky
Returning around him
- 33% of 2024 offensive production back (Moderate turnover)
- Transfer portal: -3 net (19 in / 22 out)
2026 Award watch
No preseason watch lists yet (most drop June 15 – July 15)
Western Kentucky · Last season: 9-4 · Talent rank #100 · 2026 recruiting class #96
RB · WESTERN KENTUCKY · CONFERENCE USA
Jalen Hampton
- 4
- #23
- 5-9 | 206 lb
- Rockville, MD
Heisman Heat
#2774
<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
Career Arc
HS
Recruit
★★★
CFB
College
Western Kentucky
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 | 0.8552 | No. 1063 recruit | HighSchool |
Transfer Arc
Portal movement changes role, context, and perception. This keeps that path in one place.
| Season | Move | Context |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Elon -> Western Kentucky | 3-star | Immediate |
| 2022 | Virginia Tech -> Elon | 3-star | 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 —
Composite
0.8552
#1063 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 Jalen Hampton
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 Jalen Hampton
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 3g
27Rush yards
11Carries
0Rush TDs
Per game
9Rush yards
4Carries
0Rush TDs
Projected (13g)
117Rush yards
48Carries
0Rush TDs
To hit 750-yard season (currently 27): needs 72.3/game over remaining 10.
To hit 1,000-yard season (currently 27): needs 97.3/game over remaining 10.
To hit 1,500-yard season (currently 27): needs 147.3/game over remaining 10.
To hit 10 rushing TDs (currently 0): needs 1/game over remaining 10.
To hit 15 rushing TDs (currently 0): needs 1.5/game over remaining 10.
To hit 20 rushing TDs (currently 0): needs 2/game over remaining 10.
What made this player interesting
The fast read on the thing that makes this player more than a generic stat line.
Jalen Hampton's story is about how role and output meet each other. For Western Kentucky, 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
11 29th
YDS
27 21st
YPC
2.5 9th
TD
0 40th
Game Log · Week-by-week
2025 season · 3 games
| Wk | Opp | CAR | YDS | AVG | TD | LONG | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | W 55-6vs North Alabama | 6 | 18 | 3.0 | 0 | 6 | Season-high 18 yds |
| Wk 6 | W 27-24@ Delaware | — | — | — | — | — | |
| Wk 10 | W 35-16vs New Mexico State | 5 | 9 | 1.8 | 0 | 7 | |
| Total | 11 | 27 | 2.4 | 0 | 7 |
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
2025Western Kentucky9-4HC: Tyson Helton · Balanced
| Season | Team | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Western Kentucky | 11 | 27 | 2.5 | 0 | -- |
| Career | 1 loaded season | 11 | 27 | 2.5 | 0 | -- |
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 | 27 | #579/735 | 21st pct | Volumevs FBS RB |
| Rushing | Rush TD | 0 | #447/739 | 40th pct | Scoringvs FBS RB |
| Rushing | Yards / carry | 2.5 | #667/735 | 9th pct | Efficiencyvs FBS RB |
| Usage | Role share | 6.6% | #461/738 | 38th pct | Share of team offensevs FBS RB |
| Rushing | Carries | 11 | #525/739 | 29th pct | Volumevs FBS RB |
| Rushing | Rushing LONG | 7 | #632/733 | 14th pct | Metricvs FBS RB |
| Usage | Rush share | 14.7% | #359/738 | 51st pct | Ground-game usagevs FBS RB |
| Usage | 1st-down usage | 8.7% | #397/738 | 46th pct | Early-down loadvs FBS RB |
| Usage | 2nd-down usage | 7.8% | #432/738 | 42nd pct | Middle-down loadvs FBS RB |
| Usage | Standard-down usage | 7.2% | #467/738 | 37th pct | Base-situation sharevs FBS RB |
| Usage | Passing-down usage | 4.9% | #456/738 | 38th pct | Known-passing sharevs FBS RB |
| Usage | 3rd-down usage | 0.0% | #622/738 | 16th pct | Money-down loadvs FBS RB |
| Usage | Pass share | 0.0% | #564/738 | 24th 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 · 3 games
Home vs Road
| YDS/g | YPC | TD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Home2g | 13.5 | 2.4 | 0.0 |
| Road1g | — | — | — |
Win vs Loss
| YDS/g | YPC | TD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wins3g | 9.0 | 2.4 | 0.0 |
First half vs Second half
| YDS/g | YPC | TD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-72g | 9.0 | 3.0 | 0.0 |
| Weeks 8+1g | 9.0 | 1.8 | 0.0 |
Pocket and defense-quality (clean vs. pressure) splits are coming soon.
Savant · Box-rate percentiles
Where this profile ranks vs the RB cohort
4Below cohort
Concern: carries (0th).
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.
Advanced opponent-adjusted metrics are coming soon for this player. Selected cohort: P4.
Peer Comparator · Fingerprint match
Three closest profiles by box-rate percentile
Jalen HamptonWestern KentuckyTae MeadowsTroy· 41% simSeth McGowanKentucky· 39% simAl-Jay HendersonBuffalo· 39% sim
Fumbles lost
Rush TDs
Yards / carry
Rush yards
Long run
Carries
Closest peers by overall box-score percentile profile at the same position.
Supporting Cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Tyson Helton
Pass share
54.9%
492 pass / 404 run
Plays / game
68.9
13 games
OL sack rate (allowed)
5.5%
366 dropbacks · PBP
Scheme: Balanced.
Coaching Lineage · 2025
1 coach2025
Tyson Helton
Western Kentucky
Played his entire career under Tyson Helton.
Bio · Recruiting · Transfer · Roster
Off-field context — switch tabs to drill into recruit profile, transfer arc, or roster timeline.
HometownRockville, MD
Height5'9"
Weight206 lb
Class4
PositionRB
Jersey23
No fields populated yet.
No fields populated yet.
Current teamWestern Kentucky
ConferenceConference USA
Joined2025
Career arc3 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 | Western Kentucky | RB4 | #2774 | #2658 | 0.0% | 0.0% | -- | -- | W16 snapshot | Conference USA |
| 2021 | Virginia Tech | RB4 | #2487 | #2413 | 0.0% | 0.0% | -- | -- | W20 snapshot | ACC |
Roster Timeline
Team, conference, and class by season.
| Season | Team | Conference | Pos | Class | Bio |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Western Kentucky | Conference USA | RB | 4 | No. 23 | 5-9 | 206 lb | Rockville, MD |
| 2024 | Western Kentucky | Conference USA | RB | 4 | No. 23 | 5-9 | 206 lb | Rockville, MD |
| 2021 | Virginia Tech | ACC | RB | 4 | No. 23 | 5-9 | 206 lb | Rockville, MD |