CFB Zeitgeist Score
19
Below cohort in the position cohort. Carried by tackles for loss at the 28th percentile.
Jaylon White-McClain
Below the discourse floor — the honest stats-only state.
14 TACKLES · 0 SACKS
2026 Outlook
Returning to Cincinnati for 2026
2026 Depth chart
Projected starter
Defensive line · Cincinnati
Returning around him
- 79% of 2024 offensive production back (Strong continuity)
- 4 Cincinnati players drafted to NFL
- Transfer portal: -1 net (22 in / 23 out)
2026 Award watch
No preseason watch lists yet (most drop June 15 – July 15)
Cincinnati · Last season: 7-6 (AP #22) · Talent rank #73 · 2026 recruiting class #61
DL · CINCINNATI · BIG 12
Jaylon White-McClain
- 3
- #16
- 6-4 | 273 lb
- Virginia Beach, VA
Heisman Heat
#13559
<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 DEFENSE AWARD
Nagurski
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CONSENSUS
All-American
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Player Standing · 17 rungs
Tier 1 · 2-deepR04 · Rotational
Rotational. Earning real snaps in the rotation.
Not on team2-deepStarterRecognizedEliteApex
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 |
|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 3-star | 0.8052 | No. 2073 recruit | HighSchool | Old Dominion |
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 Old Dominion
Composite
0.8052
#2073 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 Jaylon White-McClain
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 Jaylon White-McClain
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 defensive totals stand
Through 9g
14Tackles
1Tackles for loss
0Sacks
Per game
2Tackles
0.1Tackles for loss
0Sacks
Projected (13g)
20Tackles
1.4Tackles for loss
0Sacks
To hit 80-tackle season (currently 14): needs 16.5/game over remaining 4.
To hit 100-tackle season (currently 14): needs 21.5/game over remaining 4.
To hit 6-sack season (currently 0): needs 1.5/game over remaining 4.
To hit 10-sack season (currently 0): needs 2.5/game over remaining 4.
Why this is a rare defensive case
The fast read on the thing that makes this player more than a generic stat line.
Jaylon White-McClain is trying to climb the steepest award hill in college football: a defensive candidacy. The hook is the disruption profile on Cincinnati's defense, with 0.0 sacks, 1.0 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.
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
Player identity What kind of player is this?
30-second read
What kind of player is this?
Defensive contributor against FBS defenders.
2025 Season · Final
2025 season snapshot | final
Tackling & Disruption
TOT
14 50th
SOLO
1 13th
TFL
1.0 59th
SACK
0.0 65th
Game Log · Week-by-week
2025 season · 9 games
| Wk | Opp | TKL | SOLO | TFL | SACK | INT | PD | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | L 17-20vs Nebraska | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | Season-high 3 tackles |
| Wk 2 | W 34-20vs Bowling Green | 2 | 0 | 0.5 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 3 | W 70-0vs Northwestern State | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 6 | W 38-30vs Iowa State | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 7 | W 20-11vs UCF | 2 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 8 | W 49-17@ Oklahoma State | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 12 | L 24-30vs Arizona | 1 | 0 | 0.5 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 14 | L 23-45@ TCU | 2 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Bowl | L 13-35vs Navy | 3 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Total | 14 | 1 | 1.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 |
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
2022Old Dominion3-9HC: Ricky Rahne · Pass-leaning, slow tempo
2023Old Dominion6-7HC: Ricky Rahne · Run-leaning
2025Cincinnati7-6HC: Scott Satterfield · Balanced, slow tempo
| Season | Team | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Cincinnati | 14 | 1 | 1.0 | 0.0 | -- | -- | -- |
| 2023 | Old Dominion | 15 | 4 | 0.5 | 0.0 | -- | -- | -- |
| 2022 | Old Dominion | 6 | 3 | 1.0 | 0.0 | -- | -- | -- |
| Career | 3 loaded seasons | 35 | 8 | 2.5 | 0.0 | -- | -- | -- |
Advanced layer Usage, value, and context
Advanced metrics second
Advanced Metrics
Usage, value, and opponent-adjusted context.
TFL, sacks, and QB hurries are grouped together because defensive Heisman cases are usually built on visible havoc, not on tackle counts alone.
Pass breakups, interceptions, and forced fumbles matter because national awards voters respond to plays that change possessions and highlight reels.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Defense | Total tackles | 14 | #2476/4942 | 50th pct | Volumevs FBS DEF |
| Defense | TFL | 1.0 | #2051/4972 | 59th pct | Disruptionvs FBS DEF |
| Defense | Sacks | 0.0 | #1762/4972 | 65th pct | Disruptionvs FBS DEF |
| Defense | Solo tackles | 1 | #3987/4584 | 13th pct | Volumevs 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
Status—Awaiting tracker
The Lombardi 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 · 9 games
Home vs Road
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home7g | 1.6 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| Road2g | 1.5 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
Win vs Loss
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wins5g | 1.4 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| Losses4g | 1.8 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
First half vs Second half
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-76g | 1.7 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| Weeks 8+3g | 1.3 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
Pocket and defense-quality (clean vs. pressure) splits are coming soon.
Savant · Box-rate percentiles
Where this profile ranks vs the DL cohort
19Below cohort
Concern: solo tackles (0th).
Percentiles versus same-position peers with enough snaps this season, based on box-score rates.
Advanced Savant · DL · 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
Jaylon White-McClainCincinnatiTyler MartinMassachusetts· 45% simJonJon VaughnsUCLA· 40% simBlake FletcherAir Force· 39% sim
Tackles for loss
Sacks
QB hurries
Passes defended
Tackles
Solo tackles
Closest peers by overall box-score percentile profile at the same position.
Player DNA
The Two-Gap Base
Stout at the point of attack; controls his gap and stacks blocks.
IDL
His 2025 production profile sits closest to Matthew Thomas’s 2023 season.
Matthew Thomas
87%match
#2
JH Tevis
87%
#3
Javier Duran
87%
#4
Moro Ojomo
NFL Rd 7
86%
#5
Marcel Southall
86%
Matches Matthew on
TFL rate
Sack rate
Weight
Not enough data yet for this comparison.
As a senior, his production profile tracks closest to Venson Sneed's senior season at Western Kentucky (2025).
Venson Sneed
81%match
#2
Jackson LaDuke
75%
#3
Anthony Collier
74%
#4
Asani Redwood
72%
#5
Jamaal Johnson
70%
Matches Venson on
Class year
Height
Sack rate
Supporting Cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Scott Satterfield
Pass share
47.8%
363 pass / 396 run
Plays / game
58.4
13 games
OL sack rate (allowed)
2.6%
266 dropbacks · PBP
Scheme: Balanced, slow tempo.
Coaching Lineage · 2022–2025
2 coaches2022
Luke Fickell
Cincinnati
2023era →
Scott Satterfield
Cincinnati
2025
Scott Satterfield
Cincinnati
Coaching transition mid-career: Luke Fickell → Scott Satterfield. 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.
HometownVirginia Beach, VA
Height6'4"
Weight273 lb
Class3
PositionDL
Jersey16
No fields populated yet.
No fields populated yet.
Current teamCincinnati
ConferenceBig 12
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.
| Season | Team | Role | Latest Model | Forecast | Win | Finalist | Official Finish | Points | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Old Dominion | DL3 | #13559 | #13669 | 0.0% | 0.0% | -- | -- | W16 snapshot | Sun Belt |
| 2023 | Old Dominion | DL3 | #12748 | #12725 | 0.0% | 0.0% | -- | -- | W19 snapshot | Sun Belt |
| 2022 | Old Dominion | DL3 | #14002 | #14140 | 0.0% | 0.0% | -- | -- | W20 snapshot | Sun Belt |
Roster Timeline
Team, conference, and class by season.
| Season | Team | Conference | Pos | Class | Bio |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Cincinnati | Big 12 | DL | 3 | No. 16 | 6-4 | 273 lb | Virginia Beach, VA |
| 2024 | Old Dominion | Sun Belt | DL | 3 | No. 16 | 6-4 | 273 lb | Virginia Beach, VA |
| 2023 | Old Dominion | Sun Belt | DL | 3 | No. 16 | 6-4 | 273 lb | Virginia Beach, VA |
| 2022 | Old Dominion | Sun Belt | DL | 3 | No. 16 | 6-4 | 273 lb | Virginia Beach, VA |