CFB Zeitgeist Score
72
Solid starter in the position cohort. Carried by rush yards at the 85th percentile.
Jevon Jackson
Filling the Shoesas of 2026-06-22
Jevon Jackson arrives at UAB with a new fit to prove and an old chapter behind him.
900RUSH YDS5RUSH TD167CARRIES
RUSHING VALUE · WEPA
+0.09
via your WEPA model · 2025 · 148 plays
Read the story so far
AI narrative · updated 2026-06-22 · compiled from CFB Zeitgeist data
2026 Outlook
Returning to UAB for 2026
2026 Depth chart
Projected 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
Jevon Jackson
- 4
- #4
- 5-8 | 210 lb
- Decatur, AL
Heisman Heat
#403
<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 · StarterR07 · Impact starter
Impact starter. Producing measurable value above replacement.
Not on team2-deepStarterRecognizedEliteApex
Development Trajectory · rushing yards
2024–2025+19%
Modest growth (19%) across the multi-season window.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 3-star | 0.8250 | No. 1892 recruit | HighSchool | Austin Peay |
Transfer Arc
Portal movement changes role, context, and perception. This keeps that path in one place.
| Season | Move | Context |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | UTEP -> UAB | 3-star | 0.8200 | Immediate |
| 2024 | Austin Peay -> UTEP | 3-star | 0.8500 | 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.
Achievements
- Program Benchmark 5.5% Program Benchmark Season leader for the program at the player's position across the headline volume metric (passing yards / rushing yards / receiving yards). Held by 5.5% of the 2025 pool. Team leader in rushing yards (900).
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 Austin Peay
Composite
0.8250
#1892 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 Jevon Jackson
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 Jevon Jackson
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
900Rush yards
167Carries
5Rush TDs
Per game
75Rush yards
14Carries
0Rush TDs
Projected (13g)
975Rush yards
181Carries
5Rush TDs
✓ Hit 750-yard season · finished with 900.
To hit 1,000-yard season (currently 900): needs 100/game over remaining 1.
To hit 1,500-yard season (currently 900): needs 600/game over remaining 1.
To hit 10 rushing TDs (currently 5): needs 5/game over remaining 1.
To hit 15 rushing TDs (currently 5): needs 10/game over remaining 1.
To hit 20 rushing TDs (currently 5): needs 15/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.
Jevon Jackson'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?
Workhorse | Passing-game back against FBS RB peers.
2025 Season · Final
2025 season snapshot | final
Rushing
CAR
167 93rd
YDS
900 93rd
YPC
5.4 72nd
TD
5 85th
Receiving
REC
19 86th
YDS
115 74th
YPR
6.1 40th
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 | 17 | 166 | 9.8 | 2 | 48 | Season-high 166 yds |
| Wk 2 | L 24-38@ Navy | 15 | 66 | 4.4 | 1 | 15 | |
| Wk 3 | W 31-28vs Akron | 14 | 45 | 3.2 | 0 | 12 | |
| Wk 4 | L 24-56@ Tennessee | 5 | 3 | 0.6 | 0 | 3 | |
| Wk 6 | L 13-31vs Army | 12 | 89 | 7.4 | 0 | 30 | |
| Wk 7 | L 33-53@ Florida Atlantic | 8 | 19 | 2.4 | 0 | 9 | |
| Wk 8 | W 31-24vs Memphis | 17 | 54 | 3.2 | 0 | 10 | |
| Wk 10 | L 19-38@ UConn | 9 | 61 | 6.8 | 0 | 18 | |
| Wk 11 | L 17-24@ Rice | 15 | 89 | 5.9 | 0 | 51 | |
| Wk 12 | L 24-53vs North Texas | 16 | 159 | 9.9 | 0 | 58 | 159-yard day |
| Wk 13 | L 18-48vs South Florida | 16 | 32 | 2.0 | 0 | 7 | |
| Wk 14 | W 31-24@ Tulsa | 23 | 117 | 5.1 | 2 | 20 | |
| Total | 167 | 900 | 5.1 | 5 | 58 |
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
2024UTEP3-9HC: Scotty Walden · Run-leaning
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 | 900 | #53/735 | 93rd pct | Volumevs FBS RB |
| Rushing | Rush TD | 5 | #115/739 | 85th pct | Scoringvs FBS RB |
| Rushing | Yards / carry | 5.4 | #206/735 | 72nd pct | Efficiencyvs FBS RB |
| Receiving | Receptions | 19 | #78/552 | 86th pct | Volumevs FBS RB |
| Receiving | Receiving yards | 115 | #144/548 | 74th pct | Volumevs FBS RB |
| Value | Rushing WEPA | +0.09 | #226/362 | 38th pct | Opponent-adjusted rushing value | 148 weighted playsvs FBS RB |
| Usage | Role share | 22.7% | #67/738 | 91st pct | Share of team offensevs FBS RB |
| Rushing | Carries | 167 | #52/739 | 93rd pct | Volumevs FBS RB |
| Rushing | Rushing LONG | 58 | #112/733 | 85th pct | Metricvs FBS RB |
| Receiving | Receiving LONG | 27 | #142/540 | 74th pct | Metricvs FBS RB |
| Receiving | Yards / catch | 6.1 | #332/548 | 40th pct | Efficiencyvs FBS RB |
| Receiving | Receiving TD | 1 | #60/552 | 89th pct | Scoringvs FBS RB |
| Usage | Rush share | 45.4% | #30/738 | 96th pct | Ground-game usagevs FBS RB |
| Usage | 1st-down usage | 30.4% | #37/738 | 95th pct | Early-down loadvs FBS RB |
| Usage | Standard-down usage | 28.4% | #49/738 | 93rd pct | Base-situation sharevs FBS RB |
| Usage | 2nd-down usage | 19.7% | #100/738 | 87th pct | Middle-down loadvs FBS RB |
| Usage | 3rd-down usage | 13.3% | #112/738 | 85th pct | Money-down loadvs FBS RB |
| Usage | Passing-down usage | 9.8% | #213/738 | 71st pct | Known-passing sharevs FBS RB |
| Usage | Pass share | 5.2% | #144/738 | 81st pct | Air-game usagevs 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 | 90.8 | 5.9 | 0.3 |
| Road6g | 59.2 | 4.2 | 0.5 |
Win vs Loss
| YDS/g | YPC | TD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wins4g | 95.5 | 5.3 | 1.0 |
| Losses8g | 64.8 | 4.9 | 0.1 |
First half vs Second half
| YDS/g | YPC | TD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-76g | 64.7 | 4.6 | 0.5 |
| Weeks 8+6g | 85.3 | 5.5 | 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
72Solid starter
Elite: carries (85th). Strength: rush yards (84th).
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_rushing0.09Low (p25–p50) (n=178)
Peer Comparator · Fingerprint match
Three closest profiles by box-rate percentile
Jevon JacksonUABNate FrazierGeorgia· 94% simCarson HansenIowa State· 93% simDominic RichardsonTulsa· 92% sim
Carries
Rush yards
Receptions
Long run
Yards / carry
Rush TDs
Rec yards
Closest peers by overall box-score percentile profile at the same position.
Player DNA
The Balanced Back
Plays within the scheme — consistent production without a dominant dimension.
RB
His 2025 production profile sits closest to Jaylen Warren’s 2021 season.
Jaylen Warren
81%match
#2
Kamari Moulton
74%
#3
Nelson Smith
65%
#4
Kyle Monangai
All-Big TenNFL Rd 7
73%
#5
Caleb Ramseur
73%
Matches Jaylen on
Weight
Yards / carry
Rush TD rate
Differs from Jaylen on
Yards / reception (lower)
Through 4 college seasons, his career arc tracks closest to Calvin Tyler Jr.’s path through Utah State.
Calvin Tyler Jr.
98%match
#2
Chavon Wright
All-MAC
96%
#3
Gary Brightwell
NFL Rd 6
94%
#4
Amani Givens
92%
#5
Pat Garwo III
90%
Matches Calvin on
Height
Weight
Yards per carry
As a senior, his production profile tracks closest to Pat Garwo III's senior season at Boston College (2023).
Pat Garwo III
78%match
#2
Harrison Waylee
All-MAC
78%
#3
Rashod Dubinion
All-Sun Belt
78%
#4
Michel Dukes
73%
#5
Tawee Walker
73%
Matches Pat on
Yards / carry
Rush TD rate
Receiving share
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 · 2024–2025
1 coach2024
Trent Dilfer
UAB
2025
Trent Dilfer
UAB
Played his entire career under Trent Dilfer.
Bio · Recruiting · Transfer · Roster
Off-field context — switch tabs to drill into recruit profile, transfer arc, or roster timeline.
HometownDecatur, AL
Height5'8"
Weight210 lb
Class4
PositionRB
Jersey4
No fields populated yet.
No fields populated yet.
Current teamUAB
ConferenceAmerican Athletic
Joined2025
Career arc2 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 | UTEP | RB4 | #403 | #709 | 0.0% | 0.0% | -- | -- | W16 snapshot | Conference USA |
Roster Timeline
Team, conference, and class by season.