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Heisman / Players / Kyndrich Breedlove /Arizona State

Kyndrich Breedlove

S · Arizona State · Sr · #5

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

33 TACKLES · 0 SACKS

2026 RETURNINGReturning to Arizona State for 2026

2026 Outlook

Returning to Arizona State for 2026

2026 Depth chart

Projected starter

Safety · Arizona State

Returning around him

  • 70% of 2024 offensive production back (Solid continuity)
  • 4 Arizona State players drafted to NFL
  • Transfer portal: +3 net (24 in / 21 out)

2026 Award watch

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

Arizona State · Last season: 8-5 (AP #24) · Talent rank #33 · 2026 recruiting class #44

S · ARIZONA STATE · BIG 12

Kyndrich Breedlove

  • 4
  • #5
  • 5-11 | 195 lb
  • Nashville, TN

CFB Zeitgeist Score

51

Mid-pack in the position cohort. Carried by passes defended at the 91st percentile.

Heisman Heat

#11931

<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 2 · Starter

R06 · Starter

Starter. A locked-in starting role.

Not on team2-deepStarterRecognizedEliteApex

Career Arc

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

Identity & Role

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

PositionS
Class4
Jersey5
Measurements5-11 | 195 lb
HometownNashville, TN
Primary teamArizona State

Recruiting Pedigree

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

Top pedigree 3-star No. 413 recruit
Composite rating 0.8889 HighSchool
Signed with Ole Miss 2021
Origin Pearl-Cohn Nashville, TN, USA
Class Profile Context
2021 3-star | 0.8889 No. 413 recruit | HighSchool | Ole Miss

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#11931Latest modeled ballot order
Season forecast#12741Where 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 Ole Miss

Composite

0.8889

#413 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 Kyndrich Breedlove

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 Kyndrich Breedlove

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
33Tackles
2.5Tackles for loss
0Sacks
Per game
3Tackles
0.2Tackles for loss
0Sacks
Projected (13g)
36Tackles
2.7Tackles for loss
0Sacks

To hit 80-tackle season (currently 33): needs 47/game over remaining 1.

To hit 100-tackle season (currently 33): needs 67/game over remaining 1.

To hit 6-sack season (currently 0): needs 6/game over remaining 1.

To hit 10-sack season (currently 0): needs 10/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.

Kyndrich Breedlove is trying to climb the steepest award hill in college football: a defensive candidacy. The hook is the disruption profile on Arizona State's defense, with 0.0 sacks, 2.5 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.

Current place #11931 0.0% win | 0.0% finalist
Role load -- Role share still loading
Profile quirk Transfer path 0 portal moves

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 33 23 solo | #1194/4942 (76th pct)
TFL 2.5 Backfield disruption | #1236/4972 (75th pct)
Sacks 0.0 Pass-rush finish | #1762/4972 (65th 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
33 76th
SOLO
23 82nd
TFL
2.5 75th
SACK
0.0 65th

Coverage & Takeaways

PD
5 90th

Game Log · Week-by-week

2025 season · 12 games

Box score · CFBD
WkOppTKLSOLOTFLSACKINTPDNote
Wk 1W 38-19vs Northern Arizona210.00.00
Wk 2L 20-24@ Mississippi State310.00.00
Wk 3W 34-15vs Texas State100.00.02
Wk 4W 27-24@ Baylor330.00.00
Wk 5W 27-24vs TCU110.00.00
Wk 7L 10-42@ Utah330.00.00
Wk 8W 26-22vs Texas Tech411.00.00Season-high 4 tackles
Wk 9L 16-24vs Houston320.00.01
Wk 10W 24-19@ Iowa State440.00.00
Wk 13W 42-17@ Colorado431.50.01
Wk 14L 7-23vs Arizona220.00.00
BowlL 39-42@ Duke320.00.01
Total33232.50.05
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

2021Ole Miss10-2HC: Lane Kiffin · Run-leaning, fast tempo
2023Colorado4-8HC: Deion Sanders · Pass-leaning
2024Purdue1-11HC: Ryan Walters · Balanced, slow tempo
2025Arizona State8-5HC: Kenny Dillingham · Balanced
SeasonTeam
2025Arizona State33232.50.05----
2024Purdue40282.00.043--
2023Colorado12111.00.0------
2021Ole Miss1--0.00.0------
Career4 loaded seasons86625.50.093--
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 -- -- pick-six TD
Pass breakups 5 Coverage disruption | #218/2184 (90th pct)
QB pressures 0 Quarterback hurries
Open full stat explorer
0 metrics visible Showing all metrics
Group Metric Value Rank Pct Why it matters
Defense Total tackles 33 #1194/4942 76th pct Volumevs FBS DEF
Defense TFL 2.5 #1236/4972 75th pct Disruptionvs FBS DEF
Defense Sacks 0.0 #1762/4972 65th pct Disruptionvs FBS DEF
Defense Pass breakups 5 #218/2184 90th pct Coveragevs FBS DEF
Defense Solo tackles 23 #839/4584 82nd 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

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
Home6g2.20.20.00.5
Road6g3.30.20.00.3

Win vs Loss

TKL/gTFL/gSACK/gPD/g
Wins7g2.70.40.00.4
Losses5g2.80.00.00.4

First half vs Second half

TKL/gTFL/gSACK/gPD/g
Weeks 1-77g2.30.00.00.4
Weeks 8+5g3.40.50.00.4

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

Savant · Box-rate percentiles

Where this profile ranks vs the S cohort

51Mid-pack
6 metrics · season cumulative

Elite: passes defended (90th). Concern: qb hurries (22nd).

Passes defended#218 / 2975 · 91st pct
5defe
Solo tackles#839 / 2975 · 71st pct
23defe
Tackles#1194 / 2975 · 59th pct
33defe
Tackles for loss#1222 / 2975 · 56th pct
2.5defe
Sacks#1575 / 2975 · 24th pct
0.0defe
QB hurries#1662 / 2975 · 22nd pct
0defe

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

Advanced Savant · S · 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 · 6 metrics
Kyndrich BreedloveArizona StateTyler MartinMassachusetts· 80% simTahj Ra-ElPurdue· 80% simDalton JohnsonArizona· 75% sim
Passes defended
91
Breedlove
67
Martin
91
Ra-El
96
Johnson
Solo tackles
71
Breedlove
87
Martin
100
Ra-El
97
Johnson
Tackles
59
Breedlove
98
Martin
99
Ra-El
98
Johnson
Tackles for loss
56
Breedlove
63
Martin
56
Ra-El
47
Johnson
Sacks
24
Breedlove
24
Martin
24
Ra-El
63
Johnson
QB hurries
22
Breedlove
22
Martin
22
Ra-El
22
Johnson

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 Derrick Canteen’s 2023 season.

Derrick Canteen

88%match

Virginia Tech · 2023

#2

Jabari Moore

Army · 2023

88%
#3

Al-Ma'Hi Ali

Western Kentucky · 2025

85%
#4

Theran Johnson

Northwestern · 2023

85%
#5

Jer'Marius Lewis

UTSA · 2025

84%

Matches Derrick on

Height
Weight
Tackle volume

Not enough data yet for this comparison.

As a senior, his production profile tracks closest to Derrick Canteen's senior season at Virginia Tech (2023).

Derrick Canteen

97%match

Virginia Tech · 2023

All-Sun Belt
#2

Marques Buford

Nebraska · 2024

93%
#3

Al-Ma'Hi Ali

Western Kentucky · 2025

90%
#4

Chris Mills

Texas State · 2023

89%
#5

Jabari Moore

Army · 2023

88%

Matches Derrick on

Class year
Height
Tackle volume

Supporting Cast · Scheme

Staff and system around the player

2025 season

Head Coach

Kenny Dillingham

Pass share

47.1%

429 pass / 482 run

Plays / game

70.1

13 games

OL sack rate (allowed)

7.8%

345 dropbacks · PBP

Scheme: Balanced.

Coaching Lineage · 2021–2025

2 coaches
2021
Herm Edwards
Arizona State
2023
Kenny Dillingham
Arizona State
era →
2024
Kenny Dillingham
Arizona State
2025
Kenny Dillingham
Arizona State

Coaching transition mid-career: Herm Edwards → Kenny Dillingham. 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.

HometownNashville, TN
Height5'11"
Weight195 lb
Class4
PositionS
Jersey5

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 Purdue S4 #11931 #12741 0.0% 0.0% -- -- W16 snapshot | Big Ten
2023 Colorado S4 #14108 #14191 0.0% 0.0% -- -- W19 snapshot | Pac-12
2022 Ole Miss S4 #10559 #10289 0.0% 0.0% -- -- W20 snapshot | SEC
2021 Ole Miss S4 #7385 #7134 0.0% 0.0% -- -- W20 snapshot | SEC

Roster Timeline

Team, conference, and class by season.

Season Team Conference Pos Class Bio
2025 Arizona State Big 12 S 4 No. 5 | 5-11 | 195 lb | Nashville, TN
2024 Purdue Big Ten S 4 No. 5 | 5-11 | 195 lb | Nashville, TN
2023 Colorado Pac-12 S 4 No. 5 | 5-11 | 195 lb | Nashville, TN
2022 Ole Miss SEC S 4 No. 5 | 5-11 | 195 lb | Nashville, TN
2021 Ole Miss SEC S 4 No. 5 | 5-11 | 195 lb | Nashville, TN