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Heisman / Players / Lexington Joseph /Florida International

Lexington Joseph

RB · Florida International · Sr · #8

Limited signal — not enough coverage for a story yet.

ALUMNUSFlorida International 2022 alumnus

RB · FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL · CONFERENCE USA

Lexington Joseph

  • 4
  • #8
  • 5-9 | 205 lb
  • Miami, FL

CFB Zeitgeist RB Score

Awaiting

Heisman Heat

#3567

<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

CONSENSUS

All-American

Player Standing · 17 rungs

Tier 0 · Not on team

R00 · Walk-on

Walk-on. Earning a roster spot is the starting line.

Not on team2-deepStarterRecognizedEliteApex

Development Trajectory · rushing yards

2021–2022
2732021
5362022

+96%

Up 96% from first season to most-recent.

Career Arc

HS
Recruit
★★★
#980 national
CFB
College
Florida International
2021–2022
NFL
NFL Draft
Not drafted (yet)

Identity & Role

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

PositionRB
Class4
Jersey8
Measurements5-9 | 205 lb
HometownMiami, FL
Primary teamFlorida International

Recruiting Pedigree

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

Top pedigree 3-star No. 980 recruit
Composite rating 0.8585 HighSchool
Signed with -- 2019
Origin Miami Central Miami, FL, USA
Class Profile Context
2019 3-star | 0.8585 No. 980 recruit | HighSchool

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#3567Latest modeled ballot order
Season forecast#3712Where 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 —

Composite

0.8585

#980 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 Lexington Joseph

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 Lexington Joseph

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.

Scenario Explorer

Available for players with a qualifying signature metric (passing yards, rushing yards, receiving yards, sacks, etc.). The slider projects how a season finishes if the current pace holds.

Why this is more than a rushing profile

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

Lexington Joseph is not a one-lane back. The profile is interesting because the workload spills beyond pure rushing volume: 536 rushing yards, 29 catches, and 566 return yards for Florida International. That kind of all-purpose footprint gives the card a much richer story than a basic carry total.

Current place #3567 0.0% win | 0.0% finalist
Role load 9.8% Overall usage share
Profile quirk Honors spine 1 honors loaded

2022 Season · Final

Traditional stats first. Advanced context underneath.

Last season

RB season snapshot

2022 season snapshot | final

2022 season snapshot | finalData: CFBD player stats + local Heisman modelPeer context: same position + same level
Scrimmage yards 705 536 rush | 169 rec | #147/735 (80th pct)
Rush TD 5 108 carries | #115/739 (85th pct)
Yards/carry 5.0 Per-rush efficiency | #280/735 (62nd pct)
Player identity What kind of player is this?

30-second read

What kind of player is this?

Passing-game back against FBS RB peers.

Passing-game back

2022 Season · Final

2022 season snapshot | final

Rushing

CAR
108 81st
YDS
536 80th
YPC
5.0 62nd
TD
5 85th

Receiving

REC
29 94th
YDS
169 85th
YPR
5.8 35th
TD
2 97th

Game Log

Week-by-week box

No per-game rows for this season yet — the table fills in as box scores arrive.

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

2021Florida International1-11HC: Butch Davis · Balanced, slow tempo
2022Florida International4-8HC: Mike MacIntyre · Pass-leaning
SeasonTeam
2022Florida International1085365.05--
2021Florida International572734.81--
Career2 loaded seasons1658094.96--
SeasonTeam
2022Florida International291695.82--
2021Florida International8567.00--
Career2 loaded seasons372256.12--
Advanced layer Usage, value, and context

Advanced metrics second

Advanced Metrics

Usage, value, and opponent-adjusted context.

Usage Value Context
Rushing WEPA

Opponent-adjusted rushing value. It helps separate empty volume from carries that actually move the scoreboard.

Role share

How much of the team's offense flows through this back once rushing work and receiving work are combined.

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.

Receiving work 29 169 rec yds | #36/552 (94th pct)
Usage 9.8% 17.9% rush share | #323/738 (56th pct)
Rushing WEPA +0.25 Opponent-adjusted rush value | #23/362 (94th pct)
Open full stat explorer
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Group Metric Value Rank Pct Why it matters
Rushing Rushing yards 536 #147/735 80th pct Volumevs FBS RB
Rushing Rush TD 5 #115/739 85th pct Scoringvs FBS RB
Rushing Yards / carry 5.0 #280/735 62nd pct Efficiencyvs FBS RB
Receiving Receptions 29 #36/552 94th pct Volumevs FBS RB
Receiving Receiving yards 169 #82/548 85th pct Volumevs FBS RB
Value Rushing WEPA +0.25 #23/362 94th pct Opponent-adjusted rushing value | 36 weighted playsvs FBS RB
Usage Role share 9.8% #323/738 56th pct Share of team offensevs FBS RB
Rushing Carries 108 #141/739 81st pct Volumevs FBS RB
Rushing Rushing LONG 47 #187/733 75th pct Metricvs FBS RB
Receiving Receiving LONG 60 #30/540 95th pct Metricvs FBS RB
Receiving Yards / catch 5.8 #357/548 35th pct Efficiencyvs FBS RB
Receiving Receiving TD 2 #20/552 97th pct Scoringvs FBS RB
Returns Kick return yards 566 #2/200 100th pct Volumevs FBS RB
Returns Kick returns 27 #1/206 100th pct Volumevs FBS RB
Returns Kick return avg 21.0 #66/199 67th pct Efficiencyvs FBS RB
Usage Rush share 17.9% #296/738 60th pct Ground-game usagevs FBS RB
Usage 2nd-down usage 12.0% #266/738 64th pct Middle-down loadvs FBS RB
Usage Standard-down usage 11.4% #306/738 59th pct Base-situation sharevs FBS RB
Usage 1st-down usage 9.2% #382/738 48th pct Early-down loadvs FBS RB
Usage 3rd-down usage 7.1% #334/738 55th pct Money-down loadvs FBS RB
Usage Passing-down usage 6.7% #365/738 51st pct Known-passing sharevs FBS RB
Usage Pass share 3.0% #306/738 59th pct Air-game usagevs FBS RB
Ball Security Fumbles lost 0 #1/256 100th 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

StatusAwaiting tracker

Heisman model tracks the top FBS contenders weekly; this player hasn't entered the watch list yet.

Splits

Per-game splits

Splits fill in once box scores from at least three games land for this season.

Box-score Savant card waits for a season-stat snapshot above the cohort floor. Returns once enough box-score volume lands.

Advanced Savant · RB · 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 returns once this player clears the Savant metric floor (4+ scored bars).
DNA Match awaiting data — similarity scores compute once season stats clear the volume gate for this position cohort.

Supporting Cast · Scheme

Staff and system around the player

2025 season

Head Coach

Willie Simmons

Pass share

47.3%

428 pass / 476 run

Plays / game

69.5

13 games

OL sack rate (allowed)

6.9%

290 dropbacks · PBP

Scheme: Balanced.

Coaching Lineage · 2021–2022

2 coaches
2021
Butch Davis
Florida International
2022
Mike MacIntyre
Florida International
era →

Coaching transition mid-career: Butch Davis → Mike MacIntyre. 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.

HometownMiami, FL
Height5'9"
Weight205 lb
Class4
PositionRB
Jersey8

Trophy Case · Confirmed honors

What the selectors said

1 entries
🎖

ALL-CONFERENCE

All-Conf mention (2020)

All-Conference USA

Trophy Case · Detail

Every honor on the ledger, broken out by stream and selector.

All-Conference

1 all-conference honor

Conference-level recognition helps anchor whether a player is merely statistically loud or actually viewed as elite within his competitive lane.

Honors Timeline

Season-end distinction and week-by-week recognition on one timeline.

Season Honor Scope Team / Selector Context
2020 All-Conference USA all_conference Conference USA RET

Heisman By Year

Modeled rank and official finish by season.

Season Team Role Latest Model Forecast Win Finalist Official Finish Points Context
2024 Florida International RB4 #3567 #3712 0.0% 0.0% -- -- W16 snapshot | Conference USA
2023 Florida International RB4 #4651 #5106 0.0% 0.0% -- -- W19 snapshot | Conference USA
2022 Florida International RB4 #896 #1458 0.0% 0.0% -- -- W20 snapshot | Conference USA
2021 Florida International RB4 #1714 #2338 0.0% 0.0% -- -- W20 snapshot | Conference USA