CFB Zeitgeist Score
57
Solid starter in the position cohort. Carried by interceptions at the 75th percentile.
Marc Stampley II
Below the discourse floor — the honest stats-only state.
28 TACKLES · 1 SACKS
2026 Outlook
Returning to Houston for 2026
2026 Depth chart
Projected starter
Defensive back · Houston
Returning around him
- 105% of 2024 offensive production back (Strong continuity)
- 1 Houston player drafted to NFL
- Transfer portal: +2 net (18 in / 16 out)
2026 Award watch
No preseason watch lists yet (most drop June 15 – July 15)
Houston · Last season: 10-3 (AP #25) · Talent rank #66 · 2026 recruiting class #52
DB · HOUSTON · BIG 12
Marc Stampley II
- 4
- #22
- 5-11 | 185 lb
- Peachtree City, GA
Heisman Heat
#14053
<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
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CONSENSUS
All-American
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Player Standing · 17 rungs
Tier 1 · 2-deepR03 · Backup
Backup. On the two-deep, pushing for snaps.
Not on team2-deepStarterRecognizedEliteApex
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 |
|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 3-star | 0.8107 | No. 2015 recruit | HighSchool | Georgia Southern |
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 Georgia Southern
Composite
0.8107
#2015 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 Marc Stampley II
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 Marc Stampley II
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 12g
28Tackles
2Tackles for loss
1Sacks
Per game
2Tackles
0.2Tackles for loss
0.1Sacks
Projected (13g)
30Tackles
2.2Tackles for loss
1.1Sacks
To hit 80-tackle season (currently 28): needs 52/game over remaining 1.
To hit 100-tackle season (currently 28): needs 72/game over remaining 1.
To hit 6-sack season (currently 1): needs 5/game over remaining 1.
To hit 10-sack season (currently 1): needs 9/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.
Marc Stampley II is trying to climb the steepest award hill in college football: a defensive candidacy. The hook is the disruption profile on Houston's defense, with 1.0 sacks, 2.0 tackles for loss, and 2 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?
Coverage splash against FBS defenders.
2025 Season · Final
2025 season snapshot | final
Tackling & Disruption
TOT
28 70th
SOLO
15 69th
TFL
2.0 71st
SACK
1.0 82nd
Coverage & Takeaways
PD
3 76th
INT
2 87th
Game Log · Week-by-week
2025 season · 12 games
| Wk | Opp | TKL | SOLO | TFL | SACK | INT | PD | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | W 27-0vs Stephen F. Austin | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1 | 1 | |
| Wk 2 | W 35-9@ Rice | 3 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 3 | W 36-20vs Colorado | 3 | 1 | 1.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 5 | W 27-24@ Oregon State | 2 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 1 | |
| Wk 6 | L 11-35vs Texas Tech | 8 | 7 | 1.0 | 1.0 | — | 0 | Season-high 8 tackles |
| Wk 7 | W 39-17@ Oklahoma State | 5 | 3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 8 | W 31-28vs Arizona | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 9 | W 24-16@ Arizona State | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 1 | |
| Wk 11 | W 30-27@ UCF | 3 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 13 | L 14-17vs TCU | 2 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 14 | W 31-24@ Baylor | — | — | — | — | 1 | — | |
| Bowl | W 38-35vs LSU | 1 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Total | 28 | 15 | 2.0 | 1.0 | 2 | 3 |
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
2022Georgia Southern6-7HC: Clay Helton · Pass-heavy, fast tempo
2023Georgia Southern6-7HC: Clay Helton · Pass-leaning
2025Houston10-3HC: Willie Fritz · Run-leaning
| Season | Team | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Houston | 28 | 15 | 2.0 | 1.0 | 3 | 2 | -- |
| 2023 | Georgia Southern | 56 | 36 | 2.5 | 1.0 | 3 | 1 | -- |
| 2022 | Georgia Southern | 21 | 17 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 3 | 1 | -- |
| Career | 3 loaded seasons | 105 | 68 | 4.5 | 2.0 | 9 | 4 | -- |
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 | 28 | #1469/4942 | 70th pct | Volumevs FBS DEF |
| Defense | TFL | 2.0 | #1443/4972 | 71st pct | Disruptionvs FBS DEF |
| Defense | Sacks | 1.0 | #872/4972 | 82nd pct | Disruptionvs FBS DEF |
| Defense | Interceptions | 2 | #114/869 | 87th pct | Takeawaysvs FBS DEF |
| Defense | Pass breakups | 3 | #521/2184 | 76th pct | Coveragevs FBS DEF |
| Defense | INT return yards | 17 | #340/578 | 41st pct | Takeawaysvs FBS DEF |
| Defense | Solo tackles | 15 | #1434/4584 | 69th pct | Volumevs FBS DEF |
| Defense | INT return avg | 8.5 | #392/578 | 32nd pct | Takeawaysvs 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 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 vs Road
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home6g | 2.5 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.2 |
| Road6g | 2.2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.3 |
Win vs Loss
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wins10g | 1.8 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.3 |
| Losses2g | 5.0 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.0 |
First half vs Second half
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-77g | 3.1 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0.3 |
| Weeks 8+5g | 1.2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.2 |
Pocket and defense-quality (clean vs. pressure) splits are coming soon.
Savant · Box-rate percentiles
Where this profile ranks vs the DB cohort
57Solid starter
Concern: qb hurries (22nd).
Percentiles versus same-position peers with enough snaps this season, based on box-score rates.
Advanced Savant · DB · 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
Marc Stampley IIHoustonDevin LafayetteTroy· 73% simDalton JohnsonArizona· 73% simMichael MontgomerySouthern Miss· 72% sim
Passes defended
Interceptions
Sacks
Solo tackles
Tackles
Tackles for loss
QB hurries
Closest peers by overall box-score percentile profile at the same position.
Player DNA
The Hybrid Nickel
Moves between deep coverage and the slot — the modern positionless DB.
S
His 2025 production profile sits closest to Caine Savage’s 2023 season.
Caine Savage
91%match
#2
Kevin Knowles II
89%
#3
Demarko Williams
84%
#4
Derrick Edwards
83%
#5
Camron Harrell
83%
Matches Caine on
PD rate
Height
Weight
Not enough data yet for this comparison.
As a senior, his production profile tracks closest to Caine Savage's senior season at Nevada (2023).
Caine Savage
94%match
#2
Donte Thompson
90%
#3
Demarko Williams
86%
#4
Noah Pierre
86%
#5
Jaden Dedman
85%
Matches Caine on
Class year
Height
Weight
Supporting Cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Willie Fritz
Pass share
41.4%
377 pass / 534 run
Plays / game
70.1
13 games
OL sack rate (allowed)
6.5%
262 dropbacks · PBP
Scheme: Run-leaning.
Coaching Lineage · 2022–2025
2 coaches2022
Dana Holgorsen
Houston
2023
Dana Holgorsen
Houston
2025era →
Willie Fritz
Houston
Coaching transition mid-career: Dana Holgorsen → Willie Fritz. 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.
HometownPeachtree City, GA
Height5'11"
Weight185 lb
Class4
PositionDB
Jersey22
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Current teamHouston
ConferenceBig 12
Joined2025
Career arc4 season(s)
Trophy Case · Confirmed honors
What the selectors said
🎖
ALL-CONFERENCE
All-Conf mention (2024)
All-Sun Belt
Trophy Case · Detail
Every honor on the ledger, broken out by stream and selector.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | All-Sun Belt | all_conference | Georgia Southern | Sun Belt | DB |
Heisman By Year
Modeled rank and official finish by season.
| Season | Team | Role | Latest Model | Forecast | Win | Finalist | Official Finish | Points | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Georgia Southern | DB4 | #14053 | #13955 | 0.0% | 0.0% | -- | -- | W16 snapshot | Sun Belt |
| 2023 | Georgia Southern | DB4 | #12692 | #13011 | 0.0% | 0.0% | -- | -- | W19 snapshot | Sun Belt |
| 2022 | Georgia Southern | DB4 | #12873 | #13191 | 0.0% | 0.0% | -- | -- | W20 snapshot | Sun Belt |
Roster Timeline
Team, conference, and class by season.
| Season | Team | Conference | Pos | Class | Bio |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Houston | Big 12 | DB | 4 | No. 22 | 5-11 | 185 lb | Peachtree City, GA |
| 2024 | Georgia Southern | Sun Belt | DB | 4 | No. 22 | 5-11 | 185 lb | Peachtree City, GA |
| 2023 | Georgia Southern | Sun Belt | DB | 4 | No. 22 | 5-11 | 185 lb | Peachtree City, GA |
| 2022 | Georgia Southern | Sun Belt | DB | 4 | No. 22 | 5-11 | 185 lb | Peachtree City, GA |