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Mark Cannon Jr.

CB · Bowling Green · Jr · #22

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

57 TACKLES · 2 SACKS

2026 RETURNINGReturning to Bowling Green for 2026

2026 Outlook

Returning to Bowling Green for 2026

2026 Depth chart

Projected starter

Cornerback · Bowling Green

Returning around him

  • 8% of 2024 offensive production back (Heavy turnover)
  • Transfer portal: -12 net (15 in / 27 out)

2026 Award watch

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

Bowling Green · Last season: 4-8 · Talent rank #107 · 2026 recruiting class #94

CB · BOWLING GREEN · MID-AMERICAN

Mark Cannon Jr.

  • 3
  • #22
  • 6-3 | 205 lb
  • Evanston, IL

CFB Zeitgeist Score

70

Solid starter in the position cohort. Carried by sacks at the 80th percentile.

Heisman Heat

Awaiting

Not on the live Heisman board this week.

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

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
No recruit profile
CFB
College
Bowling Green
2025
NFL
NFL Draft
Not drafted (yet)

Identity & Role

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

PositionCB
Class3
Jersey22
Measurements6-3 | 205 lb
HometownEvanston, IL
Primary teamBowling Green

Recruiting Pedigree

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

Top pedigree Not on file No matched recruiting profile in the loaded archive
Composite rating -- Composite rating unavailable for this player
Signed with -- Commitment history unavailable
Origin -- Hometown and high school unavailable
Class Profile Context
No recruiting profile is on file for this player.

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

Where the model places this player relative to the rest of the Heisman field.

Current nowcast--Latest modeled ballot order
Season forecast--Where the full season sim points
Win probability--Chance to actually win the trophy
Finalist probability--Chance to make the finalist tier
Ballot probability--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.

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 Mark Cannon Jr.

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 Mark Cannon Jr.

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
57Tackles
6Tackles for loss
2Sacks
Per game
5Tackles
0.5Tackles for loss
0.2Sacks
Projected (13g)
62Tackles
6.5Tackles for loss
2.2Sacks

To hit 80-tackle season (currently 57): needs 23/game over remaining 1.

To hit 100-tackle season (currently 57): needs 43/game over remaining 1.

To hit 6-sack season (currently 2): needs 4/game over remaining 1.

To hit 10-sack season (currently 2): needs 8/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.

Mark Cannon Jr. is trying to climb the steepest award hill in college football: a defensive candidacy. The hook is the disruption profile on Bowling Green's defense, with 2.0 sacks, 6.0 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.

Current place -- -- win | -- finalist
Role load -- Role share still loading
Profile quirk Defensive rarity 2.0 sacks | 6.0 TFL

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 57 29 solo | #449/4942 (91st pct)
TFL 6.0 Backfield disruption | #406/4972 (92nd pct)
Sacks 2.0 Pass-rush finish | #491/4972 (90th pct)
Player identity What kind of player is this?

30-second read

What kind of player is this?

High-disruption defender | Coverage splash | High-volume tackler against FBS defenders.

High-disruption defenderCoverage splashHigh-volume tackler

2025 Season · Final

2025 season snapshot | final

Tackling & Disruption

TOT
57 91st
SOLO
29 88th
TFL
6.0 92nd
SACK
2.0 90th
QBH
1 44th

Coverage & Takeaways

PD
1 43rd
INT
2 87th

Game Log · Week-by-week

2025 season · 12 games

Box score · CFBD
WkOppTKLSOLOTFLSACKINTPDNote
Wk 1W 26-7vs Lafayette710.50.00
Wk 2L 20-34@ Cincinnati432.00.00
Wk 3W 23-13vs Liberty531.01.00
Wk 4L 17-40@ Louisville630.00.00
Wk 5L 20-35@ Ohio520.00.00
Wk 7W 28-23vs Toledo760.00.010
Wk 8L 6-27vs Central Michigan410.00.00
Wk 9L 21-24@ Kent State841.50.00Season-high 8 tackles
Wk 10L 3-28vs Buffalo100.00.00
Wk 11L 21-27@ Eastern Michigan320.00.00
Wk 13L 16-19vs Akron000.00.011
Wk 14W 45-14@ Massachusetts741.01.00
Total57296.02.021
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

2025Bowling Green4-8HC: Eddie George · Run-heavy
SeasonTeam
2025Bowling Green57296.02.012--
Career1 loaded season57296.02.012--
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 2 0 pick-six TD | #114/869 (87th pct)
Pass breakups 1 Coverage disruption | #1241/2184 (43rd pct)
QB pressures 1 Quarterback hurries | #1051/1878 (44th pct)
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Group Metric Value Rank Pct Why it matters
Defense Total tackles 57 #449/4942 91st pct Volumevs FBS DEF
Defense TFL 6.0 #406/4972 92nd pct Disruptionvs FBS DEF
Defense Sacks 2.0 #491/4972 90th pct Disruptionvs FBS DEF
Defense Interceptions 2 #114/869 87th pct Takeawaysvs FBS DEF
Defense Pass breakups 1 #1241/2184 43rd pct Coveragevs FBS DEF
Defense QB hurries 1 #1051/1878 44th pct Disruptionvs FBS DEF
Defense Solo tackles 29 #559/4584 88th pct Volumevs FBS DEF
Defense Fumbles recovered 1 #103/736 86th pct Takeawaysvs FBS DEF
Ball Security Fumbles lost 0 #1/773 100th pct Turnoversvs 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
Home6g4.00.20.20.2
Road6g5.50.80.20.0

Win vs Loss

TKL/gTFL/gSACK/gPD/g
Wins4g6.50.60.50.0
Losses8g3.90.40.00.1

First half vs Second half

TKL/gTFL/gSACK/gPD/g
Weeks 1-76g5.70.60.20.0
Weeks 8+6g3.80.40.20.2

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

Savant · Box-rate percentiles

Where this profile ranks vs the CB cohort

70Solid starter
8 metrics · season cumulative

Elite: tackles for loss (85th). Strength: tackles (84th).

Tackles for loss#406 / 2975 · 85th pct
6.0defe
Tackles#449 / 2975 · 85th pct
57defe
Solo tackles#559 / 2975 · 80th pct
29defe
Sacks#487 / 2975 · 80th pct
2.0defe
Interceptions#114 / 817 · 75th pct
2inte
QB hurries#1007 / 2975 · 55th pct
1defe
Passes defended#1191 / 2975 · 48th pct
1defe
Forced fumbles#36 / 687 · 47th pct
0fumb

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

Advanced Savant · CB · 2025

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 · 8 metrics
Mark Cannon Jr.Bowling GreenJohnny Chaney Jr.Florida International· 90% simJackson KuwatchMiami (OH)· 89% simKhalil MurdockBuffalo· 88% sim
Tackles for loss
85
Jr.
91
Jr.
96
Kuwatch
99
Murdock
Tackles
85
Jr.
99
Jr.
98
Kuwatch
100
Murdock
Solo tackles
80
Jr.
100
Jr.
95
Kuwatch
98
Murdock
Sacks
80
Jr.
89
Jr.
96
Kuwatch
96
Murdock
Interceptions
75
Jr.
QB hurries
55
Jr.
55
Jr.
55
Kuwatch
55
Murdock
Passes defended
48
Jr.
48
Jr.
48
Kuwatch
48
Murdock
Forced fumbles
47
Jr.
47
Jr.
47
Murdock

Closest peers by overall box-score percentile profile at the same position.

Player DNA

The Press Corner

Long and physical; jams receivers off their route at the line.

CB

His 2025 production profile sits closest to Cory Gross Jr.’s 2021 season.

Cory Gross Jr.

85%match

Buffalo · 2021

#2

Car'lin Vigers

UL Monroe · 2023

73%
#3

DeCarlos Nicholson

Mississippi State · 2023

72%
#4

Ameer Speed

Michigan State · 2022

NFL Rd 6
67%
#5

John Humphrey

UCLA · 2022

64%

Matches Cory on

PD rate
Weight
Height

Not enough data yet for this comparison.

As a sophomore, his production profile tracks closest to Charlie Gray's sophomore season at Marshall (2021).

Charlie Gray

86%match

Marshall · 2021

#2

Isaiah Pola-Mao

USC · 2021

86%
#3

TJ Robinson

South Florida · 2022

84%
#4

Landon Danley

Virginia · 2025

83%
#5

Everett Roussaw Jr.

UAB · 2024

82%

Matches Charlie on

Height
Tackle volume
Weight

Supporting Cast · Scheme

Staff and system around the player

2025 season

Head Coach

Eddie George

Pass share

37.7%

281 pass / 465 run

Plays / game

62.2

12 games

OL sack rate (allowed)

10.9%

265 dropbacks · PBP

Scheme: Run-heavy.

Coaching Lineage · 2025

1 coach
2025
Eddie George
Bowling Green

Played his entire career under Eddie George.

Bio · Recruiting · Transfer · Roster

Off-field context — switch tabs to drill into recruit profile, transfer arc, or roster timeline.

HometownEvanston, IL
Height6'3"
Weight205 lb
Class3
PositionCB
Jersey22

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
This player hasn’t appeared on a Heisman ballot tracked by the model.

Roster Timeline

Team, conference, and class by season.

Season Team Conference Pos Class Bio
2025 Bowling Green Mid-American CB 3 No. 22 | 6-3 | 205 lb | Evanston, IL