CFB Zeitgeist Score
31
Below cohort in the position cohort. Carried by tackles at the 55th percentile.
Mike Harris
Below the discourse floor — the honest stats-only state.
31 TACKLES · 0 SACKS
2026 Outlook
Returning to South Alabama for 2026
2026 Depth chart
Projected starter
Safety · South Alabama
Returning around him
2026 Award watch
No preseason watch lists yet (most drop June 15 – July 15)
South Alabama · Last season: 4-8 · Talent rank #102 · 2026 recruiting class #118
S · SOUTH ALABAMA · SUN BELT
CFB Zeitgeist Score
31
Below cohort in the position cohort. Carried by tackles at the 55th percentile.
Heisman Heat
#13164
<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 2 · StarterPart-time starter. Splitting first-team reps.
Career Arc
The durable bio layer: position, size, hometown, and roster role.
How big the prospect was before college, and whether the later career arc beat that expectation.
| Class | Profile | Context |
|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 3-star | 0.8541 | No. 1090 recruit | HighSchool |
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. | ||
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.
Selector Grid · 2025
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
0.8541
#1090 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.
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 reads how different fanbases talk about this player. Returns once weekly mentions clear the publish floor.
Rival Radar
No rival-bucket mentions in the current season.
Signature Story
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
To hit 80-tackle season (currently 31): needs 12.2/game over remaining 4.
To hit 100-tackle season (currently 31): needs 17.2/game over remaining 4.
To hit 6-sack season (currently 0): needs 1.5/game over remaining 4.
To hit 10-sack season (currently 0): needs 2.5/game over remaining 4.
The fast read on the thing that makes this player more than a generic stat line.
Mike Harris is trying to climb the steepest award hill in college football: a defensive candidacy. The hook is the disruption profile on South Alabama's defense, with 0.0 sacks, 1.0 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.
Traditional stats first. Advanced context underneath.
Last season
2025 season snapshot | final
30-second read
Defensive contributor against FBS defenders.
2025 season snapshot | final
Tackling & Disruption
Game Log · Week-by-week
2025 season · 9 games
| Wk | Opp | TKL | SOLO | TFL | SACK | INT | PD | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | W 38-21vs Morgan State | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 2 | L 31-33vs Tulane | 4 | 3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 3 | L 15-31@ Auburn | 3 | 3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 5 | L 22-36@ North Texas | 2 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 6 | L 24-31@ Troy | 3 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 8 | L 14-15vs Arkansas State | 5 | 4 | 1.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 9 | W 38-31@ Georgia State | 6 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | Season-high 6 tackles |
| Wk 13 | W 42-35vs Southern Miss | 3 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 14 | L 26-49@ Texas State | 4 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Total | 31 | 16 | 1.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 |
Traditional history
Season rows up top, career context at the bottom.
Season context · Team result + system
| Season | Team | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | South Alabama | 31 | 16 | 1.0 | 0.0 | -- | -- | -- |
| 2023 | South Alabama | 22 | 9 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 2 | -- | -- |
| 2022 | Baylor | 9 | 4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | -- | -- | -- |
| Career | 3 loaded seasons | 62 | 29 | 1.0 | 0.0 | 2 | -- | -- |
Advanced metrics second
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.
| Group | Metric | Value | Rank | Pct | Why it matters |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Defense | Total tackles | 31 | #1302/4942 | 74th pct | Volumevs FBS DEF |
| Defense | TFL | 1.0 | #2051/4972 | 59th pct | Disruptionvs FBS DEF |
| Defense | Sacks | 0.0 | #1762/4972 | 65th pct | Disruptionvs FBS DEF |
| Defense | Solo tackles | 16 | #1348/4584 | 71st pct | Volumevs FBS DEF |
Universal 17-step ladder. Tier pills below; accolade streams nested.
AWAITING CLASSIFICATION
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
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 · 9 games
Home vs Road
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home4g | 3.2 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| Road5g | 3.6 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
Win vs Loss
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wins3g | 3.3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| Losses6g | 3.5 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
First half vs Second half
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-75g | 2.6 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| Weeks 8+4g | 4.5 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
Pocket and defense-quality (clean vs. pressure) splits are coming soon.
Savant · Box-rate percentiles
Where this profile ranks vs the S cohort
Concern: passes defended (17th).
Percentiles versus same-position peers with enough snaps this season, based on box-score rates.
Advanced Savant · S · 2024
Advanced opponent-adjusted percentile bars are coming soon for this player.
Opponent-adjusted advanced metrics with a cohort filter.
Peer Comparator · Fingerprint match
Three closest profiles by box-rate percentile
Closest peers by overall box-score percentile profile at the same position.
Player DNA
Moves between deep coverage and the slot — the modern positionless DB.
His 2025 production profile sits closest to Gurvan Hall Jr.’s 2021 season.
Gurvan Hall Jr.
Dante Thomas
Rasheed Reason
Dontae Pollard
Tahveon Nicholson
Matches Gurvan on
Differs from Gurvan on
Not enough data yet for this comparison.
As a senior, his production profile tracks closest to Joshua Pierre-Louis's senior season at Marshall (2025).
Joshua Pierre-Louis
Khari Johnson
Raymond Gay II
Bryan Massey
Dante Thomas
Matches Joshua on
Supporting Cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Major Applewhite
Pass share
37.0%
310 pass / 527 run
Plays / game
69.8
12 games
OL sack rate (allowed)
7.2%
249 dropbacks · PBP
Scheme: Run-heavy.
Coaching Lineage · 2022–2025
2 coachesCoaching transition mid-career: Kane Wommack → Major Applewhite. Worth noting in scheme + development context.
Off-field context — switch tabs to drill into recruit profile, transfer arc, or roster timeline.
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Every honor on the ledger, broken out by stream and selector.
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.
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. | ||||
Modeled rank and official finish by season.
| Season | Team | Role | Latest Model | Forecast | Win | Finalist | Official Finish | Points | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | South Alabama | S4 | #13164 | #13145 | 0.0% | 0.0% | -- | -- | W16 snapshot | Sun Belt |
| 2023 | South Alabama | S4 | #12068 | #11967 | 0.0% | 0.0% | -- | -- | W19 snapshot | Sun Belt |
| 2022 | Baylor | S4 | #11234 | #11164 | 0.0% | 0.0% | -- | -- | W20 snapshot | Big 12 |
| 2021 | Baylor | S4 | #7592 | #7268 | 0.0% | 0.0% | -- | -- | W20 snapshot | Big 12 |
Team, conference, and class by season.
| Season | Team | Conference | Pos | Class | Bio |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | South Alabama | Sun Belt | S | 4 | No. 8 | 5-11 | 173 lb | Phenix City, AL |
| 2024 | South Alabama | Sun Belt | S | 4 | No. 8 | 5-11 | 173 lb | Phenix City, AL |
| 2023 | South Alabama | Sun Belt | S | 4 | No. 8 | 5-11 | 173 lb | Phenix City, AL |
| 2022 | Baylor | Big 12 | S | 4 | No. 8 | 5-11 | 173 lb | Phenix City, AL |
| 2021 | Baylor | Big 12 | S | 4 | No. 8 | 5-11 | 173 lb | Phenix City, AL |