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Heisman / Players / Muhammed Jammeh /Northern Illinois

Muhammed Jammeh

S · Northern Illinois · Sr · #4

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

57 TACKLES · 0 SACKS

2026 RETURNINGReturning to Northern Illinois for 2026

2026 Outlook

Returning to Northern Illinois for 2026

2026 Depth chart

Projected starter

Safety · Northern Illinois

Returning around him

  • 53% of 2024 offensive production back (Solid continuity)
  • Transfer portal: -17 net (5 in / 22 out)

2026 Award watch

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

Northern Illinois · Last season: 3-9 · Talent rank #125 · 2026 recruiting class #84

S · NORTHERN ILLINOIS · MID-AMERICAN

Muhammed Jammeh

  • 4
  • #4
  • 6-1 | 201 lb
  • Detroit, MI

CFB Zeitgeist Score

53

Mid-pack in the position cohort. Carried by interceptions at the 75th percentile.

Heisman Heat

#11160

<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
★★★
#2194 national
CFB
College
Northern Illinois
2021–2025
NFL
NFL Draft
Not drafted (yet)

Identity & Role

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

PositionS
Class4
Jersey4
Measurements6-1 | 201 lb
HometownDetroit, MI
Primary teamNorthern Illinois

Recruiting Pedigree

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

Top pedigree 3-star No. 2194 recruit
Composite rating 0.8117 HighSchool
Signed with Northern Illinois 2021
Origin Renaissance Detroit, MI, USA
Class Profile Context
2021 3-star | 0.8117 No. 2194 recruit | HighSchool | Northern Illinois

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#11160Latest modeled ballot order
Season forecast#11131Where 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 Northern Illinois

Composite

0.8117

#2194 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 Muhammed Jammeh

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 Muhammed Jammeh

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 11g
57Tackles
1Tackles for loss
0Sacks
Per game
5Tackles
0.1Tackles for loss
0Sacks
Projected (13g)
67Tackles
1.2Tackles for loss
0Sacks

To hit 80-tackle season (currently 57): needs 11.5/game over remaining 2.

To hit 100-tackle season (currently 57): needs 21.5/game over remaining 2.

To hit 6-sack season (currently 0): needs 3/game over remaining 2.

To hit 10-sack season (currently 0): needs 5/game over remaining 2.

Why this is a rare defensive case

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

Muhammed Jammeh is trying to climb the steepest award hill in college football: a defensive candidacy. The hook is the disruption profile on Northern Illinois's defense, with 0.0 sacks, 1.0 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 #11160 0.0% win | 0.0% finalist
Role load -- Role share still loading
Profile quirk Defensive rarity 0.0 sacks | 1.0 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 32 solo | #449/4942 (91st pct)
TFL 1.0 Backfield disruption | #2051/4972 (59th 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 | High-volume tackler against FBS defenders.

Coverage splashHigh-volume tackler

2025 Season · Final

2025 season snapshot | final

Tackling & Disruption

TOT
57 91st
SOLO
32 90th
TFL
1.0 59th
SACK
0.0 65th
QBH
1 44th

Coverage & Takeaways

PD
1 43rd
INT
2 87th

Game Log · Week-by-week

2025 season · 11 games

Box score · CFBD
WkOppTKLSOLOTFLSACKINTPDNote
Wk 1W 19-17vs Holy Cross740.00.011
Wk 2L 9-20@ Maryland430.00.00
Wk 4L 10-38@ Mississippi State620.00.00
Wk 5L 3-6vs San Diego State521.00.010
Wk 6L 14-25vs Miami (OH)760.00.00
Wk 7L 10-16@ Eastern Michigan960.00.00Season-high 9 tackles
Wk 8L 21-48@ Ohio310.00.00
Wk 9W 21-7vs Ball State640.00.00
Wk 12W 45-3@ Massachusetts400.00.00
Wk 13L 19-35vs Western Michigan320.00.00
Wk 14L 31-35vs Kent State320.00.00
Total57321.00.021
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

2021Northern Illinois9-4HC: Thomas Hammock · Run-heavy, fast tempo
2022Northern Illinois3-9HC: Thomas Hammock · Run-leaning
2023Northern Illinois7-6HC: Thomas Hammock · Run-leaning
2025Northern Illinois3-9HC: Thomas Hammock · Run-heavy, slow tempo
SeasonTeam
2025Northern Illinois57321.00.012--
2023Northern Illinois25151.01.0--1--
2022Northern Illinois2480.00.011--
2021Northern Illinois811.00.0------
Career4 loaded seasons114563.01.024--
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)
Open full stat explorer
0 metrics visible Showing all metrics
Group Metric Value Rank Pct Why it matters
Defense Total tackles 57 #449/4942 91st 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 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 32 #448/4584 90th pct Volumevs FBS DEF
Defense INT return yards 11 #393/578 32nd pct Takeawaysvs FBS DEF
Defense INT return avg 5.5 #427/578 26th 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

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 · 11 games

Home/Road · Win/Loss · Season halves

Home vs Road

TKL/gTFL/gSACK/gPD/g
Home6g5.20.20.00.2
Road5g5.20.00.00.0

Win vs Loss

TKL/gTFL/gSACK/gPD/g
Wins3g5.70.00.00.3
Losses8g5.00.10.00.0

First half vs Second half

TKL/gTFL/gSACK/gPD/g
Weeks 1-76g6.30.20.00.2
Weeks 8+5g3.80.00.00.0

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

Savant · Box-rate percentiles

Where this profile ranks vs the S cohort

53Mid-pack
7 metrics · season cumulative

Elite: tackles (84th). Strength: solo tackles (84th). Concern: sacks (23rd).

Tackles#449 / 2975 · 85th pct
57defe
Solo tackles#448 / 2975 · 84th pct
32defe
Interceptions#114 / 817 · 75th pct
2inte
QB hurries#1007 / 2975 · 55th pct
1defe
Passes defended#1191 / 2975 · 48th pct
1defe
Tackles for loss#1936 / 2975 · 28th pct
1.0defe
Sacks#1575 / 2975 · 24th pct
0.0defe

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 · 7 metrics
Muhammed JammehNorthern IllinoisBlake FletcherAir Force· 82% simTyler MartinMassachusetts· 74% simBryce LlewellynEastern Michigan· 74% sim
Tackles
85
Jammeh
99
Fletcher
98
Martin
99
Llewellyn
Solo tackles
84
Jammeh
91
Fletcher
87
Martin
95
Llewellyn
Interceptions
75
Jammeh
31
Martin
75
Llewellyn
QB hurries
55
Jammeh
92
Fletcher
22
Martin
72
Llewellyn
Passes defended
48
Jammeh
67
Fletcher
67
Martin
86
Llewellyn
Tackles for loss
28
Jammeh
28
Fletcher
63
Martin
80
Llewellyn
Sacks
24
Jammeh
24
Fletcher
24
Martin
24
Llewellyn

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 Scotty Edwards’s 2025 season.

Scotty Edwards

94%match

Stanford · 2025

#2

Mitch Leigber

Stanford · 2024

91%
#3

Isaac White

Wyoming · 2024

89%
#4

Bailey Despanie

Tulane · 2024

All-AAC
88%
#5

Kamren Fabiculanan

Washington · 2024

89%

Matches Scotty on

Class year
Height
PD rate

Not enough data yet for this comparison.

As a graduate, his production profile tracks closest to Kamren Fabiculanan's graduate season at Washington (2024).

Kamren Fabiculanan

88%match

Washington · 2024

#2

Te'Rai Powell

Massachusetts · 2024

87%
#3

Marlen Sewell

Vanderbilt · 2025

84%
#4

Devin Lafayette

Troy · 2024

All-Sun Belt
83%
#5

Deshawn Pace

UCF · 2024

84%

Matches Kamren on

Class year
Height
Weight

Supporting Cast · Scheme

Staff and system around the player

2025 season

Head Coach

Thomas Hammock

Pass share

33.0%

244 pass / 495 run

Plays / game

61.6

12 games

OL sack rate (allowed)

7.3%

234 dropbacks · PBP

Scheme: Run-heavy, slow tempo.

Coaching Lineage · 2021–2025

1 coach
2021
Thomas Hammock
Northern Illinois
2022
Thomas Hammock
Northern Illinois
2023
Thomas Hammock
Northern Illinois
2025
Thomas Hammock
Northern Illinois

Played his entire career under Thomas Hammock.

Bio · Recruiting · Transfer · Roster

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

HometownDetroit, MI
Height6'1"
Weight201 lb
Class4
PositionS
Jersey4

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 Northern Illinois S4 #11160 #11131 0.0% 0.0% -- -- W16 snapshot | Mid-American
2023 Northern Illinois S4 #11533 #11535 0.0% 0.0% -- -- W19 snapshot | Mid-American
2022 Northern Illinois S4 #14455 #14639 0.0% 0.0% -- -- W20 snapshot | Mid-American
2021 Northern Illinois S4 #13641 #13631 0.0% 0.0% -- -- W20 snapshot | Mid-American

Roster Timeline

Team, conference, and class by season.

Season Team Conference Pos Class Bio
2025 Northern Illinois Mid-American S 4 No. 4 | 6-1 | 201 lb | Detroit, MI
2024 Northern Illinois Mid-American S 4 No. 4 | 6-1 | 201 lb | Detroit, MI
2023 Northern Illinois Mid-American S 4 No. 4 | 6-1 | 201 lb | Detroit, MI
2022 Northern Illinois Mid-American S 4 No. 4 | 6-1 | 201 lb | Detroit, MI
2021 Northern Illinois Mid-American S 4 No. 4 | 6-1 | 201 lb | Detroit, MI