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Heisman / Players / Owen Pewee /UTSA

Owen Pewee

LB · UTSA · Jr · #13

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

28 TACKLES · 0 SACKS

2026 RETURNINGReturning to UTSA for 2026

2026 Outlook

Returning to UTSA for 2026

2026 Depth chart

Projected starter

Linebacker · UTSA

Returning around him

  • 96% of 2024 offensive production back (Strong continuity)
  • Transfer portal: -2 net (21 in / 23 out)

2026 Award watch

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

UTSA · Last season: 7-6 · Talent rank #65 · 2026 recruiting class #107

LB · UTSA · AMERICAN ATHLETIC

Owen Pewee

  • 3
  • #13
  • 6-2 | 205 lb
  • Katy, TX

CFB Zeitgeist Score

54

Mid-pack in the position cohort. Carried by tackles for loss at the 73rd percentile.

Heisman Heat

#9067

<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 LB AWARD

Butkus

CONSENSUS

All-American

Player Standing · 17 rungs

Tier 2 · Starter

R05 · Part-time starter

Part-time starter. Splitting first-team reps.

Not on team2-deepStarterRecognizedEliteApex

Career Arc

HS
Recruit
★★★
#647 national
CFB
College
UTSA
2022–2025
NFL
NFL Draft
Not drafted (yet)

Identity & Role

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

PositionLB
Class3
Jersey13
Measurements6-2 | 205 lb
HometownKaty, TX
Primary teamUTSA

Recruiting Pedigree

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

Top pedigree 3-star No. 647 recruit
Composite rating 0.8756 HighSchool
Signed with UTSA 2022
Origin Cy Park Cypress, TX, USA
Class Profile Context
2022 3-star | 0.8756 No. 647 recruit | HighSchool | UTSA

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#9067Latest modeled ballot order
Season forecast#9991Where 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 UTSA

Composite

0.8756

#647 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 Owen Pewee

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 Owen Pewee

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
28Tackles
4Tackles for loss
0Sacks
Per game
2Tackles
0.3Tackles for loss
0Sacks
Projected (13g)
30Tackles
4.3Tackles for loss
0Sacks

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 0): needs 6/game over remaining 1.

To hit 10-sack season (currently 0): needs 10/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.

Owen Pewee is trying to climb the steepest award hill in college football: a defensive candidacy. The hook is the disruption profile on UTSA's defense, with 0.0 sacks, 4.0 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.

Current place #9067 0.0% win | 0.0% finalist
Role load -- Role share still loading
Profile quirk Defensive rarity 0.0 sacks | 4.0 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 28 13 solo | #1469/4942 (70th pct)
TFL 4.0 Backfield disruption | #738/4972 (85th 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?

High-disruption defender against FBS defenders.

High-disruption defender

2025 Season · Final

2025 season snapshot | final

Tackling & Disruption

TOT
28 70th
SOLO
13 65th
TFL
4.0 85th
SACK
0.0 65th
QBH
6 94th

Coverage & Takeaways

PD
1 43rd

Game Log · Week-by-week

2025 season · 12 games

Box score · CFBD
WkOppTKLSOLOTFLSACKINTPDNote
Wk 1L 24-42@ Texas A&M000.00.00
Wk 2L 36-43vs Texas State431.00.00
Wk 3W 48-20vs Incarnate Word100.00.00
Wk 4W 17-16@ Colorado State610.00.00Season-high 6 tackles
Wk 6L 21-27@ Temple111.00.00
Wk 7W 61-13vs Rice111.00.00
Wk 8L 17-55@ North Texas420.00.00
Wk 11L 23-55@ South Florida100.50.00
Wk 12W 28-7@ Charlotte210.00.00
Wk 13W 58-24vs East Carolina210.00.00
Wk 14L 24-27vs Army330.00.00
BowlW 57-20vs Florida International300.50.01
Total28134.00.01
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

2022UTSA11-3HC: Jeff Traylor · Balanced
2023UTSA9-4HC: Jeff Traylor · Run-leaning
2024UTSA7-6HC: Jeff Traylor · Balanced, fast tempo
2025UTSA7-6HC: Jeff Traylor · Balanced
SeasonTeam
2025UTSA28134.00.01----
2024UTSA42256.52.022--
2023UTSA30206.51.021--
2022UTSA220.00.0------
Career4 loaded seasons1026017.03.053--
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 -- -- pick-six TD
Pass breakups 1 Coverage disruption | #1241/2184 (43rd pct)
QB pressures 6 Quarterback hurries | #117/1878 (94th pct)
Open full stat explorer
0 metrics visible Showing all metrics
Group Metric Value Rank Pct Why it matters
Defense Total tackles 28 #1469/4942 70th pct Volumevs FBS DEF
Defense TFL 4.0 #738/4972 85th pct Disruptionvs FBS DEF
Defense Sacks 0.0 #1762/4972 65th pct Disruptionvs FBS DEF
Defense Pass breakups 1 #1241/2184 43rd pct Coveragevs FBS DEF
Defense QB hurries 6 #117/1878 94th pct Disruptionvs FBS DEF
Defense Solo tackles 13 #1622/4584 65th pct Volumevs 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 Butkus 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
Home6g2.30.40.00.2
Road6g2.30.20.00.0

Win vs Loss

TKL/gTFL/gSACK/gPD/g
Wins6g2.50.20.00.2
Losses6g2.20.40.00.0

First half vs Second half

TKL/gTFL/gSACK/gPD/g
Weeks 1-77g2.30.50.00.1
Weeks 8+5g2.40.10.00.0

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

Savant · Box-rate percentiles

Where this profile ranks vs the LB cohort

54Mid-pack
6 metrics · season cumulative

Elite: qb hurries (94th). Concern: sacks (23rd).

QB hurries#117 / 2975 · 95th pct
6defe
Tackles for loss#736 / 2975 · 73rd pct
4.0defe
Tackles#1469 / 2975 · 49th pct
28defe
Passes defended#1191 / 2975 · 48th pct
1defe
Solo tackles#1622 / 2975 · 44th pct
13defe
Sacks#1575 / 2975 · 24th pct
0.0defe

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

Advanced Savant · LB · 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 · 6 metrics
Owen PeweeUTSABryce LlewellynEastern Michigan· 66% simBlake FletcherAir Force· 66% simTrey FieldsNorth Texas· 65% sim
QB hurries
95
Pewee
72
Llewellyn
92
Fletcher
95
Fields
Tackles for loss
73
Pewee
80
Llewellyn
28
Fletcher
87
Fields
Tackles
49
Pewee
99
Llewellyn
99
Fletcher
98
Fields
Passes defended
48
Pewee
86
Llewellyn
67
Fletcher
67
Fields
Solo tackles
44
Pewee
95
Llewellyn
91
Fletcher
96
Fields
Sacks
24
Pewee
24
Llewellyn
24
Fletcher
63
Fields

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

Player DNA

The Balanced Linebacker

Solid in every phase without a signature dimension.

LB

His 2025 production profile sits closest to Kenneth McShan’s 2025 season.

Kenneth McShan

73%match

Navy · 2025

#2

Samuel Mathews

Texas A&M · 2023

71%
#3

Daveren Rayner

Kentucky · 2023

69%
#4

Hadari Darden

San José State · 2021

68%
#5

Tyren Dupree

Liberty · 2021

68%

Matches Kenneth on

Weight
TFL rate

Differs from Kenneth on

Class year (lower)
Sack rate (lower)
Height (higher)

Not enough data yet for this comparison.

As a senior, his production profile tracks closest to Nate Ritchie's senior season at Utah (2025).

Nate Ritchie

82%match

Utah · 2025

#2

Zyere Horton

Florida Atlantic · 2025

78%
#3

James Kreutz

Illinois · 2025

75%
#4

K.J. Cloyd

Miami · 2023

70%
#5

Caleb Ransaw

Tulane · 2024

All-AACNFL Rd 3 · Pk 24
69%

Matches Nate on

Class year
Weight
PD rate

Supporting Cast · Scheme

Staff and system around the player

2025 season

Head Coach

Jeff Traylor

Pass share

50.7%

446 pass / 434 run

Plays / game

67.7

13 games

OL sack rate (allowed)

6.0%

281 dropbacks · PBP

Scheme: Balanced.

Coaching Lineage · 2022–2025

1 coach
2022
Jeff Traylor
UTSA
2023
Jeff Traylor
UTSA
2024
Jeff Traylor
UTSA
2025
Jeff Traylor
UTSA

Played his entire career under Jeff Traylor.

Bio · Recruiting · Transfer · Roster

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

HometownKaty, TX
Height6'2"
Weight205 lb
Class3
PositionLB
Jersey13

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 UTSA LB3 #9067 #9991 0.0% 0.0% -- -- W16 snapshot | American Athletic
2023 UTSA LB3 #7288 #7803 0.0% 0.0% -- -- W19 snapshot | American Athletic
2022 UTSA LB3 #10764 #10487 0.0% 0.0% -- -- W20 snapshot | Conference USA

Roster Timeline

Team, conference, and class by season.

Season Team Conference Pos Class Bio
2025 UTSA American Athletic LB 3 No. 13 | 6-2 | 205 lb | Katy, TX
2024 UTSA American Athletic LB 3 No. 13 | 6-2 | 205 lb | Katy, TX
2023 UTSA American Athletic LB 3 No. 13 | 6-2 | 205 lb | Katy, TX
2022 UTSA Conference USA LB 3 No. 13 | 6-2 | 205 lb | Katy, TX