CFB Zeitgeist Score
45
Mid-pack in the position cohort. Carried by qb hurries at the 82nd percentile.
Reginald Hughes
Below the discourse floor — the honest stats-only state.
46 TACKLES · 0 SACKS
In Portal · 2026
In transfer portal
2025Colorado
DestinationTBD
LB · COLORADO · BIG 12
Reginald Hughes
- 4
- #50
- 6-2 | 225 lb
- Tunica, MS
Heisman Heat
#12808
<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
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Player Standing · 17 rungs
Tier 2 · StarterR05 · Part-time starter
Part-time starter. Splitting first-team reps.
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 | 0.8730 | No. 16 recruit | JUCO | Ole Miss |
Transfer Arc
Portal movement changes role, context, and perception. This keeps that path in one place.
| Season | Move | Context |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Colorado -> -- | 3-star | 0.8600 | Immediate |
| 2025 | Jacksonville State -> Colorado | 3-star | Immediate |
| 2024 | Ole Miss -> Jacksonville State | 3-star | 0.8300 | Immediate |
| 2023 | Ole Miss -> -- | 3-star | Immediate |
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 Ole Miss
Composite
0.8730
#16 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 Reginald Hughes
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 Reginald Hughes
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 11g
46Tackles
0.5Tackles for loss
0Sacks
Per game
4Tackles
0Tackles for loss
0Sacks
Projected (13g)
54Tackles
0.6Tackles for loss
0Sacks
To hit 80-tackle season (currently 46): needs 17/game over remaining 2.
To hit 100-tackle season (currently 46): needs 27/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.
Reginald Hughes is trying to climb the steepest award hill in college football: a defensive candidacy. The hook is the disruption profile on Colorado's defense, with 0.0 sacks, 0.5 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.
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?
High-volume tackler against FBS defenders.
2025 Season · Final
2025 season snapshot | final
Tackling & Disruption
TOT
46 86th
SOLO
33 91st
TFL
0.5 47th
SACK
0.0 65th
QBH
3 75th
Game Log · Week-by-week
2025 season · 11 games
| Wk | Opp | TKL | SOLO | TFL | SACK | INT | PD | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | L 20-27vs Georgia Tech | 11 | 9 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | Season-high 11 tackles |
| Wk 2 | W 31-7vs Delaware | 1 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 3 | L 20-36@ Houston | 4 | 3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 4 | W 37-20vs Wyoming | 6 | 4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 5 | L 21-24vs BYU | 2 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 6 | L 21-35@ TCU | 6 | 4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 7 | W 24-17vs Iowa State | 6 | 5 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 9 | L 7-53@ Utah | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 10 | L 17-52vs Arizona | 2 | 1 | 0.5 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 11 | L 22-29@ West Virginia | 3 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 13 | L 17-42vs Arizona State | 4 | 3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Total | 46 | 33 | 0.5 | 0.0 | — | 0 |
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
2022Ole Miss8-5HC: Lane Kiffin · Run-heavy, fast tempo
2023Ole Miss11-2HC: Lane Kiffin · Run-leaning
2025Colorado3-9HC: Deion Sanders · Run-leaning
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 | 46 | #706/4942 | 86th pct | Volumevs FBS DEF |
| Defense | TFL | 0.5 | #2658/4972 | 47th pct | Disruptionvs FBS DEF |
| Defense | Sacks | 0.0 | #1762/4972 | 65th pct | Disruptionvs FBS DEF |
| Defense | QB hurries | 3 | #462/1878 | 75th pct | Disruptionvs FBS DEF |
| Defense | Solo tackles | 33 | #417/4584 | 91st 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
Status—Awaiting 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 · 11 games
Home vs Road
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home7g | 4.6 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| Road4g | 3.5 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
Win vs Loss
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wins3g | 4.3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| Losses8g | 4.1 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
First half vs Second half
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-77g | 5.1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| Weeks 8+4g | 2.5 | 0.1 | 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 LB cohort
45Mid-pack
Elite: solo tackles (85th). Strength: qb hurries (81st). Concern: passes defended (17th).
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
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
Reginald HughesColoradoBlake FletcherAir Force· 77% simMicah DaveyUTEP· 67% simTyler MartinMassachusetts· 65% sim
Solo tackles
QB hurries
Tackles
Forced fumbles
Sacks
Tackles for loss
Passes defended
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 Hayes Maples’s 2023 season.
Hayes Maples
88%match
#2
Kyle Arnholt
87%
#3
Johnathan Butler
82%
#4
Dalton Hughes
82%
#5
Coleton Smith
81%
Matches Hayes on
Weight
PD rate
Sack rate
Not enough data yet for this comparison.
As a senior, his production profile tracks closest to Jack Kiser's senior season at Notre Dame (2023).
Jack Kiser
88%match
NFL Rd 4
#2
Ryan Meed
86%
#3
Dalton Hughes
85%
#4
Kyle Arnholt
85%
#5
Joey Stemler
83%
Matches Jack on
TFL rate
Weight
Sack rate
Supporting Cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Deion Sanders
Pass share
45.6%
356 pass / 424 run
Plays / game
65.0
12 games
OL sack rate (allowed)
12.5%
320 dropbacks · PBP
Scheme: Run-leaning.
Coaching Lineage · 2022–2025
2 coaches2022
Mike Sanford Jr.
Colorado
2023era →
Deion Sanders
Colorado
2025
Deion Sanders
Colorado
Coaching transition mid-career: Mike Sanford Jr. → Deion Sanders. 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.
HometownTunica, MS
Height6'2"
Weight225 lb
Class4
PositionLB
Jersey50
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Current teamColorado
ConferenceBig 12
Joined2025
Career arc4 season(s)
Trophy Case · Confirmed honors
What the selectors said
🎖
ALL-CONFERENCE
All-Conf mention (2024)
All-Conference USA
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-Conference USA | all_conference | Jacksonville State | Conference USA | LB |
Heisman By Year
Modeled rank and official finish by season.
| Season | Team | Role | Latest Model | Forecast | Win | Finalist | Official Finish | Points | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Jacksonville State | LB4 | #12808 | #12840 | 0.0% | 0.0% | -- | -- | W16 snapshot | Conference USA |
| 2023 | Ole Miss | LB4 | #8459 | #8018 | 0.0% | 0.0% | -- | -- | W19 snapshot | SEC |
| 2022 | Ole Miss | LB4 | #10286 | #10082 | 0.0% | 0.0% | -- | -- | W20 snapshot | SEC |
Roster Timeline
Team, conference, and class by season.
| Season | Team | Conference | Pos | Class | Bio |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Colorado | Big 12 | LB | 4 | No. 50 | 6-2 | 225 lb | Tunica, MS |
| 2024 | Jacksonville State | Conference USA | LB | 4 | No. 50 | 6-2 | 225 lb | Tunica, MS |
| 2023 | Ole Miss | SEC | LB | 4 | No. 50 | 6-2 | 225 lb | Tunica, MS |
| 2022 | Ole Miss | SEC | LB | 4 | No. 50 | 6-2 | 225 lb | Tunica, MS |