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Robby Harrison

DL · Western Kentucky · Jr · #13

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

16 TACKLES · 1 SACKS

2026 TRANSFERTransferred Western Kentucky → Colorado State for 2026

Where He Ended Up · Transfer

Transferred to Colorado State

2025Western Kentucky
2026Colorado State

DL · WESTERN KENTUCKY · CONFERENCE USA

Robby Harrison

  • 3
  • #13
  • 6-4 | 320 lb
  • Greenwood, SC

CFB Zeitgeist Score

41

Mid-pack in the position cohort. Carried by sacks at the 63rd percentile.

Heisman Heat

#5594

<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 DEFENSE AWARD

Nagurski

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
★★★
#1414 national
CFB
College
2 teams
2023–2025
NFL
NFL Draft
Not drafted (yet)

Identity & Role

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

PositionDL
Class3
Jersey13
Measurements6-4 | 320 lb
HometownGreenwood, SC
Primary teamWestern Kentucky

Recruiting Pedigree

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

Top pedigree 3-star No. 1414 recruit
Composite rating 0.8444 HighSchool
Signed with Arizona State 2022
Origin Emerald Greenwood, SC, USA
Class Profile Context
2022 3-star | 0.8444 No. 1414 recruit | HighSchool | Arizona State

Transfer Arc

Portal movement changes role, context, and perception. This keeps that path in one place.

Portal moves 3 Programs changed on file
Latest destination Colorado State 2026
Transfer stars 3-star CFBD transfer rating context
Eligibility Immediate Jan 15, 2026
Season Move Context
2026 Western Kentucky -> Colorado State 3-star | 0.8400 | Immediate
2025 Indiana -> Western Kentucky 3-star | 0.8200 | Immediate
2023 Arizona State -> Indiana 3-star | 0.8500 | 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 16
Current nowcast#5594Latest modeled ballot order
Season forecast#5266Where 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 Arizona State

Composite

0.8444

#1414 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 Robby Harrison

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 Robby Harrison

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 9g
16Tackles
2Tackles for loss
1Sacks
Per game
2Tackles
0.2Tackles for loss
0.1Sacks
Projected (13g)
23Tackles
2.9Tackles for loss
1.4Sacks

To hit 80-tackle season (currently 16): needs 16/game over remaining 4.

To hit 100-tackle season (currently 16): needs 21/game over remaining 4.

To hit 6-sack season (currently 1): needs 1.2/game over remaining 4.

To hit 10-sack season (currently 1): needs 2.2/game over remaining 4.

Why this is a rare defensive case

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

Robby Harrison is trying to climb the steepest award hill in college football: a defensive candidacy. The hook is the disruption profile on Western Kentucky's defense, with 1.0 sacks, 2.0 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 #5594 0.0% win | 0.0% finalist
Role load -- Role share still loading
Profile quirk Transfer path 3 portal moves

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 16 8 solo | #2295/4942 (54th pct)
TFL 2.0 Backfield disruption | #1443/4972 (71st pct)
Sacks 1.0 Pass-rush finish | #872/4972 (82nd pct)
Player identity What kind of player is this?

30-second read

What kind of player is this?

Defensive contributor against FBS defenders.

Balanced profile

2025 Season · Final

2025 season snapshot | final

Tackling & Disruption

TOT
16 54th
SOLO
8 50th
TFL
2.0 71st
SACK
1.0 82nd
QBH
1 44th

Game Log · Week-by-week

2025 season · 9 games

Box score · CFBD
WkOppTKLSOLOTFLSACKINTPDNote
Wk 1W 41-24vs Sam Houston100.00.00Season-high 5 tackles
Wk 1W 55-6vs North Alabama540.00.00Season-high 5 tackles
Wk 2L 21-45@ Toledo210.00.00
Wk 4W 31-16vs Nevada100.00.00
Wk 8L 6-25vs Florida International100.00.00
Wk 9W 28-27@ Louisiana Tech200.50.00
Wk 10W 35-16vs New Mexico State000.00.00
Wk 13L 10-13@ LSU100.50.00
Wk 14L 34-37@ Jacksonville State331.01.00
Total1682.01.00
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

2023Indiana3-9HC: Tom Allen · Run-leaning
2024Indiana11-2HC: Curt Cignetti · Run-leaning
2025Western Kentucky9-4HC: Tyson Helton · Balanced
SeasonTeam
2025Western Kentucky1682.01.0------
2024Indiana--------------
2023Indiana310.00.0------
Career3 loaded seasons1992.01.0------
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 0 Coverage disruption
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 16 #2295/4942 54th pct Volumevs FBS DEF
Defense TFL 2.0 #1443/4972 71st pct Disruptionvs FBS DEF
Defense Sacks 1.0 #872/4972 82nd pct Disruptionvs FBS DEF
Defense QB hurries 1 #1051/1878 44th pct Disruptionvs FBS DEF
Defense Solo tackles 8 #2283/4584 50th 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 Lombardi 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/Road · Win/Loss · Season halves

Home vs Road

TKL/gTFL/gSACK/gPD/g
Home5g1.60.00.00.0
Road4g2.00.50.20.0

Win vs Loss

TKL/gTFL/gSACK/gPD/g
Wins5g1.80.10.00.0
Losses4g1.80.40.20.0

First half vs Second half

TKL/gTFL/gSACK/gPD/g
Weeks 1-74g2.20.00.00.0
Weeks 8+5g1.40.40.20.0

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

Savant · Box-rate percentiles

Where this profile ranks vs the DL cohort

41Mid-pack
6 metrics · season cumulative

Concern: passes defended (17th).

Sacks#847 / 2975 · 63rd pct
1.0defe
QB hurries#1007 / 2975 · 55th pct
1defe
Tackles for loss#1424 / 2975 · 47th pct
2.0defe
Solo tackles#2282 / 2975 · 21st pct
8defe
Tackles#2295 / 2975 · 21st pct
16defe
Passes defended#1916 / 2975 · 18th pct
0defe

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

Advanced Savant · DL · 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
Robby HarrisonWestern KentuckyMarcAnthony ParkerNavy· 51% simMicah DaveyUTEP· 50% simDaniel WingateMaryland· 50% sim
Sacks
63
Harrison
80
Parker
63
Davey
74
Wingate
QB hurries
55
Harrison
88
Parker
82
Davey
72
Wingate
Tackles for loss
47
Harrison
87
Parker
91
Davey
87
Wingate
Solo tackles
21
Harrison
96
Parker
99
Davey
99
Wingate
Tackles
21
Harrison
98
Parker
99
Davey
98
Wingate
Passes defended
18
Harrison
18
Parker
18
Davey
48
Wingate

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

Player DNA

The Nose Anchor

Two-gap space-eater who occupies blockers and frees the linebackers.

IDL

His 2025 production profile sits closest to Chris McClellan’s 2022 season.

Chris McClellan

91%match

Florida · 2022

NFL Rd 3 · Pk 13
#2

PJ Mustipher

Penn State · 2021

90%
#3

Jacob Slade

Michigan State · 2021

All-Big Ten
90%
#4

T.J. Pesefea

Arizona State · 2022

88%
#5

Fabien Lovett Sr.

Florida State · 2021

88%

Matches Chris on

Sack rate
Weight
Height

Not enough data yet for this comparison.

As a junior, his production profile tracks closest to Kayden McDonald's junior season at Ohio State (2025).

Kayden McDonald

86%match

Ohio State · 2025

Consensus All-AmericanNFL Rd 2 · Pk 4
#2

Jayvon Parker

Washington · 2024

85%
#3

Mason Graham

Michigan · 2024

Consensus All-AmericanNFL Rd 1 · Pk 5
84%
#4

A'Mauri Washington

Oregon · 2025

All-Big Ten
83%
#5

R.J. Jackson

UCF · 2025

83%

Matches Kayden on

Class year
Weight
TFL rate

Supporting Cast · Scheme

Staff and system around the player

2025 season

Head Coach

Tyson Helton

Pass share

54.9%

492 pass / 404 run

Plays / game

68.9

13 games

OL sack rate (allowed)

5.5%

366 dropbacks · PBP

Scheme: Balanced.

Coaching Lineage · 2023–2025

1 coach
2023
Tyson Helton
Western Kentucky
2024
Tyson Helton
Western Kentucky
2025
Tyson Helton
Western Kentucky

Played his entire career under Tyson Helton.

Bio · Recruiting · Transfer · Roster

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

HometownGreenwood, SC
Height6'4"
Weight320 lb
Class3
PositionDL
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 Indiana DL3 #5594 #5266 0.0% 0.0% -- -- W16 snapshot | Big Ten
2023 Indiana DL3 #13902 #14024 0.0% 0.0% -- -- W19 snapshot | Big Ten
2022 Arizona State DL3 #14103 #14117 0.0% 0.0% -- -- W20 snapshot | Pac-12

Roster Timeline

Team, conference, and class by season.

Season Team Conference Pos Class Bio
2025 Western Kentucky Conference USA DL 3 No. 13 | 6-4 | 320 lb | Greenwood, SC
2024 Indiana Big Ten DL 3 No. 13 | 6-4 | 320 lb | Greenwood, SC
2023 Indiana Big Ten DL 3 No. 13 | 6-4 | 320 lb | Greenwood, SC
2022 Arizona State Pac-12 DL 3 No. 13 | 6-4 | 320 lb | Greenwood, SC