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Heisman / Players / Rocco Underwood /Florida

Rocco Underwood

LS · Florida · Sr · #42

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

2 TACKLES · 0 SACKS

2026 RETURNINGReturning to Florida for 2026

2026 Outlook

Returning to Florida for 2026

2026 Depth chart

Projected starter

Long snapper · Florida

Returning around him

  • 55% of 2024 offensive production back (Solid continuity)
  • 7 Florida players drafted to NFL
  • Transfer portal: -9 net (27 in / 36 out)

2026 Award watch

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

Florida · Last season: 4-8 (AP #13) · Talent rank #12 · 2026 recruiting class #7

LS · FLORIDA · SEC

Rocco Underwood

  • 4
  • #42
  • 6-3 | 231 lb
  • Lake Mary, FL

CFB Zeitgeist LS Score

Awaiting

Heisman Heat

#7263

<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 POSITION AWARD

Position award

CONSENSUS

All-American

Player Standing · 17 rungs

Tier 2 · Starter

R07 · Impact starter

Impact starter. Producing measurable value above replacement.

Not on team2-deepStarterRecognizedEliteApex

Career arc · Season-by-season Standing

4 seasons on the ladder

Peak: R09 All-Conference HM / 2nd team · 2025

2022

Florida · LS

2023

Florida · LS

2024

Florida · LS

2025

Florida · LS

R09 · All-Conference HM / 2nd team

Recognized

Career Arc

HS
Recruit
★★★
#2155 national
CFB
College
Florida
2022–2025
NFL
NFL Draft
Not drafted (yet)

Heisman futures · live sportsbook odds

#15 in market ▼ from #14 · 4 books

+35002.8% implied▼ lengthened from +3000

Identity & Role

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

PositionLS
Class4
Jersey42
Measurements6-3 | 231 lb
HometownLake Mary, FL
Primary teamFlorida

Recruiting Pedigree

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

Top pedigree 3-star No. 2155 recruit
Composite rating 0.8144 HighSchool
Signed with Florida 2021
Origin Lake Mary Lake Mary, FL, USA
Class Profile Context
2021 3-star | 0.8144 No. 2155 recruit | HighSchool | Florida

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#7263Latest modeled ballot order
Season forecast#7377Where 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

NIL · Recruiting · NFL Draft

Market value, pedigree & pro outcome

Recruit stars

★★★☆☆

to Florida

Composite

0.8144

#2155 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 Rocco Underwood

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 Rocco Underwood

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.

Scenario Explorer

Available for players with a qualifying signature metric (passing yards, rushing yards, receiving yards, sacks, etc.). The slider projects how a season finishes if the current pace holds.

Why the honors trail matters

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

The useful clue on this card is not just the Heisman rank, but the broader honors spine. Rocco Underwood already has 2 loaded recognition items, which helps distinguish a player who is merely productive from one who is already earning selector-level validation.

Current place #7263 0.0% win | 0.0% finalist
Role load -- Role share still loading
Profile quirk Honors spine 2 honors loaded

2025 Season · Final

Traditional stats first. Advanced context underneath.

Last season

OTHER season snapshot

2025 season snapshot | final

2025 season snapshot | finalData: CFBD player stats + local Heisman modelPeer context: same position + same level
Scrimmage yards 0 Combined rushing and receiving
Touchdowns 0 Across offense and returns
Usage -- Role share still loading
Player identity What kind of player is this?

30-second read

What kind of player is this?

This player profile will sharpen as more advanced context is loaded.

Balanced profile

Game Log · Week-by-week

2025 season · 3 games

Box score · CFBD
WkOppCMP/ATTYDSTDINTYPAQBRNote
Wk 3L 10-20@ LSU
Wk 11L 7-38@ Kentucky
Wk 12L 24-34@ Ole Miss
Total
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

2022Florida6-7HC: Billy Napier · Run-leaning
2023Florida5-7HC: Billy Napier · Balanced
2024Florida8-5HC: Billy Napier · Run-leaning
2025Florida4-8HC: Billy Napier · Balanced
Advanced layer Usage, value, and context

Advanced metrics second

Advanced Metrics

Usage, value, and opponent-adjusted context.

Usage Value Context
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.

Open full stat explorer
0 metrics visible Showing all metrics
Group Metric Value Rank Pct Why it matters
Defense Total tackles 2 #55/388 86th pct Volumevs FBS peers
Defense Fumbles recovered 1 #2/24 96th pct Takeawaysvs FBS peers
Defense Solo tackles 1 #63/282 78th pct Volumevs FBS peers
Defense Sacks 0.0 #15/390 96th pct Disruptionvs FBS peers
Defense TFL 0.0 #20/390 95th pct Disruptionvs FBS peers
Ball Security Fumbles lost 0 #1/34 100th pct Turnoversvs FBS peers

Player Standing

Universal 17-step ladder. Tier pills below; accolade streams nested.

ALL-CONF HM

On-team2-deepStartingRecognizedEliteApex

ALL-CONF HM · Rung 9 of 16

Why he’s here

All-Conference honorable mention / 2nd team — the recognition has started.

What moves him up

A best-at-position run lifts to 1st team.

What moves him down

A back-end conference finish drops out of the honor list.

Accolade streams

StatusAwaiting tracker

Heisman model tracks the top FBS contenders weekly; this player hasn't entered the watch list yet.

Splits · Per-game

2025 season · 3 games

Home/Road · Win/Loss · Season halves

Home vs Road

YDS/gTD/gYPAINT/g
Road3g

Win vs Loss

YDS/gTD/gYPAINT/g
Losses3g

First half vs Second half

YDS/gTD/gYPAINT/g
Weeks 1-71g
Weeks 8+2g

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

Box-score Savant card waits for a season-stat snapshot above the cohort floor. Returns once enough box-score volume lands.

Advanced Savant · LS · 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 returns once this player clears the Savant metric floor (4+ scored bars).
DNA Match awaiting data — similarity scores compute once season stats clear the volume gate for this position cohort.

Supporting Cast · Scheme

Staff and system around the player

2025 season

Head Coach

Billy Napier

Pass share

49.4%

372 pass / 381 run

Plays / game

62.8

12 games

OL sack rate (allowed)

7.1%

311 dropbacks · PBP

Scheme: Balanced.

Coaching Lineage · 2022–2025

1 coach
2022
Billy Napier
Florida
2023
Billy Napier
Florida
2024
Billy Napier
Florida
2025
Billy Napier
Florida

Played his entire career under Billy Napier.

Bio · Recruiting · Transfer · Roster

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

HometownLake Mary, FL
Height6'3"
Weight231 lb
Class4
PositionLS
Jersey42

Trophy Case · Confirmed honors

What the selectors said

2 entries
🎖

ALL-CONFERENCE

All-Conf mention (2025)

All-SEC

Trophy Case · Detail

Every honor on the ledger, broken out by stream and selector.

All-Conference

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
2025 All-SEC all_conference Florida | SEC LS
2024 Mannelly position_award Florida | Mannelly winner | LS

Heisman By Year

Modeled rank and official finish by season.

Season Team Role Latest Model Forecast Win Finalist Official Finish Points Context
2024 Florida LS4 #7263 #7377 0.0% 0.0% -- -- W16 snapshot | SEC
2023 Florida LS4 #7123 #7118 0.0% 0.0% -- -- W19 snapshot | SEC
2022 Florida LS4 #6893 #6919 0.0% 0.0% -- -- W20 snapshot | SEC
2021 Florida LS4 #5750 #5501 0.0% 0.0% -- -- W20 snapshot | SEC

Roster Timeline

Team, conference, and class by season.

Season Team Conference Pos Class Bio
2025 Florida SEC LS 4 No. 42 | 6-3 | 231 lb | Lake Mary, FL
2024 Florida SEC LS 4 No. 42 | 6-3 | 231 lb | Lake Mary, FL
2023 Florida SEC LS 4 No. 42 | 6-3 | 231 lb | Lake Mary, FL
2022 Florida SEC LS 4 No. 42 | 6-3 | 231 lb | Lake Mary, FL
2021 Florida SEC LS 4 No. 42 | 6-3 | 231 lb | Lake Mary, FL