CFB Zeitgeist Score
73
Solid starter in the position cohort. Carried by sacks at the 85th percentile.
Tray Brown
Below the discourse floor — the honest stats-only state.
53 TACKLES · 2.5 SACKS
In Portal · 2026
In transfer portal
2025Coastal Carolina
DestinationTBD
LB · COASTAL CAROLINA · SUN BELT
Tray Brown
- 3
- #55
- 6-1 | 235 lb
- Margate, FL
Heisman Heat
#13497
<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
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CONSENSUS
All-American
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Player Standing · 17 rungs
Tier 2 · StarterR06 · Starter
Starter. A locked-in starting role.
Not on team2-deepStarterRecognizedEliteApex
Career Arc
HS
Recruit
★★★
CFB
College
Coastal Carolina
NFL
NFL Draft
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Heisman futures · live sportsbook odds
#20 in market ▼ from #17 · 6 books
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 | 0.8496 | No. 1285 recruit | HighSchool | Coastal Carolina |
Transfer Arc
Portal movement changes role, context, and perception. This keeps that path in one place.
| Season | Move | Context |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Coastal Carolina -> -- | 3-star | Withdrawn |
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 Coastal Carolina
Composite
0.8496
#1285 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 Tray Brown
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 Tray Brown
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 12g
53Tackles
11.5Tackles for loss
2.5Sacks
Per game
4Tackles
1.0Tackles for loss
0.2Sacks
Projected (13g)
57Tackles
12.5Tackles for loss
2.7Sacks
To hit 80-tackle season (currently 53): needs 27/game over remaining 1.
To hit 100-tackle season (currently 53): needs 47/game over remaining 1.
To hit 6-sack season (currently 2.5): needs 3.5/game over remaining 1.
To hit 10-sack season (currently 2.5): needs 7.5/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.
Tray Brown is trying to climb the steepest award hill in college football: a defensive candidacy. The hook is the disruption profile on Coastal Carolina's defense, with 2.5 sacks, 11.5 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-disruption defender | High-volume tackler against FBS defenders.
2025 Season · Final
2025 season snapshot | final
Tackling & Disruption
TOT
53 89th
SOLO
36 93rd
TFL
11.5 99th
SACK
2.5 92nd
QBH
1 44th
Coverage & Takeaways
PD
1 43rd
Game Log · Week-by-week
2025 season · 12 games
| Wk | Opp | TKL | SOLO | TFL | SACK | INT | PD | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | L 7-48@ Virginia | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | Season-high 8 tackles |
| Wk 2 | W 13-0vs Charleston Southern | 3 | 2 | 1.0 | 0.0 | — | 1 | |
| Wk 3 | L 0-38vs East Carolina | 7 | 7 | 1.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 4 | W 38-20@ South Alabama | 6 | 1 | 0.5 | 0.5 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 6 | L 7-47@ Old Dominion | 3 | 2 | 1.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 7 | W 23-8vs UL Monroe | 6 | 6 | 2.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 8 | W 45-37@ App State | 5 | 2 | 1.5 | 1.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 11 | W 40-27vs Georgia State | 3 | 3 | 1.0 | 1.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 12 | L 40-45@ Georgia Southern | 5 | 3 | 0.5 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 13 | L 7-51@ South Carolina | 2 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 14 | L 10-59vs James Madison | 4 | 3 | 0.5 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Bowl | L 14-23@ Louisiana Tech | 8 | 5 | 2.5 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Total | 53 | 36 | 11.5 | 2.5 | — | 1 |
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
2023Coastal Carolina8-5HC: Tim Beck · Balanced
2025Coastal Carolina6-7HC: Tim Beck · Run-leaning
| Season | Team | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Coastal Carolina | 53 | 36 | 11.5 | 2.5 | 1 | -- | -- |
| 2023 | Coastal Carolina | 11 | 5 | 1.0 | 0.0 | 1 | 1 | -- |
| Career | 2 loaded seasons | 64 | 41 | 12.5 | 2.5 | 2 | 1 | -- |
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 | 53 | #525/4942 | 89th pct | Volumevs FBS DEF |
| Defense | TFL | 11.5 | #62/4972 | 99th pct | Disruptionvs FBS DEF |
| Defense | Sacks | 2.5 | #393/4972 | 92nd pct | Disruptionvs 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 | 36 | #322/4584 | 93rd pct | Volumevs FBS DEF |
| Defense | Fumbles recovered | 2 | #13/736 | 98th pct | Takeawaysvs FBS DEF |
| Defense | Defensive TD | 1 | #23/200 | 89th pct | Scoringvs 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 · 12 games
Home vs Road
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home5g | 4.6 | 1.1 | 0.2 | 0.2 |
| Road7g | 4.3 | 0.9 | 0.2 | 0.0 |
Win vs Loss
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wins5g | 4.6 | 1.2 | 0.5 | 0.2 |
| Losses7g | 4.3 | 0.8 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
First half vs Second half
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-77g | 4.9 | 1.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 |
| Weeks 8+5g | 3.8 | 0.7 | 0.4 | 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
73Solid starter
Elite: tackles for loss (97th). Strength: solo tackles (88th).
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
Tray BrownCoastal CarolinaJohnny Chaney Jr.Florida International· 92% simJackson KuwatchMiami (OH)· 92% simKhalil MurdockBuffalo· 91% sim
Tackles for loss
Solo tackles
Sacks
Tackles
QB hurries
Passes defended
Forced fumbles
Closest peers by overall box-score percentile profile at the same position.
Player DNA
The Thumper
Downhill striker who fills the run lane and blitzes off the edge.
LB
His 2025 production profile sits closest to William Kwenkeu’s 2021 season.
William Kwenkeu
84%match
#2
Charles Hicks
82%
#3
Jeremy Lewis
All-AAC
78%
#4
Corey Flagg Jr.
76%
#5
Gavin Graham
73%
Matches William on
Tackle volume
Weight
TFL rate
Not enough data yet for this comparison.
As a junior, his production profile tracks closest to Daymion Sanford's junior season at Texas A&M (2025).
Daymion Sanford
76%match
#2
Justin Ellis
All-Sun Belt
73%
#3
Curtis Jacobs
71%
#4
Corey Flagg Jr.
71%
#5
Amar Thomas
71%
Matches Daymion on
Tackle volume
Weight
Sack rate
Supporting Cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Tim Beck
Pass share
46.3%
399 pass / 463 run
Plays / game
66.3
13 games
OL sack rate (allowed)
7.2%
290 dropbacks · PBP
Scheme: Run-leaning.
Coaching Lineage · 2023–2025
1 coach2023
Tim Beck
Coastal Carolina
2025
Tim Beck
Coastal Carolina
Played his entire career under Tim Beck.
Bio · Recruiting · Transfer · Roster
Off-field context — switch tabs to drill into recruit profile, transfer arc, or roster timeline.
HometownMargate, FL
Height6'1"
Weight235 lb
Class3
PositionLB
Jersey55
No fields populated yet.
No fields populated yet.
Current teamCoastal Carolina
ConferenceSun Belt
Joined2025
Career arc4 season(s)
Trophy Case · Detail
Every honor on the ledger, broken out by stream and selector.
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 | Coastal Carolina | LB3 | #13497 | #13384 | 0.0% | 0.0% | -- | -- | W16 snapshot | Sun Belt |
| 2023 | Coastal Carolina | LB3 | #12874 | #12680 | 0.0% | 0.0% | -- | -- | W19 snapshot | Sun Belt |
| 2022 | Coastal Carolina | LB3 | #13126 | #12988 | 0.0% | 0.0% | -- | -- | W20 snapshot | Sun Belt |
Roster Timeline
Team, conference, and class by season.
| Season | Team | Conference | Pos | Class | Bio |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Coastal Carolina | Sun Belt | LB | 3 | No. 55 | 6-1 | 235 lb | Margate, FL |
| 2024 | Coastal Carolina | Sun Belt | LB | 3 | No. 55 | 6-1 | 235 lb | Margate, FL |
| 2023 | Coastal Carolina | Sun Belt | LB | 3 | No. 55 | 6-1 | 235 lb | Margate, FL |
| 2022 | Coastal Carolina | Sun Belt | LB | 3 | No. 55 | 6-1 | 235 lb | Margate, FL |