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Heisman / Players / Trenton Alan Yowe /Arkansas State

Trenton Alan Yowe

CB · Arkansas State · Sr

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

49 TACKLES · 1 SACKS

IN PORTALIn transfer portal — destination TBD (from Arkansas State)

In Portal · 2026

In transfer portal

2025Arkansas State
DestinationTBD

CB · ARKANSAS STATE · SUN BELT

Trenton Alan Yowe

  • 4
  • 6-2 | 182 lb
  • Calera, AL

CFB Zeitgeist Score

65

Solid starter in the position cohort. Carried by sacks at the 63rd percentile.

Heisman Heat

#15006

<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 DB AWARD

Jim Thorpe

CONSENSUS

All-American

Player Standing · 17 rungs

Tier 2 · Starter

R06 · Starter

Starter. A locked-in starting role.

Not on team2-deepStarterRecognizedEliteApex

Career Arc

HS
Recruit
★★★
#929 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.

PositionCB
Class4
Jersey--
Measurements6-2 | 182 lb
HometownCalera, AL
Primary teamArkansas State

Recruiting Pedigree

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

Top pedigree 3-star No. 157 recruit
Composite rating 0.8156 JUCO
Signed with App State 2023
Origin Coahoma C.C. Calera, AL, USA
Class Profile Context
2023 3-star | 0.8156 No. 157 recruit | JUCO | App State
2020 3-star | 0.8596 No. 929 recruit | HighSchool

Transfer Arc

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

Portal moves 2 Programs changed on file
Latest destination -- 2026
Transfer stars 3-star CFBD transfer rating context
Eligibility Immediate Dec 28, 2025
Season Move Context
2026 Arkansas State -> -- 3-star | Immediate
2025 App State -> Arkansas State 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 16
Current nowcast#15006Latest modeled ballot order
Season forecast#15093Where 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 App State

Composite

0.8156

#157 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 Trenton Alan Yowe

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 Trenton Alan Yowe

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

final
Through 13g
49Tackles
1.5Tackles for loss
1Sacks
Per game
4Tackles
0.1Tackles for loss
0.1Sacks
Final
49Tackles
1.5Tackles for loss
1Sacks

Why this is a rare defensive case

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

Trenton Alan Yowe is trying to climb the steepest award hill in college football: a defensive candidacy. The hook is the disruption profile on Arkansas State's defense, with 1.0 sacks, 1.5 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.

Current place #15006 0.0% win | 0.0% finalist
Role load -- Role share still loading
Profile quirk Transfer path 2 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 49 32 solo | #628/4942 (87th pct)
TFL 1.5 Backfield disruption | #1771/4972 (64th 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?

Coverage splash | High-volume tackler against FBS defenders.

Coverage splashHigh-volume tackler

2025 Season · Final

2025 season snapshot | final

Tackling & Disruption

TOT
49 87th
SOLO
32 90th
TFL
1.5 64th
SACK
1.0 82nd
QBH
2 66th

Coverage & Takeaways

PD
4 84th

Game Log · Week-by-week

2025 season · 13 games

Box score · CFBD
WkOppTKLSOLOTFLSACKINTPDNote
Wk 1W 42-24vs Southeast Missouri State310.00.00
Wk 2L 14-56@ Arkansas310.00.01
Wk 3L 16-24vs Iowa State320.00.01
Wk 4L 21-28@ Kennesaw State431.01.00
Wk 5L 16-28@ UL Monroe430.00.00
Wk 6W 31-30vs Texas State630.00.00
Wk 8W 15-14@ South Alabama220.00.00
Wk 9W 34-24vs Georgia Southern100.00.00
Wk 10W 23-10@ Troy430.00.01
Wk 11L 21-27vs Southern Miss760.50.00
Wk 13L 30-34vs Louisiana320.00.01
Wk 14W 30-29@ App State850.00.00Season-high 8 tackles
BowlW 34-28vs Missouri State110.00.00
Total49321.51.04
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

2023App State9-5HC: Shawn Clark · Balanced
2025Arkansas State7-6HC: Butch Jones · Balanced
SeasonTeam
2025Arkansas State49321.51.04----
2023App State982.51.021--
Career2 loaded seasons58404.02.061--
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 4 Coverage disruption | #340/2184 (84th pct)
QB pressures 2 Quarterback hurries | #647/1878 (66th pct)
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Group Metric Value Rank Pct Why it matters
Defense Total tackles 49 #628/4942 87th pct Volumevs FBS DEF
Defense TFL 1.5 #1771/4972 64th pct Disruptionvs FBS DEF
Defense Sacks 1.0 #872/4972 82nd pct Disruptionvs FBS DEF
Defense Pass breakups 4 #340/2184 84th pct Coveragevs FBS DEF
Defense QB hurries 2 #647/1878 66th pct Disruptionvs FBS DEF
Defense Solo tackles 32 #448/4584 90th 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

StatusAwaiting tracker

The Thorpe 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 · 13 games

Home/Road · Win/Loss · Season halves

Home vs Road

TKL/gTFL/gSACK/gPD/g
Home7g3.40.10.00.3
Road6g4.20.20.20.3

Win vs Loss

TKL/gTFL/gSACK/gPD/g
Wins7g3.60.00.00.1
Losses6g4.00.20.20.5

First half vs Second half

TKL/gTFL/gSACK/gPD/g
Weeks 1-77g3.40.10.10.3
Weeks 8+6g4.20.10.00.3

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

Savant · Box-rate percentiles

Where this profile ranks vs the CB cohort

65Solid starter
7 metrics · season cumulative

Elite: passes defended (85th). Strength: solo tackles (84th).

Passes defended#340 / 2975 · 86th pct
4defe
Solo tackles#448 / 2975 · 84th pct
32defe
Tackles#628 / 2975 · 79th pct
49defe
QB hurries#634 / 2975 · 72nd pct
2defe
Sacks#847 / 2975 · 63rd pct
1.0defe
Forced fumbles#36 / 687 · 47th pct
0fumb
Tackles for loss#1711 / 2975 · 39th pct
1.5defe

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

Advanced Savant · CB · 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 · 7 metrics
Trenton Alan YoweArkansas StateEli BlakeyMiami (OH)· 82% simAndon ThomasArmy· 81% simJordan PollardSan José State· 80% sim
Passes defended
86
Yowe
98
Blakey
91
Thomas
86
Pollard
Solo tackles
84
Yowe
99
Blakey
100
Thomas
99
Pollard
Tackles
79
Yowe
99
Blakey
99
Thomas
99
Pollard
QB hurries
72
Yowe
82
Blakey
82
Thomas
88
Pollard
Sacks
63
Yowe
63
Blakey
51
Thomas
85
Pollard
Forced fumbles
47
Yowe
47
Blakey
47
Pollard
Tackles for loss
39
Yowe
77
Blakey
73
Thomas
77
Pollard

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

Player DNA

The Press Corner

Long and physical; jams receivers off their route at the line.

CB

His 2025 production profile sits closest to Justin Hodges’s 2022 season.

Justin Hodges

83%match

UCF · 2022

#2

Zemaiah Vaughn

Utah · 2023

82%
#3

Da'Veawn Armstead

North Texas · 2025

80%
#4

Nyzier Fourqurean

Wisconsin · 2024

79%
#5

Ra'Mello Dotson

Kansas · 2022

78%

Matches Justin on

PD rate
Weight
Height

Differs from Justin on

Tackle volume (higher)
Class year (higher)

Not enough data yet for this comparison.

As a junior, his production profile tracks closest to Jay Ward's junior season at LSU (2022).

Jay Ward

93%match

LSU · 2022

NFL Rd 4
#2

Justin Hodges

UCF · 2022

92%
#3

Shyheim Brown

Florida State · 2023

All-ACC
87%
#4

Keidron Smith

Kentucky · 2022

86%
#5

Josh DeBerry

Boston College · 2022

85%

Matches Jay on

Class year
Height
PD rate

Supporting Cast · Scheme

Staff and system around the player

2025 season

Head Coach

Butch Jones

Pass share

53.7%

506 pass / 437 run

Plays / game

72.5

13 games

OL sack rate (allowed)

7.6%

367 dropbacks · PBP

Scheme: Balanced.

Coaching Lineage · 2023–2025

1 coach
2023
Butch Jones
Arkansas State
2025
Butch Jones
Arkansas State

Played his entire career under Butch Jones.

Bio · Recruiting · Transfer · Roster

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

HometownCalera, AL
Height6'2"
Weight182 lb
Class4
PositionCB

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 App State CB4 #15006 #15093 0.0% 0.0% -- -- W16 snapshot | Sun Belt
2023 App State CB4 #11835 #11729 0.0% 0.0% -- -- W19 snapshot | Sun Belt

Roster Timeline

Team, conference, and class by season.

Season Team Conference Pos Class Bio
2025 Arkansas State Sun Belt CB 4 6-2 | 182 lb | Calera, AL
2024 App State Sun Belt CB 4 6-2 | 182 lb | Calera, AL
2023 App State Sun Belt CB 4 6-2 | 182 lb | Calera, AL