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Heisman / Players / Trevor Woods /Jacksonville State

Trevor Woods

S · Jacksonville State · Sr · #43

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

64 TACKLES · 0 SACKS

2026 RETURNINGReturning to Jacksonville State for 2026

2026 Outlook

Returning to Jacksonville State for 2026

2026 Depth chart

Projected starter

Safety · Jacksonville State

Returning around him

  • 84% of 2024 offensive production back (Strong continuity)
  • Transfer portal: +7 net (20 in / 13 out)

2026 Award watch

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

Jacksonville State · Last season: 9-5 · Talent rank #111 · 2026 recruiting class #110

S · JACKSONVILLE STATE · CONFERENCE USA

Trevor Woods

  • 4
  • #43
  • 6-2 | 209 lb
  • Katy, TX

CFB Zeitgeist Score

47

Mid-pack in the position cohort. Carried by passes defended at the 86th percentile.

Heisman Heat

#8745

<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

R07 · Impact starter

Impact starter. Producing measurable value above replacement.

Not on team2-deepStarterRecognizedEliteApex

Career Arc

HS
Recruit
★★★
#992 national
CFB
College
2 teams
2021–2025
NFL
NFL Draft
Not drafted (yet)

Identity & Role

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

PositionS
Class4
Jersey43
Measurements6-2 | 209 lb
HometownKaty, TX
Primary teamJacksonville State

Recruiting Pedigree

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

Top pedigree 3-star No. 992 recruit
Composite rating 0.8574 HighSchool
Signed with -- 2021
Origin Taylor Katy, TX, USA
Class Profile Context
2021 3-star | 0.8574 No. 992 recruit | HighSchool

Transfer Arc

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

Portal moves 1 Programs changed on file
Latest destination Jacksonville State 2025
Transfer stars 3-star CFBD transfer rating context
Eligibility Immediate May 2, 2025
Season Move Context
2025 Colorado -> Jacksonville State 3-star | 0.8600 | 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#8745Latest modeled ballot order
Season forecast#8477Where 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 —

Composite

0.8574

#992 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 Trevor Woods

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 Trevor Woods

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 14g
64Tackles
0.5Tackles for loss
0Sacks
Per game
5Tackles
0Tackles for loss
0Sacks
Final
64Tackles
0.5Tackles for loss
0Sacks

Why this is a rare defensive case

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

Trevor Woods is trying to climb the steepest award hill in college football: a defensive candidacy. The hook is the disruption profile on Jacksonville State's defense, with 0.0 sacks, 0.5 tackles for loss, and 1 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 #8745 0.0% win | 0.0% finalist
Role load -- Role share still loading
Profile quirk Transfer path 1 portal move

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 64 51 solo | #340/4942 (93rd pct)
TFL 0.5 Backfield disruption | #2658/4972 (47th pct)
Sacks 0.0 Pass-rush finish | #1762/4972 (65th 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
64 93rd
SOLO
51 99th
TFL
0.5 47th
SACK
0.0 65th

Coverage & Takeaways

PD
4 84th
INT
1 65th

Game Log · Week-by-week

2025 season · 14 games

Box score · CFBD
WkOppTKLSOLOTFLSACKINTPDNote
Wk 1L 10-17@ UCF850.00.00
Wk 2W 34-24vs Liberty540.00.00
Wk 3L 34-41@ Georgia Southern840.00.00
Wk 4W 45-10vs Murray State330.00.010
Wk 5L 25-42@ Southern Miss540.00.00
Wk 7W 29-27@ Sam Houston660.00.00
Wk 8W 38-25vs Delaware320.50.00
Wk 10W 24-21@ Middle Tennessee430.00.02
Wk 11W 30-27@ UTEP430.00.01
Wk 12W 35-26vs Kennesaw State980.00.00Season-high 9 tackles
Wk 13L 21-27@ Florida International660.00.00
Wk 14W 37-34vs Western Kentucky220.00.00
Wk 15L 15-19vs Kennesaw State110.00.00
BowlW 17-13vs Troy000.00.01
Total64510.50.014
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

2021Colorado4-8HC: Karl Dorrell · Run-heavy, slow tempo
2022Colorado1-11HC: Mike Sanford Jr. · Balanced, slow tempo
2023Colorado4-8HC: Deion Sanders · Pass-leaning
2024Colorado9-4HC: Deion Sanders · Pass-leaning
2025Jacksonville State9-5HC: Charles Kelly · Run-heavy
SeasonTeam
2025Jacksonville State64510.50.041--
2024Colorado1491.00.0------
2023Colorado56420.50.532--
2022Colorado79651.00.031--
2021Colorado1880.00.01----
Career5 loaded seasons2311753.00.5114--
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 1 0 pick-six TD | #308/869 (65th pct)
Pass breakups 4 Coverage disruption | #340/2184 (84th pct)
QB pressures 0 Quarterback hurries
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Group Metric Value Rank Pct Why it matters
Defense Total tackles 64 #340/4942 93rd 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 Interceptions 1 #308/869 65th pct Takeawaysvs FBS DEF
Defense Pass breakups 4 #340/2184 84th pct Coveragevs FBS DEF
Defense Solo tackles 51 #61/4584 99th pct Volumevs FBS DEF
Defense INT return avg 4.0 #463/578 20th pct Takeawaysvs FBS DEF
Defense INT return yards 4 #484/578 16th pct Takeawaysvs 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 · 14 games

Home/Road · Win/Loss · Season halves

Home vs Road

TKL/gTFL/gSACK/gPD/g
Home7g3.30.10.00.1
Road7g5.90.00.00.4

Win vs Loss

TKL/gTFL/gSACK/gPD/g
Wins9g4.00.10.00.4
Losses5g5.60.00.00.0

First half vs Second half

TKL/gTFL/gSACK/gPD/g
Weeks 1-77g5.00.00.00.1
Weeks 8+7g4.10.10.00.4

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

Savant · Box-rate percentiles

Where this profile ranks vs the S cohort

47Mid-pack
7 metrics · season cumulative

Elite: solo tackles (97th). Strength: tackles (88th). Concern: tackles for loss (18th).

Solo tackles#61 / 2975 · 98th pct
51defe
Tackles#340 / 2975 · 88th pct
64defe
Passes defended#340 / 2975 · 86th pct
4defe
Interceptions#304 / 817 · 31st pct
1inte
Sacks#1575 / 2975 · 24th pct
0.0defe
QB hurries#1662 / 2975 · 22nd pct
0defe
Tackles for loss#2332 / 2975 · 18th pct
0.5defe

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

Advanced Savant · S · 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
Trevor WoodsJacksonville StateTahj Ra-ElPurdue· 84% simTyler MartinMassachusetts· 81% simBrevin HamblinUtah State· 75% sim
Solo tackles
98
Woods
100
Ra-El
87
Martin
99
Hamblin
Tackles
88
Woods
99
Ra-El
98
Martin
99
Hamblin
Passes defended
86
Woods
91
Ra-El
67
Martin
98
Hamblin
Interceptions
31
Woods
31
Martin
31
Hamblin
Sacks
24
Woods
24
Ra-El
24
Martin
74
Hamblin
QB hurries
22
Woods
22
Ra-El
22
Martin
22
Hamblin
Tackles for loss
18
Woods
56
Ra-El
63
Martin
56
Hamblin

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

Player DNA

The Box Safety

Lives near the line of scrimmage as a de facto extra linebacker.

S

His 2025 production profile sits closest to Michael Dixon’s 2024 season.

Michael Dixon

93%match

Rutgers · 2024

#2

Quinn Schulte

Iowa · 2023

84%
#3

Marcus Ratcliffe

Texas A&M · 2025

82%
#4

VJ Payne

Kansas State · 2025

NFL Rd 7
83%
#5

Jaxen Turner

Arizona · 2021

81%

Matches Michael on

PD rate
Weight
Interceptions

Not enough data yet for this comparison.

As a graduate, his production profile tracks closest to Michael Dixon's graduate season at Rutgers (2024).

Michael Dixon

94%match

Rutgers · 2024

#2

Alfred Chea

Ball State · 2025

82%
#3

Tavian Combs

New Mexico · 2025

82%
#4

Jared Bartlett

Cincinnati · 2024

79%
#5

James Jackson

Virginia · 2025

All-Sun Belt
78%

Matches Michael on

Class year
Height
Weight

Supporting Cast · Scheme

Staff and system around the player

2025 season

Head Coach

Charles Kelly

Pass share

33.8%

328 pass / 642 run

Plays / game

69.3

14 games

OL sack rate (allowed)

7.8%

243 dropbacks · PBP

Scheme: Run-heavy.

Coaching Lineage · 2021–2025

2 coaches
2021
Jacksonville State
2022
Jacksonville State
2023
Rich Rodriguez
Jacksonville State
era →
2024
Rich Rodriguez
Jacksonville State
2025
Charles Kelly
Jacksonville State
era →

Coaching transition mid-career: Rich Rodriguez → Charles Kelly. 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.

HometownKaty, TX
Height6'2"
Weight209 lb
Class4
PositionS
Jersey43

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 Colorado S4 #8745 #8477 0.0% 0.0% -- -- W16 snapshot | Big 12
2023 Colorado S4 #11570 #12143 0.0% 0.0% -- -- W19 snapshot | Pac-12
2022 Colorado S4 #14060 #14392 0.0% 0.0% -- -- W20 snapshot | Pac-12
2021 Colorado S4 #12639 #12792 0.0% 0.0% -- -- W20 snapshot | Pac-12

Roster Timeline

Team, conference, and class by season.

Season Team Conference Pos Class Bio
2025 Jacksonville State Conference USA S 4 No. 43 | 6-2 | 209 lb | Katy, TX
2024 Colorado Big 12 S 4 No. 43 | 6-2 | 209 lb | Katy, TX
2023 Colorado Pac-12 S 4 No. 43 | 6-2 | 209 lb | Katy, TX
2022 Colorado Pac-12 S 4 No. 43 | 6-2 | 209 lb | Katy, TX
2021 Colorado Pac-12 S 4 No. 43 | 6-2 | 209 lb | Katy, TX