Ulysses Bentley IV Player Card

Player Standing · 17 rungs

Tier 4 · Elite

R12 · All-American

All-American. Named to an NCAA-recognized All-America team.

Not on team2-deepStarterRecognizedEliteApex

Career arc · Season-by-season Standing

4 seasons on the ladder

Peak: R09 All-Conference HM / 2nd team · 2020

★

2020

SMU · RB

R09 · All-Conference HM / 2nd team

Recognized

2021

SMU · RB

R09 · All-Conference HM / 2nd team

Recognized

2022

Ole Miss · RB

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2023

Ole Miss · RB

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Development Trajectory · rushing yards

2020–2023

8982020

6102021

73.02022

5402023

-40%

Sharp dropoff (-40%) — career inflection point.

Career Arc

HS

Recruit

★★★

#1613 national

CFB

College

2 teams

2020–2023

NFL

NFL Draft

—

Not drafted (yet)

Identity & Role

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

PositionRB

Class4

Jersey24

Measurements5-11 | 200 lb

HometownHouston, TX

Primary teamOle Miss

Recruiting Pedigree

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

Top pedigree 3-star No. 1613 recruit

Composite rating 0.8341 HighSchool

Signed with SMU 2019

Origin C.E. King Houston, TX, USA

Class	Profile	Context
2019	3-star \| 0.8341	No. 1613 recruit \| HighSchool \| SMU

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#1255Latest modeled ballot order

Season forecast#1027Where 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 SMU

Composite

0.8341

#1613 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.

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 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.

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 this is more than a rushing profile

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

Ulysses Bentley IV is not a one-lane back. The profile is interesting because the workload spills beyond pure rushing volume: 540 rushing yards, 11 catches, and 272 return yards for Ole Miss. That kind of all-purpose footprint gives the card a much richer story than a basic carry total.

Current place #1255 0.0% win | 0.0% finalist

Role load 15.9% Overall usage share

Profile quirk Transfer path 0 portal moves

2023 Season · Final

Traditional stats first. Advanced context underneath.

Last season

RB season snapshot

2023 season snapshot | final

2023 season snapshot | finalData: CFBD player stats + local Heisman modelPeer context: same position + same level

Scrimmage yards 627 540 rush | 87 rec | #145/735 (80th pct)

Rush TD 4 95 carries | #154/739 (79th pct)

Yards/carry 5.7 Per-rush efficiency | #152/735 (79th pct)

Player identity What kind of player is this?

30-second read

What kind of player is this?

Backfield contributor against FBS RB peers.

Balanced profile

Rushing

CAR

95 75th

YDS

540 80th

YPC

5.7 79th

TD

4 79th

Receiving

REC

11 65th

YDS

87 65th

YPR

7.9 60th

TD

1 89th

Game Log

Week-by-week box

No per-game rows for this season yet — the table fills in as box scores arrive.

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

2020SMU7-3HC: Sonny Dykes · Balanced

2021SMU8-4HC: Jim Leavitt · Balanced

2022Ole Miss8-5HC: Lane Kiffin · Run-heavy, fast tempo

2023Ole Miss11-2HC: Lane Kiffin · Run-leaning

Season	Team
2023	Ole Miss	95	540	5.7	4	--
2022	Ole Miss	16	73	4.6	4	--
2021	SMU	96	610	6.4	4	--
2020	SMU	169	898	5.3	11	--
Career	4 loaded seasons	376	2,121	5.6	23	--

Season	Team
2023	Ole Miss	11	87	7.9	1	--
2022	Ole Miss	1	4	4.0	0	--
2021	SMU	19	90	4.7	1	--
2020	SMU	21	174	8.3	1	--
Career	4 loaded seasons	52	355	6.8	3	--

Advanced layer Usage, value, and context

Advanced metrics second

Advanced Metrics

Usage, value, and opponent-adjusted context.

Usage Value Context

Rushing WEPA

Opponent-adjusted rushing value. It helps separate empty volume from carries that actually move the scoreboard.

Role share

How much of the team's offense flows through this back once rushing work and receiving work are combined.

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.

Receiving work 11 87 rec yds | #195/552 (65th pct)

Usage 15.9% 28.5% rush share | #157/738 (79th pct)

Rushing WEPA +0.27 Opponent-adjusted rush value | #14/362 (96th pct)

Open full stat explorer

Group	Metric	Value	Rank	Pct	Why it matters
Rushing	Rushing yards	540	#145/735	80th pct	Volumevs FBS RB
Rushing	Rush TD	4	#154/739	79th pct	Scoringvs FBS RB
Rushing	Yards / carry	5.7	#152/735	79th pct	Efficiencyvs FBS RB
Receiving	Receptions	11	#195/552	65th pct	Volumevs FBS RB
Receiving	Receiving yards	87	#194/548	65th pct	Volumevs FBS RB
Value	Rushing WEPA	+0.27	#14/362	96th pct	Opponent-adjusted rushing value \| 90 weighted playsvs FBS RB
Usage	Role share	15.9%	#157/738	79th pct	Share of team offensevs FBS RB
Rushing	Carries	95	#185/739	75th pct	Volumevs FBS RB
Rushing	Rushing LONG	43	#211/733	71st pct	Metricvs FBS RB
Receiving	Receiving LONG	25	#166/540	69th pct	Metricvs FBS RB
Receiving	Yards / catch	7.9	#218/548	60th pct	Efficiencyvs FBS RB
Receiving	Receiving TD	1	#60/552	89th pct	Scoringvs FBS RB
Returns	Kick return yards	272	#23/200	89th pct	Volumevs FBS RB
Returns	Kick return avg	19.4	#90/199	55th pct	Efficiencyvs FBS RB
Returns	Kick returns	14	#14/206	94th pct	Volumevs FBS RB
Usage	Rush share	28.5%	#140/738	81st pct	Ground-game usagevs FBS RB
Usage	1st-down usage	20.4%	#134/738	82nd pct	Early-down loadvs FBS RB
Usage	Standard-down usage	18.6%	#154/738	79th pct	Base-situation sharevs FBS RB
Usage	2nd-down usage	14.2%	#203/738	73rd pct	Middle-down loadvs FBS RB
Usage	Passing-down usage	9.3%	#231/738	69th pct	Known-passing sharevs FBS RB
Usage	3rd-down usage	9.0%	#245/738	67th pct	Money-down loadvs FBS RB
Usage	Pass share	5.7%	#132/738	82nd pct	Air-game usagevs FBS RB
Ball Security	Fumbles lost	1	#78/256	70th pct	Turnoversvs FBS RB

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

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

Splits

Per-game splits

Splits fill in once box scores from at least three games land for this season.

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

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 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

Lane Kiffin

Pass share

48.2%

521 pass / 560 run

Plays / game

72.1

15 games

OL sack rate (allowed)

4.5%

330 dropbacks · PBP

Scheme: Balanced.

Coaching Lineage · 2020–2023

1 coach

2020

Lane Kiffin

Ole Miss

2021

Lane Kiffin

Ole Miss

2022

Lane Kiffin

Ole Miss

2023

Lane Kiffin

Ole Miss

Played his entire career under Lane Kiffin.

HometownHouston, TX

Height5'11"

Weight200 lb

Class4

PositionRB

Jersey24

Trophy Case · Confirmed honors

What the selectors said

2 entries

🎖

ALL-CONFERENCE

All-Conf mention (2021)

All-AAC

Trophy Case · Detail

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

All-Conference

2 all-conference honors

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
2021	All-AAC	all_conference	SMU \| AAC	RB
2020	All-AAC	all_conference	SMU \| AAC	RB

Heisman By Year

Modeled rank and official finish by season.

Season	Team	Role	Latest Model	Forecast	Win	Finalist	Official Finish	Points	Context
2024	Ole Miss	RB4	#1255	#1027	0.0%	0.0%	--	--	W16 snapshot \| SEC
2023	Ole Miss	RB4	#183	#166	0.0%	0.0%	--	--	W19 snapshot \| SEC
2022	Ole Miss	RB4	#782	#702	0.0%	0.0%	--	--	W20 snapshot \| SEC
2021	SMU	RB4	#138	#130	0.0%	0.0%	--	--	W20 snapshot \| American Athletic
2020	SMU	RB4	#7	#8	0.8%	8.9%	--	--	W16 snapshot \| American Athletic

Roster Timeline

Team, conference, and class by season.

Season	Team	Conference	Pos	Class	Bio
2024	Ole Miss	SEC	RB	4	No. 24 \| 5-11 \| 200 lb \| Houston, TX
2023	Ole Miss	SEC	RB	4	No. 24 \| 5-11 \| 200 lb \| Houston, TX
2022	Ole Miss	SEC	RB	4	No. 24 \| 5-11 \| 200 lb \| Houston, TX
2021	SMU	American Athletic	RB	4	No. 24 \| 5-11 \| 200 lb \| Houston, TX
2020	SMU	American Athletic	RB	4	No. 24 \| 5-11 \| 200 lb \| Houston, TX

Ulysses Bentley IV

R12 · All-American

-40%

Identity & Role

Recruiting Pedigree

Transfer Arc

Heisman Lens · 2024 Season · Final

The Room on Ulysses Bentley IV

How rival fanbases talk about Ulysses Bentley IV

Awaiting candidate metric

Why this is more than a rushing profile

2023 Season · Final

RB season snapshot

What kind of player is this?

2023 Season · Final

Traditional Stats

Advanced Metrics

Player Standing

Percentile Card

Advanced Savant

Bio · Recruiting · Transfer · Roster

Trophy Case · Detail

2 all-conference honors

Honors Timeline

Heisman By Year

Roster Timeline