CFB Zeitgeist RB Score
Awaiting
Zahir Abdus-Salaam
Limited signal — not enough coverage for a story yet.
RB · WESTERN MICHIGAN · MID-AMERICAN
Zahir Abdus-Salaam
- 4
- #10
- 5-9 | 195 lb
- Newark, NJ
Heisman Heat
#3756
<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 RB AWARD
Doak Walker
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CONSENSUS
All-American
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Player Standing · 17 rungs
Tier 0 · Not on teamR01 · Scout team / redshirt
Scout team / redshirt. Developing behind the depth chart.
Not on team2-deepStarterRecognizedEliteApex
Development Trajectory · rushing yards
2021–2023+422%
Up 422% from first season to most-recent.
Career Arc
HS
Recruit
★★★
CFB
College
Western Michigan
NFL
NFL Draft
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 3-star | 0.8178 | No. 2057 recruit | HighSchool | Western Michigan |
Transfer Arc
Portal movement changes role, context, and perception. This keeps that path in one place.
| 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 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 Western Michigan
Composite
0.8178
#2057 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 Zahir Abdus-Salaam
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 Zahir Abdus-Salaam
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.
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.
What made this player interesting
The fast read on the thing that makes this player more than a generic stat line.
Zahir Abdus-Salaam's story is about how role and output meet each other. For Western Michigan, the card already shows enough current-season production to explain why he is on the serious-player board, and the next layer is determining whether the profile is just very good or actually distinctive.
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
Player identity What kind of player is this?
30-second read
What kind of player is this?
Passing-game back against FBS RB peers.
2023 Season · Final
2023 season snapshot | final
Rushing
CAR
123 85th
YDS
470 76th
YPC
3.8 27th
TD
5 85th
Receiving
REC
14 72nd
YDS
57 53rd
YPR
4.1 17th
TD
0 70th
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 context · Team result + system
2021Western Michigan7-5HC: Tim Lester · Run-heavy, fast tempo
2022Western Michigan5-7HC: Tim Lester · Run-leaning
2023Western Michigan4-8HC: Lance Taylor · Run-leaning
| Season | Team | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | Western Michigan | 123 | 470 | 3.8 | 5 | -- |
| 2022 | Western Michigan | 46 | 100 | 2.2 | 0 | -- |
| 2021 | Western Michigan | 20 | 90 | 4.5 | 0 | -- |
| Career | 3 loaded seasons | 189 | 660 | 3.5 | 5 | -- |
| Season | Team | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | Western Michigan | 14 | 57 | 4.1 | 0 | -- |
| 2022 | Western Michigan | 1 | -2 | -2.0 | 0 | -- |
| 2021 | Western Michigan | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Career | 3 loaded seasons | 15 | 55 | 3.7 | 0 | -- |
Advanced layer Usage, value, and context
Advanced metrics second
Advanced Metrics
Usage, value, and opponent-adjusted context.
Opponent-adjusted rushing value. It helps separate empty volume from carries that actually move the scoreboard.
How much of the team's offense flows through this back once rushing work and receiving work are combined.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rushing | Rushing yards | 470 | #175/735 | 76th pct | Volumevs FBS RB |
| Rushing | Rush TD | 5 | #115/739 | 85th pct | Scoringvs FBS RB |
| Rushing | Yards / carry | 3.8 | #534/735 | 27th pct | Efficiencyvs FBS RB |
| Receiving | Receptions | 14 | #153/552 | 72nd pct | Volumevs FBS RB |
| Receiving | Receiving yards | 57 | #257/548 | 53rd pct | Volumevs FBS RB |
| Usage | Role share | 5.2% | #530/738 | 28th pct | Share of team offensevs FBS RB |
| Rushing | Carries | 123 | #110/739 | 85th pct | Volumevs FBS RB |
| Rushing | Rushing LONG | 19 | #413/733 | 44th pct | Metricvs FBS RB |
| Receiving | Receiving LONG | 12 | #365/540 | 33rd pct | Metricvs FBS RB |
| Receiving | Yards / catch | 4.1 | #456/548 | 17th pct | Efficiencyvs FBS RB |
| Receiving | Receiving TD | 0 | #169/552 | 70th pct | Scoringvs FBS RB |
| Returns | Punt return yards | 48 | #12/27 | 59th pct | Volumevs FBS RB |
| Returns | Kick return avg | 34.0 | #7/199 | 97th pct | Efficiencyvs FBS RB |
| Returns | Kick return yards | 34 | #120/200 | 40th pct | Volumevs FBS RB |
| Returns | Punt return avg | 9.6 | #13/27 | 56th pct | Efficiencyvs FBS RB |
| Returns | Punt returns | 5 | #12/29 | 62nd pct | Volumevs FBS RB |
| Returns | Kick returns | 1 | #139/206 | 33rd pct | Volumevs FBS RB |
| Usage | Rush share | 7.8% | #551/738 | 25th pct | Ground-game usagevs FBS RB |
| Usage | 1st-down usage | 6.4% | #487/738 | 34th pct | Early-down loadvs FBS RB |
| Usage | Standard-down usage | 6.0% | #514/738 | 30th pct | Base-situation sharevs FBS RB |
| Usage | 2nd-down usage | 5.3% | #547/738 | 26th pct | Middle-down loadvs FBS RB |
| Usage | Passing-down usage | 3.3% | #560/738 | 24th pct | Known-passing sharevs FBS RB |
| Usage | 3rd-down usage | 3.1% | #542/738 | 27th pct | Money-down loadvs FBS RB |
| Usage | Pass share | 0.8% | #526/738 | 29th pct | Air-game usagevs FBS RB |
| Ball Security | Fumbles lost | 1 | #78/256 | 70th pct | Turnoversvs FBS RB |
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
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.
Advanced Savant · RB · 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.
Supporting Cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Lance Taylor
Pass share
33.3%
304 pass / 609 run
Plays / game
65.2
14 games
OL sack rate (allowed)
9.3%
248 dropbacks · PBP
Scheme: Run-heavy.
Coaching Lineage · 2021–2023
2 coaches2021
Tim Lester
Western Michigan
2022
Tim Lester
Western Michigan
2023era →
Lance Taylor
Western Michigan
Coaching transition mid-career: Tim Lester → Lance Taylor. 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.
HometownNewark, NJ
Height5'9"
Weight195 lb
Class4
PositionRB
Jersey10
No fields populated yet.
No fields populated yet.
Current teamWestern Michigan
ConferenceMid-American
Joined2024
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 | Western Michigan | RB4 | #3756 | #4027 | 0.0% | 0.0% | -- | -- | W16 snapshot | Mid-American |
| 2023 | Western Michigan | RB4 | #1386 | #1907 | 0.0% | 0.0% | -- | -- | W19 snapshot | Mid-American |
| 2022 | Western Michigan | RB4 | #3661 | #3889 | 0.0% | 0.0% | -- | -- | W20 snapshot | Mid-American |
| 2021 | Western Michigan | RB4 | #2254 | #2372 | 0.0% | 0.0% | -- | -- | W20 snapshot | Mid-American |
Roster Timeline
Team, conference, and class by season.
| Season | Team | Conference | Pos | Class | Bio |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Western Michigan | Mid-American | RB | 4 | No. 10 | 5-9 | 195 lb | Newark, NJ |
| 2023 | Western Michigan | Mid-American | RB | 4 | No. 10 | 5-9 | 195 lb | Newark, NJ |
| 2022 | Western Michigan | Mid-American | RB | 4 | No. 10 | 5-9 | 195 lb | Newark, NJ |
| 2021 | Western Michigan | Mid-American | RB | 4 | No. 10 | 5-9 | 195 lb | Newark, NJ |