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Jeremiah FearsNew Orleans Saints · #0

Guard · 6'4", 190 lb · Chicago, Illinois · Age 20 · 1st season

Jeremiah Fears is a dynamic young scoring point guard for the New Orleans Pelicans, drafted 7th in 2025 out of Oklahoma — one of the draft's youngest players at 18. A downhill scorer and foul-drawer who averaged around 14 points and 3.4 assists as a rookie, he comes from a basketball family, with his brother at Michigan State. His jump shot and decision-making are the growth areas.

MVP race · #169Guard rank · #82Balladex Impact · 56
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Season avg14.3 pts · 3.7 reb · 3.4 ast · .434 fg
Career avg14.3 pts · 3.7 reb · 3.4 ast · .434 fg
Live win probabilitySeason
No scheduled game — showing season pace. Illustrative.
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14.3pts
3.7reb
3.4ast
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Scouting report

Jeremiah Fears — the report card

Read his whole game at a glance, then dive into any skill. Grades from the DNA model + real production.

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Rookie Lead Guard · Impact 56
Jeremiah Fears is a dynamic young scoring point guard for the New Orleans Pelicans, drafted 7th in 2025 out of Oklahoma — one of the draft's youngest
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Offense
D
Defense
C
Feel / IQ
C
Playmaking
Average creator
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C
Scoring
Average scorer
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D
Rebounding
Below average on the glass
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C
3PT / spacing
Average spacing
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Perimeter D
Average on the perimeter
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Paint / rim D
Below average at the rim
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C
Clutch
Average late
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C+
Athleticism
Strong tools
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C
Basketball IQ
Reads the game
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A+
Durability
Availability
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Act II

Where Jeremiah Fears stands

Live ladders from the Balladex models, and what he's chasing. Rankings recompute nightly from real production, accolades, and search demand.

The laddersmodel · recomputes nightly
1
Nikola Jokić DEN
29%
2
Luka Doncic LAL
20%
3
Shai Gilgeous-Alexander OKC
12%
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Giannis Antetokounmpo MIA
4%
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Victor Wembanyama SAS
3%
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Anthony Edwards MIN
2%
7
Tyrese Maxey PHI
2%
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Jamal Murray DEN
2%
Balladex Consensus: #210 of 384 — a blend of the Impact index, current production, career résumé and live search demand. Recomputes as the data does.
Futures & chases
<1%MVP odds
56Impact index
118Star score
Career scoring average14.3 ppg
Seasons in the index1
Accolades on file2
No. 7 Draft pick (2025) · 🥇 U-18 AmeriCup gold
Stat explorer

Jeremiah Fears — every number, three levels deep

Headline → metric → the raw history behind it. Real career data; tracking-only metrics labeled.

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Scoring
14.3 PPG
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Playmaking
3.4 APG
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Rebounding
3.7 RPG
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Shooting
.330 3P%
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The engine

How the model sees Jeremiah Fears

Projection = per-minute rate × projected minutes. Rates are recency- and health-weighted, aged along a per-stat curve, and adjusted for live usage/role. No black box — every number shows its work.

Projected 2026-27  confidence
Bands widen as confidence drops. Derived live from the real 1-season history below.
What moves the points line vs last season
Everything it reads
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1 seasons of per-minute rates
every box line, minutes-normalized
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Recency × games-played weight
recent, healthy seasons anchor the baseline
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Weighted least-squares trend
his own trajectory, read season over season
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Per-stat aging curves
age 20 — applied per stat
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Live role context
usage & role shifts fold in when the feed is present
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Durability signal
GP last 3: 82 → games & confidence
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The real history it trains onsource: Basketball-Reference · verified

Jeremiah Fears career stats, season by season

Career stats by season
SeasonGPMINPTSREBASTFG%3P%
2025-268225.814.33.73.4.434.330
Career8225.814.33.73.4
Source: Basketball-Reference. Backtested against completed player-seasons in the index. The same engine powers Tonight's projection, EraLab, and the role simulator — one model, asked different questions. Illustrative.
Act III

The Lab

Every number, live and interactive. Real career data; models labeled.

Gold = MVP / Championship season · hover any bar. Real per-game data; per-36 & totals derived.
EraLab · the stat time machinenovel
Re-express a season in today's pace-and-space.
raw PPG
in 2026 pace
why
Scoring map · clickable zonesShotChart
Team-tinted. Modeled where tracking data is absent.
Role simulatorpowered by GM engine
Change the roster around him — his projection updates live.
Projected line shifts to — usage , assists rise as primary initiator. Title odds . Illustrative.
Context

Are the New Orleans Saints built to win?

Team projection rolled up from the roster + last-season baselines — and what it means for his role.

15–67proj record
-42.5net index
50off index
8def index
94pace
Aggressive hedge & helpscheme
Roster delta · what changed
Aggressive hedge & help — Hedges hard on ball screens and rotates aggressive help from the weak side. Defensive anchors: Alvin Kamara, Anfernee Jennings.
How his role moves
Primary guard role on a team grading 50 offense / 8 defense. No calibrated baseline for this team yet — record is modeled.
Balladex Impact
56 of 99
Rotation piece tier.
Rarity
◆ Rated
Collectible tier.
Résumé
2 accolades
No. 7 Draft pick (2025) · 🥇 U-18 AmeriCup gold
Act IV

The Ballad of Jeremiah Fears

Birth to now — the making of a legend, narrated and scored.

Oct 14, 2006

The beginning

A dynamic young scoring point guard — downhill scoring and upside for the Pelicans.

New Orleans Saints

Turning pro

Drafted 7th overall, 2025 as a Guard.

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A dynamic young scoring point guard — downhill scoring and upside for the Pelicans.

Chapter

From a basketball family, Fears averaged 17.1 a game at Oklahoma before New Orleans drafted him 7th in 2025.

Chapter

One of the draft's youngest players at 18, he's a dynamic downhill scorer.

Off the court

Measurables ESPN
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Height
6' 3"
Weight
190 lbs
College
Oklahoma
Experience
1st Season
Draft
7th overall, 2025
Born
Chicago, Illinois
Age
20
Jersey
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Beyond the game

Fears comes from a basketball family — his father, Jeremy Sr., played college ball at Ohio and Bradley, and his older brother, Jeremy Jr., plays for Michigan State — and won FIBA Under-18 AmeriCup gold with Team USA. As one of the youngest players in his draft class, he arrived in the NBA with a long developmental runway.

His on-court identity is dynamic, downhill scoring and shot creation — a 6-foot-4 guard who attacks the rim, draws fouls at a high rate (an elite college free-throw shooter), and creates his own shot. His perimeter shooting efficiency and decision-making are the developmental frontiers, but his scoring instincts and youth give him high upside as a lead guard for the Pelicans.

The person

A dynamic, downhill scoring point guard — rim attacking, foul-drawing, and shot creation.

Downhill scorerAttacks the rim and draws fouls at a high rate.
Shot creatorCreates his own shot as a lead guard.
YoungOne of the youngest players in his draft class.
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FAQ

Jeremiah Fears — frequently asked

The questions people ask most about Jeremiah Fears, answered.

What is Jeremiah Fears known for?
Dynamic, downhill scoring and shot creation — a 6-foot-4 guard who attacks the rim and draws fouls, averaging around 14 points a game as a rookie.
Why is Jeremiah Fears's youth notable?
He was one of the youngest players in the 2025 draft at 18, giving him a long developmental runway as a lead guard.
Is Jeremiah Fears from a basketball family?
Yes — his father played college ball and his older brother plays for Michigan State.
Jeremiah Fears career stats & accolades are real, and team projections and recent-game home/away splits are computed from real production. DNA ratings, grades, tonight's projection, ladders, live win probability and simulator outputs are Balladex model output. Not affiliated with the NBA.
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Availability & durability

games played vs season length
Career availability
100%
1 seasons
Last 3 seasons
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0 games missed
Games missed
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career, schedule-adj.
Durability
Iron man
steady
Availability by season
82
25-26

Iron man. Availability trend is steady100% of games over the last three seasons, low of 100% in 2025-26.

Availability = games played ÷ season length (schedule-adjusted for lockout and COVID seasons). A durability signal from real game data, not a medical assessment.

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