Devens Wins Big Brother 28 After Weeks of High Power Scores

Eight Players From the Closing Stages

Final Power Scores

Devens finishes at 19, the highest total in this group. Dee ends at 15. Taylor reaches the final two at 13. These scores compare influence, not finishing positions. There are no active players left to rank.

Each player’s final assessment comes from their exit Episode or the Finale. Jurors are not reassessed at the finale. Each total combines six ratings from 1 to 4. Scores describe levels and patterns of influence, not exact quantities or winning chances.

Power Scores by Episode

Devens Stays at 19 or Higher From Episode 21 Onward

Devens reaches 20 after early Head of Household (HOH) and veto wins, then settles at 15. His Diamond Veto move raises his total to 19 in Episode 21. That total holds through the rest of the season except for a brief HOH rise to 21. Dee also reaches 21, but is evicted before the final three.

Devens keeps a high score without controlling every decision. Barrett resists the veterans, Devens breaks agreements, and Taylor’s warning about Drew influences his final eviction choice.

Seven selected players. All charts use the same 6–24 scale and Episode positions. Lines step between Episode scores and stop at each player’s exit or the Finale. Dee’s first score is in Episode 2. A high score during HOH can fall when that HOH ends.

The Largest Power Shifts

How HOH and Veto Wins Change Power Scores

Winning HOH lets a player make nominations and offer protection. Winning veto lets them change nominations. These abilities can raise Power scores while the player can use them. When they end, scores can fall even without a new mistake. Haley’s drop includes more than the end of her HOH: her allies also hide their plan to evict Lyric.

At the finale, Taylor offers to take Devens to the final two if he agrees to do the same for her. He considers the offer, raising her Reward Power from 1 to 2. Her Informational Power stays at 4. When Devens gets to choose whom to evict, his Legitimate Power briefly rises from 2 to 4. It returns to 2 after the choice. No other final rating changes.

Key Moves and Mistakes

The Diamond Veto, Hidden Votes, and Broken Promises

Lost Support, Refused Help, Money Offers, and Split Votes

Alliances & Relationships

How Alliances Split and Late-Game Deals End

Players can plan or vote together and still stop protecting one another later. These seven examples show when cooperation continues, breaks down, or ends with an eviction.

Selected relationships, not a complete alliance map. The record identifies an early Crossovers group and a later final-three deal. It does not establish that the group stays united between those points.

Season Power Usage

Information and Relationships Appear Most Often

Informational and Referent Power together account for 70.9% of the season’s 674 documented uses and attempts. The count records what appears in the evidence, including attempts that fail.

Counts across Episodes 1–35 and the Finale. Bar scale: 0–350 documented uses and attempts. Percentages are rounded. These are not success rates, unique-event counts, measures of importance, or contributions to the win. Each label names a distinct type of Power.

Power Scores and the Season Result

Power Scores Do Not Match the Finishing Order

Devens wins with a high final score. But Dee has a higher final score than Taylor and Drew, yet leaves before both of them. She also matches Devens’s peak of 21 without reaching the final two. These comparisons do not prove that RPM predicts the jury vote.

Sources and Limits

Missing Finale Records and Limits of the Analysis

The report uses the accepted Episode 1–35 analyses and the separate Finale record. Episode links beside each case lead to the supporting report and explain which evidence was available.

• Finale: Availability Reconstruction Only. Eight scheduled records were not captured at the time. Exact event minutes, complete playback and captions, the full jury discussion, and the complete jury questions and finalists’ pleas are unavailable.
• America’s Favorite Houseguest voting totals are unavailable. Post-finale interviews are excluded.
• Some analysis was recorded as the season unfolded. Other parts were reconstructed later. This is an observational record, not a controlled test of causes or a proven way to predict the winner.
• Each player’s scores stop at their exit or the Finale. Ratings describe demonstrated influence, not safety, competition skill, popularity, survival, finishing position, or winning chances.

A player with a high score can still fail to persuade someone or damage a relationship. An unchanged score means the evidence did not justify a different rating, not that nothing happened.