Chip Trayanum

Senior running back for Toledo. 2025: 1,015 rushing yards, 12 rushing TD, 21 catches.

RB · Toledo · Sr. · #1

5′11″ · 227 lb · Akron, OH

CFB Index 74 · #33 of 326 RBsHigh confidenceAll-Conf 1st teamReturning to Toledo for 2026

The numbers

1,015

rushing yards · 2025

12 TD · 5.6 per carry · 21 catches

The play that turned itSwung Toledo from 36% to 67% to win.Toledo at Central Michigan · 21-3

His career numbers, season by season

The story

4 running back for Toledo. 2025: 1,015 rushing yards, 12 rushing TD, 21 catches.

Signed as a 4-star recruit to Arizona State in 2020.
Transferred from Kentucky to Toledo in 2025.

His career, year by year

How he plays

Wears you down at the goal line.

Explosive rate: 79th percentile.

The full scouting read

Chip Trayanum

RB · Toledo · Sr · #1

Wears you down at the goal line. Four head coaches in six seasons, at four different programs. In 2025 the league put his name on paper for the first time: All-MAC. The receipt on tape: 163 rush yds, 13 rec yds against Western Kentucky, Week 2, 2025.

Low coverage — composed from the verified record.

positional archetype classification
head-coach lineage
recognition record
game log

2025 snapshot

Season context · Team result + system

2020Arizona State2-2HC: Herm Edwards · Run-heavy, slow tempo

2021Arizona State8-5HC: Herm Edwards · Run-heavy

2022Ohio State11-2HC: Ryan Day · Balanced

2023Ohio State11-2HC: Ryan Day · Balanced

2024Kentucky4-8HC: Mark Stoops · Run-leaning, slow tempo

2025Toledo8-5HC: Robert Weiner · Run-leaning

Where this profile ranks vs the RB cohort

Box-score + play-by-play EPA percentiles

74Quality starter #33 of 326?

High confidence13 metrics · season cumulative

Elite: rush tds (94th percentile). Strength: long run (90th percentile).

Real play-by-play efficiency

Explosive rate#98 / 456 · 79th pct

9.0%

TD rate#133 / 456 · 71st pct

4.0%

Yards / carry#154 / 456 · 66th pct

5.4

Success rate#231 / 456 · 49th pct

43.8%

EPA / carry#234 / 456 · 49th pct

0.11

Box-score rates (8)

Rush TDs#19 / 349 · 94th pct

Long run#33 / 349 · 90th pct

Rush yards#37 / 349 · 90th pct

1015

Carries#36 / 349 · 90th pct

182

Rec yards#44 / 338 · 87th pct

212

Fumbles lost#1 / 201 · 87th pct

Receptions#68 / 338 · 79th pct

Yards / carry#82 / 349 · 74th pct

5.6

Season trend

EPA / carry— first qualifying season

Success rate— first qualifying season

Explosive rate— first qualifying season

Yards / carry— first qualifying season

TD rate— first qualifying season

Percentiles versus same-position peers with enough snaps this season. Most bars are box-score rates; EPA / success-rate bars are computed from real play-by-play (offense only — no defensive EPA model exists yet).

Situational

Situational · Carry shape (PBP, full season)

Yardage DNA

177 carries

24%

Stuffed (≤0)

28%

Grind (1–3)

29%

Chunk (4–9)

19%

Explosive (10+)

Splits & context

Splits · Per-game

2025 season · 11 games

Home/Road · Season halves

Home vs Road

	YDS/g	YPC	TD/g
Home5g	89.2	6.8	1.4
Road6g	94.8	4.6	0.8

First half vs Second half

	YDS/g	YPC	TD/g
Weeks 1-77g	95.1	5.7	1.1
Weeks 8+4g	87.2	5.5	1.0

Supporting cast · Scheme

Staff and system around the player

2026 season

Head Coach

Mike Jacobs

Scheme reads (pass share, tempo, sack rate) need at least 3 team games — 2 games in so far.

Awards

Player standing · 2025

All-Conference 1st team

First team in his league at the position.

Recognition

Roster2-deepStarterRecognizedEliteApex

Production · CFB Index Score

74 · #33 of 326 RBs

Former four-star. Now #33 at the position.

2026 outlook

In the mix to repeat All-MAC

Based on 2025: #3 of 30 Mid-American RBs

How the All-MAC estimate is computed

49% estimated, 95% confidence interval 43–54%. Base rate measured from players who finished at a comparable rank in their conference and came back the next season. It is an estimate from a small sample, not a forecast of this player.

Career stats

Season	Team
2025	Toledo	182	1,015	5.6	12	--
2024	Kentucky	12	75	6.2	0	--
2023	Ohio State	85	373	4.4	3	--
2022	Ohio State	15	92	6.1	0	--
2021	Arizona State	78	402	5.2	6	--
2020	Arizona State	49	290	5.9	4	--
Career		421	2,247	5.3	25	--

Season	Team
2025	Toledo	21	212	10.1	2	--
2024	Kentucky	--	--	--	--	--
2023	Ohio State	9	53	5.9	0	--
2022	Ohio State	1	14	14.0	0	--
2021	Arizona State	4	19	4.8	0	--
2020	Arizona State	1	5	5.0	0	--
Career		36	303	8.4	2	--

Signature game

SIGNATURE GAME · Week 2 · 2025

W 45–21

vs Western Kentucky

163 rush yds (14 car) · 2 TD

Dominant 24-point win at home against Western Kentucky.

With T. Gleason — 155 yds · 2 TD · 0 INT · QBR 92.0 · 21 rush yds (4 car) · E. Duran — 39 AVG · 2 IN 20 · 51 LONG

Signature plays

Signature plays · top plays by |EPA|

The plays that mattered most

fact

Week 14 · Central Michigan · 3&8 · Q3 · EPA +6.30(00:22) No Huddle-Shotgun #7 K.Osborne pass complete short middle to #1 C.Trayanum caught at Toledo42, for 57 yards to the CMU00 TOUCHDOWN, clock 00:10, 1ST DOWN #45 D.Cunanan kick attempt good (H: #36 E.Duran, LS: #40 J.Roe)
Week 2 · Western Kentucky · 1&10 · Q3 · EPA +6.08Chip Trayanum run for 75 yds for a TD (Dylan Cunanan KICK)
Week 4 · Western Michigan · 1&10 · Q3 · EPA +5.05Chip Trayanum run for 63 yds for a TD (Dylan Cunanan KICK)
Week 14 · Central Michigan · 1&15 · Q4 · EPA +3.86(01:55) No Huddle-Shotgun #1 C.Trayanum rush middle for 42 yards gain to the CMU00 TOUCHDOWN, clock 01:49, 1ST DOWN #45 D.Cunanan kick attempt good (H: #36 E.Duran, LS: #40 J.Roe)
Week 12 · Miami (OH) · 3&7 · Q4 · EPA +2.90(14:54) No Huddle-Shotgun #4 T.Gleason pass complete short middle to #1 C.Trayanum caught at TOL37, for 15 yards to the MIA47 (#29 S.Walters), 1ST DOWN
Week 5 · Akron · 2&11 · Q1 · EPA +2.86Chip Trayanum run for 11 yds for a TD (Dylan Cunanan KICK)
Week 2 · Western Kentucky · 3&4 · Q1 · EPA +2.78Tucker Gleason pass complete to Chip Trayanum for 10 yds for a TD (Dylan Cunanan KICK)
Week 7 · Bowling Green · 1&10 · Q1 · EPA +2.55Chip Trayanum run for 14 yds for a TD (Dylan Cunanan KICK)
Week 3 · Morgan State · 3&1 · Q2 · EPA +2.45Chip Trayanum run for 1 yd for a TD (Dylan Cunanan KICK)
Week 7 · Bowling Green · 3&1 · Q2 · EPA +2.42Chip Trayanum run for 19 yds to the TOL 49 for a 1ST down

Game log

Game log · Week-by-week

2025 season · 11 games

Box score · CFBD

Wk	Opp	CAR	YDS	AVG	TD	LONG	Note
Wk 1	L 16-24@ Kentucky	14	41	2.9	0	12
Wk 2	W 45-21vs Western Kentucky	14	163	11.6	2	75	Season-high 163 yds
Wk 3	W 60-0vs Morgan State	11	44	4.0	2	17
Wk 4	L 13-14@ Western Michigan	26	153	5.9	1	63	153-yard day
Wk 5	W 45-3vs Akron	11	75	6.8	1	20
Wk 7	L 23-28@ Bowling Green	27	125	4.6	1	19
Wk 11	W 42-3vs Northern Illinois	11	36	3.3	1	12
Wk 12	W 24-3@ Miami (OH)	21	91	4.3	1	29
Wk 13	W 38-9vs Ball State	15	128	8.5	1	31
Wk 14	W 21-3@ Central Michigan	16	94	5.9	1	42
Bowl	L 22-27@ Louisville	16	65	4.1	1	13
Total		182	1015	5.6	12	75

How he plays

Play style

Short-yardage and goal-line specialist. Carries the load, owns the red zone.

CFB Index positional classification

Boom vs consistent · carry-yardage shape

Steady, not spectacular

~ our read

177Carries

960Yards

23.3%Top-5 share

23.7%Stuffed rate

Just 23.3% of his season rushing yards came on his 5 best carries — remarkably even — and he's stuffed on 23.7% of his carries. 10 carries for 31 yds vs Northern Illinois; 14 for 163 vs Western Kentucky.

Closer · Q4-with-lead carry share

Not actually a closer

checked · no story

40.4%Carry share

19.4%Q4-lead share

70.0%In competitive games

40.4% of carries overall (180/445) → 19.4% of Q4-with-lead carries (20/103) — 70.0% of those in competitive (≤16-pt) games.

Short-yardage / goal-line · enumeration

Who gets the tough yard

fact

8/123rd/4th & short

10/21Inside-5 share

8 of 12 on 3rd/4th-and-2-or-less (66.7%). 10 of the team's 21 inside-the-5 carries (47.6%).

2026 Outlook

Toledo

2026 Depth chart

Projected starter

Running back · Toledo

Returning around him

66% of 2024 offensive production back (Solid continuity)
2 Toledo players drafted to NFL
Transfer portal: -5 net (33 in / 38 out)

2026 Award watch

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

Toledo · Last season: 8-5 · Talent rank #116 · 2026 recruiting class #121

DNA match

Player DNA

Power Back

Short-yardage and goal-line specialist. Carries the load, owns the red zone.

His 2025 production profile sits closest to Raheim Sanders’s 2024 season.

Raheim Sanders

78%match

South Carolina · 2024

All-SEC

Ikaika Ragsdale

North Texas · 2022

71%

Logan Wright

Georgia Southern · 2021

All-Sun Belt

70%

Kaytron Allen

Penn State · 2022

NFL Rd 6

69%

Devin Neal

Kansas · 2022

69%

Matches Raheim on

Weight

Yards / carry

Receiving share

Differs from Raheim on

Height (lower)

Through 6 college seasons, his career arc tracks closest to Asim Rose’s path through Kentucky.

Asim Rose

98%match

Kentucky · 2020

Calvin Turner

Hawai'i · 2020

All-Mountain West

95%

Cooper Wallace

The Citadel · 2024

94%

Julius Loughridge

Fordham · 2024

89%

Jaylen Anderson

West Virginia · 2023

87%

Matches Asim on

Yards per carry

Player DNA

Players who play like Chip Trayanum

Jaylon Armstead

San Diego State · 2023

74%

British Brooks

North Carolina · 2023

74%

Jabari Small

Tennessee · 2022

73%

Jacqez Barksdale

Buffalo · 2023

71%

Jahmyl Jeter

Texas State · 2021

70%

Heisman trajectory

Heisman Trajectory · 2025

Peak #66

Final rank

#78

Avg #117.0

Finalist prob 0%

Peaked at #66 this season.

Stats from CFBD · ESPN · fan discourse. Every figure computed from source tables — not invented. Methodology

Chip Trayanum

20204 games

2024

202511 games

2025 snapshot

Situational

Splits & context

Awards

All-Conference 1st team

Career stats

Signature game

Signature plays

Game log

How he plays

DNA match

Power Back

Players who play like Chip Trayanum

Heisman trajectory

Peak #66