Ezekiel Elliott

RB · Ohio State 2015 · #15

Last confirmed: Ohio State, 2015. No 2026 box-score games on record.

6′0″ · St. Louis, MO · John Burroughs School

Ezekiel Elliott: RB · Ohio State · #15.

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Ezekiel Elliott

RB · Ohio State · #15

Hits the crease and outruns the angle. This is his second year in the same backfield at Ohio State. One game to point at: 274 rushing yards and 12 receiving yards against Indiana — Week 5, 2015.

How he plays

How he plays

Play style

Cuts upfield fast. Designed to find the crease, not run through the line.

Boom vs consistent · carry-yardage shape

Steady, not spectacular

289Carries
1821Yards
18.7%Top-5 share
12.5%Stuffed rate

Just 18.7% of his season rushing yards came on his 5 best carries — remarkably even — and he's stuffed on 12.5% of his carries. 12 carries for 33 yds vs Michigan State; 23 for 274 vs Indiana.

Counted from the play-by-play, so a carry or two can differ from the box score.

Closer · Q4-with-lead carry share

The closer

53.7%Carry share
45.5%Q4-lead share
63.1%In competitive games

53.7% of carries overall (288/536) → 45.5% of Q4-with-lead carries (65/143) — 63.1% of those in competitive (≤16-pt) games.

Counted from the play-by-play, so a carry or two can differ from the box score.

Short-yardage / goal-line · enumeration

Who gets the tough yard

26/303rd/4th & short
21/31Inside-5 share

26 of 30 on 3rd/4th-and-2-or-less (86.7%). 21 of the team's 31 inside-the-5 carries (67.7%).

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