Former running back at Northern Illinois. 2024: 567 rushing yards, 4 rushing TD, 8 catches.
5′10″ · 219 lb · Savannah, GA
CFB Index
A single number blending on-field production (an EPA-based value lane) with box-score output for this player's position.
0-100, scaled within each position's own cohort — not directly comparable across positions.
Recruiting
S recruit
No. 2278 nationally · Signed with Northern Illinois
Statement game13 car · 280 yds · 4 TDat Akron (FBS) · W 55-14
Top 0.1% rushing yards game since 2021.
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Former running back at Northern Illinois. 2024: 567 rushing yards, 4 rushing TD, 8 catches.
Antario Brown
Just keeps getting the ball, series after series. This is his fourth year in the same backfield at Northern Illinois. 2023 brought the first one: All-MAC. The receipt on tape: 114 rush yds, 11 rec yds against NC State, Week 5, 2024.
Low coverage — composed from the verified record.
How it ended
Four seasons at Northern Illinois, 3,088 rushing yards, a first-team All-Conference season (2023) — his college career is complete.
His career
Nobody recruited him. He earned the honors anyway.
Career arc
Trophy case · Confirmed honors
What the selectors said
ALL-MAC · 1ST TEAM
All-MAC 1st team (2023)
Coaching lineage · 2021–2024
1 coachPlayed his entire career under Thomas Hammock.
Season context · Team result + system
4 seasons under Thomas Hammock — 27-25 over that span.
Where this profile ranks vs the RB cohort
Box-score + play-by-play EPA percentiles
Elite: rec yards (85th percentile). Concern: success rate (16th percentile).
Real play-by-play efficiency
Season trend
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 · Carry shape (PBP, full season)
Yardage DNA
Stuffed (≤0)
Grind (1–3)
Chunk (4–9)
Explosive (10+)
Splits · Per-game
2024 season · 8 games
Home vs Road
| YDS/g | YPC | TD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Home4g | 60.2 | 5.6 | 0.5 |
| Road4g | 81.5 | 6.9 | 0.5 |
First half vs Second half
| YDS/g | YPC | TD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-75g | 80.2 | 5.5 | 0.4 |
| Weeks 8+3g | 55.3 | 7.5 | 0.7 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Rob Harley
Scheme reads (pass share, tempo, sack rate) need at least 3 team games — 2 games in so far.
Player standing · 2024
Splitting first-team reps — starts some weeks, rotates others.
Recognition
Production · CFB Index Score
Three-star recruit. Now #154 at the position.
| Season | Team | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Northern Illinois | 115 | 567 | 4.9 | 4 | -- |
| 2023 | Northern Illinois | 212 | 1,294 | 6.1 | 10 | -- |
| 2022 | Northern Illinois | 110 | 689 | 6.3 | 7 | -- |
| 2021 | Northern Illinois | 81 | 538 | 6.6 | 5 | -- |
| Career | 518 | 3,088 | 6.0 | 26 | -- |
| Season | Team | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Northern Illinois | 8 | 204 | 25.5 | 1 | -- |
| 2023 | Northern Illinois | 12 | 52 | 4.3 | 1 | -- |
| 2022 | Northern Illinois | 1 | 7 | 7.0 | 0 | -- |
| 2021 | Northern Illinois | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Career | 21 | 263 | 12.5 | 2 | -- |
SIGNATURE GAME · Week 2 · 2024
W 16–14
at Notre Dame
99 rush yds (20 car)
A wire-to-wire battle — won by 2 on the road.
With E. Hampton — 198 yds · 1 TD · 0 INT · QBR 87.1 · 21 rush yds (5 car) · T. Foley — 33 AVG · 40 LONG · 3 NO
Signature plays · top plays by |EPA|
The plays that mattered most
Game log · Week-by-week
2024 season · 8 games
| Wk | Opp | CAR | YDS | AVG | TD | LONG | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | W 54-15vs Western Illinois | 8 | 69 | 8.6 | 0 | 23 | |
| Wk 2 | W 16-14@ Notre Dame | 20 | 99 | 5.0 | 0 | 28 | |
| Wk 4 | L 20-23vs Buffalo | 24 | 73 | 3.0 | 2 | 14 | |
| Wk 5 | L 17-24@ NC State | 28 | 114 | 4.1 | 0 | 34 | Season-high 114 yds |
| Wk 6 | W 34-20vs Massachusetts | 7 | 46 | 6.6 | 0 | 16 | |
| Wk 8 | L 6-13vs Toledo | 13 | 53 | 4.1 | 0 | 18 | |
| Wk 9 | L 23-25@ Ball State | 11 | 62 | 5.6 | 2 | 34 | |
| Wk 11 | W 42-28@ Western Michigan | 4 | 51 | 12.8 | 0 | 49 | |
| Total | 115 | 567 | 6.2 | 4 | 49 |
Play style
Built to take 20+ carries per game. Volume is the value.
CFB Index positional classification
Boom vs consistent · carry-yardage shape
Steady, not spectacular
Just 26.5% of his season rushing yards came on his 5 best carries — remarkably even — and he's stuffed on 10.7% of his carries. 7 carries for 46 yds vs Massachusetts; 27 for 137 vs NC State.
Short-yardage / goal-line · enumeration
Who gets the tough yard
2 of the team's 21 inside-the-5 carries (9.5%).
Player DNA
Built to take 20+ carries per game. Volume is the value.
His 2024 production profile sits closest to Damien Taylor’s 2023 season.
Matches Damien on
Differs from Damien on
Not enough data yet for this comparison.
As a senior, his production profile tracks closest to Pat Garwo III's senior season at Boston College (2023).
Matches Pat on
Player DNA