#33

Bhayshul Tuten

Former running back at Virginia Tech. 2024: 1,158 rushing yards, 15 rushing TD, 22 catches.

RB · Virginia Tech · Sr. · #33

5′11″ · 209 lb · Paulsboro, NJ

CFB Index 78 · #21 of 310 RBsHigh confidenceAll-ConferenceJacksonville — drafted 2025, Rd 4, Pick 2, #104 overall

Recruiting

RB recruit

Signed with North Carolina A&T

Statement game18 car · 266 yds · 3 TDvs Boston College (FBS) · W 42-21

Top 0.1% rushing yards game since 2021.

pls give ball to tuten morer/CFB game thread · ▲ 5His career numbers, season by season

The story

Former running back at Virginia Tech. 2024: 1,158 rushing yards, 15 rushing TD, 22 catches.

Signed with North Carolina A&T in 2021.
Transferred from North Carolina A&T to Virginia Tech in 2023.
Drafted round 4 by the Jacksonville in 2025.

His career, year by year

How it ended

Two seasons at Virginia Tech, 2,021 rushing yards — drafted at #104 overall by Jacksonville.

His career

Nobody recruited him. He earned the honors anyway.

The week the volume broke through — stacked 1 td vs Purdue.Purdue · L 17-242023

2021

Signed with North Carolina A&Tout of Paulsboro

202313 games

The role got bigger.

Entered the portal
All-ACCsecond

202411 games

All-ACCsecond

2025

Drafted by Jacksonvilleround 4, pick 104

Career arc

Recruit

—

2021 class

CFB

College

Virginia Tech

2023–2024

NFL

NFL Draft

R4 · #104

Jacksonville · 2025

Trophy case · Confirmed honors

What the selectors said

5 honors · 1 category

🎖

ALL-ACC · 2ND TEAM

All-ACC 2nd team (2024)

Where He Ended Up · NFL

JacksonvilleEntering 2nd NFL season

#104Rd 4 · Pick 2

JacksonvilleEntering 2nd NFL season

View college career stats ↓

2024 snapshot

Season context · Team result + system

2 seasons under Brent Pry, all run-leaning offenses — 13-13 over that span.

2023Virginia Tech7-6HC: Brent Pry · Run-leaning

2024Virginia Tech6-7HC: Brent Pry · Run-leaning

Where this profile ranks vs the RB cohort

Box-score + play-by-play EPA percentiles

78All-Conference level #21 of 310?

High confidence13 metrics · season cumulative

Elite: explosive rate (89th percentile). Strength: td rate (88th percentile).

Real play-by-play efficiency

Explosive rate#49 / 442 · 89th pct

11.5%

TD rate#55 / 442 · 88th pct

8.2%

Yards / carry#67 / 442 · 85th pct

6.4

EPA / carry#145 / 442 · 67th pct

0.24

Success rate#306 / 442 · 31st pct

41.2%

Box-score rates (8)

Rush TDs#12 / 335 · 96th pct

Long run#15 / 335 · 95th pct

Rush yards#23 / 335 · 93rd pct

1158

Yards / carry#32 / 335 · 90th pct

6.3

Carries#44 / 335 · 87th pct

183

Receptions#57 / 330 · 82nd pct

Fumbles lost#55 / 204 · 49th pct

Rec yards#180 / 330 · 46th pct

Season trend

Last seasonThis season

EPA / carry

34th → 67th percentile

Success rate

45th → 31st percentile

Explosive rate

39th → 89th percentile

Yards / carry

30th → 85th percentile

TD rate

61st → 88th percentile

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

182 carries

19%

Stuffed (≤0)

33%

Grind (1–3)

29%

Chunk (4–9)

19%

Explosive (10+)

Splits & context

Splits · Per-game

2024 season · 11 games

Home/Road · Season halves

Home vs Road

	YDS/g	YPC	TD/g
Home6g	118	6.6	1.5
Road5g	89.4	4.9	1.2

First half vs Second half

	YDS/g	YPC	TD/g
Weeks 1-76g	101	5.6	1.5
Weeks 8+5g	111	6.1	1.2

Supporting cast · Scheme

Staff and system around the player

2026 season

Head Coach

James Franklin

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

Awards

Player standing · 2024

All-Conference

Picked for an all-conference team by at least one selector.

Recognition

Roster2-deepStarterRecognizedEliteApex

Production · CFB Index Score

78 · #21 of 310 RBs

Unranked recruit. Now #21 at the position.

Career stats

Season	Team
2024	Virginia Tech	183	1,158	6.3	15	--
2023	Virginia Tech	173	863	5.0	10	--
Career		356	2,021	5.7	25	--

Season	Team
2024	Virginia Tech	22	79	3.6	2	--
2023	Virginia Tech	27	239	8.9	2	--
Career		49	318	6.5	4	--

Signature game

SIGNATURE GAME · Week 2 · 2024

W 31–14

vs Marshall

120 rush yds (22 car) · 1 TD

With P. Moore — 42 AVG · 4 IN 20 · 46 LONG · J. Lane — 4 rec · 41 yds

Signature plays

Signature plays · top plays by |EPA|

The plays that mattered most

fact

Week 8 · Boston College · 1&10 · Q2 · EPA +6.54Bhayshul Tuten run for 83 yds for a TD (John Love KICK)
Week 14 · Virginia · 3&5 · Q4 · EPA +6.05Bhayshul Tuten run for 58 yds for a TD (John Love KICK)
Week 5 · Miami · 3&1 · Q2 · EPA +5.20Bhayshul Tuten run for 55 yds for a TD (John Love KICK)
Week 8 · Boston College · 1&10 · Q4 · EPA +4.86Bhayshul Tuten run for 61 yds for a TD (John Love KICK)
Week 4 · Rutgers · 3&5 · Q2 · EPA +3.23Bhayshul Tuten run for 23 yds for a TD (John Love KICK)
Week 1 · Vanderbilt · 3&11 · Q4 · EPA +3.15Kyron Drones pass complete to Bhayshul Tuten for 11 yds for a TD (John Love KICK)
Week 9 · Georgia Tech · 1&10 · Q2 · EPA +3.14Bhayshul Tuten run for 41 yds to the GT 34 for a 1ST down
Week 1 · Vanderbilt · 2&10 · Q3 · EPA +3.12Bhayshul Tuten run for 24 yds for a TD (John Love KICK)
Week 4 · Rutgers · 3&1 · Q2 · EPA +2.93Bhayshul Tuten run for 31 yds to the 50 yard line Bhayshul Tuten fumbled, recovered by VT , return to the 50 yard line for a 1ST down
Week 6 · Stanford · 4&1 · Q2 · EPA +2.90Bhayshul Tuten run for 7 yds for a TD (John Love KICK)

Game log

Game log · Week-by-week

2024 season · 11 games

Box score · CFBD

Wk	Opp	CAR	YDS	AVG	TD	LONG	Note
Wk 1	L 27-34@ Vanderbilt	9	34	3.8	1	24
Wk 2	W 31-14vs Marshall	22	120	5.5	1	25
Wk 3	W 37-17@ Old Dominion	21	115	5.5	2	22
Wk 4	L 23-26vs Rutgers	15	122	8.1	3	31	3 rushing TDs
Wk 5	L 34-38@ Miami	19	141	7.4	1	55
Wk 6	W 31-7@ Stanford	21	73	3.5	1	13
Wk 8	W 42-21vs Boston College	18	266	14.8	3	83	Season-high 266 yds
Wk 9	W 21-6vs Georgia Tech	17	79	4.6	0	41
Wk 11	L 14-24vs Clemson	4	0	0.0	0	3
Wk 13	L 28-31@ Duke	19	84	4.4	1	29
Wk 14	W 37-17vs Virginia	18	124	6.9	2	58
Total		183	1158	5.9	15	83

How he plays

Play style

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

CFB Index positional classification

Boom vs consistent · carry-yardage shape

Steady, not spectacular

~ our read

182Carries

1165Yards

25.6%Top-5 share

19.2%Stuffed rate

Just 25.6% of his season rushing yards came on his 5 best carries — remarkably even — and he's stuffed on 19.2% of his carries. 4 carries for 0 yds vs Clemson; 18 for 266 vs Boston College.

Closer · Q4-with-lead carry share

The closer

~ our read

40.8%Carry share

32.5%Q4-lead share

76.0%In competitive games

40.8% of carries overall (178/436) → 32.5% of Q4-with-lead carries (25/77) — 76.0% of those in competitive (≤16-pt) games.

Short-yardage / goal-line · enumeration

Who gets the tough yard

fact

7/103rd/4th & short

8/20Inside-5 share