Brenden Knox: RB · Marshall · #20.
Closest statistical matches, adjusted for opponent strength.
Brenden Knox
Just keeps getting the ball, series after series. Rated a two-star prospect, with three seasons of snaps at Marshall since. That makes two straight seasons on the honors list: All-Conference USA again in 2020. A game that shows it: 138 rushing yards and 1 rushing TD against App State — Week 3, 2020.
Play style
Built to take 20+ carries per game. Volume is the value.
Boom vs consistent · carry-yardage shape
Steady, not spectacular
Just 16.3% of his season rushing yards came on his 5 best carries — remarkably even — and he's stuffed on 13.0% of his carries. 17 carries for 67 yds vs UAB; 28 for 138 vs App State.
Counted from the play-by-play, so a carry or two can differ from the box score.
Closer · Q4-with-lead carry share
Not actually a closer
49.1% of carries overall (184/375) → 30.2% of Q4-with-lead carries (29/96) — 55.2% 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
15 of 16 on 3rd/4th-and-2-or-less (93.8%). 9 of the team's 17 inside-the-5 carries (52.9%).
No outlet on our list has written about this player by name this season.
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Game log · Week-by-week
2020 season · 9 games
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| Wk | Opp | CAR | YDS | AVG | TD | LONG | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | W 59-0vs Eastern Kentucky | 18 | 85 | 4.7 | 1 | 10 | |
| Wk 3 | W 17-7vs No. 24 App State | 28 | 138 | 4.9 | 1 | 21 | Season-high 138 yds |
| Wk 6 | W 38-14@ Western Kentucky | 15 | 107 | 7.1 | 3 | 45 | 3 rushing TDs |
| Wk 7 | W 35-17@ Louisiana Tech | 32 | 125 | 3.9 | 2 | 12 | |
| Wk 8 | W 20-9vs Florida Atlantic | 25 | 101 | 4.0 | 0 | 17 | |
| Wk 10 | W 51-10vs Massachusetts | 14 | 118 | 8.4 | 2 | 45 | |
| Wk 11 | W 42-14vs Middle Tennessee | 16 | 70 | 4.4 | 0 | 14 | |
| Wk 14 | L 0-20vs Rice | 20 | 76 | 3.8 | 0 | 16 | |
| Wk 16 | L 13-22vs UAB | 17 | 67 | 3.9 | 0 | 15 | |
| Total | 185 | 887 | 4.8 | 9 | 45 |
Week 6 · 2020
W 38-14
107 rush yds (15 car) · 3 TD
Dominant 24-point win on the road against Western Kentucky.
With R. LeFevre — 42 yards per punt · 5 punts · 1 inside the 20 · G. Wells — 162 yds · 0 TD · 0 INT
The plays that mattered most
Rush profile · Shape, efficiency, and ball security
How he gets his yards, and how often it works
Success rate
47%184 carriesStuffed
0 or fewer ydsGrind
1–3 ydsChunk
4–9 ydsExplosive
10+ yds4.8 yds/carry on 185 carries · 11% explosive (10+ yds) · 47% success rate.
Situational · Carry shape (PBP, full season)
Yardage DNA
Stuffed (≤0)
Grind (1–3)
Chunk (4–9)
Explosive (10+)
3 seasons under Doc Holliday — 24-12 over that span.
Splits · Per-game
2020 season · 9 games
Home vs Road
| YDS/g | YPC | TD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Home7g | 93.6 | 4.9 | 0.6 |
| Road2g | 116 | 5.5 | 2.5 |
First half vs Second half
| YDS/g | YPC | TD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-74g | 114 | 5.2 | 1.8 |
| Weeks 8+5g | 86.4 | 4.9 | 0.4 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Doc Holliday
Pass share
42.1%
279 pass / 384 run
Plays / game
73.7
9 games
Team sack rate
3.9%
309 dropbacks · PBP
Scheme: Run-leaning.
Player standing · 2020
First team in his league at the position.
How it ended
Three seasons at Marshall, 2,852 rushing yards, a first-team All-Conference season (2019) — the college career is complete.
Recruited as a two-star, and honored since.
Trophy case · Confirmed honors
What the selectors said
ALL-CONFERENCE USA · 1ST TEAM
All-Conference USA 1st team (2020)
Coaching lineage · 2018–2020
1 coachPlayed every college season under Doc Holliday.
