Bryson Washington

#30 · RB · Sr. · Auburn6′0″ · 210 lb · Franklin, TX

Last gameL 15–45at Ole Miss · Oct 31
Nextvs ArkansasSat Nov 7 · 12:45 pm ET
76 rushing yards in 5 games; their best was 44 vs Southern Miss.
Game 1: against Baylor, win 17-16, 7 rushing yards7WBAYGame 2: against Southern Miss, win 43-8, 44 rushing yards44WUSMGame 3: against Florida, loss 39-44, 8 rushing yards8LFLAGame 4: against Vanderbilt, win 21-15, 12 rushing yards12WVANGame 5: at Tennessee, loss 14-24, no carries in this gameLTENN@Game 6: at Georgia, win 27-24, no carries in this gameWUGA@Game 7: against LSU, loss 17-38, 5 rushing yards5LLSUGame 8: at Ole Miss, loss 15-45, no carries in this gameLMISS@Season high
Game 1: against Baylor, win 17-16, 7 rushing yardsWBAYGame 2: against Southern Miss, win 43-8, 44 rushing yards44WUSMGame 3: against Florida, loss 39-44, 8 rushing yardsLFLAGame 4: against Vanderbilt, win 21-15, 12 rushing yardsWVANGame 5: at Tennessee, loss 14-24, no carries in this gameLTENN@Game 6: at Georgia, win 27-24, no carries in this gameWUGA@Game 7: against LSU, loss 17-38, 5 rushing yardsLLSUGame 8: at Ole Miss, loss 15-45, no carries in this gameLMISS@Season high

Ole Miss · L 15-45

No carries.

Washington has carries in 5 of Auburn’s 8 games: none against Tennessee, Georgia and Ole Miss.

Dashed line: 100 yards.

This week

The story

Written , before the 2026 season

The breakout was real: 1,028 yards and 12 touchdowns as a redshirt freshman in 2024 made Washington a preseason All-American and a Doak Walker name. Then 2025 happened — he played all 12 games but kept exiting early, finishing with 788 yards and six scores on 154 carries, a season that felt less like a step back than an interruption.

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So when he entered the portal on January 4, it landed as a surprise, and when he picked Auburn, 247Sports slotted him as the No. 7 running back available. Under new coach Alex Golesh — who has been blunt that the identity is to run it early, often, and effectively — Auburn paired Washington with returning leading rusher Jeremiah Cobb into what beat writers are calling a thunder-and-lightning duo, Cobb on passing downs, Washington on early-down and red-zone work. There's a quieter signal in our own numbers too: the buzz around him (81st percentile perception) outruns what the tape actually produced (64th percentile), a gap our model still grades as "matched" rather than hype. The forward stake is the one Auburn fans keep circling: a three-deep room means rest and rotation, which is exactly the thing a back who couldn't stay healthy needs — but it also means he has to earn every carry he gets in 2026.

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Style of play

Style of play

Play style, written June 30, before the season

A boom-or-bust runner whose ceiling is the whole story. His explosive-run rate sits in the 70th percentile among FBS backs — the long speed that flashed on his 41-yard runs is genuine — but the floor is shaky: 45th percentile in EPA per carry, 34th percentile in run touchdown rate, and a brutal 62nd percentile in success rate, meaning a lot of his carries simply don't move the chains before the one that breaks open. That down-to-down inconsistency is the profile of a home-run hitter who strikes out a lot, and it's exactly why a heavy, rotational room may suit him better than a workhorse load: let him hunt the big play on early downs and let Cobb grind the steady stuff.

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