Senior running back for Georgia. 2025: 560 rushing yards, 3 rushing TD, 7 catches.
6′2″ · 225 lb · Picayune, MS · Picayune
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.
The numbers
rushing yards · 2025
3 TD · 5 per carry · 7 catches
Backed by 10 car · 41 yds · 3 TD -- top 1% rushing TDs game. -- Best game: 129 rush yds, 1 TD, -1 rec yds, vs Toledo
The play that turned itSwung Nebraska from 25% to 70% to win.Nebraska at Ohio State · 21-17
His career numbers, season by seasonThe story
4 running back for Georgia. 2025: 560 rushing yards, 3 rushing TD, 7 catches.
How he plays
Just keeps getting the ball, series after series.
Success rate: 41st percentile.
The full scouting read“Georgia RB Dante Dowdell details recovery process after serious ATV accident”
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Dante Dowdell
Just keeps getting the ball, series after series. Across three seasons and three programs, three head coaches: Dan Lanning, Matt Rhule and Mark Stoops. The receipt: 129 rush yds, 1 receptions against Toledo — Week 1, 2025.
Low coverage — composed from the verified record.
His career
6 programs, one constant: he played.
The role got bigger.
Career arc
Coaching lineage · 2023–2025
1 coachPlayed his entire career under Kirby Smart.
Where He Ended Up · Transfer
Transferred to Georgia
Season context · Team result + system
Where this profile ranks vs the RB cohort
Box-score + play-by-play EPA percentiles
Elite: long run (93rd percentile). Concern: td rate (15th 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
2025 season · 12 games
Home vs Road
| YDS/g | YPC | TD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Home7g | 69.1 | 6.5 | 0.4 |
| Road5g | 15.2 | 2.5 | 0.0 |
First half vs Second half
| YDS/g | YPC | TD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-75g | 49.4 | 4.0 | 0.2 |
| Weeks 8+7g | 44.7 | 5.4 | 0.3 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Kirby Smart
Scheme reads (pass share, tempo, sack rate) need at least 3 team games — 2 games in so far.
Player standing · 2025
Splitting first-team reps — starts some weeks, rotates others.
Recognition
Production · CFB Index Score
Former four-star. Now #147 at the position.
Signature plays · top plays by |EPA|
The plays that mattered most
Game log · Week-by-week
2025 season · 12 games
| Wk | Opp | CAR | YDS | AVG | TD | LONG | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | W 24-16vs Toledo | 14 | 129 | 9.2 | 1 | 79 | Season-high 129 yds |
| Wk 2 | L 23-30vs Ole Miss | 14 | 56 | 4.0 | 0 | 15 | |
| Wk 3 | W 48-23vs Eastern Michigan | 8 | 29 | 3.6 | 0 | 8 | |
| Wk 5 | L 13-35@ South Carolina | 13 | 24 | 1.8 | 0 | 9 | |
| Wk 6 | L 14-35@ Georgia | 7 | 9 | 1.3 | 0 | 2 | |
| Wk 8 | L 13-16vs Texas | 11 | 27 | 2.5 | 0 | 9 | |
| Wk 9 | L 34-56vs Tennessee | 12 | 52 | 4.3 | 0 | 16 | |
| Wk 10 | W 10-3@ Auburn | 3 | 11 | 3.7 | 0 | 7 | |
| Wk 11 | W 38-7vs Florida | 7 | 104 | 14.9 | 1 | 65 | |
| Wk 12 | W 42-10vs Tennessee Tech | 13 | 87 | 6.7 | 1 | 19 | |
| Wk 13 | L 17-45@ Vanderbilt | 4 | 5 | 1.3 | 0 | 3 | |
| Wk 14 | L 0-41@ Louisville | 6 | 27 | 4.5 | 0 | 9 | |
| Total | 112 | 560 | 4.8 | 3 | 79 |
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 30.5% of his season rushing yards came on his 5 best carries — remarkably even — and he's stuffed on 19.1% of his carries. 4 carries for 5 yds vs Vanderbilt; 14 for 129 vs Toledo.
Short-yardage / goal-line · enumeration
Who gets the tough yard
9 of 12 on 3rd/4th-and-2-or-less (75.0%). 4 of the team's 17 inside-the-5 carries (23.5%).
Player DNA
Built to take 20+ carries per game. Volume is the value.
His 2025 production profile sits closest to Ja'Quinden Jackson’s 2023 season.
Matches Ja'Quinden on
Through 3 college seasons, his career arc tracks closest to Julius Loughridge’s path through Fordham.
Julius Loughridge
Matches Julius on
As a junior, his production profile tracks closest to Anthony Tyus III's junior season at Northwestern (2023).
Matches Anthony on
Differs from Anthony on
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