Senior running back for Purdue. 2025: 521 rushing yards, 4 rushing TD, 18 catches.
6′0″ · 202 lb · Boonville, IN
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
4 TD · 4.2 per carry · 18 catches
Backed by 30 car · 178 yds · 1 TD -- top 1% rushing yards game. -- Best game: 126 rush yds, 2 TD, 21 rec yds, vs Southern Illinois
Swing playSwung Indiana from 49% to 77% to win.Indiana at Purdue · 35-31
His career numbers, season by seasonThe story
4 running back for Purdue. 2025: 521 rushing yards, 4 rushing TD, 18 catches.
How he plays
Does a little of everything without one standout trait.
Success rate: 69th percentile.
The full scouting readDevin Mockobee
Does a little of everything without one standout trait. Devin Mockobee has been at Purdue through three head coaches in four seasons. 2022 brought the first one: Big Ten Freshman Player of the Week. One game to point at: 126 rush yds, 21 rec yds against Southern Illinois — Week 2, 2025.
Low coverage — composed from the verified record.
His career
He was winning awards before he was old enough to be a story.
Career arc
Trophy case · Confirmed honors
What the selectors said
FRESHMAN HONORS
Freshman recognition (2022)
1 mention(s)
Coaching lineage · 2022–2025
3 coachesPlayed under 3 different head coaches: Jeff Brohm, Ryan Walters, and Barry Odom. Multi-era developmental context.
Season context · Team result + system
Where this profile ranks vs the RB cohort
Box-score + play-by-play EPA percentiles
Elite: rec yards (88th percentile). Strength: fumbles lost (87th percentile). Concern: yards / carry (21st 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 · 8 games
Home vs Road
| YDS/g | YPC | TD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Home5g | 75.8 | 4.6 | 0.8 |
| Road3g | 47.3 | 3.3 | 0.0 |
First half vs Second half
| YDS/g | YPC | TD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-76g | 67.0 | 3.9 | 0.7 |
| Weeks 8+2g | 59.5 | 4.8 | 0.0 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Barry Odom
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
Three-star recruit. Now #124 at the position.
2026 outlook
Outside shot for All-Big Ten
Based on 2025: #19 of 44 Big Ten RBs
22% estimated, 95% confidence interval 19–25%. Base rate measured from players who finished at a comparable rank in their conference and came back the next season. It is an estimate from a small sample, not a forecast of this player.
SIGNATURE GAME · Week 2 · 2025
W 34–17
126 rush yds (32 car) · 2 TD
With R. Browne — 170 yds · 2 TD · 1 INT · QBR 79.5 · 50 rush yds (9 car) · M. Jackson III — 1 rec · 7 yds
Signature plays · top plays by |EPA|
The plays that mattered most
Game log · Week-by-week
2025 season · 8 games
| Wk | Opp | CAR | YDS | AVG | TD | LONG | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | W 31-0vs Ball State | 14 | 59 | 4.2 | 1 | 13 | |
| Wk 2 | W 34-17vs Southern Illinois | 32 | 126 | 3.9 | 2 | 12 | Season-high 126 yds |
| Wk 3 | L 17-33vs USC | 12 | 45 | 3.8 | 0 | 17 | |
| Wk 4 | L 30-56@ Notre Dame | 12 | 16 | 1.3 | 0 | 6 | |
| Wk 6 | L 27-43vs Illinois | 11 | 58 | 5.3 | 1 | 18 | |
| Wk 7 | L 20-27@ Minnesota | 21 | 98 | 4.7 | 0 | 15 | |
| Wk 8 | L 0-19@ Northwestern | 7 | 28 | 4.0 | 0 | 16 | |
| Wk 9 | L 24-27vs Rutgers | 16 | 91 | 5.7 | 0 | 32 | |
| Total | 125 | 521 | 4.1 | 4 | 32 |
Play style
Plays within the scheme — consistent production without a dominant dimension.
CFB Index positional classification
Boom vs consistent · carry-yardage shape
Steady, not spectacular
Just 19.2% of his season rushing yards came on his 5 best carries — remarkably even — and he's stuffed on 20.2% of his carries. 11 carries for 16 yds vs Notre Dame; 32 for 126 vs Southern Illinois.
Short-yardage / goal-line · enumeration
Who gets the tough yard
11 of 15 on 3rd/4th-and-2-or-less (73.3%).
2026 Outlook
Purdue
2026 Depth chart
Returning starter
Running back · Purdue · editorial
Returning around him
2026 Award watch
Purdue · Last season: 2-10 · Talent rank #55 · 2026 recruiting class #55
Player DNA
Plays within the scheme — consistent production without a dominant dimension.
His 2025 production profile sits closest to Casey Filkins’s 2022 season.
Matches Casey on
Differs from Casey on
Through 4 college seasons, his career arc tracks closest to Caleb Huntley’s path through Ball State.
Matches Caleb on
As a senior, his production profile tracks closest to Braedon Sloan's senior season at Ball State (2024).
Matches Braedon on
Player DNA