Senior running back for Kansas. 2023: 253 rushing yards, 4 rushing TD.
6′0″ · 220 lb · Amherst, NY
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.
Recruiting
RB recruit
No. 2163 nationally · Signed with Buffalo
No college snaps yet.
His career numbers, season by seasonThe story
4 running back for Kansas. 2023: 253 rushing yards, 4 rushing TD.
Dylan McDuffie
Wears you down at the goal line. Dylan McDuffie has played for three head coaches across six seasons and three programs. 2021 brought the first one: All-MAC. The receipt on tape: 91 rush yds, 2 rush TD against UCF, Week 6, 2023.
Low coverage — composed from the verified record.
How it ended
Six seasons at Kansas, 1,571 rushing yards — his college career is complete.
His career
Nobody recruited him. He earned the honors anyway.
The role got bigger.
Career arc
Trophy case · Confirmed honors
What the selectors said
ALL-MAC
All-MAC mention (2021)
Coaching lineage · 2018–2023
3 coachesPlayed under 3 different head coaches: David Beaty, Les Miles, and Lance Leipold. 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: explosive rate (87th percentile). Strength: yards / carry (81st percentile). Concern: carries (5th 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).
Splits · Per-game
2023 season · 8 games
Home vs Road
| YDS/g | YPC | TD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Home4g | 41.8 | 6.2 | 0.8 |
| Road4g | 21.5 | 5.0 | 0.2 |
First half vs Second half
| YDS/g | YPC | TD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-77g | 29.4 | 5.7 | 0.4 |
| Weeks 8+1g | 47.0 | 5.9 | 1.0 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Lance Leipold
Scheme reads (pass share, tempo, sack rate) need at least 3 team games — 2 games in so far.
Player standing · 2023
Earning real snaps in the rotation without a starting job.
Recognition
Production · CFB Index Score
Three-star recruit. Now #232 at the position.
Signature plays · top plays by |EPA|
The plays that mattered most
Game log · Week-by-week
2023 season · 8 games
| Wk | Opp | CAR | YDS | AVG | TD | LONG | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | W 48-17vs Missouri State | 6 | 40 | 6.7 | 1 | 17 | |
| Wk 2 | W 34-23vs Illinois | 7 | 19 | 2.7 | 0 | 8 | |
| Wk 3 | W 31-24@ Nevada | 5 | 13 | 2.6 | 0 | 6 | |
| Wk 4 | W 38-27vs BYU | 2 | 17 | 8.5 | 0 | 14 | |
| Wk 6 | W 51-22vs UCF | 13 | 91 | 7.0 | 2 | 36 | Season-high 91 yds |
| Wk 7 | L 32-39@ Oklahoma State | — | — | — | — | — | |
| Wk 13 | W 49-16@ Cincinnati | 8 | 47 | 5.9 | 1 | 18 | |
| Bowl | W 49-36@ UNLV | 4 | 26 | 6.5 | 0 | 17 | |
| Total | 45 | 253 | 5.7 | 4 | 36 |
Play style
Short-yardage and goal-line specialist. Carries the load, owns the red zone.
CFB Index positional classification
Closer · Q4-with-lead carry share
The closer
9.1% of carries overall (43/472) → 30.0% of Q4-with-lead carries (33/110) — 42.4% of those in competitive (≤16-pt) games.
Short-yardage / goal-line · enumeration
Who gets the tough yard
3 of the team's 25 inside-the-5 carries (12.0%).
Player DNA
Short-yardage and goal-line specialist. Carries the load, owns the red zone.
His 2023 production profile sits closest to Elijah Collins’s 2022 season.
Matches Elijah on
Differs from Elijah on
Through 3 college seasons, his career arc tracks closest to Andrew Body’s path through Alabama State.
Matches Andrew on
Player DNA