Game log · Week-by-week
2021 season · 2 games
| Wk | Opp | CAR | YDS | AVG | TD | LONG | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 3 | W 58-0vs Rice | 8 | 33 | 4.1 | 0 | 11 | Season-high 33 yds |
| Wk 4 | W 70-35vs Texas Tech | 2 | 4 | 2.0 | 0 | 5 | |
| Total | 10 | 37 | 3.0 | 0 | 11 |
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Gabriel Watson
Senior running back for Texas. 2021: 37 rushing yards.
6′2″ · 235 lb
Texas 2021 alumnus
Recruiting
4★
CB recruit
No. 131 nationally · Signed with Texas
No college snaps yet.
His career numbers, season by seasonThe story
4 running back for Texas. 2021: 37 rushing yards.
- Signed as a 4-star recruit to Texas in 2019.
Gabriel Watson
Two seasons at Texas, two different head coaches: Tom Herman and Steve Sarkisian. One game to point at: 33 rush yds against Rice — Week 3, 2021.
Low coverage — composed from the verified record.
- head-coach lineage
- game log
How it ended
Two seasons at Texas, 71 rushing yards — his college career is complete.
His career
2019
- Signed with Texas4-star out of Grayson
Career arc
HS
Recruit
★★★★
CFB
College
Texas
NFL
NFL Draft
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Coaching lineage · 2020–2021
2 coaches2020
Texas
Coaching transition mid-career: Tom Herman → Steve Sarkisian. Worth noting in scheme + development context.
2021 snapshot
Season context · Team result + system
2020Texas7-3HC: Tom Herman · Balanced, fast tempo
2021Texas5-7HC: Steve Sarkisian · Run-leaning
Where this profile ranks vs the RB cohort
Box-score percentiles
Concern: rush yards (0th percentile).
Box-score rates (5)
Percentiles versus same-position peers with enough snaps this season, based on box-score rates.
Splits & context
Splits
Per-game splits
Through 2 games: 18.5 YDS/g, 3.0 YPC, 0.0 TD/g — splits start at 3 games.
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Steve Sarkisian
Scheme reads (pass share, tempo, sack rate) need at least 3 team games — 2 games in so far.
Awards
Player standing · 2021
Backup
On the two-deep and pushing for snaps.
Roster2-deepStarterRecognizedEliteApex
Career stats
Signature plays
Signature plays · top plays by |EPA|
The plays that mattered most
- Week 3 · Rice · 4&4 · Q4 · EPA -3.94G.Watson rushed to RICE 6 for 1 yards. Tackled by RICE at RICE 6.
- Week 4 · Texas Tech · 4&9 · Q4 · EPA -1.61Gabriel Watson run for 5 yds to the TexTc 29
- Week 4 · Texas Tech · 3&8 · Q4 · EPA -1.23Gabriel Watson run for a loss of 1 yard to the TexTc 34
- Week 3 · Rice · 1&10 · Q4 · EPA +0.38G.Watson rushed to RICE 28 for 11 yards. Tackled by RICE at RICE 28.
- Week 3 · Rice · 3&5 · Q4 · EPA -0.25G.Watson rushed to RICE 7 for 1 yards. Tackled by RICE at RICE 7.
- Week 3 · Rice · 1&10 · Q4 · EPA -0.24G.Watson rushed to RICE 12 for 1 yards. Tackled by RICE at RICE 12.
- Week 3 · Rice · 3&1 · Q4 · EPA +0.19G.Watson rushed to RICE 13 for 6 yards. Tackled by RICE at RICE 13.
- Week 3 · Rice · 2&6 · Q4 · EPA +0.08G.Watson rushed to RICE 19 for 5 yards. Tackled by RICE at RICE 19.
- Week 3 · Rice · 1&10 · Q4 · EPA -0.04G.Watson rushed to RICE 24 for 4 yards. Tackled by RICE at RICE 24.
- Week 3 · Rice · 2&9 · Q4 · EPA -0.03G.Watson rushed to RICE 8 for 4 yards. Tackled by RICE at RICE 8.
Game log
Stats from CFBD · ESPN · fan discourse. Every figure computed from source tables — not invented. Methodology