Sophomore running back for Louisville. 2020: 822 rushing yards, 7 rushing TD, 16 catches.
5′9″ · 196 lb · Titusville, FL
Recruiting
APB recruit
No. 1397 nationally · Signed with Louisville
Statement game16 car · 174 yds · 3 TDvs Florida State (FBS) · W 48-16
Top 1% rushing yards game since 2021.
Hawkins. That's it. That's the comment.r/CFB game thread · ▲ 5His career numbers, season by seasonThe story
2 running back for Louisville. 2020: 822 rushing yards, 7 rushing TD, 16 catches.
Javian Hawkins
Three seasons at Louisville, two different head coaches: Lorenzo Ward and Scott Satterfield. 2020 brought the first one: ACC Running Back Player of the Week. One game to point at: 174 rush yds, 8 rec yds against Florida State — Week 8, 2020.
Low coverage — composed from the verified record.
How it ended
Three seasons at Louisville, 2,355 rushing yards — his college career is complete.
His career
Nobody recruited him. He earned the honors anyway.
Career arc
Coaching lineage · 2018–2020
2 coachesCoaching transition mid-career: Lorenzo Ward → Scott Satterfield. Worth noting in scheme + development context.
Season context · Team result + system
Where this profile ranks vs the RB cohort
Box-score percentiles
Elite: long run (99th percentile). Strength: rush yards (91st percentile).
Percentiles versus same-position peers with enough snaps this season, based on box-score rates.
Splits · Per-game
2020 season · 8 games
Home vs Road
| YDS/g | YPC | TD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Home5g | 108 | 7.1 | 1.2 |
| Road3g | 94.7 | 5.1 | 0.3 |
First half vs Second half
| YDS/g | YPC | TD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-75g | 104 | 5.0 | 0.6 |
| Weeks 8+3g | 101 | 9.2 | 1.3 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Jeff Brohm
Scheme reads (pass share, tempo, sack rate) need at least 3 team games — 2 games in so far.
Player standing · 2020
Splitting first-team reps — starts some weeks, rotates others.
| Season | Team | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Louisville | 133 | 822 | 6.2 | 7 | -- |
| 2019 | Louisville | 264 | 1,525 | 5.8 | 9 | -- |
| 2018 | Louisville | 2 | 8 | 4.0 | 0 | -- |
| Career | 399 | 2,355 | 5.9 | 16 | -- |
| Season | Team | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Louisville | 16 | 127 | 7.9 | 1 | -- |
| 2019 | Louisville | 4 | 58 | 14.5 | 0 | -- |
| 2018 | Louisville | 1 | 4 | 4.0 | 0 | -- |
| Career | 21 | 189 | 9.0 | 1 | -- |
Signature plays · top plays by |EPA|
The plays that mattered most
Game log · Week-by-week
2020 season · 8 games
| Wk | Opp | CAR | YDS | AVG | TD | LONG | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 2 | W 35-21vs Western Kentucky | 19 | 71 | 3.7 | 1 | 19 | |
| Wk 3 | L 34-47vs Miami | 27 | 164 | 6.1 | 1 | 19 | 164-yard day |
| Wk 4 | L 20-23@ Pittsburgh | 13 | 78 | 6.0 | 1 | 75 | |
| Wk 6 | L 27-46@ Georgia Tech | 26 | 155 | 6.0 | 0 | 27 | 155-yard day |
| Wk 7 | L 7-12@ Notre Dame | 15 | 51 | 3.4 | 0 | 28 | |
| Wk 8 | W 48-16vs Florida State | 16 | 174 | 10.9 | 3 | 70 | Season-high 174 yds |
| Wk 9 | L 35-42vs Virginia Tech | 17 | 129 | 7.6 | 1 | 90 | |
| Wk 12 | W 30-0vs Syracuse | — | — | — | — | — | |
| Total | 133 | 822 | 6.2 | 7 | 90 |