Former running back at West Virginia. 2024: 34 rushing yards, 1 catch.
5′11″ · 220 lb · Perry, OH
Recruiting
RB recruit
No. 327 nationally · Signed with West Virginia
No college snaps yet.
His career numbers, season by seasonThe story
Former running back at West Virginia. 2024: 34 rushing yards, 1 catch.
Jaylen Anderson
Just keeps getting the ball, series after series. Jaylen Anderson has been at West Virginia through two head coaches in three seasons. The receipt: 19 rush yds against Oklahoma State — Week 6, 2024.
Low coverage — composed from the verified record.
How it ended
Three seasons at West Virginia, 456 rushing yards — his college career is complete.
His career
Career arc
Coaching lineage · 2022–2024
2 coachesCoaching transition mid-career: Neal Brown → Chad Scott. Worth noting in scheme + development context.
Season context · Team result + system
Where this profile ranks vs the RB cohort
Box-score percentiles
Elite: fumbles lost (87th percentile). Concern: rush yards (0th percentile).
Percentiles versus same-position peers with enough snaps this season, based on box-score rates.
Splits · Per-game
2024 season · 4 games
Home vs Road
| YDS/g | YPC | TD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Home2g | 7.5 | 2.5 | 0.0 |
| Road2g | 9.5 | 6.3 | 0.0 |
First half vs Second half
| YDS/g | YPC | TD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-72g | 16.5 | 5.5 | 0.0 |
| Weeks 8+2g | 0.5 | 0.3 | 0.0 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Rich Rodriguez
Scheme reads (pass share, tempo, sack rate) need at least 3 team games — 2 games in so far.
Player standing · 2024
On the two-deep and pushing for snaps.
| Season | Team | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | West Virginia | 9 | 34 | 3.8 | 0 | -- |
| 2023 | West Virginia | 44 | 147 | 3.3 | 1 | -- |
| 2022 | West Virginia | 35 | 275 | 7.9 | 2 | -- |
| Career | 88 | 456 | 5.2 | 3 | -- |
| Season | Team | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | West Virginia | 1 | 9 | 9.0 | 0 | -- |
| 2023 | West Virginia | 4 | 42 | 10.5 | 0 | -- |
| 2022 | West Virginia | 1 | 15 | 15.0 | 0 | -- |
| Career | 6 | 66 | 11.0 | 0 | -- |
Signature plays · top plays by |EPA|
The plays that mattered most
Game log · Week-by-week
2024 season · 4 games
| Wk | Opp | CAR | YDS | AVG | TD | LONG | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | L 12-34vs Penn State | 3 | 14 | 4.7 | 0 | 7 | |
| Wk 6 | W 38-14@ Oklahoma State | 3 | 19 | 6.3 | 0 | 7 | Season-high 19 yds |
| Wk 8 | L 18-45vs Kansas State | 3 | 1 | 0.3 | 0 | 4 | |
| Wk 9 | W 31-26@ Arizona | — | — | — | — | — | |
| Total | 9 | 34 | 3.8 | 0 | 7 |
Play style
Built to take 20+ carries per game. Volume is the value.
CFB Index positional classification
Player DNA
Built to take 20+ carries per game. Volume is the value.
His 2023 production profile sits closest to Dezmon Jackson’s 2021 season.
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Through 2 college seasons, his career arc tracks closest to Julius Loughridge’s path through Fordham.
Julius Loughridge
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As a sophomore, his production profile tracks closest to Dezmon Jackson's sophomore season at Oklahoma State (2021).
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