Senior running back for James Madison. 2025: 349 rushing yards, 4 rushing TD.
5′11″ · 236 lb · Gresham, OR
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.
How he plays
Hits the crease and outruns the angle.
Success rate: 99th percentile.
The full scouting readThe numbers
rushing yards · 2025
4 TD · 8.1 per carry
Backed by 8 car · 105 yds · 3 TD -- top 1% rushing TDs game. -- Best game: 105 rush yds, 3 TD, vs App State
Swing playSwung James Madison from 54% to 76% to win.Marshall at James Madison · 35-33
His career numbers, season by seasonThe story
4 running back for James Madison. 2025: 349 rushing yards, 4 rushing TD.
His career, year by yearJobi Malary
Hits the crease and outruns the angle. This is his second year in the same backfield at James Madison. One game to point at: 154 rush yds, 1 rush TD against Coastal Carolina — Week 14, 2025.
Low coverage — composed from the verified record.
Career arc
Season context · Team result + system
2 seasons under Bob Chesney — 21-6 over that span.
Where this profile ranks vs the RB cohort
Box-score + play-by-play EPA percentiles
Elite: success rate (99th percentile). Strength: explosive rate (95th percentile). Concern: carries (4th 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
2025 season · 8 games
Home vs Road
| YDS/g | YPC | TD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Home5g | 35.8 | 5.5 | 0.6 |
| Road3g | 56.7 | 6.4 | 0.3 |
First half vs Second half
| YDS/g | YPC | TD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-72g | 18.5 | 4.6 | 0.0 |
| Weeks 8+6g | 52.0 | 6.2 | 0.7 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Billy Napier
Scheme reads (pass share, tempo, sack rate) need at least 3 team games — 2 games in so far.
Player standing · 2025
Earning real snaps in the rotation without a starting job.
Recognition
Production · CFB Index Score
2026 outlook
Outside shot for All-Sun Belt
Based on 2025: #13 of 36 Sun Belt 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.
| Season | Team | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | James Madison | 43 | 349 | 8.1 | 4 | -- |
| 2024 | James Madison | 45 | 269 | 6.0 | 2 | -- |
| Career | 88 | 618 | 7.0 | 6 | -- |
| Season | Team | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | James Madison | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| 2024 | James Madison | 1 | 6 | 6.0 | 0 | -- |
| Career | 1 | 6 | 6.0 | 0 | -- |
SIGNATURE GAME · Week 8 · 2025
W 63–27
vs Old Dominion
1 rush yds (1 car)
Dominant 36-point win at home against Old Dominion.
With A. Barnett — 295 yds · 2 TD · 0 INT · QBR 96.3 · 153 rush yds (17 car) · 4 TD · M. Sluka — 18 yds · 1 TD · 0 INT · QBR 98.5 · 35 rush yds (5 car)
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 45-10vs Weber State | 5 | 31 | 6.2 | 0 | 16 | |
| Wk 8 | W 63-27vs Old Dominion | 1 | 1 | 1.0 | 0 | 1 | |
| Wk 10 | W 52-20@ Texas State | 3 | 10 | 3.3 | 0 | 11 | |
| Wk 12 | W 58-10vs App State | 8 | 105 | 13.1 | 3 | 59 | 3 rushing TDs |
| Wk 13 | W 24-20vs Washington State | 6 | 17 | 2.8 | 0 | 11 | |
| Wk 14 | W 59-10@ Coastal Carolina | 12 | 154 | 12.8 | 1 | 73 | Season-high 154 yds |
| Wk 15 | W 31-14vs Troy | 6 | 25 | 4.2 | 0 | 7 | |
| Bowl | L 34-51@ Oregon | 2 | 6 | 3.0 | 0 | 5 | |
| Total | 43 | 349 | 5.8 | 4 | 73 |
Play style
Cuts upfield fast. Designed to find the crease, not run through the line.
CFB Index positional classification
Closer · Q4-with-lead carry share
The closer
7.5% of carries overall (43/573) → 14.2% of Q4-with-lead carries (19/134) — 5.3% of those in competitive (≤16-pt) games.
Short-yardage / goal-line · enumeration
Who gets the tough yard
4 of the team's 32 inside-the-5 carries (12.5%).
2026 Outlook
James Madison
2026 Depth chart
Returning starter
Running back · James Madison
Returning around him
2026 Award watch
No preseason watch lists yet (most drop June 15 – July 15)
James Madison · Last season: 12-2 (AP #19) · Talent rank #101 · 2026 recruiting class #80
Player DNA
Cuts upfield fast. Designed to find the crease, not run through the line.
His 2025 production profile sits closest to Jahmyl Jeter’s 2020 season.
Matches Jahmyl on
Differs from Jahmyl on
Through 2 college seasons, his career arc tracks closest to Jake Funk’s path through Maryland.
Eden James
Matches Jake on
As a sophomore, his production profile tracks closest to Ja'Quinden Jackson's sophomore season at Utah (2022).
Matches Ja'Quinden on
Differs from Ja'Quinden on
Player DNA
Heisman Trajectory · 2025
Peaked at #232 this season.