Johnny Jefferson: RB · Baylor · #5.
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Johnny Jefferson
Hits the crease and outruns the angle. Second year in the Baylor backfield. One game to point at: 299 rushing yards and 24 passing yards against North Carolina — Bowl, 2015.
Play style
Cuts upfield fast. Designed to find the crease, not run through the line.
Boom vs consistent · carry-yardage shape
Steady, not spectacular
Just 23.9% of his season rushing yards came on his 5 best carries — remarkably even — and he's stuffed on 8.1% of his carries. 7 carries for 19 yds vs West Virginia; 23 for 299 vs North Carolina.
Counted from the play-by-play, so a carry or two can differ from the box score.
Short-yardage / goal-line · enumeration
Who gets the tough yard
10 of 14 on 3rd/4th-and-2-or-less (71.4%). 5 of the team's 36 inside-the-5 carries (13.9%).
No outlet on our list has written about this player by name this season.
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Game log · Week-by-week
2015 season · 11 games
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| Wk | Opp | CAR | YDS | AVG | TD | LONG | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | W 56-21@ SMU | 2 | 28 | 14.0 | 0 | 19 | 3 rushing TDs |
| Wk 2 | W 66-31vs Lamar | 12 | 121 | 10.1 | 1 | 46 | |
| Wk 4 | W 70-17vs Rice | 9 | 86 | 9.6 | 1 | 20 | |
| Wk 5 | W 63-35vs Texas Tech | 12 | 39 | 3.3 | 1 | 6 | |
| Wk 6 | W 66-7@ Kansas | 15 | 79 | 5.3 | 1 | 11 | |
| Wk 7 | W 62-38vs West Virginia | 7 | 19 | 2.7 | 0 | 8 | |
| Wk 8 | W 45-27vs Iowa State | 4 | 27 | 6.8 | 0 | 11 | |
| Wk 12 | W 45-35@ No. 4 Oklahoma State | 17 | 62 | 3.6 | 0 | 13 | |
| Wk 13 | L 21-28@ No. 15 TCU | 12 | 82 | 6.8 | 0 | 44 | |
| Wk 14 | L 17-23vs Texas | 23 | 158 | 6.9 | 1 | 20 | 158-yard day |
 Bowl | W 49-38vs No. 10 North Carolina | 23 | 299 | 13.0 | 3 | 80 | |
| Total | 136 | 1000 | 7.4 | 8 | 80 |
Bowl · 2015
W 49-38
vs North Carolina · neutral site
299 rush yds (23 car) · 3 TD · 24 yds · 0 TD · 0 INT · QBR 99.9
Edged out North Carolina at a neutral site in a shootout.
With D. Chafin — 156 rush yds (27 car) · 1 TD · L. Hawthorne — 63 rush yds (7 car) · 1 TD
The plays that mattered most
Rush profile · Shape, efficiency, and ball security
How he gets his yards, and how often it works
Success rate
54%113 carriesStuffed
0 or fewer ydsGrind
1–3 ydsChunk
4–9 ydsExplosive
10+ yds7.4 yds/carry on 136 carries · 23% explosive (10+ yds) · 54% success rate.
Situational · Carry shape (PBP, full season)
Yardage DNA
Stuffed (≤0)
Grind (1–3)
Chunk (4–9)
Explosive (10+)
2 seasons under Art Briles — 21-5 over that span.
Splits · Per-game
2015 season · 11 games
Home vs Road
| YDS/g | YPC | TD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Home5g | 82.2 | 7.2 | 0.6 |
| Road4g | 62.8 | 7.4 | 0.2 |
First half vs Second half
| YDS/g | YPC | TD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-77g | 95.9 | 8.3 | 1.0 |
| Weeks 8+4g | 82.2 | 6.0 | 0.2 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Art Briles
Pass share
35.6%
388 pass / 702 run
Plays / game
83.8
13 games
Team sack rate
3.7%
409 dropbacks · PBP
Scheme: Run-heavy, fast tempo.
Player standing · 2015
136 carries, 4 pass attempts and 4 catches in 11 games, about as many touches a game as a typical FBS running back who plays every week.
How it ended
Two seasons at Baylor, 1,524 rushing yards — the college career is complete.
Coaching lineage · 2013–2016
2 coachesCoaching transition mid-career: Art Briles → Jim Grobe. Worth noting in scheme + development context.
