Mark Fletcher Jr.

#4 · RB · Sr. · Miami6′2″ · 225 lb · Fort Lauderdale, FL · American Heritage

Rushing yards45783rd of 278 running backsHeismanNo. 20in our modelLast gameW 38–35at North Carolina · Oct 31
Nextat Notre DameSat Nov 7 · 7:30 pm ET
457 rushing yards in 7 games; their best was 105 vs Florida A&M.
Game 1: at Stanford, win 45-6, 40 rushing yards40WSTAN@Game 2: against Florida A&M, win 77-7, 105 rushing yards, 2 touchdowns, FCS opponent105WFAMUFCSGame 3: at Wake Forest, win 33-20, 85 rushing yards, 1 touchdown85WWAKE@Game 4: against Central Michigan, win 52-3, no carries in this gameWCMUGame 5: at Clemson, win 41-13, 77 rushing yards, 2 touchdowns77WCLEM@Game 6: against Florida State, win 43-35, 66 rushing yards, 1 touchdown66WFSUGame 7: against Pittsburgh, win 52-23, 41 rushing yards, 1 touchdown41WPITTGame 8: at North Carolina, win 38-35, 43 rushing yards, 2 touchdowns43WUNC@Season high
Game 1: at Stanford, win 45-6, 40 rushing yardsWSTAN@Game 2: against Florida A&M, win 77-7, 105 rushing yards, 2 touchdowns, FCS opponent105 · season highWFAMUFCSGame 3: at Wake Forest, win 33-20, 85 rushing yards, 1 touchdownWWAKE@Game 4: against Central Michigan, win 52-3, no carries in this gameWCMUGame 5: at Clemson, win 41-13, 77 rushing yards, 2 touchdownsWCLEM@Game 6: against Florida State, win 43-35, 66 rushing yards, 1 touchdownWFSUGame 7: against Pittsburgh, win 52-23, 41 rushing yards, 1 touchdownWPITTGame 8: at North Carolina, win 38-35, 43 rushing yards, 2 touchdowns43WUNC@
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North Carolina · W 38-35

13 carries, 43 yards, 2 TD

The other 6 games average 69 yards. This one was 26 below.

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Fletcher has carries in 7 of Miami’s 8 games: none against Central Michigan.

Dashed line: 100 yards.

This week

  • RecordMiami is 8-0, No. 1 in the AP poll (week 10).
  • What fans say

    Over the last few games, Miami fans have been high on Fletcher.

    “Wow dude; Fletcher just flung that dude off of him.”

    “Fletcher is a MAN”

    “Mallory and Fletcher are complementary, and I still trust Fletcher more for yards when I need yards”

    From r/CFB game thread. Read by AI.

  • Next gameat Notre Dame · Sat Nov 7

What’s being said

6 stories this week, from 4 outlets.

Oct 30: 1Oct 31: 2Nov 1: 3W 38-35 at North CarolinaWOct 29Nov 4Most in a day: 3
Oct 30: 1Oct 31: 2Nov 1: 3W 38-35 at North CarolinaWOct 29Nov 4Most in a day: 3
Stories per day. W and L: the team’s results.

Mark Fletcher's 3 TDs leads No. 1 Miami past North Carolina 38-35

247Sports Nov 1

All 45 stories this season

Worth knowing

  • This player is rated 93 overall in EA College Football 27, 3rd among the game's running backs.
  • Mark Fletcher Jr. was third-team All-ACC in 2025.
  • Mark Fletcher Jr. has had 3 games with two or more rushing touchdowns.

His most important play this season

  1. Q4, 7:49 · Miami down 4, takes the leadMark Fletcher Jr. runs 2 yards for a touchdownMiami at North Carolina, week 9Q4, 7:49 · Miami 31, North Carolina 28Go-ahead touchdown for Miami in the fourth quarterGo-ahead touchdown for Miami in the fourth quarterM.Fletcher Jr. rush middle for 2 yards gain to the UNC00 touchdown, 1ST DOWN, kick goodWatch from this playESPN College Football

All 8 of his plays on video

The story

Written , before the 2026 season

He led the ACC with 1,192 rushing yards in 2025, scored 12 times, and saved his best for January — 507 yards across four Playoff games as Miami reached the national championship. A 6-2, 225 senior could have left for the draft; instead he stayed, telling reporters he'd always planned to be "a true senior," and Mario Cristobal has held him up as the program's standard.

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Now he's a preseason All-American anchoring a Cristobal backfield built on exactly the kind of downhill, gap-scheme power he runs. The forward stakes are the rematch with history: Miami was one game from a title, and Fletcher came back to close the gap. A projected 1,500-yard season would do two things at once — vault a throwback power back into the top tier of 2027 draft running backs, and give the Hurricanes the closer they were missing.

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Style of play

Style of play

Play style, written June 13, before the season

Fletcher is a true bruiser — 6-2, 225, built to fall forward. The power shows up on tape and in the numbers: PFF charted 3.66 yards after contact per carry and 104 forced missed tackles in 2025, and our play-by-play put his rushing-touchdown rate in the 52nd percentile, the mark of a back defenses can't stop at the goal line (he scored 12 times). Scouts (Vikings Wire's summer eval) describe a runner who "keeps his legs moving through contact" but "also elusive in space," with "dynamic change-of-direction skills once in the second level" and "excellent motor to finish big runs late." The honest read is in the efficiency: a 94th-percentile success rate and mid-pack yards-per-carry say he's a volume-and-finish back more than a home-run hitter — the chunk gains come from contact balance and a closing motor, not breakaway speed. He's a gap-scheme, between-the-tackles hammer who wears defenses down and finishes drives.

Short-yardage / goal-line · enumeration

Who gets the tough yard

10/133rd/4th & short
10/22Inside-5 share

10 of 13 on 3rd/4th-and-2-or-less (76.9%). 10 of the team's 22 inside-the-5 carries (45.5%).

Similar players

Closest statistical matches, adjusted for opponent strength.

33% of the carries, 28% of the yards, 41% of the touchdowns

  • Carries33%94 of 289
  • Yards28%457 of 1,631
  • Touchdowns41%9 of 22
  • A touchdown every 10.4 carries. Everyone else on the team: one every 15.0.

Share of the team's rushing yards, game by game

Who carried it

Share of the team's total this season.

Most of his carries go up the middle

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a carry, up for a gain and down for a lossa touchdown

Each line is one carry: taller means more yards, and a line pointing down lost yards. Black lines are touchdowns. The play text only says left, middle or right, so inside each lane the carries are lined up shortest to longest, not placed. Of his carries with a spot in the play text: left 16, middle 51, right 13. His longest went for 46 yards.