Melvin Gordon

#25 · RB · Wisconsin6′1″ · Kenosha, WI · Bradford

Melvin Gordon: RB · Wisconsin · #25.

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Melvin Gordon

RB · Wisconsin · #25

Hits the crease and outruns the angle. The first one came in 2014: All-Big Ten. A game that shows it: 408 rushing yards and 4 rushing TD against Nebraska — Week 12, 2014.

Style of play

Style of play

Play style

Cuts upfield fast. Designed to find the crease, not run through the line.

Boom vs consistent · carry-yardage shape

Steady, not spectacular

343Carries
2599Yards
13.5%Top-5 share
19.0%Stuffed rate

Just 13.5% of his season rushing yards came on his 5 best carries — remarkably even — and he's stuffed on 19.0% of his carries. 17 carries for 38 yds vs Western Illinois; 25 for 408 vs Nebraska.

Counted from the play-by-play, so a carry or two can differ from the box score.

Closer · Q4-with-lead carry share

Not actually a closer

54.2%Carry share
26.8%Q4-lead share
81.6%In competitive games

54.2% of carries overall (337/622) → 26.8% of Q4-with-lead carries (38/142) — 81.6% of those in competitive (≤16-pt) games.

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

17/223rd/4th & short
13/22Inside-5 share

17 of 22 on 3rd/4th-and-2-or-less (77.3%). 13 of the team's 22 inside-the-5 carries (59.1%).

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