Former running back at UCF. 2024: 208 rushing yards, 2 rushing TD, 1 catch.
6′1″ · 232 lb · Detroit, MI
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.
Recruiting
RB recruit
No. 359 nationally · Signed with Martin Luther King
No college snaps yet.
His career numbers, season by seasonThe story
Former running back at UCF. 2024: 208 rushing yards, 2 rushing TD, 1 catch.
Peny Boone
Hits the crease and outruns the angle. Three head coaches in five seasons, at three different programs. In 2023 the league put his name on paper for the first time: MAC Offensive Player of the Year. One game to point at: 81 rush yds, 1 rush TD against New Hampshire — Week 1, 2024.
Low coverage — composed from the verified record.
How it ended
Five seasons at UCF, 2,302 rushing yards, a first-team All-Conference season (2023) — his college career is complete.
His career
He arrived as a blue-chip recruit and played like one.
The role got bigger.
The snaps went the other way.
Career arc
Trophy case · Confirmed honors
What the selectors said
ALL-MAC · 1ST TEAM
All-MAC 1st team (2023)
Coaching lineage · 2020–2024
2 coachesCoaching transition mid-career: Josh Heupel → Gus Malzahn. Worth noting in scheme + development context.
Season context · Team result + system
Where this profile ranks vs the RB cohort
Box-score percentiles
Elite: yards / carry (87th percentile). Concern: carries (0th percentile).
Percentiles versus same-position peers with enough snaps this season, based on box-score rates.
Splits · Per-game
2024 season · 6 games
Home vs Road
| YDS/g | YPC | TD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Home4g | 35.5 | 6.8 | 0.5 |
| Road2g | 33.0 | 4.3 | 0.0 |
First half vs Second half
| YDS/g | YPC | TD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-75g | 41.6 | 5.8 | 0.4 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Scott Frost
Scheme reads (pass share, tempo, sack rate) need at least 3 team games — 2 games in so far.
Player standing · 2023
First team in his league at the position.
our read the All-Conference 1st team honor is earned — and the box score backs it up emphatically: #5 of 310 FBS backs by CFB Index Score.2023 profile
Recognition
Production · CFB Index Score
Former four-star. Now #5 at the position.
SIGNATURE GAME · Week 3 · 2024
W 35–34
at TCU
24 rush yds (7 car)
Edged out TCU on the road in a shootout.
With K. Jefferson — 230 yds · 3 TD · 0 INT · QBR 87.6 · 46 rush yds (9 car) · R. Harvey — 180 rush yds (29 car) · 2 TD
Signature plays · top plays by |EPA|
The plays that mattered most
Game log · Week-by-week
2024 season · 6 games
| Wk | Opp | CAR | YDS | AVG | TD | LONG | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | W 57-3vs New Hampshire | 7 | 81 | 11.6 | 1 | 59 | Season-high 81 yds |
| Wk 2 | W 45-14vs Sam Houston | 10 | 54 | 5.4 | 1 | 15 | |
| Wk 3 | W 35-34@ TCU | 7 | 24 | 3.4 | 0 | 6 | |
| Wk 5 | L 21-48vs Colorado | 2 | 7 | 3.5 | 0 | 5 | |
| Wk 6 | L 13-24@ Florida | 8 | 42 | 5.3 | 0 | 11 | |
| Wk 14 | L 14-28vs Utah | — | — | — | — | — | |
| Total | 34 | 208 | 5.8 | 2 | 59 |
Play style
Cuts upfield fast. Designed to find the crease, not run through the line.
CFB Index positional classification
Short-yardage / goal-line · enumeration
Who gets the tough yard
3 of the team's 24 inside-the-5 carries (12.5%).
Player DNA
Cuts upfield fast. Designed to find the crease, not run through the line.
His 2023 production profile sits closest to Anthony Adkins’s 2020 season.
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Through 5 college seasons, his career arc tracks closest to Raheim Sanders’s path through South Carolina.
Cooper Wallace
Matches Raheim on
As a senior, his production profile tracks closest to Devin Neal's senior season at Kansas (2024).
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Differs from Devin on
Player DNA