Shermari Jones

#5 · RB · Sr. · Coastal Carolina6′1″ · 220 lb · Cantonment, FL · Rome

Shermari Jones: RB · Coastal Carolina · #5.

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Shermari Jones

RB · Coastal Carolina · Sr · #5

Hits the crease and outruns the angle. Second year in the same backfield at Coastal Carolina. The first career honor came in 2021: All-Sun Belt. On tape: 211 rushing yards and 25 receiving yards against South Alabama, Week 13, 2021.

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

139Carries
964Yards
26.5%Top-5 share
9.4%Stuffed rate

Just 26.5% of his season rushing yards came on his 5 best carries — remarkably even — and he's stuffed on 9.4% of his carries. 10 carries for 28 yds vs App State; 23 for 211 vs South Alabama.

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

Closer · Q4-with-lead carry share

The closer

29.0%Carry share
19.8%Q4-lead share
89.5%In competitive games

29.0% of carries overall (139/479) → 19.8% of Q4-with-lead carries (19/96) — 89.5% 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

6/103rd/4th & short
13/28Inside-5 share

6 of 10 on 3rd/4th-and-2-or-less (60.0%). 13 of the team's 28 inside-the-5 carries (46.4%).

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