Wendell Smallwood

#4 · RB · West Virginia5′11″ · Wilmington, DE

Wendell Smallwood: RB · West Virginia · #4.

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Wendell Smallwood

RB · West Virginia · #4

Hits the crease and outruns the angle. Second year in the West Virginia backfield. The first one came in 2015: All-Big 12. One game to point at: 165 rushing yards and 8 receiving yards against Texas — Week 11, 2015.

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

235Carries
1475Yards
10.8%Top-5 share
11.5%Stuffed rate

Just 10.8% of his season rushing yards came on his 5 best carries — remarkably even — and he's stuffed on 11.5% of his carries. 13 carries for 72 yds vs Arizona State; 22 for 163 vs Texas Tech.

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

40.2%Carry share
33.0%Q4-lead share
63.9%In competitive games

40.2% of carries overall (235/584) → 33.0% of Q4-with-lead carries (36/109) — 63.9% 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

9/133rd/4th & short
10/32Inside-5 share

9 of 13 on 3rd/4th-and-2-or-less (69.2%). 10 of the team's 32 inside-the-5 carries (31.2%).

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