Usage / Role
26%
Rotational offensive role
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Player Dossier
2006-2010Buffalo
Ike Nduka
RB • 6'0" • White Plains, NY, USA
Balanced backfield optionSteady chain mover
Ike Nduka leans balanced backfield option traits and 39.3 efficiency.
Impact Production
30
Developing production for a back
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Reliability
24
Sporadic game-to-game production
lowhigh
Star Power
44
Limited ceiling signals so far
limitedstar
Career Arc
Value trend by season
Best season by Season Value: 2009 Regular Season · Buffalo
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Snapshot
- Career Teams
- 1
- Unique Seasons
- 5
- Program Path
- Buffalo
- Peak Game
- Peak game by takeover score: Western Michigan
Player Story
Ike Nduka built his college career from 2006 through 2010 as a running back from White Plains, NY wearing No. 36, spending time with Buffalo. The clearest part of Ike Nduka's career was his backfield work: 829...
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- Committed To
- Wyoming
- Commit Date
- Jan 1, 2003
Ike Nduka, RB. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2009 Regular Season · Buffalo. Ike Nduka leans balanced backfield option traits and 39.3 efficiency.
Stat Footprint
Career production snapshot
- Scrimmage yards
- 992
- Rushing yards
- 829
- Receiving yards
- 163
- Touchdowns
- 7
Quick Answers
Ike Nduka quick answers
- Latest team and position
- Buffalo · RB
- Career Scrimmage Yards
- 992
- Tracked sample
- 5 unique seasons · 5 entries · 17 games
- Best season
- 2009 Regular Season · Buffalo
- Top game
- Western Michigan
- Recruit profile
- 2-star · Fruita Monument · Wyoming
- High school pipeline
- Fruita Monument · 1 FBS recruit · 0 drafted players
- Latest roster
- No. 36 · Class 2010
- 2010 Scrimmage yards rank
- 299 scrimmage yards · RB 210th (top 47%) · Mid-American 64th (top 29%) · National 682nd (top 33%)
Season Ledger
Crawlable season-by-season stats
| Season | Team | Games | Scrimmage | Rush Yds | Rec Yds | TD | Overall |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 Regular Season | Buffalo | 2 | 9 | -4 | 13 | 0 | 26.7 |
| 2007 Regular Season | Buffalo | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | - |
| 2008 Regular Season | Buffalo | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | - |
| 2009 Regular Season | Buffalo | 8 | 684 | 598 | 86 | 6 | 65.6 |
| 2010 Regular Season | Buffalo | 7 | 299 | 235 | 64 | 1 | 43 |
Related Context
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Ike Nduka played RB for Buffalo. Across 5 tracked seasons, Ike Nduka recorded 829 rushing yards, 163 receiving yards, and 7 touchdowns. His top tracked season came in 2009 with Buffalo.
Player insights
Lead takeaway
Best season by value score: 2009 Regular Season
Buffalo paired 684 primary output with 59.7 efficiency.
Supporting note
2010 Regular Season role shape
backfield-heavy usage with 39.3 efficiency.
Supporting note
Career value cooled off
2010 Regular Season fell back from the prior stop by season value score.
Supporting note
Peak game by takeover score: Akron
Loss driven by a workhorse rushing load. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.
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2010 Regular Season · Buffalo
Games
7
Scrimmage Yards / G
42.7
Efficiency
39.3
Usage
19.9
Consistency
32.2
Best Game by takeover score
Akron
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Game-by-Game Trend
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Chronological game order.
Game by game trend chart. Rhode Island: 7. Bowling Green: 52. Northern Illinois: 16. Ohio: 32. Ball State: 18. Eastern Michigan: 29. Akron: 145
Volume vs Efficiency
Each dot is a game. Farther right means the player carried more of the workload, and higher means they were more efficient with those chances.
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Volume on the x-axis, quality on the y-axis.
Volume versus efficiency scatter chart. Rhode Island: 5 by 14.6. Bowling Green: 13 by 41.1. Northern Illinois: 3 by 55.6. Ohio: 5 by 66.7. Ball State: 9 by 20.8. Eastern Michigan: 11 by 27.5. Akron: 25 by 48.6
Split Comparison
Compare how this player performed across different situations. "Games" shows how many matchups are included in each split.
Wins29.5 · Games = 2 · -18.5 vs Losses
Losses48 · Games = 5 · +18.5 vs Wins
Game Log
Dense stat lines with inline explanations and season-linked highlights.
7 games
Featured metric
Scrimmage Yards
Top game by takeover score
Akron
Best efficiency game
66.7 vs Ohio
Player Story
Ike Nduka story
Ike Nduka built his college career from 2006 through 2010 as a running back from White Plains, NY wearing No. 36, spending time with Buffalo. The clearest part of Ike Nduka's career was his backfield work: 829 rushing yards, 164 carries, 7 rushing touchdowns, and 163 receiving yards across 17 career games in the available record. His largest box-score season came in 2009 with Buffalo. Those numbers show where he fit, how often the ball or action found him, and how his role developed over time.
The value of the career arc is that it connects production to role, not just a name on a roster. His career also includes 163 receiving yards, giving the story more than a single-category snapshot. With 17 career games in the available record, his career has enough shape to show both opportunity and production across Buffalo.
The arc is straightforward: Ike Nduka moved through the depth chart, found a larger role, and turned that opportunity into production that can be understood through standard football numbers.
Career Arc
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- 1
Buffalo
2006-2010
Opening stop
Season Value Progression
20062007200820092010
| Season | Team | Primary | Efficiency | Usage | Delta |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 Regular Season | Buffalo | 9 | 50 | 2 | — |
| 2007 Regular Season | Buffalo | 0 | — | — | -9 |
| 2008 Regular Season | Buffalo | 0 | — | — | 0 |
| 2009 Regular Season | Buffalo | 684 | 59.7 | 23.1 | 684 |
| 2010 Regular Season | Buffalo | 299 | 39.3 | 19.9 | -385 |
Signature Performances
Top Games
#1 Featured game
@ Western Michigan
Week 8 · L 31-34 · Conference game
Loss with 192 yards from scrimmage and efficient touch value.
192
Scrimmage Yards
96.7 takeover
192 scrimmage yards and 37.7 usage.
#2
vs Central Michigan
Week 5 · L 13-20 · Conference game
184
Scrimmage Yards
92.7 takeover
Loss driven by a workhorse rushing load.
184 scrimmage yards and 43.4 usage.
#3
@ Akron
Week 13 · L 14-22 · Conference game
145
Scrimmage Yards
82.9 takeover
Loss driven by a workhorse rushing load.
145 scrimmage yards and 46.3 usage.
#4
vs Gardner-Webb
Week 6 · W 40-3
139
Scrimmage Yards
76.6 takeover
Win driven by a workhorse rushing load.
139 scrimmage yards and 37.9 usage.
#5
vs Temple
Week 1 · W 9-3
13
Scrimmage Yards
68.5 takeover
Win with 13 yards from scrimmage and efficient touch value.
13 scrimmage yards and 1.9 usage.
Top Seasons
#1 Season by Season Value
2009 Regular Season · Buffalo
684 primary output · 59.7 efficiency · 23.1 usage
65.6
#2
2010 Regular Season · Buffalo
43
299 primary · 39.3 efficiency · 19.9 usage
#3
2006 Regular Season · Buffalo
26.7
9 primary · 50 efficiency · 2 usage
Milestones
3
100+ rush yards
2
150+ scrimmage yards
2
2+ TD games
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