Player Dossier

2014-2018

Ole Miss

D.K. Buford

RB • 5'11" • 231 lbs • Oxford, MS, USA

Balanced backfield optionSteady chain mover

D.K. Buford leans balanced backfield option traits and partial efficiency context.

Usage / Role

3%

Rotational offensive role

lowfeatured

Impact Production

3

Developing production for a back

lowelite

Reliability

0

Sporadic game-to-game production

lowhigh

Star Power

16

Limited ceiling signals so far

limitedstar

Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by Season Value: 2018 Regular Season · Ole Miss

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Snapshot

Career Teams
1
Unique Seasons
5
Program Path
Ole Miss
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: UT Martin
3★

Recruit Profile

Class 2022 · Rating 0.8889

The Bolles School · Jacksonville, FL

Committed To
Florida
Commit Date
Jan 1, 2022

D.K. Buford, RB. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2018 Regular Season · Ole Miss. D.K. Buford leans balanced backfield option traits and partial efficiency context.

Stat Footprint

Career production snapshot

Scrimmage yards
135
Rushing yards
135
Touchdowns
1

Quick Answers

D.K. Buford quick answers

Latest team and position
Ole Miss · RB
Career Scrimmage Yards
135
Tracked sample
5 unique seasons · 5 entries · 15 games
Best season
2018 Regular Season · Ole Miss
Top game
UT Martin
Recruit profile
3-star · The Bolles School · Florida
High school pipeline
The Bolles School · 48 FBS recruits · 5 drafted players
Latest roster
No. 25 · Senior

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesScrimmageRush YdsRec YdsTDOverall
2014 Regular SeasonOle Miss00000-
2015 Regular SeasonOle Miss378780146.8
2016 Regular SeasonOle Miss529290025.4
2017 Regular SeasonOle Miss528280027.4
2018 Regular SeasonOle Miss2000050

Related Context

D.K. Buford played RB for Ole Miss. Across 5 tracked seasons, D.K. Buford recorded 135 rushing yards, 3 tackles, and 1 touchdowns. His top tracked season came in 2015 with Ole Miss.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2018 Regular Season

Ole Miss paired 0 primary output with — efficiency.

Supporting note

2016 Regular Season role shape

backfield-heavy usage with 30.6 efficiency.

Supporting note

Career value is trending up

2018 Regular Season improved on the prior stop by season value score.

Supporting note

Peak game by takeover score: Wofford

Win with 18 yards from scrimmage and efficient touch value. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.

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Season Explorer

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2016 Regular Season · Ole Miss

Games

5

Scrimmage Yards / G

5.8

Efficiency

30.6

Usage

3.2

Consistency

24.8

Best Game by takeover score

Wofford

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Game-by-Game Trend

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Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. Wofford: 18. Georgia: 2. Memphis: 9. Vanderbilt: 0. Mississippi State: 0

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. Wofford: 3 by 62.5. Georgia: 2 by 10.4. Memphis: 5 by 18.8

Split Comparison

Compare how this player performed across different situations. "Games" shows how many matchups are included in each split.

Wins9.7 · Games = 3 · +9.7 vs Losses
Losses0 · Games = 2 · -9.7 vs Wins

Game Log

Dense stat lines with inline explanations and season-linked highlights.

5 games

Featured metric

Scrimmage Yards

Top game by takeover score

Wofford

Best efficiency game

62.5 vs Wofford

Result
Sat 11/26vs Mississippi StateL 20-55
Sun 11/20@ VanderbiltL 17-38
Sat 10/1vs MemphisW 48-28591.8001.8
Sat 9/24vs GeorgiaW 45-1422101
Sat 9/10vs WoffordW 38-13318606

Career Arc

Track team changes, role shifts, and season-to-season movement.

  1. 1

    Ole Miss

    2014-2018

    Opening stop

Season Value Progression

20142015201620172018
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2014 Regular SeasonOle Miss0
2015 Regular SeasonOle Miss7854.24.178
2016 Regular SeasonOle Miss2930.63.2-49
2017 Regular SeasonOle Miss2834.72.6-1
2018 Regular SeasonOle Miss00-28

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

vs UT Martin

Week 1 · W 76-3

Win with 68 yards from scrimmage and efficient touch value.

68

Scrimmage Yards

73.7 takeover

68 scrimmage yards and 7.4 usage.

#2

vs Wofford

Week 2 · W 38-13

18

Scrimmage Yards

59.3 takeover

Win with 18 yards from scrimmage and efficient touch value.

18 scrimmage yards and 5.4 usage.

#3

vs Louisiana

Week 11 · W 50-22

16

Scrimmage Yards

55.9 takeover

Win with 16 yards from scrimmage and efficient touch value.

16 scrimmage yards and 4.2 usage.

#4

vs Memphis

Week 5 · W 48-28

9

Scrimmage Yards

29.4 takeover

Win with 9 yards from scrimmage and efficient touch value.

9 scrimmage yards and 6.8 usage.

#5

vs UT Martin

Week 2 · W 45-23

4

Scrimmage Yards

24.1 takeover

Win with 4 yards from scrimmage and efficient touch value.

4 scrimmage yards and 2 usage.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2018 Regular Season · Ole Miss

0 primary output · efficiency · 0 usage

50

#2

2015 Regular Season · Ole Miss

46.8

78 primary · 54.2 efficiency · 4.1 usage

#3

2017 Regular Season · Ole Miss

27.4

28 primary · 34.7 efficiency · 2.6 usage

Milestones

0

100+ rush yards

0

150+ scrimmage yards

0

2+ TD games