Usage / Role
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Rotational offensive role
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Player Dossier
2014-2018Southern Miss
Tez Parks
RB • 6'1" • 210 lbs • LaGrange, GA, USA
Balanced backfield optionSteady chain mover
Tez Parks leans balanced backfield option traits and 32.2 efficiency.
Impact Production
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Developing production for a back
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Reliability
38
Sporadic game-to-game production
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Star Power
43
Limited ceiling signals so far
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Career Arc
Value trend by season
Best season by Season Value: 2017 Postseason · Southern Miss
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Snapshot
- Career Teams
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- Unique Seasons
- 5
- Program Path
- Southern Miss
- Peak Game
- Peak game by takeover score: UL Monroe
Player Story
Tez Parks built his college career from 2014 through 2018 as a running back from LaGrange, GA wearing No. 8, spending time with Southern Miss. The clearest part of Tez Parks' career was his backfield work: 704...
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- Committed To
- Southern Miss
- Commit Date
- Jan 1, 2014
Tez Parks, RB. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2017 Postseason · Southern Miss. Tez Parks leans balanced backfield option traits and 32.2 efficiency.
Stat Footprint
Career production snapshot
- Scrimmage yards
- 922
- Rushing yards
- 704
- Receiving yards
- 218
- Touchdowns
- 2
Quick Answers
Tez Parks quick answers
- Latest team and position
- Southern Miss · RB
- Career Scrimmage Yards
- 922
- Tracked sample
- 5 unique seasons · 7 entries · 32 games
- Best season
- 2017 Postseason · Southern Miss
- Top game
- UL Monroe
- Recruit profile
- 3-star · Callaway · Southern Miss
- High school pipeline
- Callaway · 18 FBS recruits · 2 drafted players
- Latest roster
- No. 8 · Senior
- 2018 Scrimmage yards rank
- 219 scrimmage yards · RB 346th (top 51%) · Conference USA 102nd (top 32%) · National 979th (top 36%)
Season Ledger
Crawlable season-by-season stats
| Season | Team | Games | Scrimmage | Rush Yds | Rec Yds | TD | Overall |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 Regular Season | Southern Miss | 8 | 184 | 156 | 28 | 0 | 42.9 |
| 2015 Regular Season | Southern Miss | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | - |
| 2016 Postseason | Southern Miss | 10 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 31.1 |
| 2016 Regular Season | Southern Miss | 10 | 163 | 154 | 9 | 0 | 31.1 |
| 2017 Postseason | Southern Miss | 9 | -7 | -6 | -1 | 0 | 57.1 |
| 2017 Regular Season | Southern Miss | 9 | 362 | 278 | 84 | 1 | 57.1 |
| 2018 Regular Season | Southern Miss | 5 | 219 | 121 | 98 | 1 | 47.6 |
Related Context
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Tez Parks played RB for Southern Miss. Across 5 tracked seasons, Tez Parks recorded 704 rushing yards, 218 receiving yards, and 2 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2017 with Southern Miss.
Player insights
Lead takeaway
Best season by value score: 2017 Postseason
Southern Miss paired 355 primary output with 43.8 efficiency.
Supporting note
2018 Regular Season role shape
backfield-heavy usage with 32.2 efficiency.
Supporting note
Career value cooled off
2018 Regular Season fell back from the prior stop by season value score.
Supporting note
Peak game by takeover score: UL Monroe
Loss with 107 yards from scrimmage and efficient touch value. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.
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Season Workbench
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Season Explorer
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2018 Regular Season · Southern Miss
Games
5
Scrimmage Yards / G
43.8
Efficiency
32.2
Usage
17.4
Consistency
46.8
Best Game by takeover score
UL Monroe
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Game-by-Game Trend
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Chronological game order.
Game by game trend chart. Jackson State: 34. UL Monroe: 107. Rice: 45. Auburn: 25. North Texas: 8
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. Jackson State: 13 by 27.2. UL Monroe: 21 by 36.7. Rice: 7 by 59.1. Auburn: 7 by 21.1. North Texas: 6 by 16.8
Split Comparison
Compare how this player performed across different situations. "Games" shows how many matchups are included in each split.
Wins39.5 · Games = 2 · -7.2 vs Losses
Losses46.7 · Games = 3 · +7.2 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
UL Monroe
Best efficiency game
59.1 vs Rice
Player Story
Tez Parks story
Tez Parks built his college career from 2014 through 2018 as a running back from LaGrange, GA wearing No. 8, spending time with Southern Miss. The clearest part of Tez Parks' career was his backfield work: 704 rushing yards, 161 carries, 1 rushing touchdown, and 218 receiving yards across 32 career games in the available record. His career also includes 218 receiving yards, 2 tackles, and 437 return yards, giving the story more than a single-category snapshot. That gives Tez Parks' career enough real context without stretching the story beyond the available production.
Career Arc
Track team changes, role shifts, and season-to-season movement.
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Southern Miss
2014-2018
Opening stop
Season Value Progression
2014201520162016201720172018
| Season | Team | Primary | Efficiency | Usage | Delta |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 Regular Season | Southern Miss | 184 | 47.8 | 8.1 | — |
| 2015 Regular Season | Southern Miss | 0 | — | — | -184 |
| 2016 Postseason | Southern Miss | 164 | 43.3 | 5.5 | 164 |
| 2016 Regular Season | Southern Miss | 164 | 43.3 | 5.5 | 0 |
| 2017 Postseason | Southern Miss | 355 | 43.8 | 11.7 | 191 |
| 2017 Regular Season | Southern Miss | 355 | 43.8 | 11.7 | 0 |
| 2018 Regular Season | Southern Miss | 219 | 32.2 | 17.4 | -136 |
Signature Performances
Top Games
#1 Featured game
vs UL Monroe
Week 2 · L 20-21
Loss with 107 yards from scrimmage and efficient touch value.
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Scrimmage Yards
76.3 takeover
107 scrimmage yards and 32.3 usage.
#2
@ Louisiana Tech
Week 8 · W 34-27 · Conference game
106
Scrimmage Yards
76.2 takeover
Win with 106 yards from scrimmage and efficient touch value.
106 scrimmage yards and 26 usage.
#3
vs App State
Week 4 · W 21-20
60
Scrimmage Yards
74.9 takeover
Win with 60 yards from scrimmage and efficient touch value.
60 scrimmage yards and 26.1 usage.
#4
vs Charlotte
Week 12 · W 66-21 · Conference game
91
Scrimmage Yards
73.4 takeover
Win with 91 yards from scrimmage and efficient touch value.
91 scrimmage yards and 19.4 usage.
#5
vs Savannah St
Week 2 · W 56-0
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Scrimmage Yards
68.9 takeover
Win with 68 yards from scrimmage and efficient touch value.
68 scrimmage yards and 18.3 usage.
Top Seasons
#1 Season by Season Value
2017 Postseason · Southern Miss
355 primary output · 43.8 efficiency · 11.7 usage
57.1
#2
2017 Regular Season · Southern Miss
57.1
355 primary · 43.8 efficiency · 11.7 usage
#3
2018 Regular Season · Southern Miss
47.6
219 primary · 32.2 efficiency · 17.4 usage
Milestones
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100+ rush yards
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150+ scrimmage yards
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2+ TD games
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