Player Dossier

2015-2018

Buffalo

Johnathan Hawkins

RB • 5'11" • 208 lbs • Lawrenceville, GA, USA

Balanced backfield optionSteady chain mover

Johnathan Hawkins leans balanced backfield option traits and 48.7 efficiency.

Usage / Role

9%

Rotational offensive role

lowfeatured

Impact Production

11

Developing production for a back

lowelite

Reliability

7

Sporadic game-to-game production

lowhigh

Star Power

28

Limited ceiling signals so far

limitedstar

Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by Season Value: 2016 Regular Season · Buffalo

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Snapshot

Career Teams
1
Unique Seasons
4
Program Path
Buffalo
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: Nevada

Player Story

Johnathan Hawkins built his college career from 2015 through 2018 as a running back from Lawrenceville, GA wearing No. 24, spending time with Buffalo. The clearest part of Johnathan Hawkins' career was his backfield...

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4★

Recruit Profile

Class 2023 · Rating 0.9105

Thomas County Central · Thomasville, GA

Committed To
Colorado
Commit Date
Jan 1, 2023

Johnathan Hawkins, RB. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2016 Regular Season · Buffalo. Johnathan Hawkins leans balanced backfield option traits and 48.7 efficiency.

Stat Footprint

Career production snapshot

Scrimmage yards
799
Rushing yards
632
Receiving yards
167
Touchdowns
3

Quick Answers

Johnathan Hawkins quick answers

Latest team and position
Buffalo · RB
Career Scrimmage Yards
799
Tracked sample
4 unique seasons · 4 entries · 31 games
Best season
2016 Regular Season · Buffalo
Top game
Nevada
Recruit profile
4-star · Thomas County Central · Colorado
High school pipeline
Thomas County Central · 15 FBS recruits · 2 drafted players
Latest roster
No. 24 · Senior
2018 Scrimmage yards rank
161 scrimmage yards · RB 379th (top 55%) · Mid-American 100th (top 39%) · National 1,130th (top 41%)

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesScrimmageRush YdsRec YdsTDOverall
2015 Regular SeasonBuffalo656533018.7
2016 Regular SeasonBuffalo12457338119266.9
2017 Regular SeasonBuffalo3125127-2152.7
2018 Regular SeasonBuffalo916111447034.2

Related Context

Johnathan Hawkins played RB for Buffalo. Across 4 tracked seasons, Johnathan Hawkins recorded 632 rushing yards, 167 receiving yards, and 3 touchdowns. His top tracked season came in 2016 with Buffalo.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2016 Regular Season

Buffalo paired 457 primary output with 51.2 efficiency.

Supporting note

2018 Regular Season role shape

backfield-heavy usage with 48.7 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: Troy

Game with 13 yards from scrimmage and efficient touch value. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.

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2018 Regular Season · Buffalo

Games

9

Scrimmage Yards / G

17.9

Efficiency

48.7

Usage

6.2

Consistency

35.2

Best Game by takeover score

Troy

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All Games13 · Games = 1

Game Log

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1 games

Featured metric

Scrimmage Yards

Top game by takeover score

Troy

Best efficiency game

27.1 vs Troy

Result
Sat 8/31@ Troy5132.6002.6

Player Story

Johnathan Hawkins story

Johnathan Hawkins built his college career from 2015 through 2018 as a running back from Lawrenceville, GA wearing No. 24, spending time with Buffalo. The clearest part of Johnathan Hawkins' career was his backfield work: 632 rushing yards, 149 carries, 2 rushing touchdowns, and 167 receiving yards across 31 career games in the available record. His largest box-score season came in 2016 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 167 receiving yards and 522 return yards, giving the story more than a single-category snapshot. With 31 career games in the available record, his career has enough shape to show both opportunity and production across Buffalo.

The arc is straightforward: Johnathan Hawkins 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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    Buffalo

    2015-2018

    Opening stop

Season Value Progression

2015201620172018
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2015 Regular SeasonBuffalo5630.74.8
2016 Regular SeasonBuffalo45751.215.4401
2017 Regular SeasonBuffalo12536.725.7-332
2018 Regular SeasonBuffalo16148.76.236

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

@ Nevada

Week 3 · L 14-38

Loss with 66 yards from scrimmage and efficient touch value.

66

Scrimmage Yards

80.5 takeover

66 scrimmage yards and 28.6 usage.

#2

vs Colgate

Week 3 · W 33-10

65

Scrimmage Yards

70.2 takeover

Win with 65 yards from scrimmage and efficient touch value.

65 scrimmage yards and 23.9 usage.

#3

vs Delaware State

Week 1 · W 48-10

53

Scrimmage Yards

67.4 takeover

Win with 53 yards from scrimmage and efficient touch value.

53 scrimmage yards and 17.9 usage.

#4

@ Army

Week 2 · L 17-21

41

Scrimmage Yards

63.6 takeover

Loss with 41 yards from scrimmage and efficient touch value.

41 scrimmage yards and 28.1 usage.

#5

@ Troy

Week 1

13

Scrimmage Yards

63.6 takeover

Game with 13 yards from scrimmage and efficient touch value.

13 scrimmage yards and — usage.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2016 Regular Season · Buffalo

457 primary output · 51.2 efficiency · 15.4 usage

66.9

#2

2017 Regular Season · Buffalo

52.7

125 primary · 36.7 efficiency · 25.7 usage

#3

2018 Regular Season · Buffalo

34.2

161 primary · 48.7 efficiency · 6.2 usage

Milestones

0

100+ rush yards

0

150+ scrimmage yards

0

2+ TD games