Player Dossier

2015-2017

Miami

Mark Walton

RB • 5'9" • 205 lbs • Miami, FL, USA

Balanced backfield optionSteady chain mover

Mark Walton leans balanced backfield option traits and 63.1 efficiency.

Usage / Role

23%

Rotational offensive role

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Impact Production

82

High-end production for a back

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Reliability

54

Useful contributor with volatile peaks

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Star Power

89

Elite ceiling indicators

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Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by Season Value: 2016 Postseason · Miami

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Snapshot

Career Teams
1
Unique Seasons
3
Program Path
Miami
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: Florida Atlantic

Player Story

Mark Walton built his college career from 2015 through 2017 as a running back from Miami, FL wearing No. 1, spending time with Miami. The clearest part of Mark Walton's career was his backfield work: 1,995 rushing...

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Recruit Profile

Class 2015 · Rating 0.9607

Booker T. Washington · Miami, FL

Committed To
Miami
Commit Date
Jan 1, 2015

NFL Draft

Draft Year
2018
Selection
Round 4 · Pick 12
Overall
No. 112
NFL Team
Cincinnati Bengals

Mark Walton, RB. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2016 Postseason · Miami. Mark Walton leans balanced backfield option traits and 63.1 efficiency.

Stat Footprint

Career production snapshot

Scrimmage yards
2,619
Rushing yards
1,995
Receiving yards
624
Touchdowns
28

Quick Answers

Mark Walton quick answers

Latest team and position
Miami · RB
Career Scrimmage Yards
2,619
Tracked sample
3 unique seasons · 5 entries · 31 games
Best season
2016 Postseason · Miami
Top game
Florida Atlantic
Recruit profile
4-star · Booker T. Washington · Miami
High school pipeline
Booker T. Washington · 56 FBS recruits · 5 drafted players
NFL Draft
2018 · Round 4 · Pick 12 · Cincinnati Bengals
Latest roster
No. 1 · Class 2017
2017 Scrimmage yards rank
519 scrimmage yards · RB 194th (top 33%) · ACC 59th (top 22%) · National 459th (top 19%)

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesScrimmageRush YdsRec YdsTDOverall
2015 PostseasonMiami13691257157.1
2015 Regular SeasonMiami13674438236957.1
2016 PostseasonMiami135052-2082.8
2016 Regular SeasonMiami131,3071,0652421582.8
2017 Regular SeasonMiami551942891358.4

Related Context

Mark Walton played RB for Miami. Across 3 tracked seasons, Mark Walton recorded 1,995 rushing yards, 624 receiving yards, and 8 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2016 with Miami.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2016 Postseason

Miami paired 1,357 primary output with 57 efficiency.

Supporting note

2017 Regular Season role shape

backfield-heavy usage with 63.1 efficiency.

Supporting note

Career value cooled off

2017 Regular Season fell back from the prior stop by season value score.

Supporting note

Peak game by takeover score: Toledo

Win with 208 yards from scrimmage and efficient touch value. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.

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2017 Regular Season · Miami

Games

5

Scrimmage Yards / G

103.8

Efficiency

63.1

Usage

24.8

Consistency

61.3

Best Game by takeover score

Toledo

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Game-by-Game Trend

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Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. Bethune-Cookman: 156. Toledo: 208. Duke: 130. Florida State: 25. Clemson: 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. Bethune-Cookman: 18 by 86.1. Toledo: 12 by 100. Duke: 21 by 44.5. Florida State: 12 by 21.7

Split Comparison

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

Wins129.8 · Games = 4 · +129.8 vs Losses
Losses0 · Games = 1 · -129.8 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

Toledo

Best efficiency game

100 vs Toledo

Result
Sun 12/3@ ClemsonL 3-38
Sat 10/7@ Florida StateW 24-2012252.1002.1
Fri 9/29@ DukeW 31-61751304796.2
Sat 9/23vs Toledo100 rush yards · 150 scrimmage yardsW 52-301120418.5011417.3
Sat 9/2vs Bethune-Cookman100 rush yards · 150 scrimmage yardsW 41-13161489.302288.7

Player Story

Mark Walton story

Mark Walton built his college career from 2015 through 2017 as a running back from Miami, FL wearing No. 1, spending time with Miami. The clearest part of Mark Walton's career was his backfield work: 1,995 rushing yards, 394 carries, 26 rushing touchdowns, and 624 receiving yards across 31 career games in the available record. His largest box-score season came in 2016 with Miami. 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 624 receiving yards, 8 tackles, and 304 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 Miami.

The arc is straightforward: Mark Walton 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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    Miami

    2015-2017

    Opening stop

Season Value Progression

20152015201620162017
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2015 PostseasonMiami74340.621.8
2015 Regular SeasonMiami74340.621.80
2016 PostseasonMiami1,3575734.3614
2016 Regular SeasonMiami1,3575734.30
2017 Regular SeasonMiami51963.124.8-838

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

vs Florida Atlantic

Week 2 · W 38-10

Win with 155 yards from scrimmage and efficient touch value.

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Scrimmage Yards

91.6 takeover

155 scrimmage yards and 30.4 usage.

#2

vs Toledo

Week 4 · W 52-30

208

Scrimmage Yards

88.2 takeover

Win with 208 yards from scrimmage and efficient touch value.

208 scrimmage yards and 22.6 usage.

#3

vs Bethune-Cookman

Week 1 · W 41-13

156

Scrimmage Yards

86.7 takeover

Win with 156 yards from scrimmage and efficient touch value.

156 scrimmage yards and 34.6 usage.

#4

@ NC State

Week 12 · W 27-13 · Conference game

139

Scrimmage Yards

86 takeover

Win with 139 yards from scrimmage and efficient touch value.

139 scrimmage yards and 37 usage.

#5

@ App State

Week 3 · W 45-10

129

Scrimmage Yards

85.5 takeover

Win with 129 yards from scrimmage and efficient touch value.

129 scrimmage yards and 32.1 usage.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2016 Postseason · Miami

1,357 primary output · 57 efficiency · 34.3 usage

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#2

2016 Regular Season · Miami

82.8

1,357 primary · 57 efficiency · 34.3 usage

#3

2017 Regular Season · Miami

58.4

519 primary · 63.1 efficiency · 24.8 usage

Milestones

8

100+ rush yards

3

150+ scrimmage yards

6

2+ TD games