Usage / Role
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Rotational offensive role
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Player Dossier
2016-2017Purdue
Brian Lankford-Johnson
RB • 6'0" • 190 lbs • St. Paul, MN, USA
Balanced backfield optionSteady chain mover
Brian Lankford-Johnson leans balanced backfield option traits and 29.6 efficiency.
Impact Production
40
Developing production for a back
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Reliability
30
Sporadic game-to-game production
lowhigh
Star Power
57
Useful peak profile
limitedstar
Career Arc
Value trend by season
Best season by Season Value: 2016 Regular Season · Purdue
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Snapshot
- Career Teams
- 1
- Unique Seasons
- 2
- Program Path
- Purdue
- Peak Game
- Peak game by takeover score: Illinois
Player Story
Brian Lankford-Johnson built his college career from 2016 through 2017 as a running back from St. Paul, MN wearing No. 37, spending time with Purdue. The clearest part of Brian Lankford-Johnson's career was his...
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- Committed To
- Purdue
- Commit Date
- Jan 1, 2016
Brian Lankford-Johnson, RB. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2016 Regular Season · Purdue. Brian Lankford-Johnson leans balanced backfield option traits and 29.6 efficiency.
Stat Footprint
Career production snapshot
- Scrimmage yards
- 501
- Rushing yards
- 400
- Receiving yards
- 101
- Touchdowns
- 2
Quick Answers
Brian Lankford-Johnson quick answers
- Latest team and position
- Purdue · RB
- Career Scrimmage Yards
- 501
- Tracked sample
- 2 unique seasons · 2 entries · 16 games
- Best season
- 2016 Regular Season · Purdue
- Top game
- Illinois
- Recruit profile
- 3-star · Palm Bay Senior · Purdue
- High school pipeline
- Palm Bay Senior · 11 FBS recruits · 0 drafted players
- Latest roster
- No. 37 · Class 2017
- 2017 Scrimmage yards rank
- 97 scrimmage yards · RB 431st (top 72%) · Big Ten 144th (top 55%) · National 1,408th (top 58%)
Season Ledger
Crawlable season-by-season stats
| Season | Team | Games | Scrimmage | Rush Yds | Rec Yds | TD | Overall |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 Regular Season | Purdue | 11 | 404 | 314 | 90 | 2 | 59.4 |
| 2017 Regular Season | Purdue | 5 | 97 | 86 | 11 | 0 | 32.3 |
Related Context
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Brian Lankford-Johnson played RB for Purdue. Across 2 tracked seasons, Brian Lankford-Johnson recorded 400 rushing yards, 101 receiving yards, and 2 touchdowns. His top tracked season came in 2016 with Purdue.
Player insights
Lead takeaway
Best season by value score: 2016 Regular Season
Purdue paired 404 primary output with 59.6 efficiency.
Supporting note
2016 Regular Season role shape
backfield-heavy usage with 59.6 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: Illinois
Win with 139 yards from scrimmage and efficient touch value. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.
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2016 Regular Season · Purdue
Games
11
Scrimmage Yards / G
36.7
Efficiency
59.6
Usage
9.3
Consistency
51.5
Best Game by takeover score
Illinois
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Game-by-Game Trend
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Chronological game order.
Game by game trend chart. Eastern Kentucky: 58. Nevada: 21. Maryland: 0. Illinois: 139. Iowa: 56. Nebraska: 2. Penn State: 0. Minnesota: 0. Northwestern: 45. Wisconsin: 41. Indiana: 42
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. Eastern Kentucky: 4 by 100. Nevada: 6 by 20.8. Illinois: 21 by 71.7. Iowa: 6 by 57.6. Nebraska: 1 by 20.8. Northwestern: 7 by 71.6. Wisconsin: 5 by 84.2. Indiana: 9 by 49.7
Split Comparison
Compare how this player performed across different situations. "Games" shows how many matchups are included in each split.
Wins72.7 · Games = 3 · +49.4 vs Losses
Losses23.3 · Games = 8 · -49.4 vs Wins
Game Log
Dense stat lines with inline explanations and season-linked highlights.
11 games
Featured metric
Scrimmage Yards
Top game by takeover score
Illinois
Best efficiency game
100 vs Eastern Kentucky
| Result | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sat 11/26 | @ Indiana | L 24-26 | 6 | 29 | 4.80 | 0 | 3 | 13 | 4.7 |
| Sat 11/19 | vs Wisconsin | L 20-49 | 5 | 41 | 8.20 | 0 | — | — | 8.2 |
| Sat 11/12 | vs Northwestern | L 17-45 | 6 | 43 | 7.20 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 6.4 |
| Sat 11/5 | @ Minnesota | L 31-44 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Sat 10/29 | vs Penn State | L 24-62 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Sat 10/22 | @ Nebraska | L 14-27 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | — | — | 2 |
| Sat 10/15 | vs Iowa | L 35-49 | 3 | 9 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 47 | 9.3 |
| Sat 10/8 | @ Illinois100 rush yards | W 34-31 | 18 | 127 | 7.10 | 1 | 3 | 12 | 6.6 |
| Sat 10/1 | @ Maryland | L 7-50 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Sat 9/24 | vs Nevada | W 24-14 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 16 | 3.5 |
| Sat 9/3 | vs Eastern Kentucky | W 45-24 | 4 | 58 | 14.50 | 1 | — | — | 14.5 |
Player Story
Brian Lankford-Johnson story
Brian Lankford-Johnson built his college career from 2016 through 2017 as a running back from St. Paul, MN wearing No. 37, spending time with Purdue. The clearest part of Brian Lankford-Johnson's career was his backfield work: 400 rushing yards, 70 carries, 2 rushing touchdowns, and 101 receiving yards across 16 career games in the available record. His largest box-score season came in 2016 with Purdue. 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 101 receiving yards and 516 return yards, giving the story more than a single-category snapshot. With 16 career games in the available record, his career has enough shape to show both opportunity and production across Purdue.
The arc is straightforward: Brian Lankford-Johnson 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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Purdue
2016-2017
Opening stop
Season Value Progression
20162017
| Season | Team | Primary | Efficiency | Usage | Delta |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 Regular Season | Purdue | 404 | 59.6 | 9.3 | — |
| 2017 Regular Season | Purdue | 97 | 29.6 | 9.9 | -307 |
Signature Performances
Top Games
#1 Featured game
@ Illinois
Week 6 · W 34-31 · Conference game
Win with 139 yards from scrimmage and efficient touch value.
139
Scrimmage Yards
88.5 takeover
139 scrimmage yards and 32.8 usage.
#2
vs Ohio
Week 2 · W 44-21
62
Scrimmage Yards
71.6 takeover
Win with 62 yards from scrimmage and efficient touch value.
62 scrimmage yards and 15 usage.
#3
vs Eastern Kentucky
Week 1 · W 45-24
58
Scrimmage Yards
53.1 takeover
Win with 58 yards from scrimmage and efficient touch value.
58 scrimmage yards and 6.2 usage.
#4
vs Wisconsin
Week 12 · L 20-49 · Conference game
41
Scrimmage Yards
50.8 takeover
Loss with 41 yards from scrimmage and efficient touch value.
41 scrimmage yards and 13.5 usage.
#5
vs Northwestern
Week 11 · L 17-45 · Conference game
45
Scrimmage Yards
45.6 takeover
Loss with 45 yards from scrimmage and efficient touch value.
45 scrimmage yards and 11.5 usage.
Top Seasons
#1 Season by Season Value
2016 Regular Season · Purdue
404 primary output · 59.6 efficiency · 9.3 usage
59.4
#2
2017 Regular Season · Purdue
32.3
97 primary · 29.6 efficiency · 9.9 usage
Milestones
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100+ rush yards
0
150+ scrimmage yards
0
2+ TD games
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