Player Dossier

2016-2021

South Alabama

Kareem Walker

RB • 6'2" • 220 lbs • Irvington, NJ, USA

Balanced backfield optionSteady chain mover

Kareem Walker leans balanced backfield option traits and 32.3 efficiency.

Usage / Role

33%

Rotational offensive role

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Impact Production

48

Developing production for a back

lowelite

Reliability

24

Sporadic game-to-game production

lowhigh

Star Power

67

Useful peak profile

limitedstar

Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by Season Value: 2021 Regular Season · South Alabama

16172021

Snapshot

Career Teams
3
Unique Seasons
4
Program Path
Michigan • Mississippi State • South Alabama
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: Alcorn State

Player Story

Kareem Walker built his college career from 2016 through 2021 as a running back from Irvington, NJ wearing No. 10, spending time with Michigan, Mississippi State, and South Alabama. The clearest part of Kareem...

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Recruit Profile

Class 2020 · Rating 0.793

Whitehaven · Memphis, TN

Committed To
South Alabama
Commit Date
Jan 1, 2020

Kareem Walker, RB. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2021 Regular Season · South Alabama. Kareem Walker leans balanced backfield option traits and 32.3 efficiency.

Stat Footprint

Career production snapshot

Scrimmage yards
406
Rushing yards
363
Receiving yards
43
Touchdowns
6

Quick Answers

Kareem Walker quick answers

Latest team and position
South Alabama · RB
Career Scrimmage Yards
406
Tracked sample
4 unique seasons · 4 entries · 13 games
Best season
2021 Regular Season · South Alabama
Top game
Alcorn State
Recruit profile
2-star · Whitehaven · South Alabama
High school pipeline
Whitehaven · 38 FBS recruits · 0 drafted players
Latest roster
No. 10 · Senior
2021 Scrimmage yards rank
338 scrimmage yards · RB 274th (top 41%) · Sun Belt 50th (top 26%) · National 695th (top 28%)

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesScrimmageRush YdsRec YdsTDOverall
2016 Regular SeasonMichigan00000-
2017 Regular SeasonMichigan568680128.8
2020 Regular SeasonMississippi State00000-
2021 Regular SeasonSouth Alabama833829543556.6

Related Context

Transfer Portal History

Matched portal movement

SeasonPathMovementValueDate
2021Mississippi State to South AlabamaP4 to G5/FCS18Nov 5, 2020

Kareem Walker played RB for Michigan, Mississippi State, and South Alabama. Across 4 tracked seasons, Kareem Walker recorded 363 rushing yards, 43 receiving yards, and 6 touchdowns. His top tracked season came in 2021 with South Alabama.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2021 Regular Season

South Alabama paired 338 primary output with 32.3 efficiency.

Supporting note

2021 Regular Season role shape

backfield-heavy usage with 32.3 efficiency.

Supporting note

Career value is trending up

2021 Regular Season improved on the prior stop by season value score.

Supporting note

Multi-stop career journey

Production spans 3 team stops, with role shifts visible across Michigan, Mississippi State, South Alabama.

Supporting note

Peak game by takeover score: Alcorn State

Win driven by a workhorse rushing load. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.

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2021 Regular Season · South Alabama

Games

8

Scrimmage Yards / G

42.3

Efficiency

32.3

Usage

21.8

Consistency

31.6

Best Game by takeover score

Alcorn State

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Game-by-Game Trend

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Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. Southern Miss: 29. Bowling Green: 26. Alcorn State: 158. UL Monroe: 5. Arkansas State: 33. App State: 20. Tennessee: 37. Coastal Carolina: 30

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. Southern Miss: 20 by 15.1. Bowling Green: 13 by 25. Alcorn State: 24 by 68.2. UL Monroe: 6 by 7.2. Arkansas State: 6 by 55.4. App State: 7 by 29.8. Tennessee: 10 by 41.3. Coastal Carolina: 12 by 16.7

Split Comparison

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

Wins61.5 · Games = 4 · +38.5 vs Losses
Losses23 · Games = 4 · -38.5 vs Wins

Game Log

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

8 games

Featured metric

Scrimmage Yards

Top game by takeover score

Alcorn State

Best efficiency game

68.2 vs Alcorn State

Result
Fri 11/26vs Coastal CarolinaL 21-2799103212.5
Sun 11/21@ TennesseeL 14-607294.100383.7
Sat 11/13@ App StateL 7-317202.9002.9
Sat 10/30vs Arkansas StateW 31-135265.200175.5
Sat 10/23@ UL MonroeL 31-41530.600120.8
Sun 9/19vs Alcorn State100 rush yards · 150 scrimmage yardsW 28-21231506.503186.6
Sat 9/11@ Bowling GreenW 22-1912322.7011-62
Sun 9/5vs Southern MissW 31-718261.400231.4

Player Story

Kareem Walker story

Kareem Walker built his college career from 2016 through 2021 as a running back from Irvington, NJ wearing No. 10, spending time with Michigan, Mississippi State, and South Alabama. The clearest part of Kareem Walker's career was his backfield work: 363 rushing yards, 106 carries, 5 rushing touchdowns, and 43 receiving yards across 13 career games in the available record. His career also includes 43 receiving yards, giving the story more than a single-category snapshot. That gives Kareem Walker's career enough real context without stretching the story beyond the available production.

Career Arc

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

  1. 1

    Michigan

    2016-2017

    Opening stop

  2. 2

    Mississippi State

    2020

    Transition stop

  3. 3

    South Alabama

    2021

    Final stop

Season Value Progression

2016201720202021
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2016 Regular SeasonMichigan0
2017 Regular SeasonMichigan6840.27.468
2020 Regular SeasonMississippi State0-68
2021 Regular SeasonSouth Alabama33832.321.8338

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

vs Alcorn State

Week 3 · W 28-21

Win driven by a workhorse rushing load.

158

Scrimmage Yards

89.4 takeover

158 scrimmage yards and 42.1 usage.

#2

vs Rutgers

Week 9 · W 35-14 · Conference game

34

Scrimmage Yards

62 takeover

Win with 34 yards from scrimmage and efficient touch value.

34 scrimmage yards and 9.4 usage.

#3

@ Maryland

Week 11 · W 35-10 · Conference game

23

Scrimmage Yards

48.1 takeover

Win with 23 yards from scrimmage and efficient touch value.

23 scrimmage yards and 14.9 usage.

#4

vs Southern Miss

Week 1 · W 31-7

29

Scrimmage Yards

44.5 takeover

Win with 29 yards from scrimmage and efficient touch value.

29 scrimmage yards and 39.2 usage.

#5

@ Tennessee

Week 12 · L 14-60

37

Scrimmage Yards

38.6 takeover

Loss with 37 yards from scrimmage and efficient touch value.

37 scrimmage yards and 17.9 usage.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2021 Regular Season · South Alabama

338 primary output · 32.3 efficiency · 21.8 usage

56.6

#2

2017 Regular Season · Michigan

28.8

68 primary · 40.2 efficiency · 7.4 usage

#3

2016 Regular Season · Michigan

0 primary · efficiency · usage

Milestones

1

100+ rush yards

1

150+ scrimmage yards

1

2+ TD games