Player Dossier

2016-2019

TCU

Sewo Olonilua

RB • 6'3" • 240 lbs • Kingwood, TX, USA

Balanced backfield optionSteady chain mover

Sewo Olonilua leans balanced backfield option traits and 40.5 efficiency.

Usage / Role

100%

Featured offensive role

lowfeatured

Impact Production

100

Top-tier box-score impact for a back

lowelite

Reliability

100

Regular contributor with several takeover games

lowhigh

Star Power

89

Elite ceiling indicators

limitedstar

Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by Season Value: 2019 Regular Season · TCU

16161717181819

Snapshot

Career Teams
1
Unique Seasons
4
Program Path
TCU
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: California

Player Story

Sewo Olonilua built his college career from 2016 through 2019 as a running back from Kingwood, TX wearing No. 33, spending time with TCU. The clearest part of Sewo Olonilua's career was his backfield work: 1,624...

Read the story
4★

Recruit Profile

Class 2016 · Rating 0.9431

Kingwood · Humble, TX

Committed To
TCU
Commit Date
Jan 1, 2016

Sewo Olonilua, RB. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2019 Regular Season · TCU. Sewo Olonilua leans balanced backfield option traits and 40.5 efficiency.

Stat Footprint

Career production snapshot

Scrimmage yards
2,007
Rushing yards
1,624
Receiving yards
383
Touchdowns
19

Quick Answers

Sewo Olonilua quick answers

Latest team and position
TCU · RB
Career Scrimmage Yards
2,007
Tracked sample
4 unique seasons · 7 entries · 49 games
Best season
2019 Regular Season · TCU
Top game
California
Recruit profile
4-star · Kingwood · TCU
High school pipeline
Simi Valley · 6 FBS recruits · 0 drafted players
Latest roster
No. 33 · Senior
2019 Scrimmage yards rank
651 scrimmage yards · RB 145th (top 22%) · Big 12 30th (top 15%) · National 315th (top 13%)

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesScrimmageRush YdsRec YdsTDOverall
2016 PostseasonTCU10000027.1
2016 Regular SeasonTCU1013912217127.1
2017 PostseasonTCU14895831044.9
2017 Regular SeasonTCU14407272135744.9
2018 PostseasonTCU131951941163.5
2018 Regular SeasonTCU1352644185163.5
2019 Regular SeasonTCU12651537114963.9

Related Context

Sewo Olonilua played RB for TCU. Across 4 tracked seasons, Sewo Olonilua recorded 1,624 rushing yards, 383 receiving yards, and 9 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2019 with TCU.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2019 Regular Season

TCU paired 651 primary output with 40.5 efficiency.

Supporting note

2018 Postseason role shape

backfield-heavy usage with 49.4 efficiency.

Supporting note

Career value stayed steady

2019 Regular Season tracked close to the prior stop by season value score.

Supporting note

Peak game by takeover score: California

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

Analysis workspace

Season Workbench

Filter the strongest season sample, inspect game-level shape, and then drop into the full log without losing the story of the year.

Season Explorer

Understand the selected season before dropping into the full game log.

2018 Postseason · TCU

Games

13

Scrimmage Yards / G

55.5

Efficiency

49.4

Usage

20.1

Consistency

47.5

Best Game by takeover score

California

Hover a point or expand a game row to keep the active game context visible here.

Active game

Hover over a point

Hover or select a game to keep its context visible here without the page shifting around.

Game-by-Game Trend

Follow how the selected stat changes from one game to the next. Spikes mark standout outings, while dips show quieter weeks.

12345678910111213

Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. California: 195. Southern: 43. SMU: 60. Ohio State: 39. Texas: 64. Iowa State: 73. Texas Tech: 33. Oklahoma: 34. Kansas: 57. Kansas State: 8. West Virginia: 19. Baylor: 22. Oklahoma State: 74

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.

Low volumeHigh quality

High volumeHigh quality

Low volumeLower quality

High volumeLower quality

Volume on the x-axis, quality on the y-axis.

Volume versus efficiency scatter chart. California: 33 by 62.5. Southern: 5 by 85.8. SMU: 13 by 52.8. Ohio State: 14 by 29. Texas: 14 by 47.7. Iowa State: 17 by 43.7. Texas Tech: 7 by 53. Oklahoma: 11 by 32.2. Kansas: 11 by 40.3. Kansas State: 3 by 20.5. West Virginia: 2 by 79.2. Baylor: 5 by 43.3. Oklahoma State: 15 by 51.8

Split Comparison

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

Wins67.9 · Games = 7 · +26.9 vs Losses
Losses41 · Games = 6 · -26.9 vs Wins

Game Log

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

13 games

Featured metric

Scrimmage Yards

Top game by takeover score

California

Best efficiency game

85.8 vs Southern

Result
Thu 12/27vs California100 rush yards · 150 scrimmage yardsW 10-7321946.101115.9
Sun 11/25vs Oklahoma StateW 31-24147050144.9
Sat 11/17@ BaylorW 16-941640164.4
Sat 11/10@ West VirginiaL 10-472199.5
Sat 11/3vs Kansas StateW 14-13231.500152.7
Sat 10/27@ KansasL 26-27824303335.2
Sat 10/20vs OklahomaL 27-5211343.1003.1
Thu 10/11vs Texas TechL 14-176325.300114.7
Sat 9/29vs Iowa StateW 17-1416664.100174.3
Sat 9/22@ TexasL 16-3112554.600294.6
Sun 9/16vs Ohio StateL 28-4014392.8012.8
Sat 9/8@ SMUW 42-1211595.400214.6
Sat 9/1vs SouthernW 55-75438.6008.6

Player Story

Sewo Olonilua story

Sewo Olonilua built his college career from 2016 through 2019 as a running back from Kingwood, TX wearing No. 33, spending time with TCU. The clearest part of Sewo Olonilua's career was his backfield work: 1,624 rushing yards, 348 carries, 18 rushing touchdowns, and 383 receiving yards across 49 career games in the available record. His largest box-score season came in 2019 with TCU. 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 383 receiving yards, 9 tackles, and 177 return yards, giving the story more than a single-category snapshot. With 49 career games in the available record, his career has enough shape to show both opportunity and production across TCU.

The arc is straightforward: Sewo Olonilua 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

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

  1. 1

    TCU

    2016-2019

    Opening stop

Season Value Progression

2016201620172017201820182019
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2016 PostseasonTCU13960.42.8
2016 Regular SeasonTCU13960.42.80
2017 PostseasonTCU49644.89.9357
2017 Regular SeasonTCU49644.89.90
2018 PostseasonTCU72149.420.1225
2018 Regular SeasonTCU72149.420.10
2019 Regular SeasonTCU65140.522.3-70

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

vs California

Week 1 · W 10-7 · Postseason

Win driven by a workhorse rushing load.

195

Scrimmage Yards

87.5 takeover

195 scrimmage yards and 49.3 usage.

#2

vs Baylor

Week 11 · L 23-29 · Conference game

109

Scrimmage Yards

81.3 takeover

Loss with 109 yards from scrimmage and efficient touch value.

109 scrimmage yards and 36.5 usage.

#3

@ Purdue

Week 3 · W 34-13

111

Scrimmage Yards

81.1 takeover

Win with 111 yards from scrimmage and efficient touch value.

111 scrimmage yards and 28.8 usage.

#4

vs Baylor

Week 13 · W 45-22 · Conference game

111

Scrimmage Yards

80 takeover

Win with 111 yards from scrimmage and efficient touch value.

111 scrimmage yards and 21 usage.

#5

vs Stanford

Week 1 · W 39-37 · Postseason

89

Scrimmage Yards

73 takeover

Win with 89 yards from scrimmage and efficient touch value.

89 scrimmage yards and 16.7 usage.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2019 Regular Season · TCU

651 primary output · 40.5 efficiency · 22.3 usage

63.9

#2

2018 Postseason · TCU

63.5

721 primary · 49.4 efficiency · 20.1 usage

#3

2018 Regular Season · TCU

63.5

721 primary · 49.4 efficiency · 20.1 usage

Milestones

2

100+ rush yards

1

150+ scrimmage yards

2

2+ TD games