Usage / Role
27%
Rotational offensive role
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Player Dossier
2018-2022Colorado
Alex Fontenot
RB • 6'0" • 200 lbs • Richmond, TX, USA
Balanced backfield optionSteady chain mover
Alex Fontenot leans balanced backfield option traits and 49.1 efficiency.
Impact Production
48
Developing production for a back
lowelite
Reliability
48
Useful contributor with volatile peaks
lowhigh
Star Power
55
Useful peak profile
limitedstar
Career Arc
Value trend by season
Best season by Season Value: 2019 Regular Season · Colorado
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Snapshot
- Career Teams
- 1
- Unique Seasons
- 5
- Program Path
- Colorado
- Peak Game
- Peak game by takeover score: Colorado State
Player Story
Alex Fontenot built his college career from 2018 through 2022 as a running back from Richmond, TX wearing No. 8, spending time with Colorado. The clearest part of Alex Fontenot's career was his backfield work: 1,558...
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- Committed To
- Colorado
- Commit Date
- Jan 1, 2017
Alex Fontenot, RB. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2019 Regular Season · Colorado. Alex Fontenot leans balanced backfield option traits and 49.1 efficiency.
Stat Footprint
Career production snapshot
- Scrimmage yards
- 1,816
- Rushing yards
- 1,558
- Receiving yards
- 258
- Touchdowns
- 14
Quick Answers
Alex Fontenot quick answers
- Latest team and position
- Colorado · RB
- Career Scrimmage Yards
- 1,816
- Tracked sample
- 5 unique seasons · 5 entries · 31 games
- Best season
- 2019 Regular Season · Colorado
- Top game
- Colorado State
- Recruit profile
- 3-star · George Ranch · Colorado
- High school pipeline
- George Ranch · 10 FBS recruits · 0 drafted players
- Latest roster
- No. 8 · Senior
- 2022 Scrimmage yards rank
- 371 scrimmage yards · RB 262nd (top 38%) · Pac-12 69th (top 29%) · National 676th (top 26%)
Season Ledger
Crawlable season-by-season stats
| Season | Team | Games | Scrimmage | Rush Yds | Rec Yds | TD | Overall |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 Regular Season | Colorado | 2 | 43 | 43 | 0 | 1 | 35.7 |
| 2019 Regular Season | Colorado | 11 | 996 | 874 | 122 | 5 | 80.9 |
| 2020 Regular Season | Colorado | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | - |
| 2021 Regular Season | Colorado | 12 | 406 | 326 | 80 | 6 | 48.4 |
| 2022 Regular Season | Colorado | 6 | 371 | 315 | 56 | 2 | 58.2 |
Related Context
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Alex Fontenot played RB for Colorado. Across 5 tracked seasons, Alex Fontenot recorded 1,558 rushing yards, 258 receiving yards, and 1 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2019 with Colorado.
Player insights
Lead takeaway
Best season by value score: 2019 Regular Season
Colorado paired 996 primary output with 49.3 efficiency.
Supporting note
2022 Regular Season role shape
backfield-heavy usage with 49.1 efficiency.
Supporting note
Career value is trending up
2022 Regular Season improved on the prior stop by season value score.
Supporting note
Peak game by takeover score: USC
Loss driven by a workhorse rushing load. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.
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2022 Regular Season · Colorado
Games
6
Scrimmage Yards / G
61.8
Efficiency
49.1
Usage
27
Consistency
69.4
Best Game by takeover score
USC
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Game-by-Game Trend
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Chronological game order.
Game by game trend chart. TCU: 31. Air Force: 55. Oregon: 72. USC: 124. Washington: 78. Utah: 11
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. TCU: 8 by 40.4. Air Force: 13 by 45.2. Oregon: 10 by 66.6. USC: 21 by 58.4. Washington: 12 by 67.4. Utah: 7 by 16.4
Split Comparison
Compare how this player performed across different situations. "Games" shows how many matchups are included in each split.
First Half52.7 · Games = 3 · -18.3 vs Second Half
Second Half71 · Games = 3 · +18.3 vs First Half
Game Log
Dense stat lines with inline explanations and season-linked highlights.
6 games
Featured metric
Scrimmage Yards
Top game by takeover score
USC
Best efficiency game
67.4 vs Washington
Player Story
Alex Fontenot story
Alex Fontenot built his college career from 2018 through 2022 as a running back from Richmond, TX wearing No. 8, spending time with Colorado. The clearest part of Alex Fontenot's career was his backfield work: 1,558 rushing yards, 357 carries, 13 rushing touchdowns, and 258 receiving yards across 31 career games in the available record. His largest box-score season came in 2019 with Colorado. 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 258 receiving yards and 1 tackle, 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 Colorado.
The arc is straightforward: Alex Fontenot 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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Colorado
2018-2022
Opening stop
Season Value Progression
20182019202020212022
| Season | Team | Primary | Efficiency | Usage | Delta |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 Regular Season | Colorado | 43 | 43.2 | 8.2 | — |
| 2019 Regular Season | Colorado | 996 | 49.3 | 32.8 | 953 |
| 2020 Regular Season | Colorado | 0 | — | — | -996 |
| 2021 Regular Season | Colorado | 406 | 33 | 18.5 | 406 |
| 2022 Regular Season | Colorado | 371 | 49.1 | 27 | -35 |
Signature Performances
Top Games
#1 Featured game
vs Colorado State
Week 1 · W 52-31
Win with 125 yards from scrimmage and efficient touch value.
125
Scrimmage Yards
88.7 takeover
125 scrimmage yards and 35.8 usage.
#2
@ USC
Week 11 · L 17-55 · Conference game
124
Scrimmage Yards
86.1 takeover
Loss driven by a workhorse rushing load.
124 scrimmage yards and 45.7 usage.
#3
vs Arizona
Week 6 · L 30-35 · Conference game
128
Scrimmage Yards
82.8 takeover
Loss driven by a workhorse rushing load.
128 scrimmage yards and 39.4 usage.
#4
@ Washington State
Week 8 · L 10-41 · Conference game
110
Scrimmage Yards
80.4 takeover
Loss with 110 yards from scrimmage and efficient touch value.
110 scrimmage yards and 24.5 usage.
#5
@ Arizona State
Week 4 · L 13-35 · Conference game
65
Scrimmage Yards
75.7 takeover
Loss with 65 yards from scrimmage and efficient touch value.
65 scrimmage yards and 27.5 usage.
Top Seasons
#1 Season by Season Value
2019 Regular Season · Colorado
996 primary output · 49.3 efficiency · 32.8 usage
80.9
#2
2022 Regular Season · Colorado
58.2
371 primary · 49.1 efficiency · 27 usage
#3
2021 Regular Season · Colorado
48.4
406 primary · 33 efficiency · 18.5 usage
Milestones
4
100+ rush yards
0
150+ scrimmage yards
3
2+ TD games
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