Player Dossier

2019-2025

UTSA

John Emery Jr.

RB • 6'0" • 220 lbs • Saint Rose, LA, USA

Balanced backfield optionSteady chain mover

John Emery Jr. leans balanced backfield option traits and 10.4 efficiency.

Usage / Role

1%

Rotational offensive role

lowfeatured

Impact Production

2

Developing production for a back

lowelite

Reliability

15

Sporadic game-to-game production

lowhigh

Star Power

18

Limited ceiling signals so far

limitedstar

Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by Season Value: 2022 Postseason · LSU

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Snapshot

Career Teams
2
Unique Seasons
7
Program Path
LSU • UTSA
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: Vanderbilt

Player Story

John Emery Jr. built his college career from 2019 through 2025 as a running back from Saint Rose, LA wearing No. 14, spending time with LSU and UTSA. The clearest part of John Emery Jr.'s career was his backfield...

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5★

Recruit Profile

Class 2019 · Rating 0.9929

Destrehan · Destrehan, LA

Committed To
LSU
Commit Date
Jan 1, 2019

John Emery Jr., RB. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2022 Postseason · LSU. John Emery Jr. leans balanced backfield option traits and 10.4 efficiency.

Stat Footprint

Career production snapshot

Scrimmage yards
1,434
Rushing yards
1,104
Receiving yards
330
Touchdowns
15

Quick Answers

John Emery Jr. quick answers

Latest team and position
UTSA · RB
Career Scrimmage Yards
1,434
Tracked sample
7 unique seasons · 9 entries · 39 games
Best season
2022 Postseason · LSU
Top game
Vanderbilt
Recruit profile
5-star · Destrehan · LSU
High school pipeline
Destrehan · 40 FBS recruits · 1 drafted player
Latest roster
No. 14 · Senior
2025 Scrimmage yards rank
4 scrimmage yards · RB 711th (top 97%) · American Athletic 271st (top 95%) · National 2,653rd (top 96%)

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesScrimmageRush YdsRec YdsTDOverall
2019 PostseasonLSU10660136
2019 Regular SeasonLSU1024218260336
2020 Regular SeasonLSU942735473258.7
2021 Regular SeasonLSU00000-
2022 PostseasonLSU1155523167.5
2022 Regular SeasonLSU11451325126767.5
2023 Regular SeasonLSU717812058137.9
2024 Regular SeasonLSU1716110059
2025 Regular SeasonUTSA1440033.5

Related Context

Transfer Portal History

Matched portal movement

SeasonPathMovementValueDate
2025LSU to UTSAP4 to G5/FCS77.5May 12, 2025
2024LSU to LSUP4 to P478.2Apr 23, 2024

John Emery Jr. played RB for LSU and UTSA. Across 7 tracked seasons, John Emery Jr. recorded 1,104 rushing yards, 330 receiving yards, and 1 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2022 with LSU.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2022 Postseason

LSU paired 506 primary output with 52.8 efficiency.

Supporting note

2025 Regular Season role shape

backfield-heavy usage with 10.4 efficiency.

Supporting note

Career value cooled off

2025 Regular Season fell back from the prior stop by season value score.

Supporting note

Multi-stop career journey

Production spans 2 team stops, with role shifts visible across LSU, UTSA.

Supporting note

Peak game by takeover score: Rice

Win with 4 yards from scrimmage and efficient touch value. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.

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2025 Regular Season · UTSA

Games

1

Scrimmage Yards / G

4

Efficiency

10.4

Usage

8

Consistency

100

Best Game by takeover score

Rice

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All Games4 · Games = 1

Game Log

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1 games

Featured metric

Scrimmage Yards

Top game by takeover score

Rice

Best efficiency game

10.4 vs Rice

Result
Sat 10/11vs RiceW 61-1344101

Player Story

John Emery Jr. story

John Emery Jr. built his college career from 2019 through 2025 as a running back from Saint Rose, LA wearing No. 14, spending time with LSU and UTSA. The clearest part of John Emery Jr.'s career was his backfield work: 1,104 rushing yards, 225 carries, 13 rushing touchdowns, and 330 receiving yards across 39 career games in the available record. His career also includes 330 receiving yards and 1 tackle, giving the story more than a single-category snapshot. That gives John Emery Jr.'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

    LSU

    2019-2024

    Opening stop

  2. 2

    UTSA

    2025

    Final stop

Season Value Progression

201920192020202120222022202320242025
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2019 PostseasonLSU248407.1
2019 Regular SeasonLSU248407.10
2020 Regular SeasonLSU42746.416.7179
2021 Regular SeasonLSU0-427
2022 PostseasonLSU50652.813.7506
2022 Regular SeasonLSU50652.813.70
2023 Regular SeasonLSU17849.86.6-328
2024 Regular SeasonLSU716520-107
2025 Regular SeasonUTSA410.48-67

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

@ Vanderbilt

Week 5 · W 41-7 · Conference game

Win with 100 yards from scrimmage and efficient touch value.

100

Scrimmage Yards

92.4 takeover

100 scrimmage yards and 32.4 usage.

#2

vs Auburn

Week 7 · W 48-18 · Conference game

91

Scrimmage Yards

75.9 takeover

Win with 91 yards from scrimmage and efficient touch value.

91 scrimmage yards and 11.9 usage.

#3

vs Alabama

Week 14 · L 17-55 · Conference game

86

Scrimmage Yards

74.9 takeover

Loss with 86 yards from scrimmage and efficient touch value.

86 scrimmage yards and 15.4 usage.

#4

vs USC

Week 1 · L 20-27

71

Scrimmage Yards

74 takeover

Loss with 71 yards from scrimmage and efficient touch value.

71 scrimmage yards and 20 usage.

#5

@ Auburn

Week 5 · W 21-17 · Conference game

81

Scrimmage Yards

71.3 takeover

Win with 81 yards from scrimmage and efficient touch value.

81 scrimmage yards and 15.3 usage.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2022 Postseason · LSU

506 primary output · 52.8 efficiency · 13.7 usage

67.5

#2

2022 Regular Season · LSU

67.5

506 primary · 52.8 efficiency · 13.7 usage

#3

2024 Regular Season · LSU

59

71 primary · 65 efficiency · 20 usage

Milestones

0

100+ rush yards

0

150+ scrimmage yards

1

2+ TD games