Lead takeaway
Best season by value score: 2020 Regular Season
Kansas paired 343 primary output with 46.1 efficiency.
Player Stats
Velton Gardner College Stats
Career production, season-by-season totals, and the selected-season workbench are grouped here for stat-first searches.
Stat Footprint
Career production snapshot
- Scrimmage yards
- 1,123
- Rushing yards
- 1,050
- Receiving yards
- 73
- Touchdowns
- 6
Season Ledger
Crawlable season-by-season stats
| Season | Team | Games | Scrimmage | Rush Yds | Rec Yds | TD | Overall |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 Regular Season | Kansas | 10 | 162 | 138 | 24 | 2 | 30.7 |
| 2020 Regular Season | Kansas | 6 | 343 | 325 | 18 | 2 | 69.3 |
| 2021 Regular Season | Kansas | 3 | 58 | 56 | 2 | 0 | 40.1 |
| 2022 Regular Season | SMU | 8 | 390 | 368 | 22 | 1 | 63.7 |
| 2023 Regular Season | SMU | 5 | 144 | 137 | 7 | 1 | 44.4 |
| 2024 Regular Season | Texas | 2 | 26 | 26 | 0 | 0 | 38.7 |
Player insights
Supporting note
2024 Regular Season role shape
backfield-heavy usage with 34.8 efficiency.
Supporting note
Career value cooled off
2024 Regular Season fell back from the prior stop by season value score.
Supporting note
Multi-stop career journey
Production spans 3 team stops, with role shifts visible across Kansas, SMU, Texas.
Supporting note
Peak game by takeover score: UTSA
Win with 15 yards from scrimmage and efficient touch value. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.
Analysis workspace
Season Workbench
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Season Explorer
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2024 Regular Season · Texas
Games
2
Scrimmage Yards / G
13
Efficiency
34.8
Usage
6.4
Consistency
94.9
Best Game by takeover score
UTSA
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Game-by-Game Trend
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Chronological game order.
Game by game trend chart. Colorado State: 11. UTSA: 15
Volume vs Efficiency
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Split Comparison
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First Half11 · Games = 1 · -4 vs Second Half
Second Half15 · Games = 1 · +4 vs First Half
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