Player Dossier

2019-2023

California

King Doerue

RB • 5'10" • 205 lbs • Amarillo, TX, USA

Balanced backfield optionSteady chain mover

King Doerue leans balanced backfield option traits and partial efficiency context.

Usage / Role

35%

Rotational offensive role

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Impact Production

25

Developing production for a back

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Reliability

15

Sporadic game-to-game production

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Star Power

28

Limited ceiling signals so far

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Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by Season Value: 2021 Postseason · Purdue

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Snapshot

Career Teams
2
Unique Seasons
5
Program Path
Purdue • California
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: Minnesota

Player Story

King Doerue built his college career from 2019 through 2023 as a running back from Amarillo, TX wearing No. 23, spending time with California and Purdue. The clearest part of King Doerue's career was his backfield...

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Recruit Profile

Class 2025 · Rating 0.8811

Dutchtown · Geismar, LA

Committed To
Tulane
Commit Date
Jan 1, 2025

King Doerue, RB. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2021 Postseason · Purdue. King Doerue leans balanced backfield option traits and partial efficiency context.

Stat Footprint

Career production snapshot

Scrimmage yards
1,529
Rushing yards
1,148
Receiving yards
381
Touchdowns
13

Quick Answers

King Doerue quick answers

Latest team and position
California · RB
Career Scrimmage Yards
1,529
Tracked sample
5 unique seasons · 6 entries · 32 games
Best season
2021 Postseason · Purdue
Top game
Minnesota
Recruit profile
3-star · Dutchtown · Tulane
High school pipeline
Dutchtown · 21 FBS recruits · 6 drafted players
Latest roster
No. 23 · Junior

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesScrimmageRush YdsRec YdsTDOverall
2019 Regular SeasonPurdue12599451148759.6
2020 Regular SeasonPurdue4876720132
2021 PostseasonPurdue1245450066.2
2021 Regular SeasonPurdue12644488156266.2
2022 Regular SeasonPurdue41549757338.5
2023 Regular SeasonCalifornia00000-

Related Context

Transfer Portal History

Matched portal movement

SeasonPathMovementValueDate
2023Purdue to CaliforniaP4 to P418Jan 20, 2023

King Doerue played RB for Purdue and California. Across 5 tracked seasons, King Doerue recorded 1,148 rushing yards, 381 receiving yards, and 1 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2021 with Purdue.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2021 Postseason

Purdue paired 689 primary output with 43 efficiency.

Supporting note

2021 Postseason role shape

backfield-heavy usage with 43 efficiency.

Supporting note

Career value cooled off

2023 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 Purdue, California.

Supporting note

Peak game by takeover score: Minnesota

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

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Season Workbench

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Season Explorer

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2021 Postseason · Purdue

Games

12

Scrimmage Yards / G

57.4

Efficiency

43

Usage

20.2

Consistency

64.1

Best Game by takeover score

Minnesota

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Game-by-Game Trend

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Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. Tennessee: 45. Oregon State: 7. UConn: 74. Notre Dame: 84. Minnesota: 134. Iowa: 51. Wisconsin: 20. Nebraska: 70. Michigan State: 92. Ohio State: 37. Northwestern: 18. Indiana: 57

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. Tennessee: 10 by 46.9. Oregon State: 5 by 14.6. UConn: 12 by 64.2. Notre Dame: 16 by 50. Minnesota: 27 by 49. Iowa: 19 by 27.9. Wisconsin: 9 by 23.1. Nebraska: 18 by 43.4. Michigan State: 16 by 39.3. Ohio State: 12 by 29.1. Northwestern: 6 by 31.3. Indiana: 5 by 97.5

Split Comparison

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

Wins51.8 · Games = 8 · -17 vs Losses
Losses68.8 · Games = 4 · +17 vs Wins

Game Log

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

12 games

Featured metric

Scrimmage Yards

Top game by takeover score

Minnesota

Best efficiency game

97.5 vs Indiana

Result
Thu 12/30vs TennesseeW 48-4510454.5004.5
Sat 11/27vs IndianaW 44-744912.3001811.4
Sat 11/20@ NorthwesternW 32-14618303
Sat 11/13@ Ohio StateL 31-5910262.6002113.1
Sat 11/6vs Michigan StateW 40-2913322.5013605.8
Sat 10/30@ NebraskaW 28-2317744.4001-43.9
Sat 10/23vs WisconsinL 13-309202.2002.2
Sat 10/16@ IowaW 24-718482.700132.7
Sat 10/2vs MinnesotaL 13-2021954.5006395.0
Sat 9/18@ Notre DameL 13-2710454.5006395.3
Sat 9/11@ UConnW 49-012746.2016.2
Sat 9/4vs Oregon StateW 30-21571.4001.4

Player Story

King Doerue story

King Doerue built his college career from 2019 through 2023 as a running back from Amarillo, TX wearing No. 23, spending time with California and Purdue. The clearest part of King Doerue's career was his backfield work: 1,148 rushing yards, 308 carries, 10 rushing touchdowns, and 381 receiving yards across 32 career games in the available record. His largest box-score season came in 2019 with Purdue. 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 381 receiving yards and 1 tackle, giving the story more than a single-category snapshot. With 32 career games in the available record, his career has enough shape to show both opportunity and production across California and Purdue.

The arc is straightforward: King Doerue 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

    Purdue

    2019-2022

    Opening stop

  2. 2

    California

    2023

    Final stop

Season Value Progression

201920202021202120222023
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2019 Regular SeasonPurdue59934.722.8
2020 Regular SeasonPurdue8738.67.8-512
2021 PostseasonPurdue6894320.2602
2021 Regular SeasonPurdue6894320.20
2022 Regular SeasonPurdue15435.813.4-535
2023 Regular SeasonCalifornia0-154

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

vs Minnesota

Week 5 · L 31-38 · Conference game

Loss driven by a workhorse rushing load.

126

Scrimmage Yards

83.8 takeover

126 scrimmage yards and 40 usage.

#2

vs Minnesota

Week 5 · L 13-20 · Conference game

134

Scrimmage Yards

83 takeover

Loss driven by a workhorse rushing load.

134 scrimmage yards and 39.7 usage.

#3

vs Penn State

Week 1 · L 31-35 · Conference game

67

Scrimmage Yards

76.9 takeover

Loss with 67 yards from scrimmage and efficient touch value.

67 scrimmage yards and 32.7 usage.

#4

vs Nebraska

Week 10 · W 31-27 · Conference game

102

Scrimmage Yards

72.4 takeover

Win with 102 yards from scrimmage and efficient touch value.

102 scrimmage yards and 29.9 usage.

#5

vs Rutgers

Week 13 · L 30-37 · Conference game

47

Scrimmage Yards

71.3 takeover

Loss with 47 yards from scrimmage and efficient touch value.

47 scrimmage yards and 11.3 usage.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2021 Postseason · Purdue

689 primary output · 43 efficiency · 20.2 usage

66.2

#2

2021 Regular Season · Purdue

66.2

689 primary · 43 efficiency · 20.2 usage

#3

2019 Regular Season · Purdue

59.6

599 primary · 34.7 efficiency · 22.8 usage

Milestones

0

100+ rush yards

0

150+ scrimmage yards

3

2+ TD games