Usage / Role
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Rotational offensive role
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Player Dossier
2020-2025Kansas
Daniel Hishaw Jr.
RB • 5'10" • 220 lbs • Moore, OK, USA
Balanced backfield optionSteady chain mover
Daniel Hishaw Jr. leans balanced backfield option traits and 49.7 efficiency.
Impact Production
53
Solid production for a back
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Reliability
50
Useful contributor with volatile peaks
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Star Power
62
Useful peak profile
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Career Arc
Value trend by season
Best season by Season Value: 2025 Regular Season · Kansas
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Snapshot
- Career Teams
- 1
- Unique Seasons
- 6
- Program Path
- Kansas
- Peak Game
- Peak game by takeover score: UCF
Player Story
Daniel Hishaw Jr. built his college career from 2020 through 2025 as a running back from Moore, OK wearing No. 9, spending time with Kansas. The clearest part of Daniel Hishaw Jr.'s career was his backfield work:...
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- Committed To
- Kansas
- Commit Date
- Jan 1, 2020
Daniel Hishaw Jr., RB. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2025 Regular Season · Kansas. Daniel Hishaw Jr. leans balanced backfield option traits and 49.7 efficiency.
Stat Footprint
Career production snapshot
- Scrimmage yards
- 2,275
- Rushing yards
- 2,077
- Receiving yards
- 198
- Touchdowns
- 24
Quick Answers
Daniel Hishaw Jr. quick answers
- Latest team and position
- Kansas · RB
- Career Scrimmage Yards
- 2,275
- Tracked sample
- 6 unique seasons · 7 entries · 43 games
- Best season
- 2025 Regular Season · Kansas
- Top game
- UCF
- Recruit profile
- 3-star · Moore · Kansas
- High school pipeline
- Moore · 6 FBS recruits · 0 drafted players
- Latest roster
- No. 9 · Senior
- 2025 Scrimmage yards rank
- 620 scrimmage yards · RB 161st (top 22%) · Big 12 43rd (top 13%) · National 345th (top 13%)
Season Ledger
Crawlable season-by-season stats
| Season | Team | Games | Scrimmage | Rush Yds | Rec Yds | TD | Overall |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 Regular Season | Kansas | 7 | 257 | 229 | 28 | 2 | 37.9 |
| 2021 Regular Season | Kansas | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | - |
| 2022 Regular Season | Kansas | 5 | 354 | 259 | 95 | 6 | 62.2 |
| 2023 Postseason | Kansas | 13 | 27 | 27 | 0 | 0 | 63.6 |
| 2023 Regular Season | Kansas | 13 | 608 | 599 | 9 | 8 | 63.6 |
| 2024 Regular Season | Kansas | 8 | 409 | 376 | 33 | 3 | 59.5 |
| 2025 Regular Season | Kansas | 10 | 620 | 587 | 33 | 5 | 72.9 |
Related Context
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Daniel Hishaw Jr. played RB for Kansas. Across 6 tracked seasons, Daniel Hishaw Jr. recorded 2,077 rushing yards, 198 receiving yards, and 24 touchdowns. His top tracked season came in 2025 with Kansas.
Player insights
Lead takeaway
Best season by value score: 2025 Regular Season
Kansas paired 620 primary output with 49.7 efficiency.
Supporting note
2025 Regular Season role shape
backfield-heavy usage with 49.7 efficiency.
Supporting note
Career value is trending up
2025 Regular Season improved on the prior stop by season value score.
Supporting note
Peak game by takeover score: Utah
Loss driven by a workhorse rushing load. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.
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2025 Regular Season · Kansas
Games
10
Scrimmage Yards / G
62
Efficiency
49.7
Usage
23.7
Consistency
76.4
Best Game by takeover score
Utah
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Game-by-Game Trend
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Chronological game order.
Game by game trend chart. Wagner: 89. Fresno State: 74. Missouri: 9. West Virginia: 9. Texas Tech: 53. Kansas State: 95. Oklahoma State: 65. Arizona: 69. Iowa State: 50. Utah: 107
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 versus efficiency scatter chart. Wagner: 14 by 66.2. Fresno State: 14 by 55.2. Missouri: 7 by 16.8. West Virginia: 2 by 46.9. Texas Tech: 8 by 69. Kansas State: 22 by 40. Oklahoma State: 14 by 48.4. Arizona: 19 by 38.4. Iowa State: 8 by 65.1. Utah: 22 by 50.7
Split Comparison
Compare how this player performed across different situations. "Games" shows how many matchups are included in each split.
Wins59.3 · Games = 4 · -4.6 vs Losses
Losses63.8 · Games = 6 · +4.6 vs Wins
Game Log
Dense stat lines with inline explanations and season-linked highlights.
10 games
Featured metric
Scrimmage Yards
Top game by takeover score
Utah
Best efficiency game
69 vs Texas Tech
| Result | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fri 11/28 | vs Utah100 rush yards | L 21-31 | 22 | 107 | 4.90 | 1 | — | — | 4.9 |
| Sat 11/22 | @ Iowa State | L 14-38 | 8 | 50 | 6.30 | 0 | — | — | 6.3 |
| Sat 11/8 | @ Arizona | L 20-24 | 18 | 67 | 3.70 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3.6 |
| Sat 11/1 | vs Oklahoma State2+ TD | W 38-21 | 14 | 65 | 4.60 | 2 | — | — | 4.6 |
| Sat 10/25 | vs Kansas State | L 17-42 | 19 | 67 | 3.50 | 1 | 3 | 28 | 4.3 |
| Sat 10/11 | @ Texas Tech | L 17-42 | 8 | 53 | 6.60 | 0 | — | — | 6.6 |
| Sat 9/20 | vs West Virginia | W 41-10 | 2 | 9 | 4.50 | 0 | — | — | 4.5 |
| Sat 9/6 | @ Missouri | L 31-42 | 6 | 11 | 1.80 | 0 | 1 | -2 | 1.3 |
| Fri 8/29 | vs Wagner | W 46-7 | 14 | 89 | 6.40 | 1 | — | — | 6.4 |
| Sat 8/23 | vs Fresno State | W 31-7 | 13 | 69 | 5.30 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 5.3 |
Player Story
Daniel Hishaw Jr. story
Daniel Hishaw Jr. built his college career from 2020 through 2025 as a running back from Moore, OK wearing No. 9, spending time with Kansas. The clearest part of Daniel Hishaw Jr.'s career was his backfield work: 2,077 rushing yards, 406 carries, 23 rushing touchdowns, and 198 receiving yards across 43 career games in the available record. His career also includes 198 receiving yards and 45 return yards, giving the story more than a single-category snapshot. That gives Daniel Hishaw Jr.'s career enough real context without stretching the story beyond the available production.
Career Arc
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Kansas
2020-2025
Opening stop
Season Value Progression
2020202120222023202320242025
| Season | Team | Primary | Efficiency | Usage | Delta |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 Regular Season | Kansas | 257 | 36 | 14 | — |
| 2021 Regular Season | Kansas | 0 | — | — | -257 |
| 2022 Regular Season | Kansas | 354 | 67 | 18.4 | 354 |
| 2023 Postseason | Kansas | 635 | 53.6 | 17.6 | 281 |
| 2023 Regular Season | Kansas | 635 | 53.6 | 17.6 | 0 |
| 2024 Regular Season | Kansas | 409 | 54.9 | 16 | -226 |
| 2025 Regular Season | Kansas | 620 | 49.7 | 23.7 | 211 |
Signature Performances
Top Games
#1 Featured game
vs UCF
Week 6 · W 51-22 · Conference game
Win with 134 yards from scrimmage and efficient touch value.
134
Scrimmage Yards
88.5 takeover
134 scrimmage yards and 32.2 usage.
#2
vs No. 8 Utah
Week 14 · L 21-31 · Conference game · Ranked opponent
107
Scrimmage Yards
83.6 takeover
Loss driven by a workhorse rushing load.
107 scrimmage yards and 36.1 usage.
#3
vs TCU
Week 5 · L 27-38 · Conference game
85
Scrimmage Yards
81.8 takeover
Loss with 85 yards from scrimmage and efficient touch value.
85 scrimmage yards and 27.1 usage.
#4
@ Texas Tech
Week 14 · L 13-16 · Conference game
108
Scrimmage Yards
80.9 takeover
Loss driven by a workhorse rushing load.
108 scrimmage yards and 41 usage.
#5
vs Duke
Week 4 · W 35-27
134
Scrimmage Yards
80.8 takeover
Win with 134 yards from scrimmage and efficient touch value.
134 scrimmage yards and 19 usage.
Top Seasons
#1 Season by Season Value
2025 Regular Season · Kansas
620 primary output · 49.7 efficiency · 23.7 usage
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#2
2023 Postseason · Kansas
63.6
635 primary · 53.6 efficiency · 17.6 usage
#3
2023 Regular Season · Kansas
63.6
635 primary · 53.6 efficiency · 17.6 usage
Milestones
2
100+ rush yards
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150+ scrimmage yards
4
2+ TD games
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