Player Dossier

2019-2023

USC

Austin Jones

RB • 5'10" • 200 lbs • Antioch, CA, USA

Balanced backfield optionSteady chain mover

Austin Jones leans balanced backfield option traits and 58.5 efficiency.

Usage / Role

100%

Featured offensive role

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Impact Production

100

Top-tier box-score impact for a back

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Reliability

97

Regular contributor with several takeover games

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Star Power

90

Elite ceiling indicators

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Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by Season Value: 2020 Regular Season · Stanford

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Snapshot

Career Teams
2
Unique Seasons
5
Program Path
Stanford • USC
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: UCLA

Player Story

Austin Jones built his college career from 2019 through 2023 as a running back from Antioch, CA wearing No. 6, spending time with Stanford and USC. The clearest part of Austin Jones' career was his backfield work:...

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Recruit Profile

Class 2019 · Rating 0.9471

Bishop O'Dowd · Oakland, CA

Committed To
Stanford
Commit Date
Jan 1, 2019

Austin Jones, RB. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2020 Regular Season · Stanford. Austin Jones leans balanced backfield option traits and 58.5 efficiency.

Stat Footprint

Career production snapshot

Scrimmage yards
3,214
Rushing yards
2,324
Receiving yards
890
Touchdowns
27

Quick Answers

Austin Jones quick answers

Latest team and position
USC · RB
Career Scrimmage Yards
3,214
Tracked sample
5 unique seasons · 7 entries · 55 games
Best season
2020 Regular Season · Stanford
Top game
UCLA
Recruit profile
4-star · Bishop O'Dowd · Stanford
High school pipeline
Bishop O'Dowd · 17 FBS recruits · 3 drafted players
Latest roster
No. 6 · Senior
2023 Scrimmage yards rank
580 scrimmage yards · RB 160th (top 23%) · Pac-12 40th (top 17%) · National 354th (top 14%)

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesScrimmageRush YdsRec YdsTDOverall
2019 Regular SeasonStanford12335227108141.9
2020 Regular SeasonStanford6688537151973.5
2021 Regular SeasonStanford11645378267363.6
2022 PostseasonUSC13756114068.6
2022 Regular SeasonUSC13891644247668.6
2023 PostseasonUSC13846024053.1
2023 Regular SeasonUSC1349641779853.1

Related Context

Austin Jones played RB for Stanford and USC. Across 5 tracked seasons, Austin Jones recorded 2,324 rushing yards, 890 receiving yards, and 2 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2022 with USC.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2020 Regular Season

Stanford paired 688 primary output with 44.8 efficiency.

Supporting note

2020 Regular Season role shape

backfield-heavy usage with 44.8 efficiency.

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Career value stayed steady

2023 Regular Season tracked close to the prior stop by season value score.

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Multi-stop career journey

Production spans 2 team stops, with role shifts visible across Stanford, USC.

Supporting note

Peak game by takeover score: Oregon State

Win driven by a workhorse rushing load. It landed in the 83.3th percentile of the selected season.

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2020 Regular Season · Stanford

Games

6

Scrimmage Yards / G

114.7

Efficiency

44.8

Usage

42.7

Consistency

78.1

Best Game by takeover score

Oregon State

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Game-by-Game Trend

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Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. Oregon: 122. Colorado: 59. California: 78. Washington: 166. Oregon State: 148. UCLA: 115

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. Oregon: 22 by 54.4. Colorado: 16 by 21.6. California: 21 by 40.5. Washington: 34 by 48.2. Oregon State: 25 by 60.5. UCLA: 26 by 43.4

Split Comparison

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

Wins126.8 · Games = 4 · +36.3 vs Losses
Losses90.5 · Games = 2 · -36.3 vs Wins

Game Log

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

6 games

Featured metric

Scrimmage Yards

Top game by takeover score

Oregon State

Best efficiency game

60.5 vs Oregon State

Result
Sun 12/20@ UCLA2+ TDW 48-472392423234.4
Sun 12/13@ Oregon State100 rush yardsW 27-24221265.7003225.9
Sat 12/5@ Washington100 rush yards · 150 scrimmage yardsW 31-26311384.5023284.9
Fri 11/27@ California2+ TDW 24-23187242363.7
Sat 11/14vs ColoradoL 32-3599117503.7
Sun 11/8@ Oregon100 rush yards · 2+ TDL 14-3520100522225.5

Player Story

Austin Jones story

Austin Jones built his college career from 2019 through 2023 as a running back from Antioch, CA wearing No. 6, spending time with Stanford and USC. The clearest part of Austin Jones' career was his backfield work: 2,324 rushing yards, 495 carries, 24 rushing touchdowns, and 890 receiving yards across 55 career games in the available record. His career also includes 890 receiving yards, 2 tackles, and 60 return yards, giving the story more than a single-category snapshot. That gives Austin Jones' 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

    Stanford

    2019-2021

    Opening stop

  2. 2

    USC

    2022-2023

    Final stop

Season Value Progression

2019202020212022202220232023
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2019 Regular SeasonStanford33545.19.8
2020 Regular SeasonStanford68844.842.7353
2021 Regular SeasonStanford64541.126.5-43
2022 PostseasonUSC96656.520.3321
2022 Regular SeasonUSC96656.520.30
2023 PostseasonUSC58058.514.6-386
2023 Regular SeasonUSC58058.514.60

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

@ UCLA

Week 12 · W 48-45 · Conference game

Win driven by a workhorse rushing load.

177

Scrimmage Yards

88.4 takeover

177 scrimmage yards and 35.7 usage.

#2

vs Notre Dame

Week 13 · W 38-27

170

Scrimmage Yards

87.2 takeover

Win driven by a workhorse rushing load.

170 scrimmage yards and 45.6 usage.

#3

vs Washington

Week 10 · L 42-52 · Conference game

127

Scrimmage Yards

85.5 takeover

Loss with 127 yards from scrimmage and efficient touch value.

127 scrimmage yards and 20.4 usage.

#4

@ Oregon State

Week 15 · W 27-24 · Conference game

148

Scrimmage Yards

83.2 takeover

Win driven by a workhorse rushing load.

148 scrimmage yards and 44.6 usage.

#5

@ Washington

Week 14 · W 31-26 · Conference game

166

Scrimmage Yards

82.7 takeover

Win driven by a workhorse rushing load.

166 scrimmage yards and 56.7 usage.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2020 Regular Season · Stanford

688 primary output · 44.8 efficiency · 42.7 usage

73.5

#2

2022 Postseason · USC

68.6

966 primary · 56.5 efficiency · 20.3 usage

#3

2022 Regular Season · USC

68.6

966 primary · 56.5 efficiency · 20.3 usage

Milestones

7

100+ rush yards

3

150+ scrimmage yards

8

2+ TD games