Usage / Role
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Rotational offensive role
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Player Dossier
2019-2023Army
Jakobi Buchanan
RB • 6'0" • 250 lbs • Saint Charles, MO, USA
Balanced backfield optionSteady chain mover
Jakobi Buchanan leans balanced backfield option traits and 29.7 efficiency.
Impact Production
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Developing production for a back
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Reliability
17
Sporadic game-to-game production
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Star Power
32
Limited ceiling signals so far
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Career Arc
Value trend by season
Best season by Season Value: 2021 Postseason · Army
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Snapshot
- Career Teams
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- Unique Seasons
- 5
- Program Path
- Army
- Peak Game
- Peak game by takeover score: UL Monroe
Player Story
Jakobi Buchanan built his college career from 2019 through 2023 as a running back from Saint Charles, MO wearing No. 33, spending time with Army. The clearest part of Jakobi Buchanan's career was his backfield work:...
Read the storyJakobi Buchanan, RB. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2021 Postseason · Army. Jakobi Buchanan leans balanced backfield option traits and 29.7 efficiency.
Stat Footprint
Career production snapshot
- Scrimmage yards
- 1,567
- Rushing yards
- 1,567
- Touchdowns
- 27
Quick Answers
Jakobi Buchanan quick answers
- Latest team and position
- Army · RB
- Career Scrimmage Yards
- 1,567
- Tracked sample
- 5 unique seasons · 6 entries · 47 games
- Best season
- 2021 Postseason · Army
- Top game
- UL Monroe
- Latest roster
- No. 33 · Senior
- 2023 Scrimmage yards rank
- 169 scrimmage yards · RB 381st (top 54%) · FBS Independents 34th (top 44%) · National 1,158th (top 44%)
Season Ledger
Crawlable season-by-season stats
| Season | Team | Games | Scrimmage | Rush Yds | Rec Yds | TD | Overall |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 Regular Season | Army | 3 | 88 | 88 | 0 | 0 | 30.4 |
| 2020 Regular Season | Army | 11 | 474 | 474 | 0 | 6 | 57.6 |
| 2021 Postseason | Army | 13 | 68 | 68 | 0 | 1 | 62.2 |
| 2021 Regular Season | Army | 13 | 436 | 436 | 0 | 11 | 62.2 |
| 2022 Regular Season | Army | 10 | 332 | 332 | 0 | 6 | 54.8 |
| 2023 Regular Season | Army | 10 | 169 | 169 | 0 | 3 | 31.1 |
Related Context
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Jakobi Buchanan played RB for Army. Across 5 tracked seasons, Jakobi Buchanan recorded 1,567 rushing yards and 27 touchdowns. His top tracked season came in 2020 with Army.
Player insights
Lead takeaway
Best season by value score: 2021 Postseason
Army paired 504 primary output with 40 efficiency.
Supporting note
2023 Regular Season role shape
backfield-heavy usage with 29.7 efficiency.
Supporting note
Career value cooled off
2023 Regular Season fell back from the prior stop by season value score.
Supporting note
Peak game by takeover score: Coastal Carolina
Win with 60 yards from scrimmage and efficient touch value. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.
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2023 Regular Season · Army
Games
10
Scrimmage Yards / G
16.9
Efficiency
29.7
Usage
8.8
Consistency
35.8
Best Game by takeover score
Coastal Carolina
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Game-by-Game Trend
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Chronological game order.
Game by game trend chart. UL Monroe: 14. Delaware State: 13. UTSA: 30. Syracuse: 22. Boston College: 2. LSU: 2. Massachusetts: 8. Air Force: 9. Coastal Carolina: 60. Navy: 9
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. UL Monroe: 6 by 24.3. Delaware State: 7 by 19.3. UTSA: 8 by 39.1. Syracuse: 6 by 38.2. Boston College: 1 by 20.8. LSU: 1 by 20.8. Massachusetts: 3 by 27.8. Air Force: 3 by 31.3. Coastal Carolina: 12 by 52.1. Navy: 4 by 23.4
Split Comparison
Compare how this player performed across different situations. "Games" shows how many matchups are included in each split.
Wins24.2 · Games = 5 · +14.6 vs Losses
Losses9.6 · Games = 5 · -14.6 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
Coastal Carolina
Best efficiency game
52.1 vs Coastal Carolina
| Result | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sat 12/9 | vs Navy | W 17-11 | 4 | 9 | 2.30 | 0 | — | — | 2.3 |
| Sat 11/18 | vs Coastal Carolina | W 28-21 | 12 | 60 | 5 | 0 | — | — | 5 |
| Sat 11/4 | @ Air Force | W 23-3 | 3 | 9 | 3 | 0 | — | — | 3 |
| Sat 10/28 | vs Massachusetts | L 14-21 | 3 | 8 | 2.70 | 0 | — | — | 2.7 |
| Sat 10/21 | @ LSU | L 0-62 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | — | — | 2 |
| Sat 10/7 | vs Boston College | L 24-27 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | — | — | 2 |
| Sat 9/23 | @ Syracuse | L 16-29 | 6 | 22 | 3.70 | 1 | — | — | 3.7 |
| Fri 9/15 | @ UTSA | W 37-29 | 8 | 30 | 3.80 | 1 | — | — | 3.8 |
| Sat 9/9 | vs Delaware State | W 57-0 | 7 | 13 | 1.90 | 1 | — | — | 1.9 |
| Sat 9/2 | @ UL Monroe | L 13-17 | 6 | 14 | 2.30 | 0 | — | — | 2.3 |
Player Story
Jakobi Buchanan story
Jakobi Buchanan built his college career from 2019 through 2023 as a running back from Saint Charles, MO wearing No. 33, spending time with Army. The clearest part of Jakobi Buchanan's career was his backfield work: 1,567 rushing yards, 397 carries, and 27 rushing touchdowns across 47 career games in the available record. His largest box-score season came in 2021 with Army. 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. With 47 career games in the available record, his career has enough shape to show both opportunity and production across Army.
The arc is straightforward: Jakobi Buchanan 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
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Army
2019-2023
Opening stop
Season Value Progression
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| Season | Team | Primary | Efficiency | Usage | Delta |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 Regular Season | Army | 88 | 42.9 | 8.4 | — |
| 2020 Regular Season | Army | 474 | 40.8 | 15.6 | 386 |
| 2021 Postseason | Army | 504 | 40 | 16.5 | 30 |
| 2021 Regular Season | Army | 504 | 40 | 16.5 | 0 |
| 2022 Regular Season | Army | 332 | 42.7 | 13.5 | -172 |
| 2023 Regular Season | Army | 169 | 29.7 | 8.8 | -163 |
Signature Performances
Top Games
#1 Featured game
vs UL Monroe
Week 2 · W 37-7
Win with 106 yards from scrimmage and efficient touch value.
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Scrimmage Yards
79.3 takeover
106 scrimmage yards and 16.7 usage.
#2
vs Massachusetts
Week 12 · W 33-17 · Conference game
84
Scrimmage Yards
77 takeover
Win with 84 yards from scrimmage and efficient touch value.
84 scrimmage yards and 18 usage.
#3
@ Liberty
Week 13 · W 31-16 · Conference game
80
Scrimmage Yards
76.6 takeover
Win driven by a workhorse rushing load.
80 scrimmage yards and 33.8 usage.
#4
vs Missouri
Week 1 · W 24-22 · Postseason
68
Scrimmage Yards
71 takeover
Win driven by a workhorse rushing load.
68 scrimmage yards and 34.4 usage.
#5
vs Coastal Carolina
Week 12 · W 28-21
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Scrimmage Yards
69.2 takeover
Win with 60 yards from scrimmage and efficient touch value.
60 scrimmage yards and 19.4 usage.
Top Seasons
#1 Season by Season Value
2021 Postseason · Army
504 primary output · 40 efficiency · 16.5 usage
62.2
#2
2021 Regular Season · Army
62.2
504 primary · 40 efficiency · 16.5 usage
#3
2020 Regular Season · Army
57.6
474 primary · 40.8 efficiency · 15.6 usage
Milestones
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100+ rush yards
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150+ scrimmage yards
6
2+ TD games
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