Player Dossier

2021-2024

Nebraska

Gabe Ervin Jr.

RB • 6'1" • 220 lbs • Buford, GA, USA

Balanced backfield optionSteady chain mover

Gabe Ervin Jr. leans balanced backfield option traits and 27.8 efficiency.

Usage / Role

5%

Rotational offensive role

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Impact Production

15

Developing production for a back

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Reliability

14

Sporadic game-to-game production

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Star Power

35

Limited ceiling signals so far

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Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by Season Value: 2023 Regular Season · Nebraska

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Snapshot

Career Teams
1
Unique Seasons
4
Program Path
Nebraska
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: Northern Illinois

Player Story

Gabe Ervin Jr. built his college career from 2021 through 2024 as a running back from Buford, GA wearing No. 22, spending time with Nebraska. The clearest part of Gabe Ervin Jr.'s career was his backfield work: 455...

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Recruit Profile

Class 2026 · Rating 0.8556

Don Bosco Prep · Ramsey, NJ

Committed To
West Virginia
Commit Date
Jan 1, 2026

Gabe Ervin Jr., RB. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2023 Regular Season · Nebraska. Gabe Ervin Jr. leans balanced backfield option traits and 27.8 efficiency.

Stat Footprint

Career production snapshot

Scrimmage yards
489
Rushing yards
455
Receiving yards
34
Touchdowns
5

Quick Answers

Gabe Ervin Jr. quick answers

Latest team and position
Nebraska · RB
Career Scrimmage Yards
489
Tracked sample
4 unique seasons · 4 entries · 20 games
Best season
2023 Regular Season · Nebraska
Top game
Northern Illinois
Recruit profile
3-star · Don Bosco Prep · West Virginia
High school pipeline
Don Bosco Prep · 47 FBS recruits · 5 drafted players
Latest roster
No. 22 · Junior
2024 Scrimmage yards rank
41 scrimmage yards · RB 563rd (top 79%) · Big Ten 228th (top 67%) · National 1,872nd (top 71%)

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesScrimmageRush YdsRec YdsTDOverall
2021 Regular SeasonNebraska41301246249.7
2022 Regular SeasonNebraska7102948029.7
2023 Regular SeasonNebraska321619620178.5
2024 Regular SeasonNebraska641410221.6

Related Context

Transfer Portal History

Matched portal movement

SeasonPathMovementValueDate
2025Nebraska to Kansas StateP4 to P476.8Jan 3, 2025

Gabe Ervin Jr. played RB for Nebraska. Across 4 tracked seasons, Gabe Ervin Jr. recorded 455 rushing yards, 34 receiving yards, and 5 touchdowns. His top tracked season came in 2023 with Nebraska.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2023 Regular Season

Nebraska paired 216 primary output with 59.9 efficiency.

Supporting note

2024 Regular Season role shape

backfield-heavy usage with 27.8 efficiency.

Supporting note

Career value cooled off

2024 Regular Season fell back from the prior stop by season value score.

Supporting note

Peak game by takeover score: UTEP

Win with 24 yards from scrimmage and efficient touch value. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.

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2024 Regular Season · Nebraska

Games

6

Scrimmage Yards / G

6.8

Efficiency

27.8

Usage

4.1

Consistency

28.2

Best Game by takeover score

UTEP

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Game-by-Game Trend

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Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. UTEP: 24. Colorado: 6. Northern Iowa: 3. Purdue: 4. Indiana: 2. Wisconsin: 2

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. UTEP: 6 by 41.7. Colorado: 2 by 31.3. Northern Iowa: 3 by 10.4. Purdue: 1 by 41.7. Indiana: 1 by 20.8. Wisconsin: 1 by 20.8

Split Comparison

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

Wins7.8 · Games = 5 · +5.8 vs Losses
Losses2 · Games = 1 · -5.8 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

UTEP

Best efficiency game

41.7 vs Purdue

Result
Sat 11/23vs WisconsinW 44-2512202
Sat 10/19@ IndianaL 7-5612202
Sat 9/28@ PurdueW 28-1014404
Sat 9/14vs Northern IowaW 34-333101
Sat 9/7vs ColoradoW 28-1026303
Sat 8/31vs UTEP2+ TDW 40-7624424

Player Story

Gabe Ervin Jr. story

Gabe Ervin Jr. built his college career from 2021 through 2024 as a running back from Buford, GA wearing No. 22, spending time with Nebraska. The clearest part of Gabe Ervin Jr.'s career was his backfield work: 455 rushing yards, 109 carries, 5 rushing touchdowns, and 34 receiving yards across 20 career games in the available record. His career also includes 34 receiving yards, giving the story more than a single-category snapshot. That gives Gabe Ervin Jr.'s 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

    Nebraska

    2021-2024

    Opening stop

Season Value Progression

2021202220232024
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2021 Regular SeasonNebraska13033.916.6
2022 Regular SeasonNebraska10233.75.1-28
2023 Regular SeasonNebraska21659.925114
2024 Regular SeasonNebraska4127.84.1-175

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

vs Northern Illinois

Week 3 · W 35-11

Win with 87 yards from scrimmage and efficient touch value.

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Scrimmage Yards

77.2 takeover

87 scrimmage yards and 27.6 usage.

#2

@ Colorado

Week 2 · L 14-36

74

Scrimmage Yards

74.6 takeover

Loss with 74 yards from scrimmage and efficient touch value.

74 scrimmage yards and 32.7 usage.

#3

vs Buffalo

Week 2 · W 28-3

62

Scrimmage Yards

72.9 takeover

Win with 62 yards from scrimmage and efficient touch value.

62 scrimmage yards and 21.8 usage.

#4

vs Oklahoma

Week 3 · L 14-49

60

Scrimmage Yards

72 takeover

Loss with 60 yards from scrimmage and efficient touch value.

60 scrimmage yards and 10.6 usage.

#5

@ Minnesota

Week 1 · L 10-13 · Conference game

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Scrimmage Yards

62.2 takeover

Loss with 55 yards from scrimmage and efficient touch value.

55 scrimmage yards and 14.6 usage.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2023 Regular Season · Nebraska

216 primary output · 59.9 efficiency · 25 usage

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#2

2021 Regular Season · Nebraska

49.7

130 primary · 33.9 efficiency · 16.6 usage

#3

2022 Regular Season · Nebraska

29.7

102 primary · 33.7 efficiency · 5.1 usage

Milestones

0

100+ rush yards

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150+ scrimmage yards

2

2+ TD games