Usage / Role
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Regular offensive contributor
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Player Dossier
2020-2024Michigan State
Nathan Carter
RB • 5'10" • 202 lbs • Irondequoit, NY, USA
Balanced backfield optionSteady chain mover
Nathan Carter leans balanced backfield option traits and 45.6 efficiency.
Impact Production
43
Developing production for a back
lowelite
Reliability
36
Sporadic game-to-game production
lowhigh
Star Power
57
Useful peak profile
limitedstar
Career Arc
Value trend by season
Best season by Season Value: 2023 Regular Season · Michigan State
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Snapshot
- Career Teams
- 2
- Unique Seasons
- 5
- Program Path
- UConn • Michigan State
- Peak Game
- Peak game by takeover score: Utah State
Player Story
Nathan Carter built his college career from 2020 through 2024 as a running back from Irondequoit, NY wearing No. 5, spending time with Michigan State and UConn. The clearest part of Nathan Carter's career was his...
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- Committed To
- UConn
- Commit Date
- Jan 1, 2020
Nathan Carter, RB. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2023 Regular Season · Michigan State. Nathan Carter leans balanced backfield option traits and 45.6 efficiency.
Stat Footprint
Career production snapshot
- Scrimmage yards
- 2,716
- Rushing yards
- 2,274
- Receiving yards
- 442
- Touchdowns
- 14
Quick Answers
Nathan Carter quick answers
- Latest team and position
- Michigan State · RB
- Career Scrimmage Yards
- 2,716
- Tracked sample
- 5 unique seasons · 5 entries · 40 games
- Best season
- 2023 Regular Season · Michigan State
- Top game
- Utah State
- Recruit profile
- 2-star · Bishop Kearney · UConn
- High school pipeline
- Bishop Kearney · 3 FBS recruits · 0 drafted players
- Latest roster
- No. 5 · Junior
- 2024 Scrimmage yards rank
- 672 scrimmage yards · RB 145th (top 21%) · Big Ten 42nd (top 13%) · National 301st (top 12%)
Season Ledger
Crawlable season-by-season stats
| Season | Team | Games | Scrimmage | Rush Yds | Rec Yds | TD | Overall |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 Regular Season | UConn | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | - |
| 2021 Regular Season | UConn | 12 | 705 | 578 | 127 | 2 | 59.1 |
| 2022 Regular Season | UConn | 4 | 444 | 405 | 39 | 1 | 66.8 |
| 2023 Regular Season | Michigan State | 12 | 895 | 792 | 103 | 4 | 75.4 |
| 2024 Regular Season | Michigan State | 12 | 672 | 499 | 173 | 7 | 61 |
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Transfer Portal History
Matched portal movement
| Season | Path | Movement | Value | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | UConn to Michigan State | G5/FCS to P4 | 78.9 | Dec 17, 2022 |
Nathan Carter played RB for UConn and Michigan State. Across 5 tracked seasons, Nathan Carter recorded 2,274 rushing yards, 442 receiving yards, and 3 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2023 with Michigan State.
Player insights
Lead takeaway
Best season by value score: 2023 Regular Season
Michigan State paired 895 primary output with 44.2 efficiency.
Supporting note
2021 Regular Season role shape
backfield-heavy usage with 46.9 efficiency.
Supporting note
Career value cooled off
2024 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 UConn, Michigan State.
Supporting note
Peak game by takeover score: Massachusetts
Loss driven by a workhorse rushing load. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.
Analysis workspace
Season Workbench
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Season Explorer
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2021 Regular Season · UConn
Games
12
Scrimmage Yards / G
58.8
Efficiency
46.9
Usage
24
Consistency
42
Best Game by takeover score
Massachusetts
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Game-by-Game Trend
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Chronological game order.
Game by game trend chart. Holy Cross: 27. Fresno State: 10. Purdue: 29. Army: 39. Wyoming: 79. Vanderbilt: 128. Massachusetts: 139. Yale: 61. Middle Tennessee: 33. Clemson: 19. UCF: 124. Houston: 17
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. Holy Cross: 6 by 46.3. Fresno State: 8 by 13. Purdue: 10 by 31.5. Army: 5 by 65.8. Wyoming: 11 by 70.5. Vanderbilt: 25 by 53.4. Massachusetts: 21 by 70.1. Yale: 21 by 26.4. Middle Tennessee: 11 by 35.9. Clemson: 5 by 39.6. UCF: 15 by 71.5. Houston: 6 by 38.9
Split Comparison
Compare how this player performed across different situations. "Games" shows how many matchups are included in each split.
Wins61 · Games = 1 · +2.5 vs Losses
Losses58.5 · Games = 11 · -2.5 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
Massachusetts
Best efficiency game
71.5 vs UCF
| Result | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sat 11/27 | vs Houston | L 17-45 | 3 | 13 | 4.30 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 2.8 |
| Sat 11/20 | @ UCF | L 17-49 | 13 | 77 | 5.90 | 1 | 2 | 47 | 8.3 |
| Sat 11/13 | @ Clemson | L 7-44 | 5 | 19 | 3.80 | 0 | — | — | 3.8 |
| Fri 10/22 | vs Middle Tennessee | L 13-44 | 8 | 30 | 3.80 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 3 |
| Sat 10/16 | vs Yale | W 21-15 | 17 | 39 | 2.30 | 0 | 4 | 22 | 2.9 |
| Sat 10/9 | @ Massachusetts100 rush yards | L 13-27 | 20 | 136 | 6.80 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 6.6 |
| Sat 10/2 | @ Vanderbilt100 rush yards | L 28-30 | 24 | 123 | 5.10 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 5.1 |
| Sat 9/25 | vs Wyoming | L 22-24 | 10 | 65 | 6.50 | 1 | 1 | 14 | 7.2 |
| Sat 9/18 | @ Army | L 21-52 | 3 | 16 | 5.30 | 0 | 2 | 23 | 7.8 |
| Sat 9/11 | vs Purdue | L 0-49 | 9 | 28 | 3.10 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2.9 |
| Sat 9/4 | vs Holy Cross | L 28-38 | 5 | 22 | 4.40 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 4.5 |
| Sat 8/28 | @ Fresno State | L 0-45 | 8 | 10 | 1.30 | 0 | — | — | 1.3 |
Player Story
Nathan Carter story
Nathan Carter built his college career from 2020 through 2024 as a running back from Irondequoit, NY wearing No. 5, spending time with Michigan State and UConn. The clearest part of Nathan Carter's career was his backfield work: 2,274 rushing yards, 492 carries, 12 rushing touchdowns, and 442 receiving yards across 40 career games in the available record. His largest box-score season came in 2023 with Michigan State. 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 442 receiving yards and 3 tackles, giving the story more than a single-category snapshot. With 40 career games in the available record, his career has enough shape to show both opportunity and production across Michigan State and UConn.
The arc is straightforward: Nathan Carter 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
UConn
2020-2022
Opening stop
- 2
Michigan State
2023-2024
Final stop
Season Value Progression
20202021202220232024
| Season | Team | Primary | Efficiency | Usage | Delta |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 Regular Season | UConn | 0 | — | — | — |
| 2021 Regular Season | UConn | 705 | 46.9 | 24 | 705 |
| 2022 Regular Season | UConn | 444 | 58 | 34 | -261 |
| 2023 Regular Season | Michigan State | 895 | 44.2 | 35.2 | 451 |
| 2024 Regular Season | Michigan State | 672 | 45.6 | 22.4 | -223 |
Signature Performances
Top Games
#1 Featured game
@ Utah State
Week 1 · L 20-31
Loss driven by a workhorse rushing load.
200
Scrimmage Yards
96.6 takeover
200 scrimmage yards and 40.4 usage.
#2
@ Michigan
Week 9 · L 17-24 · Conference game
174
Scrimmage Yards
91.1 takeover
Loss with 174 yards from scrimmage and efficient touch value.
174 scrimmage yards and 35.6 usage.
#3
@ Massachusetts
Week 6 · L 13-27 · Conference game
139
Scrimmage Yards
90 takeover
Loss driven by a workhorse rushing load.
139 scrimmage yards and 47.7 usage.
#4
vs Central Michigan
Week 1 · W 31-7
134
Scrimmage Yards
89.5 takeover
Win with 134 yards from scrimmage and efficient touch value.
134 scrimmage yards and 38.8 usage.
#5
vs Richmond
Week 2 · W 45-14
125
Scrimmage Yards
84.9 takeover
Win with 125 yards from scrimmage and efficient touch value.
125 scrimmage yards and 36.8 usage.
Top Seasons
#1 Season by Season Value
2023 Regular Season · Michigan State
895 primary output · 44.2 efficiency · 35.2 usage
75.4
#2
2022 Regular Season · UConn
66.8
444 primary · 58 efficiency · 34 usage
#3
2024 Regular Season · Michigan State
61
672 primary · 45.6 efficiency · 22.4 usage
Milestones
8
100+ rush yards
2
150+ scrimmage yards
2
2+ TD games
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