Player Dossier

2021-2025

Liberty

Julian Gray

RB • 5'11" • 195 lbs • Charlotte, NC, USA

Balanced backfield optionSteady chain mover

Julian Gray leans balanced backfield option traits and 62.1 efficiency.

Usage / Role

12%

Rotational offensive role

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Impact Production

37

Developing production for a back

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Reliability

43

Sporadic game-to-game production

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Star Power

49

Limited ceiling signals so far

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Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by Season Value: 2025 Regular Season · Liberty

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Snapshot

Career Teams
2
Unique Seasons
5
Program Path
NC State • Liberty
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: Jacksonville State

Player Story

Julian Gray built his college career from 2021 through 2025 as a running back from Charlotte, NC wearing No. 1, spending time with Liberty and NC State. The clearest part of Julian Gray's career was his receiving...

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Recruit Profile

Class 2021 · Rating 0.8741

Hopewell · Huntersville, NC

Committed To
NC State
Commit Date
Jan 1, 2021

Julian Gray, RB. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2025 Regular Season · Liberty. Julian Gray leans balanced backfield option traits and 62.1 efficiency.

Stat Footprint

Career production snapshot

Scrimmage yards
832
Rushing yards
224
Receiving yards
608
Touchdowns
10

Quick Answers

Julian Gray quick answers

Latest team and position
Liberty · RB
Career Scrimmage Yards
832
Tracked sample
5 unique seasons · 8 entries · 40 games
Best season
2025 Regular Season · Liberty
Top game
Jacksonville State
Recruit profile
3-star · Hopewell · NC State
High school pipeline
Madison County · 13 FBS recruits · 0 drafted players
Latest roster
No. 1 · Senior
2025 Scrimmage yards rank
320 scrimmage yards · RB 294th (top 40%) · Conference USA 63rd (top 26%) · National 764th (top 28%)

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesScrimmageRush YdsRec YdsTDOverall
2021 Regular SeasonNC State218018041.9
2022 PostseasonNC State1121021040.7
2022 Regular SeasonNC State111345084040.7
2023 PostseasonNC State11707037.8
2023 Regular SeasonNC State1117310163337.8
2024 PostseasonLiberty8-4-40031.1
2024 Regular SeasonLiberty81636697331.1
2025 Regular SeasonLiberty8320102218459.7

Related Context

Julian Gray played RB for NC State and Liberty. Across 5 tracked seasons, Julian Gray recorded 224 rushing yards, 608 receiving yards, and 10 touchdowns. His top tracked season came in 2025 with Liberty.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2025 Regular Season

Liberty paired 320 primary output with 62.1 efficiency.

Supporting note

2025 Regular Season role shape

backfield-heavy usage with 62.1 efficiency.

Supporting note

Career value is trending up

2025 Regular Season improved on the prior stop by season value score.

Supporting note

Multi-stop career journey

Production spans 2 team stops, with role shifts visible across NC State, Liberty.

Supporting note

Peak game by takeover score: Jacksonville State

Loss with 91 yards from scrimmage and efficient touch value. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.

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2025 Regular Season · Liberty

Games

8

Scrimmage Yards / G

40

Efficiency

62.1

Usage

8.2

Consistency

53.5

Best Game by takeover score

Jacksonville State

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Game-by-Game Trend

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Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. Maine: 53. Jacksonville State: 91. Bowling Green: 9. James Madison: 13. Old Dominion: 16. UTEP: 63. New Mexico State: 67. Delaware: 8

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. Maine: 9 by 65.2. Jacksonville State: 4 by 100. Bowling Green: 3 by 37.5. James Madison: 4 by 35.4. Old Dominion: 4 by 29.2. UTEP: 3 by 100. New Mexico State: 6 by 96.5. Delaware: 2 by 33.3

Split Comparison

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

Wins47.8 · Games = 4 · +15.5 vs Losses
Losses32.3 · Games = 4 · -15.5 vs Wins

Game Log

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

8 games

Featured metric

Scrimmage Yards

Top game by takeover score

Jacksonville State

Best efficiency game

100 vs UTEP

Result
Sat 11/1vs DelawareW 59-30284
Tue 10/14vs New Mexico StateW 30-273268.70034111.2
Thu 10/9@ UTEPW 19-836321
Sat 9/27@ Old DominionL 7-2124212124
Sat 9/20vs James MadisonL 13-31273.500263.3
Sat 9/13@ Bowling GreenL 13-232840113
Sat 9/6@ Jacksonville StateL 24-342189027322.8
Sat 8/30vs MaineW 28-76396.5003145.9

Player Story

Julian Gray story

Julian Gray built his college career from 2021 through 2025 as a running back from Charlotte, NC wearing No. 1, spending time with Liberty and NC State. The clearest part of Julian Gray's career was his receiving role: 55 catches, 608 receiving yards, 4 touchdowns, and 224 rushing yards across 40 career games in the available record. His career also includes 224 rushing yards and 1,503 return yards, giving the story more than a single-category snapshot. That gives Julian Gray'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

    NC State

    2021-2023

    Opening stop

  2. 2

    Liberty

    2024-2025

    Final stop

Season Value Progression

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SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2021 Regular SeasonNC State1858.32.6
2022 PostseasonNC State15575.62.7137
2022 Regular SeasonNC State15575.62.70
2023 PostseasonNC State18053.13.225
2023 Regular SeasonNC State18053.13.20
2024 PostseasonLiberty159473.8-21
2024 Regular SeasonLiberty159473.80
2025 Regular SeasonLiberty32062.18.2161

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

@ No. 92 Jacksonville State

Week 2 · L 24-34 · Conference game

Loss with 91 yards from scrimmage and efficient touch value.

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Scrimmage Yards

73.4 takeover

91 scrimmage yards and 7.1 usage.

#2

@ Middle Tennessee

Week 11 · W 37-17 · Conference game

86

Scrimmage Yards

72.9 takeover

Win with 86 yards from scrimmage and efficient touch value.

86 scrimmage yards and 6.5 usage.

#3

@ Louisville

Week 12 · L 10-25 · Conference game

47

Scrimmage Yards

70.4 takeover

Loss with 47 yards from scrimmage and efficient touch value.

47 scrimmage yards and 6.1 usage.

#4

vs VMI

Week 3 · W 45-7

87

Scrimmage Yards

68.6 takeover

Win with 87 yards from scrimmage and efficient touch value.

87 scrimmage yards and 4.2 usage.

#5

vs No. 123 New Mexico State

Week 8 · W 30-27 · Conference game

67

Scrimmage Yards

68.1 takeover

Win with 67 yards from scrimmage and efficient touch value.

67 scrimmage yards and 12 usage.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2025 Regular Season · Liberty

320 primary output · 62.1 efficiency · 8.2 usage

59.7

#2

2021 Regular Season · NC State

41.9

18 primary · 58.3 efficiency · 2.6 usage

#3

2022 Postseason · NC State

40.7

155 primary · 75.6 efficiency · 2.7 usage

Milestones

0

100+ rush yards

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150+ scrimmage yards

1

2+ TD games