Player Dossier

2021-2025

Ole Miss

Damien Taylor

RB • 5'10" • 220 lbs • Northport, AL, USA

Balanced backfield optionSteady chain mover

Damien Taylor leans balanced backfield option traits and 50.2 efficiency.

Usage / Role

6%

Rotational offensive role

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Impact Production

14

Developing production for a back

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Reliability

15

Sporadic game-to-game production

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Star Power

19

Limited ceiling signals so far

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Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by Season Value: 2024 Regular Season · Troy

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Snapshot

Career Teams
2
Unique Seasons
5
Program Path
Troy • Ole Miss
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: Coastal Carolina

Player Story

Damien Taylor built his college career from 2021 through 2025 as a running back from Northport, AL wearing No. 12, spending time with Ole Miss and Troy. The clearest part of Damien Taylor's career was his backfield...

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Damien Taylor, RB. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2024 Regular Season · Troy. Damien Taylor leans balanced backfield option traits and 50.2 efficiency.

Stat Footprint

Career production snapshot

Scrimmage yards
1,541
Rushing yards
1,516
Receiving yards
25
Touchdowns
13

Quick Answers

Damien Taylor quick answers

Latest team and position
Ole Miss · RB
Career Scrimmage Yards
1,541
Tracked sample
5 unique seasons · 7 entries · 33 games
Best season
2024 Regular Season · Troy
Top game
Coastal Carolina
High school pipeline
Tuscaloosa County · 8 FBS recruits · 0 drafted players
Latest roster
No. 12 · Senior
2025 Scrimmage yards rank
127 scrimmage yards · RB 435th (top 60%) · SEC 163rd (top 47%) · National 1,309th (top 48%)

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesScrimmageRush YdsRec YdsTDOverall
2021 Regular SeasonTroy00000-
2022 Regular SeasonTroy330300131.5
2023 PostseasonTroy12330038.6
2023 Regular SeasonTroy123523439238.6
2024 Regular SeasonTroy121,0291,01019874.3
2025 PostseasonOle Miss625250038.9
2025 Regular SeasonOle Miss6102105-3238.9

Related Context

Transfer Portal History

Matched portal movement

SeasonPathMovementValueDate
2025Troy to Ole MissG5/FCS to P478.9Apr 20, 2025

Damien Taylor played RB for Troy and Ole Miss. Across 5 tracked seasons, Damien Taylor recorded 1,516 rushing yards, 25 receiving yards, and 4 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2024 with Troy.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2024 Regular Season

Troy paired 1,029 primary output with 56.9 efficiency.

Supporting note

2025 Postseason role shape

backfield-heavy usage with 50.2 efficiency.

Supporting note

Career value stayed steady

2025 Regular Season tracked close to the prior stop by season value score.

Supporting note

Multi-stop career journey

Production spans 2 team stops, with role shifts visible across Troy, Ole Miss.

Supporting note

Peak game by takeover score: The Citadel

Win with 39 yards from scrimmage and efficient touch value. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.

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Season Workbench

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2025 Postseason · Ole Miss

Games

6

Scrimmage Yards / G

21.2

Efficiency

50.2

Usage

7.5

Consistency

71.9

Best Game by takeover score

The Citadel

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Game-by-Game Trend

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Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. Tulane: 25. Georgia State: 23. Kentucky: 10. Arkansas: 6. Tulane: 24. The Citadel: 39

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. Tulane: 4 by 65.1. Georgia State: 6 by 39.9. Kentucky: 4 by 26. Arkansas: 5 by 19.1. Tulane: 2 by 100. The Citadel: 8 by 50.8

Split Comparison

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

First Half19.3 · Games = 3 · -3.7 vs Second Half
Second Half23 · Games = 3 · +3.7 vs First Half

Game Log

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

6 games

Featured metric

Scrimmage Yards

Top game by takeover score

The Citadel

Best efficiency game

100 vs Tulane

Result
Sat 12/20vs TulaneW 41-104256.3006.3
Sat 11/8vs The CitadelW 49-08394.9014.9
Sat 9/20vs TulaneW 45-1022412012
Sat 9/13vs ArkansasW 41-35492.3001-31.2
Sat 9/6@ KentuckyW 30-234102.5012.5
Sat 8/30vs Georgia StateW 63-76233.8003.8

Player Story

Damien Taylor story

Damien Taylor built his college career from 2021 through 2025 as a running back from Northport, AL wearing No. 12, spending time with Ole Miss and Troy. The clearest part of Damien Taylor's career was his backfield work: 1,516 rushing yards, 276 carries, 11 rushing touchdowns, and 25 receiving yards across 33 career games in the available record. His career also includes 25 receiving yards, 4 tackles, and 12 return yards, giving the story more than a single-category snapshot. That gives Damien Taylor'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

    Troy

    2021-2024

    Opening stop

  2. 2

    Ole Miss

    2025

    Final stop

Season Value Progression

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SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2021 Regular SeasonTroy0
2022 Regular SeasonTroy3037.44.830
2023 PostseasonTroy35546.110.4325
2023 Regular SeasonTroy35546.110.40
2024 Regular SeasonTroy1,02956.926.5674
2025 PostseasonOle Miss12750.27.5-902
2025 Regular SeasonOle Miss12750.27.50

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

vs Coastal Carolina

Week 10 · W 38-24 · Conference game

Win driven by a workhorse rushing load.

190

Scrimmage Yards

90.2 takeover

190 scrimmage yards and 44.4 usage.

#2

vs Southern Miss

Week 14 · W 52-20 · Conference game

169

Scrimmage Yards

88.5 takeover

Win driven by a workhorse rushing load.

169 scrimmage yards and 41.1 usage.

#3

@ Army

Week 7 · W 19-0

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Scrimmage Yards

80.8 takeover

Win with 82 yards from scrimmage and efficient touch value.

82 scrimmage yards and 20.4 usage.

#4

vs Florida A&M

Week 4 · W 34-12

116

Scrimmage Yards

75.5 takeover

Win with 116 yards from scrimmage and efficient touch value.

116 scrimmage yards and 31.4 usage.

#5

@ Georgia State

Week 5 · W 28-7 · Conference game

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Scrimmage Yards

72.1 takeover

Win with 73 yards from scrimmage and efficient touch value.

73 scrimmage yards and 17.2 usage.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2024 Regular Season · Troy

1,029 primary output · 56.9 efficiency · 26.5 usage

74.3

#2

2025 Postseason · Ole Miss

38.9

127 primary · 50.2 efficiency · 7.5 usage

#3

2025 Regular Season · Ole Miss

38.9

127 primary · 50.2 efficiency · 7.5 usage

Milestones

4

100+ rush yards

2

150+ scrimmage yards

2

2+ TD games