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Rotational offensive role
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Player Dossier
2022-2025San José State
Jabari Bates
RB • 5'7" • 179 lbs • Compton, CA, USA
Balanced backfield optionSteady chain mover
Jabari Bates leans balanced backfield option traits and 60.1 efficiency.
Impact Production
61
Solid production for a back
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Reliability
53
Useful contributor with volatile peaks
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Star Power
58
Useful peak profile
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Career Arc
Value trend by season
Best season by Season Value: 2025 Regular Season · San José State
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Snapshot
- Career Teams
- 1
- Unique Seasons
- 4
- Program Path
- San José State
- Peak Game
- Peak game by takeover score: Idaho
Player Story
Jabari Bates built his college career from 2022 through 2025 as a running back from Compton, CA wearing No. 6, spending time with San José State. The clearest part of Jabari Bates' career was his backfield work: 479...
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- Committed To
- San José State
- Commit Date
- Jan 1, 2022
Jabari Bates, RB. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2025 Regular Season · San José State. Jabari Bates leans balanced backfield option traits and 60.1 efficiency.
Stat Footprint
Career production snapshot
- Scrimmage yards
- 540
- Rushing yards
- 479
- Receiving yards
- 61
- Touchdowns
- 4
Quick Answers
Jabari Bates quick answers
- Latest team and position
- San José State · RB
- Career Scrimmage Yards
- 540
- Tracked sample
- 4 unique seasons · 6 entries · 28 games
- Best season
- 2025 Regular Season · San José State
- Top game
- Idaho
- Recruit profile
- 3-star · St. John Bosco · San José State
- High school pipeline
- St. John Bosco · 1 FBS recruit · 0 drafted players
- Latest roster
- No. 6 · Junior
- 2025 Scrimmage yards rank
- 204 scrimmage yards · RB 371st (top 51%) · Mountain West 94th (top 41%) · National 1,037th (top 38%)
Season Ledger
Crawlable season-by-season stats
| Season | Team | Games | Scrimmage | Rush Yds | Rec Yds | TD | Overall |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 Regular Season | San José State | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | - |
| 2023 Postseason | San José State | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 33.2 |
| 2023 Regular Season | San José State | 11 | 65 | 33 | 32 | 0 | 33.2 |
| 2024 Postseason | San José State | 13 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 53 |
| 2024 Regular Season | San José State | 13 | 266 | 249 | 17 | 2 | 53 |
| 2025 Regular Season | San José State | 4 | 204 | 192 | 12 | 2 | 55.5 |
Related Context
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Jabari Bates played RB for San José State. Across 4 tracked seasons, Jabari Bates recorded 479 rushing yards, 61 receiving yards, and 2 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2024 with San José State.
Player insights
Lead takeaway
Best season by value score: 2025 Regular Season
San José State paired 204 primary output with 60.1 efficiency.
Supporting note
2025 Regular Season role shape
backfield-heavy usage with 60.1 efficiency.
Supporting note
Career value stayed steady
2025 Regular Season tracked close to the prior stop by season value score.
Supporting note
Peak game by takeover score: Idaho
Win with 131 yards from scrimmage and efficient touch value. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.
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2025 Regular Season · San José State
Games
4
Scrimmage Yards / G
51
Efficiency
60.1
Usage
15.6
Consistency
41.9
Best Game by takeover score
Idaho
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Game-by-Game Trend
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Chronological game order.
Game by game trend chart. Central Michigan: 0. Texas: 44. Idaho: 131. Stanford: 29
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. Texas: 10 by 45.8. Idaho: 11 by 99.6. Stanford: 7 by 35
Split Comparison
Compare how this player performed across different situations. "Games" shows how many matchups are included in each split.
Wins131 · Games = 1 · +106.7 vs Losses
Losses24.3 · Games = 3 · -106.7 vs Wins
Game Log
Dense stat lines with inline explanations and season-linked highlights.
4 games
Featured metric
Scrimmage Yards
Top game by takeover score
Idaho
Best efficiency game
99.6 vs Idaho
Player Story
Jabari Bates story
Jabari Bates built his college career from 2022 through 2025 as a running back from Compton, CA wearing No. 6, spending time with San José State. The clearest part of Jabari Bates' career was his backfield work: 479 rushing yards, 98 carries, 3 rushing touchdowns, and 61 receiving yards across 28 career games in the available record. His career also includes 61 receiving yards, 2 tackles, and 596 return yards, giving the story more than a single-category snapshot. That gives Jabari Bates' career enough real context without stretching the story beyond the available production.
Career Arc
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San José State
2022-2025
Opening stop
Season Value Progression
202220232023202420242025
| Season | Team | Primary | Efficiency | Usage | Delta |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 Regular Season | San José State | 0 | — | — | — |
| 2023 Postseason | San José State | 65 | 37.1 | 3.8 | 65 |
| 2023 Regular Season | San José State | 65 | 37.1 | 3.8 | 0 |
| 2024 Postseason | San José State | 271 | 43.4 | 10 | 206 |
| 2024 Regular Season | San José State | 271 | 43.4 | 10 | 0 |
| 2025 Regular Season | San José State | 204 | 60.1 | 15.6 | -67 |
Signature Performances
Top Games
#1 Featured game
vs Idaho
Week 4 · W 31-28
Win with 131 yards from scrimmage and efficient touch value.
131
Scrimmage Yards
93.4 takeover
131 scrimmage yards and 28.2 usage.
#2
vs Kennesaw State
Week 3 · W 31-10
61
Scrimmage Yards
73.2 takeover
Win with 61 yards from scrimmage and efficient touch value.
61 scrimmage yards and 21.6 usage.
#3
vs Nevada
Week 6 · W 35-31 · Conference game
58
Scrimmage Yards
69.5 takeover
Win with 58 yards from scrimmage and efficient touch value.
58 scrimmage yards and 16 usage.
#4
vs Air Force
Week 4 · L 20-45 · Conference game
13
Scrimmage Yards
60.9 takeover
Loss with 13 yards from scrimmage and efficient touch value.
13 scrimmage yards and 7.3 usage.
#5
vs Wyoming
Week 8 · W 24-14 · Conference game
36
Scrimmage Yards
59.2 takeover
Win with 36 yards from scrimmage and efficient touch value.
36 scrimmage yards and 6.5 usage.
Top Seasons
#1 Season by Season Value
2025 Regular Season · San José State
204 primary output · 60.1 efficiency · 15.6 usage
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#2
2024 Postseason · San José State
53
271 primary · 43.4 efficiency · 10 usage
#3
2024 Regular Season · San José State
53
271 primary · 43.4 efficiency · 10 usage
Milestones
1
100+ rush yards
0
150+ scrimmage yards
0
2+ TD games
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