Player Dossier

2020-2024

Virginia

Kobe Pace

RB • 5'10" • 215 lbs • Cedartown, GA, USA

Balanced backfield optionSteady chain mover

Kobe Pace leans balanced backfield option traits and 47.2 efficiency.

Usage / Role

47%

Rotational offensive role

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Impact Production

49

Developing production for a back

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Reliability

46

Useful contributor with volatile peaks

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Star Power

63

Useful peak profile

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Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by Season Value: 2021 Postseason · Clemson

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Snapshot

Career Teams
2
Unique Seasons
5
Program Path
Clemson • Virginia
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: Wake Forest

Player Story

Kobe Pace built his college career from 2020 through 2024 as a running back from Cedartown, GA wearing No. 5, spending time with Clemson and Virginia. The clearest part of Kobe Pace's career was his backfield work:...

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Recruit Profile

Class 2020 · Rating 0.8867

Cedartown · Cedartown, GA

Committed To
Clemson
Commit Date
Jan 1, 2020

Kobe Pace, RB. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2021 Postseason · Clemson. Kobe Pace leans balanced backfield option traits and 47.2 efficiency.

Stat Footprint

Career production snapshot

Scrimmage yards
2,231
Rushing yards
1,674
Receiving yards
557
Touchdowns
17

Quick Answers

Kobe Pace quick answers

Latest team and position
Virginia · RB
Career Scrimmage Yards
2,231
Tracked sample
5 unique seasons · 6 entries · 48 games
Best season
2021 Postseason · Clemson
Top game
Wake Forest
Recruit profile
3-star · Cedartown · Clemson
High school pipeline
Cedartown · 8 FBS recruits · 1 drafted player
Latest roster
No. 5 · Senior
2024 Scrimmage yards rank
688 scrimmage yards · RB 137th (top 20%) · ACC 35th (top 10%) · National 284th (top 11%)

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesScrimmageRush YdsRec YdsTDOverall
2020 Regular SeasonClemson61017526130.3
2021 PostseasonClemson11895138067.1
2021 Regular SeasonClemson1168359093667.1
2022 Regular SeasonClemson81127735326.2
2023 Regular SeasonVirginia12558382176459
2024 Regular SeasonVirginia11688499189365.5

Related Context

Transfer Portal History

Matched portal movement

SeasonPathMovementValueDate
2023Clemson to VirginiaP4 to P479.6Dec 7, 2022

Kobe Pace played RB for Clemson and Virginia. Across 5 tracked seasons, Kobe Pace recorded 1,674 rushing yards, 557 receiving yards, and 1 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2024 with Virginia.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2021 Postseason

Clemson paired 772 primary output with 58.1 efficiency.

Supporting note

2024 Regular Season role shape

backfield-heavy usage with 47.2 efficiency.

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Career value is trending up

2024 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 Clemson, Virginia.

Supporting note

Peak game by takeover score: Richmond

Win with 144 yards from scrimmage and efficient touch value. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.

Analysis workspace

Season Workbench

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Season Explorer

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2024 Regular Season · Virginia

Games

11

Scrimmage Yards / G

62.5

Efficiency

47.2

Usage

21.6

Consistency

64.1

Best Game by takeover score

Richmond

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Game-by-Game Trend

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Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. Richmond: 144. Wake Forest: 22. Maryland: 59. Coastal Carolina: 70. Boston College: 112. Louisville: 47. Clemson: 60. North Carolina: 38. Pittsburgh: 74. Notre Dame: 31. SMU: 31

Volume vs Efficiency

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Volume on the x-axis, quality on the y-axis.

Volume versus efficiency scatter chart. Richmond: 13 by 96.2. Wake Forest: 9 by 27.7. Maryland: 14 by 43.7. Coastal Carolina: 16 by 42. Boston College: 20 by 50.6. Louisville: 12 by 40.1. Clemson: 11 by 44.6. North Carolina: 9 by 39. Pittsburgh: 16 by 46.4. Notre Dame: 6 by 53.8. SMU: 9 by 34.7

Split Comparison

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

Wins84.4 · Games = 5 · +40.1 vs Losses
Losses44.3 · Games = 6 · -40.1 vs Wins

Game Log

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

11 games

Featured metric

Scrimmage Yards

Top game by takeover score

Richmond

Best efficiency game

96.2 vs Richmond

Result
Sat 11/23vs SMUL 7-338263.300153.4
Sat 11/16@ Notre DameL 14-356315.2005.2
Sun 11/10@ PittsburghW 24-1912524.3014224.6
Sat 10/26vs North CarolinaL 14-417243.4002144.2
Sat 10/19@ ClemsonL 31-4810353.5001255.5
Sat 10/12vs LouisvilleL 20-2410383.800293.9
Sat 10/5vs Boston CollegeW 24-1419834.4001295.6
Sat 9/21@ Coastal CarolinaW 43-2415573.8011134.4
Sun 9/15vs MarylandL 13-2711464.2003134.2
Sat 9/7@ Wake ForestW 31-305142.800482.4
Sat 8/31vs RichmondW 34-1311938.50125111.1

Player Story

Kobe Pace story

Kobe Pace built his college career from 2020 through 2024 as a running back from Cedartown, GA wearing No. 5, spending time with Clemson and Virginia. The clearest part of Kobe Pace's career was his backfield work: 1,674 rushing yards, 391 carries, 13 rushing touchdowns, and 557 receiving yards across 48 career games in the available record. His largest box-score season came in 2021 with Clemson. 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 557 receiving yards, 1 tackle, and 91 return yards, giving the story more than a single-category snapshot. With 48 career games in the available record, his career has enough shape to show both opportunity and production across Clemson and Virginia.

The arc is straightforward: Kobe Pace 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. 1

    Clemson

    2020-2022

    Opening stop

  2. 2

    Virginia

    2023-2024

    Final stop

Season Value Progression

202020212021202220232024
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2020 Regular SeasonClemson10141.45.6
2021 PostseasonClemson77258.118.9671
2021 Regular SeasonClemson77258.118.90
2022 Regular SeasonClemson11227.47.7-660
2023 Regular SeasonVirginia5583720.4446
2024 Regular SeasonVirginia68847.221.6130

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

vs Wake Forest

Week 12 · W 48-27 · Conference game

Win driven by a workhorse rushing load.

191

Scrimmage Yards

94.3 takeover

191 scrimmage yards and 36.4 usage.

#2

vs Richmond

Week 1 · W 34-13

144

Scrimmage Yards

88.4 takeover

Win with 144 yards from scrimmage and efficient touch value.

144 scrimmage yards and 24.1 usage.

#3

vs Boston College

Week 5 · W 19-13 · Conference game

166

Scrimmage Yards

88.3 takeover

Win with 166 yards from scrimmage and efficient touch value.

166 scrimmage yards and 37.7 usage.

#4

vs William & Mary

Week 6 · W 27-13

86

Scrimmage Yards

80 takeover

Win driven by a workhorse rushing load.

86 scrimmage yards and 33.9 usage.

#5

vs Boston College

Week 6 · W 24-14 · Conference game

112

Scrimmage Yards

76.1 takeover

Win with 112 yards from scrimmage and efficient touch value.

112 scrimmage yards and 37 usage.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2021 Postseason · Clemson

772 primary output · 58.1 efficiency · 18.9 usage

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#2

2021 Regular Season · Clemson

67.1

772 primary · 58.1 efficiency · 18.9 usage

#3

2024 Regular Season · Virginia

65.5

688 primary · 47.2 efficiency · 21.6 usage

Milestones

2

100+ rush yards

2

150+ scrimmage yards

2

2+ TD games