Lead takeaway
Best season by value score: 2022 Regular Season
Virginia Tech paired 237 primary output with 43 efficiency.
Player Stats
Malachi Thomas College Stats
Career production, season-by-season totals, and the selected-season workbench are grouped here for stat-first searches.
Stat Footprint
Career production snapshot
- Scrimmage yards
- 1,672
- Rushing yards
- 1,375
- Receiving yards
- 297
- Touchdowns
- 11
Season Ledger
Crawlable season-by-season stats
| Season | Team | Games | Scrimmage | Rush Yds | Rec Yds | TD | Overall |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 Postseason | Virginia Tech | 10 | 41 | 7 | 34 | 0 | 59.4 |
| 2021 Regular Season | Virginia Tech | 10 | 432 | 433 | -1 | 3 | 59.4 |
| 2022 Regular Season | Virginia Tech | 3 | 237 | 146 | 91 | 2 | 68.2 |
| 2023 Postseason | Virginia Tech | 13 | 21 | 16 | 5 | 0 | 58.7 |
| 2023 Regular Season | Virginia Tech | 13 | 409 | 365 | 44 | 3 | 58.7 |
| 2024 Postseason | Virginia Tech | 10 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 30.2 |
| 2024 Regular Season | Virginia Tech | 10 | 185 | 160 | 25 | 1 | 30.2 |
| 2025 Regular Season | Purdue | 11 | 342 | 243 | 99 | 2 | 48 |
Player insights
Supporting note
2025 Regular Season role shape
backfield-heavy usage with 45.4 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 Virginia Tech, Purdue.
Supporting note
Peak game by takeover score: Rutgers
Loss with 112 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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2025 Regular Season · Purdue
Games
11
Scrimmage Yards / G
31.1
Efficiency
45.4
Usage
11.4
Consistency
41.4
Best Game by takeover score
Rutgers
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Game-by-Game Trend
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Chronological game order.
Game by game trend chart. Ball State: 2. Southern Illinois: 24. USC: 5. Illinois: 29. Minnesota: 26. Northwestern: 34. Rutgers: 112. Michigan: 67. Ohio State: 15. Washington: 16. Indiana: 12
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. Ball State: 2 by 10.4. Southern Illinois: 7 by 28.9. USC: 2 by 26. Illinois: 2 by 100. Minnesota: 5 by 54.5. Northwestern: 7 by 50.6. Rutgers: 6 by 100. Michigan: 17 by 44.8. Ohio State: 4 by 39.1. Washington: 6 by 27.8. Indiana: 6 by 17.7
Split Comparison
Compare how this player performed across different situations. "Games" shows how many matchups are included in each split.
Wins13 · Games = 2 · -22.1 vs Losses
Losses35.1 · Games = 9 · +22.1 vs Wins
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