Usage / Role
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Major offensive role
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Player Dossier
2022-2025Indiana
Kaelon Black
RB • 5'10" • 210 lbs • Virginia Beach, VA, USA
Balanced backfield optionSteady chain mover
Kaelon Black leans balanced backfield option traits and 57.6 efficiency.
Impact Production
87
Top-tier box-score impact for a back
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Reliability
100
Regular contributor with several takeover games
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Star Power
70
High-upside career profile
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Career Arc
Value trend by season
Best season by Season Value: 2025 Postseason · Indiana
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Snapshot
- Career Teams
- 2
- Unique Seasons
- 4
- Program Path
- James Madison • Indiana
- Peak Game
- Peak game by takeover score: Bucknell
Player Story
Kaelon Black built his college career from 2022 through 2025 as a running back from Virginia Beach, VA wearing No. 8, spending time with Indiana and James Madison. The clearest part of Kaelon Black's career was his...
Read the storyNFL Draft
- Draft Year
- 2026
- Selection
- Round 3 · Pick 26
- Overall
- No. 90
- NFL Team
- San Francisco 49ers
Kaelon Black, RB. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2025 Postseason · Indiana. Kaelon Black leans balanced backfield option traits and 57.6 efficiency.
Quick Answers
Kaelon Black quick answers
- Latest team and position
- Indiana · RB
- Career Scrimmage Yards
- 2,717
- Tracked sample
- 4 unique seasons · 6 entries · 49 games
- Best season
- 2025 Postseason · Indiana
- Top game
- Bucknell
- High school pipeline
- Salem HS · 1 FBS recruit · 1 drafted player
- NFL Draft
- 2026 · Round 3 · Pick 26 · San Francisco 49ers
- Latest roster
- No. 8 · Senior
- 2025 Scrimmage yards rank
- 1,075 scrimmage yards · RB 49th (top 7%) · Big Ten 11th (top 4%) · National 66th (top 3%)
Kaelon Black played RB for James Madison and Indiana. Across 4 tracked seasons, Kaelon Black recorded 2,260 rushing yards, 457 receiving yards, and 4 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2025 with Indiana.
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