Usage / Role
27%
Rotational offensive role
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Player Dossier
2020-2023Akron
Blake Hester
RB • 5'10" • 185 lbs • Ashland, KY, USA
Balanced backfield optionSteady chain mover
Blake Hester leans balanced backfield option traits and partial efficiency context.
Impact Production
38
Developing production for a back
lowelite
Reliability
20
Sporadic game-to-game production
lowhigh
Star Power
59
Useful peak profile
limitedstar
Career Arc
Value trend by season
Best season by Season Value: 2021 Regular Season · Akron
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Snapshot
- Career Teams
- 1
- Unique Seasons
- 4
- Program Path
- Akron
- Peak Game
- Peak game by takeover score: Bowling Green
Player Story
Blake Hester built his college career from 2020 through 2023 as a running back from Ashland, KY wearing No. 25, spending time with Akron. The clearest part of Blake Hester's career was his return-game role: 1,026...
Read the storyBlake Hester, RB. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2021 Regular Season · Akron. Blake Hester leans balanced backfield option traits and partial efficiency context.
Stat Footprint
Career production snapshot
- Scrimmage yards
- 320
- Rushing yards
- 284
- Receiving yards
- 36
- Touchdowns
- 2
Quick Answers
Blake Hester quick answers
- Latest team and position
- Akron · RB
- Career Scrimmage Yards
- 320
- Tracked sample
- 4 unique seasons · 4 entries · 28 games
- Best season
- 2021 Regular Season · Akron
- Top game
- Bowling Green
- Latest roster
- No. 25 · Junior
Season Ledger
Crawlable season-by-season stats
| Season | Team | Games | Scrimmage | Rush Yds | Rec Yds | TD | Overall |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 Regular Season | Akron | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | - |
| 2021 Regular Season | Akron | 8 | 310 | 274 | 36 | 2 | 56 |
| 2022 Regular Season | Akron | 8 | 10 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 11 |
| 2023 Regular Season | Akron | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 50 |
Related Context
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Blake Hester played RB for Akron. Across 4 tracked seasons, Blake Hester recorded 284 rushing yards, 36 receiving yards, and 10 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2021 with Akron.
Player insights
Lead takeaway
Best season by value score: 2021 Regular Season
Akron paired 310 primary output with 37.6 efficiency.
Supporting note
2021 Regular Season role shape
backfield-heavy usage with 37.6 efficiency.
Supporting note
Career value is trending up
2023 Regular Season improved on the prior stop by season value score.
Supporting note
Peak game by takeover score: Bowling Green
Win driven by a workhorse rushing load. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.
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2021 Regular Season · Akron
Games
8
Scrimmage Yards / G
38.8
Efficiency
37.6
Usage
16.7
Consistency
38.6
Best Game by takeover score
Bowling Green
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Game-by-Game Trend
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Chronological game order.
Game by game trend chart. Temple: 0. Bryant: 9. Ohio State: 69. Ohio: 51. Bowling Green: 125. Miami (OH): 36. Buffalo: 5. Kent State: 15
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. Bryant: 3 by 37.5. Ohio State: 15 by 43.6. Ohio: 13 by 40.9. Bowling Green: 23 by 60.1. Miami (OH): 11 by 31.8. Buffalo: 5 by 10.4. Kent State: 4 by 39.1
Split Comparison
Compare how this player performed across different situations. "Games" shows how many matchups are included in each split.
Wins67 · Games = 2 · +37.7 vs Losses
Losses29.3 · Games = 6 · -37.7 vs Wins
Game Log
Dense stat lines with inline explanations and season-linked highlights.
8 games
Featured metric
Scrimmage Yards
Top game by takeover score
Bowling Green
Best efficiency game
60.1 vs Bowling Green
| Result | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sat 11/20 | vs Kent State | L 0-38 | 4 | 15 | 3.80 | 0 | — | — | 3.8 |
| Sat 10/23 | vs Buffalo | L 10-45 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Sat 10/16 | @ Miami (OH) | L 21-34 | 10 | 29 | 2.90 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 3.3 |
| Sat 10/9 | @ Bowling Green100 rush yards · 2+ TD | W 35-20 | 20 | 120 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 5.4 |
| Sat 10/2 | vs Ohio | L 17-34 | 13 | 51 | 3.90 | 0 | — | — | 3.9 |
| Sat 9/25 | @ Ohio State | L 7-59 | 12 | 47 | 3.90 | 0 | 3 | 22 | 4.6 |
| Sat 9/18 | vs Bryant | W 35-14 | 2 | 8 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| Sat 9/11 | vs Temple | L 24-45 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
Player Story
Blake Hester story
Blake Hester built his college career from 2020 through 2023 as a running back from Ashland, KY wearing No. 25, spending time with Akron. The clearest part of Blake Hester's career was his return-game role: 1,026 return yards across 28 career games in the available record. His career also includes 284 rushing yards, 36 receiving yards, and 10 tackles, giving the story more than a single-category snapshot. That gives Blake Hester's career enough real context without stretching the story beyond the available production.
Career Arc
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- 1
Akron
2020-2023
Opening stop
Season Value Progression
2020202120222023
| Season | Team | Primary | Efficiency | Usage | Delta |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 Regular Season | Akron | 0 | — | — | — |
| 2021 Regular Season | Akron | 310 | 37.6 | 16.7 | 310 |
| 2022 Regular Season | Akron | 10 | 34.7 | 0.7 | -300 |
| 2023 Regular Season | Akron | 0 | — | 0 | -10 |
Signature Performances
Top Games
#1 Featured game
@ Bowling Green
Week 6 · W 35-20 · Conference game
Win driven by a workhorse rushing load.
125
Scrimmage Yards
86.7 takeover
125 scrimmage yards and 39 usage.
#2
@ Ohio State
Week 4 · L 7-59
69
Scrimmage Yards
57.6 takeover
Loss with 69 yards from scrimmage and efficient touch value.
69 scrimmage yards and 25.9 usage.
#3
@ Northern Illinois
Week 13 · W 44-12 · Conference game
10
Scrimmage Yards
49.9 takeover
Win with 10 yards from scrimmage and efficient touch value.
10 scrimmage yards and 5.2 usage.
#4
vs Ohio
Week 5 · L 17-34 · Conference game
51
Scrimmage Yards
49.3 takeover
Loss with 51 yards from scrimmage and efficient touch value.
51 scrimmage yards and 23.2 usage.
#5
@ Miami (OH)
Week 7 · L 21-34 · Conference game
36
Scrimmage Yards
41.5 takeover
Loss with 36 yards from scrimmage and efficient touch value.
36 scrimmage yards and 22.4 usage.
Top Seasons
#1 Season by Season Value
2021 Regular Season · Akron
310 primary output · 37.6 efficiency · 16.7 usage
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#2
2023 Regular Season · Akron
50
0 primary · — efficiency · 0 usage
#3
2022 Regular Season · Akron
11
10 primary · 34.7 efficiency · 0.7 usage
Milestones
1
100+ rush yards
0
150+ scrimmage yards
1
2+ TD games
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