Player Dossier

2022-2025

Purdue

Richard Toney Jr.

DB • 6'0" • 195 lbs • Arlington, TX, USA

Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile

Richard Toney Jr. shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 6.3 disruption score.

Usage / Role

2%

Rotational defensive role

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Impact Production

10

Developing production for a defensive back

lowelite

Reliability

10

Sporadic game-to-game production

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Star Power

19

Limited ceiling signals so far

limitedstar

Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by Season Value: 2023 Regular Season · Nevada

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Snapshot

Career Teams
3
Unique Seasons
4
Program Path
Nevada • TCU • Purdue
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: New Mexico

Player Story

Richard Toney Jr. built his college career from 2022 through 2025 as a defensive back from Arlington, TX wearing No. 2, spending time with Nevada, Purdue, and TCU. The clearest part of Richard Toney Jr.'s career was...

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Recruit Profile

Class 2021 · Rating 0.8115

Arlington · Arlington, TX

Committed To
Nevada
Commit Date
Jan 1, 2021

Richard Toney Jr., DB. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2023 Regular Season · Nevada. Richard Toney Jr. shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 6.3 disruption score.

Stat Footprint

Career production snapshot

Tackles
82
TFL
3.5
Sacks
1
Passes defended
2
Touchdowns
4

Quick Answers

Richard Toney Jr. quick answers

Latest team and position
Purdue · DB
Career Tackles
82
Tracked sample
4 unique seasons · 4 entries · 18 games
Best season
2023 Regular Season · Nevada
Top game
New Mexico
Recruit profile
3-star · Arlington · Nevada
High school pipeline
Arlington · 25 FBS recruits · 1 drafted player
Latest roster
No. 2 · Senior
2025 Tackles rank
3 tackles · DB 808th (top 83%) · Big Ten 546th (top 70%) · National 4,268th (top 69%)

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesTacklesTFLSacksQB HurPDTDOverall
2022 Regular SeasonNevada38-0--042.8
2023 Regular SeasonNevada11623.51-1454.2
2024 Regular SeasonTCU29-0-1029.5
2025 Regular SeasonPurdue23-0--039.2

Related Context

Richard Toney Jr. played DB for Nevada, TCU, and Purdue. Across 4 tracked seasons, Richard Toney Jr. recorded 82 tackles and 4 touchdowns. His top tracked season came in 2023 with Nevada.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2023 Regular Season

Nevada paired 7.5 primary output with 30.3 efficiency.

Supporting note

2025 Regular Season role shape

impact-led usage with 6.3 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 3 team stops, with role shifts visible across Nevada, TCU, Purdue.

Supporting note

Peak game by takeover score: Ball State

Win with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.

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2025 Regular Season · Purdue

Games

2

Havoc Plays / G

0

Efficiency

6.3

Usage

1.4

Consistency

100

Best Game by takeover score

Ball State

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Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. Ball State: 0. USC: 0

Volume vs Efficiency

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Wins0 · Games = 1 · +0 vs Losses
Losses0 · Games = 1 · +0 vs Wins

Game Log

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2 games

Featured metric

Havoc Plays

Top game by takeover score

Ball State

Best efficiency game

8.3 vs Ball State

Result
Sat 9/13vs USCL 17-3311000
Sat 8/30vs Ball StateW 31-021000

Player Story

Richard Toney Jr. story

Richard Toney Jr. built his college career from 2022 through 2025 as a defensive back from Arlington, TX wearing No. 2, spending time with Nevada, Purdue, and TCU. The clearest part of Richard Toney Jr.'s career was his defensive production: 82 tackles, 3.5 tackles for loss, 1 sack, and 2 interceptions across 18 career games in the available record. His largest box-score season came in 2023 with Nevada. Those numbers show where he fit, how often the ball or action found him, and how his role developed over time.

Defensive careers can be hard to read from one number, but Richard Toney Jr.'s production has multiple signals. With 18 career games in the available record, his career has enough shape to show both opportunity and production across Nevada, Purdue, and TCU.

The arc is straightforward: Richard Toney Jr. 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

    Nevada

    2022-2023

    Opening stop

  2. 2

    TCU

    2024

    Peak year stop

  3. 3

    Purdue

    2025

    Final stop

Season Value Progression

2022202320242025
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2022 Regular SeasonNevada011.12.1
2023 Regular SeasonNevada7.530.38.57.5
2024 Regular SeasonTCU123.83.7-6.5
2025 Regular SeasonPurdue06.31.4-1

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

vs New Mexico

Week 9 · W 34-24 · Conference game

Win with 2.5 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

2.5

Havoc Plays

83.3 takeover

2.5 disruption/tackle impact with 83.3 takeover score.

#2

vs UNLV

Week 7 · L 27-45 · Conference game

2

Havoc Plays

72.2 takeover

Loss with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

2 disruption/tackle impact with 72.2 takeover score.

#3

@ Utah State

Week 11 · L 24-41 · Conference game

1

Havoc Plays

65.6 takeover

Loss with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 65.6 takeover score.

#4

vs Long Island University

Week 2 · W 45-0

1

Havoc Plays

63.1 takeover

Win with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 63.1 takeover score.

#5

vs Wyoming

Week 13 · L 6-42 · Conference game

1

Havoc Plays

61.1 takeover

Loss with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 61.1 takeover score.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2023 Regular Season · Nevada

7.5 primary output · 30.3 efficiency · 8.5 usage

54.2

#2

2022 Regular Season · Nevada

42.8

0 primary · 11.1 efficiency · 2.1 usage

#3

2025 Regular Season · Purdue

39.2

0 primary · 6.3 efficiency · 1.4 usage

Milestones

5

Impact games

2

Splash games

1

10+ tackle games