Usage / Role
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Rotational offensive role
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Player Dossier
2009-2010Illinois
Bud Golden
RB • 6'0" • Cincinnati, OH, USA
Balanced backfield optionSteady chain mover
Bud Golden leans balanced backfield option traits and 28.6 efficiency.
Impact Production
9
Developing production for a back
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Reliability
0
Sporadic game-to-game production
lowhigh
Star Power
23
Limited ceiling signals so far
limitedstar
Career Arc
Value trend by season
Best season by Season Value: 2010 Regular Season · Illinois
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Snapshot
- Career Teams
- 1
- Unique Seasons
- 2
- Program Path
- Illinois
- Peak Game
- Peak game by takeover score: Purdue
4★
- Committed To
- Illinois
- Commit Date
- Jan 1, 2009
Bud Golden, RB. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2010 Regular Season · Illinois. Bud Golden leans balanced backfield option traits and 28.6 efficiency.
Stat Footprint
Career production snapshot
- Scrimmage yards
- 44
- Rushing yards
- 32
- Receiving yards
- 12
Quick Answers
Bud Golden quick answers
- Latest team and position
- Illinois · RB
- Career Scrimmage Yards
- 44
- Tracked sample
- 2 unique seasons · 2 entries · 6 games
- Best season
- 2010 Regular Season · Illinois
- Top game
- Purdue
- Recruit profile
- 4-star · Sycamore · Illinois
- High school pipeline
- Sycamore · 9 FBS recruits · 0 drafted players
- Latest roster
- No. 23 · Class 2010
- 2010 Scrimmage yards rank
- 44 scrimmage yards · RB 364th (top 81%) · Big Ten 133rd (top 67%) · National 1,449th (top 69%)
Season Ledger
Crawlable season-by-season stats
| Season | Team | Games | Scrimmage | Rush Yds | Rec Yds | TD | Overall |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 Regular Season | Illinois | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | - |
| 2010 Regular Season | Illinois | 6 | 44 | 32 | 12 | 0 | 35.2 |
Related Context
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Bud Golden played RB for Illinois. Across 2 tracked seasons, Bud Golden recorded 32 rushing yards and 12 receiving yards. His top tracked season came in 2010 with Illinois.
Player insights
Lead takeaway
Best season by value score: 2010 Regular Season
Illinois paired 44 primary output with 28.6 efficiency.
Supporting note
2010 Regular Season role shape
backfield-heavy usage with 28.6 efficiency.
Supporting note
Career value is trending up
2010 Regular Season improved on the prior stop by season value score.
Supporting note
Peak game by takeover score: Purdue
Win with 41 yards from scrimmage and efficient touch value. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.
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2010 Regular Season · Illinois
Games
6
Scrimmage Yards / G
7.3
Efficiency
28.6
Usage
2.3
Consistency
5.6
Best Game by takeover score
Purdue
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Game-by-Game Trend
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Chronological game order.
Game by game trend chart. Missouri: 0. Southern Illinois: 0. Penn State: 3. Indiana: 0. Purdue: 41. Michigan: 0
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. Southern Illinois: 1 by 0. Penn State: 1 by 31.3. Purdue: 7 by 54.6
Split Comparison
Compare how this player performed across different situations. "Games" shows how many matchups are included in each split.
Wins11 · Games = 4 · +11 vs Losses
Losses0 · Games = 2 · -11 vs Wins
Game Log
Dense stat lines with inline explanations and season-linked highlights.
6 games
Featured metric
Scrimmage Yards
Top game by takeover score
Purdue
Best efficiency game
54.6 vs Purdue
Career Arc
Track team changes, role shifts, and season-to-season movement.
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Illinois
2009-2010
Opening stop
Season Value Progression
20092010
| Season | Team | Primary | Efficiency | Usage | Delta |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 Regular Season | Illinois | 0 | — | — | — |
| 2010 Regular Season | Illinois | 44 | 28.6 | 2.3 | 44 |
Signature Performances
Top Games
#1 Featured game
vs Purdue
Week 9 · W 44-10 · Conference game
Win with 41 yards from scrimmage and efficient touch value.
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Scrimmage Yards
61.6 takeover
41 scrimmage yards and 10.6 usage.
#2
@ Penn State
Week 6 · W 33-13 · Conference game
3
Scrimmage Yards
14.2 takeover
Win with 3 yards from scrimmage and efficient touch value.
3 scrimmage yards and 1.4 usage.
#3
vs Southern Illinois
Week 2 · W 35-3
0
Scrimmage Yards
1.6 takeover
Win with 0 yards from scrimmage and efficient touch value.
0 scrimmage yards and 1.7 usage.
#4
@ Michigan
Week 10 · L 65-67 · Conference game
0
Scrimmage Yards
0 takeover
Loss with 0 yards from scrimmage and efficient touch value.
0 scrimmage yards and 0 usage.
#5
vs Indiana
Week 8 · W 43-13 · Conference game
0
Scrimmage Yards
0 takeover
Win with 0 yards from scrimmage and efficient touch value.
0 scrimmage yards and 0 usage.
Top Seasons
#1 Season by Season Value
2010 Regular Season · Illinois
44 primary output · 28.6 efficiency · 2.3 usage
35.2
#2
2009 Regular Season · Illinois
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0 primary · — efficiency · — usage
Milestones
0
100+ rush yards
0
150+ scrimmage yards
0
2+ TD games
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