Player Dossier

2023-2025

Alabama

Richard Young

RB • 5'11" • 212 lbs • Lehigh Acres, FL, USA

Balanced backfield optionSteady chain mover

Richard Young leans balanced backfield option traits and 28.5 efficiency.

Usage / Role

8%

Rotational offensive role

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Impact Production

27

Developing production for a back

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Reliability

33

Sporadic game-to-game production

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Star Power

36

Limited ceiling signals so far

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Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by Season Value: 2024 Postseason · Alabama

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Snapshot

Career Teams
1
Unique Seasons
3
Program Path
Alabama
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: Missouri

Player Story

Richard Young built his college career from 2023 through 2025 as a running back from Lehigh Acres, FL wearing No. 9, spending time with Alabama. The clearest part of Richard Young's career was his backfield work: 234...

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Recruit Profile

Class 2023 · Rating 0.9704

Lehigh Senior · Lehigh Acres, FL

Committed To
Alabama
Commit Date
Jan 1, 2023

Richard Young, RB. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2024 Postseason · Alabama. Richard Young leans balanced backfield option traits and 28.5 efficiency.

Stat Footprint

Career production snapshot

Scrimmage yards
247
Rushing yards
234
Receiving yards
13
Touchdowns
5

Quick Answers

Richard Young quick answers

Latest team and position
Alabama · RB
Career Scrimmage Yards
247
Tracked sample
3 unique seasons · 4 entries · 14 games
Best season
2024 Postseason · Alabama
Top game
Missouri
Recruit profile
4-star · Lehigh Senior · Alabama
High school pipeline
Lehigh Senior · 16 FBS recruits · 1 drafted player
Latest roster
No. 9 · Sophomore
2025 Scrimmage yards rank
70 scrimmage yards · RB 506th (top 69%) · SEC 197th (top 57%) · National 1,654th (top 60%)

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesScrimmageRush YdsRec YdsTDOverall
2023 Regular SeasonAlabama324240121.4
2024 PostseasonAlabama7660053.3
2024 Regular SeasonAlabama71471407253.3
2025 Regular SeasonAlabama470646244.2

Related Context

Transfer Portal History

Matched portal movement

SeasonPathMovementValueDate
2026Alabama to ColoradoP4 to P478.2Jan 18, 2026

Richard Young played RB for Alabama. Across 3 tracked seasons, Richard Young recorded 234 rushing yards, 13 receiving yards, and 5 touchdowns. His top tracked season came in 2024 with Alabama.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2024 Postseason

Alabama paired 153 primary output with 49.2 efficiency.

Supporting note

2025 Regular Season role shape

backfield-heavy usage with 28.5 efficiency.

Supporting note

Career value cooled off

2025 Regular Season fell back from the prior stop by season value score.

Supporting note

Peak game by takeover score: Florida State

Loss with 32 yards from scrimmage and efficient touch value. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.

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2025 Regular Season · Alabama

Games

4

Scrimmage Yards / G

17.5

Efficiency

28.5

Usage

10.7

Consistency

72

Best Game by takeover score

Florida State

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Game-by-Game Trend

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Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. Florida State: 32. UL Monroe: 19. Wisconsin: 3. Eastern Illinois: 16

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. Florida State: 10 by 31.4. UL Monroe: 6 by 33. Wisconsin: 4 by 7.8. Eastern Illinois: 4 by 41.7

Split Comparison

Compare how this player performed across different situations. "Games" shows how many matchups are included in each split.

Wins12.7 · Games = 3 · -19.3 vs Losses
Losses32 · Games = 1 · +19.3 vs Wins

Game Log

Dense stat lines with inline explanations and season-linked highlights.

4 games

Featured metric

Scrimmage Yards

Top game by takeover score

Florida State

Best efficiency game

41.7 vs Eastern Illinois

Result
Sat 11/22vs Eastern IllinoisW 56-0416414
Sat 9/13vs WisconsinW 38-14430.8000.8
Sat 9/6vs UL MonroeW 73-06193.2013.2
Sat 8/30@ Florida StateL 17-319262.900163.2

Player Story

Richard Young story

Richard Young built his college career from 2023 through 2025 as a running back from Lehigh Acres, FL wearing No. 9, spending time with Alabama. The clearest part of Richard Young's career was his backfield work: 234 rushing yards, 59 carries, 5 rushing touchdowns, and 13 receiving yards across 14 career games in the available record. His career also includes 13 receiving yards, giving the story more than a single-category snapshot. That gives Richard Young's career enough real context without stretching the story beyond the available production.

Career Arc

Track team changes, role shifts, and season-to-season movement.

  1. 1

    Alabama

    2023-2025

    Opening stop

Season Value Progression

2023202420242025
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2023 Regular SeasonAlabama2422.95.4
2024 PostseasonAlabama15349.27.1129
2024 Regular SeasonAlabama15349.27.10
2025 Regular SeasonAlabama7028.510.7-83

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

vs Missouri

Week 9 · W 34-0 · Conference game

Win with 63 yards from scrimmage and efficient touch value.

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Scrimmage Yards

72.1 takeover

63 scrimmage yards and 5.7 usage.

#2

@ No. 41 Florida State

Week 1 · L 17-31

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Scrimmage Yards

62.1 takeover

Loss with 32 yards from scrimmage and efficient touch value.

32 scrimmage yards and 19.2 usage.

#3

vs Middle Tennessee

Week 1 · W 56-7

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Scrimmage Yards

54.2 takeover

Win with 18 yards from scrimmage and efficient touch value.

18 scrimmage yards and 8.8 usage.

#4

vs No. 131 UL Monroe

Week 2 · W 73-0

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Scrimmage Yards

39.6 takeover

Win with 19 yards from scrimmage and efficient touch value.

19 scrimmage yards and 9.2 usage.

#5

@ LSU

Week 11 · W 42-13 · Conference game

27

Scrimmage Yards

39.5 takeover

Win with 27 yards from scrimmage and efficient touch value.

27 scrimmage yards and 10 usage.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2024 Postseason · Alabama

153 primary output · 49.2 efficiency · 7.1 usage

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#2

2024 Regular Season · Alabama

53.3

153 primary · 49.2 efficiency · 7.1 usage

#3

2025 Regular Season · Alabama

44.2

70 primary · 28.5 efficiency · 10.7 usage

Milestones

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100+ rush yards

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150+ scrimmage yards

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2+ TD games