Usage / Role
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Rotational offensive role
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Player Dossier
2023-2025Vanderbilt
AJ Newberry
RB • 6'1" • 197 lbs • Grand Prairie, TX, USA
Balanced backfield optionSteady chain mover
AJ Newberry leans balanced backfield option traits and 35.1 efficiency.
Impact Production
13
Developing production for a back
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Reliability
7
Sporadic game-to-game production
lowhigh
Star Power
21
Limited ceiling signals so far
limitedstar
Career Arc
Value trend by season
Best season by Season Value: 2024 Regular Season · Vanderbilt
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Snapshot
- Career Teams
- 1
- Unique Seasons
- 3
- Program Path
- Vanderbilt
- Peak Game
- Peak game by takeover score: Alcorn State
Player Story
AJ Newberry built his college career from 2023 through 2025 as a running back from Grand Prairie, TX wearing No. 23, spending time with Vanderbilt. The clearest part of AJ Newberry's career was his backfield work:...
Read the storyAJ Newberry, RB. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2024 Regular Season · Vanderbilt. AJ Newberry leans balanced backfield option traits and 35.1 efficiency.
Stat Footprint
Career production snapshot
- Scrimmage yards
- 490
- Rushing yards
- 338
- Receiving yards
- 152
- Touchdowns
- 8
Quick Answers
AJ Newberry quick answers
- Latest team and position
- Vanderbilt · RB
- Career Scrimmage Yards
- 490
- Tracked sample
- 3 unique seasons · 3 entries · 25 games
- Best season
- 2024 Regular Season · Vanderbilt
- Top game
- Alcorn State
- High school pipeline
- South Grand Prairie · 33 FBS recruits · 1 drafted player
- Latest roster
- No. 23 · Junior
- 2025 Scrimmage yards rank
- 75 scrimmage yards · RB 492nd (top 67%) · SEC 189th (top 54%) · National 1,600th (top 58%)
Season Ledger
Crawlable season-by-season stats
| Season | Team | Games | Scrimmage | Rush Yds | Rec Yds | TD | Overall |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 Regular Season | Vanderbilt | 4 | 96 | 96 | 0 | 0 | 45.9 |
| 2024 Regular Season | Vanderbilt | 11 | 319 | 185 | 134 | 5 | 58.8 |
| 2025 Regular Season | Vanderbilt | 10 | 75 | 57 | 18 | 3 | 24 |
Related Context
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AJ Newberry played RB for Vanderbilt. Across 3 tracked seasons, AJ Newberry recorded 338 rushing yards, 152 receiving yards, and 8 touchdowns. His top tracked season came in 2024 with Vanderbilt.
Player insights
Lead takeaway
Best season by value score: 2024 Regular Season
Vanderbilt paired 319 primary output with 53 efficiency.
Supporting note
2023 Regular Season role shape
backfield-heavy usage with 53.3 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: South Carolina
Loss with 38 yards from scrimmage and efficient touch value. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.
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2023 Regular Season · Vanderbilt
Games
4
Scrimmage Yards / G
24
Efficiency
53.3
Usage
9.5
Consistency
73
Best Game by takeover score
South Carolina
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Game-by-Game Trend
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Chronological game order.
Game by game trend chart. Ole Miss: 30. Auburn: 26. South Carolina: 38. Tennessee: 2
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. Ole Miss: 3 by 91.7. Auburn: 4 by 67.7. South Carolina: 12 by 33. Tennessee: 1 by 20.8
Split Comparison
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First Half28 · Games = 2 · +8 vs Second Half
Second Half20 · Games = 2 · -8 vs First Half
Game Log
Dense stat lines with inline explanations and season-linked highlights.
4 games
Featured metric
Scrimmage Yards
Top game by takeover score
South Carolina
Best efficiency game
91.7 vs Ole Miss
Player Story
AJ Newberry story
AJ Newberry built his college career from 2023 through 2025 as a running back from Grand Prairie, TX wearing No. 23, spending time with Vanderbilt. The clearest part of AJ Newberry's career was his backfield work: 338 rushing yards, 79 carries, 6 rushing touchdowns, and 152 receiving yards across 25 career games in the available record. His career also includes 152 receiving yards, giving the story more than a single-category snapshot. That gives AJ Newberry's career enough real context without stretching the story beyond the available production.
Career Arc
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Vanderbilt
2023-2025
Opening stop
Season Value Progression
202320242025
| Season | Team | Primary | Efficiency | Usage | Delta |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 Regular Season | Vanderbilt | 96 | 53.3 | 9.5 | — |
| 2024 Regular Season | Vanderbilt | 319 | 53 | 8.6 | 223 |
| 2025 Regular Season | Vanderbilt | 75 | 35.1 | 3.7 | -244 |
Signature Performances
Top Games
#1 Featured game
vs Alcorn State
Week 2 · W 55-0
Win with 54 yards from scrimmage and efficient touch value.
54
Scrimmage Yards
67.5 takeover
54 scrimmage yards and 12 usage.
#2
vs No. 79 Utah State
Week 5 · W 55-35
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Scrimmage Yards
67.4 takeover
Win with 26 yards from scrimmage and efficient touch value.
26 scrimmage yards and 5.6 usage.
#3
@ Georgia State
Week 3 · L 32-36
67
Scrimmage Yards
67.1 takeover
Loss with 67 yards from scrimmage and efficient touch value.
67 scrimmage yards and 7.7 usage.
#4
@ South Carolina
Week 11 · L 6-47 · Conference game
38
Scrimmage Yards
65.1 takeover
Loss with 38 yards from scrimmage and efficient touch value.
38 scrimmage yards and 21.8 usage.
#5
@ Ole Miss
Week 9 · L 7-33 · Conference game
30
Scrimmage Yards
62.4 takeover
Loss with 30 yards from scrimmage and efficient touch value.
30 scrimmage yards and 5.8 usage.
Top Seasons
#1 Season by Season Value
2024 Regular Season · Vanderbilt
319 primary output · 53 efficiency · 8.6 usage
58.8
#2
2023 Regular Season · Vanderbilt
45.9
96 primary · 53.3 efficiency · 9.5 usage
#3
2025 Regular Season · Vanderbilt
24
75 primary · 35.1 efficiency · 3.7 usage
Milestones
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100+ rush yards
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150+ scrimmage yards
1
2+ TD games
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