Player Dossier

2023-2025

Duke

Peyton Jones

RB • 5'10" • 195 lbs • Norfolk, VA, USA

Balanced backfield optionSteady chain mover

Peyton Jones leans balanced backfield option traits and 30.5 efficiency.

Usage / Role

4%

Rotational offensive role

lowfeatured

Impact Production

24

Developing production for a back

lowelite

Reliability

22

Sporadic game-to-game production

lowhigh

Star Power

30

Limited ceiling signals so far

limitedstar

Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by Season Value: 2024 Postseason · Duke

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Snapshot

Career Teams
1
Unique Seasons
3
Program Path
Duke
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: Miami

Player Story

Peyton Jones built his college career from 2023 through 2025 as a running back from Norfolk, VA wearing No. 5, spending time with Duke. The clearest part of Peyton Jones' career was his backfield work: 423 rushing...

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Peyton Jones, RB. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2024 Postseason · Duke. Peyton Jones leans balanced backfield option traits and 30.5 efficiency.

Stat Footprint

Career production snapshot

Scrimmage yards
540
Rushing yards
423
Receiving yards
117
Touchdowns
6

Quick Answers

Peyton Jones quick answers

Latest team and position
Duke · RB
Career Scrimmage Yards
540
Tracked sample
3 unique seasons · 4 entries · 23 games
Best season
2024 Postseason · Duke
Top game
Miami
High school pipeline
Maury · 17 FBS recruits · 3 drafted players
Latest roster
No. 5 · Junior
2025 Scrimmage yards rank
57 scrimmage yards · RB 532nd (top 73%) · ACC 228th (top 64%) · National 1,753rd (top 64%)

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesScrimmageRush YdsRec YdsTDOverall
2023 Regular SeasonDuke672720127.5
2024 PostseasonDuke13311813056.6
2024 Regular SeasonDuke1338029981456.6
2025 Regular SeasonDuke4573423129.4

Related Context

Transfer Portal History

Matched portal movement

SeasonPathMovementValueDate
2026Duke to LibertyP4 to G5/FCS18Jan 9, 2026

Peyton Jones played RB for Duke. Across 3 tracked seasons, Peyton Jones recorded 423 rushing yards, 117 receiving yards, and 6 touchdowns. His top tracked season came in 2024 with Duke.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2024 Postseason

Duke paired 411 primary output with 39.1 efficiency.

Supporting note

2025 Regular Season role shape

backfield-heavy usage with 30.5 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: Elon

Win with 28 yards from scrimmage and efficient touch value. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.

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2025 Regular Season · Duke

Games

4

Scrimmage Yards / G

14.3

Efficiency

30.5

Usage

6.2

Consistency

55.3

Best Game by takeover score

Elon

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Game-by-Game Trend

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Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. Elon: 28. Illinois: 5. Tulane: 24. NC State: 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. Elon: 6 by 48.6. Illinois: 2 by 10.4. Tulane: 5 by 32.5

Split Comparison

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

Wins14 · Games = 2 · -0.5 vs Losses
Losses14.5 · Games = 2 · +0.5 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

Elon

Best efficiency game

48.6 vs Elon

Result
Sat 9/20vs NC StateW 45-33
Sun 9/14@ TulaneL 27-3436202184.8
Sat 9/6vs IllinoisL 19-451000152.5
Thu 8/28vs ElonW 45-176284.7014.7

Player Story

Peyton Jones story

Peyton Jones built his college career from 2023 through 2025 as a running back from Norfolk, VA wearing No. 5, spending time with Duke. The clearest part of Peyton Jones' career was his backfield work: 423 rushing yards, 112 carries, 5 rushing touchdowns, and 117 receiving yards across 23 career games in the available record. His career also includes 117 receiving yards and 557 return yards, giving the story more than a single-category snapshot. That gives Peyton Jones' career enough real context without stretching the story beyond the available production.

Career Arc

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    Duke

    2023-2025

    Opening stop

Season Value Progression

2023202420242025
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2023 Regular SeasonDuke7237.85.9
2024 PostseasonDuke41139.113.6339
2024 Regular SeasonDuke41139.113.60
2025 Regular SeasonDuke5730.56.2-354

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

@ Miami

Week 10 · L 31-53 · Conference game

Loss with 132 yards from scrimmage and efficient touch value.

132

Scrimmage Yards

85.3 takeover

132 scrimmage yards and 28.8 usage.

#2

vs Elon

Week 1 · W 45-17

28

Scrimmage Yards

60.5 takeover

Win with 28 yards from scrimmage and efficient touch value.

28 scrimmage yards and 11.5 usage.

#3

vs Lafayette

Week 2 · W 42-7

33

Scrimmage Yards

59.2 takeover

Win with 33 yards from scrimmage and efficient touch value.

33 scrimmage yards and 13.8 usage.

#4

vs North Carolina

Week 5 · W 21-20 · Conference game

56

Scrimmage Yards

52.3 takeover

Win with 56 yards from scrimmage and efficient touch value.

56 scrimmage yards and 12.7 usage.

#5

vs Northwestern

Week 3 · W 38-14

22

Scrimmage Yards

48.3 takeover

Win with 22 yards from scrimmage and efficient touch value.

22 scrimmage yards and 7.3 usage.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2024 Postseason · Duke

411 primary output · 39.1 efficiency · 13.6 usage

56.6

#2

2024 Regular Season · Duke

56.6

411 primary · 39.1 efficiency · 13.6 usage

#3

2025 Regular Season · Duke

29.4

57 primary · 30.5 efficiency · 6.2 usage

Milestones

0

100+ rush yards

0

150+ scrimmage yards

1

2+ TD games