Usage / Role
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Rotational offensive role
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Player Dossier
2023-2025Ball State
TJ Horton
RB • 5'10" • 205 lbs • Lexington, KY, USA
Balanced backfield optionSteady chain mover
TJ Horton leans balanced backfield option traits and 34.7 efficiency.
Impact Production
21
Developing production for a back
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Reliability
12
Sporadic game-to-game production
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Star Power
34
Limited ceiling signals so far
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Career Arc
Value trend by season
Best season by Season Value: 2025 Regular Season · Ball State
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Snapshot
- Career Teams
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- Unique Seasons
- 3
- Program Path
- Ball State
- Peak Game
- Peak game by takeover score: New Hampshire
Player Story
TJ Horton built his college career from 2023 through 2025 as a running back from Lexington, KY wearing No. 4, spending time with Ball State. The clearest part of TJ Horton's career was his backfield work: 287 rushing...
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- Committed To
- Ball State
- Commit Date
- Jan 1, 2023
TJ Horton, RB. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2025 Regular Season · Ball State. TJ Horton leans balanced backfield option traits and 34.7 efficiency.
Stat Footprint
Career production snapshot
- Scrimmage yards
- 360
- Rushing yards
- 287
- Receiving yards
- 73
- Touchdowns
- 3
Quick Answers
TJ Horton quick answers
- Latest team and position
- Ball State · RB
- Career Scrimmage Yards
- 360
- Tracked sample
- 3 unique seasons · 3 entries · 17 games
- Best season
- 2025 Regular Season · Ball State
- Top game
- New Hampshire
- Recruit profile
- 3-star · Frederick Douglass · Ball State
- High school pipeline
- Frederick Douglass · 14 FBS recruits · 1 drafted player
- Latest roster
- No. 4 · Sophomore
- 2025 Scrimmage yards rank
- 251 scrimmage yards · RB 335th (top 46%) · Mid-American 74th (top 29%) · National 914th (top 33%)
Season Ledger
Crawlable season-by-season stats
| Season | Team | Games | Scrimmage | Rush Yds | Rec Yds | TD | Overall |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 Regular Season | Ball State | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | - |
| 2024 Regular Season | Ball State | 7 | 109 | 107 | 2 | 0 | 41.3 |
| 2025 Regular Season | Ball State | 10 | 251 | 180 | 71 | 3 | 59.9 |
Related Context
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TJ Horton played RB for Ball State. Across 3 tracked seasons, TJ Horton recorded 287 rushing yards, 73 receiving yards, and 3 touchdowns. His top tracked season came in 2025 with Ball State.
Player insights
Lead takeaway
Best season by value score: 2025 Regular Season
Ball State paired 251 primary output with 34.7 efficiency.
Supporting note
2025 Regular Season role shape
backfield-heavy usage with 34.7 efficiency.
Supporting note
Career value is trending up
2025 Regular Season improved on the prior stop by season value score.
Supporting note
Peak game by takeover score: New Hampshire
Win with 46 yards from scrimmage and efficient touch value. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.
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2025 Regular Season · Ball State
Games
10
Scrimmage Yards / G
25.1
Efficiency
34.7
Usage
14.5
Consistency
63.5
Best Game by takeover score
New Hampshire
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Game-by-Game Trend
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Chronological game order.
Game by game trend chart. Purdue: 15. New Hampshire: 46. UConn: 41. Ohio: 29. Western Michigan: 9. Akron: 19. Northern Illinois: 30. Kent State: 18. Eastern Michigan: 41. Toledo: 3
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. Purdue: 4 by 17.7. New Hampshire: 10 by 44.2. UConn: 6 by 71.2. Ohio: 8 by 38.3. Western Michigan: 4 by 23.4. Akron: 4 by 65.6. Northern Illinois: 5 by 42.2. Kent State: 8 by 11.9. Eastern Michigan: 14 by 29.4. Toledo: 12 by 3.4
Split Comparison
Compare how this player performed across different situations. "Games" shows how many matchups are included in each split.
Wins28 · Games = 4 · +4.8 vs Losses
Losses23.2 · Games = 6 · -4.8 vs Wins
Game Log
Dense stat lines with inline explanations and season-linked highlights.
10 games
Featured metric
Scrimmage Yards
Top game by takeover score
New Hampshire
Best efficiency game
71.2 vs UConn
| Result | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sat 11/22 | @ Toledo | L 9-38 | 8 | 3 | 0.40 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0.3 |
| Sat 11/15 | vs Eastern Michigan | L 9-24 | 12 | 33 | 2.80 | 0 | 2 | 8 | 2.9 |
| Thu 11/6 | vs Kent State | W 17-13 | 5 | 2 | 0.40 | 0 | 3 | 16 | 2.3 |
| Sat 10/25 | @ Northern Illinois | L 7-21 | 4 | 11 | 2.80 | 0 | 1 | 19 | 6 |
| Sat 10/18 | vs Akron | W 42-28 | 3 | 22 | 7.30 | 0 | 1 | -3 | 4.8 |
| Sat 10/11 | @ Western Michigan | L 0-42 | 4 | 9 | 2.30 | 0 | — | — | 2.3 |
| Sat 10/4 | vs Ohio | W 20-14 | 7 | 26 | 3.70 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 3.6 |
| Sat 9/20 | @ UConn | L 25-31 | 6 | 41 | 6.80 | 0 | — | — | 6.8 |
| Sat 9/13 | vs New Hampshire | W 34-29 | 8 | 32 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 14 | 4.6 |
| Sat 8/30 | @ Purdue | L 0-31 | 3 | 1 | 0.30 | 0 | 1 | 14 | 3.8 |
Player Story
TJ Horton story
TJ Horton built his college career from 2023 through 2025 as a running back from Lexington, KY wearing No. 4, spending time with Ball State. The clearest part of TJ Horton's career was his backfield work: 287 rushing yards, 83 carries, and 73 receiving yards across 17 career games in the available record. His largest box-score season came in 2025 with Ball State. Those numbers show where he fit, how often the ball or action found him, and how his role developed over time.
The value of the career arc is that it connects production to role, not just a name on a roster. His career also includes 73 receiving yards and 274 return yards, giving the story more than a single-category snapshot. With 17 career games in the available record, his career has enough shape to show both opportunity and production across Ball State.
The arc is straightforward: TJ Horton 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
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Ball State
2023-2025
Opening stop
Season Value Progression
202320242025
| Season | Team | Primary | Efficiency | Usage | Delta |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 Regular Season | Ball State | 0 | — | — | — |
| 2024 Regular Season | Ball State | 109 | 48.8 | 7.3 | 109 |
| 2025 Regular Season | Ball State | 251 | 34.7 | 14.5 | 142 |
Signature Performances
Top Games
#1 Featured game
vs New Hampshire
Week 3 · W 34-29
Win with 46 yards from scrimmage and efficient touch value.
46
Scrimmage Yards
69.2 takeover
46 scrimmage yards and 22.2 usage.
#2
vs No. 119 Eastern Michigan
Week 12 · L 9-24 · Conference game
41
Scrimmage Yards
65.7 takeover
Loss with 41 yards from scrimmage and efficient touch value.
41 scrimmage yards and 27.5 usage.
#3
@ No. 53 UConn
Week 4 · L 25-31
41
Scrimmage Yards
63.8 takeover
Loss with 41 yards from scrimmage and efficient touch value.
41 scrimmage yards and 10.9 usage.
#4
@ Buffalo
Week 12 · L 48-51 · Conference game
35
Scrimmage Yards
63.5 takeover
Loss with 35 yards from scrimmage and efficient touch value.
35 scrimmage yards and 11.3 usage.
#5
vs No. 84 Ohio
Week 6 · W 20-14 · Conference game
29
Scrimmage Yards
46.7 takeover
Win with 29 yards from scrimmage and efficient touch value.
29 scrimmage yards and 13.6 usage.
Top Seasons
#1 Season by Season Value
2025 Regular Season · Ball State
251 primary output · 34.7 efficiency · 14.5 usage
59.9
#2
2024 Regular Season · Ball State
41.3
109 primary · 48.8 efficiency · 7.3 usage
#3
2023 Regular Season · Ball State
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0 primary · — efficiency · — usage
Milestones
0
100+ rush yards
0
150+ scrimmage yards
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2+ TD games
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