Usage / Role
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Rotational offensive role
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Player Dossier
2024-2025TCU
Nate Palmer
RB • 6'0" • 190 lbs • Decatur, TX, USA
Balanced backfield optionSteady chain mover
Nate Palmer leans balanced backfield option traits and 38.5 efficiency.
Impact Production
12
Developing production for a back
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Reliability
1
Sporadic game-to-game production
lowhigh
Star Power
26
Limited ceiling signals so far
limitedstar
Career Arc
Value trend by season
Best season by Season Value: 2025 Regular Season · TCU
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Snapshot
- Career Teams
- 1
- Unique Seasons
- 2
- Program Path
- TCU
- Peak Game
- Peak game by takeover score: North Carolina
3★
- Committed To
- TCU
- Commit Date
- Jan 1, 2024
Nate Palmer, RB. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2025 Regular Season · TCU. Nate Palmer leans balanced backfield option traits and 38.5 efficiency.
Stat Footprint
Career production snapshot
- Scrimmage yards
- 165
- Rushing yards
- 164
- Receiving yards
- 1
Quick Answers
Nate Palmer quick answers
- Latest team and position
- TCU · RB
- Career Scrimmage Yards
- 165
- Tracked sample
- 2 unique seasons · 3 entries · 9 games
- Best season
- 2025 Regular Season · TCU
- Top game
- North Carolina
- Recruit profile
- 3-star · Decatur · TCU
- High school pipeline
- Decatur · 4 FBS recruits · 0 drafted players
- Latest roster
- No. 21 · Freshman
- 2025 Scrimmage yards rank
- 140 scrimmage yards · RB 418th (top 57%) · Big 12 151st (top 46%) · National 1,250th (top 46%)
Season Ledger
Crawlable season-by-season stats
| Season | Team | Games | Scrimmage | Rush Yds | Rec Yds | TD | Overall |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 Postseason | TCU | 2 | 30 | 30 | 0 | 0 | 28.1 |
| 2024 Regular Season | TCU | 2 | -5 | -5 | 0 | 0 | 28.1 |
| 2025 Regular Season | TCU | 7 | 140 | 139 | 1 | 0 | 49.1 |
Related Context
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Transfer Portal History
Matched portal movement
Nate Palmer played RB for TCU. Across 2 tracked seasons, Nate Palmer recorded 164 rushing yards, 1 receiving yards, and 1 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2025 with TCU.
Player insights
Lead takeaway
Best season by value score: 2025 Regular Season
TCU paired 140 primary output with 38.5 efficiency.
Supporting note
2025 Regular Season role shape
backfield-heavy usage with 38.5 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: North Carolina
Win with 61 yards from scrimmage and efficient touch value. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.
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2025 Regular Season · TCU
Games
7
Scrimmage Yards / G
20
Efficiency
38.5
Usage
7.6
Consistency
36
Best Game by takeover score
North Carolina
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Game-by-Game Trend
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Chronological game order.
Game by game trend chart. North Carolina: 61. Abilene Christian: 27. SMU: 2. Arizona State: 0. Colorado: 4. BYU: 13. Cincinnati: 33
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. North Carolina: 7 by 86.3. Abilene Christian: 6 by 46.9. SMU: 2 by 10.4. Colorado: 4 by 10.4. BYU: 4 by 33.9. Cincinnati: 8 by 43
Split Comparison
Compare how this player performed across different situations. "Games" shows how many matchups are included in each split.
Wins25.4 · Games = 5 · +18.9 vs Losses
Losses6.5 · Games = 2 · -18.9 vs Wins
Game Log
Dense stat lines with inline explanations and season-linked highlights.
7 games
Featured metric
Scrimmage Yards
Top game by takeover score
North Carolina
Best efficiency game
86.3 vs North Carolina
Career Arc
Track team changes, role shifts, and season-to-season movement.
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TCU
2024-2025
Opening stop
Season Value Progression
202420242025
| Season | Team | Primary | Efficiency | Usage | Delta |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 Postseason | TCU | 25 | 15.7 | 10.1 | — |
| 2024 Regular Season | TCU | 25 | 15.7 | 10.1 | 0 |
| 2025 Regular Season | TCU | 140 | 38.5 | 7.6 | 115 |
Signature Performances
Top Games
#1 Featured game
@ No. 91 North Carolina
Week 1 · W 48-14
Win with 61 yards from scrimmage and efficient touch value.
61
Scrimmage Yards
72.9 takeover
61 scrimmage yards and 11.3 usage.
#2
vs Louisiana
Week 1 · W 34-3 · Postseason
30
Scrimmage Yards
61.4 takeover
Win with 30 yards from scrimmage and efficient touch value.
30 scrimmage yards and 18.5 usage.
#3
vs No. 56 Cincinnati
Week 14 · W 45-23 · Conference game
33
Scrimmage Yards
43.1 takeover
Win with 33 yards from scrimmage and efficient touch value.
33 scrimmage yards and 11.3 usage.
#4
vs Abilene Christian
Week 3 · W 42-21
27
Scrimmage Yards
41.4 takeover
Win with 27 yards from scrimmage and efficient touch value.
27 scrimmage yards and 11.5 usage.
#5
@ No. 18 BYU
Week 12 · L 13-44 · Conference game · Ranked opponent
13
Scrimmage Yards
27.1 takeover
Loss with 13 yards from scrimmage and efficient touch value.
13 scrimmage yards and 9.1 usage.
Top Seasons
#1 Season by Season Value
2025 Regular Season · TCU
140 primary output · 38.5 efficiency · 7.6 usage
49.1
#2
2024 Postseason · TCU
28.1
25 primary · 15.7 efficiency · 10.1 usage
#3
2024 Regular Season · TCU
28.1
25 primary · 15.7 efficiency · 10.1 usage
Milestones
0
100+ rush yards
0
150+ scrimmage yards
0
2+ TD games
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