Player Dossier

2024-2025

Purdue

Jaheim Merriweather

RB • 6'2" • 215 lbs • Jackson, TN, USA

Balanced backfield optionSteady chain mover

Jaheim Merriweather leans balanced backfield option traits and 20.8 efficiency.

Usage / Role

1%

Rotational offensive role

lowfeatured

Impact Production

2

Developing production for a back

lowelite

Reliability

15

Sporadic game-to-game production

lowhigh

Star Power

14

Limited ceiling signals so far

limitedstar

Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by Season Value: 2024 Regular Season · Purdue

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Snapshot

Career Teams
1
Unique Seasons
2
Program Path
Purdue
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: Wisconsin
3★

Recruit Profile

Class 2024 · Rating 0.8747

Bearden · Knoxville, TN

Committed To
Purdue
Commit Date
Jan 1, 2024

Jaheim Merriweather, RB. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2024 Regular Season · Purdue. Jaheim Merriweather leans balanced backfield option traits and 20.8 efficiency.

Stat Footprint

Career production snapshot

Scrimmage yards
102
Rushing yards
81
Receiving yards
21
Touchdowns
1

Quick Answers

Jaheim Merriweather quick answers

Latest team and position
Purdue · RB
Career Scrimmage Yards
102
Tracked sample
2 unique seasons · 2 entries · 7 games
Best season
2024 Regular Season · Purdue
Top game
Wisconsin
Recruit profile
3-star · Bearden · Purdue
High school pipeline
Bearden · 6 FBS recruits · 0 drafted players
Latest roster
No. 23 · Sophomore
2025 Scrimmage yards rank
4 scrimmage yards · RB 709th (top 97%) · Big Ten 330th (top 96%) · National 2,649th (top 96%)

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesScrimmageRush YdsRec YdsTDOverall
2024 Regular SeasonPurdue6987721152.9
2025 Regular SeasonPurdue1440033.9

Related Context

Transfer Portal History

Matched portal movement

SeasonPathMovementValueDate
2026Purdue to TroyP4 to G5/FCS76.8Jan 17, 2026

Jaheim Merriweather played RB for Purdue. Across 2 tracked seasons, Jaheim Merriweather recorded 81 rushing yards, 21 receiving yards, and 1 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2024 with Purdue.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2024 Regular Season

Purdue paired 98 primary output with 47.2 efficiency.

Supporting note

2025 Regular Season role shape

backfield-heavy usage with 20.8 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: USC

Loss with 4 yards from scrimmage and efficient touch value. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.

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2025 Regular Season · Purdue

Games

1

Scrimmage Yards / G

4

Efficiency

20.8

Usage

3.8

Consistency

100

Best Game by takeover score

USC

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All Games4 · Games = 1

Game Log

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1 games

Featured metric

Scrimmage Yards

Top game by takeover score

USC

Best efficiency game

20.8 vs USC

Result
Sat 9/13vs USCL 17-3324202

Career Arc

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  1. 1

    Purdue

    2024-2025

    Opening stop

Season Value Progression

20242025
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2024 Regular SeasonPurdue9847.26.8
2025 Regular SeasonPurdue420.83.8-94

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

@ Wisconsin

Week 6 · L 6-52 · Conference game

Loss with 35 yards from scrimmage and efficient touch value.

35

Scrimmage Yards

69.1 takeover

35 scrimmage yards and 2.6 usage.

#2

vs Penn State

Week 12 · L 10-49 · Conference game

28

Scrimmage Yards

63 takeover

Loss with 28 yards from scrimmage and efficient touch value.

28 scrimmage yards and 7 usage.

#3

vs No. 16 USC

Week 3 · L 17-33 · Conference game · Ranked opponent

4

Scrimmage Yards

43.9 takeover

Loss with 4 yards from scrimmage and efficient touch value.

4 scrimmage yards and 3.8 usage.

#4

@ Ohio State

Week 11 · L 0-45 · Conference game

11

Scrimmage Yards

29.3 takeover

Loss with 11 yards from scrimmage and efficient touch value.

11 scrimmage yards and 6.4 usage.

#5

vs Indiana State

Week 1 · W 49-0

12

Scrimmage Yards

28.2 takeover

Win with 12 yards from scrimmage and efficient touch value.

12 scrimmage yards and 6.6 usage.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2024 Regular Season · Purdue

98 primary output · 47.2 efficiency · 6.8 usage

52.9

#2

2025 Regular Season · Purdue

33.9

4 primary · 20.8 efficiency · 3.8 usage

Milestones

0

100+ rush yards

0

150+ scrimmage yards

0

2+ TD games