Usage / Role
21%
Rotational offensive role
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Player Dossier
2024-2025Louisville
Duke Watson
RB • 6'0" • 180 lbs • Forsyth, GA, USA
Balanced backfield optionSteady chain mover
Duke Watson leans balanced backfield option traits and 36.7 efficiency.
Impact Production
28
Developing production for a back
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Reliability
22
Sporadic game-to-game production
lowhigh
Star Power
39
Limited ceiling signals so far
limitedstar
Career Arc
Value trend by season
Best season by Season Value: 2024 Postseason · Louisville
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Snapshot
- Career Teams
- 1
- Unique Seasons
- 2
- Program Path
- Louisville
- Peak Game
- Peak game by takeover score: Stanford
Player Story
Duke Watson built his college career from 2024 through 2025 as a running back from Forsyth, GA wearing No. 26, spending time with Louisville. The clearest part of Duke Watson's career was his backfield work: 755...
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- Committed To
- Louisville
- Commit Date
- Jan 1, 2024
Duke Watson, RB. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2024 Postseason · Louisville. Duke Watson leans balanced backfield option traits and 36.7 efficiency.
Stat Footprint
Career production snapshot
- Scrimmage yards
- 864
- Rushing yards
- 755
- Receiving yards
- 109
- Touchdowns
- 10
Quick Answers
Duke Watson quick answers
- Latest team and position
- Louisville · RB
- Career Scrimmage Yards
- 864
- Tracked sample
- 2 unique seasons · 3 entries · 19 games
- Best season
- 2024 Postseason · Louisville
- Top game
- Stanford
- Recruit profile
- 4-star · Mary Persons · Louisville
- High school pipeline
- Mary Persons · 11 FBS recruits · 0 drafted players
- Latest roster
- No. 26 · Sophomore
- 2025 Scrimmage yards rank
- 207 scrimmage yards · RB 366th (top 50%) · ACC 126th (top 35%) · National 1,027th (top 38%)
Season Ledger
Crawlable season-by-season stats
| Season | Team | Games | Scrimmage | Rush Yds | Rec Yds | TD | Overall |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 Postseason | Louisville | 12 | 84 | 83 | 1 | 0 | 63.8 |
| 2024 Regular Season | Louisville | 12 | 573 | 514 | 59 | 8 | 63.8 |
| 2025 Regular Season | Louisville | 7 | 207 | 158 | 49 | 2 | 45 |
Related Context
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Transfer Portal History
Matched portal movement
| Season | Path | Movement | Value | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Louisville to UCF | P4 to P4 | 78.9 | Jan 10, 2026 |
Duke Watson played RB for Louisville. Across 2 tracked seasons, Duke Watson recorded 755 rushing yards, 109 receiving yards, and 10 touchdowns. His top tracked season came in 2024 with Louisville.
Player insights
Lead takeaway
Best season by value score: 2024 Postseason
Louisville paired 657 primary output with 68.1 efficiency.
Supporting note
2025 Regular Season role shape
backfield-heavy usage with 36.7 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: Pittsburgh
Win with 50 yards from scrimmage and efficient touch value. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.
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2025 Regular Season · Louisville
Games
7
Scrimmage Yards / G
29.6
Efficiency
36.7
Usage
15.2
Consistency
68.6
Best Game by takeover score
Pittsburgh
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Game-by-Game Trend
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Chronological game order.
Game by game trend chart. Eastern Kentucky: 32. James Madison: 13. Pittsburgh: 50. Virginia: 8. California: 19. Clemson: 43. SMU: 42
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. Eastern Kentucky: 3 by 50.7. James Madison: 7 by 19.3. Pittsburgh: 15 by 34.9. Virginia: 2 by 29.2. California: 8 by 24.7. Clemson: 13 by 35.9. SMU: 7 by 62.5
Split Comparison
Compare how this player performed across different situations. "Games" shows how many matchups are included in each split.
Wins31.7 · Games = 3 · +3.7 vs Losses
Losses28 · Games = 4 · -3.7 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
Pittsburgh
Best efficiency game
62.5 vs SMU
Player Story
Duke Watson story
Duke Watson built his college career from 2024 through 2025 as a running back from Forsyth, GA wearing No. 26, spending time with Louisville. The clearest part of Duke Watson's career was his backfield work: 755 rushing yards, 116 carries, 8 rushing touchdowns, and 109 receiving yards across 19 career games in the available record. His largest box-score season came in 2024 with Louisville. 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 109 receiving yards and 78 return yards, giving the story more than a single-category snapshot. With 19 career games in the available record, his career has enough shape to show both opportunity and production across Louisville.
The arc is straightforward: Duke Watson 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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Louisville
2024-2025
Opening stop
Season Value Progression
202420242025
| Season | Team | Primary | Efficiency | Usage | Delta |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 Postseason | Louisville | 657 | 68.1 | 11.3 | — |
| 2024 Regular Season | Louisville | 657 | 68.1 | 11.3 | 0 |
| 2025 Regular Season | Louisville | 207 | 36.7 | 15.2 | -450 |
Signature Performances
Top Games
#1 Featured game
@ Stanford
Week 12 · L 35-38 · Conference game
Loss with 117 yards from scrimmage and efficient touch value.
117
Scrimmage Yards
85 takeover
117 scrimmage yards and 21.2 usage.
#2
@ Kentucky
Week 14 · W 41-14
112
Scrimmage Yards
76.4 takeover
Win with 112 yards from scrimmage and efficient touch value.
112 scrimmage yards and 11.7 usage.
#3
@ Washington
Week 1 · W 35-34 · Postseason
84
Scrimmage Yards
72.5 takeover
Win with 84 yards from scrimmage and efficient touch value.
84 scrimmage yards and 22.4 usage.
#4
vs Austin Peay
Week 1 · W 62-0
86
Scrimmage Yards
68.2 takeover
Win with 86 yards from scrimmage and efficient touch value.
86 scrimmage yards and 10.9 usage.
#5
@ No. 36 Pittsburgh
Week 5 · W 34-27 · Conference game
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Scrimmage Yards
66.6 takeover
Win with 50 yards from scrimmage and efficient touch value.
50 scrimmage yards and 22.7 usage.
Top Seasons
#1 Season by Season Value
2024 Postseason · Louisville
657 primary output · 68.1 efficiency · 11.3 usage
63.8
#2
2024 Regular Season · Louisville
63.8
657 primary · 68.1 efficiency · 11.3 usage
#3
2025 Regular Season · Louisville
45
207 primary · 36.7 efficiency · 15.2 usage
Milestones
2
100+ rush yards
0
150+ scrimmage yards
2
2+ TD games
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