Lead takeaway
Best season by value score: 2013 Regular Season
Purdue paired 253 primary output with 51.2 efficiency.
Player Stats
Brandon Cottom College Stats
Career production, season-by-season totals, and the selected-season workbench are grouped here for stat-first searches.
Stat Footprint
Career production snapshot
- Scrimmage yards
- 624
- Rushing yards
- 436
- Receiving yards
- 188
- Touchdowns
- 6
Season Ledger
Crawlable season-by-season stats
| Season | Team | Games | Scrimmage | Rush Yds | Rec Yds | TD | Overall |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 Regular Season | Purdue | 3 | 70 | 70 | 0 | 0 | 22.9 |
| 2012 Postseason | Purdue | 11 | 40 | 8 | 32 | 1 | 52.1 |
| 2012 Regular Season | Purdue | 11 | 248 | 201 | 47 | 3 | 52.1 |
| 2013 Regular Season | Purdue | 9 | 253 | 154 | 99 | 1 | 54.8 |
| 2014 Regular Season | Purdue | 5 | 13 | 3 | 10 | 1 | 24.9 |
Player insights
Supporting note
2014 Regular Season role shape
backfield-heavy usage with 38.2 efficiency.
Supporting note
Career value cooled off
2014 Regular Season fell back from the prior stop by season value score.
Supporting note
Peak game by takeover score: Notre Dame
Loss with 7 yards from scrimmage and efficient touch value. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.
Analysis workspace
Season Workbench
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Season Explorer
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2014 Regular Season · Purdue
Games
5
Scrimmage Yards / G
2.6
Efficiency
38.2
Usage
1.1
Consistency
53.6
Best Game by takeover score
Notre Dame
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Active game
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Game-by-Game Trend
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Chronological game order.
Game by game trend chart. Notre Dame: 7. Southern Illinois: 3. Iowa: 0. Northwestern: 0. Indiana: 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. Notre Dame: 1 by 58.3. Southern Illinois: 1 by 25. Indiana: 1 by 31.3
Split Comparison
Compare how this player performed across different situations. "Games" shows how many matchups are included in each split.
Wins3 · Games = 1 · +0.5 vs Losses
Losses2.5 · Games = 4 · -0.5 vs Wins
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