Usage / Role
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Rotational offensive role
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Player Dossier
2024-2025Mississippi State
Xavier Gayten
RB • 6'0" • 205 lbs • Brookhaven, MS, USA
Balanced backfield optionSteady chain mover
Xavier Gayten leans balanced backfield option traits and 43.6 efficiency.
Impact Production
4
Developing production for a back
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Reliability
15
Sporadic game-to-game production
lowhigh
Star Power
18
Limited ceiling signals so far
limitedstar
Career Arc
Value trend by season
Best season by Season Value: 2024 Regular Season · Mississippi State
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Snapshot
- Career Teams
- 1
- Unique Seasons
- 2
- Program Path
- Mississippi State
- Peak Game
- Peak game by takeover score: Alcorn State
Player Story
Xavier Gayten built his college career from 2024 through 2025 as a running back from Brookhaven, MS wearing No. 22, spending time with Mississippi State. The clearest part of Xavier Gayten's career was his backfield...
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- Committed To
- Mississippi State
- Commit Date
- Jan 1, 2024
Xavier Gayten, RB. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2024 Regular Season · Mississippi State. Xavier Gayten leans balanced backfield option traits and 43.6 efficiency.
Stat Footprint
Career production snapshot
- Scrimmage yards
- 284
- Rushing yards
- 272
- Receiving yards
- 12
- Touchdowns
- 3
Quick Answers
Xavier Gayten quick answers
- Latest team and position
- Mississippi State · RB
- Career Scrimmage Yards
- 284
- Tracked sample
- 2 unique seasons · 3 entries · 14 games
- Best season
- 2024 Regular Season · Mississippi State
- Top game
- Alcorn State
- Recruit profile
- 4-star · Brookhaven · Mississippi State
- High school pipeline
- Brookhaven · 9 FBS recruits · 0 drafted players
- Latest roster
- No. 22 · Sophomore
- 2025 Scrimmage yards rank
- 159 scrimmage yards · RB 400th (top 55%) · SEC 144th (top 42%) · National 1,179th (top 43%)
Season Ledger
Crawlable season-by-season stats
| Season | Team | Games | Scrimmage | Rush Yds | Rec Yds | TD | Overall |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 Regular Season | Mississippi State | 5 | 125 | 115 | 10 | 1 | 48.1 |
| 2025 Postseason | Mississippi State | 9 | 8 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 47.4 |
| 2025 Regular Season | Mississippi State | 9 | 151 | 149 | 2 | 2 | 47.4 |
Related Context
Keep exploring Xavier Gayten
Xavier Gayten played RB for Mississippi State. Across 2 tracked seasons, Xavier Gayten recorded 272 rushing yards, 12 receiving yards, and 1 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2025 with Mississippi State.
Player insights
Lead takeaway
Best season by value score: 2024 Regular Season
Mississippi State paired 125 primary output with 69.1 efficiency.
Supporting note
2025 Postseason role shape
backfield-heavy usage with 43.6 efficiency.
Supporting note
Career value stayed steady
2025 Regular Season tracked close to the prior stop by season value score.
Supporting note
Peak game by takeover score: Alcorn State
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 Postseason · Mississippi State
Games
9
Scrimmage Yards / G
17.7
Efficiency
43.6
Usage
5.6
Consistency
29.9
Best Game by takeover score
Alcorn State
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Game-by-Game Trend
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Chronological game order.
Game by game trend chart. Wake Forest: 8. Southern Miss: -4. Alcorn State: 50. Northern Illinois: 45. Tennessee: 0. Florida: 27. Texas: 8. Missouri: 17. Ole Miss: 8
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. Wake Forest: 5 by 16.7. Southern Miss: 1 by 0. Alcorn State: 4 by 100. Northern Illinois: 4 by 96.9. Florida: 6 by 46.9. Texas: 4 by 14.6. Missouri: 6 by 31.8. Ole Miss: 2 by 41.7
Split Comparison
Compare how this player performed across different situations. "Games" shows how many matchups are included in each split.
Wins30.3 · Games = 3 · +19 vs Losses
Losses11.3 · Games = 6 · -19 vs Wins
Game Log
Dense stat lines with inline explanations and season-linked highlights.
9 games
Featured metric
Scrimmage Yards
Top game by takeover score
Alcorn State
Best efficiency game
100 vs Alcorn State
| Result | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sat 1/3 | vs Wake Forest | L 29-43 | 5 | 8 | 1.60 | 0 | — | — | 1.6 |
| Fri 11/28 | vs Ole Miss | L 19-38 | 2 | 8 | 4 | 0 | — | — | 4 |
| Sun 11/16 | @ Missouri | L 27-49 | 5 | 16 | 3.20 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2.8 |
| Sat 10/25 | vs Texas | L 38-45 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 2 |
| Sat 10/18 | @ Florida | L 21-23 | 6 | 27 | 4.50 | 0 | — | — | 4.5 |
| Sat 9/27 | vs Tennessee | L 34-41 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Sat 9/20 | vs Northern Illinois | W 38-10 | 4 | 45 | 11.30 | 1 | — | — | 11.3 |
| Sat 9/13 | vs Alcorn State | W 63-0 | 4 | 50 | 12.50 | 1 | — | — | 12.5 |
| Sat 8/30 | @ Southern Miss | W 34-17 | — | — | — | — | 1 | -4 | -4 |
Player Story
Xavier Gayten story
Xavier Gayten built his college career from 2024 through 2025 as a running back from Brookhaven, MS wearing No. 22, spending time with Mississippi State. The clearest part of Xavier Gayten's career was his backfield work: 272 rushing yards, 37 carries, 3 rushing touchdowns, and 12 receiving yards across 14 career games in the available record. His career also includes 12 receiving yards and 1 tackle, giving the story more than a single-category snapshot. That gives Xavier Gayten's career enough real context without stretching the story beyond the available production.
Career Arc
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Mississippi State
2024-2025
Opening stop
Season Value Progression
202420252025
| Season | Team | Primary | Efficiency | Usage | Delta |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 Regular Season | Mississippi State | 125 | 69.1 | 3.4 | — |
| 2025 Postseason | Mississippi State | 159 | 43.6 | 5.6 | 34 |
| 2025 Regular Season | Mississippi State | 159 | 43.6 | 5.6 | 0 |
Signature Performances
Top Games
#1 Featured game
vs Alcorn State
Week 3 · W 63-0
Win with 50 yards from scrimmage and efficient touch value.
50
Scrimmage Yards
74.5 takeover
50 scrimmage yards and 8.2 usage.
#2
vs Massachusetts
Week 10 · W 45-20
69
Scrimmage Yards
71.1 takeover
Win with 69 yards from scrimmage and efficient touch value.
69 scrimmage yards and 4.7 usage.
#3
vs No. 128 Northern Illinois
Week 4 · W 38-10
45
Scrimmage Yards
68.6 takeover
Win with 45 yards from scrimmage and efficient touch value.
45 scrimmage yards and 6.6 usage.
#4
vs Arkansas
Week 9 · L 25-58 · Conference game
38
Scrimmage Yards
56.2 takeover
Loss with 38 yards from scrimmage and efficient touch value.
38 scrimmage yards and 4.7 usage.
#5
@ No. 63 Florida
Week 8 · L 21-23 · Conference game
27
Scrimmage Yards
42 takeover
Loss with 27 yards from scrimmage and efficient touch value.
27 scrimmage yards and 8.8 usage.
Top Seasons
#1 Season by Season Value
2024 Regular Season · Mississippi State
125 primary output · 69.1 efficiency · 3.4 usage
48.1
#2
2025 Postseason · Mississippi State
47.4
159 primary · 43.6 efficiency · 5.6 usage
#3
2025 Regular Season · Mississippi State
47.4
159 primary · 43.6 efficiency · 5.6 usage
Milestones
0
100+ rush yards
0
150+ scrimmage yards
0
2+ TD games
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