Player Dossier

2024-2025

Texas State

Taji Atkins

RB • 5'7" • 177 lbs • Houston, TX, USA

Balanced backfield optionSteady chain mover

Taji Atkins leans balanced backfield option traits and partial efficiency context.

Usage / Role

9%

Rotational offensive role

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Impact Production

31

Developing production for a back

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Reliability

17

Sporadic game-to-game production

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Star Power

50

Limited ceiling signals so far

limitedstar

Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by Season Value: 2024 Regular Season · Rice

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Snapshot

Career Teams
2
Unique Seasons
2
Program Path
Rice • Texas State
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: Texas Southern

Player Story

Taji Atkins built his college career from 2024 through 2025 as a running back from Houston, TX wearing No. 21, spending time with Rice and Texas State. The clearest part of Taji Atkins' career was his backfield work:...

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3★

Recruit Profile

Class 2024 · Rating 0.837

Westfield · Houston, TX

Committed To
Rice
Commit Date
Jan 1, 2024

Taji Atkins, RB. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2024 Regular Season · Rice. Taji Atkins leans balanced backfield option traits and partial efficiency context.

Stat Footprint

Career production snapshot

Scrimmage yards
158
Rushing yards
158
Touchdowns
2

Quick Answers

Taji Atkins quick answers

Latest team and position
Texas State · RB
Career Scrimmage Yards
158
Tracked sample
2 unique seasons · 2 entries · 5 games
Best season
2024 Regular Season · Rice
Top game
Texas Southern
Recruit profile
3-star · Westfield · Rice
High school pipeline
Westfield · 47 FBS recruits · 3 drafted players
Latest roster
No. 21 · Sophomore

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesScrimmageRush YdsRec YdsTDOverall
2024 Regular SeasonRice51581580253.5
2025 Regular SeasonTexas State00000-

Related Context

Transfer Portal History

Matched portal movement

SeasonPathMovementValueDate
2025Rice to Texas StateG5/FCS to G5/FCS18Jul 8, 2025

Taji Atkins played RB for Rice and Texas State. Across 2 tracked seasons, Taji Atkins recorded 158 rushing yards and 2 touchdowns. His top tracked season came in 2024 with Rice.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2024 Regular Season

Rice paired 158 primary output with 51.6 efficiency.

Supporting note

2024 Regular Season role shape

backfield-heavy usage with 51.6 efficiency.

Supporting note

Career value cooled off

2025 Regular Season fell back from the prior stop by season value score.

Supporting note

Multi-stop career journey

Production spans 2 team stops, with role shifts visible across Rice, Texas State.

Supporting note

Peak game by takeover score: Texas Southern

Win with 91 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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2024 Regular Season · Rice

Games

5

Scrimmage Yards / G

31.6

Efficiency

51.6

Usage

9.8

Consistency

34.4

Best Game by takeover score

Texas Southern

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Game-by-Game Trend

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Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. Sam Houston: 4. Texas Southern: 91. Houston: 20. Army: 3. Charlotte: 40

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. Sam Houston: 2 by 20.8. Texas Southern: 11 by 84.5. Houston: 4 by 52.1. Army: 1 by 31.3. Charlotte: 6 by 69.4

Split Comparison

Compare how this player performed across different situations. "Games" shows how many matchups are included in each split.

Wins91 · Games = 1 · +74.3 vs Losses
Losses16.8 · Games = 4 · -74.3 vs Wins

Game Log

Dense stat lines with inline explanations and season-linked highlights.

5 games

Featured metric

Scrimmage Yards

Top game by takeover score

Texas Southern

Best efficiency game

84.5 vs Texas Southern

Result
Sat 9/28vs CharlotteL 20-216406.7006.7
Sat 9/21@ ArmyL 14-3713303
Sun 9/15@ HoustonL 7-33420505
Sat 9/7vs Texas Southern2+ TDW 69-711918.3028.3
Sat 8/31vs Sam HoustonL 14-3424202

Player Story

Taji Atkins story

Taji Atkins built his college career from 2024 through 2025 as a running back from Houston, TX wearing No. 21, spending time with Rice and Texas State. The clearest part of Taji Atkins' career was his backfield work: 158 rushing yards, 24 carries, and 2 rushing touchdowns across 5 career games in the available record. That gives Taji Atkins' career enough real context without stretching the story beyond the available production.

Career Arc

Track team changes, role shifts, and season-to-season movement.

  1. 1

    Rice

    2024

    Opening stop

  2. 2

    Texas State

    2025

    Final stop

Season Value Progression

20242025
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2024 Regular SeasonRice15851.69.8
2025 Regular SeasonTexas State0-158

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

vs Texas Southern

Week 2 · W 69-7

Win with 91 yards from scrimmage and efficient touch value.

91

Scrimmage Yards

81.3 takeover

91 scrimmage yards and 20.8 usage.

#2

vs Charlotte

Week 5 · L 20-21 · Conference game

40

Scrimmage Yards

48.8 takeover

Loss with 40 yards from scrimmage and efficient touch value.

40 scrimmage yards and 11.5 usage.

#3

@ Houston

Week 3 · L 7-33

20

Scrimmage Yards

34.2 takeover

Loss with 20 yards from scrimmage and efficient touch value.

20 scrimmage yards and 10 usage.

#4

@ Army

Week 4 · L 14-37 · Conference game

3

Scrimmage Yards

13.8 takeover

Loss with 3 yards from scrimmage and efficient touch value.

3 scrimmage yards and 2.4 usage.

#5

vs Sam Houston

Week 1 · L 14-34

4

Scrimmage Yards

12.6 takeover

Loss with 4 yards from scrimmage and efficient touch value.

4 scrimmage yards and 4.4 usage.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2024 Regular Season · Rice

158 primary output · 51.6 efficiency · 9.8 usage

53.5

#2

2025 Regular Season · Texas State

0 primary · efficiency · usage

Milestones

0

100+ rush yards

0

150+ scrimmage yards

1

2+ TD games