Usage / Role
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Rotational offensive role
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Player Dossier
2024-2025Texas 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.
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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- 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
| Season | Team | Games | Scrimmage | Rush Yds | Rec Yds | TD | Overall |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 Regular Season | Rice | 5 | 158 | 158 | 0 | 2 | 53.5 |
| 2025 Regular Season | Texas State | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | - |
Related Context
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Transfer Portal History
Matched portal movement
| Season | Path | Movement | Value | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Rice to Texas State | G5/FCS to G5/FCS | 18 | Jul 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
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
Rice
2024
Opening stop
- 2
Texas State
2025
Final stop
Season Value Progression
20242025
| Season | Team | Primary | Efficiency | Usage | Delta |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 Regular Season | Rice | 158 | 51.6 | 9.8 | — |
| 2025 Regular Season | Texas State | 0 | — | — | -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
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0 primary · — efficiency · — usage
Milestones
0
100+ rush yards
0
150+ scrimmage yards
1
2+ TD games
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