Usage / Role
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Rotational offensive role
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Player Dossier
2023-2024Southern Miss
JQ Gray
RB • 5'8" • 160 lbs • Hattiesburg, MS, USA
Balanced backfield optionSteady chain mover
JQ Gray leans balanced backfield option traits and 43.5 efficiency.
Impact Production
11
Developing production for a back
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Reliability
9
Sporadic game-to-game production
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Star Power
21
Limited ceiling signals so far
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Career Arc
Value trend by season
Best season by Season Value: 2024 Regular Season · Southern Miss
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Snapshot
- Career Teams
- 1
- Unique Seasons
- 2
- Program Path
- Southern Miss
- Peak Game
- Peak game by takeover score: Troy
Player Story
JQ Gray built his college career from 2023 through 2024 as a running back from Hattiesburg, MS wearing No. 20, spending time with Southern Miss. The clearest part of JQ Gray's career was his backfield work: 112...
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- Committed To
- Southern Miss
- Commit Date
- Jan 1, 2023
JQ Gray, RB. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2024 Regular Season · Southern Miss. JQ Gray leans balanced backfield option traits and 43.5 efficiency.
Stat Footprint
Career production snapshot
- Scrimmage yards
- 125
- Rushing yards
- 112
- Receiving yards
- 13
Quick Answers
JQ Gray quick answers
- Latest team and position
- Southern Miss · RB
- Career Scrimmage Yards
- 125
- Tracked sample
- 2 unique seasons · 2 entries · 12 games
- Best season
- 2024 Regular Season · Southern Miss
- Top game
- Troy
- Recruit profile
- 3-star · Oak Grove HS · Southern Miss
- High school pipeline
- Oak Grove HS · 3 FBS recruits · 0 drafted players
- Latest roster
- No. 20 · Freshman
- 2024 Scrimmage yards rank
- 119 scrimmage yards · RB 429th (top 61%) · Sun Belt 143rd (top 54%) · National 1,327th (top 50%)
Season Ledger
Crawlable season-by-season stats
| Season | Team | Games | Scrimmage | Rush Yds | Rec Yds | TD | Overall |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 Regular Season | Southern Miss | 1 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 34.9 |
| 2024 Regular Season | Southern Miss | 11 | 119 | 106 | 13 | 0 | 49.7 |
Related Context
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JQ Gray played RB for Southern Miss. Across 2 tracked seasons, JQ Gray recorded 112 rushing yards and 13 receiving yards. His top tracked season came in 2024 with Southern Miss.
Player insights
Lead takeaway
Best season by value score: 2024 Regular Season
Southern Miss paired 119 primary output with 43.5 efficiency.
Supporting note
2024 Regular Season role shape
backfield-heavy usage with 43.5 efficiency.
Supporting note
Career value is trending up
2024 Regular Season improved on the prior stop by season value score.
Supporting note
Peak game by takeover score: Troy
Loss with 27 yards from scrimmage and efficient touch value. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.
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2024 Regular Season · Southern Miss
Games
11
Scrimmage Yards / G
10.8
Efficiency
43.5
Usage
6.1
Consistency
37.7
Best Game by takeover score
Troy
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Game-by-Game Trend
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Chronological game order.
Game by game trend chart. Kentucky: 6. SE Louisiana: 7. South Florida: 0. Jacksonville State: 19. Louisiana: 0. UL Monroe: 0. James Madison: 0. Marshall: 11. Texas State: 25. South Alabama: 24. Troy: 27
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. Kentucky: 1 by 50. SE Louisiana: 1 by 58.3. Jacksonville State: 3 by 66. Marshall: 5 by 22.9. Texas State: 11 by 23.7. South Alabama: 8 by 31.3. Troy: 6 by 52.5
Split Comparison
Compare how this player performed across different situations. "Games" shows how many matchups are included in each split.
Wins7 · Games = 1 · -4.2 vs Losses
Losses11.2 · Games = 10 · +4.2 vs Wins
Game Log
Dense stat lines with inline explanations and season-linked highlights.
11 games
Featured metric
Scrimmage Yards
Top game by takeover score
Troy
Best efficiency game
66 vs Jacksonville State
| Result | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sat 11/30 | @ Troy | L 20-52 | 5 | 27 | 5.40 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4.5 |
| Sat 11/23 | vs South Alabama | L 14-35 | 8 | 24 | 3 | 0 | — | — | 3 |
| Sun 11/17 | @ Texas State | L 3-58 | 11 | 25 | 2.30 | 0 | — | — | 2.3 |
| Sat 11/9 | vs Marshall | L 3-37 | 5 | 11 | 2.20 | 0 | — | — | 2.2 |
| Sat 10/26 | @ James Madison | L 15-32 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Sat 10/12 | @ UL Monroe | L 21-38 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Sat 10/5 | vs Louisiana | L 13-23 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Sat 9/21 | @ Jacksonville State | L 7-44 | 3 | 19 | 6.30 | 0 | — | — | 6.3 |
| Sat 9/14 | vs South Florida | L 24-49 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Sat 9/7 | vs SE Louisiana | W 35-10 | — | — | — | — | 1 | 7 | 7 |
| Sat 8/31 | @ Kentucky | L 0-31 | — | — | — | — | 1 | 6 | 6 |
Player Story
JQ Gray story
JQ Gray built his college career from 2023 through 2024 as a running back from Hattiesburg, MS wearing No. 20, spending time with Southern Miss. The clearest part of JQ Gray's career was his backfield work: 112 rushing yards, 35 carries, and 13 receiving yards across 12 career games in the available record. His career also includes 13 receiving yards and 333 return yards, giving the story more than a single-category snapshot. That gives JQ Gray's career enough real context without stretching the story beyond the available production.
Career Arc
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Southern Miss
2023-2024
Opening stop
Season Value Progression
20232024
| Season | Team | Primary | Efficiency | Usage | Delta |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 Regular Season | Southern Miss | 6 | 20.8 | 4.8 | — |
| 2024 Regular Season | Southern Miss | 119 | 43.5 | 6.1 | 113 |
Signature Performances
Top Games
#1 Featured game
@ Troy
Week 14 · L 20-52 · Conference game
Loss with 27 yards from scrimmage and efficient touch value.
27
Scrimmage Yards
62.5 takeover
27 scrimmage yards and 12.2 usage.
#2
@ Texas State
Week 12 · L 3-58 · Conference game
25
Scrimmage Yards
56.9 takeover
Loss with 25 yards from scrimmage and efficient touch value.
25 scrimmage yards and 19 usage.
#3
vs South Alabama
Week 13 · L 14-35 · Conference game
24
Scrimmage Yards
52.2 takeover
Loss with 24 yards from scrimmage and efficient touch value.
24 scrimmage yards and 12.7 usage.
#4
@ Jacksonville State
Week 4 · L 7-44
19
Scrimmage Yards
51.3 takeover
Loss with 19 yards from scrimmage and efficient touch value.
19 scrimmage yards and 6.1 usage.
#5
vs Alcorn State
Week 1 · W 40-14
6
Scrimmage Yards
44.8 takeover
Win with 6 yards from scrimmage and efficient touch value.
6 scrimmage yards and 4.8 usage.
Top Seasons
#1 Season by Season Value
2024 Regular Season · Southern Miss
119 primary output · 43.5 efficiency · 6.1 usage
49.7
#2
2023 Regular Season · Southern Miss
34.9
6 primary · 20.8 efficiency · 4.8 usage
Milestones
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100+ rush yards
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150+ scrimmage yards
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2+ TD games
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