Player Dossier

2023-2025

Marshall

Adrian Norton

WR • 6'0" • 190 lbs • Huber Heights, OH, USA

Vertical playmakerExplosive finisher

Adrian Norton reads as a vertical playmaker based on recent role and receiving efficiency.

Usage / Role

5%

Rotational offensive role

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Impact Production

15

Developing production for a receiver

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Reliability

8

Sporadic game-to-game production

lowhigh

Star Power

24

Limited ceiling signals so far

limitedstar

Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by Season Value: 2024 Regular Season · Akron

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Snapshot

Career Teams
2
Unique Seasons
3
Program Path
Akron • Marshall
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: Western Michigan

Player Story

Adrian Norton built his college career from 2023 through 2025 as a wide receiver from Huber Heights, OH wearing No. 13, spending time with Akron and Marshall. The clearest part of Adrian Norton's career was his...

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3★

Recruit Profile

Class 2023 · Rating 0.827

Stebbins · Dayton, OH

Committed To
Akron
Commit Date
Jan 1, 2023

Adrian Norton, WR. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2024 Regular Season · Akron. Adrian Norton reads as a vertical playmaker based on recent role and receiving efficiency.

Stat Footprint

Career production snapshot

Receiving yards
1,286
Receptions
80
Touchdowns
12

Quick Answers

Adrian Norton quick answers

Latest team and position
Marshall · WR
Career Receiving Yards
1,286
Tracked sample
3 unique seasons · 3 entries · 23 games
Best season
2024 Regular Season · Akron
Top game
Western Michigan
Recruit profile
3-star · Stebbins · Akron
High school pipeline
Stebbins · 4 FBS recruits · 0 drafted players
Latest roster
No. 13 · Junior
2025 Receiving yards rank
383 receiving yards · WR 296th (top 27%) · Sun Belt 35th (top 17%) · National 345th (top 16%)

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesRecRec YdsTDOverall
2023 Regular SeasonAkron5971038
2024 Regular SeasonAkron1043832782.3
2025 Regular SeasonMarshall828383553.1

Related Context

Adrian Norton played WR for Akron and Marshall. Across 3 tracked seasons, Adrian Norton recorded 1,286 receiving yards and 12 touchdowns. His top tracked season came in 2024 with Akron.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2024 Regular Season

Akron paired 832 primary output with 96.9 efficiency.

Supporting note

2023 Regular Season role shape

target-driven usage with 52 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 Akron, Marshall.

Supporting note

Peak game by takeover score: Bowling Green

Loss with an explosive receiving profile. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.

Analysis workspace

Season Workbench

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Season Explorer

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2023 Regular Season · Akron

Games

5

Receiving Yards / G

14.2

Efficiency

52

Usage

7.8

Consistency

65.4

Best Game by takeover score

Bowling Green

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Game-by-Game Trend

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Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. Kentucky: 14. Northern Illinois: 4. Bowling Green: 30. Kent State: 8. Miami (OH): 15

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: 2 by 46.7. Northern Illinois: 1 by 26.7. Bowling Green: 2 by 100. Kent State: 1 by 53.3. Miami (OH): 3 by 33.3

Split Comparison

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

Wins8 · Games = 1 · -7.8 vs Losses
Losses15.8 · Games = 4 · +7.8 vs Wins

Game Log

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

5 games

Featured metric

Receiving Yards

Top game by takeover score

Bowling Green

Best efficiency game

100 vs Bowling Green

Result
Thu 11/9@ Miami (OH)L 0-193155508
Wed 11/1vs Kent StateW 31-27188808
Sat 10/21@ Bowling GreenL 14-412301515017
Sat 10/7vs Northern IllinoisL 14-55144404
Sat 9/16@ KentuckyL 3-3521477010

Player Story

Adrian Norton story

Adrian Norton built his college career from 2023 through 2025 as a wide receiver from Huber Heights, OH wearing No. 13, spending time with Akron and Marshall. The clearest part of Adrian Norton's career was his receiving role: 80 catches, 1,286 receiving yards, and 12 touchdowns across 23 career games in the available record. His largest box-score season came in 2024 with Akron. Those numbers show where he fit, how often the ball or action found him, and how his role developed over time.

The value of the career arc is that it connects production to role, not just a name on a roster. His career also includes 15 return yards, giving the story more than a single-category snapshot. With 23 career games in the available record, his career has enough shape to show both opportunity and production across Akron and Marshall.

The arc is straightforward: Adrian Norton moved through the depth chart, found a larger role, and turned that opportunity into production that can be understood through standard football numbers.

Career Arc

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

  1. 1

    Akron

    2023-2024

    Opening stop

  2. 2

    Marshall

    2025

    Final stop

Season Value Progression

202320242025
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2023 Regular SeasonAkron71527.8
2024 Regular SeasonAkron83296.921.2761
2025 Regular SeasonMarshall38373.117.2-449

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

@ Western Michigan

Week 7 · L 24-34 · Conference game

Loss with an explosive receiving profile.

168

Receiving Yards

100 takeover

168 receiving yards with a 100 efficiency score.

#2

vs No. 103 Georgia Southern

Week 14 · L 19-24 · Conference game

160

Receiving Yards

100 takeover

Loss with an explosive receiving profile.

160 receiving yards with a 100 efficiency score.

#3

@ Kent State

Week 13 · W 38-17 · Conference game

107

Receiving Yards

87.9 takeover

Win with an explosive receiving profile.

107 receiving yards with a 100 efficiency score.

#4

vs Buffalo

Week 10 · L 30-41 · Conference game

98

Receiving Yards

81.8 takeover

Loss with an explosive receiving profile.

98 receiving yards with a 100 efficiency score.

#5

vs Colgate

Week 3 · W 31-20

125

Receiving Yards

77.2 takeover

Win with an explosive receiving profile.

125 receiving yards with a 100 efficiency score.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2024 Regular Season · Akron

832 primary output · 96.9 efficiency · 21.2 usage

82.3

#2

2025 Regular Season · Marshall

53.1

383 primary · 73.1 efficiency · 17.2 usage

#3

2023 Regular Season · Akron

38

71 primary · 52 efficiency · 7.8 usage

Milestones

4

100+ receiving yards

2

8+ catch outings

1

2+ TD games