Player Dossier

2025-2025

North Carolina

Jaylen McGill

RB • 5'10" • 200 lbs • Spartanburg, SC, USA

Balanced backfield optionSteady chain mover

Jaylen McGill leans balanced backfield option traits and 32.2 efficiency.

Usage / Role

6%

Rotational offensive role

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Impact Production

10

Developing production for a back

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Reliability

1

Sporadic game-to-game production

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Star Power

22

Limited ceiling signals so far

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Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by Season Value: 2025 Regular Season · North Carolina

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Snapshot

Career Teams
1
Unique Seasons
1
Program Path
North Carolina
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: Virginia

Player Story

Jaylen McGill built his college career in 2025 as a running back from Spartanburg, SC wearing No. 27, spending time with North Carolina. The clearest part of Jaylen McGill's career was his receiving role: 7 catches,...

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Recruit Profile

Class 2025 · Rating 0.8893

Mountain View Preparatory · Spartanburg, SC

Committed To
North Carolina
Commit Date
Jan 1, 2025

Jaylen McGill, RB. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2025 Regular Season · North Carolina. Jaylen McGill leans balanced backfield option traits and 32.2 efficiency.

Stat Footprint

Career production snapshot

Scrimmage yards
68
Rushing yards
19
Receiving yards
49

Quick Answers

Jaylen McGill quick answers

Latest team and position
North Carolina · RB
Career Scrimmage Yards
68
Tracked sample
1 unique seasons · 1 entries · 8 games
Best season
2025 Regular Season · North Carolina
Top game
Virginia
Recruit profile
3-star · Mountain View Preparatory · North Carolina
High school pipeline
Mountain View Preparatory · 2 FBS recruits · 0 drafted players
Latest roster
No. 27 · Freshman
2025 Scrimmage yards rank
68 scrimmage yards · RB 509th (top 70%) · ACC 215th (top 60%) · National 1,667th (top 61%)

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesScrimmageRush YdsRec YdsTDOverall
2025 Regular SeasonNorth Carolina8681949041.5

Related Context

Jaylen McGill played RB for North Carolina. Across 1 tracked season, Jaylen McGill recorded 19 rushing yards and 49 receiving yards. His top tracked season came in 2025 with North Carolina.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2025 Regular Season

North Carolina paired 68 primary output with 32.2 efficiency.

Supporting note

2025 Regular Season role shape

backfield-heavy usage with 32.2 efficiency.

Supporting note

Peak game by takeover score: Virginia

Loss with 37 yards from scrimmage and efficient touch value. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.

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2025 Regular Season · North Carolina

Games

8

Scrimmage Yards / G

8.5

Efficiency

32.2

Usage

3.3

Consistency

24.3

Best Game by takeover score

Virginia

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Game-by-Game Trend

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Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. TCU: 0. Clemson: 14. California: 0. Virginia: 37. Syracuse: 10. Stanford: 5. Wake Forest: 1. NC State: 1

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. Clemson: 2 by 47.9. Virginia: 5 by 60. Syracuse: 3 by 27.8. Stanford: 1 by 41.7. Wake Forest: 2 by 5.2. NC State: 1 by 10.4

Split Comparison

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

Wins7.5 · Games = 2 · -1.3 vs Losses
Losses8.8 · Games = 6 · +1.3 vs Wins

Game Log

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

8 games

Featured metric

Scrimmage Yards

Top game by takeover score

Virginia

Best efficiency game

60 vs Virginia

Result
Sun 11/30@ NC StateL 19-4211101
Sat 11/15@ Wake ForestL 12-28210.5000.5
Sat 11/8vs StanfordW 20-15155
Fri 10/31@ SyracuseW 27-103103.3
Sat 10/25vs VirginiaL 16-173144.7002237.4
Sat 10/18@ CaliforniaL 18-21
Sat 10/4vs ClemsonL 10-3813301117
Tue 9/2vs TCUL 14-48

Player Story

Jaylen McGill story

Jaylen McGill built his college career in 2025 as a running back from Spartanburg, SC wearing No. 27, spending time with North Carolina. The clearest part of Jaylen McGill's career was his receiving role: 7 catches, 49 receiving yards, and 19 rushing yards across 8 career games in the available record. His career also includes 19 rushing yards and 156 return yards, giving the story more than a single-category snapshot. That gives Jaylen McGill's career enough real context without stretching the story beyond the available production.

Career Arc

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    North Carolina

    2025

    Opening stop

Season Value Progression

2025
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2025 Regular SeasonNorth Carolina6832.23.3

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

vs No. 31 Virginia

Week 9 · L 16-17 · Conference game

Loss with 37 yards from scrimmage and efficient touch value.

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Scrimmage Yards

61 takeover

37 scrimmage yards and 8.1 usage.

#2

vs No. 34 Clemson

Week 6 · L 10-38 · Conference game

14

Scrimmage Yards

32.9 takeover

Loss with 14 yards from scrimmage and efficient touch value.

14 scrimmage yards and 4.5 usage.

#3

@ No. 115 Syracuse

Week 10 · W 27-10 · Conference game

10

Scrimmage Yards

23.2 takeover

Win with 10 yards from scrimmage and efficient touch value.

10 scrimmage yards and 5.2 usage.

#4

vs No. 112 Stanford

Week 11 · W 20-15 · Conference game

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Scrimmage Yards

20.5 takeover

Win with 5 yards from scrimmage and efficient touch value.

5 scrimmage yards and 2.2 usage.

#5

@ No. 52 Wake Forest

Week 12 · L 12-28 · Conference game

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Scrimmage Yards

6.8 takeover

Loss with 1 yards from scrimmage and efficient touch value.

1 scrimmage yards and 4.4 usage.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2025 Regular Season · North Carolina

68 primary output · 32.2 efficiency · 3.3 usage

41.5

Milestones

0

100+ rush yards

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150+ scrimmage yards

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2+ TD games