Player Dossier

2011-2014

Tennessee

Justus Pickett

RB • 5'10" • Charlotte, NC, USA

Balanced backfield optionSteady chain mover

Justus Pickett leans balanced backfield option traits and 23.4 efficiency.

Usage / Role

7%

Rotational offensive role

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Impact Production

8

Developing production for a back

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Reliability

5

Sporadic game-to-game production

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Star Power

19

Limited ceiling signals so far

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Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by Season Value: 2011 Regular Season · Maryland

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Snapshot

Career Teams
2
Unique Seasons
4
Program Path
Maryland • Tennessee
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: Towson

Player Story

Justus Pickett built his college career from 2011 through 2014 as a running back from Charlotte, NC wearing No. 44, spending time with Maryland and Tennessee. The clearest part of Justus Pickett's career was his...

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Recruit Profile

Class 2021 · Rating 0.8759

Bolingbrook · Bolingbrook, IL

Committed To
Notre Dame
Commit Date
Jan 1, 2021

Justus Pickett, RB. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2011 Regular Season · Maryland. Justus Pickett leans balanced backfield option traits and 23.4 efficiency.

Stat Footprint

Career production snapshot

Scrimmage yards
670
Rushing yards
480
Receiving yards
190
Touchdowns
6

Quick Answers

Justus Pickett quick answers

Latest team and position
Tennessee · RB
Career Scrimmage Yards
670
Tracked sample
4 unique seasons · 4 entries · 29 games
Best season
2011 Regular Season · Maryland
Top game
Towson
Recruit profile
3-star · Bolingbrook · Notre Dame
High school pipeline
Bolingbrook · 29 FBS recruits · 0 drafted players
Latest roster
No. 44 · Class 2014
2014 Scrimmage yards rank
67 scrimmage yards · RB 418th (top 77%) · SEC 169th (top 64%) · National 1,510th (top 65%)

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesScrimmageRush YdsRec YdsTDOverall
2011 Regular SeasonMaryland1232327449256.3
2012 Regular SeasonMaryland11280142138453.1
2013 Regular SeasonTennessee00000-
2014 Regular SeasonTennessee667643024.8

Related Context

Justus Pickett played RB for Maryland and Tennessee. Across 4 tracked seasons, Justus Pickett recorded 480 rushing yards, 190 receiving yards, and 6 touchdowns. His top tracked season came in 2011 with Maryland.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2011 Regular Season

Maryland paired 323 primary output with 35.3 efficiency.

Supporting note

2014 Regular Season role shape

backfield-heavy usage with 23.4 efficiency.

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Career value is trending up

2014 Regular Season improved on the prior stop by season value score.

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Multi-stop career journey

Production spans 2 team stops, with role shifts visible across Maryland, Tennessee.

Supporting note

Peak game by takeover score: Chattanooga

Win with 27 yards from scrimmage and efficient touch value. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.

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2014 Regular Season · Tennessee

Games

6

Scrimmage Yards / G

11.2

Efficiency

23.4

Usage

6.1

Consistency

37.8

Best Game by takeover score

Chattanooga

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Game-by-Game Trend

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Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. Utah State: 11. Oklahoma: 1. Georgia: 0. Chattanooga: 27. Ole Miss: 3. Kentucky: 25

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. Utah State: 4 by 28.6. Oklahoma: 1 by 10.4. Chattanooga: 10 by 28.1. Ole Miss: 2 by 6.3. Kentucky: 6 by 43.4

Split Comparison

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

Wins21 · Games = 3 · +19.7 vs Losses
Losses1.3 · Games = 3 · -19.7 vs Wins

Game Log

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

6 games

Featured metric

Scrimmage Yards

Top game by takeover score

Chattanooga

Best efficiency game

43.4 vs Kentucky

Result
Sat 11/15vs KentuckyW 50-166254.2004.2
Sat 10/18@ Ole MissL 3-341000131.5
Sat 10/11vs ChattanoogaW 45-1010272.7002.7
Sat 9/27@ GeorgiaL 32-35
Sun 9/14@ OklahomaL 10-3411101
Sun 8/31vs Utah StateW 38-74112.8002.8

Player Story

Justus Pickett story

Justus Pickett built his college career from 2011 through 2014 as a running back from Charlotte, NC wearing No. 44, spending time with Maryland and Tennessee. The clearest part of Justus Pickett's career was his backfield work: 480 rushing yards, 165 carries, 4 rushing touchdowns, and 190 receiving yards across 29 career games in the available record. His largest box-score season came in 2011 with Maryland. 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 190 receiving yards and 608 return yards, giving the story more than a single-category snapshot. With 29 career games in the available record, his career has enough shape to show both opportunity and production across Maryland and Tennessee.

The arc is straightforward: Justus Pickett 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

    Maryland

    2011-2012

    Opening stop

  2. 2

    Tennessee

    2013-2014

    Final stop

Season Value Progression

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SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2011 Regular SeasonMaryland32335.313.2
2012 Regular SeasonMaryland28026.916.1-43
2013 Regular SeasonTennessee0-280
2014 Regular SeasonTennessee6723.46.167

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

vs Towson

Week 5 · W 28-3

Win with 82 yards from scrimmage and efficient touch value.

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Scrimmage Yards

78.8 takeover

82 scrimmage yards and 26.4 usage.

#2

@ Temple

Week 2 · W 36-27

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Scrimmage Yards

77.9 takeover

Win driven by a workhorse rushing load.

73 scrimmage yards and 41.1 usage.

#3

vs William & Mary

Week 1 · W 7-6

53

Scrimmage Yards

65.4 takeover

Win with 53 yards from scrimmage and efficient touch value.

53 scrimmage yards and 28.3 usage.

#4

@ Wake Forest

Week 12 · L 10-31 · Conference game

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Scrimmage Yards

60.9 takeover

Loss with 65 yards from scrimmage and efficient touch value.

65 scrimmage yards and 18.5 usage.

#5

vs Chattanooga

Week 7 · W 45-10

27

Scrimmage Yards

57.6 takeover

Win with 27 yards from scrimmage and efficient touch value.

27 scrimmage yards and 15.6 usage.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2011 Regular Season · Maryland

323 primary output · 35.3 efficiency · 13.2 usage

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#2

2012 Regular Season · Maryland

53.1

280 primary · 26.9 efficiency · 16.1 usage

#3

2014 Regular Season · Tennessee

24.8

67 primary · 23.4 efficiency · 6.1 usage

Milestones

0

100+ rush yards

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150+ scrimmage yards

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2+ TD games