Player Dossier

2024-2025

South Florida

Nykahi Davenport

RB • 6'0" • 216 lbs • Roswell, GA, USA

Balanced backfield optionSteady chain mover

Nykahi Davenport leans balanced backfield option traits and 58.7 efficiency.

Usage / Role

35%

Rotational offensive role

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Impact Production

18

Developing production for a back

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Reliability

15

Sporadic game-to-game production

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Star Power

23

Limited ceiling signals so far

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Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by Season Value: 2025 Postseason · South Florida

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Snapshot

Career Teams
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Unique Seasons
2
Program Path
South Florida
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: UAB

Player Story

Nykahi Davenport built his college career from 2024 through 2025 as a running back from Roswell, GA wearing No. 25, spending time with South Florida. The clearest part of Nykahi Davenport's career was his backfield...

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Recruit Profile

Class 2024 · Rating 0.8475

Roswell · Roswell, GA

Committed To
South Florida
Commit Date
Jan 1, 2024

Nykahi Davenport, RB. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2025 Postseason · South Florida. Nykahi Davenport leans balanced backfield option traits and 58.7 efficiency.

Stat Footprint

Career production snapshot

Scrimmage yards
662
Rushing yards
612
Receiving yards
50
Touchdowns
8

Quick Answers

Nykahi Davenport quick answers

Latest team and position
South Florida · RB
Career Scrimmage Yards
662
Tracked sample
2 unique seasons · 3 entries · 11 games
Best season
2025 Postseason · South Florida
Top game
UAB
Recruit profile
3-star · Roswell · South Florida
High school pipeline
Roswell · 36 FBS recruits · 2 drafted players
Latest roster
No. 25 · Sophomore
2025 Scrimmage yards rank
662 scrimmage yards · RB 146th (top 20%) · American Athletic 31st (top 11%) · National 295th (top 11%)

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesScrimmageRush YdsRec YdsTDOverall
2024 Regular SeasonSouth Florida00000-
2025 PostseasonSouth Florida1122913067.8
2025 Regular SeasonSouth Florida1164060337867.8

Related Context

Transfer Portal History

Matched portal movement

SeasonPathMovementValueDate
2026South Florida to AuburnG5/FCS to P478.9Jan 5, 2026

Nykahi Davenport played RB for South Florida. Across 2 tracked seasons, Nykahi Davenport recorded 29 passing yards, 612 rushing yards, and 50 receiving yards. His top tracked season came in 2025 with South Florida.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2025 Postseason

South Florida paired 662 primary output with 58.7 efficiency.

Supporting note

2025 Postseason role shape

backfield-heavy usage with 58.7 efficiency.

Supporting note

Career value stayed steady

2025 Regular Season tracked close to the prior stop by season value score.

Supporting note

Peak game by takeover score: UAB

Win with 121 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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2025 Postseason · South Florida

Games

11

Scrimmage Yards / G

60.2

Efficiency

58.7

Usage

15.2

Consistency

69

Best Game by takeover score

UAB

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Game-by-Game Trend

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Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. Old Dominion: 22. Miami: -2. South Carolina State: 52. Charlotte: 79. North Texas: 36. Florida Atlantic: 71. Memphis: 67. UTSA: 105. Navy: 39. UAB: 121. Rice: 72

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. Old Dominion: 9 by 18.2. Miami: 2 by 0. South Carolina State: 4 by 100. Charlotte: 15 by 54.9. North Texas: 7 by 53.6. Florida Atlantic: 14 by 52.8. Memphis: 7 by 89.9. UTSA: 8 by 100. Navy: 8 by 45.3. UAB: 17 by 74.1. Rice: 12 by 57.4

Split Comparison

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

Wins76.6 · Games = 7 · +45.1 vs Losses
Losses31.5 · Games = 4 · -45.1 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

UAB

Best efficiency game

100 vs UTSA

Result
Wed 12/17vs Old DominionL 10-24791.3002132.4
Sun 11/30vs RiceW 52-311575.2011156
Sat 11/22@ UAB100 rush yardsW 48-18171217.1017.1
Sat 11/15@ NavyL 38-41728401114.9
Fri 11/7vs UTSA2+ TDW 55-2379413.40211113.1
Sat 10/25@ MemphisL 31-347679.6009.6
Sat 10/18vs Florida AtlanticW 48-1314715.1015.1
Fri 10/10@ North TexasW 63-367365.1005.1
Fri 10/3vs CharlotteW 54-2615795.3015.3
Sat 9/20vs South Carolina StateW 63-1445213113
Sat 9/13@ MiamiL 12-492-2-10-1

Player Story

Nykahi Davenport story

Nykahi Davenport built his college career from 2024 through 2025 as a running back from Roswell, GA wearing No. 25, spending time with South Florida. The clearest part of Nykahi Davenport's career was his backfield work: 612 rushing yards, 98 carries, 7 rushing touchdowns, and 50 receiving yards across 11 career games in the available record. His largest box-score season came in 2025 with South Florida. 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 29 passing yards and 50 receiving yards, giving the story more than a single-category snapshot. With 11 career games in the available record, his career has enough shape to show both opportunity and production across South Florida.

The arc is straightforward: Nykahi Davenport 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.

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    South Florida

    2024-2025

    Opening stop

Season Value Progression

202420252025
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2024 Regular SeasonSouth Florida0
2025 PostseasonSouth Florida66258.715.2662
2025 Regular SeasonSouth Florida66258.715.20

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

@ No. 125 UAB

Week 13 · W 48-18 · Conference game

Win with 121 yards from scrimmage and efficient touch value.

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Scrimmage Yards

88.6 takeover

121 scrimmage yards and 32.1 usage.

#2

vs No. 62 UTSA

Week 11 · W 55-23 · Conference game

105

Scrimmage Yards

78.2 takeover

Win with 105 yards from scrimmage and efficient touch value.

105 scrimmage yards and 16.7 usage.

#3

@ No. 39 Memphis

Week 9 · L 31-34 · Conference game

67

Scrimmage Yards

58.8 takeover

Loss with 67 yards from scrimmage and efficient touch value.

67 scrimmage yards and 10.9 usage.

#4

vs No. 134 Charlotte

Week 6 · W 54-26 · Conference game

79

Scrimmage Yards

57.5 takeover

Win with 79 yards from scrimmage and efficient touch value.

79 scrimmage yards and 18.3 usage.

#5

vs No. 98 Florida Atlantic

Week 8 · W 48-13 · Conference game

71

Scrimmage Yards

57.4 takeover

Win with 71 yards from scrimmage and efficient touch value.

71 scrimmage yards and 21.2 usage.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2025 Postseason · South Florida

662 primary output · 58.7 efficiency · 15.2 usage

67.8

#2

2025 Regular Season · South Florida

67.8

662 primary · 58.7 efficiency · 15.2 usage

#3

2024 Regular Season · South Florida

0 primary · efficiency · usage

Milestones

1

100+ rush yards

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150+ scrimmage yards

1

2+ TD games