Player Dossier

2025-2025

Notre Dame

Nolan James Jr.

RB • 5'10" • 214 lbs • Westwood, NJ, USA

Balanced backfield optionSteady chain mover

Nolan James Jr. leans balanced backfield option traits and 25.4 efficiency.

Usage / Role

5%

Rotational offensive role

lowfeatured

Impact Production

5

Developing production for a back

lowelite

Reliability

2

Sporadic game-to-game production

lowhigh

Star Power

19

Limited ceiling signals so far

limitedstar

Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by Season Value: 2025 Regular Season · Notre Dame

25

Snapshot

Career Teams
1
Unique Seasons
1
Program Path
Notre Dame
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: Arkansas
4★

Recruit Profile

Class 2025 · Rating 0.9051

DePaul Catholic · Wayne, NJ

Committed To
Notre Dame
Commit Date
Jan 1, 2025

Nolan James Jr., RB. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2025 Regular Season · Notre Dame. Nolan James Jr. leans balanced backfield option traits and 25.4 efficiency.

Stat Footprint

Career production snapshot

Scrimmage yards
37
Rushing yards
37

Quick Answers

Nolan James Jr. quick answers

Latest team and position
Notre Dame · RB
Career Scrimmage Yards
37
Tracked sample
1 unique seasons · 1 entries · 4 games
Best season
2025 Regular Season · Notre Dame
Top game
Arkansas
Recruit profile
4-star · DePaul Catholic · Notre Dame
High school pipeline
DePaul Catholic · 12 FBS recruits · 0 drafted players
Latest roster
No. 23 · Freshman
2025 Scrimmage yards rank
37 scrimmage yards · RB 582nd (top 80%) · FBS Independents 34th (top 76%) · National 1,953rd (top 71%)

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesScrimmageRush YdsRec YdsTDOverall
2025 Regular SeasonNotre Dame437370047.4

Related Context

Nolan James Jr. played RB for Notre Dame. Across 1 tracked season, Nolan James Jr. recorded 37 rushing yards. His top tracked season came in 2025 with Notre Dame.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2025 Regular Season

Notre Dame paired 37 primary output with 25.4 efficiency.

Supporting note

2025 Regular Season role shape

backfield-heavy usage with 25.4 efficiency.

Supporting note

Peak game by takeover score: Arkansas

Win with 22 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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Season Explorer

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2025 Regular Season · Notre Dame

Games

4

Scrimmage Yards / G

9.3

Efficiency

25.4

Usage

7.2

Consistency

43.8

Best Game by takeover score

Arkansas

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Game-by-Game Trend

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Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. Purdue: 11. Arkansas: 22. Syracuse: 2. Stanford: 2

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. Purdue: 4 by 28.6. Arkansas: 4 by 57.3. Syracuse: 4 by 5.2. Stanford: 2 by 10.4

Split Comparison

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

First Half16.5 · Games = 2 · +14.5 vs Second Half
Second Half2 · Games = 2 · -14.5 vs First Half

Game Log

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

4 games

Featured metric

Scrimmage Yards

Top game by takeover score

Arkansas

Best efficiency game

57.3 vs Arkansas

Result
Sun 11/30@ StanfordW 49-2022101
Sat 11/22vs SyracuseW 70-7420.5000.5
Sat 9/27@ ArkansasW 56-134225.5005.5
Sat 9/20vs PurdueW 56-304112.8002.8

Career Arc

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

  1. 1

    Notre Dame

    2025

    Opening stop

Season Value Progression

2025
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2025 Regular SeasonNotre Dame3725.47.2

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

@ No. 53 Arkansas

Week 5 · W 56-13

Win with 22 yards from scrimmage and efficient touch value.

22

Scrimmage Yards

58.4 takeover

22 scrimmage yards and 6.3 usage.

#2

vs No. 90 Purdue

Week 4 · W 56-30

11

Scrimmage Yards

33 takeover

Win with 11 yards from scrimmage and efficient touch value.

11 scrimmage yards and 7.1 usage.

#3

vs No. 115 Syracuse

Week 13 · W 70-7

2

Scrimmage Yards

16.3 takeover

Win with 2 yards from scrimmage and efficient touch value.

2 scrimmage yards and 12.1 usage.

#4

@ No. 112 Stanford

Week 14 · W 49-20

2

Scrimmage Yards

9.6 takeover

Win with 2 yards from scrimmage and efficient touch value.

2 scrimmage yards and 3.3 usage.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2025 Regular Season · Notre Dame

37 primary output · 25.4 efficiency · 7.2 usage

47.4

Milestones

0

100+ rush yards

0

150+ scrimmage yards

0

2+ TD games