Usage / Role
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Rotational offensive role
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Player Dossier
2024-2025Kent State
Cade Wolford
RB • 5'10" • 190 lbs • Jackson, OH, USA
Explosive all-purpose backBig-play efficiency
Cade Wolford leans explosive all-purpose back traits and 73.3 efficiency.
Impact Production
60
Solid production for a back
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Reliability
56
Useful contributor with volatile peaks
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Star Power
71
High-upside career profile
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Career Arc
Value trend by season
Best season by Season Value: 2025 Regular Season · Kent State
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Snapshot
- Career Teams
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- Unique Seasons
- 2
- Program Path
- Kent State
- Peak Game
- Peak game by takeover score: Northern Illinois
Player Story
Cade Wolford built his college career from 2024 through 2025 as a running back from Jackson, OH wearing No. 21, spending time with Kent State. The clearest part of Cade Wolford's career was his receiving role: 19...
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- Committed To
- Kent State
- Commit Date
- Jan 1, 2024
Cade Wolford, RB. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2025 Regular Season · Kent State. Cade Wolford leans explosive all-purpose back traits and 73.3 efficiency.
Stat Footprint
Career production snapshot
- Scrimmage yards
- 616
- Rushing yards
- 107
- Receiving yards
- 509
- Touchdowns
- 8
Quick Answers
Cade Wolford quick answers
- Latest team and position
- Kent State · RB
- Career Scrimmage Yards
- 616
- Tracked sample
- 2 unique seasons · 2 entries · 13 games
- Best season
- 2025 Regular Season · Kent State
- Top game
- Northern Illinois
- Recruit profile
- 3-star · Jackson · Kent State
- High school pipeline
- Jackson · 4 FBS recruits · 0 drafted players
- Latest roster
- No. 21 · Freshman
- 2025 Scrimmage yards rank
- 606 scrimmage yards · RB 167th (top 23%) · Mid-American 27th (top 11%) · National 357th (top 13%)
Season Ledger
Crawlable season-by-season stats
| Season | Team | Games | Scrimmage | Rush Yds | Rec Yds | TD | Overall |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 Regular Season | Kent State | 2 | 10 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 35.9 |
| 2025 Regular Season | Kent State | 11 | 606 | 97 | 509 | 8 | 63 |
Related Context
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Cade Wolford played RB for Kent State. Across 2 tracked seasons, Cade Wolford recorded 107 rushing yards, 509 receiving yards, and 8 touchdowns. His top tracked season came in 2025 with Kent State.
Player insights
Lead takeaway
Best season by value score: 2025 Regular Season
Kent State paired 606 primary output with 73.3 efficiency.
Supporting note
2025 Regular Season role shape
backfield-heavy usage with 73.3 efficiency.
Supporting note
Career value is trending up
2025 Regular Season improved on the prior stop by season value score.
Supporting note
Peak game by takeover score: Northern Illinois
Win with 96 yards from scrimmage and efficient touch value. It landed in the 81.8th percentile of the selected season.
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2025 Regular Season · Kent State
Games
11
Scrimmage Yards / G
55.1
Efficiency
73.3
Usage
6.2
Consistency
61.1
Best Game by takeover score
Northern Illinois
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Game-by-Game Trend
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Chronological game order.
Game by game trend chart. Merrimack: 110. Texas Tech: 19. Buffalo: 104. Florida State: 15. Oklahoma: 7. Toledo: 87. Bowling Green: 74. Ball State: 11. Akron: 63. Central Michigan: 20. Northern Illinois: 96
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. Merrimack: 3 by 56.3. Texas Tech: 3 by 26.4. Buffalo: 5 by 78.1. Florida State: 2 by 62.5. Oklahoma: 2 by 33.3. Toledo: 3 by 100. Bowling Green: 3 by 100. Ball State: 1 by 91.7. Akron: 4 by 91.7. Central Michigan: 2 by 66.7. Northern Illinois: 3 by 100
Split Comparison
Compare how this player performed across different situations. "Games" shows how many matchups are included in each split.
Wins85.8 · Games = 4 · +48.2 vs Losses
Losses37.6 · Games = 7 · -48.2 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
Northern Illinois
Best efficiency game
100 vs Northern Illinois
| Result | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fri 11/28 | @ Northern Illinois | W 35-31 | 2 | 52 | 26 | 1 | 1 | 44 | 32 |
| Thu 11/20 | vs Central Michigan | L 16-28 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 16 | 10 |
| Wed 11/12 | @ Akron | W 42-35 | 3 | 20 | 6.70 | 0 | 1 | 43 | 15.8 |
| Thu 11/6 | @ Ball State | L 13-17 | — | — | — | — | 1 | 11 | 11 |
| Sat 10/25 | vs Bowling Green | W 24-21 | 1 | 8 | 8 | 0 | 2 | 66 | 24.7 |
| Sat 10/18 | @ Toledo | L 10-45 | — | — | — | — | 3 | 87 | 29 |
| Sat 10/4 | @ Oklahoma | L 0-44 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 3.5 |
| Sat 9/20 | @ Florida State | L 10-66 | — | — | — | — | 2 | 15 | 7.5 |
| Sat 9/13 | vs Buffalo | L 28-31 | 2 | 9 | 4.50 | 0 | 3 | 95 | 20.8 |
| Sat 9/6 | @ Texas Tech | L 14-62 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 19 | 6.3 |
| Sat 8/30 | vs Merrimack2+ TD | W 21-17 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 109 | 36.7 |
Player Story
Cade Wolford story
Cade Wolford built his college career from 2024 through 2025 as a running back from Jackson, OH wearing No. 21, spending time with Kent State. The clearest part of Cade Wolford's career was his receiving role: 19 catches, 509 receiving yards, 7 touchdowns, and 107 rushing yards across 13 career games in the available record. His largest box-score season came in 2025 with Kent State. 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 107 rushing yards and 53 return yards, giving the story more than a single-category snapshot. With 13 career games in the available record, his career has enough shape to show both opportunity and production across Kent State.
The arc is straightforward: Cade Wolford 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
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Kent State
2024-2025
Opening stop
Season Value Progression
20242025
| Season | Team | Primary | Efficiency | Usage | Delta |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 Regular Season | Kent State | 10 | 26 | 5.6 | — |
| 2025 Regular Season | Kent State | 606 | 73.3 | 6.2 | 596 |
Signature Performances
Top Games
#1 Featured game
@ No. 128 Northern Illinois
Week 14 · W 35-31 · Conference game
Win with 96 yards from scrimmage and efficient touch value.
96
Scrimmage Yards
68.5 takeover
96 scrimmage yards and 6.4 usage.
#2
@ No. 48 Toledo
Week 8 · L 10-45 · Conference game
87
Scrimmage Yards
67.2 takeover
Loss with 87 yards from scrimmage and efficient touch value.
87 scrimmage yards and 7.9 usage.
#3
vs No. 95 Buffalo
Week 3 · L 28-31 · Conference game
104
Scrimmage Yards
64.8 takeover
Loss with 104 yards from scrimmage and efficient touch value.
104 scrimmage yards and 7.6 usage.
#4
vs No. 113 Bowling Green
Week 9 · W 24-21 · Conference game
74
Scrimmage Yards
62.5 takeover
Win with 74 yards from scrimmage and efficient touch value.
74 scrimmage yards and 7.1 usage.
#5
@ No. 117 Akron
Week 12 · W 42-35 · Conference game
63
Scrimmage Yards
59.5 takeover
Win with 63 yards from scrimmage and efficient touch value.
63 scrimmage yards and 10.3 usage.
Top Seasons
#1 Season by Season Value
2025 Regular Season · Kent State
606 primary output · 73.3 efficiency · 6.2 usage
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#2
2024 Regular Season · Kent State
35.9
10 primary · 26 efficiency · 5.6 usage
Milestones
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100+ rush yards
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150+ scrimmage yards
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2+ TD games
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