Player Dossier

2024-2025

Northern Illinois

Elijah Porter

RB • 5'11" • 202 lbs • Ankeny, IA, USA

Explosive all-purpose backBig-play efficiency

Elijah Porter leans explosive all-purpose back traits and 78.3 efficiency.

Usage / Role

5%

Rotational offensive role

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Impact Production

20

Developing production for a back

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Reliability

14

Sporadic game-to-game production

lowhigh

Star Power

37

Limited ceiling signals so far

limitedstar

Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by Season Value: 2025 Regular Season · Northern Illinois

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Snapshot

Career Teams
1
Unique Seasons
2
Program Path
Northern Illinois
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: Massachusetts

Elijah Porter, RB. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2025 Regular Season · Northern Illinois. Elijah Porter leans explosive all-purpose back traits and 78.3 efficiency.

Stat Footprint

Career production snapshot

Scrimmage yards
147
Rushing yards
80
Receiving yards
67
Touchdowns
1

Quick Answers

Elijah Porter quick answers

Latest team and position
Northern Illinois · RB
Career Scrimmage Yards
147
Tracked sample
2 unique seasons · 2 entries · 8 games
Best season
2025 Regular Season · Northern Illinois
Top game
Massachusetts
Latest roster
No. 24 · Freshman
2025 Scrimmage yards rank
147 scrimmage yards · RB 412th (top 57%) · Mid-American 100th (top 39%) · National 1,226th (top 45%)

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesScrimmageRush YdsRec YdsTDOverall
2024 Regular SeasonNorthern Illinois00000-
2025 Regular SeasonNorthern Illinois81478067153

Related Context

Elijah Porter played RB for Northern Illinois. Across 2 tracked seasons, Elijah Porter recorded 80 rushing yards, 67 receiving yards, and 3 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2025 with Northern Illinois.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2025 Regular Season

Northern Illinois paired 147 primary output with 78.3 efficiency.

Supporting note

2025 Regular Season role shape

backfield-heavy usage with 78.3 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: Massachusetts

Win with 94 yards from scrimmage and efficient touch value. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.

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2025 Regular Season · Northern Illinois

Games

8

Scrimmage Yards / G

18.4

Efficiency

78.3

Usage

2.9

Consistency

25.2

Best Game by takeover score

Massachusetts

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Game-by-Game Trend

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Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. Holy Cross: 0. San Diego State: 0. Eastern Michigan: 0. Ohio: 0. Toledo: 21. Massachusetts: 94. Western Michigan: 18. Kent State: 14

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. Toledo: 2 by 93.8. Massachusetts: 6 by 83.8. Western Michigan: 3 by 62.5. Kent State: 2 by 72.9

Split Comparison

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

Wins47 · Games = 2 · +38.2 vs Losses
Losses8.8 · Games = 6 · -38.2 vs Wins

Game Log

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8 games

Featured metric

Scrimmage Yards

Top game by takeover score

Massachusetts

Best efficiency game

93.8 vs Toledo

Result
Fri 11/28vs Kent StateL 31-35214707
Wed 11/19vs Western MichiganL 19-35318606
Thu 11/13@ MassachusettsW 45-35275.40016715.7
Thu 11/6@ ToledoL 3-4222110.50010.5
Sat 10/18@ OhioL 21-48
Sat 10/11@ Eastern MichiganL 10-16
Sat 9/27vs San Diego StateL 3-6
Sat 8/30vs Holy CrossW 19-17

Career Arc

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    Northern Illinois

    2024-2025

    Opening stop

Season Value Progression

20242025
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2024 Regular SeasonNorthern Illinois0
2025 Regular SeasonNorthern Illinois14778.32.9147

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

@ No. 136 Massachusetts

Week 12 · W 45-3 · Conference game

Win with 94 yards from scrimmage and efficient touch value.

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Scrimmage Yards

70.6 takeover

94 scrimmage yards and 9.8 usage.

#2

@ No. 48 Toledo

Week 11 · L 3-42 · Conference game

21

Scrimmage Yards

42.8 takeover

Loss with 21 yards from scrimmage and efficient touch value.

21 scrimmage yards and 4.3 usage.

#3

vs No. 78 Western Michigan

Week 13 · L 19-35 · Conference game

18

Scrimmage Yards

33 takeover

Loss with 18 yards from scrimmage and efficient touch value.

18 scrimmage yards and 6.1 usage.

#4

vs No. 130 Kent State

Week 14 · L 31-35 · Conference game

14

Scrimmage Yards

32.3 takeover

Loss with 14 yards from scrimmage and efficient touch value.

14 scrimmage yards and 3.2 usage.

#5

@ No. 84 Ohio

Week 8 · L 21-48 · Conference game

0

Scrimmage Yards

0 takeover

Loss with 0 yards from scrimmage and efficient touch value.

0 scrimmage yards and 0 usage.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2025 Regular Season · Northern Illinois

147 primary output · 78.3 efficiency · 2.9 usage

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#2

2024 Regular Season · Northern Illinois

0 primary · efficiency · usage

Milestones

0

100+ rush yards

0

150+ scrimmage yards

0

2+ TD games