Player Dossier

2024-2025

Nevada

Herschel Turner

RB • 5'9" • 196 lbs • Richmond, CA, USA

Balanced backfield optionSteady chain mover

Herschel Turner leans balanced backfield option traits and 45.3 efficiency.

Usage / Role

29%

Rotational offensive role

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Impact Production

21

Developing production for a back

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Reliability

19

Sporadic game-to-game production

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Star Power

33

Limited ceiling signals so far

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Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by Season Value: 2024 Regular Season · Utah State

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Snapshot

Career Teams
2
Unique Seasons
2
Program Path
Utah State • Nevada
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: Washington State

Player Story

Herschel Turner built his college career from 2024 through 2025 as a running back from Richmond, CA wearing No. 2, spending time with Nevada and Utah State. The clearest part of Herschel Turner's career was his...

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Herschel Turner, RB. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2024 Regular Season · Utah State. Herschel Turner leans balanced backfield option traits and 45.3 efficiency.

Stat Footprint

Career production snapshot

Scrimmage yards
835
Rushing yards
758
Receiving yards
77
Touchdowns
4

Quick Answers

Herschel Turner quick answers

Latest team and position
Nevada · RB
Career Scrimmage Yards
835
Tracked sample
2 unique seasons · 2 entries · 21 games
Best season
2024 Regular Season · Utah State
Top game
Washington State
Latest roster
No. 2 · Freshman
2025 Scrimmage yards rank
359 scrimmage yards · RB 266th (top 37%) · Mountain West 61st (top 27%) · National 692nd (top 25%)

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesScrimmageRush YdsRec YdsTDOverall
2024 Regular SeasonUtah State1147640571464.4
2025 Regular SeasonNevada103593536051.9

Related Context

Transfer Portal History

Matched portal movement

SeasonPathMovementValueDate
2025Utah State to NevadaG5/FCS to G5/FCS77.5Jan 9, 2025

Herschel Turner played RB for Utah State and Nevada. Across 2 tracked seasons, Herschel Turner recorded 758 rushing yards, 77 receiving yards, and 2 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2024 with Utah State.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2024 Regular Season

Utah State paired 476 primary output with 56.7 efficiency.

Supporting note

2025 Regular Season role shape

backfield-heavy usage with 45.3 efficiency.

Supporting note

Career value cooled off

2025 Regular Season fell back from the prior stop by season value score.

Supporting note

Multi-stop career journey

Production spans 2 team stops, with role shifts visible across Utah State, Nevada.

Supporting note

Peak game by takeover score: Middle Tennessee

Loss with 90 yards from scrimmage and efficient touch value. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.

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2025 Regular Season · Nevada

Games

10

Scrimmage Yards / G

35.9

Efficiency

45.3

Usage

14.7

Consistency

45

Best Game by takeover score

Middle Tennessee

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Game-by-Game Trend

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Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. Penn State: -15. Sacramento State: 78. Middle Tennessee: 90. Western Kentucky: 62. Fresno State: -4. San Diego State: 9. New Mexico: 1. Boise State: 77. Utah State: 21. UNLV: 40

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. Penn State: 8 by 0. Sacramento State: 11 by 73.9. Middle Tennessee: 12 by 78.1. Western Kentucky: 13 by 49.7. Fresno State: 4 by 0. San Diego State: 5 by 13.8. New Mexico: 3 by 3.5. Boise State: 7 by 95.8. Utah State: 4 by 54.7. UNLV: 5 by 83.3

Split Comparison

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

Wins78 · Games = 1 · +46.8 vs Losses
Losses31.2 · Games = 9 · -46.8 vs Wins

Game Log

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

10 games

Featured metric

Scrimmage Yards

Top game by takeover score

Middle Tennessee

Best efficiency game

95.8 vs Boise State

Result
Sun 11/30vs UNLVL 17-424358.800158
Sun 11/9@ Utah StateL 14-514215.3005.3
Sat 10/25vs Boise StateL 3-2477711011
Sun 10/19@ New MexicoL 22-24310.3000.3
Sun 10/12vs San Diego StateL 10-444410151.8
Sun 10/5@ Fresno StateL 17-2030001-4-1
Sat 9/20@ Western KentuckyL 16-3113624.8004.8
Sat 9/13vs Middle TennesseeL 13-1412907.5007.5
Sat 9/6vs Sacramento StateW 20-1711787.1007.1
Sat 8/30@ Penn StateL 11-468-15-1.900-1.9

Player Story

Herschel Turner story

Herschel Turner built his college career from 2024 through 2025 as a running back from Richmond, CA wearing No. 2, spending time with Nevada and Utah State. The clearest part of Herschel Turner's career was his backfield work: 758 rushing yards, 148 carries, 4 rushing touchdowns, and 77 receiving yards across 21 career games in the available record. His career also includes 77 receiving yards and 2 tackles, giving the story more than a single-category snapshot. That gives Herschel Turner's career enough real context without stretching the story beyond the available production.

Career Arc

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

  1. 1

    Utah State

    2024

    Opening stop

  2. 2

    Nevada

    2025

    Final stop

Season Value Progression

20242025
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2024 Regular SeasonUtah State47656.714.1
2025 Regular SeasonNevada35945.314.7-117

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

@ Washington State

Week 11 · L 28-49

Loss with 111 yards from scrimmage and efficient touch value.

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Scrimmage Yards

85.4 takeover

111 scrimmage yards and 36.4 usage.

#2

vs No. 127 Middle Tennessee

Week 3 · L 13-14

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Scrimmage Yards

82.7 takeover

Loss with 90 yards from scrimmage and efficient touch value.

90 scrimmage yards and 24.5 usage.

#3

vs No. 64 Boise State

Week 9 · L 3-24 · Conference game

77

Scrimmage Yards

77.1 takeover

Loss with 77 yards from scrimmage and efficient touch value.

77 scrimmage yards and 17.5 usage.

#4

vs Sacramento State

Week 2 · W 20-17

78

Scrimmage Yards

71.2 takeover

Win with 78 yards from scrimmage and efficient touch value.

78 scrimmage yards and 18.6 usage.

#5

@ No. 69 Western Kentucky

Week 4 · L 16-31

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Scrimmage Yards

62 takeover

Loss with 62 yards from scrimmage and efficient touch value.

62 scrimmage yards and 23.6 usage.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2024 Regular Season · Utah State

476 primary output · 56.7 efficiency · 14.1 usage

64.4

#2

2025 Regular Season · Nevada

51.9

359 primary · 45.3 efficiency · 14.7 usage

Milestones

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100+ rush yards

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150+ scrimmage yards

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2+ TD games