Usage / Role
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Regular offensive contributor
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Player Dossier
2024-2025Nebraska
Mekhi Nelson
RB • 6'0" • 195 lbs • Wilkes-barre, PA, USA
Balanced backfield optionSteady chain mover
Mekhi Nelson leans balanced backfield option traits and 47.6 efficiency.
Impact Production
100
Top-tier box-score impact for a back
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Reliability
100
Regular contributor with several takeover games
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Star Power
80
High-upside career profile
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Career Arc
Value trend by season
Best season by Season Value: 2025 Postseason · Nebraska
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Snapshot
- Career Teams
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- Unique Seasons
- 2
- Program Path
- Nebraska
- Peak Game
- Peak game by takeover score: Utah
Player Story
Mekhi Nelson built his college career from 2024 through 2025 as a running back from Wilkes-barre, PA wearing No. 35, spending time with Nebraska. The clearest part of Mekhi Nelson's career was his backfield work: 149...
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- Committed To
- Nebraska
- Commit Date
- Jan 1, 2024
Mekhi Nelson, RB. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2025 Postseason · Nebraska. Mekhi Nelson leans balanced backfield option traits and 47.6 efficiency.
Stat Footprint
Career production snapshot
- Scrimmage yards
- 251
- Rushing yards
- 149
- Receiving yards
- 102
- Touchdowns
- 2
Quick Answers
Mekhi Nelson quick answers
- Latest team and position
- Nebraska · RB
- Career Scrimmage Yards
- 251
- Tracked sample
- 2 unique seasons · 3 entries · 11 games
- Best season
- 2025 Postseason · Nebraska
- Top game
- Utah
- Recruit profile
- 3-star · St. Thomas More · Nebraska
- High school pipeline
- St. Thomas More · 13 FBS recruits · 0 drafted players
- Latest roster
- No. 35 · Freshman
- 2025 Scrimmage yards rank
- 249 scrimmage yards · RB 337th (top 46%) · Big Ten 125th (top 37%) · National 916th (top 34%)
Season Ledger
Crawlable season-by-season stats
| Season | Team | Games | Scrimmage | Rush Yds | Rec Yds | TD | Overall |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 Regular Season | Nebraska | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 31.4 |
| 2025 Postseason | Nebraska | 10 | 136 | 88 | 48 | 1 | 45.9 |
| 2025 Regular Season | Nebraska | 10 | 113 | 59 | 54 | 1 | 45.9 |
Related Context
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Mekhi Nelson played RB for Nebraska. Across 2 tracked seasons, Mekhi Nelson recorded 149 rushing yards, 102 receiving yards, and 2 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2025 with Nebraska.
Player insights
Lead takeaway
Best season by value score: 2025 Postseason
Nebraska paired 249 primary output with 47.6 efficiency.
Supporting note
2025 Postseason role shape
backfield-heavy usage with 47.6 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: Utah
Loss with 136 yards from scrimmage and efficient touch value. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.
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Season Workbench
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2025 Postseason · Nebraska
Games
10
Scrimmage Yards / G
24.9
Efficiency
47.6
Usage
6.3
Consistency
18
Best Game by takeover score
Utah
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Game-by-Game Trend
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Chronological game order.
Game by game trend chart. Utah: 136. Cincinnati: 0. Akron: 63. Michigan: 15. Michigan State: 11. Maryland: 0. Northwestern: 6. USC: 2. Penn State: 13. Iowa: 3
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. Utah: 15 by 83.6. Cincinnati: 1 by 0. Akron: 8 by 46.6. Michigan: 4 by 55.2. Michigan State: 1 by 95.8. Northwestern: 1 by 50. USC: 1 by 20.8. Penn State: 3 by 45.1. Iowa: 1 by 31.3
Split Comparison
Compare how this player performed across different situations. "Games" shows how many matchups are included in each split.
Wins16 · Games = 5 · -17.8 vs Losses
Losses33.8 · Games = 5 · +17.8 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
Utah
Best efficiency game
95.8 vs Michigan State
| Result | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wed 12/31 | @ Utah | L 22-44 | 12 | 88 | 7.30 | 1 | 3 | 48 | 9.1 |
| Fri 11/28 | vs Iowa | L 16-40 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 0 | — | — | 3 |
| Sun 11/23 | @ Penn State | L 10-37 | 3 | 13 | 4.30 | 0 | — | — | 4.3 |
| Sat 11/1 | vs USC | L 17-21 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | — | — | 2 |
| Sat 10/25 | vs Northwestern | W 28-21 | — | — | — | — | 1 | 6 | 6 |
| Sat 10/11 | @ Maryland | W 34-31 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Sat 10/4 | vs Michigan State | W 38-27 | 1 | 11 | 11 | 0 | — | — | 11 |
| Sat 9/20 | vs Michigan | L 27-30 | 3 | 19 | 6.30 | 0 | 1 | -4 | 3.8 |
| Sat 9/6 | vs Akron | W 68-0 | 5 | 11 | 2.20 | 1 | 3 | 52 | 7.9 |
| Fri 8/29 | @ Cincinnati | W 20-17 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | 0 |
Player Story
Mekhi Nelson story
Mekhi Nelson built his college career from 2024 through 2025 as a running back from Wilkes-barre, PA wearing No. 35, spending time with Nebraska. The clearest part of Mekhi Nelson's career was his backfield work: 149 rushing yards, 28 carries, 2 rushing touchdowns, and 102 receiving yards across 11 career games in the available record. His career also includes 102 receiving yards, 2 tackles, and 10 return yards, giving the story more than a single-category snapshot. That gives Mekhi Nelson'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.
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Nebraska
2024-2025
Opening stop
Season Value Progression
202420252025
| Season | Team | Primary | Efficiency | Usage | Delta |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 Regular Season | Nebraska | 2 | 20.8 | 1.4 | — |
| 2025 Postseason | Nebraska | 249 | 47.6 | 6.3 | 247 |
| 2025 Regular Season | Nebraska | 249 | 47.6 | 6.3 | 0 |
Signature Performances
Top Games
#1 Featured game
@ No. 8 Utah
Week 1 · L 22-44 · Postseason · Ranked opponent
Loss with 136 yards from scrimmage and efficient touch value.
136
Scrimmage Yards
88.6 takeover
136 scrimmage yards and 28.8 usage.
#2
vs No. 117 Akron
Week 2 · W 68-0
63
Scrimmage Yards
42.7 takeover
Win with 63 yards from scrimmage and efficient touch value.
63 scrimmage yards and 12.3 usage.
#3
vs UTEP
Week 1 · W 40-7
2
Scrimmage Yards
41.6 takeover
Win with 2 yards from scrimmage and efficient touch value.
2 scrimmage yards and 1.4 usage.
#4
vs No. 82 Michigan State
Week 6 · W 38-27 · Conference game
11
Scrimmage Yards
36.8 takeover
Win with 11 yards from scrimmage and efficient touch value.
11 scrimmage yards and 2.3 usage.
#5
vs No. 25 Michigan
Week 4 · L 27-30 · Conference game · Ranked opponent
15
Scrimmage Yards
28.4 takeover
Loss with 15 yards from scrimmage and efficient touch value.
15 scrimmage yards and 6.6 usage.
Top Seasons
#1 Season by Season Value
2025 Postseason · Nebraska
249 primary output · 47.6 efficiency · 6.3 usage
45.9
#2
2025 Regular Season · Nebraska
45.9
249 primary · 47.6 efficiency · 6.3 usage
#3
2024 Regular Season · Nebraska
31.4
2 primary · 20.8 efficiency · 1.4 usage
Milestones
0
100+ rush yards
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150+ scrimmage yards
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2+ TD games
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