D'Onta Foreman with the Tennessee Titans
With the Tennessee Titans. Photo: Tennessee Titans, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Running back, Texas, 2014–⁠16

D’Onta Foreman

Number
No. 33
Height
6′2″
Hometown
Texas City, TX
Born
Apr 24, 1996, in Texas City, Texas

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D’Onta Foreman played running back at Texas (2014–⁠16). He won the 2016 Doak Walker Award. He finished eighth in the 2016 Heisman vote and was a consensus All‑American in 2016. The Houston Texans took Foreman in round 3, No. 89 overall in the 2017 NFL Draft.

At a glance

Best season
2,028
Rushing yards, 2016 (Texas, 5–⁠7)
Best game
341 yards
At Texas Tech, week 10, 2016: No. 1 rushing game in FBS that week
National rank
No. 2
In FBS in rushing yards, 2016
Drafted
No. 89
Round 3, 2017 NFL Draft (Houston Texans)

Career highs

341rushing yards, career highat Texas Tech, 20163rushing touchdowns, career highat Texas Tech, 2016

Honors

Players of the year, conference and regional honors: Wikipedia’s lists (CC BY-SA), each linked from its honor.

Rushing

Rushing yards, season by season, with his team’s record
SeasonTeamCarYdsAvgTDLong
2014Texas16744.6034
2015Texas956817.2593
2016Texas3232,0286.31574
Career4342,7836.42093

Receiving

SeasonTeamRecYdsAvgTDLong
2014Texas177.007
2015Texas56412.8022
2016Texas77510.7021
Career1314611.2022

Season lines from CollegeFootballData, regular season and bowls.

On the roster

SeasonTeamNo.PosHt
2014Texas33RB
2015Texas33RB
2016Texas33RB6′2″

As each season’s roster listed the player (CollegeFootballData). Classes before the latest listing are counted back from it; “Yr 1” is the year on file where that count can’t place a season he played (a redshirt, transfer or 2020 year); height and weight as last listed.

Per play

SeasonTeamPlaysEPA/playPctileMedianTotalUsageAdj. rush
2014Texas15-0.10––-1.4––
2015Texas1020.3192nd (n=268)0.1232.116%0.29
2016Texas3290.2683rd (n=259)0.1386.435%0.20

Expected points added: how much the player’s plays moved the team’s expected score, per play and in total. Plays: total EPA divided by EPA per play, the plays the source credits to him (for a receiver roughly his catches and runs, not every target; for a passer, not every attempt), so it can differ from attempts plus carries. Percentile: against the position’s regulars that season across all divisions on file (quarterbacks with 150+ plays, backs 60+, receivers and tight ends 30+), with how many there were (n) and their median; a dash means too few plays to rank. A season in progress uses the full-season bar scaled by games played, never below 75 plays for quarterbacks, 30 for backs and 20 for receivers. The cohort grows or shrinks with the source’s coverage each season (2025 lists far more players), so compare percentiles rather than raw EPA across years. FCS seasons are marked. Usage: the share of the team’s plays the player was part of (shown from 20 plays). Adjusted pass and rush: EPA per play adjusted for the defenses faced (CollegeFootballData’s WEPA). From CollegeFootballData, 2013 on.

Game by game

2016 Texas 11 games, 2,028 rushing yards, 15 TD
DateOpponentResultCarYdsTDLongRecRec yds
Sep 4vs.Notre DameW 50–⁠4724131119––
Sep 17atCaliforniaL 43–⁠5021157247––
Oct 1atOklahoma StateL 31–⁠4917148262121
Oct 8vs.OklahomaL 40–⁠4525159228––
Oct 15vs.Iowa StateW 27–⁠63013611813
Oct 22atKansas StateL 21–⁠2424124016120
Oct 29vs.BaylorW 35–⁠3432250240––
Nov 5atTexas TechW 45–⁠3733341374––
Nov 12vs.West VirginiaL 20–⁠2435167032332
Nov 19atKansasL 21–⁠24512502191−1
Nov 25vs.TCUL 9–⁠3131165044––
2015 Texas 10 games, 681 rushing yards, 5 TD
DateOpponentResultCarYdsTDLongRecRec yds
Sep 5atNotre DameL 3–⁠383503––
Sep 12vs.RiceW 42–⁠28732112––
Sep 19vs.CaliforniaL 44–⁠45947127––
Sep 26vs.Oklahoma StateL 27–⁠30715010220
Oct 3atTCUL 7–⁠5018112017232
Oct 10vs.OklahomaW 24–⁠179117081––
Oct 24vs.Kansas StateW 23–⁠91043015––
Oct 31atIowa StateL 0–⁠242604––
Nov 7vs.KansasW 59–⁠2012157293––
Nov 14atWest VirginiaL 20–⁠3818147165112
2014 Texas 6 games, 74 rushing yards
DateOpponentResultCarYdsTDLongRecRec yds
Aug 30vs.North TexasW 38–⁠7237034––
Oct 4vs.BaylorL 7–⁠28––––––
Oct 25atKansas StateL 0–⁠23314016––
Nov 1atTexas TechW 34–⁠1341006––
Nov 8vs.West VirginiaW 33–⁠165130717
Nov 15atOklahoma StateW 28–⁠72006––

Box scores from CollegeFootballData, 2004 on. ✦ postseason; ★ a career high on file.

Before the draft

DrillCombine 2017Combine or pro day 2017
Height6′0″
Weight233 lb
Arm length31⅜″
Hand size10⅛″
Wingspan75⅝″W
40-yard dash4.46 s
10-yard split1.63 sW
Vertical jump33″
Broad jump10′0″
Bench press18 reps
3-cone drill7.21 s
20-yard shuttle4.28 s

Combine or pro day: the source doesn’t say which. Unmarked: Combine and pro day results compiled by array-carpenter (nfl-draft-data); W: Pre-draft measurables: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).

In the NFL

7 seasons, 59 games with a stat; latest team: Cleveland Browns.

SeasonTeamGCarYdsTDRecRec yds
2017Houston Texans9783272683
2018Houston Texans17−10228
2020Tennessee Titans52295015
2021Tennessee Titans913356639123
2022Carolina Panthers162039145526
2023Chicago Bears910942541177
2024Cleveland Browns10712320654
NFL career596232,5581440396

Regular seasons, from nflverse (CC BY 4.0). G counts games in which the player recorded a stat.

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