With the Indianapolis Colts, 2014. Photo: Jeffrey Beall, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Running back, Alabama, 2009–⁠11

Trent Richardson

Number: No. 3
Height: 5′11″
Hometown: Pensacola, FL
Born: Jul 10, 1991, in Pensacola, Florida

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Trent Richardson played running back at Alabama (2009–⁠11). He led the 2011 national champions in rushing. He won the 2011 Doak Walker Award. He finished third in the 2011 Heisman vote and was a consensus All‑American in 2011. The Cleveland Browns took Richardson in the first round, No. 3 overall in the 2012 NFL Draft.

Best season: 1,679; Rushing yards, 2011 (Alabama, 12–⁠1)
Best game: 183 yards; At Ole Miss, week 7, 2011: No. 1 rushing game in FBS that week
Heisman vote: 3rd; In the 2011 vote
Drafted: No. 3; Overall, 2012 NFL Draft (Cleveland Browns)

203rushing yards, career highat Auburn, 2011 4rushing touchdowns, career highat Ole Miss, 2011 101receiving yards, career highvs. Ole Miss, 2010

Honors

Team titles: National champions, 2009 and 2011; SEC champions, 2009

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

751

700

1,679

14–⁠0★ AP 110–⁠3AP 1012–⁠1★ AP 1

Season	Team	Car	Yds	Avg	TD	Long
2009	Alabama	145	751	5.2	8	52
2010	Alabama	112	700	6.3	6	65
2011	Alabama	283	1,679	5.9	21	76
Career		540	3,130	5.8	35	76

Receiving

Season	Team	Rec	Yds	Avg	TD	Long
2009	Alabama	16	126	7.9	0	17
2010	Alabama	23	266	11.6	4	85
2011	Alabama	29	338	11.7	3	61
Career		68	730	10.7	7	85

Returns

Season	Team	KR	Yds	TD	PR	Yds	TD
2009	Alabama	1	20	0	–	–	–
2010	Alabama	25	634	1	1	0	0
2011	Alabama	3	66	0	–	–	–
Career		29	720	1	1	0	0

Season lines from CollegeFootballData, regular season and bowls. A dash: the source has no number for that season (often an FCS season), and career totals count only the numbers on file.

Defense before 2016

Season	G	Solo	Ast	Tkl
2009	14	4	2	6
2010	11	5	1	6
2011	13	1	0	1
On file		10	3	13

Our box scores carry tackles, tackles for loss and sacks from 2016 only, so these come from other sources: cfbstats.com (Open Data Commons Attribution License), its game lines summed (G: the games he has a line in). A dash: the source has no number for it.

On the roster

Season	Team	No.	Pos	Ht
2009	Alabama	3	RB
2010	Alabama	3	RB
2011	Alabama	3	RB	5′11″

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.

Game by game

2011 Alabama 13 games, 1,679 rushing yards, 21 TD

Date	Opponent	Result	Car	Rush yds	Rush TD	Rec	Rec yds	Rec TD
Sep 3	vs.Kent State	W 48–⁠7	13	37	3	1	16	0
Sep 10	atPenn State	W 27–⁠11	26	111	2	4	19	0
Sep 17	vs.North Texas	W 41–⁠0	11	167	3	1	1	0
Sep 24	vs.Arkansas	W 38–⁠14	17	126	0	3	85	1
Oct 1	atFlorida	W 38–⁠10	29	181	2	2	27	0
Oct 8	vs.Vanderbilt	W 34–⁠0	19	107	1	2	1	0
Oct 15	atOle Miss	W 52–⁠7	17	183	4	2	30	0
Oct 22	vs.Tennessee	W 37–⁠6	17	77	2	3	33	0
Nov 5	vs.LSU	L 6–⁠9	23	89	0	5	80	0
Nov 12	atMississippi State	W 24–⁠7	32	127	1	2	26	0
Nov 19	vs.Georgia Southern	W 45–⁠21	32	175	2	1	4	1
Nov 26	atAuburn	W 42–⁠14	27	203	0	1	5	1
Jan 9 ✦	vs.LSU	W 21–⁠0	20	96	1	2	11	0

2010 Alabama 11 games, 700 rushing yards, 6 TD

Date	Opponent	Result	Car	Rush yds	Rush TD	Rec	Rec yds	Rec TD
Sep 4	vs.San José State	W 48–⁠3	10	66	2	3	46	0
Sep 11	vs.Penn State	W 24–⁠3	22	144	1	4	46	0
Sep 18	atDuke	W 62–⁠13	7	61	1	1	9	0
Sep 25	atArkansas	W 24–⁠20	8	85	0	2	25	1
Oct 2	vs.Florida	W 31–⁠6	10	63	0	–	–	–
Oct 9	atSouth Carolina	L 21–⁠35	6	23	0	2	12	0
Oct 16	vs.Ole Miss	W 23–⁠10	11	45	0	5	101	1
Oct 23	atTennessee	W 41–⁠10	12	119	1	1	5	1
Nov 6	atLSU	L 21–⁠24	6	28	0	1	1	1
Nov 26	vs.Auburn	L 27–⁠28	10	24	0	3	9	0
Jan 1 ✦	vs.Michigan State	W 49–⁠7	10	42	1	1	12	0

2009 Alabama 14 games, 751 rushing yards, 8 TD

Date	Opponent	Result	Car	Rush yds	Rush TD	Rec	Rec yds	Rec TD
Sep 5	vs.Virginia Tech	W 34–⁠24	3	10	0	–	–	–
Sep 12	vs.Florida International	W 40–⁠14	15	118	2	2	23	0
Sep 19	vs.North Texas	W 53–⁠7	11	87	1	1	3	0
Sep 26	vs.Arkansas	W 35–⁠7	9	65	1	2	16	0
Oct 3	atKentucky	W 38–⁠20	14	26	0	1	9	0
Oct 10	atOle Miss	W 22–⁠3	9	40	0	1	9	0
Oct 17	vs.South Carolina	W 20–⁠6	5	13	0	2	11	0
Oct 24	vs.Tennessee	W 12–⁠10	8	18	0	1	2	0
Nov 7	vs.LSU	W 24–⁠15	6	27	0	–	–	–
Nov 14	atMississippi State	W 31–⁠3	11	47	0	–	–	–
Nov 21	vs.Chattanooga	W 45–⁠0	9	60	1	1	3	0
Nov 27	atAuburn	W 26–⁠21	15	51	1	3	31	0
Dec 5	vs.Florida	W 32–⁠13	11	80	0	–	–	–
Jan 7 ✦	vs.Texas	W 37–⁠21	19	109	2	2	19	0

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

Before the draft

Drill	Combine or pro day 2012
Height	5′9¼″
Weight	228 lb
Arm length	30¼″
Hand size	9½″
40-yard dash	4.49 s
10-yard split	1.56 s^W
Vertical jump	37″^W
Bench press	25 reps

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

3 seasons, 46 games with a stat; latest team: Indianapolis Colts.

Season	Team	G	Car	Yds	TD	Rec	Rec yds
2012	Cleveland Browns	15	267	950	11	51	367
2013	Indianapolis Colts	16	188	563	3	35	316
2014	Indianapolis Colts	15	159	519	3	27	229
NFL career		46	614	2,032	17	113	912

Regular seasons, from nflverse (CC BY 4.0), matched to him by his draft pick and college (Player ids: DynastyProcess (GPL-3.0)). G counts games in which the player recorded a stat.

Other pro football

Years	League	Team
2017	CFL	Saskatchewan Roughriders
2019	AAF	Birmingham Iron

Leagues other than the NFL, from the infobox of his Wikipedia article (CC BY-SA), as it names the teams.

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At a glance

Career highs