Keaontay
Ingram.
Keaontay
Ingram.
USC· 6'0"· 221 lb· 4.53s 40
Ingram is 5-foot-11 3/4 and 221 pounds and ran 4.53 with a 34.5-inch vertical and a 10-foot-2 broad jump. That is a real athletic profile for a back who looks like a between-the-tackles bruiser.
He is a one-cut runner who presses the hole, drops his pads late and falls forward, and he averaged 5.5 yards a carry across four college seasons doing it. The receiving work is real: 89 catches and eleven touchdowns through the air, with reliable hands on checkdowns and wheel routes. What he lacks is the burst to turn a crease into a long one — defenders with an angle catch him. Ball security and pass protection both wobbled at Texas, and neither is the kind of flaw a sixth-round back gets much time to fix.
A gap and duo run game that gives him a defined crease and lets him run downhill instead of asking him to bounce plays outside.
Year 1: RB3 and short-yardage option. Ceiling: committee back who handles 10 carries and the passing-down snaps.
An outside-zone offense built on a back who can bend the run to the perimeter and outrun the flow.
The pass game is what gets him dressed on game day.
Keaontay Ingram 2021 Highlights | USC RB | 2022 NFL Draft Prospect
The 911-yard senior season that got him drafted.
Texas RB Keaontay Ingram Highlights
His Longhorns tape before the transfer to USC.
USC RB Keaontay Ingram on transition from Texas, competing for starting job
Ingram on the reset that revived his draft stock.
Ingram is from Carthage, Texas, where he won a 4A Division I state title in 2016 and was the championship game's offensive MVP. He left with the school record of 76 career rushing touchdowns, more than 5,000 career yards and back-to-back 2,000-yard seasons, finished as one of three finalists for Mr. Texas Football and played in the Under Armour All-America Game.
He took Texas over 26 other offers and produced immediately: thirteen games with two starts as a freshman, 142 carries for 708 yards and three scores plus 27 catches for 170 and two more. As a sophomore he started all thirteen games, running 144 times for 853 yards and seven touchdowns with 29 receptions for 242 and three scores. The 2020 season went sideways — six games, three starts, 53 carries for 250 yards — and he entered the transfer portal in January 2021.
USC gave him the reset. He played ten games with seven starts in 2021, carrying 156 times for 911 yards at 5.8 a pop with five touchdowns and adding 22 catches for 156 and five more scores, clearing 1,000 yards from scrimmage. He finished his college career with 42 games, 2,722 rushing yards at 5.5 and 671 receiving yards. He told interviewers he had a violent running style. Arizona took him at 201.
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Size and efficiency
221 pounds with a 5.5-yard career average across 495 college carries at two Power Five programs.
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Receiving value
89 catches and eleven receiving touchdowns in college, enough to stay on the field on third down.
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Testing profile
4.53 in the forty with a 34.5-inch vertical and a 10-foot-2 broad jump at his listed weight.
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Contact balance
he drops his pads into the tackle, absorbs the hit and consistently finishes his runs moving forward.
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Production pedigree
a Texas high school legend with 76 career touchdowns who kept producing at Texas and USC.
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Long speed
he lacks the second gear to pull away once he clears the second level, so the explosive runs are rare.
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Ball security
fumbles were a recurring concern during his Texas career and cost him snaps in a crowded backfield.
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Pass protection
his technique against blitzing linebackers was inconsistent and needed real coaching at the next level.
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Durability and workload
he never carried a full starter's load, missing time in 2020 and starting only seven games at USC.
— — — positional median (p50)
- 40 yd
- 4.53sp50
- Vertical
- 34.5inp50
- Broad jump
- 122inp50
- Three-cone
- —s
- Shuttle
- —s
- Bench
- —rep
| Yr | Team | G | Att | Yds | TD | Rec | RecYds |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | Texas | 13 | 142 | 708 | 3 | 27 | 170 |
| 2019 | Texas | 13 | 144 | 853 | 7 | 29 | 242 |
| 2020 | Texas | 6 | 53 | 250 | 1 | 11 | 103 |
| 2021 | USC | 10 | 156 | 911 | 5 | 22 | 156 |
| Career | — | 42 | 495 | 2722 | 16 | 89 | 671 |
Sports-Reference splits, cross-checked against his Texas and USC biographies. The four seasons sum exactly to the published career line of 42 games, 25 starts, 495 carries for 2,722 yards and sixteen rushing scores plus 89 catches for 671 yards and eleven receiving touchdowns. The 2020 season was shortened by the pandemic schedule and by his own missed time.
A dash means the figure is not published by a source we trust — never a zero we invented.
Efficient college producer who settles in as a rotational backup and never takes over a backfield.
Heavy back with soft hands who turns a late-round pick into a lead role.
Well-regarded college back who bounces between rosters and practice squads.
Everything above is the pre-draft evaluation. This section is what actually happened — updated year over year.
Arizona signed him to a four-year rookie deal on May 19, 2022, and he spent two seasons buried on the depth chart. The Cardinals released him on November 28, 2023, and Kansas City signed him to the practice squad two days later, which is how he ended up with a Super Bowl LVIII ring without playing in the game.
The Chiefs waived him at cutdown in August 2024, re-signed him to the practice squad, promoted him to the active roster on September 18 and waived him six days later. He stayed in the organization through 2025 without carving out a role. The career line is 134 rushing yards at 2.2 a carry with one touchdown and eight catches for 47 yards — the 5.5 average from college never showed up on Sundays. His younger brother Moochie Dixon reached the NFL as a receiver. For a pick this late a ring and four years of employment is not nothing, but the running back never became one. He was on an NFL payroll every season from 2022 through 2025 and entered 2026 as a free agent.