Snoop
Conner.
Snoop
Conner.
Mississippi· 5'10"· 222 lb· 4.59s 40
Conner is a 219-pound back built low to the ground, and Ole Miss used him as the finisher in a committee. He runs behind his pads with a wide base, takes one read and hammers it, and his center of gravity makes him almost impossible to knock backward inside the five. Twenty-six touchdowns on 304 career carries tells the story of how Lane Kiffin deployed him.
Everything outside that role is a question. He has functional but not sudden burst, he rarely creates on his own once the first read closes, and his receiving work was limited to swings and checkdowns with no touchdowns on 32 career catches. He is willing in protection without being polished. The signature is scoring efficiency in tight quarters on a limited touch count.
Gap and power run game that rotates backs and keeps a dedicated heavy runner for short yardage and goal-line packages.
Year 1: third back and goal-line specialist with core special-teams snaps. Ceiling: committee complement who takes 8-10 carries and all the scoring opportunities.
A zone-based spread offense that keeps one back on the field for three downs and needs him to run routes from the slot.
Without a defined short-yardage package, there is no snap count for him at all.
Snoop Conner Highlights (Drafted by Jacksonville Jaguars)
Career pre-draft reel focused on the short-yardage and goal-line work at Ole Miss.
Snoop Conner (Ole Miss RB) vs Louisville (9.6.21)
Full-game cutup from the 2021 opener, a two-touchdown performance in the Aflac Kickoff Game.
Ole Miss RB Snoop Conner 2019 Highlights
Freshman season at 6.3 yards per carry as a rotational back.
Conner came out of Hattiesburg, Mississippi and spent three seasons at Ole Miss as a committee back who almost never started — two starts in 35 games — but who owned the goal line in one of the most productive offenses in the country. At 5-foot-10 and 222 pounds with 25 bench reps, he is a thick, compact runner built for contact rather than for space.
The production reflects the role: 512 yards at 6.3 per carry as a freshman, 421 at 4.5 as a sophomore with eight scores, then 647 yards and 13 touchdowns as a junior, including a three-touchdown, 110-yard game against Arkansas. He totaled 1,580 yards and 26 touchdowns before declaring with a year of eligibility left. The flags were about volume and versatility. He never carried a full workload, never scored a receiving touchdown, and his 4.59 forty with a 31-inch vertical put him below the athletic thresholds most teams use at the position.
The board treated him as a late Day 3 short-yardage specialist whose roster spot would depend on special teams and on whether a staff valued a dedicated goal-line body. Jacksonville taking him 154th overall added him behind Travis Etienne and James Robinson, a backfield with no obvious opening. It was a depth pick with a narrow path.
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Goal-line finishing
26 touchdowns on 304 career carries, an elite scoring rate built on pad level and mass inside the five-yard line.
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Contact balance
runs with a wide base and low center of gravity, staying upright through arm tackles and consistently churning for the extra yard.
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Decisiveness
takes one read and gets downhill without dancing behind the line, which keeps his pads square and protects his blockers' leverage.
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Lower-body strength
25 bench reps and a thick build show up as the ability to break the first tackle at the line rather than being met and stopped.
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Efficiency on limited touches
averaged 5.2 yards a carry for his career despite almost never being the starter, producing whenever the offense fed him.
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Athletic testing
a 4.59 forty, 31-inch vertical and 9-foot-10 broad jump are below the thresholds most teams set for the position and confirm the lack of burst.
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Receiving value
32 career catches for 225 yards and zero touchdowns, almost all on swings and checkdowns, gives him no case for third-down snaps.
- 03
Creation in space
does not make defenders miss once past the line, so his production depends entirely on the blocking in front of him.
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Workload evidence
two starts in 35 games and never more than 130 carries in a season leaves no proof he can handle a lead role if injuries force it.
— — — positional median (p50)
- 40 yd
- 4.59sp50
- Vertical
- 29.5inp50
- Broad jump
- 118inp50
- Three-cone
- —s
- Shuttle
- —s
- Bench
- 25repp50
| Yr | Team | G | Att | Yds | TD | Rec | RecYds |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | Ole Miss | 12 | 81 | 512 | 5 | 6 | 60 |
| 2020 | Ole Miss | 10 | 93 | 421 | 8 | 12 | 83 |
| 2021 | Ole Miss | 13 | 130 | 647 | 13 | 14 | 82 |
| Career | — | 35 | 304 | 1580 | 26 | 32 | 225 |
The 2020 and 2021 lines are verified directly against cfbstats; 2019 comes from Sports-Reference, and all three seasons sum exactly to the published career totals of 304 carries for 1,580 yards with 26 touchdowns and 32 receptions for 225 yards. The zero receiving touchdowns are verified, not assumed.
A dash means the figure is not published by a source we trust — never a zero we invented.
Efficient committee back who fills a depth role for a few seasons without ever earning a defined job.
Compact downhill back whose short-yardage scoring keeps him relevant for years despite no receiving role.
Powerful late-round back who bounces between practice squads and ends up out of the league within two years.
Everything above is the pre-draft evaluation. This section is what actually happened — updated year over year.
The narrow path closed fast. Conner appeared in eight games as a rookie in 2022 behind Travis Etienne and James Robinson, carrying 12 times for 42 yards with a three-yard touchdown against Houston in Week 17. Jacksonville waived him at final cuts in August 2023 and re-signed him to the practice squad, then let the contract expire without a reserve/future deal. Dallas signed him to a futures contract in January 2024 and waived him at cuts that August. He resurfaced with the Birmingham Stallions of the UFL in 2026. His entire NFL career is 42 rushing yards and one touchdown.
The retrospective is that the evaluation was right about the profile and the landing spot was wrong about the opportunity. A pure short-yardage back with no receiving role and below-average testing needs an offense that actually uses a goal-line specialist, and Jacksonville was committed to a first-round back who never came off the field. The fifth-round cost was minor, but there was never a realistic version of this pick that produced value.