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Name: Nate Sheppard
College: Duke
Number: 20
School Bio/Stats Link: HERE
Height: 5-09 Weight: 205
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Class/Draft Year: So/2029
40 Low: 4.40 40 Time: 4.46 40 High: 4.54
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Data Scout Notes: X-Up to Future Day 1-2/True Fr Starting RB1 on Team in 25-13GP-962-5.40-10/35-266-1Rec in 25 2025: 2ndC
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Nate Sheppard, Duke, Player News
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11/09 WEEK 10 ACC RUNNING BACK OF THE WEEK: Nate Sheppard, So., RB, Duke (Mandeville, Louisiana),...Rushed 18 times for 217 yards, an average of 12.1 yards per carry, and scored three touchdowns in helping Duke to a 41-3 victory at NC State...Finished wi th 221 all-purpose yards against the Wolfpack while NC State produced 217 yards of total offense for the game...Totaled 98 rushing yards in the first quarter, the third-most by a Blue Devil in an opening stanza in program history...His 98 yards were the fifth-most in any quarter and most since Mateo Durant ran for 130 yards in the fourth quarter against Charlotte in 2021...Finished the first half with 168 ground yards, the second-most in a half by a Blue Devil...His rushing performance marked his fifth 100-yard game of the season, tied for the sixth-most in a year by a Blue Devil in program history...He is up to 1,189 rushing yards this fall, the third most in a year in program history. He joined Randy Cuthbert in 1989 and 1992 as the only Blue Devils with two 1,000-yard seasons. He is the first to do so in consecutive seasons...The sophomore added two more touchdowns on the ground, finishing the contest with three rushing scores and 17 on the season...Picked up his fourth ACC Running Back of the Week honor. - ACC Football
(DS#1 RB) So/2029  RB Nate Sheppard, Duke
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11/02 WEEK 9 ACC RUNNING BACK OF THE WEEK: Nate Sheppard, So., RB, Duke (Mandeville, Louisiana),...Rushed for 97 yards and five touchdowns and caught one pass for 32 yards in Duke's 47-2 victory against Boston College...He set the Duke single-game record with five rushing touchdowns against the Eagles with bursts of one, two, 54, four and one yards in helping Duke to the conference victory...The 54-yard blast is the longest touchdown run of his career...Tallied three rushing touchdowns in the first half (1, 2 and 54 yards), becoming the first Blue Devil with a trio of rushing scores in a half since Gunnar Holmberg had three in the second half against Kansas on September 25, 2021...Also became the first individual to have three rushing touchdowns in a h alf versus a Power Four opponent in 2026...Became the eighth ACC player since 1996 to score five or more rushing TDs in a game...With his five scores, Sheppard set the Duke single-season record with 18 touchdowns scored this fall...Has totaled 30 career touchdowns scored, the third-most in a career by a Blue Devil...He leads the FBS in points per game scored and total touchdowns scored so far this fall...Earned his third ACC Running Back of the Week honor this season. - ACC Football
(DS#1 RB) So/2029 RB Nate Sheppard, Duke
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NOV 9 WEEK 10 ASSOCIATED PRESS NATIONAL PLAYER OF THE WEEK HONORABLE MENTION: Duke RB Nate Sheppard ran for 217 yards and three touchdowns in a 41-3 win at North Carolina State. - AP College Football
(DS#1 RB) So/2029 RB Nate Sheppard, Duke
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NOV 2 WEEK 9 ASSOCIATED PRESS NATIONAL PLAYER OF THE WEEK HONORABLE MENTION: Duke RB Nate Sheppard ran for a school-record five touchdowns and finished with 97 yards on 20 carries in a 47-2 win over Boston College. - AP College Football
(DS#1 RB) So/2029 RB Nate Sheppard, Duke
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Duke running back Nate Sheppard threw a 28-yard touchdown pass to a wide-open Brody Keefe with 1:14 left to give the Blue Devils a 19-16 win over Virginia on Friday night at Scott Stadium. Virginia went ahead 16-13 on a 30-yard field goal by Will Bettrid ge with three minutes left in the game, but a defense that controlled much of the game got caught by surprise when it mattered most. Sheppard, the Atlantic Coast Conference's leading rusher, was held to 55 yards on 15 carries, most of that coming on a 32 -yard scoring run on Duke's first possession. But his perfectly executed trick play snapped a two-game losing streak for the Blue Devils (5-2, 2-2).Jekail Middlebrook ran 24 times for 117 yards and a touchdown for the Cavaliers (4-4, 2-3), who los t at home for the first time this season. Quarterback Beau Pribula went 15 for 24 for 158 yards. His final pass of the game was intercepted by Duke's Patrick Smith-Young. After gaining 78 yards on four plays and taking a 7-0 lead, Duke's offense bogged d own, unable to find yards against UVA. Its final four possessions of the first half all ended with punts as it managed just 36 yards on 15 plays on those drives, all led by backup quarterback Dan Mahan. That opened the door for Virginia to take a 13-7 le ad at halftime. Duke's Gavin Strange kicked a 39-yard field goal for the only points in the third quarter, then added another 39-yarder to tie it 13-all with 8:50 left in the game. - Duke/AP College Football
(DS#1 RB) So/2029 RB Nate Sheppard, Duke
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Duke's Nate Sheppard not only leads the nation with 176 rushing yards per game, he also is tied with West Virginia's Cam Cook for most carries per game with 27.3. That's the most carries per game since Illinois' Chase Brown averaged the same number in 20 22. - AP College Football
(DS#1 RB) So/2029 RB Nate Sheppard, Duke
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09/14 WEEK 2 ACC RUNNING BACK OF THE WEEK: Nate Sheppard, So., RB, Duke (Mandeville, Louisiana),...Rushed for 147 yards at Illinois to lift his season total to 374 yards, an average of 187.0 rushing yards per game, which leads all of FBS...Scored on a tw o-yard touchdown run in the second quarter, giving him five consecutive games with at least one rushing touchdown...Added a team-high five receptions for 41 yards and two touchdowns...Recorded his first career game with multiple touchdown receptions, sco ring through the air in both the second and third quarters...Became the first Blue Devil with a rushing and receiving score in the same game since Peyton Jones did so at Miami in 2024...With five touchdowns across two games, Sheppard has been responsible for 30 of the Blue Devils' 48 points this season, accounting for 62.5% of the team's scoring...Ranks second nationally in total rushing yards (374), first in rushing yards per game (187.0), fourth in total touchdowns scored (five) and first in total all -purpose yards (434) this season...The only FBS player over the last 30 seasons to record at least 350 rushing yards and multiple receiving touchdowns over his team's first two games of a season...The first ACC player to have 374 rushing yards or more an d five touchdowns from scrimmage since Dalvin Cook in 2015 (422 rushing yards and five touchdowns)...This is his second ACC Running Back of the Week honor this season. - ACC Football
(DS#1 RB) So/2029 RB Nate Sheppard, Duke
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09/07 WEEK 1 ACC RUNNING BACK OF THE WEEK: Nate Sheppard, So., RB, Duke (Mandeville, Louisiana),...Rushed for 227 yards, the fifth-best single-game rushing performance in program history, to help lead Duke to its fifth consecutive season-opening victory. ..Gained 139 yards in the opening half, good for the fifth-most rushing yards in a half in program history...The performance was the 10th 200-yard rushing game in program history and Duke's first since 2021...His 227 rushing yards are the most in a singl e game by an FBS player this season...He ranks second nationally in rushing yardage and trails only Memphis' Jaylin Carter, who has totaled 280 ground yards in two games...Scored a pair of touchdowns on the ground, opening with a nine-yard touchdown run in the first quarter and adding a 14-yard rush in the fourth quarter...Added 19 receiving yards to finish with 246 all-purpose yards, accounting for 64.6 percent of Duke's 381 yards of total offense. - ACC Football
(DS#1 RB) So/2029 RB Nate Sheppard, Duke
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WEEK 5 ACC RUNNING BACK & ROOKIE OF THE WEEK: Nate Sheppard, Fr., RB, Duke (Mandeville, Louisiana),...Made his first career start at Syracuse and rushed for 168 yards and two touchdowns...His 169 rushing yards are the fourth most by a Duke freshman in a game in program history and the most nationally by a freshman in a game this season...Averaged 11.2 yards per rush, the highest by a Duke freshman (minimum 15 attempts) in a single game...Rushed for two touchdowns at Syracuse to become one of 11 true fre shmen in the country to rush for multiple scores in a game this season and just the second true freshman to do so against a Power Four opponent...Finished the game with 201 all-purpose yards, which is tied for the fifth most by a Duke freshman in a game and the second most nationally by a freshman in a game this season...Averaging 8.09 yards per carry this season, which is second in the ACC overall and the fifth-highest mark among freshmen, true or redshirt, nationally with at least 20 carries. - ACC Fo otball
(DS#1 RB) So/2029 RB Nate Sheppard, Duke
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