Height: 5-11″ – official
Weight: 213 – official
2026 Age: 26 – (2/20/00)
Hands: 9″ – official
Arm: 31 1/8″ – official
Projected 40: 4.46 (projection)
Breakout Age: 24.5 (RS SR)

NFL Play-Style Comparison: D’Vonta Price, Sony Michel, Damien Martinez, Marion Barber
Draft Grade: 5.70 (7th Round)
1,000+ Rushing Seasons: 1

Offensive Market Share Metrics (Final Season)

Carries: 96
Receptions: 19
Scrimmage Yards: 588
Scrimmage TDs: 3
Total Production Percentage: 14.6%

High School: Pottsgrove (Pottstown, PA)
As a high school prospect: Class of 2019; 2-star (5.2)
College Attended: Marshall (1), Lackawanna (1), Snow JUCO (2), Utah State (2), South Carolina (1)

 

Pros

– Faison has the Ability to go from ballerina to battering ram.

– 7 games with over 18 touches in a game in 2024, just 1 game with 18+ touches in 2025. Makes me wonder what kind of role Faison could have had if not for ineligibility and a banged-up shoulder in Camp.

– Real 2nd to 3rd gear burst that carries immense punishment and some truly elite bend in the open field.

– 2024 Second-Team All-Mountain West Conference

–  Full-package back with the capability to impact all downs and areas of the field

Cons

– Attended Five Colleges. The NCAA approved a waiver for Faison, giving him a seventh year of eligibility to play for the University of South Carolina Gamecocks in the 2025 season. On August 25th last year.

– Averaged less than 4.0 yards per carry in 10 of 37 games at South Carolina and Utah State over the last three seasons.

– Turns 26 Years old the week before the NFL Combine.

– Part of me thinks if he had just a touch of patience, his missed tackles forced and yards after contact would double in a given season.

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Highlight/Film – (Rahsul Faison #1)

Cody’s Scouting Notes:

Hardly becoming eligible to play before the 2025 season, Rahul Faison transferred to South Carolina in January of 2025. He was ineligible until August 25th, the week of their season opener against Virginia Tech. After a 1,100-yard season at Utah State in 2024, Faison finished his age-25 season and first in the Power 4 with 96 carries, 19 receptions, and 588 total yards.

Faison has a really unique build, top to bottom, with a dry, in-shape, and cut-up lower half. His fluidity out of the backfield, coupled with his drive to find work as a pass blocker, will carve him out a role in the NFL as a Big Satellite-plus type of back. For what Faison lacks in his perception of being 217 pounds, he makes up for in finishing carries at the second level. He has some real pop. Faison has some real 2nd to 3rd gear burst that carries immense punishment and some truly elite bend in the open field. As wonky as the overall profile is for Rahul Faison, he wins with Power, he wins with Wiggle, and he wins with Speed. His contact balance and ability to continue after the open field car wrecks is mind-numbing. Part of me thinks if he had just a touch of patience, his missed tackles forced and yards after contact would double in a given season.

Alex’s Scouting Notes

• Watching over his career, you see flashes of a tough, instinctual runner with excellent contact balance, creativity in space and stop/start agility to make defenders miss in a variety of ways
• Obvious red flag is that he’ll be a 26-year old rookie, basically already at the age apex; however did not even really play for three of his six years in college and split work at South Carolina in 2025 – started at Marshall, took a step down and leveled up ever since: NAIA, JUCO, Mountain West, SEC
• Never ran for more than 74 yards in an SEC game, can see how much more prolific he was with lead-back volume at Utah State; five 100-plus yard outings in 2024
• Elusiveness and efficiency was also better at Utah State versus lesser competition and with the benefit of volume: PFF elusiveness rating fell from 23rd in FBS (tied with Omarion Hampton) in 2024 to 87.5 in 2025 (82nd in FBS)
• Should be noted that he was only granted eligibility to play in the 2025 season a week before the season started; also entered the year with a shoulder injury, no telling how that affected him and his role in the aggregate 
• Comp: Damien Martinez, Marion Barber

Cody Carpentier