Player
Jeremy McNichols
RB · Commanders
Jeremy McNichols: facts drawn from the play-by-play.
From 2017 7th-round flier to 2025 Commanders back — 8 organizations, 9 NFL seasons.
TrendMcNichols by season
| Season | Team | G | Car | RuYds | RuTD | Rec | ReYds | ReTD |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | SF | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2018 | IND | 1 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2020 | TEN | 15 | 47 | 204 | 1 | 12 | 55 | 0 |
| 2021 | TEN | 13 | 41 | 156 | 0 | 28 | 240 | 1 |
| 2023 | SF | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2024 | WAS | 15 | 55 | 261 | 4 | 9 | 27 | 0 |
| 2025 | WAS | 16 | 44 | 221 | 1 | 25 | 196 | 0 |
McNichols has cycled through SF, IND, DEN, CHI, JAX, TEN, PIT, and WAS across 9 NFL seasons — 8 organizations for a career backup who never stayed forgotten. The peaks are tied to opportunity: 2020-21 in Tennessee behind Derrick Henry, then 2024-25 in Washington as a red-zone specialist. In between (2022-23) he barely played: 2 stat games on SF's roster, 0 carries, 0 touches.
Rushing yards by season
| Season | Rush Yds |
|---|---|
| 17 | 0 |
| 18 | 4 |
| 20 | 204 |
| 21 | 156 |
| 23 | 0 |
| 24 | 261 |
| 25 | 221 |
Best game of his career: 85 yards from scrimmage vs. NYJ in 2021 — 8 catches for 74 yards playing for the Titans.
MilestoneBest total-yards games
| Year | Wk | Team | Opp | Car | RuYds | RuTD | Rec | ReYds | TotYds |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 4 | TEN | NYJ | 1 | 11 | 0 | 8 | 74 | 85 |
| 2025 | 3 | WAS | LV | 4 | 78 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 78 |
| 2024 | 4 | WAS | ARI | 8 | 68 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 74 |
| 2025 | 8 | WAS | KC | 1 | 4 | 0 | 5 | 64 | 68 |
His career-best scrimmage game was 85 yards (8 catches, 74 receiving) vs. the Jets in 2021 — illustrating his Tennessee receiving-back role behind Henry. The flip: his best rushing game was 78 yards on just 4 carries (19.5 ypc) vs. Las Vegas in 2025 Week 3, with a TD. The Week 4 2024 game vs. Arizona was his only multi-TD game: 2 rushing TDs on 8 carries — the highest red-zone output of his career.
Tennessee role was receiving back. Washington role is short-yardage closer.
SplitRole split by stop
| Stop | Car | Rec | RuTD | ReTD |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| TEN 2020-21 | 88 | 40 | 1 | 1 |
| WAS 2024-25 | 99 | 34 | 5 | 0 |
With Tennessee, McNichols caught 40 passes for 295 yards behind Henry — pure third-down back. In Washington he's flipped: 99 carries, 5 rushing TDs, 0 receiving TDs. The Commanders run him in the red zone — his 4 rushing TDs in 2024 came on just 55 carries, a 7.3% TD rate that is elite for a specialist role.
5 of his 6 career rushing TDs came in just 2 seasons in Washington.
AnomalyMcNichols has 6 career rushing TDs. 5 of them came as a Commander: 4 in 2024 and 1 in 2025 (plus the 1 he scored in Tennessee in 2020). The 2024 season was his only year with multiple rushing TDs — and he did it on just 55 carries, giving him a 7.3% TD rate (1 of every 13.8 carries scored). Backup RBs who score that often in limited work are rare red-zone specialists.
Career line: 846 rushing + 518 receiving = 1,364 yards from scrimmage — almost 40% came through the air.
ComparisonCareer split by role
| Type | Att/Rec | Yds | TDs | Avg |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rushing | 189 | 846 | 6 | 4.48 |
| Receiving | 74 | 518 | 1 | 7.0 |
| Total | 263 | 1,364 | 7 | 5.19 |
Nine NFL seasons, 63 stat games: 189 carries for 846 rushing yards (4.48 ypc), 6 rushing TDs, plus 74 receptions for 518 yards, 1 receiving TD. That's 1,364 total scrimmage yards — 38% through the air. For a player routinely labeled a 'power back' in Washington, nearly 4 of every 10 yards in his career came as a receiver. The Tennessee years (2020-21) alone account for 295 of his 518 receiving yards, cementing that the receiving back and the short-yardage closer are the same player in two different systems.
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