 Giddens in 2024 | |
| Kansas State Wildcats–No. 31 | |
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| Position | Running back |
| Class | Junior |
| Major | Business Administration |
| Personal information | |
| Born: | August 26, 2003 Junction City, Kansas |
| Height | 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m) |
| Weight | 212 lb (96 kg) |
| Career history | |
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| Bowl games | |
| High school | Junction City (Junction City, Kansas) |
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DJ Giddens (born August 26, 2003) is an American football running back for the Kansas State Wildcats.
Giddens attended Junction City High School in Junction City, Kansas. During his high school career he had 1,912 rushing yards and 34 touchdowns. He committed to Kansas State University to play college football. [1]
As a true freshman at Kansas State in 2022, Giddens played in all 14 games as Deuce Vaughn's backup and rushed for 518 yards on 89 carries with six touchdowns. [2] [3] He entered 2023 sharing time with Treshaun Ward. [4] In the fourth game of the year against UCF, Giddens had 207 rushing yards and 293 yards overall with four touchdowns. [5] [6]
| Kansas State Wildcats | ||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Season | Games | Rushing | Receiving | |||||||||||
| GP | GS | Att | Yards | Avg | TD | Rec | Yards | Avg | TD | |||||
| 2022 | 14 | 0 | 89 | 518 | 5.8 | 6 | 8 | 98 | 12.3 | 0 | ||||
| 2023 | 13 | 13 | 223 | 1,226 | 5.5 | 10 | 29 | 323 | 11.1 | 3 | ||||
| 2024 | 12 | 12 | 205 | 1,343 | 6.6 | 7 | 21 | 258 | 12.3 | 1 | ||||
| Career | 39 | 25 | 517 | 3,087 | 6.0 | 23 | 58 | 679 | 11.7 | 4 | ||||
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