Xavier Gayten holds the RB · Backup spot in Mississippi State Bulldogs’s running back room. Where he sits among the room’s front-line roles:

Xavier Gayten logged a 5.8% overall usage rate in 2025.

Xavier Gayten is a running back for Mississippi State who prepped at Brookhaven High School, where he rushed for 5,216 yards and 54 touchdowns across his high school career. A 4-star recruit in the 2024 class, Gayten made his collegiate debut against Eastern Kentucky on August 31, 2024, and recorded 115 rushing yards on 8 carries with one touchdown as a true freshman, including a 72-yard touchdown run—the longest by a State player since 2016. In his 2025 sophomore season, he appeared in all 13 games and rushed for 157 yards on 29 carries with 2 touchdowns, averaging 5.4 yards per carry and leading State running backs in that metric. Gayten scored touchdowns in back-to-back games against Alcorn State and Northern Illinois for the first time in his career.

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