Ranks eighth all-time in UM history in career rushing attempts (402) while compiling 1,670 yards … Has started 23 of 34 career games … Expected to again share carries with Graig Cooper … Cousin of former UM and current NFL running back Edgerrin James.
2008 (JUNIOR): Second-leading rusher … Rushed 62 times for 286 yards (4.2-yard average), with four touchdowns despite missing four games (Texas A&M, Florida State, North Carolina, UCF) for the Hurricanes with a high ankle sprain … Also caught 11 passes for 118 yards … Rushed a team-high 16 times for 65 yards and scored on two 1-yard touchdown runs at NC State, while also matching a career-high with four receptions for 35 yards … Started the season-opener against Charleston Southern and ran 12 times for a season-high 73 yards and a touchdown … Rushed nine times for 55 yards in overtime-win at Virginia … Had a touchdown run in win against Virginia Tech.
2007 (SOPHOMORE): Second-leading rusher … Rushed a team-high 159 times for 582 yards (3.7-yard average), with four touchdowns … Also caught 14 passes for 100 yards, ranking fourth on the team … Had one 100-yard game and two others with more than 90 yards … Started and rushed a team-high 14 times for 99 yards and scored two touchdowns on runs of five and eight yards against Marshall … Against FIU, started and led the team with 92 yards rushing on 19 carries (4.8 average, 23 long) and also caught two passes for 12 yards … Started in the backfield alongside freshman Graig Cooper against Duke and rushed 16 times for 57 yards (3.6 average) and also caught three passes for 28 yards … At Florida State, started and rushed 20 times for 73 yards … Led the team with 103 yards rushing on 18 carries (5.7 average) against NC State, which marked his first 100-yard rushing performance of the season and fourth of his career.
2006 (FRESHMAN): Selected second-team Freshman All-American by Rivals.com, third-team by CollegeFootballNews.com and honorable mention by The Sporting News … Selected to The Sporting News ACC All-Freshman team … Played in all 13 games, starting the last 10 games … Led the team in rushing with 175 carries for 802 yards, which is the second-most yards ever for a Miami true freshman behind Clinton Portis’ 838 yards in 1999 … Ranked fourth in the nation in rushing among true freshman, behind Wisconsin’s P.J. Hill (1,569 yards), Southern Mississippi’s Damion Fletcher (1,388 yards), Clemson’s C.J. Spiller (938 yards) and Texas A&M’s Mike Goodson (847 yards) … Ranked eighth in the ACC in rushing … Saw his first action as a collegian in the fourth quarter of the season opener vs. Florida State and rushed three times for three yards … Played as a reserve against Florida A&M and scored the first two touchdowns of his career, rushing eight times for 75 yards (9.4-yard average) and one touchdown while catching one pass for a 21-yard TD (marked the first time since 2003 that a Miami freshman scored two TDs in a game) … Made his first start vs. Houston and rushed for 148 yards on 18 carries (8.2-yard average), with one touchdown (rushing total was the second most ever for a true freshman in UM history (record: 153 by Frank Gore in 2001) and marked the most ever by a true freshman in his first start … Named the ACC Freshman of the Week after performance against Houston … In his second start vs. North Carolina, rushed 16 times for 111 yards (6.9-yard average) and one touchdown, scoring on a 62-yard run, which was the team’s longest touchdown run since Willis McGahee went 69 yards for a TD against Pittsburgh on Nov. 21, 2002 … Marked the first back-to-back 100-yard games since Tyrone Moss in the first two games of 2005 and became the first freshman to rush for consecutive 100-yard games since Clinton Portis recorded four straight in 1999 … Had his third 100-yard game at Georgia Tech, gaining 113 yards on 19 carries (5.9-yard average), with a long of 49 … Led the team with 78 yards rushing on 22 carries (3.5 average, 16 long) at Maryland and 95 yards on 21 carries (4.5 average, 13 long) at Virginia.
HIGH SCHOOL: As a senior in 2005, missed five games but still finished with more than 1,000 yards and 14 touchdowns … As a junior in 2004, rushed 225 times for 1,658 yards and 28 touchdowns and led his team to the state title … As a sophomore, had 165 carries for 1,145 yards and 14 touchdowns … As a freshman, rushed for more than 800 yards with 16 touchdowns … Rated the No. 13 running back in the nation and the 21st overall player in Florida by Rivals.com … Ranked the No. 35 running back in the country by Scout.com … Rated the No. 21 running back and the No. 144 overall player in the country by ESPN … Rated the No. 4 player on the Miami Herald’s list of the state’s top 25 players … Member of the PrepStar 200 and ranked the No. 18 running back … Rated the No. 2 running back on the Florida Times-Union Super 75 … Ranked the No. 11 player in the state by the Orlando Sentinel … Coached by John Weber.
JAVARRIS JAMES’ CAREER STATISTICS
| RUSHING | RECEIVING | ||||||||||
| Year | GP/GS | Att | Yards | Avg. | TD | LG | No. | Yards | Avg. | TD | LG |
| 2006 | 13/10 | 175 | 802 | 4.7 | 4 | 62 | 17 | 200 | 11.8 | 1 | 25 |
| 2007 | 12/12 | 159 | 582 | 3.7 | 4 | 23 | 14 | 100 | 7.1 | 0 | 15 |
| 2008 | 9/1 | 68 | 286 | 4.2 | 4 | 13 | 11 | 118 | 10.7 | 0 | 20 |
| Totals | 34/23 | 402 | 1670 | 4.2 | 12 | 62 | 42 | 418 | 9.9 | 1 | 25 |
JAVARRIS JAMES’ 2006 GAME-BY-GAME STATISTICS
| RUSHING | RECEIVING | |||||||||
| Opponent | No. | Yards | Avg. | TD | LG | No. | Yards | Avg. | TD | LG |
| Florida State | 3 | 3 | 1.0 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 |
| Florida A&M | 8 | 75 | 9.4 | 1 | 27 | 1 | 21 | 10.5 | 1 | 21 |
| at Louisville | 7 | 24 | 3.4 | 0 | 9 | 2 | 42 | 21.0 | 0 | 25 |
| Houston | 18 | 148 | 8.2 | 1 | 44 | 2 | 22 | 11.0 | 0 | 16 |
| North Carolina | 16 | 111 | 6.9 | 1 | 62 | 1 | 8 | 8.0 | 0 | 8 |
| FIU | 11 | 36 | 3.3 | 0 | 9 | 1 | -1 | -1.0 | 0 | -1 |
| at Duke | 9 | 19 | 2.1 | 0 | 10 | 1 | 13 | 13.0 | 0 | 13 |
| at Georgia Tech | 19 | 113 | 5.9 | 0 | 49 | 2 | 31 | 15.5 | 0 | 22 |
| Virginia Tech | 4 | 20 | 5.0 | 0 | 13 | 1 | 3 | 3.0 | 0 | 3 |
| at Maryland | 22 | 78 | 3.5 | 0 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 |
| at Virginia | 21 | 95 | 4.5 | 0 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 |
| Boston College | 20 | 45 | 2.2 | 1 | 11 | 4 | 34 | 8.5 | 0 | 17 |
| Nevada (bowl game) | 17 | 35 | 2.1 | 0 | 18 | 2 | 27 | 13.5 | 0 | 15 |
| Totals | 175 | 802 | 4.7 | 4 | 62 | 17 | 200 | 11.8 | 1 | 25 |
JAVARRIS JAMES’ 2007 GAME-BY-GAME STATISTICS
| RUSHING | RECEIVING | |||||||||
| Opponent | No. | Yards | Avg. | TD | LG | No. | Yards | Avg. | TD | LG |
| Marshall | 14 | 99 | 7.1 | 2 | 18 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 |
| at Oklahoma | 8 | 28 | 3.5 | 0 | 12 | 1 | 7 | 7.0 | 0 | 7 |
| FIU | 19 | 92 | 4.8 | 0 | 23 | 2 | 12 | 6.0 | 0 | 9 |
| Texas A&M | 20 | 46 | 2.3 | 1 | 16 | 2 | 15 | 7.5 | 0 | 11 |
| Duke | 16 | 57 | 3.6 | 0 | 16 | 3 | 28 | 9.3 | 0 | 16 |
| at North Carolina | 10 | 27 | 2.7 | 1 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 |
| Georgia Tech | 6 | -6 | -1.0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 |
| at Florida State | 20 | 73 | 3.7 | 0 | 10 | 2 | 1 | 0.5 | 0 | 5 |
| NC State | 18 | 103 | 5.7 | 0 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 |
| Virginia | 15 | 53 | 3.5 | 0 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 |
| at Virginia Tech | 10 | 7 | 0.7 | 0 | 7 | 3 | 27 | 9.0 | 0 | 10 |
| at Boston College | 3 | 3 | 1.0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 10 | 10.0 | 0 | 10 |
| Totals | 159 | 582 | 3.7 | 4 | 23 | 14 | 100 | 7.1 | 0 | 15 |
JAVARRIS JAMES’ 2008 GAME-BY-GAME STATISTICS
| RUSHING | RECEIVING | |||||||||
| Opponent | No. | Yards | Avg. | TD | LG | No. | Yards | Avg. | TD | LG |
| Charleston Southern | 12 | 73 | 6.1 | 1 | 13 | 1 | 11 | 11.0 | 0 | 11 |
| at Florida | 2 | 4 | 2.0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 |
| at Duke | 3 | 13 | 4.3 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 |
| Wake Forest | 6 | 14 | 2.3 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 13 | 13.0 | 0 | 13 |
| at Virginia | 9 | 55 | 6.1 | 0 | 13 | 1 | 8 | 8.0 | 0 | 8 |
| Virginia Tech | 7 | 29 | 4.1 | 1 | 12 | 1 | 19 | 19.0 | 0 | 19 |
| at Georgia Tech | 7 | 30 | 4.3 | 0 | 9 | 2 | 29 | 14.5 | 0 | 16 |
| at NC State | 16 | 65 | 4.1 | 2 | 13 | 4 | 35 | 8.8 | 0 | 20 |
| vs. California (Emerald Bowl) | 6 | 3 | 0.5 | 0 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 3.0 | 0 | 3 |