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RJ Harvey

Running Back, Denver Broncos · #12.

Player facts

Team: Denver Broncos
Position: Running Back
Number: 12
Born: Feb 4, 2001 (age 25)
Birthplace: Orlando, FL, USA
Height: 5' 8"
Weight: 205 lbs
College: UCF
Experience: 2 seasons
Status: Active

Stats

2026 Offense

	CAR	YDS	AVG	TD	LNG	REC	YDS	AVG	TD	LNG	FUM	LST
Regular Season	21	81	3.9	1	9	23	163	7.1	0	19	1	0
Last 5 Games	21	81	3.8	1	9	23	163	5.9	0	19	1	0
Career	167	621	3.7	8	50	70	519	7.4	5	32	2	1

Advanced stats

2026 season through week 6. EPA per play is the points a play added to the team’s expected score; success rate is the share of plays that kept the offense on schedule; CPOE is completion percentage over what the throws’ difficulty predicted. Rank is by EPA per play.

	Plays	EPA/play	Success	CPOE	League rank
Rushing	21 carries	+0.01	52%		fewer than 36 plays
Receiving	26 targets	+0.09	54%		66th of 94

NFL data: nflverse, CC BY 4.0.

Recent games

			Rushing					Receiving					Fumbles
Date	Opponent	Result	CAR	YDS	AVG	TD	LNG	REC	YDS	AVG	TD	LNG	FUM	LST
Thu, Oct 15	vs SEA	W 17-14 OT	6	25	4.2	1	9	3	31	10.3	0	16	0	0
Sun, Oct 11	@ LAC	W 23-17	3	7	2.3	0	4	0	0	0.0	0	0	0	0
Sun, Oct 4	@ SF	L 24-14	7	25	3.6	0	9	10	68	6.8	0	18	1	0
Sun, Sep 27	vs LAR	W 30-26	2	6	3.0	0	4	6	41	6.8	0	19	0	0
Mon, Sep 14	@ KC	L 31-10	3	18	6.0	0	7	4	23	5.8	0	11	0	0

Last 5 games. Click a game for its box score.

About

Robert "RJ" Harvey Jr. (born February 4, 2001) is an American professional football running back and kickoff returner for the Denver Broncos of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the UCF Knights. Harvey was selected by the Broncos in the second round of the 2025 NFL draft.

From Wikipedia’s article on RJ Harvey, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.¹

Background

Early life

Harvey was born in Orlando, Florida. He began playing football at age five. He attended Edgewater High School in Orlando and played three varsity football seasons as a dual-threat quarterback. Although the team lost every game in his sophomore year, he helped them rebound with a 9–3 record and district championship the following season. As a senior, Harvey threw for 42 touchdowns and 1,815 passing yards and ran for 1,350 yards and 22 scores as the team reached the state playoffs with a 12–2 record. He also maintained a 4.3 grade-point average (GPA) off the field. Harvey was ranked a three-star recruit and the 39th-best dual-threat quarterback nationally, committing to play college football for the Virginia Cavaliers.

College career

As a true freshman at the University of Virginia in 2019, Harvey was the third quarterback on the depth chart and redshirted, not seeing any playing time. He then entered the NCAA transfer portal and transferred to the UCF Knights. In 2020 at the University of Central Florida, after changing position to running back he appeared in five games and ran twice for three yards as a backup. He had a chance to be a starter entering the 2021 season, but suffered a torn ACL in preseason camp and missed the entire year.

Harvey returned in 2022 and appeared in 13 games with three starts, being named second-team All-American Athletic Conference (AAC) by Pro Football Network (PFN) while running 118 times for 796 yards and five touchdowns, in addition to 22 receptions for 215 yards. He entered the 2023 season as the team's top running back. Starting on October 7 against Kansas, he had five consecutive games with over 100 rushing yards, the longest streak at the school since 2007. Against 15th-ranked Oklahoma State, he ran for 206 yards and three touchdowns, helping UCF win 45–3 in an upset. He was named a semifinalist for the Doak Walker Award as best running back nationally and became the first UCF player to run for over 1,000 yards in a season since 2018. With 1,416 yards & 16 TDs, Harvey had the sixth-highest amount of running yards and rushing touchdowns in the nation.