Price Check · 2026 Week 5
DeSean Bishop
RB · Senior · Tennessee
Est. NIL Valuation
$1,000,000
The NIL Standard's estimate of DeSean Bishop's annual NIL value, as of October 4, 2026. An estimate, not a report of money paid.
The figure above is our estimate, and it ties him for the fifth-highest valuation among running backs on our board as of October 4. Week 5 was the biggest day of his career: 34 carries for 220 yards and three touchdowns in a 24–14 win over Auburn, 92.8% of Tennessee's 237 rushing yards and every one of its touchdowns, on an afternoon its quarterbacks produced 86 yards through the air.
Week 5
Tennessee beat Auburn 24–14 at Neyland Stadium, October 3, 2026.
34
Carries
220
Rushing yards
3
Rushing touchdowns
6.5
Yards per carry
- By halftime
- 12 Carries, 70 Rush yds, 0 Rush TD
- Longest run
- 44 yds
- Fumbles lost
- 0
Share of the offense
How much of Tennessee's offense went through one player.
- Rushing yards220 of 23792.8%
- Touchdowns3 of 3100.0%
The touchdowns
- Q38:4925 yards — First-and-10 at the Auburn 25, the sixth play of Tennessee's first drive of the second half, 82 yards in 2:46; his 2-yard run converted third-and-1 the play before. Tennessee led 10-7.
- Q35:1544 yards — First-and-10 at the Auburn 44, the only play of the drive, after Dejuan Lane picked off Byrum Brown and returned it 32 yards. It was Tennessee's next offensive snap after the first touchdown. Tennessee led 17-7.
- Q43:305 yards — First-and-5 at the Auburn 5, the last of five straight carries by him on a 24-yard drive that took 3:04, after the fourth-and-1 stop at the Auburn 24; his 10-yard run on fourth-and-1 came the play before. The final score, 24-14.
What it beat
SEC Co-Offensive Player of the Week
Announced October 5 for the 220 yards and three touchdowns against Auburn; shared with Missouri's Austin Simmons.
The second Volunteer this century with 200 yards and three touchdowns on the ground
He joined Eric Gray, who did it against Vanderbilt on November 30, 2019.
The only FBS player this season with 220 rushing yards and three rushing touchdowns in a game
As of October 3. Two other FBS backs ran for more than 200 yards and three touchdowns the same Saturday, and neither reached 220.
The 12th-most rushing yards in a game in Tennessee history
All three figures were career highs, and his 34 carries matched the most by a Volunteer since 2010, Jalen Hurd's at Missouri on November 21, 2015.
The season before
182
Carries
1,076
Rushing yards
16
Rushing touchdowns
5.9
Yards per carry
- He started all 13 games and became the third straight Tennessee starting back to reach 1,000 yards.
- His 16 rushing touchdowns tied for second in the SEC and for sixth nationally, and rank fourth in Tennessee's single-season history.
- A Knoxville native from Karns High School, his only major offer, he joined Tennessee as a walk-on, redshirted in 2023 after a preseason injury, and has been on scholarship since the spring of 2025.
All-SEC Second Team (Coaches)Burlsworth Trophy semifinalist
The rushing line
- DeSean Bishop34 carries, 220 yds, 3 TD
- Daune Morris8 carries, 32 yds, 0 TD
- Faizon Brandon4 carries, -9 yds, 0 TD
Tennessee ran for 237 yards on 49 carries and 3 touchdowns, out of 323 total yards.
The valuation, revisited
The case for the number is a day he was the offense: 220 of Tennessee's 323 yards and all three of its touchdowns, on a day Tennessee changed quarterbacks in the second quarter. It was the second 200-yard, three-touchdown game by a Volunteer this century, and it came on top of a 2025 season of 1,076 yards and 16 touchdowns that made him second-team All-SEC.
The case against it is how the day was built. The 25- and 44-yard touchdowns came on back-to-back Tennessee snaps and account for 69 of the 220 yards; his other 32 carries went for 151, 4.7 a carry. Thirty-four carries matched the most by a Volunteer since 2010, a workload Tennessee rarely gives one back. And the two games before this one were the lowest-yardage games of his season: 9 carries for 42 against Kennesaw State and 11 for 34 against No. 1 Texas.
An estimate does not move on one Saturday; every player is revalued once before the portal window opens. Five games in, 540 yards and seven touchdowns argue for the number, and the two light weeks before this one argue against it. The number stands.
The valuation above is The NIL Standard's own estimate as of October 4, 2026; it is an editorial figure, not a reported contract and not a report of money paid. Game figures are operator-supplied and were checked against the official box score on October 4, 2026; they are reported figures, not estimates, and this database holds no game or box-score data of its own. Record-book and 2025 season figures were checked on October 5, 2026 against Tennessee's official release of October 5 on his weekly honor, Tennessee's official postgame notes and game recap of October 3, the player's official Tennessee bio and game-by-game statistics for every 2026 FBS game through October 3. The halftime line is derived from the official play-by-play; with the second half it sums to the official box score. His 40-yard run to the end zone in the second quarter was nullified by a personal foul on Braylon Staley; the official play-by-play credits it as 15 yards to the spot of the foul, and those 15 are inside his 220. The rushing line lists every Tennessee ball carrier with more than one carry; the other three carries were Justin Baker's 2-yard run, a 1-yard sack of George MacIntyre, and a team rush for a 7-yard loss on a fumble Baker recovered. Faizon Brandon's four were two sacks, for 3 yards and 1, a 12-yard loss on a fumble out of bounds, and a 7-yard run. Tennessee was sacked three times for 5 yards. No yards-after-contact or missed-tackle figure is published here, because the official box score carries neither. Team rushing figures are NCAA net: every sack counts as a team rushing attempt and the yards lost on it as negative rushing yards, so the team rushing line and every rushing share above are net of sacks.