Keaton Mitchell

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Keaton Anthony Mitchell (born January 17, 2002) is an American professional football running back for the Los Angeles Chargers of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the East Carolina Pirates and was signed as an undrafted free agent by the Baltimore Ravens after the 2023 NFL draft. Mitchell was born on January 17, 2002, in McDonough, Georgia. He is the son of Anthony Mitchell, who played several years in the National Football League (NFL) and won a Super Bowl with the Baltimore Ravens, and Kandice Mitchell, who played for the United States women's national American football team during the 2017 IFAF Women's World Championship. He attended Eagle's Landing Christian Academy and helped them reach four consecutive state championships, running for a total of 4,347 yards and 88 touchdowns just during his junior and senior years combined, as they won 54 of 56 games. He was a Class A Private Offensive Player of the Year and Class A Region 5 Player of the Year honoree, committing to play college football at East Carolina (ECU) after his graduation. As a true freshman at East Carolina in 2020, Mitchell appeared in nine games while starting two, and posted 88 rush attempts for 443 yards and two touchdowns, as well as 11 receptions for 75 yards and one touchdown. In 2021, he started all 12 games and recorded over 1,000 rushing yards, becoming the first to do so at ECU since Tay Cooper in 2013. He was a first-team all-conference choice and led the American Athletic Conference (AAC) in both total rushing yards (1,132) and all-purpose yards per game (115.83), while additionally placing high in the conference leaderboards in four other statistics. He posted a total of four 100-yard rushing games that season, including a 222-yard performance against Tulane which was the best all-time for an ECU freshman.