Walk-on running back Caleb Ramseur, who has made a big impression on the Nevada football staff this offseason, was rewarded with a scholarship Thursday before the start of the 2024 season.

First-year Wolf Pack coach Jeff Choate raved about Ramseur in a media availability earlier Thursday before putting the Morehead State transfer on scholarship.

“This Caleb Ramseur kid just keeps impressing me,” Choate said. “He’s a walk-on kid from the Elk Grove area and this guy runs inside zone the way it’s supposed to be run. He had a really good day, but he’s stacking the days, which I think is awesome. I was really pleased with him.”

The 5-foot-11, 198-pound Ramseur began his college career at Butte College in California where he spent two seasons. As a freshman in 2021, he rushed for 404 yards and two touchdowns. In 2022, he had 744 rushing yards and eight touchdowns. Over his two-year career, he averaged 5.7 yards per carry. He added 20 catches for 240 yards.

Ramseur then transferred to Morehead State, an FCS school in Kentucky, for the 2023 season where he had 25 carries for 173 yards and three touchdowns, averaging 6.9 yards per carry. He added four receptions for 25 yards before hitting the transfer portal in November and moving on to Nevada via a walk-on spot in December. Ramseur is a junior with two years of college eligibility remaining since last year didn’t count as a year since he only played four games at Morehead State.

While the Wolf Pack’s running back room is stacked with former power-conference players, Ramseur has been among that group’s most productive players in fall practices. He also was with Nevada during spring camp and over the summer.

Ramseur’s coach at Butte College, Robby Snelling, has listed Ramseur among the hardest-working players he’s coached as well as one of his most well-rounded running backs capable of playing three downs and being a force in the pass game.

“I think that’s tough to find,” Snelling told the Chico Enterprise-Record in 2023. “You have some guys that catch the ball well, some guys that are better rushing or pass protection, but to find a guy that can do everything is tough.”

Ramseur played his high school ball at Monterey Trail High in Elko Grove where he rushed for 1,383 yards and 13 touchdowns as a senior while earning all-league honors in 2020. Ramseur told the Chico Enterprise-Record in 2023 that he drew motivation from doubters during his high school tenure.

“I was told in high school by a basketball coach that I was going to work at AM/PM and that’s all I’m going to do,” Ramseur told the paper. “That’s the thing that motivates me every day: if someone’s telling you you can’t do something, you can do it. You just have to put in the work.”

Choate announced Ramseur’s ascension to a scholarship player during a team meeting Thursday by saying, “When you get an opportunity to lead a family or lead an organization or a company, whatever that looks like, I hope that you always remember that when somebody in your family, somebody in your company, somebody on your team really embodies the values that you have, somebody in our organization takes prides in what they do, that you know that you can count on, that is a good person and is going to go compete their ass off, make sure that you pat them on the back and show them that you appreciate them.”

You can watch the video of Ramseur getting a scholarship below.