Player Dossier

2020-2025

Liberty

Elijah Canion

WR • 6'4" • 225 lbs • Hollywood, FL, USA

Vertical playmakerExplosive finisher

Elijah Canion reads as a vertical playmaker based on recent role and receiving efficiency.

Usage / Role

2%

Rotational offensive role

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Impact Production

16

Developing production for a receiver

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Reliability

12

Sporadic game-to-game production

lowhigh

Star Power

23

Limited ceiling signals so far

limitedstar

Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by Season Value: 2024 Regular Season · Liberty

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Snapshot

Career Teams
3
Unique Seasons
6
Program Path
Auburn • Purdue • Liberty
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: Jacksonville State

Player Story

Elijah Canion built his college career from 2020 through 2025 as a wide receiver from Hollywood, FL wearing No. 5, spending time with Auburn, Liberty, and Purdue. The clearest part of Elijah Canion's career was his...

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Recruit Profile

Class 2020 · Rating 0.8804

Chaminade-Madonna · Hollywood, FL

Committed To
Auburn
Commit Date
Jan 1, 2020

Elijah Canion, WR. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2024 Regular Season · Liberty. Elijah Canion reads as a vertical playmaker based on recent role and receiving efficiency.

Stat Footprint

Career production snapshot

Receiving yards
541
Receptions
37
Touchdowns
4

Quick Answers

Elijah Canion quick answers

Latest team and position
Liberty · WR
Career Receiving Yards
541
Tracked sample
6 unique seasons · 6 entries · 18 games
Best season
2024 Regular Season · Liberty
Top game
Jacksonville State
Recruit profile
3-star · Chaminade-Madonna · Auburn
High school pipeline
Chaminade-Madonna · 72 FBS recruits · 1 drafted player
Latest roster
No. 5 · Senior
2025 Receiving yards rank
57 receiving yards · WR 756th (top 69%) · Conference USA 120th (top 59%) · National 1,277th (top 59%)

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesRecRec YdsTDOverall
2020 PostseasonAuburn1380165.2
2021 Regular SeasonAuburn4446043.6
2022 Regular SeasonPurdue0-00-
2023 Regular SeasonPurdue114037.9
2024 Regular SeasonLiberty925354374.6
2025 Regular SeasonLiberty3457052.8

Related Context

Transfer Portal History

Matched portal movement

SeasonPathMovementValueDate
2024Purdue to LibertyP4 to G5/FCS19.6Jan 3, 2024
2022Auburn to PurdueP4 to P478.4Nov 30, 2021

Elijah Canion played WR for Auburn, Purdue, and Liberty. Across 6 tracked seasons, Elijah Canion recorded 541 receiving yards, 1 tackles, and 4 touchdowns. His top tracked season came in 2024 with Liberty.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2024 Regular Season

Liberty paired 354 primary output with 82.2 efficiency.

Supporting note

2025 Regular Season role shape

target-driven usage with 87.8 efficiency.

Supporting note

Career value cooled off

2025 Regular Season fell back from the prior stop by season value score.

Supporting note

Multi-stop career journey

Production spans 3 team stops, with role shifts visible across Auburn, Purdue, Liberty.

Supporting note

Peak game by takeover score: Jacksonville State

Loss with an explosive receiving profile. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.

Analysis workspace

Season Workbench

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Season Explorer

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2025 Regular Season · Liberty

Games

3

Receiving Yards / G

19

Efficiency

87.8

Usage

7.4

Consistency

82.6

Best Game by takeover score

Jacksonville State

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Game-by-Game Trend

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Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. Maine: 21. Jacksonville State: 22. Delaware: 14

Volume vs Efficiency

Each dot is a game. Farther right means the player carried more of the workload, and higher means they were more efficient with those chances.

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Volume on the x-axis, quality on the y-axis.

Volume versus efficiency scatter chart. Maine: 2 by 70. Jacksonville State: 1 by 100. Delaware: 1 by 93.3

Split Comparison

Compare how this player performed across different situations. "Games" shows how many matchups are included in each split.

Wins17.5 · Games = 2 · -4.5 vs Losses
Losses22 · Games = 1 · +4.5 vs Wins

Game Log

Dense stat lines with inline explanations and season-linked highlights.

3 games

Featured metric

Receiving Yards

Top game by takeover score

Jacksonville State

Best efficiency game

100 vs Jacksonville State

Result
Sat 11/1vs DelawareW 59-301141414014
Sat 9/6@ Jacksonville StateL 24-341222222022
Sat 8/30vs MaineW 28-722110.510.50015

Player Story

Elijah Canion story

Elijah Canion built his college career from 2020 through 2025 as a wide receiver from Hollywood, FL wearing No. 5, spending time with Auburn, Liberty, and Purdue. The clearest part of Elijah Canion's career was his receiving role: 37 catches, 541 receiving yards, and 4 touchdowns across 18 career games in the available record. His career also includes 1 tackle, giving the story more than a single-category snapshot. That gives Elijah Canion's career enough real context without stretching the story beyond the available production.

Career Arc

Track team changes, role shifts, and season-to-season movement.

  1. 1

    Auburn

    2020-2021

    Opening stop

  2. 2

    Purdue

    2022-2023

    Peak year stop

  3. 3

    Liberty

    2024-2025

    Final stop

Season Value Progression

202020212022202320242025
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2020 PostseasonAuburn8010011.5
2021 Regular SeasonAuburn4675.67.6-34
2022 Regular SeasonPurdue0-46
2023 Regular SeasonPurdue426.77.14
2024 Regular SeasonLiberty35482.219.6350
2025 Regular SeasonLiberty5787.87.4-297

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

vs Jacksonville State

Week 10 · L 21-31 · Conference game

Loss with an explosive receiving profile.

63

Receiving Yards

88.6 takeover

63 receiving yards with a 84 efficiency score.

#2

vs Campbell

Week 1 · W 41-24

77

Receiving Yards

85.2 takeover

Win with an explosive receiving profile.

77 receiving yards with a 100 efficiency score.

#3

@ Middle Tennessee

Week 11 · W 37-17 · Conference game

54

Receiving Yards

84.5 takeover

Win with an explosive receiving profile.

54 receiving yards with a 100 efficiency score.

#4

@ Northwestern

Week 1 · L 19-35 · Postseason

80

Receiving Yards

79.4 takeover

Loss with an explosive receiving profile.

80 receiving yards with a 100 efficiency score.

#5

@ Kennesaw State

Week 9 · L 24-27 · Conference game

61

Receiving Yards

78.7 takeover

Loss with an explosive receiving profile.

61 receiving yards with a 81.3 efficiency score.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2024 Regular Season · Liberty

354 primary output · 82.2 efficiency · 19.6 usage

74.6

#2

2020 Postseason · Auburn

65.2

80 primary · 100 efficiency · 11.5 usage

#3

2025 Regular Season · Liberty

52.8

57 primary · 87.8 efficiency · 7.4 usage

Milestones

0

100+ receiving yards

0

8+ catch outings

0

2+ TD games