Player Dossier

2020-2025

Arkansas State

Corey Rucker

WR • 6'0" • 213 lbs • Yazoo City, MS, USA

Vertical playmakerExplosive finisher

Corey Rucker reads as a vertical playmaker based on recent role and receiving efficiency.

Usage / Role

7%

Rotational offensive role

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Impact Production

95

Top-tier box-score impact for a receiver

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Reliability

34

Sporadic game-to-game production

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Star Power

86

Elite ceiling indicators

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Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by Season Value: 2025 Postseason · Arkansas State

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Snapshot

Career Teams
2
Unique Seasons
6
Program Path
Arkansas State • South Carolina
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: UL Monroe

Player Story

Corey Rucker built his college career from 2020 through 2025 as a wide receiver from Yazoo City, MS wearing No. 7, spending time with Arkansas State and South Carolina. The clearest part of Corey Rucker's career was...

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Recruit Profile

Class 2020 · Rating 0.8417

Yazoo County · Yazoo City, MS

Committed To
Arkansas State
Commit Date
Jan 1, 2020

Corey Rucker, WR. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2025 Postseason · Arkansas State. Corey Rucker reads as a vertical playmaker based on recent role and receiving efficiency.

Stat Footprint

Career production snapshot

Receiving yards
4,105
Receptions
253
Touchdowns
29

Quick Answers

Corey Rucker quick answers

Latest team and position
Arkansas State · WR
Career Receiving Yards
4,105
Tracked sample
6 unique seasons · 9 entries · 56 games
Best season
2025 Postseason · Arkansas State
Top game
UL Monroe
Recruit profile
3-star · Yazoo County · Arkansas State
High school pipeline
Yazoo County · 4 FBS recruits · 1 drafted player
Latest roster
No. 7 · Senior
2025 Receiving yards rank
1,029 receiving yards · WR 16th (top 2%) · Sun Belt 3rd (top 2%) · National 16th (top 1%)

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesRecRec YdsTDOverall
2020 Regular SeasonArkansas State515450550.2
2021 Regular SeasonArkansas State12598161072.4
2022 Regular SeasonSouth Carolina1152155.7
2023 PostseasonArkansas State125107266.5
2023 Regular SeasonArkansas State1231598066.5
2024 PostseasonArkansas State134107277.6
2024 Regular SeasonArkansas State1365946577.6
2025 PostseasonArkansas State136166179.2
2025 Regular SeasonArkansas State1367863379.2

Related Context

Corey Rucker played WR for Arkansas State and South Carolina. Across 6 tracked seasons, Corey Rucker recorded 42 rushing yards, 4,105 receiving yards, and 6 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2024 with Arkansas State.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2025 Postseason

Arkansas State paired 1,029 primary output with 80 efficiency.

Supporting note

2020 Regular Season role shape

target-driven usage with 86.7 efficiency.

Supporting note

Career value stayed steady

2025 Regular Season tracked close to the prior stop by season value score.

Supporting note

Multi-stop career journey

Production spans 2 team stops, with role shifts visible across Arkansas State, South Carolina.

Supporting note

Peak game by takeover score: UL Monroe

Win 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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2020 Regular Season · Arkansas State

Games

5

Receiving Yards / G

90

Efficiency

86.7

Usage

15

Consistency

21.5

Best Game by takeover score

UL Monroe

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Game-by-Game Trend

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Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. Kansas State: 39. Central Arkansas: 56. Georgia State: 40. App State: 5. UL Monroe: 310

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. Kansas State: 2 by 100. Central Arkansas: 1 by 100. Georgia State: 2 by 100. App State: 1 by 33.3. UL Monroe: 9 by 100

Split Comparison

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

Wins111.3 · Games = 4 · +106.3 vs Losses
Losses5 · Games = 1 · -106.3 vs Wins

Game Log

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

5 games

Featured metric

Receiving Yards

Top game by takeover score

UL Monroe

Best efficiency game

100 vs UL Monroe

Result
Sat 12/5vs UL Monroe100 receiving yards · High volumeW 48-15931034.434.40469
Thu 10/22@ App StateL 17-45155505
Thu 10/15vs Georgia StateW 59-522402020021
Sat 10/10vs Central ArkansasW 50-271565656156
Sat 9/12@ Kansas StateW 35-3123919.519.50034

Player Story

Corey Rucker story

Corey Rucker built his college career from 2020 through 2025 as a wide receiver from Yazoo City, MS wearing No. 7, spending time with Arkansas State and South Carolina. The clearest part of Corey Rucker's career was his receiving role: 253 catches, 4,105 receiving yards, 28 touchdowns, and 42 rushing yards across 56 career games in the available record. His largest box-score season came in 2024 with Arkansas State. Those numbers show where he fit, how often the ball or action found him, and how his role developed over time.

The value of the career arc is that it connects production to role, not just a name on a roster. His career also includes 42 rushing yards and 6 tackles, giving the story more than a single-category snapshot. With 56 career games in the available record, his career has enough shape to show both opportunity and production across Arkansas State and South Carolina.

The arc is straightforward: Corey Rucker moved through the depth chart, found a larger role, and turned that opportunity into production that can be understood through standard football numbers.

Career Arc

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

  1. 1

    Arkansas State

    2020-2025

    Opening stop

  2. 2

    South Carolina

    2022

    Final stop

Season Value Progression

202020212022202320232024202420252025
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2020 Regular SeasonArkansas State45086.715
2021 Regular SeasonArkansas State81680.319.1366
2022 Regular SeasonSouth Carolina521005.3-764
2023 PostseasonArkansas State7058519.1653
2023 Regular SeasonArkansas State7058519.10
2024 PostseasonArkansas State1,05380.224.9348
2024 Regular SeasonArkansas State1,05380.224.90
2025 PostseasonArkansas State1,0298021.5-24
2025 Regular SeasonArkansas State1,0298021.50

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

vs UL Monroe

Week 14 · W 48-15 · Conference game

Win with an explosive receiving profile.

310

Receiving Yards

100 takeover

310 receiving yards with a 100 efficiency score.

#2

vs Central Arkansas

Week 1 · W 40-21

138

Receiving Yards

100 takeover

Win with an explosive receiving profile.

138 receiving yards with a 100 efficiency score.

#3

@ UL Monroe

Week 9 · W 34-24 · Conference game

160

Receiving Yards

100 takeover

Win with an explosive receiving profile.

160 receiving yards with a 100 efficiency score.

#4

vs Troy

Week 9 · W 34-31 · Conference game

193

Receiving Yards

100 takeover

Win with an explosive receiving profile.

193 receiving yards with a 100 efficiency score.

#5

vs No. 108 Missouri State

Week 1 · W 34-28 · Postseason

166

Receiving Yards

100 takeover

Win with an explosive receiving profile.

166 receiving yards with a 100 efficiency score.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2025 Postseason · Arkansas State

1,029 primary output · 80 efficiency · 21.5 usage

79.2

#2

2025 Regular Season · Arkansas State

79.2

1,029 primary · 80 efficiency · 21.5 usage

#3

2024 Postseason · Arkansas State

77.6

1,053 primary · 80.2 efficiency · 24.9 usage

Milestones

17

100+ receiving yards

12

8+ catch outings

6

2+ TD games