Player Dossier

2024-2025

Wake Forest

Deshawn Purdie

QB • 6'4" • 228 lbs • Baltimore, MD, USA

Balanced quarterback profileVolume operator

Deshawn Purdie is a balanced quarterback profile with 9.8 usage in the latest tracked season.

Usage / Role

44%

Rotational offensive role

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Impact Production

32

Developing production for a quarterback

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Reliability

40

Sporadic game-to-game production

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Star Power

46

Limited ceiling signals so far

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Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by Season Value: 2024 Regular Season · Charlotte

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Snapshot

Career Teams
2
Unique Seasons
2
Program Path
Charlotte • Wake Forest
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: Oregon State

Player Story

Deshawn Purdie built his college career from 2024 through 2025 as a quarterback from Baltimore, MD wearing No. 5, spending time with Charlotte and Wake Forest. The clearest part of Deshawn Purdie's career was his...

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Recruit Profile

Class 2024 · Rating 0.8511

Milford Mill Academy · Baltimore, MD

Committed To
Charlotte
Commit Date
Jan 1, 2024

Deshawn Purdie, QB. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2024 Regular Season · Charlotte. Deshawn Purdie is a balanced quarterback profile with 9.8 usage in the latest tracked season.

Stat Footprint

Career production snapshot

Total offense
2,279
Passing yards
2,420
Touchdowns
17

Quick Answers

Deshawn Purdie quick answers

Latest team and position
Wake Forest · QB
Career Total Offense
2,279
Tracked sample
2 unique seasons · 2 entries · 17 games
Best season
2024 Regular Season · Charlotte
Top game
Oregon State
Recruit profile
3-star · Milford Mill Academy · Charlotte
High school pipeline
Milford Mill Academy · 2 FBS recruits · 0 drafted players
Latest roster
No. 5 · Sophomore
2025 Total offense rank
607 total offense · QB 179th (top 43%) · ACC 37th (top 18%) · National 296th (top 19%)

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesTotal OffensePass YdsRush YdsTDOverall
2024 Regular SeasonCharlotte91,6721,802-1301163
2025 Regular SeasonWake Forest8607618-11633.2

Related Context

Deshawn Purdie played QB for Charlotte and Wake Forest. Across 2 tracked seasons, Deshawn Purdie recorded 2,420 passing yards, -141 rushing yards, and 1 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2024 with Charlotte.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2024 Regular Season

Charlotte paired 1,672 primary output with 54 efficiency.

Supporting note

2024 Regular Season role shape

pass-led usage with 54 efficiency.

Supporting note

Career value cooled off

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

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Multi-stop career journey

Production spans 2 team stops, with role shifts visible across Charlotte, Wake Forest.

Supporting note

Peak game by takeover score: Florida Atlantic

Win with 392 yards of offense and 60 efficiency. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.

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2024 Regular Season · Charlotte

Games

9

Primary Metric / G

185.8

Efficiency

54

Usage

14.9

Consistency

65

Best Game by takeover score

Florida Atlantic

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Game-by-Game Trend

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Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. North Carolina: 140. Gardner-Webb: 117. Rice: 163. East Carolina: 187. Memphis: 142. Tulane: 60. South Florida: 245. Florida Atlantic: 392. UAB: 226

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. North Carolina: 22 by 56.5. Gardner-Webb: 31 by 55.6. Rice: 17 by 66.7. East Carolina: 28 by 59.3. Memphis: 16 by 49.4. Tulane: 16 by 38.5. South Florida: 48 by 44.4. Florida Atlantic: 31 by 60. UAB: 32 by 55.5

Split Comparison

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

Wins217 · Games = 5 · +70.3 vs Losses
Losses146.8 · Games = 4 · -70.3 vs Wins

Game Log

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

9 games

Featured metric

Total Offense

Top game by takeover score

Florida Atlantic

Best efficiency game

66.7 vs Rice

Result
Sat 11/30vs UABW 29-2792621534.61055.56111.80019
Sat 11/23@ Florida Atlantic300-yard game · 3+ TDW 39-27163039653.331601-4-400
Sat 11/16vs South FloridaL 24-59173925643.61244.49-11-1.20016
Thu 10/31vs TulaneL 3-345126641.70138.54-6-1.50010
Sat 10/26@ MemphisL 28-3351415235.71149.42-10-500
Sat 10/5vs East CarolinaW 55-24132220659.10059.36-19-3.2012
Sat 9/28@ RiceW 21-20101518366.72066.72-20-1000
Sat 9/14vs Gardner-WebbW 27-26162319469.60155.68-77-9.6005
Sat 9/7@ North CarolinaL 20-3891913447.42056.5362015

Player Story

Deshawn Purdie story

Deshawn Purdie built his college career from 2024 through 2025 as a quarterback from Baltimore, MD wearing No. 5, spending time with Charlotte and Wake Forest. The clearest part of Deshawn Purdie's career was his passing role: 2,420 passing yards, 16 touchdown passes, and 282 attempts across 17 career games in the available record. His largest box-score season came in 2024 with Charlotte. Those numbers show where he fit, how often the ball or action found him, and how his role developed over time.

Quarterback careers are usually judged first by volume, efficiency, and scoring chances. His career also includes 1 tackle, giving the story more than a single-category snapshot. With 17 career games in the available record, his career has enough shape to show both opportunity and production across Charlotte and Wake Forest.

The arc is straightforward: Deshawn Purdie 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

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  1. 1

    Charlotte

    2024

    Opening stop

  2. 2

    Wake Forest

    2025

    Final stop

Season Value Progression

20242025
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2024 Regular SeasonCharlotte1,6725414.9
2025 Regular SeasonWake Forest60752.29.8-1,065

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

@ No. 126 Oregon State

Week 7 · W 39-14

Win with 270 yards of offense and 78.4 efficiency.

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Total Offense

89.2 takeover

270 total offense with 78.4 efficiency.

#2

@ Florida Atlantic

Week 13 · W 39-27 · Conference game

392

Total Offense

56.9 takeover

Win with 392 yards of offense and 60 efficiency.

392 total offense with 60 efficiency.

#3

vs South Florida

Week 12 · L 24-59 · Conference game

245

Total Offense

54.7 takeover

Loss shaped by high passing volume and turnover pressure.

245 total offense with 44.4 efficiency.

#4

vs Western Carolina

Week 2 · W 42-10

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Total Offense

51.5 takeover

Win with 42 yards of offense and 87.5 efficiency.

42 total offense with 87.5 efficiency.

#5

vs Gardner-Webb

Week 3 · W 27-26

117

Total Offense

51.3 takeover

Win with 117 yards of offense and 55.6 efficiency.

117 total offense with 55.6 efficiency.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2024 Regular Season · Charlotte

1,672 primary output · 54 efficiency · 14.9 usage

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#2

2025 Regular Season · Wake Forest

33.2

607 primary · 52.2 efficiency · 9.8 usage

Milestones

3

250+ passing yards

1

300+ total offense

2

3+ TD games

4

Above avg efficiency