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Quinton Cooley

RB · Liberty · Sr · #20

Limited signal — not enough coverage for a story yet.

CAREER COMPLETELiberty 2024 — college career complete

RB · LIBERTY · CONFERENCE USA

Quinton Cooley

  • 4
  • #20
  • 5-7 | 220 lb
  • Bailey, NC

CFB Zeitgeist RB Score

Awaiting

Heisman Heat

#144

<1% win probability

Fan Belief

Awaiting

Player-specific FI not yet ingested. Falls back to team mood below.

Respect Gap

Awaiting

Coming online with player-level FI.

Reality Gap

Awaiting

Coming online with player-level FI.

ACCOLADE PROBABILITY

Heisman

<1%

TOP RB AWARD

Doak Walker

CONSENSUS

All-American

Player Standing · 17 rungs

Tier 1 · 2-deep

R02 · Deep reserve

Deep reserve. In the program, working up the two-deep.

Not on team2-deepStarterRecognizedEliteApex

Career arc · Season-by-season Standing

4 seasons on the ladder

Peak: R09 All-Conference HM / 2nd team · 2023

2021

Wake Forest · RB

2022

Wake Forest · RB

2023

Liberty · RB

R09 · All-Conference HM / 2nd team

Recognized

2024

Liberty · RB

R09 · All-Conference HM / 2nd team

Recognized

Development Trajectory · rushing yards

2021–2024
1562021
2462022
1,4012023
1,2542024

+704%

Up 704% from first season to most-recent.

Career Arc

HS
Recruit
★★★
#1131 national
CFB
College
2 teams
2021–2024
NFL
NFL Draft
Not drafted (yet)

Identity & Role

The durable bio layer: position, size, hometown, and roster role.

PositionRB
Class4
Jersey20
Measurements5-7 | 220 lb
HometownBailey, NC
Primary teamLiberty

Recruiting Pedigree

How big the prospect was before college, and whether the later career arc beat that expectation.

Top pedigree 3-star No. 1131 recruit
Composite rating 0.8522 HighSchool
Signed with -- 2020
Origin Southern Nash Bailey, NC, USA
Class Profile Context
2020 3-star | 0.8522 No. 1131 recruit | HighSchool

Transfer Arc

Portal movement changes role, context, and perception. This keeps that path in one place.

Portal moves 1 Programs changed on file
Latest destination Liberty 2023
Transfer stars 3-star CFBD transfer rating context
Eligibility Immediate Dec 10, 2022
Season Move Context
2023 Wake Forest -> Liberty 3-star | Immediate

Heisman Lens · 2024 Season · Final

Where the player landed at the end of the listed season — final nowcast rank, win/finalist/ballot probabilities, and the cleanest official Heisman placement on file.

HIGH CONFIDENCE· through week 16
Current nowcast#144Latest modeled ballot order
Season forecast#190Where the full season sim points
Win probability0.0%Chance to actually win the trophy
Finalist probability0.0%Chance to make the finalist tier
Ballot probability0.0%Chance to appear anywhere on a ballot
Best official finish--Best completed Heisman placement on file

Heisman Futures

Not yet listed on major futures markets.

No achievements unlocked yet this season.

Selector Grid · 2025

AP
FWAA
AFCA
WCFF
SN
SI

Selector recognition fills in once the major honors lists (AP, FWAA, AFCA, Walter Camp, Sporting News, SI) are scraped and ingested.

NIL · Recruiting · NFL Draft

Market value, pedigree & pro outcome

Recruit stars

★★★☆☆

to —

Composite

0.8522

#1131 national

Today’s Hot-Take

The Hot-Take engine fires when this player’s percentile profile crosses a defensible threshold (top 10% in a cohort, 100+ snap sample). When it’s quiet, the model is honoring its “must be defensible” rule.

Anti-Take

PENDING

The contrarian read fires when the rules-engine detects a stat that complicates the Hot-Take. Quiet here means the model hasn’t found a defensible counter yet — not that one doesn’t exist.

The Room on Quinton Cooley

Fan sentiment · Awaiting signal

The Room reads fan conversation around a player — who’s talking, what they believe, and how that shifts. It publishes once weekly volume rebuilds; for most players that’s in-season, when game-week chatter spikes.

Cohort divergence map

Cohort divergence reads how different fanbases talk about this player. Returns once weekly mentions clear the publish floor.

Rival Radar

How rival fanbases talk about Quinton Cooley

No rival-bucket mentions in the current season.

Signature Story

Awaiting candidate metric

He hasn't written his page yet — we'll start filling it in when there are enough snaps to rank against his peers.

Signature Moment

No signature moment on the ledger yet.

Returns once this player puts together a multi-game body of work — single-game flashes alone don't clear the bar.

A 3-act season arc returns once this player has six or more games on the ledger.

Scenario Explorer

Available for players with a qualifying signature metric (passing yards, rushing yards, receiving yards, sacks, etc.). The slider projects how a season finishes if the current pace holds.

Why the honors trail matters

The fast read on the thing that makes this player more than a generic stat line.

The useful clue on this card is not just the Heisman rank, but the broader honors spine. Quinton Cooley already has 2 loaded recognition items, which helps distinguish a player who is merely productive from one who is already earning selector-level validation.

Current place #144 0.0% win | 0.0% finalist
Role load 26.5% Overall usage share
Profile quirk Transfer path 1 portal move

2024 Season · Final

Traditional stats first. Advanced context underneath.

Last season

RB season snapshot

2024 season snapshot | final

2024 season snapshot | finalData: CFBD player stats + local Heisman modelPeer context: same position + same level
Scrimmage yards 1,263 1,254 rush | 9 rec | #14/735 (98th pct)
Rush TD 13 205 carries | #16/739 (98th pct)
Yards/carry 6.1 Per-rush efficiency | #104/735 (86th pct)
Player identity What kind of player is this?

30-second read

What kind of player is this?

Workhorse | Efficient runner against FBS RB peers.

WorkhorseEfficient runner

2024 Season · Final

2024 season snapshot | final

Rushing

CAR
205 97th
YDS
1,254 98th
YPC
6.1 86th
TD
13 98th

Receiving

REC
1 16th
YDS
9 16th
YPR
9.0 71st
TD
0 70th

Game Log

Week-by-week box

No per-game rows for this season yet — the table fills in as box scores arrive.

Season-by-season tables Career rows + per-season box score

Traditional history

Traditional Stats

Season rows up top, career context at the bottom.

Season rows Career row

Season context · Team result + system

2021Wake Forest10-3HC: Dave Clawson · Balanced, fast tempo
2022Wake Forest8-5HC: Dave Clawson · Balanced
2023Liberty13-1HC: Jamey Chadwell · Run-heavy
2024Liberty8-4HC: Jamey Chadwell · Run-heavy
SeasonTeam
2024Liberty2051,2546.113--
2023Liberty2211,4016.316--
2022Wake Forest512464.83--
2021Wake Forest451563.51--
Career4 loaded seasons5223,0575.933--
SeasonTeam
2024Liberty199.00--
2023Liberty6437.20--
2022Wake Forest3258.30--
2021Wake Forest155.00--
Career4 loaded seasons11827.50--
Advanced layer Usage, value, and context

Advanced metrics second

Advanced Metrics

Usage, value, and opponent-adjusted context.

Usage Value Context
Rushing WEPA

Opponent-adjusted rushing value. It helps separate empty volume from carries that actually move the scoreboard.

Role share

How much of the team's offense flows through this back once rushing work and receiving work are combined.

Peer percentile

Every percentile is compared against players at the same position and level, so an FBS quarterback is judged against FBS quarterbacks, not the whole sport.

Traditional first

The top tables stick to the stats fans already know from broadcasts and box scores. Advanced context is pushed underneath instead of replacing the basics.

Receiving work 1 9 rec yds | #467/552 (16th pct)
Usage 26.5% 41.6% rush share | #34/738 (96th pct)
Rushing WEPA +0.24 Opponent-adjusted rush value | #26/362 (93rd pct)
Open full stat explorer
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Group Metric Value Rank Pct Why it matters
Rushing Rushing yards 1,254 #14/735 98th pct Volumevs FBS RB
Rushing Rush TD 13 #16/739 98th pct Scoringvs FBS RB
Rushing Yards / carry 6.1 #104/735 86th pct Efficiencyvs FBS RB
Receiving Receptions 1 #467/552 16th pct Volumevs FBS RB
Receiving Receiving yards 9 #460/548 16th pct Volumevs FBS RB
Value Rushing WEPA +0.24 #26/362 93rd pct Opponent-adjusted rushing value | 199 weighted playsvs FBS RB
Usage Role share 26.5% #34/738 96th pct Share of team offensevs FBS RB
Rushing Carries 205 #26/739 97th pct Volumevs FBS RB
Rushing Rushing LONG 44 #207/733 72nd pct Metricvs FBS RB
Receiving Receiving LONG 9 #425/540 21st pct Metricvs FBS RB
Receiving Yards / catch 9.0 #159/548 71st pct Efficiencyvs FBS RB
Receiving Receiving TD 0 #169/552 70th pct Scoringvs FBS RB
Usage Rush share 41.6% #55/738 93rd pct Ground-game usagevs FBS RB
Usage Standard-down usage 31.1% #28/738 96th pct Base-situation sharevs FBS RB
Usage 1st-down usage 29.5% #44/738 94th pct Early-down loadvs FBS RB
Usage 2nd-down usage 28.8% #24/738 97th pct Middle-down loadvs FBS RB
Usage 3rd-down usage 17.0% #48/738 94th pct Money-down loadvs FBS RB
Usage Passing-down usage 12.4% #120/738 84th pct Known-passing sharevs FBS RB
Usage Pass share 0.4% #557/738 25th pct Air-game usagevs FBS RB
Ball Security Fumbles lost 2 #205/256 20th pct Turnoversvs FBS RB

Player Standing

Universal 17-step ladder. Tier pills below; accolade streams nested.

AWAITING CLASSIFICATION

On-team2-deepStartingRecognizedEliteApex

AWAITING CLASSIFICATION · Rung None of 16

Why he’s here

Standing classification populates when honors, Heisman, and roster signals all align.

What moves him up

What moves him down

Accolade streams

StatusAwaiting tracker

Heisman model tracks the top FBS contenders weekly; this player hasn't entered the watch list yet.

Splits

Per-game splits

Splits fill in once box scores from at least three games land for this season.

Box-score Savant card waits for a season-stat snapshot above the cohort floor. Returns once enough box-score volume lands.

Advanced Savant · RB · 2024

Percentile Card

Advanced opponent-adjusted percentile bars are coming soon for this player.

P4G5All FBS
EPA / dropback
awaiting
CPOE
awaiting
Success rate
awaiting
Explosive rate (20+)
awaiting
aDOT
awaiting
Deep-ball accuracy
awaiting
Pressure-to-sack
awaiting
3rd-down EPA
awaiting
Red-zone TD rate
awaiting
Play-action EPA
awaiting
Scramble EPA
awaiting
Turnover-worthy play rate
awaiting

Advanced Savant

Opponent-adjusted advanced metrics with a cohort filter.

Advanced opponent-adjusted metrics are coming soon for this player. Selected cohort: P4.
Peer Comparator returns once this player clears the Savant metric floor (4+ scored bars).
DNA Match awaiting data — similarity scores compute once season stats clear the volume gate for this position cohort.

Supporting Cast · Scheme

Staff and system around the player

2025 season

Head Coach

Jamey Chadwell

Pass share

38.7%

314 pass / 498 run

Plays / game

67.7

12 games

OL sack rate (allowed)

8.4%

249 dropbacks · PBP

Scheme: Run-heavy.

Coaching Lineage · 2021–2024

2 coaches
2021
Hugh Freeze
Liberty
2022
Hugh Freeze
Liberty
2023
Jamey Chadwell
Liberty
era →
2024
Jamey Chadwell
Liberty

Coaching transition mid-career: Hugh Freeze → Jamey Chadwell. Worth noting in scheme + development context.

Bio · Recruiting · Transfer · Roster

Off-field context — switch tabs to drill into recruit profile, transfer arc, or roster timeline.

HometownBailey, NC
Height5'7"
Weight220 lb
Class4
PositionRB
Jersey20

Trophy Case · Confirmed honors

What the selectors said

2 entries
🎖

ALL-CONFERENCE

All-Conf mention (2024)

All-Conference USA

Trophy Case · Detail

Every honor on the ledger, broken out by stream and selector.

All-Conference

2 all-conference honors

Conference-level recognition helps anchor whether a player is merely statistically loud or actually viewed as elite within his competitive lane.

Honors Timeline

Season-end distinction and week-by-week recognition on one timeline.

Season Honor Scope Team / Selector Context
2024 All-Conference USA all_conference Liberty | Conference USA RB
2023 All-Conference USA all_conference Liberty | Conference USA RB

Heisman By Year

Modeled rank and official finish by season.

Season Team Role Latest Model Forecast Win Finalist Official Finish Points Context
2024 Liberty RB4 #144 #190 0.0% 0.0% -- -- W16 snapshot | Conference USA
2023 Liberty RB4 #114 #114 0.0% 0.0% -- -- W19 snapshot | Conference USA
2022 Wake Forest RB4 #704 #681 0.0% 0.0% -- -- W20 snapshot | ACC
2021 Wake Forest RB4 #782 #612 0.0% 0.0% -- -- W20 snapshot | ACC

Roster Timeline

Team, conference, and class by season.

Season Team Conference Pos Class Bio
2024 Liberty Conference USA RB 4 No. 20 | 5-7 | 220 lb | Bailey, NC
2023 Liberty Conference USA RB 4 No. 20 | 5-7 | 220 lb | Bailey, NC
2022 Wake Forest ACC RB 4 No. 20 | 5-7 | 220 lb | Bailey, NC
2021 Wake Forest ACC RB 4 No. 20 | 5-7 | 220 lb | Bailey, NC