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Heisman / Players / Corey Crooms /Minnesota

Corey Crooms

WR · Minnesota · Sr · #4

Limited signal — not enough coverage for a story yet.

ALUMNUSMinnesota 2023 alumnus

WR · MINNESOTA · BIG TEN

Corey Crooms

  • 4
  • #4
  • 6-0 | 180 lb
  • Country Club Hills, IL

CFB Zeitgeist WR Score

Awaiting

Heisman Heat

#1770

<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 WR AWARD

Biletnikoff

CONSENSUS

All-American

Player Standing · 17 rungs

Tier 0 · Not on team

R01 · Scout team / redshirt

Scout team / redshirt. Developing behind the depth chart.

Not on team2-deepStarterRecognizedEliteApex

Career arc · Season-by-season Standing

3 seasons on the ladder

Peak: R09 All-Conference HM / 2nd team · 2022

2021

Western Michigan · WR

2022

Western Michigan · WR

R09 · All-Conference HM / 2nd team

Recognized

2023

Minnesota · WR

Development Trajectory · receiving yards

2021–2023
7682021
8142022
3762023

-51%

Sharp dropoff (-51%) — career inflection point.

Career Arc

HS
Recruit
★★★
#2117 national
CFB
College
2 teams
2021–2023
NFL
NFL Draft
Not drafted (yet)

Identity & Role

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

PositionWR
Class4
Jersey4
Measurements6-0 | 180 lb
HometownCountry Club Hills, IL
Primary teamMinnesota

Recruiting Pedigree

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

Top pedigree 3-star No. 2117 recruit
Composite rating 0.8156 HighSchool
Signed with Western Michigan 2019
Origin Hillcrest Country Club Hills, IL, USA
Class Profile Context
2019 3-star | 0.8156 No. 2117 recruit | HighSchool | Western Michigan

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 Minnesota 2023
Transfer stars 3-star CFBD transfer rating context
Eligibility Immediate Nov 29, 2022
Season Move Context
2023 Western Michigan -> Minnesota 3-star | 0.8800 | Immediate

Heisman Lens · 2023 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 19
Current nowcast#1770Latest modeled ballot order
Season forecast#2248Where 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 Western Michigan

Composite

0.8156

#2117 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 Corey Crooms

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 Corey Crooms

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. Corey Crooms already has 1 loaded recognition item, which helps distinguish a player who is merely productive from one who is already earning selector-level validation.

Current place #1770 0.0% win | 0.0% finalist
Role load 5.9% Overall usage share
Profile quirk Transfer path 1 portal move

2023 Season · Final

Traditional stats first. Advanced context underneath.

Last season

WR season snapshot

2023 season snapshot | final

2023 season snapshot | finalData: CFBD player stats + local Heisman modelPeer context: same position + same level
Receptions 28 0 rec TD | #303/1110 (73rd pct)
Receiving yards 376 13.4 per catch | #305/1107 (73rd pct)
Scrimmage yards 376 Total offensive yardage | #305/1107 (73rd pct)
Player identity What kind of player is this?

30-second read

What kind of player is this?

Receiving weapon against FBS receiving peers.

Balanced profile

2023 Season · Final

2023 season snapshot | final

Receiving

REC
28 73rd
YDS
376 73rd
YPR
13.4 62nd
TD
0 45th

Returns

PR YDS
13 28th
PR AVG
6.5 40th

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

2021Western Michigan7-5HC: Tim Lester · Run-heavy, fast tempo
2022Western Michigan5-7HC: Tim Lester · Run-leaning
2023Minnesota6-7HC: P.J. Fleck · Run-heavy, slow tempo
SeasonTeam
2023Minnesota2837613.40--
2022Western Michigan5781414.35--
2021Western Michigan4476817.56--
Career3 loaded seasons1291,95815.211--
SeasonTeam
2023Minnesota------13--
2022Western Michigan2-5------
2021Western Michigan16------
Career3 loaded seasons31--13--
Advanced layer Usage, value, and context

Advanced metrics second

Advanced Metrics

Usage, value, and opponent-adjusted context.

Usage Value Context
Pass share

The player's share of a team's passing-game involvement. It is the fastest way to see whether the receiver is a true focal point or more of a complementary piece.

Role share

A blended workload view that accounts for catches, designed touches, and any return-game involvement that shapes the overall profile.

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.

Usage 5.9% 13.7% pass-game share | #292/1137 (74th pct)
Return yards 13 0 return TD
Touchdowns 0 Across offense and returns | #615/1111 (45th pct)
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Group Metric Value Rank Pct Why it matters
Receiving Receptions 28 #303/1110 73rd pct Volumevs FBS WR
Receiving Receiving yards 376 #305/1107 73rd pct Volumevs FBS WR
Receiving Receiving TD 0 #615/1111 45th pct Scoringvs FBS WR
Receiving Yards / catch 13.4 #416/1106 62nd pct Efficiencyvs FBS WR
Returns Punt return yards 13 #163/224 28th pct Volumevs FBS WR
Usage Pass share 13.7% #292/1137 74th pct Air-game usagevs FBS WR
Receiving Receiving LONG 32 #576/1105 48th pct Metricvs FBS WR
Returns Punt return avg 6.5 #134/222 40th pct Efficiencyvs FBS WR
Returns Punt returns 2 #156/237 35th pct Volumevs FBS WR
Usage 3rd-down usage 8.0% #375/1137 67th pct Money-down loadvs FBS WR
Usage Passing-down usage 7.3% #437/1137 62nd pct Known-passing sharevs FBS WR
Usage Role share 5.9% #379/1137 67th pct Share of team offensevs FBS WR
Usage 2nd-down usage 5.7% #431/1137 62nd pct Middle-down loadvs FBS WR
Usage Standard-down usage 5.4% #351/1137 69th pct Base-situation sharevs FBS WR
Usage 1st-down usage 5.2% #402/1137 65th pct Early-down loadvs FBS WR
Usage Rush share 0.2% #374/1137 67th pct Ground-game usagevs FBS WR

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 · WR · 2023

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

P.J. Fleck

Pass share

51.7%

397 pass / 371 run

Plays / game

59.1

13 games

OL sack rate (allowed)

7.3%

302 dropbacks · PBP

Scheme: Balanced, slow tempo.

Coaching Lineage · 2021–2023

1 coach
2021
P.J. Fleck
Minnesota
2022
P.J. Fleck
Minnesota
2023
P.J. Fleck
Minnesota

Played his entire career under P.J. Fleck.

Bio · Recruiting · Transfer · Roster

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

HometownCountry Club Hills, IL
Height6'0"
Weight180 lb
Class4
PositionWR
Jersey4

Trophy Case · Confirmed honors

What the selectors said

1 entries
🎖

ALL-CONFERENCE

All-Conf mention (2022)

All-MAC

Trophy Case · Detail

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

All-Conference

1 all-conference honor

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
2022 All-MAC all_conference Western Michigan | MAC WR

Heisman By Year

Modeled rank and official finish by season.

Season Team Role Latest Model Forecast Win Finalist Official Finish Points Context
2023 Minnesota WR4 #1770 #2248 0.0% 0.0% -- -- W19 snapshot | Big Ten
2022 Western Michigan WR4 #1093 #1605 0.0% 0.0% -- -- W20 snapshot | Mid-American
2021 Western Michigan WR4 #663 #793 0.0% 0.0% -- -- W20 snapshot | Mid-American

Roster Timeline

Team, conference, and class by season.

Season Team Conference Pos Class Bio
2023 Minnesota Big Ten WR 4 No. 4 | 6-0 | 180 lb | Country Club Hills, IL
2022 Western Michigan Mid-American WR 4 No. 4 | 6-0 | 180 lb | Country Club Hills, IL
2021 Western Michigan Mid-American WR 4 No. 4 | 6-0 | 180 lb | Country Club Hills, IL