Western Carolina Catamounts
FCS Southern Conference · WCU

Team Vitals

-3.8
power · 2026 · #226 D1
+4.5 / -8.3
off / def (higher = better)
1–2
2026 record
117
roster (2026)

Upcoming 2026

DateWkOpponentSiteModel Lean
2026-09-05 Wk 1 Campbell FCS AWAY Campbell 53%
2026-09-19 Wk 3 Presbyterian FCS HOME Western Carolina 65%
2026-09-26 Wk 4 East Tennessee State FCS AWAY East Tennessee State 55%
2026-10-03 Wk 5 Tennessee Tech FCS HOME Tennessee Tech 73%
2026-10-10 Wk 6 Mercer FCS AWAY Mercer 69%
2026-10-24 Wk 8 Chattanooga FCS HOME Western Carolina 66%
2026-10-31 Wk 9 Furman FCS AWAY Furman 64%
2026-11-07 Wk 10 Wofford FCS HOME Western Carolina 56%
2026-11-14 Wk 11 Samford FCS AWAY Western Carolina 78%
2026-11-21 Wk 12 The Citadel FCS HOME Western Carolina 79%

Recent Results

DateSeasonWkOpponentResultScore
2026-09-12 2026 Wk 2 Cincinnati @ L 10–62
2026-09-06 2026 Wk 1 Campbell @ L 19–28
2026-08-29 2026 Wk 1 Eastern Kentucky vs W 45–21
2025-11-22 2025 Wk 13 VMI @ W 48–6
2025-11-15 2025 Wk 12 East Tennessee State vs L 35–52
2025-11-08 2025 Wk 11 Mercer vs L 47–49
2025-11-01 2025 Wk 10 Chattanooga @ W 35–28
2025-10-18 2025 Wk 8 The Citadel @ W 45–38
2025-10-11 2025 Wk 7 Furman vs W 52–7
2025-10-04 2025 Wk 6 Wofford @ W 23–21
2025-09-27 2025 Wk 5 Campbell @ W 42–35
2025-09-20 2025 Wk 4 Samford vs W 50–35

Season by Season

SeasonWLPFPADiff
2026 1 2 74 111 -37
2025 7 5 463 402 +61
2024 7 5 397 350 +47
2023 7 4 413 305 +108
2022 6 5 351 351 +0
2021 4 7 356 454 -98
2020 0 3 40 156 -116
2019 3 9 217 465 -248
2018 3 8 347 451 -104
2017 7 5 389 325 +64
2016 2 9 265 396 -131
2015 7 4 301 304 -3

Injuries

Not an injury report. College football has no league-wide mandated one, and the ESPN feed we poll has carried the same three players all season — so an empty table here means nothing has been reported to us, not that the team is healthy. Nothing on this page, and nothing in our model, uses it.

Player grades 2026 season

Box production, opponent-adjusted, ranked within position (50 = positional average). OL rows are team-inferred — college football publishes no individual OL box stats. Full leaderboard →

PlayerPosGradePos rankG2026 season
Andre Jackson Jr. DB 79 #80 3 18 tkl · 4 PD
Caleb Turner-Allen DL 76 #144 3 8 tkl · 2.0 sacks · 2.0 TFL
Bode Burns TE 73 #40 3 10 rec · 99 yds · 1 TD
Joshua Collins LB 73 #121 3 19 tkl · 2.0 sacks · 3.0 TFL
Ken Moore Jr. DB 72 #221 3 17 tkl
Lex Thomas QB 71 #57 3 811 pass yds · 5 TD · 0 INT
Mark Fitzgerald P 69 #27 3 16 punts · 42.6 yd avg
AJ Colombo WR 69 #197 3 14 rec · 198 yds
Nassor Ashenafi DB 69 #315 3 13 tkl · 2 PD
Jai Boyd WR 68 #227 3 10 rec · 94 yds · 2 TD
Braylon Jones DB 67 #373 3 13 tkl · 2 PD
Jayden Cornelius DB 65 #470 3 13 tkl · 1 INT
Bryan McCollum K 64 #69 3 4 FG · 8 XP · 20 pts
Josh Perry RB 64 #225 3 56 rush yds · 8 rec
Fernando Jeanty DL 64 #580 2 6 tkl
Trystan Anderson DL 64 #595 3 9 tkl · 1.0 sacks · 1.0 TFL
Jake Young TE 64 #114 2 6 rec · 52 yds
Michael Rossin WR 62 #390 2 9 rec · 114 yds
Ja'Torian Mack DB 61 #712 3 13 tkl
Alant'e Reese DB 59 #812 3 13 tkl
Jaden Meeks DL 58 #991 2 5 tkl · 1.0 TFL
Marlin Cochran RB 56 #452 3 90 rush yds · 1 TD
Marseille Taylor DB 56 #1063 3 4 tkl · 1 PD · 1 INT
Chase Kerns DL 56 #1171 3 5 tkl · 1.5 TFL
Jordan Martin-Durham DL 55 #1212 3 5 tkl · 0.5 TFL
Matthew Keener WR 54 #774 1 4 rec · 53 yds
Ryan McKinnis LB 54 #765 3 11 tkl
Na'koma Simpson-Nealy DB 53 #1287 3 9 tkl
Santana Carlos WR 52 #849 3 4 rec · 77 yds
Julian Quintero DB 51 #1451 2 6 tkl
Anthony Benjamin RB 51 #636 3 26 rush yds · 1 TD · 1 rec
Derrick Davis Jr. RB 50 #681 2 6 rush yds · 4 rec
Marco Patierno LB 49 #995 3 7 tkl · 0.5 TFL
Jermiyah Douglas DB 49 #1628 1 4 tkl
Caleb Young Jr. DB 49 #1629 1 4 tkl
Christian Robbins DB 47 #1744 2 2 tkl · 1 PD
Braeden Barger LB 47 #1092 1 4 tkl
Gavin Rowell DL 47 #1937 2 4 tkl
Beady Waddell V LB 47 #1091 1 4 tkl
Adrian Stone DL 47 #1938 2 4 tkl