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
| Date | Wk | Opponent | Site | Model 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
| Date | Season | Wk | Opponent | Result | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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
| Season | W | L | PF | PA | Diff |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 →
| Player | Pos | Grade | Pos rank | G | 2026 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 |