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Name: Corey Rucker (Double Transfer from South Carolina/Arkansas State)
College: Arkansas State
Number: 7
School Bio/Stats Link: HERE
Height: 6-0 Weight: 214
Position: Pos2:
Class/Draft Year: rJr/2026
40 Low: 4.42 40 Time: 4.50 40 High: 4.60
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Data Scout Notes: X-HPFA/Thick WR-Looks ATH for size...36-705-19.58-2/WR1 in 23...12GP-59-826-14.0-9TD as rFr-21 2023: NAC...2022: 12-14-22 Transfer from South Carolina...NAC...(+) Coming off Oct 2022 Foot INJ...PBiletnikoff...Transfer from Arkansas State...2021: 2ndC...2020: NAC
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Corey Rucker, Arkansas State, Player News
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Corey Rucker caught a Jaylen Raynor pass in the corner of the end zone with three seconds remaining to give Arkansas State a 34-31 victory over FCS-member Central Arkansas on Saturday night in a season opener for both teams. A video replay confirmed Ruck er had one foot inbounds and controlled the ball to the ground. Rucker finished with nine catches for 179 yards.Raynor was 24 of 47 for 317 yards with one touchdown and one interception, and he carried it 15 times for 49 yards and another score. I t was a wild fourth quarter that started with Raynor giving Arkansas State a 27-10 lead on a 5-yard sneak. But ShunDerrick Powell scored two plays later on an 89-yard run for the first of 21 straight points for Central Arkansas. The Bears forced a fumble with under two minutes to play and capitalized four plays later on Darius Hale's 4-yard touchdown run with 55 seconds left. Arkansas State faced a fourth-and-4 at its own 36 before Raynor connected on a 52-yard pass to Rucker with 25 seconds left. Rayno r found Ja'Quez Cross on his next two completions for 25 yards to get to the 7-yard line before the game-winner. - AP College Football
(DS#21 WR) rJr/2026  WR Corey Rucker, Arkansas State
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Highly regarded Arkansas State transfer receiver Corey Rucker will miss the rest of South Carolina's season with a foot injury. Gamecocks coach Shane Beamer said Tuesday that Rucker was scheduled for surgery. Beamer expects Rucker to make a full recovery and be back in time for the team's practice sessions next spring. The Gamecocks (5-3, 2-3 Southeastern Conference) head to Vanderbilt (3-5, 0-4) on Saturday night. Rucker is a 6-foot-1 junior who was expected to make a quick impact on the offense after catching 59 passes for 826 yards and nine touchdowns last season at Arkansas State. But he suffered the foot injury in August workouts and only got on the field in a 56-20 win over Charlotte in September when he caught his only pass of the season for a 5 2-yard touchdown. Rucker hurt himself again the next week against South Carolina State and has not played since. He joked on social media that while his first year with South Carolina was over, "at least it was a 100 percent rating." - AP College Footbal l
(DS#21 WR) rJr/2026 WR Corey Rucker, Arkansas State
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The South Carolina Gamecocks substantially improved their pass-catcher room this year, importing Wells (James Madison), Corey Rucker (Arkansas State) and tight end Austin Stogner (Oklahoma). Rucker has missed the first two games with a foot injury but co uld play Saturday against No. 1 Georgia. They've also welcomed Brooks back to the team after he missed the last half of last year with a personal issue, and have hit running back MarShawn Lloyd eight times out of the backfield with five more passes going to fellow RB Juju McDowell. - The Post and Courier
(DS#21 WR) rJr/2026 WR Corey Rucker, Arkansas State
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2022 PRESEASON BILETNIKOFF AWARD WATCH LIST: Corey Rucker, South Carolina,...Rucker comes to South Carolina after spending two seasons at Arkansas State University. He appeared in 20 games over the past two seasons, collecting 75 receptions for 1,279 yea rs (17.1 per catch) and 14 touchdowns for the Red Wolves. Rucker has four career 100-yard receiving games, including a career-best nine-catch, 310-yard, four touchdown performance against ULM in 2020. Rucker was an FWAA Freshman All-America honoree in 20 21 as Arkansas State listed him as a frosh due to COVID-19 in 2020. He led the team and ranked fifth in the Sun Belt with 826 receiving yards on 59 catches last year. - South Carolina
(DS#21 WR) rJr/2026 WR Corey Rucker, Arkansas State
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Incoming South Carolina receiver Corey Rucker needs a new ice cream shop. It's not that he's trying to fight off the hellish midsummer Columbia heat, though that will come. He's not even really hankering for sweets. It's simply part of a routine that dat es back to his time at Arkansas State and a tradition borne out of a relationship between quarterback and receiver he hopes will translate to South Carolina. "I was always a big fan of throwing at night," former Arkansas State quarterback Layne Hatcher t old The State. "That's when I liked to throw and (Rucker) was always willing to come, and sometimes I just had to buy him some ice cream afterwards." "I didn't understand what those late nights in the indoor (facility) running routes and throwing meant ( then)," Rucker added. "It comes to those situations where we've repped this so much and he's throwing the ball so much, we have so much connection and such a relationship, that it just happens. He just throws the ball and I know how it's gonna come." Tha t the ex-Arkansas State star landed in the Southeastern Conference is a long time coming.It wasn't that long ago that he and his coaches couldn't convince in-state schools to take a swing on him out of high school and he seemed destined for junior college. Three years later, Rucker profiles as an immediate impact piece this year and a receiver the Gamecocks can build around heading into 2022 and beyond. Had he stayed at Arkansas State, he was on pace to see his name scattered around the school's record books. After a coaching change from Anderson to former Tennessee coach Butch Jones, Rucker felt he had a chance to parlay his second season at ASU that included 59 receptions for 826 yards and nine touchdowns into the SEC chance he sought out of h igh school. - Rock Hill Herald
(DS#21 WR) rJr/2026 WR Corey Rucker, Arkansas State
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2021 ALL-SUN BELT SECOND TEAM (COACHES): WR - Corey Rucker, Arkansas State (Fr., WR - Bentonia, Miss.),...Also representing the Red Wolves on the second team were junior defensive end Kivon Bennett (Fort Lauderdale, Fla.), junior kicker Blake Grupe (Seda lia, Mo.) and second-year freshman wide receiver Corey Rucker (Bentonia, Miss.). Bennett is ranked among the top three players in the league for both tackles for loss (16.5) and sacks (8.0). Grupe became A-State's all-time career scoring and field-goals made leader during the course of the season, while Rucker posted nine touchdown receptions that were the most in the Sun Belt among wide receivers. - Arkansas State Football
(DS#21 WR) rJr/2026 WR Corey Rucker, Arkansas State
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Corey Rucker acknowledged last week that he had jitters entering Arkansas State University's season opener. The sophomore was making just his second career start and is part of a group that understands the task it shares in replacing Jonathan Adams. You wouldn't have known the butterflies existed by the time Rucker hauled in his third touchdown pass of the night, blowing past a pair of University of Central Arkansas defensive backs before high-stepping up the ramp in the corner of Centennial Bank Stadiu m.While Coach Butch Jones has not named a starting quarterback for ASU's Saturday showdown with Memphis, it could be Layne Hatcher partly because of his connection with Rucker. "As much as Layne and I have worked together in the offseason, he trus ts me," Rucker said Tuesday during the Red Wolves' weekly media availability. "[Layne] knows we've got a lot of rhythm and timing, and he knows that if he throws me the ball, I can catch it." Rucker, who was named Sun Belt Conference offensive player of the week Monday, now has eight career touchdown receptions -- the last six of which have come from Hatcher during ASU's two most recent games. - Northwest Arkansas Times
(DS#21 WR) rJr/2026 WR Corey Rucker, Arkansas State
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SEPT 6 SUN BELT OFFENSIVE PLAYER OF THE WEEK: Corey Rucker, Arkansas State, (Fr., WR - Bentonia, Miss.),...Red Wolves freshman wide receiver Corey Rucker hauled in nine receptions for 138 yards and three touchdowns in Arkansas State's 40-21 victory over Central Arkansas. Each of the Bentonia, Miss., product's three touchdowns came in the second half, helping the Red Wolves overcome a 7-6 halftime deficit in their season-opener at Centennial Bank Stadium. - Sun Belt Football
(DS#21 WR) rJr/2026 WR Corey Rucker, Arkansas State
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DEC 7 SUN BELT OFFENSIVE PLAYER OF THE WEEK: Corey Rucker, Arkansas State,(#7, Fr, WR - Yazoo City, Miss.),...Wide receiver Corey Rucker broke the NCAA FBS record for single-game receiving yards by a freshman during Arkansas States 48-15 victory over ULM , recording a career-high nine receptions for a school-record 310 yards and four touchdowns. The Red Wolves piles up 511 passing yards which is the third highest mark in program history. Ruckers 310 yards were also the second most in Sun Belt Conference history and the most by an FBS player since 2016. The true freshmans four touchdown catches tied the school record and tied the second most ever by a Sun Belt Conference player. Each of Ruckers four scoring receptions covered at least 30 yards and two we nt for at least 55. The Yazoo City, Miss. native also had a career-long reception of 69 yards, and averaged 34.4 yards per catch for the fifth-best average in Sun Belt history. - Sun Belt Football
(DS#21 WR) rJr/2026 WR Corey Rucker, Arkansas State
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Corey Rucker set the NCAA FBS record for a freshman with 310 yards receiving and caught four touchdown passes to help Arkansas State beat UL Monroe 48-15 on Saturday. Rucker, who caught nine passes, surpassed C.J. Johnson (283 yards, East Carolina vs. Ci ncinnati, 2019) for the FBS freshman record and Lennie Johnson (284 yards, Arkansas State vs. Missouri State, 1997) for the program record. His four TD receptions tied a program record with Omar Bayless (2019) and Alfred Bentley (1959).Rucker's lo ngest TD catch was a 66-yard reception to make it 35-7 in the first minute of the third quarter. Rucker had catches of 69 and 55 yards in the first quarter and a 31-yard TD catch in the fourth. The Red Wolves (4-7, 2-6 Sun Belt Conference) had 511 yards passing. Layne Hatcher threw for 326 yards and a career-high five touchdowns, and Logan Bonner added 185 yards passing. Jeff Foreman caught four passes for 144 yards and two touchdowns. Jeremy Hunt was 20 of 34 for 203 yards and a touchdown for the Warha wks (0-10, 0-7). - Arkansas State/AP College Football
(DS#21 WR) rJr/2026 WR Corey Rucker, Arkansas State
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