Jeremiah Cooper
Penn State Nittany Lions
86
Great

Jeremiah Cooper

Penn State Nittany LionsSolid
SSDefenseGreatTRANSFER · Iowa State
Projected Starter

Is Jeremiah Cooper starting?

Jeremiah Cooper is the projected starter at SS for Penn State Nittany Lions.

Redshirt senior · #4 · 6'0", 188 lbs

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Depth at SS · Penn State Nittany Lions

  1. 1486Jeremiah CooperStarter
  2. 22172Vaboue Toure
  3. 31265Xxavier Thomas
  4. 42761Omarion Davis

Penn State Starting Lineup

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The Story

Making His Case

A 3-star recruit out of El Paso Andress, ranked #849 nationally coming out of high school. This season: 9 tackles, 1 INT, 3 PBU. That's 3% of the team's production at his spot — good for a 86 overall (Great tier).

Recruit3★ · #849 NatlTeam Share3%
El Paso, TX
Jersey
#4
Class
RS SR/TR
Height
6'0"
Weight
188 lbs
Transfer
Iowa State

Stats

SeasonTklINTPD
—913

Regular-season totals from public sources. Derived splits (completion %, yards per carry, catch rate) aren't available in our current dataset.

Recruiting Profile

Stars
★★★☆☆3-star
Composite
0.8667
National Rank
#849
High School
El Paso Andress
Hometown
El Paso, TX

Why this rating?

On a 87-rated defense; 71th-percentile production at transfer origin (×0.89 for competition level) put them -1 vs unit starters → 86.

Team defense (SP+)
87
Rating basis
On-field stats
Production (prior school)
Outperforms 71% of peers
Recruiting pedigree
Top 22% recruit
Strength of schedule
Faces easier competition — rating adjusted down (×0.89)
Depth-chart adjustment
-1 for role

2026 projection — based on SP+ (a respected team-efficiency metric; 2026 not published yet, using 2025), 2025 production, recruiting, and the 2026 transfer portal; capped to depth-chart order.

2026 Game Log

Oct 10LUSCTKL 3
TKL
3
SOLO
2
SACK
0
INT
0
PD
0

Final L 31-23

Oct 3LNUTKL 4
TKL
4
SOLO
1
SACK
0
INT
0
PD
0

Final L 34-13

Sep 26LWISTKL 8
TKL
8
SOLO
4
SACK
0
INT
0
PD
1

Final L 24-20

Sep 19WBUFFTKL 0
TKL
0
SOLO
0
SACK
0
INT
0
PD
1

Final W 55-13

Sep 12WTEMTKL 4
TKL
4
SOLO
3
SACK
0
INT
0
PD
0

Final W 27-9

Jeremiah Cooper's 2026 game-by-game stat log.

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Team Role

9 tkl · 3 PD · 1 INT
Usage / Involvement33%
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