Cody Core in the NFL
In the NFL. Photo: Jeffrey Beall, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Receiver, Ole Miss, 2012–⁠15

Cody Core

Number
No. 88
Height
6′3″
Hometown
Auburn, AL
Born
Apr 17, 1994, in Auburn, Alabama

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Cody Core played receiver at Ole Miss (2012–⁠15). The Cincinnati Bengals took Core in round 6, No. 199 overall in the 2016 NFL Draft.

At a glance

Best season
644
Receiving yards, 2015 (Ole Miss, 10–⁠3)
Drafted
No. 199
Round 6, 2016 NFL Draft (Cincinnati Bengals)

Career highs

6catches, career hightwice; last at Memphis, 2015123receiving yards, career highat Alabama, 20152receiving touchdowns, career highvs. Boise State, 2014

Receiving

Receiving yards, season by season, with his team’s record
SeasonTeamRecYdsAvgTDLong
2012Ole Miss144.004
2013Ole Miss49122.8050
2014Ole Miss4155813.6676
2015Ole Miss3764417.4473
Career831,29715.61076

Season lines from CollegeFootballData, regular season and bowls.

Defense before 2016

SeasonGSoloAstTkl
20125538
2013N12538
On file10616

Our box scores carry tackles, tackles for loss and sacks from 2016 only, so these come from other sources, marked by season: unmarked, cfbstats.com (Open Data Commons Attribution License), its game lines summed (G: the games he has a line in); N, NCAA statistics, via octonion/football, the season’s official lines (G: games played). A dash: the source has no number for it.

On the roster

SeasonTeamNo.PosHt
2012Ole Miss88WR
2013Ole Miss88WR
2014Ole Miss88WR
2015Ole Miss88WR6′3″

As each season’s roster listed the player (CollegeFootballData). Classes before the latest listing are counted back from it; “Yr 1” is the year on file where that count can’t place a season he played (a redshirt, transfer or 2020 year); height and weight as last listed.

Per play

SeasonTeamPlaysEPA/playPctileMedianTotalUsage
2013Ole Miss51.69––8.5–
2014Ole Miss530.8290th (n=496)0.5243.56%
2015Ole Miss540.7380th (n=465)0.5339.36%

Expected points added: how much the player’s plays moved the team’s expected score, per play and in total. Plays: total EPA divided by EPA per play, the plays the source credits to him (for a receiver roughly his catches and runs, not every target; for a passer, not every attempt), so it can differ from attempts plus carries. Percentile: against the position’s regulars that season across all divisions on file (quarterbacks with 150+ plays, backs 60+, receivers and tight ends 30+), with how many there were (n) and their median; a dash means too few plays to rank. A season in progress uses the full-season bar scaled by games played, never below 75 plays for quarterbacks, 30 for backs and 20 for receivers. The cohort grows or shrinks with the source’s coverage each season (2025 lists far more players), so compare percentiles rather than raw EPA across years. FCS seasons are marked. Usage: the share of the team’s plays the player was part of (shown from 20 plays). From CollegeFootballData, 2013 on.

Game by game

2015 Ole Miss 12 games, 37 catches, 644 yards, 4 TD
DateOpponentResultRecYdsTDLongRush
Sep 5vs.UT MartinW 76–⁠3280157–
Sep 12vs.Fresno StateW 73–⁠21696133–
Sep 19atAlabamaW 43–⁠3741231731
Sep 26vs.VanderbiltW 27–⁠16221015–
Oct 3atFloridaL 10–⁠3821509–
Oct 10vs.New Mexico StateW 52–⁠31808–
Oct 17atMemphisL 24–⁠37683026–
Oct 31atAuburnW 27–⁠19226015–
Nov 7vs.ArkansasL 52–⁠53348037–
Nov 21vs.LSUW 38–⁠17236020–
Nov 28atMississippi StateW 38–⁠2731708–
Jan 1 ✦vs.Oklahoma StateW 48–⁠20491131–
2014 Ole Miss 13 games, 41 catches, 558 yards, 6 TD
DateOpponentResultRecYdsTDLongRush
Aug 28vs.Boise StateW 35–⁠134110276–
Sep 6atVanderbiltW 41–⁠3485127–
Sep 13vs.LouisianaW 56–⁠15441116–
Sep 27vs.MemphisW 24–⁠3541016–
Oct 4vs.AlabamaW 23–⁠17338014–
Oct 11atTexas A&MW 35–⁠2011801813
Oct 18vs.TennesseeW 34–⁠3112012–
Oct 25atLSUL 7–⁠1044511530
Nov 1vs.AuburnL 31–⁠3532501423
Nov 8vs.PresbyterianW 48–⁠0322014–
Nov 22atArkansasL 0–⁠30343016–
Nov 29vs.Mississippi StateW 31–⁠1735013120
Dec 31 ✦vs.TCUL 3–⁠42328020–
2013 Ole Miss 3 games, 4 catches, 91 yards
DateOpponentResultRecYdsTDLongRush
Sep 7vs.Southeast Missouri StateW 31–⁠13236018–
Nov 16vs.TroyW 51–⁠21150050–
Dec 30 ✦vs.Georgia TechW 25–⁠171505–
2012 Ole Miss 1 game, 1 catch, 4 yards
DateOpponentResultRecYdsTDLongRush
Sep 22atTulaneW 39–⁠01404–

Box scores from CollegeFootballData, 2004 on. ✦ postseason; ★ a career high on file.

Before the draft

Played in the 2016 East–West Shrine Game (East team, lost 9–⁠29).

DrillCombine 2016Combine or pro day 2016
Height6′2⅝″
Weight205 lb
Arm length32″
Hand size10⅜″
40-yard dash4.47 s
10-yard split1.50 s
Vertical jump31½″
Broad jump9′11″
Bench press14 reps
3-cone drill6.78 s
20-yard shuttle4.34 s

Combine or pro day: the source doesn’t say which. Combine and pro day results compiled by array-carpenter (nfl-draft-data). Rosters and honors: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).

In the NFL

4 seasons, 31 games with a stat; latest team: Miami Dolphins.

SeasonTeamGRecYdsTD
2016Cincinnati Bengals7172000
2017Cincinnati Bengals7000
2018Cincinnati Bengals10131601
2019New York Giants73280
NFL career31333881

Regular seasons, from nflverse (CC BY 4.0), matched to him by his draft pick and college (Player ids: DynastyProcess (GPL-3.0)). G counts games in which the player recorded a stat.

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