Cade Harris

#21 · WR · Sr. · Air Force5′8″ · 185 lb · South Weber, UT · Roy

Cade Harris is a wide receiver who has not played this season; the last season with a stat line was 2025, at Air Force.

Harris beats you over the top. Arrived as a two-star recruit; four seasons of production at Air Force since. First career honor, 2025: All-Mountain West. One game to point at: 177 receiving yards and 15 rushing yards against Boise State — Week 4, 2025.

Style of play

Play style

Stretches the field vertically. Every snap is a potential big play.

Similar players

Closest statistical matches, adjusted for opponent strength.

Samari HowardArmy · 2026 · 81% season match
Roderick DanielsSMU · 2024 · 70% season match
Roderic BurnsNorth Texas · 2022 · 68% season match
Dayton WadeOle Miss · 2023 · 68% season match
Kamdyn BenjaminTulsa · 2023 · 67% season match

Where to follow

Career stats

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Season	Team
2025	Air Force	35	584	16.7	2	74
2024	Air Force	23	368	16.0	2	76
2023	Air Force	5	179	35.8	1	65
2022	Air Force	2	45	22.5	1	41
Career		65	1,176	18.1	6	76

Season	Team
2025	Air Force	61	321	152	8
2024	Air Force	48	279	33	24
2023	Air Force	11	81	--	1
2022	Air Force	1	2	--	--
Career		121	683	185	33

Game log

Game log · Week-by-week

2025 season · 12 games

Box score · CFBD

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Wk	Opp	REC	YDS	AVG	TD	LONG	Note
Wk 1	W 49-13vs Bucknell	3	83	27.7	1	62
Wk 3	L 30-49@ Utah State	2	63	31.5	0	36
Wk 4	L 37-49vs Boise State	8	177	22.1	0	74	Season-high 177 yds
Wk 5	L 35-44vs Hawai'i	3	116	38.7	1	73
Wk 6	L 31-34@ Navy	3	7	2.3	0	5
Wk 7	L 48-51@ UNLV	4	46	11.5	0	17
Wk 8	W 24-21vs Wyoming	—	—	—	—	—
Wk 10	L 17-20vs Army	6	44	7.3	0	14
Wk 11	W 26-16@ San José State	2	0	0.0	0	2
Wk 12	L 16-26@ UConn	2	25	12.5	0	24
Wk 13	L 3-20vs New Mexico	2	23	11.5	0	18
Wk 14	W 42-21@ Colorado State	—	—	—	—	—
Total		35	584	16.7	2	74

Signature game

Week 4 · 2025

L 37-49

vs Boise State

8 rec · 177 yds · 15 rush yds (5 car)

With L. Szarka — 246 yds · 2 TD · 1 INT · QBR 93.9 · 110 rush yds (20 car) · 1 TD · D. Carson — 109 rush yds (16 car) · 1 TD

Signature plays

The plays that mattered most

Week 5 · Hawai'i · 2nd and 8 · Q4 · EPA +6.53Liam Szarka pass complete to Cade Harris for 73 yds for a TD (Jacob Medina KICK)
Week 4 · Boise State · 2nd and 10 · Q3 · EPA +5.84Liam Szarka pass complete to Cade Harris for 74 yds to the BOIS 1 for a
Week 1 · Bucknell · 1st and 10 · Q2 · EPA +4.95Josh Johnson pass complete to Cade Harris for 62 yds for a TD (Jacob Medina KICK)
Week 5 · Hawai'i · 1st and 10 · Q4 · EPA +3.14Liam Szarka pass complete to Cade Harris for 41 yds to the HAW 34 for a
Week 4 · Boise State · 3rd and 10 · Q4 · EPA +2.94Liam Szarka pass complete to Cade Harris for 11 yds to the BOIS 44 for a
Week 12 · UConn · 1st and 10 · Q2 · EPA −2.57C.Harris rush left for 9 yards loss to the UConn45 (A.Key)

4 more plays

Week 4 · Boise State · 2nd and 4 · Q4 · EPA +2.56Liam Szarka pass complete to Cade Harris for 29 yds to the BOIS 40 for a
Week 1 · Bucknell · 1st and 9 · Q1 · EPA +2.42Cade Harris run for 9 yds for a TD (Jacob Medina KICK)
Week 3 · Utah State · 1st and 10 · Q3 · EPA +2.38Josh Johnson pass complete to Cade Harris for 36 yds to the USU 28 for a
Week 7 · UNLV · 2nd and 4 · Q4 · EPA +2.33Cade Harris run for 4 yds for a TD (Jacob Medina KICK)

Receiving profile

Receiver profile · Targets, catch rate, and throw depth

How often he's targeted, and how well it works

35 rec · 584 yds · 2 TD

35 of 35 receptions matched to play-by-play

17 of 52 targets charted for true throw depth

Targets

5234% of team targets

Catch rate

67%35 of 52 targets

Behind LOS · Negative air yds

24% of targets (4)

100%catch rate

Air -1.5 · YAC 6.0 avg

Short · 0–9 air yds

47% of targets (8)

75%catch rate

Air 4.6 · YAC 2.2 avg

Middle · 10–19 air yds

12% of targets (2)

50%catch rate

Air 14.5 · YAC 0.0 avg

Deep · 20+ air yds

18% of targets (3)

33%catch rate

Air 23.3 · YAC 2.0 avg

67% catch rate on 52 targets · 34% of the team's targets.

Situational

Situational · Share of own targets (PBP, 2025)

Third-down role

19%10 of his 52 targets came on third down · Receiver median is 24%

Teams and coaches

4 seasons under Troy Calhoun — 28-22 over that span.

2022Air Force10-3HC: Troy Calhoun · Run-heavy

2023Air Force9-4HC: Troy Calhoun · Run-heavy, slow tempo

2024Air Force5-7HC: Troy Calhoun · Run-heavy

2025Air Force4-8HC: Troy Calhoun · Run-heavy

Our ratings

CFB Zeitgeist Score 60 (#133 of 485). Show the ratings

Where this profile ranks vs the WR cohort

Box-score + play-by-play EPA percentiles · 2025 season

60Quality starter #133 of 485 · 2025?

13 metrics · season cumulative

2025 score: the 2026 sample is not big enough yet. The rows below are 2026 so far. Elite: yards / catch (95th percentile). Strength: explosive rate (92nd percentile).

Real play-by-play efficiency

Yards / catch#42 / 798 · 95th pct

17.0

Explosive rate#63 / 798 · 92nd pct

19.2%

EPA / target#121 / 798 · 85th pct

0.67

TD rate#239 / 798 · 70th pct

3.8%

Catch rate#421 / 798 · 47th pct

67.3%

Box-score rates (8)

Rush TDs#1 / 287 · 100th pct

Rush yards#4 / 287 · 99th pct

321

Yards / catch#62 / 558 · 89th pct

16.7

Long catch#63 / 558 · 88th pct

Rec yards#161 / 558 · 71st pct

584

Receptions#230 / 558 · 58th pct

Rec TDs#276 / 558 · 42nd pct

Fumbles lost#86 / 218 · 36th pct

Season trend

Last seasonThis season

EPA / target

98th → 85th percentile

Explosive rate

100th → 92nd percentile

Catch rate

91st → 47th percentile

TD rate

79th → 70th percentile

Yards / catch

94th → 95th percentile

Percentiles versus same-position peers with enough snaps in 2025. Most bars are box-score rates; EPA / success-rate bars are computed from real play-by-play (offense only — no defensive EPA model exists yet).

Splits

Home and road splits, scheme and staff

Splits · Per-game

2025 season · 12 games

Home/Road · Season halves

Home vs Road

	REC/g	YDS/g	YPR	TD/g
Home6g	3.7	73.8	21.5	0.3
Road6g	2.2	23.5	11.6	0.0

First half vs Second half

	REC/g	YDS/g	YPR	TD/g
Weeks 1-76g	3.8	82.0	22.3	0.3
Weeks 8+6g	2.0	15.3	7.8	0.0

Supporting cast · Scheme

Staff and system around the player

2025 season

Head Coach

Troy Calhoun

Pass share

20.0%

163 pass / 650 run

Plays / game

67.8

12 games

Team sack rate

8.6%

185 dropbacks · PBP

Scheme: Run-heavy.

Awards

Player standing · 2025

All-Conference

Picked for an all-conference team by at least one selector.

Recognition

Roster2-deepStarterRecognizedEliteApex

Production · CFB Zeitgeist Score

60 · #133 of 485 WRs · 2025

Two-star recruit. Now #133 at the position.

2026 outlook

Outside shot to repeat All-Mountain West

Based on 2025: #11 of 41 Mountain West WRs

How the All-Mountain West base rate is computed

A base rate for the rank, not a forecast of this player: 22% of returning players who ranked #11–20 at their position in their conference made an all-conference team the next season (95% confidence interval 19–25%).

Starter

The No. 2,698 recruit in the country is starting at receiver in the Mountain West as a senior.