Senior wide receiver for Wake Forest. 2025: 18 catches, 315 receiving yards, 1 TD.
6′3″ · 208 lb · Brush Prairie, WA
The numbers
receiving yards · 2025
18 catches · 1 TD · 17.5 per catch
Swing playSwung Wake Forest from 21% to 41% to win.Wake Forest at Duke · 49-32
His career numbers, season by seasonThe story
4 wide receiver for Wake Forest. 2025: 18 catches, 315 receiving yards, 1 TD.
Sawyer Racanelli
Beats you over the top. Sawyer Racanelli has played for two head coaches across two seasons and two programs. One game to point at: 123 rec yds, 7 receptions against Duke — Week 14, 2025.
Low coverage — composed from the verified record.
His career
Career arc
Coaching lineage · 2021–2025
2 coachesCoaching transition mid-career: Dave Clawson → Jake Dickert. Worth noting in scheme + development context.
Season context · Team result + system
Where this profile ranks vs the WR cohort
Box-score + play-by-play EPA percentiles
Elite: epa / target (99th percentile). Strength: yards / catch (98th percentile). Concern: td rate (18th percentile).
Real play-by-play efficiency
Season trend
Percentiles versus same-position peers with enough snaps this season. 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).
Situational · Share of own targets (PBP, 2025)
Third-down role
Splits · Per-game
2025 season · 7 games
Home vs Road
| REC/g | YDS/g | YPR | TD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home3g | 1.7 | 17.3 | 10.9 | 0.0 |
| Road4g | 3.2 | 65.8 | 21.4 | 0.2 |
First half vs Second half
| REC/g | YDS/g | YPR | TD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-73g | 1.7 | 43.0 | 23.4 | 0.0 |
| Weeks 8+4g | 3.2 | 46.5 | 11.9 | 0.2 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Jake Dickert
Scheme reads (pass share, tempo, sack rate) need at least 3 team games — 2 games in so far.
Player standing · 2025
Earning real snaps in the rotation without a starting job.
| Season | Team | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Wake Forest | 18 | 315 | 17.5 | 1 | -- |
| 2021 | Washington | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Career | 18 | 315 | 17.5 | 1 | -- |
Signature plays · top plays by |EPA|
The plays that mattered most
Game log · Week-by-week
2025 season · 7 games
| Wk | Opp | REC | YDS | AVG | TD | LONG | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 5 | L 29-30vs Georgia Tech | 1 | 16 | 16.0 | 0 | 16 | |
| Wk 6 | W 30-23@ Virginia Tech | 3 | 88 | 29.3 | 0 | 62 | |
| Wk 10 | L 7-42@ Florida State | 2 | 27 | 13.5 | 0 | 26 | |
| Wk 12 | W 28-12vs North Carolina | 3 | 29 | 9.7 | 0 | 23 | |
| Wk 13 | W 52-14vs Delaware | 1 | 7 | 7.0 | 0 | 7 | |
| Wk 14 | L 32-49@ Duke | 7 | 123 | 17.6 | 1 | 22 | Season-high 123 yds |
| Bowl | W 43-29@ Mississippi State | 1 | 25 | 25.0 | 0 | 25 | |
| Total | 18 | 315 | 16.9 | 1 | 62 |
Play style
Stretches the field vertically. Every snap is a potential big play.
CFB Index positional classification
2026 Outlook
Wake Forest
2026 Depth chart
Returning starter
Wide receiver · Wake Forest
Returning around him
2026 Award watch
No preseason watch lists yet (most drop June 15 – July 15)
Wake Forest · Last season: 9-4 · Talent rank #63 · 2026 recruiting class #39
Player DNA
Stretches the field vertically. Every snap is a potential big play.
His 2025 production profile sits closest to Devin Carter’s 2023 season.
Matches Devin on
Differs from Devin on
Through 1 college season, his career arc tracks closest to Ali Jennings’s path through Virginia Tech.
Matches Ali on
As a sophomore, his production profile tracks closest to Cam Camper's sophomore season at Indiana (2023).
Matches Cam on
Differs from Cam on
Player DNA