2017 Football Roster
Carney, Cade
Jersey Number 36
Cade Carney
- Height:
- 5-11
- Weight:
- 215
- Class:
- Sophomore
- Hometown:
- Advance, NC
- High School:
- Davidson Day
Bio
Carney post-career bio
2019 (Senior)
Elected a team captain in 2019 for the second consecutive year ... Rushed for a team-high 620 yards ... Second on the team with five rushing touchdowns ... On the field for 572 plays ... Finished seventh in school history with 21 career rushing touchdowns ... Had the second-longest streak of consecutive carries without a fumble at 365 ... Streak went from Nov. 12, 2016 until Oct. 12, 2019 ... Finished career with six all-time 100-yard rushing games including two vs. Duke ... Ended career 21st in career scoring at Wake Forest with 126 points ... Started 11 games, missing two due to injury ... One of six Pop Warner College Football Award finalists ... All-ACC Academic team ... Member of the Dean’s List ... Rushed for 54 yards on 16 carries in 22-20 win over Florida State ... Scored Wake Forest’s lone touchdown on a 3-yard run from the Wildcat formation early in the fourth quarter. ... Fumbled on his second carry vs. Louisville, snapping his streak of 365 consecutive carries without a fumble that had started vs Louisville in 2016 ... Had 95 yards rushing vs. Louisville including a team-high 27-yard run ... Went over 2,000 career rushing yards with 58 yards vs. Boston College ... Scored his first touchdown of the year vs. BC ... Missed the Rice and UNC games with a hip flexor ... Nominated for Pop Warner College Player of the Year ... Nominated for the Jason Witten Man of the Year Award ... Named a semifinalist for the William V. Campbell Trophy ... Missed the Rice and North Carolina games with an injury ... Rushed for 105 yards in win over Utah State ... It was his sixth career 100-yard rushing game ... Co-captain ... Nominated for the Senior CLASS Award ... Second team preseason All-ACC by Athlon ... Preseason second team All-ACC by Pro Football Focus ... Named one of the preseason top 20 players to watch in the ACC by the Orlando Sentinel ... Preseason Doak Walker Award watch list ... Wuerffel Trophy preseason watch list ... One of 93 players nationally on watch list ... Was one of just three returning players in the ACC who rushed for 1,000 yards in 2018.
2018 (Junior)
Rushed for 1,005 yards including a team-best three 100-yard games ... Led the team with 189 carries, eight rushing touchdowns and a 5.3 YPC average ... Named ACC Running Back of the Week after posting a career-high 223 yards rushing in the regular season finale at Duke (11/24), the 13th-highest single game total by a Deacon rusher and the most-ever by a Wake player vs. the Blue Devils ... Achieved that feat at Duke with a career-high 31 carries and two touchdowns in what was the 24th-best rushing game in the nation in 2018 ... It was the most carries by a Deacon since Chris Barclay had 30 vs. NC State in 2005 ... In two career games vs. Duke, has carried 48 times for 331 yards and five touchdowns ... Added 100-yard games against Towson (9/8) with 130 yards and vs. Boston College (9/13) with 116 yards ... Scored the game-winning touchdown in overtime at Tulane (8/30) ... Carried six times for 21 yards in OT including the final five carries vs. the Green Wave ... Made his first start of the season vs. Pittsburgh (11/17) ... Scored on a pair of one-yard runs vs. Rice (9/29) ... Named to the All-ACC Academic team.
2017 (Sophomore)
Rushed for a 1-yard touchdown against Texas A&M in the Belk Bowl that gave the Deacons a 48-45 lead en route to a 55-52 win ... Suffered an injury in the first quarter vs. Louisville (10/28) after just one carry ... Missed the final four games of the regular season with injury ... Had seven carries for 24 yards vs. Appalachian State (9/23) but saw limited second half action due to bruised ribs ... Returned to action and started at Georgia Tech (10/21) and led the team with a season-high 92 yards on 19 carries ... Had 13 carries for 40 yards and a 3-yard touchdown run at Boston College (9/9) ... Added a career-long 23-yard reception vs. the Eagles ... Named to the ACC Academic Honor Roll.
2016 (Freshman)
Became the first true freshman RB in at least 65 years to start his first game on campus when he earned the nod in the season-opener against Tulane (9/1) ... Also had the first two plays of the game, a 2-yard carry and a 4-yard reception from Kendall Hinton ... Had a break-out game against Duke (9/10) ... Carried 17 times for 108 yards and three touchdowns ... Was Wake Forest’s first true freshman with a three-touchdown game since Chris Barclay vs. Purdue in 2002 ... Broke a 14-14 tie with a 55-yard burst to lead the Deacons to the 24-14 win ... Named the ACC Rookie of the Week ... Also recognized by 247Sports.com as its True Freshman of the Week ... Named the National Freshman of the Week by CBS Sports ... Suffered an injury in practice and missed the Delaware, Indiana and NC State games ... Returned to action vs,. Syracuse (10/8) and collected his second consecutive 100-yard game ... Posted career-high 29 carries and had 104 yards on the ground ... Rushed for 87 yards vs. Virginia (11/5), his top game of the second half of the season ... Led the team with 102 all-purpose yards vs. the Cavaliers ... Led the team in rushing with 18 carries for 59 yards and a touchdown against Clemson (11/19) ... Team all-purpose yards leader vs. the Tigers with 76 yards ... Team rushing leader in the Military Bowl win over No. 23 Temple with 71 yards on 17 carries ... Scored on an 11-yard run vs. the Owls ... Finished 10th in the league in rushing in ACC games with 69.1 yards per game ... On the field for 422 snaps in 2016, the most of all running backs ... Finished second on the team in rushing behind Matt Colburn with 589 yards ... Tied for the team lead with six touchdowns ... Posted the fifth-most rushing yards by a true freshman in school history ... Academic All-ACC selection ... Earned his first varsity letter.
High School
Four-year team captain ... Rated a three-star athlete and among the top 50 players in the state by ESPN, Rivals and 247Sports ... Played his senior year at Davidson Day School after spending first three years at Davie High School ... Helped Davidson Day go 12-0 in 2015 and win the NCISSA Division I state championship ... Played for Coach Chad Grier at Davidson Day ... Averaged 30 yards on kickoff returns and 33.4 yards on punt returns as a senior ... Rushed for 1,188 yards and 16 touchdowns in eight games as a senior ... Named the Charlotte Football Awards Player of the Year in 2015 ... Named to the Charlotte Observer All-Area First Team as a senior and earned all-state honors ... Was an All-Central Piedmont Conference selection at Davie in 2012 and 2013 and a three-time All-Northwest selection by the Winston-Salem Journal ... Earned CPC Player of the Year honors as a freshman ... Became a starter at Davie County as a freshman in 2012 when he had 274 carries for 1,908 yards and 17 touchdowns ... Rushed for 3,815 yards and 43 touchdowns in three seasons at Davie County.
Personal
Son of Carl and Teddy Carney ... Father played defensive line at East Carolina ... Born June 28, 1997 ... Was an Honor Roll student and a member of the Headmaster’s List ... Communications major.
2019 (Senior)
Elected a team captain in 2019 for the second consecutive year ... Rushed for a team-high 620 yards ... Second on the team with five rushing touchdowns ... On the field for 572 plays ... Finished seventh in school history with 21 career rushing touchdowns ... Had the second-longest streak of consecutive carries without a fumble at 365 ... Streak went from Nov. 12, 2016 until Oct. 12, 2019 ... Finished career with six all-time 100-yard rushing games including two vs. Duke ... Ended career 21st in career scoring at Wake Forest with 126 points ... Started 11 games, missing two due to injury ... One of six Pop Warner College Football Award finalists ... All-ACC Academic team ... Member of the Dean’s List ... Rushed for 54 yards on 16 carries in 22-20 win over Florida State ... Scored Wake Forest’s lone touchdown on a 3-yard run from the Wildcat formation early in the fourth quarter. ... Fumbled on his second carry vs. Louisville, snapping his streak of 365 consecutive carries without a fumble that had started vs Louisville in 2016 ... Had 95 yards rushing vs. Louisville including a team-high 27-yard run ... Went over 2,000 career rushing yards with 58 yards vs. Boston College ... Scored his first touchdown of the year vs. BC ... Missed the Rice and UNC games with a hip flexor ... Nominated for Pop Warner College Player of the Year ... Nominated for the Jason Witten Man of the Year Award ... Named a semifinalist for the William V. Campbell Trophy ... Missed the Rice and North Carolina games with an injury ... Rushed for 105 yards in win over Utah State ... It was his sixth career 100-yard rushing game ... Co-captain ... Nominated for the Senior CLASS Award ... Second team preseason All-ACC by Athlon ... Preseason second team All-ACC by Pro Football Focus ... Named one of the preseason top 20 players to watch in the ACC by the Orlando Sentinel ... Preseason Doak Walker Award watch list ... Wuerffel Trophy preseason watch list ... One of 93 players nationally on watch list ... Was one of just three returning players in the ACC who rushed for 1,000 yards in 2018.
2018 (Junior)
Rushed for 1,005 yards including a team-best three 100-yard games ... Led the team with 189 carries, eight rushing touchdowns and a 5.3 YPC average ... Named ACC Running Back of the Week after posting a career-high 223 yards rushing in the regular season finale at Duke (11/24), the 13th-highest single game total by a Deacon rusher and the most-ever by a Wake player vs. the Blue Devils ... Achieved that feat at Duke with a career-high 31 carries and two touchdowns in what was the 24th-best rushing game in the nation in 2018 ... It was the most carries by a Deacon since Chris Barclay had 30 vs. NC State in 2005 ... In two career games vs. Duke, has carried 48 times for 331 yards and five touchdowns ... Added 100-yard games against Towson (9/8) with 130 yards and vs. Boston College (9/13) with 116 yards ... Scored the game-winning touchdown in overtime at Tulane (8/30) ... Carried six times for 21 yards in OT including the final five carries vs. the Green Wave ... Made his first start of the season vs. Pittsburgh (11/17) ... Scored on a pair of one-yard runs vs. Rice (9/29) ... Named to the All-ACC Academic team.
2017 (Sophomore)
Rushed for a 1-yard touchdown against Texas A&M in the Belk Bowl that gave the Deacons a 48-45 lead en route to a 55-52 win ... Suffered an injury in the first quarter vs. Louisville (10/28) after just one carry ... Missed the final four games of the regular season with injury ... Had seven carries for 24 yards vs. Appalachian State (9/23) but saw limited second half action due to bruised ribs ... Returned to action and started at Georgia Tech (10/21) and led the team with a season-high 92 yards on 19 carries ... Had 13 carries for 40 yards and a 3-yard touchdown run at Boston College (9/9) ... Added a career-long 23-yard reception vs. the Eagles ... Named to the ACC Academic Honor Roll.
2016 (Freshman)
Became the first true freshman RB in at least 65 years to start his first game on campus when he earned the nod in the season-opener against Tulane (9/1) ... Also had the first two plays of the game, a 2-yard carry and a 4-yard reception from Kendall Hinton ... Had a break-out game against Duke (9/10) ... Carried 17 times for 108 yards and three touchdowns ... Was Wake Forest’s first true freshman with a three-touchdown game since Chris Barclay vs. Purdue in 2002 ... Broke a 14-14 tie with a 55-yard burst to lead the Deacons to the 24-14 win ... Named the ACC Rookie of the Week ... Also recognized by 247Sports.com as its True Freshman of the Week ... Named the National Freshman of the Week by CBS Sports ... Suffered an injury in practice and missed the Delaware, Indiana and NC State games ... Returned to action vs,. Syracuse (10/8) and collected his second consecutive 100-yard game ... Posted career-high 29 carries and had 104 yards on the ground ... Rushed for 87 yards vs. Virginia (11/5), his top game of the second half of the season ... Led the team with 102 all-purpose yards vs. the Cavaliers ... Led the team in rushing with 18 carries for 59 yards and a touchdown against Clemson (11/19) ... Team all-purpose yards leader vs. the Tigers with 76 yards ... Team rushing leader in the Military Bowl win over No. 23 Temple with 71 yards on 17 carries ... Scored on an 11-yard run vs. the Owls ... Finished 10th in the league in rushing in ACC games with 69.1 yards per game ... On the field for 422 snaps in 2016, the most of all running backs ... Finished second on the team in rushing behind Matt Colburn with 589 yards ... Tied for the team lead with six touchdowns ... Posted the fifth-most rushing yards by a true freshman in school history ... Academic All-ACC selection ... Earned his first varsity letter.
High School
Four-year team captain ... Rated a three-star athlete and among the top 50 players in the state by ESPN, Rivals and 247Sports ... Played his senior year at Davidson Day School after spending first three years at Davie High School ... Helped Davidson Day go 12-0 in 2015 and win the NCISSA Division I state championship ... Played for Coach Chad Grier at Davidson Day ... Averaged 30 yards on kickoff returns and 33.4 yards on punt returns as a senior ... Rushed for 1,188 yards and 16 touchdowns in eight games as a senior ... Named the Charlotte Football Awards Player of the Year in 2015 ... Named to the Charlotte Observer All-Area First Team as a senior and earned all-state honors ... Was an All-Central Piedmont Conference selection at Davie in 2012 and 2013 and a three-time All-Northwest selection by the Winston-Salem Journal ... Earned CPC Player of the Year honors as a freshman ... Became a starter at Davie County as a freshman in 2012 when he had 274 carries for 1,908 yards and 17 touchdowns ... Rushed for 3,815 yards and 43 touchdowns in three seasons at Davie County.
Personal
Son of Carl and Teddy Carney ... Father played defensive line at East Carolina ... Born June 28, 1997 ... Was an Honor Roll student and a member of the Headmaster’s List ... Communications major.
Wake Forest Football Highlights vs WCU (Sept 6, 2025)
Sunday, September 07
Sterling Berkhalter snags a 51-yard touchdown
Saturday, September 06
Demond Claiborne takes it 85 yards for his 3rd TD of the day
Saturday, September 06
Claiborne get his 2nd score of the day
Saturday, September 06
