Cooper Rush saw 140x more Wikipedia readers than usual

What this article is

Cooper Robert Rush is an American professional football quarterback for the Atlanta Falcons of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Central Michigan Chippewas, and was signed by the Dallas Cowboys as an undrafted free agent in 2017.

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Where editors were working

Wikipedia editors made 15 edits to this article on 2026-09-21, concentrated in these sections. This is evidence about the surge, not an explanation of it.

• Early life
• Atlanta Falcons
• Personal life

What changed that day

The article lost 114 characters on balance that day. The largest single addition was 105 characters to Early life. See everything that changed on 2026-09-21 in Wikipedia's own diff view — that is where the reason for a surge is usually visible, written and sourced by the editors who were following the story.

How this was measured

Views are Wikimedia's own pageview counts for en.wikipedia, filtered to agent=user so automated traffic is excluded. The baseline is the median of the previous 60 days, which is used instead of the mean so that an earlier surge cannot flatten a later one. The multiple is the day's views divided by that median.