Cory Cotton
Dude Perfect co-founder and on-camera member who makes trick shot, battle and comedy videos with the group, and twin brother of fellow member Coby Cotton.
Sports · Instagram · Updated Oct 30, 2026
Cory Cotton is a co-founder of Dude Perfect known for the group’s trick shot and battle videos and as the identical twin of fellow member Coby Cotton. He started the group in 2009 with Coby, Tyler Toney, Cody Jones and Garrett Hilbert while they were students at Texas A&M, per Texas A&M, and the channel has grown to about 62.8 million subscribers on YouTube. As of October 2026 he has not left: Dude Perfect’s own channel still lists him as one of its five members, and Net Influencer named him among the five on-camera founders in September 2026. This entry is about Cory Cotton of Dude Perfect, not about his twin, Coby.
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Questions people ask
Who is Cory Cotton?
Cory Cotton is one of the five co-founders of Dude Perfect, the Texas sports and comedy group known for trick shots, battles and bottle flips, and the identical twin of fellow member Coby Cotton. Famous Birthdays describes him as one of the five co-founders, and Texas A&M lists the twins in the class of 2011. The group began in 2009 in a College Station backyard, when Tyler Toney bet Garrett Hilbert he could make a hook shot from behind a tree. In 2021 Cory and Tyler Toney told the story of building the company on NPR’s How I Built This.
Did Cory Cotton leave Dude Perfect? Is Cory Cotton still on Dude Perfect?
No, as of October 2026 Cory Cotton has not left Dude Perfect and is still one of its five members. The group’s YouTube About page lists him with Tyler Toney, Cody Jones, Garrett Hilbert and Coby Cotton. On September 4, 2026, Net Influencer reported that the company is still built around those five on-camera founders, in a story about the exit of its first CEO, Andrew Yaffe. The group’s website shows him on its Almost Athletes podcast as recently as October 2026. We found no announcement from him or the group, and no report in an accepted outlet, that he is leaving.
What happened to Cory Cotton? Why can’t Cory Cotton taste food? Why did he lose his taste?
Cory Cotton has had trouble with his sense of smell for years, which Dude Perfect has made part of its own content. On September 23, 2026, the group’s Almost Athletes podcast posted The Dudes Take The ULTIMATE Smell Test, which Dude Perfect’s website and the show’s Apple Podcasts page describe with the line “After years of issues with his sense of smell, can Cory finally smell again?” A follow-up episode on October 14, 2026, a buffalo wing taste test, picked up on whether his taste buds were up to it. He has not given a cause or a diagnosis in anything we could source, and we do not guess one.
Why did Cory Cotton change from yellow to pink? Why does Cory Cotton look different? Did he get a hair transplant?
Cory Cotton has not explained a change in his color in anything we could source. We found no Dude Perfect video, website post or press report that says why his color changed from yellow to pink, so we do not guess. On his looks, he has not discussed a hair transplant or any change to his face on the record, and no accepted outlet has reported one. What is public: Cory and Coby are identical twins, per Famous Birthdays. If he or the group explains either on the record, this entry will add it.
How old is Cory Cotton? How tall is he?
Cory Cotton is 39, born July 17, 1987, per Famous Birthdays. He has not published a height that we could find, so we do not list one.
What is Cory Cotton’s real name? Is Cory Cotton’s real name William? Where is he from?
Cory Cotton is the name he is credited under by Dude Perfect, Texas A&M and Famous Birthdays. We found no accepted outlet printing a different full name, so we do not list one. He was born in The Woodlands, Texas, per Famous Birthdays, studied at Texas A&M in College Station, and co-founded Dude Perfect, whose 80,000-square-foot headquarters and production studio is in Frisco, Texas, per Net Influencer in September 2026.
Did Cory Cotton win an Emmy? Is Cory Cotton a singer?
Cory Cotton’s group won an Emmy, but we found no individual Emmy credit in his name: Dude Perfect won the 2024 Sports Emmy for Outstanding Interactive Experience, per Texas A&M, which also credits the group with more than 30 Guinness World Records. He is not known as a singer; his work is Dude Perfect’s videos, shows and podcast, plus a 2011 book, Go Big, listed on his speaker page and by Famous Birthdays.
Is Cory Cotton married? Who is Cory Cotton’s wife?
Yes, Cory Cotton is married; he married in 2016, per Famous Birthdays. We name partners only when they are public figures, so we do not name her.
Where can I watch Cory Cotton?
Cory Cotton appears on the Dude Perfect YouTube channel, about 62.8 million subscribers as of October 2026, which posts trick shots, battles, stereotypes and the long-running Overtime series. He is also one of the listed hosts of the group’s Almost Athletes podcast, per Apple Podcasts, and the group runs Dude Perfect Outdoors, Dude Perfect Gaming and the Dude Perfect+ channel. He posts on Instagram as @corycotton and on X as @CoryCotton.
What is Cory Cotton’s net worth?
Cory Cotton does not publish a number and neither do we. What is public about the company: Dude Perfect raised more than $100 million from the investment firm Highmount Capital in 2024, a few months before it hired its first CEO, per Net Influencer in September 2026. No outlet we accept has published his personal share.
Did Cory Cotton have twins? Cory Cotton’s kids, and is Cory Cotton LDS?
Not something we cover.
Who represents Cory Cotton?
As of October 2026, no personal agent or manager is named publicly for Cory Cotton; business inquiries for the group go to the contact on Dude Perfect’s YouTube page, and Patrick Hurley became interim CEO after Andrew Yaffe left in September 2026, per Net Influencer. Ames Create does not represent him; we cover him because people keep asking whether he left Dude Perfect and what happened to his sense of smell, and both answers are on the group’s own record. If that changes, this entry will say so.
Our read
Ames Create does not work with Cory Cotton. This is our view, from a team that works on creator brands for a living.
The format. Cory is one fifth of a formula that has run since 2009: a trick shot, a battle or a bit, five friends keeping score, and a clean family tone. His own lane inside it is the twin running joke with Coby and the long-form side, Overtime and the Almost Athletes podcast, where the group talks more than it shoots.
Why it travels. Dude Perfect travels on spectacle that needs no language, a shot from a stadium roof or a bottle flip that lands, and the twins give fans a puzzle to solve in every video. Lately his own storyline has been a personal one: years of trouble with his sense of smell turned into a blind smell test episode that sent people searching his name.
Brand fit. Family brands and sports products, which the company already works with: Net Influencer lists State Farm, Disney, BODYARMOR and McDonald’s among its partners. Deals run through Dude Perfect as a company with its own executives, not through Cory alone, and anything edgy would cut against the brand’s family tone.
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Sources: Famous Birthdays; Dude Perfect on YouTube and its About page; Dude Perfect’s website (Almost Athletes episodes of September 23 and October 14, 2026); Almost Athletes on YouTube and Apple Podcasts; Net Influencer, September 4, 2026; Axios, September 3, 2026; Texas A&M, September 12, 2025; NPR How I Built This, 2021; Conferences for Women speaker page; his Instagram and X. Subscriber count read from YouTube, October 2026.
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