SAN MARCOS, Texas – After being among the nation's top receivers through the first three-quarters of the season, Texas State's Joey Hobert was added to the Biletnikoff Award Watch List on Wednesday, the Tallahassee Quarterback Club Foundation announced.
 
The Biletnikoff Award recognizes college football's most outstanding receiver each season.
 
Hobert, in his first season as a Bobcat, has 64 catches for 804 yards and seven touchdowns in nine games. He has excelled in the last six games, though, as he is averaging nearly nine catches a game for 108 yards per contest. The San Juan Hills High School (CA) product has four 100-yard efforts in the last five games and five total throughout the season.
 
Hobert enters this week ranked 10th in the nation in receptions, 16th in receiving yards, and 22nd in receiving touchdowns.
 
Last week against Georgia Southern, Hobert matched Texas State's program record for catches in a single game as he had 13 receptions along with 141 yards and a touchdown.
 
With three games left in the regular season, Hobert has established himself in the Texas State record books. The San Clemente, Calif. product is the program's FBS record holder in receiving yards in a season (804), and he is three catches from tying the Bobcats' FBS record for receptions in a season.
 
In 37 career games since 2020, Hobert has 172 receptions for 2,285 yards and 24 touchdowns. Hobert began his career at Washington State before transferring to Utah Tech in 2022 and then Texas State this season.
 
The Biletnikoff Award National Selection Committee will vote to determine the semifinalists for the award during the week of Nov. 13. On Nov. 20, the semifinalists will be announced, and then on Nov. 28, following another round of voting by the committee, the three finalists will be made public.
 
The Biletnikoff Award winner will be announced on Dec. 8 at The Home Depot College Football Awards show.
 
Texas State plays at Coastal Carolina on Saturday (2:30 pm CT/3:30 pm ET, ESPN+). The Bobcats are in a tie for second in the Sun Belt West Division while the Chanticleers are second in the Sun Belt East Division.