Biography
2024 (Redshirt junior)
Played in 11 games, primarily on special teams... Registered 2 receptions for 65 yards and 1 TD... Added 1 kick return for 8 yards.Â
2023 (Redshirt Sophomore)
Played in 9 games, including 4 starts … Saw time at outside receiver and special teams … 11 catches for 169 yards and a touchdown … Averaged 15.4 yards per catch … Also had 4 kick returns for 42 yards … Season-high 5 catches for 79 yards at UTSA on Sept. 9 … 3 catches for 83 yards and his first career touchdown on Sept. 16 vs. Jackson State … 2 catches for 8 yards vs Nevada on Sept. 23 … Returned kicks in the first 2 games of the conference season (average: 10.5 yards/return) … Missed the final 4 games of the season due to injury … 302 snaps played, including 210 on offense and 92 on special teams … Played both return and coverage on kickoffs and punts ... Enrolled at Texas State in January 2023.
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PRIOR TO TEXAS STATE
Cincinnati (2021-22)
Played in 12 career games as a Bearcat … Played mostly on special teams and returning kicks … Averaged 23.8 yards per kick return, with a long of 32 yards … No career receptions … Ran a 4.31 40 in the summer of 2022 … 2022 (Redshirt freshman): Played in 11 games, nearly all of which was on special teams … Logged 25 snaps on offense and 103 on special teams … Played on punt return and punt coverage, where he logged 5 tackles (3 solo) … All 5 of his kick returns came in the Wasabi Fenway Bowl against Louisville … Totaled 119 yards on the 5 kick returns against the Cardinals (average: 23.8 yards) … Also played in 15 snaps at wide receiver in the bowl game … Also appeared at wide receiver in games against Kennesaw State (6 snaps, Sept. 10), Miami (OH) (2 snaps, Sept. 17) and Indiana (2 snaps, Sept. 24) … 2021 (Freshman): Redshirt … Did not play in any games.
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High School
Composite three-star prospect ranked No. 173 nationally among wideouts and No. 180 overall in the state of Texas for his class ... Two-year letterwinner at Lebanon Trail HS (TX) … Caught 18 passes for 286 yards and 4 TDs, averaging 15.9 yards per reception in an injury-shortened senior campaign in 2020 ... Finished his junior year in 2019 with 45 catches for 641 yards and eight TDs … Also lettered in track … Finished 2nd at the 2021 Texas 5A state meet in the 100 with a time of 10.31 (+2.3 wind-aided) … Ran several sub-11.00 100 times in his senior season in 2021 … Had a PR of 21.17 in the 200 meter as a sophomore in 2019 … Originally committed to Ole Miss in the summer of 2020 before decommitting and signing with Cincinnati in Dec. 2020 … Had offers from Northwestern, Tulane, ULM, Boise State, Wyoming, UConn, Toledo, Army, Air Force, Arkansas State, Yale, Penn, Princeton, Dartmouth, among others … Was also offered by current Texas State head coach GJ Kinne out of high school when Kinne was at Hawaii.
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Personal
Father, Doug, played football at Ohio State, was selected in the 2nd round of the 1981 NFL Draft by the Dallas Cowboys, and spent 5 seasons in the NFL with the Cowboys (1981-84) and Chicago Bears (1986) … Doug played in 43 career NFL games with 55 catches, 898 yards and 4 TDs … He also returned punts and kicks in the NFL … Doug also left Ohio State as the school’s all-time leading receiver in career receptions, career receiving yards, average yards per reception and career receiving TDs … Mom, Dina, is a former Dallas Cowboys cheerleader … Has one brother, Jake.