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Pictured above are Biletnikoff Award Banquet keynote speaker Aaron Taylor, Foundation Chairman & Founding Trustee Walter Manley II, 2018 Biletnikoff Award winner Jerry Jeudy, and Fred Biletnikoff

 

Tallahassee, FL - The Tallahassee Quarterback Club (TQC) Foundation, Inc., the Florida-based creator and sponsor of the Biletnikoff Award, has released the 2019 Biletnikoff Award Preseason Watch List. The Biletnikoff Award annually recognizes the season's outstanding FBS receiver in college football. Any player, regardless of position (wide receiver, tight end, slot back, and running back) who catches a pass is eligible for the award. As such, the Biletnikoff Award recognizes college football's outstanding receiver, not merely college football's outstanding wide receiver. 

 

The award recipient is selected by the highly distinguished Biletnikoff Award National Selection Committee, a group of prominent college football journalists, commentators, announcers, Biletnikoff Award winners, and other former receivers. Foundation trustees do not vote and have never voted. For a list of voters, please see BiletnikoffAward.com/voters 

Receivers are frequently added to the watch list as their season performances dictate. Actual, not potential, performance is the basis for inclusion on the Biletnikoff Award Watch List.  

 

The Biletnikoff Award candidate eligibility and voting criteria, transparently explicit and detailed, are available for review at BiletnikoffAward.com/criteria. 

2018 Biletnikoff Award winner Jerry Jeudy

The 2019 Biletnikoff Award winner will be presented live on December 12, 2019, at the College Football Hall of Fame on The Home Depot College Football Awards presented by Gildan to be broadcast 7:00 - 9:00pm (EST) on ESPN.

 

The correlation between Biletnikoff Award winners and stardom in the National Football League is nearly uniformly consistent. Past Biletnikoff Award winners include Calvin Johnson, Randy Moss, Michael Crabtree, Amari Cooper, Terry Glenn, and Larry Fitzgerald. 

 

The 2019 Biletnikoff Award winner will be presented the Biletnikoff Award trophy by TQC Foundation Chairman Steve Dobson, III, college and pro football hall of famer Fred Biletnikoff, and the dynamic and inspiring keynoter and college football hall of famer Lou Holtz before 550 patrons at the Biletnikoff Award Banquet at the University Center Club at Doak Campbell Stadium in Tallahassee on Saturday, February 15, 2020. The banquet was hailed by 2014 keynote speaker Dick Vermeil, as well as by 2013 keynoter Larry Csonka, as "the best banquet in college sports."

2020 Biletnikoff Award Banquet keynoter Lou Holtz

 

 

The banquet has featured distinguished keynoters of profound character and accomplishments including the late Bart Starr, Dick Vermeil, Floyd Little, Larry Csonka, Steve Largent, Mike Ditka, Don Shula, Dan Reeves, Archie Manning, Ron Jaworski, Gene Stallings, Bob Griese, Bill Curry, Bobby Bowden, Jim Kelly, Jerry Kramer, Joe Theismann, Dan Fouts, and Aaron Taylor.

 

The TQC Foundation's charitable mission is the provision of college and vocational scholarships to North Florida high school seniors who have overcome significant barriers to achieve at the highest academic and extracurricular levels. Participation in sports is not a requirement. The Foundation has provided many millions of dollars for several hundreds of scholarships and related benefits through 2019.

2019 Scholarship recipients

The Tallahassee Quarterback Club Foundation, Inc., will announce the ten Biletnikoff Award semifinalists on November 18, 2019, following the vote by the distinguished members of the Biletnikoff Award National Selection Committee. Likewise, the three finalists will be declared, following another vote, on November 25, 2019. For complete details and updates of interest, together with weekly statistics and timely, important news of the Biletnikoff Award candidates, as well as a fan vote and discussion board, please consult the Foundation's highly informative website at BiletnikoffAward.com. 

 

The name Biletnikoff is synonymous with the term receiver. Fred Biletnikoff, a member of the pro and college football halls of fame, was a consensus All-America receiver at Florida State University, and an All-Pro receiver for the Oakland Raiders. He caught 589 passes for 8,974 yards and 76 touchdowns in his 14-year Raiders career from 1965 through 1978. Fred was the Most Valuable Player of Super Bowl XI. 

 

The 2019 Biletnikoff Award Preseason Watch List 

(Other receivers will be added as their season performances dictate)

NAME	SCHOOL
Lynn Bowden, Jr.	Kentucky
Rico Bussey, Jr.	North Texas
Cedric Byrd	Hawaii
Grant Calcaterra	Oklahoma
Damonte Coxie	Memphis
Gabriel Davis	UCF
Bryan Edwards	South Carolina
D'Wayne Eskridge	Western Michigan
Aaron Fuller	Washington
Antonio Gandy-Golden	Liberty
KJ Hamler	Penn State
Adrian Hardy	Louisiana Tech
Damon Hazelton	Virginia Tech
Tee Higgins	Clemson
K.J. Hill	Ohio State
Isaiah Hodgins	Oregon State
Justin Jefferson	LSU
Jerry Jeudy	Alabama
Tyler Johnson	Minnesota
Collin Johnson	Texas
CeeDee Lamb	Oklahoma
Ty Lee	Middle Tennessee
Kalija Lipscomb	Vanderbilt
McLane Mannix	Texas Tech
Kirk Merritt	Arkansas State
Riley Miller	Ball State
Denzel Mims	Baylor
Darnell Mooney	Tulane
Rondale Moore	Purdue
Albert Okwuegbunam	Missouri
K.J. Osborn	Miami
Dezmon Patmon	Washington State
Jared Pinkney	Vanderbilt
Michael Pittman, Jr.	USC
James Proche	SMU
Jalen Reagor	TCU
Jared Rice	Fresno State
Sean Riley	Syracuse
Reggie Roberson, Jr.	SMU
Justyn Ross	Clemson
Henry Ruggs III	Alabama
Laviska Shenault, Jr.	Colorado
JD Spielman	Nebraska
Amon-Ra St. Brown	USC
Marquez Stevenson	Houston
Tamorrion Terry	Florida State
Jaylen Waddle	Alabama
Tylan Wallace	Oklahoma State
JoJo Ward	Hawaii
Quez Watkins	Southern Miss

The Biletnikoff Award 

( BiletnikoffAward.com/about_award)

The TQC Foundation, Inc., is an independent, charitable organization that was founded in 1994. Past and Current Chairman & Founding Trustee Professor Walter W. Manley II, Founding Trustee L. Thomas Cox, Jr., Founding Trustee Rocky Bevis, and Founding Trustee Bob Teel established the award and the TQC Foundation, Inc., that sponsors it. Many more trustees have contributed to its development as one of the most prominent awards in college football. The TQC Foundation, Inc., joined the idea of a college receiver's award to the organization's vision and created the outstanding award and dynamic organization.

The trophy, presented to each winner, is the most beautiful in college football - it has won several national, juried competitions for design excellence and aesthetic appeal.

Likewise, the website and printed banquet program have been cited nationally for excellence in design.

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