Ole Miss WR Tre Harris set to destroy every record on his way to Biletnikoff Award as best receiver in College Football
Tre Harris is having a season for the ages at Ole Miss. After yet another dominant performance against Kentucky (as the only player who could do anything in the disappointing loss) Harris is now on pace to destroy records for Ole Miss and all of College Football. Harris already had 628 receiving yards and four […]
Tre Harris is having a season for the ages at Ole Miss. After yet another dominant performance against Kentucky (as the only player who could do anything in the disappointing loss) Harris is now on pace to destroy records for Ole Miss and all of College Football.
Harris already had 628 receiving yards and four touchdowns in just four games coming into Week 5 action, but then he followed that up by catching 11 more passes for 176 yards and a go-ahead score for Ole Miss late in the game against Kentucky. That puts him on a 13-game pace of nearly 2100 yards and double digit touchdowns.
It's not just easy schemed-open production for Harris either. He's proving every single week that he can win vertically with speed, his size at the point of catch, but also runs some nasty routes to get defenders out of position. His deep speed-out route on the play featured in the post below shows just how nuanced Harris has become.
Rather than let defensive backs dictate where he goes, Harris controls defenders without revealing his routes early. He gets the defender to face their hips or shift momentum one direction, and then before they even know what's happening he's wide open.
On his most pivotal play of the game he did this again. On fourth down, Harris gives his defender a little stutter step towards outside leverage, acting as if he's about to try and attempt to press vertically. Then he breaks inside on a quick slant and takes the catch to the house.
After that catch he was already on pace for over 2000 yards on the season, but then he capped off his day with one more reception after that. Harris is accounting for more than 30% of Ole Miss' receiving offense now and looks ready to destroy some records, as well as likely win the Biletnikoff Award for being the best wide receiver in the nation.
The single season record for receiving yards at Ole Miss was set by A.J. Brown back in 2018 when he tallied 1320 yards through the air. Harris is on pace to pass that mark through just eight or nine games this season. The all-time college football record for receiving yards is currently 2,060, set by Trevor Insley of Nevada back in 1999. That certainly looks in danger now too.
The average Biletnikoff Award winning wide receiver typically needs at least 1300 receiving yards and over a dozen touchdowns to win the award. Sometimes when a special player like last year's Marvin Harrison Jr. is dominant enough in primetime games they can have a lower total, but usually an even greater yardage mark wins it (near 1500 or so).
There are still plenty of games to be played. And yes, it would have been nice if Harris could have won Ole Miss the game against Kentucky late on Saturday. But Harris has been the most impressively productive wide receiver in the entirety of college football so far. He should be in the mix to crush every meaningful record and win the Biletnikoff if he keeps this up.
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