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Fabulous 14 Offense: Catawba WR Bo Pryor leads statewide receiving corps

Check inside for statewide leaders in passing, rushing and receiving after Week 4 games.

Bo Pryor caught 13 passes for 131 yards and two touchdowns on Saturday against Tusculum, putting in the statewide lead in receiving stats. (Photo courtesy Catawba athletics | https://www.catawbaathletics.com/)

Four games into the 2023 campaign, Catawba’s Bo Pryor has already surpassed his single-season high in receiving yards and has more touchdown catches than in his first three years combined.

The redshirt junior from Cherryville (Burns HS) also leads our Best In State Fabulous 14 wide receiver crops this week in four different categories.

Pryor is tops in North Carolina — across all divisions — in receiving yards (451), total catches (30), yards-per-game (112.8) and touchdowns (7). No one is really close to him in any of these categories.

Pryor is a big reason Division II Catawba, a one-win team a year ago, has made a leap forward in the competitive South Atlantic Conference. The Indians are 2-2 thus far. Pryor ranks second in all of Division II in receiving yards.

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RJ Mobley of Winston-Salem State and Kameron Johnson of Barton, also D2 players, have the next highest total in receiving yards, at 334 and 333 respectively. Brevin Caldwell of D2 Johnson C. Smith has 26 catches, while Keyshaun Pete of D3 Methodist has 25.

Catawba teammate Jordan Mitchell is tied for second in receiving touchdowns with four. Western Carolina’s Censere Lee and Livingstone’s Matthew Henry also have four TD catches.

FABULOUS 14: RECEIVING YARDSDIVISIONGMCATCHYDSTDSY/GAMEY/CATCH
Bo Pryor (Catawba)D24304517112.815.0
Brevin Caldwell (Johnson C. Smith)D2426242160.59.3
Keyshaun Pete (Methodist)D3425209152.38.4
Jahmal Banks (Wake Forest)FBS424276369.011.5
RJ Mobley (Winston-Salem State)D2424334283.513.9
VJ Wilkins (Campbell)FCS424269367.311.2
Zackary Orr (Brevard)D3424241160.310.0
Chaney Fitzgerald (Campbell)FCS423197249.38.6
Kevin “KC” Concepcion (NC State)FBS422238259.510.8
Kameron Johnson (Barton)D2421333383.315.9
Nate McCollum (North Carolina)FBS421220155.010.5
Reggie Bryant (Johnson C. Smith)D2421186146.58.9
Cooper Hogan (Brevard)D3420221055.311.1
Jalon Calhoun (Duke)FBS420258164.512.9
FABULOUS 14: RECEIVING YDS PER GAMEDIVISIONGMY/GAME
Bo Pryor (Catawba)D24112.8
RJ Mobley (Winston-Salem State)D2483.5
Kameron Johnson (Barton)D2483.3
Malik Laurent (Mars Hill)D2382.0
Jordan Mitchell (Catawba)D2478.0
JJ Jones (North Carolina)FBS474.0
Jacquez Durham (Barton)D2369.0
Jahmal Banks (Wake Forest)FBS469.0
VJ Wilkins (Campbell)FCS467.3
David Baros (Fayetteville State)D2466.5
Donte Lee Jr. (Shaw)D2365.0
Jalon Calhoun (Duke)FBS464.5
Censere Lee (Western Carolina)FCS462.8
Tremel Jones (Wingate)D2461.8
FABULOUS 14: RECEIVING TDSDIVISIONGMTDS
Bo Pryor (Catawba)D247
Censere Lee (Western Carolina)FCS44
Jordan Mitchell (Catawba)D244
Matthew Henry (Livingstone)D244
AJ Colombo (Western Carolina)FCS43
Jahmal Banks (Wake Forest)FBS43
Kameron Johnson (Barton)D243
Kelin Parsons (Lenoir-Rhyne)D233
Tremel Jones (Wingate)D243
VJ Wilkins (Campbell)FCS43
Adam Douglas (Brevard)D342
Bradley Rozner (NC State)FBS42
Branson Adams (Western Carolina)FCS42
Chaney Fitzgerald (Campbell)FCS42
Chauncey Spikes (NC Central)FCS42
Dashaun Davis (Appalachian State)FBS42
EJ Gatling (UNC Pembroke)D242
Eli Wilson (Appalachian State)FBS42
Jamarien Dalton (Elon)FCS42
Joaquin Davis (NC Central)FCS42
Jordan Bonner (Elon)FCS42
Jordan Moore (Duke)FBS42
Kaedin Robinson (Appalachian State)FBS42
Kevin “KC” Concepcion (NC State)FBS42
Kobe Paysour (North Carolina)FBS42
Maxwell Weaver (Davidson)FCS42
RJ Mobley (Winston-Salem State)D242
Sam Hedrick (Davidson)FCS42
Taylor Morin (Wake Forest)FBS42
Wesley Grimes (Wake Forest)FBS42
SOURCE: NCAA.com

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Fabulous 14 Quarterbacks

Pryor and Mitchell have been catching passes from one of our Fabulous 14 quarterbacks, Preston Brown, all season. Brown leads our statewide passing stats across all divisions in total yards (1,217) and passing touchdowns (14). He’s fifth nationally in Division II in passing yards and tied for fifth in touchdowns.

North Carolina’s Drake Maye is second on our Best In State passing list with 1,187 yards, though the preseason ACC Player of the Year has thrown just five touchdowns thus far (against four interceptions).

Campbell’s Hajj-Malik Williams, Methodist’s Brandon Bullins and Brevard’s Ethan Beamish round out the top five passing-yards leaders for this week. Williams ranks fourth in FCS passing yardage.

Western Carolina’s Cole Gonzales, the reigning Southern Conference offensive player of the week, has 10 touchdown throws on the season — five of them coming this past weekend in the first half against Charleston Southern. Appalachian State’s Joey Aguilar and Wake Forest’s Mitch Griffis have nine passing TDs each.

FABULOUS 14: PASSING YARDSDIVISIONGMCOMPATTYDSTDINTCOMP%YPG
Preston Brown (Catawba)D249515312171440.621304.3
Drake Maye (North Carolina)FBS4961321187540.727296.8
Hajj-Malik Williams (Campbell)FCS4961281130840.750282.5
Brandon Bullins (Methodist)D341091801046860.606261.5
Ethan Beamish (Brevard)D341031611029550.640257.3
Cole Gonzales (Western Carolina)FCS4709810191020.714254.8
Mitch Griffis (Wake Forest)FBS476127999960.598249.8
Joey Aguilar (Appalachian State)FBS472125890930.576222.5
Brennan Armstrong (NC State)FBS481135859540.600214.8
Riley Leonard (Duke)FBS46799778200.677194.5
Matthew Caldwell (Gardner-Webb)FCS489160766520.556191.5
Daylin Lee (Winston-Salem State)D2460104755410.577188.8
Jaquan Lynch (Barton)D244379705410.544176.3
Alec Williams-Carr (Greensboro)D3469137682530.504170.5
FABULOUS 14: PASSING TDSDIVISIONGMTDSINTS
Preston Brown (Catawba)D24144
Cole Gonzales (Western Carolina)FCS4102
Joey Aguilar (Appalachian State)FBS493
Mitch Griffis (Wake Forest)FBS496
Coulter Cleland (Davidson)FCS481
Hajj-Malik Williams (Campbell)FCS484
Brandon Bullins (Methodist)D3486
Walker Harris (NC Central)FCS450
Matthew Caldwell (Gardner-Webb)FCS452
Alec Williams-Carr (Greensboro)D3453
Brennan Armstrong (NC State)FBS454
Drake Maye (North Carolina)FBS454
Ethan Beamish (Brevard)D3455
Tyrell Jackson (Johnson C. Smith)D2355
SOURCE: NCAA.com

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Fabulous 14: Running Backs

Heading into Saturday, Barton College’s Jordan Terrell led the entire NCAA in total rushing yards and yards-per-game. Though Mars Hill held the Barton star to only 47 yards in Saturday’s SAC showdown, Terrell steal ranks second in D2 — and first in North Carolina — in total rushing yards. He now has 629 for the season, a robust average of 157.3 yards per game.

Five other rushers from the state are averaging better than 100-yards per game on the ground: Appalachian State’s Nate Noel (135.5 ypg), Mars Hill’s Jon Gullette (133.7), Catawba’s Leroy Bracey Jr. (123.0), Elon’s Jalen Hampton (122.0), Western Carolina’s Desmond Reid (117.3). Keyshaun Pete of Methodist (97.8) and Chancellor Lee-Parker of Brevard (97.5) are knocking on the door.

Hampton and Lee-Parker both earned conference offensive player awards this week.

While many of the yardage leaders hail from FCS and Division II programs, the two running backs who have found the end zone the most play in the ACC: Jordan Waters of Duke and Omarion Hampton of North Carolina, who each have recorded seven rushing touchdowns. Barton quarterback Jaquan Lynch has tallied six rushing touchdowns, with Reid and Hampton each earning five.

FABULOUS 14: RUSHING YARDSDIVISIONGMATTYDSTDY/GAMEY/CARRY
Jordan Terrell (Barton)D24856294157.37.4
Nate Noel (Appalachian State)FBS41055424135.55.2
Jalen Hampton (Elon)FCS4824885122.06.0
Desmond Reid (Western Carolina)FCS4804695117.35.9
Jon Gullette (Mars Hill)D23694011133.75.8
Keyshaun Pete (Methodist)D3486391497.84.5
Chancellor Lee-Parker (Brevard)D3456390497.57.0
Omarion Hampton (North Carolina)FBS473383795.85.2
Narii Gaither (Gardner-Webb)FCS458339184.85.8
Dwayne McGee (Lenoir-Rhyne)D2450325381.36.5
Demond Claiborne (Wake Forest)FBS463311277.84.9
Jacob Newman (Johnson C. Smith)D2467297274.34.4
Latrell Collier (NC Central)FCS463290372.54.6
Mari Adams (Davidson)FCS458286271.54.9
FABULOUS 14: YDS PER GAMEDIVISIONGMY/GAME
Jordan Terrell (Barton)D24157.3
Nate Noel (Appalachian State)FBS4135.5
Jon Gullette (Mars Hill)D23133.7
Leroy Bracey Jr. (Catawba)D22123.0
Jalen Hampton (Elon)FCS4122.0
Desmond Reid (Western Carolina)FCS4117.3
Keyshaun Pete (Methodist)D3497.8
Chancellor Lee-Parker (Brevard)D3497.5
Omarion Hampton (North Carolina)FBS495.8
Narii Gaither (Gardner-Webb)FCS484.8
Justice Ellison (Wake Forest)FBS383.3
Zechariah Adams-Duckson (ECSU)D2383.0
Dwayne McGee (Lenoir-Rhyne)D2481.3
Demond Claiborne (Wake Forest)FBS477.8
FABULOUS 14: RUSHING TDSDIVISIONGMTDS
Jordan Waters (Duke)FBS47
Omarion Hampton (North Carolina)FBS47
Jaquan Lynch (Barton)D246
Desmond Reid (Western Carolina)FCS45
Jalen Hampton (Elon)FCS45
Chancellor Lee-Parker (Brevard)D344
Delbert Mimms III (NC State)FBS44
Jordan Terrell (Barton)D244
Keyshaun Pete (Methodist)D344
Mason Sheron (Davidson)FCS44
NaQuari Rogers (Campbell)FCS44
Nate Noel (Appalachian State)FBS44
Riley Leonard (Duke)FBS44
Brennan Armstrong (NC State)FBS43
Davius Richard (NC Central)FCS43
Drake Maye (North Carolina)FBS43
Dwayne McGee (Lenoir-Rhyne)D243
Hajj-Malik Williams (Campbell)FCS43
Jalon Jones (Charlotte)FBS43
Joseph Brown Jr. (Guilford)D333
Lamagea McDowell (Campbell)FCS43
Latrell Collier (NC Central)FCS43
Rahjai Harris (East Carolina)FBS43

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