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 YARDS DIVISION GM CATCH YDS TDS Y/GAME Y/CATCH Bo Pryor (Catawba) D2 4 30 451 7 112.8 15.0 Brevin Caldwell (Johnson C. Smith) D2 4 26 242 1 60.5 9.3 Keyshaun Pete (Methodist) D3 4 25 209 1 52.3 8.4 Jahmal Banks (Wake Forest) FBS 4 24 276 3 69.0 11.5 RJ Mobley (Winston-Salem State) D2 4 24 334 2 83.5 13.9 VJ Wilkins (Campbell) FCS 4 24 269 3 67.3 11.2 Zackary Orr (Brevard) D3 4 24 241 1 60.3 10.0 Chaney Fitzgerald (Campbell) FCS 4 23 197 2 49.3 8.6 Kevin “KC” Concepcion (NC State) FBS 4 22 238 2 59.5 10.8 Kameron Johnson (Barton) D2 4 21 333 3 83.3 15.9 Nate McCollum (North Carolina) FBS 4 21 220 1 55.0 10.5 Reggie Bryant (Johnson C. Smith) D2 4 21 186 1 46.5 8.9 Cooper Hogan (Brevard) D3 4 20 221 0 55.3 11.1 Jalon Calhoun (Duke) FBS 4 20 258 1 64.5 12.9 FABULOUS 14: RECEIVING YDS PER GAME DIVISION GM Y/GAME Bo Pryor (Catawba) D2 4 112.8 RJ Mobley (Winston-Salem State) D2 4 83.5 Kameron Johnson (Barton) D2 4 83.3 Malik Laurent (Mars Hill) D2 3 82.0 Jordan Mitchell (Catawba) D2 4 78.0 JJ Jones (North Carolina) FBS 4 74.0 Jacquez Durham (Barton) D2 3 69.0 Jahmal Banks (Wake Forest) FBS 4 69.0 VJ Wilkins (Campbell) FCS 4 67.3 David Baros (Fayetteville State) D2 4 66.5 Donte Lee Jr. (Shaw) D2 3 65.0 Jalon Calhoun (Duke) FBS 4 64.5 Censere Lee (Western Carolina) FCS 4 62.8 Tremel Jones (Wingate) D2 4 61.8 FABULOUS 14: RECEIVING TDS DIVISION GM TDS Bo Pryor (Catawba) D2 4 7 Censere Lee (Western Carolina) FCS 4 4 Jordan Mitchell (Catawba) D2 4 4 Matthew Henry (Livingstone) D2 4 4 AJ Colombo (Western Carolina) FCS 4 3 Jahmal Banks (Wake Forest) FBS 4 3 Kameron Johnson (Barton) D2 4 3 Kelin Parsons (Lenoir-Rhyne) D2 3 3 Tremel Jones (Wingate) D2 4 3 VJ Wilkins (Campbell) FCS 4 3 Adam Douglas (Brevard) D3 4 2 Bradley Rozner (NC State) FBS 4 2 Branson Adams (Western Carolina) FCS 4 2 Chaney Fitzgerald (Campbell) FCS 4 2 Chauncey Spikes (NC Central) FCS 4 2 Dashaun Davis (Appalachian State) FBS 4 2 EJ Gatling (UNC Pembroke) D2 4 2 Eli Wilson (Appalachian State) FBS 4 2 Jamarien Dalton (Elon) FCS 4 2 Joaquin Davis (NC Central) FCS 4 2 Jordan Bonner (Elon) FCS 4 2 Jordan Moore (Duke) FBS 4 2 Kaedin Robinson (Appalachian State) FBS 4 2 Kevin “KC” Concepcion (NC State) FBS 4 2 Kobe Paysour (North Carolina) FBS 4 2 Maxwell Weaver (Davidson) FCS 4 2 RJ Mobley (Winston-Salem State) D2 4 2 Sam Hedrick (Davidson) FCS 4 2 Taylor Morin (Wake Forest) FBS 4 2 Wesley Grimes (Wake Forest) FBS 4 2
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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 YARDS DIVISION GM COMP ATT YDS TD INT COMP% YPG Preston Brown (Catawba) D2 4 95 153 1217 14 4 0.621 304.3 Drake Maye (North Carolina) FBS 4 96 132 1187 5 4 0.727 296.8 Hajj-Malik Williams (Campbell) FCS 4 96 128 1130 8 4 0.750 282.5 Brandon Bullins (Methodist) D3 4 109 180 1046 8 6 0.606 261.5 Ethan Beamish (Brevard) D3 4 103 161 1029 5 5 0.640 257.3 Cole Gonzales (Western Carolina) FCS 4 70 98 1019 10 2 0.714 254.8 Mitch Griffis (Wake Forest) FBS 4 76 127 999 9 6 0.598 249.8 Joey Aguilar (Appalachian State) FBS 4 72 125 890 9 3 0.576 222.5 Brennan Armstrong (NC State) FBS 4 81 135 859 5 4 0.600 214.8 Riley Leonard (Duke) FBS 4 67 99 778 2 0 0.677 194.5 Matthew Caldwell (Gardner-Webb) FCS 4 89 160 766 5 2 0.556 191.5 Daylin Lee (Winston-Salem State) D2 4 60 104 755 4 1 0.577 188.8 Jaquan Lynch (Barton) D2 4 43 79 705 4 1 0.544 176.3 Alec Williams-Carr (Greensboro) D3 4 69 137 682 5 3 0.504 170.5 FABULOUS 14: PASSING TDS DIVISION GM TDS INTS Preston Brown (Catawba) D2 4 14 4 Cole Gonzales (Western Carolina) FCS 4 10 2 Joey Aguilar (Appalachian State) FBS 4 9 3 Mitch Griffis (Wake Forest) FBS 4 9 6 Coulter Cleland (Davidson) FCS 4 8 1 Hajj-Malik Williams (Campbell) FCS 4 8 4 Brandon Bullins (Methodist) D3 4 8 6 Walker Harris (NC Central) FCS 4 5 0 Matthew Caldwell (Gardner-Webb) FCS 4 5 2 Alec Williams-Carr (Greensboro) D3 4 5 3 Brennan Armstrong (NC State) FBS 4 5 4 Drake Maye (North Carolina) FBS 4 5 4 Ethan Beamish (Brevard) D3 4 5 5 Tyrell Jackson (Johnson C. Smith) D2 3 5 5
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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 YARDS DIVISION GM ATT YDS TD Y/GAME Y/CARRY Jordan Terrell (Barton) D2 4 85 629 4 157.3 7.4 Nate Noel (Appalachian State) FBS 4 105 542 4 135.5 5.2 Jalen Hampton (Elon) FCS 4 82 488 5 122.0 6.0 Desmond Reid (Western Carolina) FCS 4 80 469 5 117.3 5.9 Jon Gullette (Mars Hill) D2 3 69 401 1 133.7 5.8 Keyshaun Pete (Methodist) D3 4 86 391 4 97.8 4.5 Chancellor Lee-Parker (Brevard) D3 4 56 390 4 97.5 7.0 Omarion Hampton (North Carolina) FBS 4 73 383 7 95.8 5.2 Narii Gaither (Gardner-Webb) FCS 4 58 339 1 84.8 5.8 Dwayne McGee (Lenoir-Rhyne) D2 4 50 325 3 81.3 6.5 Demond Claiborne (Wake Forest) FBS 4 63 311 2 77.8 4.9 Jacob Newman (Johnson C. Smith) D2 4 67 297 2 74.3 4.4 Latrell Collier (NC Central) FCS 4 63 290 3 72.5 4.6 Mari Adams (Davidson) FCS 4 58 286 2 71.5 4.9 FABULOUS 14: YDS PER GAME DIVISION GM Y/GAME Jordan Terrell (Barton) D2 4 157.3 Nate Noel (Appalachian State) FBS 4 135.5 Jon Gullette (Mars Hill) D2 3 133.7 Leroy Bracey Jr. (Catawba) D2 2 123.0 Jalen Hampton (Elon) FCS 4 122.0 Desmond Reid (Western Carolina) FCS 4 117.3 Keyshaun Pete (Methodist) D3 4 97.8 Chancellor Lee-Parker (Brevard) D3 4 97.5 Omarion Hampton (North Carolina) FBS 4 95.8 Narii Gaither (Gardner-Webb) FCS 4 84.8 Justice Ellison (Wake Forest) FBS 3 83.3 Zechariah Adams-Duckson (ECSU) D2 3 83.0 Dwayne McGee (Lenoir-Rhyne) D2 4 81.3 Demond Claiborne (Wake Forest) FBS 4 77.8 FABULOUS 14: RUSHING TDS DIVISION GM TDS Jordan Waters (Duke) FBS 4 7 Omarion Hampton (North Carolina) FBS 4 7 Jaquan Lynch (Barton) D2 4 6 Desmond Reid (Western Carolina) FCS 4 5 Jalen Hampton (Elon) FCS 4 5 Chancellor Lee-Parker (Brevard) D3 4 4 Delbert Mimms III (NC State) FBS 4 4 Jordan Terrell (Barton) D2 4 4 Keyshaun Pete (Methodist) D3 4 4 Mason Sheron (Davidson) FCS 4 4 NaQuari Rogers (Campbell) FCS 4 4 Nate Noel (Appalachian State) FBS 4 4 Riley Leonard (Duke) FBS 4 4 Brennan Armstrong (NC State) FBS 4 3 Davius Richard (NC Central) FCS 4 3 Drake Maye (North Carolina) FBS 4 3 Dwayne McGee (Lenoir-Rhyne) D2 4 3 Hajj-Malik Williams (Campbell) FCS 4 3 Jalon Jones (Charlotte) FBS 4 3 Joseph Brown Jr. (Guilford) D3 3 3 Lamagea McDowell (Campbell) FCS 4 3 Latrell Collier (NC Central) FCS 4 3 Rahjai Harris (East Carolina) FBS 4 3
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