The Biletnikoff Award recognizes the college football season’s outstanding FBS receiver, regardless of position. Any player, regardless of position (wide receiver, tight end, split end, inside receiver, slot back or running back) who catches a pass is eligible for the award. As such, the Biletnikoff Award recognizes the outstanding receiver, not merely the 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, and former receivers. Foundation trustees do not vote and have never voted. BiletnikoffAward.com/voters
Receivers are periodically 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 transparently detailed and explicit criteria for candidate eligibility, watch list inclusion, and voting appear at: BiletnikoffAward.com/criteria
2018 Biletnikoff Award Watch List
+Player removed from consideration due to season-ending injury
*Player added September 25, 2018
**Player added October 10, 2018
***Player added October 24, 2018
****Player added November 5, 2018
♦Player is a semifinalist November 12, 2018
♣Player is a finalist November 19, 2018
♠Winner of the Biletnikoff Award
| PLAYER | SCHOOL | POS |
| JJ Arcega-Whiteside♦ | Stanford | WR |
| Tyre Brady | Marshall | WR |
| A.J. Brown♦ | Ole Miss | WR |
| Marquise Brown♦ | Oklahoma | WR |
| Trevon Brown | East Carolina | WR |
| Rico Bussey, Jr.** | North Texas | WR |
| Hakeem Butler**** | Iowa State | WR |
| Cedric Byrd* | Hawaii | WR |
| Damonte Coxie*** | Memphis | WR |
| Ryan Davis | Auburn | WR |
| Greg Dortch | Wake Forest | WR |
| Jonathan Duhart* | Old Dominion | WR |
| Terren Encalade | Tulane | WR |
| Dez Fitzpatrick | Louisville | WR |
| Travis Fulgham**** | Old Dominion | WR |
| Aaron Fuller** | Washington | WR |
| Antonio Gandy-Golden**** | Liberty | WR |
| James Gardner+ | Miami-Ohio | WR |
| Jonathan Giles | LSU | WR |
| Marcus Green | ULM | WR |
| Jalen Guyton | North Texas | WR |
| Emanuel Hall | Missouri | WR |
| Justin Hall | Ball State | WR |
| Kelvin Harmon | North Carolina State | WR |
| N’Keal Harry♦ | Arizona State | WR |
| Penny Hart | Georgia State | WR |
| Justin Hobbs | Tulsa | WR |
| Lil’Jordan Humphrey** | Texas | WR |
| Jalen Hurd** | Baylor | WR |
| Andy Isabella♦♣ | Massachusetts | WR |
| Gary Jennings, Jr. | West Virginia | WR |
| Jerry Jeudy*♦♣♠ | Alabama | WR |
| Anthony Johnson | Buffalo | WR |
| Collin Johnson | Texas | WR |
| Diontae Johnson | Toledo | WR |
| KeeSean Johnson | Fresno State | WR |
| Olabisi Johnson* | Colorado State | WR |
| Tyler Johnson*** | Minnesota | WR |
| CeeDee Lamb | Oklahoma | WR |
| Michael Lawrence | North Texas | WR |
| Ty Lee | Middle Tennessee | WR |
| Kalija Lipscomb** | Vanderbilt | WR |
| McLane Mannix | Nevada | WR |
| D.K. Metcalf*+ | Ole Miss | WR |
| Scott Miller | Bowling Green | WR |
| Denzel Mims | Baylor | WR |
| Dillon Mitchell**** | Oregon | WR |
| Darnell Mooney** | Tulane | WR |
| Rondale Moore*♦ | Purdue | WR |
| Stanley Morgan, Jr. | Nebraska | WR |
| Flynn Nagel*** | Northwestern | WR |
| Kanawai Noa | California | WR |
| K.J. Osborn*** | Buffalo | WR |
| James Proche | SMU | WR |
| T.J. Rahming | Duke | WR |
| Ahmmon Richards+ | Miami | WR |
| Deebo Samuel | South Carolina | WR |
| Laviska Shenault Jr.* | Colorado | WR |
| David Sills V♦ | West Virginia | WR |
| Steven Sims, Jr. | Kansas | WR |
| Jaylen Smith | Louisville | WR |
| Kwadarrius Smith | Akron | WR |
| JD Spielman | Nebraska | WR |
| Jace Sternberger*** | Texas A&M | TE |
| Marquez Stevenson* | Houston | WR |
| Cody Thompson | Toledo | WR |
| John Ursua♦ | Hawaii | WR |
| Teddy Veal | Louisiana Tech | WR |
| Tylan Wallace*♦♣ | Oklahoma State | WR |
| Jamarius Way | South Alabama | WR |
| Antoine Wesley*♦ | Texas Tech | WR |
| Nick Westbrook | Indiana | WR |
| Vic Wharton, III | California | WR |
| Malcolm Williams | Coastal Carolina | WR |
| Preston Williams* | Colorado State | WR |
| Olamide Zaccheaus | Virginia | RB |
The Biletnikoff Award is a member of the National College Football Awards Association (NCFAA). The NCFAA was founded in 1997 as a coalition of the major collegiate football awards to protect, preserve and enhance the integrity, influence and prestige of the game’s predominant awards. The NCFAA encourages professionalism and the highest standards for the administration of its member awards and the selection of their candidates and recipients. For more information, visit the association’s official website,