Skyler Bell Named to 2025 Biletnikoff Award Watch List

STORRS, CT – UConn broad receiver Skyler Bell (Bronx, NY) was named to the 2025 Biletnikoff Award watchlist introduced by the award nationwide choice committee on Wednesday. Bell is considered one of 47 gamers named to this 12 months’s record.

Bell got here to UConn final fall, transferring in from Wisconsin after a pair of season. The r-senior wideout made a direct influence for the Huskies, hauling in 50 passes for 860 yards and 5 touchdowns. He averaged 17.2 yards per catch on the season, rating thirty seventh among the many nation’s top-receivers. Bell opened his UConn profession with 5 catches for 141 yards at Maryland and adopted that up a two-catch, 105 yards and a landing towards Merrimack.  His finest recreation of the season noticed him pull down six passes for 153 yards and three touchdowns towards Buffalo, tying the UConn college document for TD catches.  At Syracuse, he had his fourth 100-yard receiving recreation the season whereas catching a career-high 10 passes.

In his two seasons at Wisconsin Bell had 68 catches for 740 yards and 6 scores for the Badgers.

The Biletnikoff Award acknowledges the school soccer season’s excellent FBS receiver, no matter place. Any participant, no matter place (broad receiver, tight finish, cut up finish, inside receiver, slot again or operating again) who catches a go is eligible for the award. As such, the Biletnikoff Award acknowledges the excellent receiver, not merely the excellent broad receiver. The award recipient is chosen by the extremely distinguished Biletnikoff Award National Selection Committee, a gaggle of distinguished school soccer journalists, commentators, and former receivers. Foundation trustees don’t vote and have by no means voted. BiletnikoffAward.com/voters

Receivers are periodically added to the watch record as their season performances dictate. Actual, not potential, efficiency is the premise for inclusion on the Biletnikoff Award Watch List. The transparently detailed and specific standards for candidate eligibility, watch record inclusion, and voting seem at: BiletnikoffAward.com/criteria