Bell and Brown Named to 2026 Senior Bowl Top 300

STORRS, CT – UConn huge receiver Sklyer Bell (Bronx, NY) and operating again Mel Brown (Stone Mountain, GA) have been named to the 2026 Senior Bowl Top 300 listing introduced on Wednesday. The 2026 Panini Senior Bowl might be performed on Saturday, January 31, 2026, at 1:30 p.m. CT at South Alabama’s Hancock Whitney Stadium in Mobile, Ala.

The Senior Bowl scouting division, comprised fully of former NFL scouts, evaluated  over 2,000 prospects from all ranges of school soccer to compile the Senior Bowl Top 300. A complete of 86 colleges are represented on this yr’s listing.  Bell and Brown are two of 19 gamers chosen from the “Group of 5” colleges. The individuals on this yr’s sport might be introduced on the conclusion of the season.

Bell, who was named to the 2025 Biletnikoff Award Watchlist, made a right away affect for the Huskies in his first season final fall.  The r-senior wideout hauled 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 in opposition to Merrimack.  His finest sport of the season noticed him pull down six passes for 153 yards and three touchdowns in opposition to Buffalo, tying the UConn college file for TD catches.  At Syracuse, he had his fourth 100-yard receiving sport 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.

Brown, named to the 2025 Jet Award Preseason Watchlist, was part of a UConn operating sport that piled up 2,590 yards final season. He completed with 673 yards on 118 carries in 13 video games.  He averaged 5.7 yards per carry and located the endzone twice. He additionally caught a rating. Brown has established himself as a game-changing return specialist on particular groups. Last season, Brown was second within the nation in kickoff returns, averaging a powerful 29.1 yards per return on 17 makes an attempt. His explosive means was on full show with a spectacular 96-yard kickoff return for a landing within the common season finale at UMass.

Both Bell and Brown together with teammate Cam Edwards (Norwalk, CT) had been additionally named to the 2026 East-West Shrine Bowl 1000 watchlist earlier this summer season.