This right here is Exhibit No. 3,456 why preseason watch lists are brutally unnecessary.
Tuesday morning, the Biletnikoff Award announced that 12 players have been added to its watch list. Among those added were the nation’s top two in receiving yards -- Baylor’s KD Cannon (471) and West Virginia’s Kevin White (460) -- three games into the 2014 season. In fact, every single one of the dozen players added are in the Top 14 in the country in that category.
The only two players among the 14 receiving yards leaders that weren’t added -- Alabama’s Amari Cooper (third) and Northern Illinois’ Da’Ron Brown (ninth) -- were already included in the award’s preseason watch list.
With the inclusion of Cannon, a true freshman, the Bears now have three receivers in the running for the Biletnikoff, the other two being Antwan Goodly and Levi Norwood. Neither one of those two have caught a pass this season due to injury, but that didn’t stop a BU assistant from touting the new “WideReceiverU.”
Below is the list of the 12 receivers added to the Biletnikoff watch list.
KD Cannon, Baylor
Travin Dural, LSU
DaeSean Hamilton, Penn State
Geno Lewis, Penn State
Roger Lewis, Bowling Green
Keevan Lucas, Tulsa
Teldrick Morgan, New Mexico State
Isiah Myers, Washington State
Demarcus Robinson, Florida
Sterling Shepard, Oklahoma
Nelson Spruce, Colorado
Kevin White, West Virginia