TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- San Diego State sophomore Jordan Napier (Fontana, Calif./Jurupa Hills High) has been added to the 2025 Biletnikoff Award Watch List, presented by the Tallahassee Quarterback Club Foundation. The award annually recognizes the college football season's outstanding FBS receiver, regardless of position.
Napier is the first Aztec to make the Biletnikoff Award Watch List since Ezell Ruffin made the preseason list in 2014 after landing on the midseason watch list in 2013. Napier is the sixth SDSU player to make a Biletnikoff Award Watch List, joining J.R. Tolver and Kassim Osgood in 2002, Vincent Brown in 2009 and 2010, Colin Lockett in 2011 and 2012, and Ruffin in 2013 and 2014. Both Tolver (2002) and Brown (2009) were semifinalists for the prestigious award.
On the season, Napier has 37 catches for 553 yards (14.9 avg.) and two touchdowns. Napier is ranked eighth in the country in receiving yards (553) and receiving yards per game (92.2), 15th in total receptions (37) and 18th in receptions per game (6.17). Since Sept. 18, Napier ranks third in the country in yards (466) and fourth in receptions (27). He’s also shined in the return game, returning 16 punts for 162 yards (10.1) with a 75-yard touchdown and returned two kickoffs for 33 yards (16.5 avg.). Napier is also 10th in the country in all-purpose yards per game (130.0) and 26th in punt return average (10.1), and is one of only 28 players with a punt return touchdown this year.
Napier was added to the list today along with Hank Beatty of Illinois and Camden Brown of Georgia Southern. The preseason watch list was announced on Aug. 6. The semifinalists will be released on Nov. 17 and the finalists on Nov. 25, with the winner scheduled to be announced at the Home Depot College Football Awards show on Dec. 11. The Biletnikoff Award Banquet & Celebration is set for March 28, 2026, at the basketball arena at Donald L. Tucker Civic Center in Tallahassee, Florida.
The Aztecs (5-1, 2-0 MW) are coming off a 44-10 win over Nevada on Saturday night and are off to their best start since starting 7-0 in 2021 en route to winning a school-record 12 games. SDSU is idle this weekend and next plays at Fresno State on Oct. 25.
SDSU’s Jordan Napier Added to Biletnikoff Award Watch List
Napier is first Aztec since 2014 on the watch list for the award, which goes to the outstanding FBS receiver regardless of position.
