Memphis receiver named to Senior Bowl Top 250
Coxie is the nation's top returning receiver with 2,773 career yards
gotigersgo.com MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Memphis wide receiver Damonte Coxie, the nation's top returning receiver with 2,773 career yards, has been named to the 2021 Reese's Senior Bowl Top 250 List, the Reese's Senior Bowl announced Thursday afternoon.
Earlier this summer, Coxie was one of three Tigers to land a spot on the Maxwell Award Watch List. He was also named to the Biletnikoff Award Watch List for the second consecutive season. The Reese's Senior Bowl is the nation's most prestigious college all-star game, as it annually serves as the first step of the NFL draft process. The Reese's Senior Bowl has had 93 total players and 40 selected in the first three rounds each of the past two years, including 10 first-round picks in the 2019 NFL Draft.
The 93 figure represents nearly 40 percent of the total draft these past two years. One thing that differentiates the Reese's Senior Bowl from other allstar games is the participation of two full NFL coaching staffs. Last year, the two teams were coached by the Detroit Lions and Cincinnati Bengals and there were over 900 credentialed NFL personnel in Mobile, Ala. for game week.
Coxie has posted back-toback 1,000-yard seasons, becoming just the second Tiger (Anthony Miller) to do so in program history.
The Reserve, Louisiana native finished 2019 with a career-high 1,276 receiving yards and helped lead Memphis to over 4,000 receiving yards for the second time ever.
Coxie eclipsed the 100yard receiving mark in six contests last year, with five of those performances coming during the final seven games of the season.
In Memphis' American Athletic Conference Championship win over Cincinnati, Coxie pulled in a season-high 165 yards on nine catches.
He enters this season with 11 career 100-yard receiving games, second only to Anthony Miller's 17.
With 2,773 career receiving yards to date, Coxie has climbed to third all-time in Memphis history, sitting just over 200 yards shy of Duke Calhoun for second all-time and 1,217 yards short of Miller's record of 3,590 yards from 2015-17.
After hauling in nine touchdowns in 2019, Coxie's career total of 19 is tied for third all-time.
In addition to piling up the yards, Coxie has recorded a reception in 33 consecutive games, a mark that ranks as the fourth-most in program history. He finished 2019 with at least five catches in seven games, including the final four contests.
Memphis is set to take on Arkansas State in the 2020 season opener on Sept. 5.
