The Biletnikoff Award announced its watch list this morning, which normally means I get to make fun of the fact it forgot to list Marqise Lee on its watch list the year he won the award.
But then I saw this morning’s list, which did not include USC wide receiver Tyler Vaughns, who seemed a natural candidate. Remember, watch lists are meaningless and usually throw more players on them than necessary.
But Vaughns not being included has to be a mild surprise. Until you consider we are talking about the Biletnikoff Award.
Here is who did make it:
| The 2018 Biletnikoff Award Preseason Watch List
(Other receivers will be added as their season performances dictate)
| NAME |
SCHOOL |
| JJ Arcega-Whiteside |
Stanford |
| Tyre Brady |
Marshall |
| A.J. Brown |
Ole Miss |
| Marquise Brown |
Oklahoma |
| Trevon Brown |
East Carolina |
| Ryan Davis |
Auburn |
| Greg Dortch |
Wake Forest |
| Terren Encalade |
Tulane |
| Dez Fitzpatrick |
Louisville |
| James Gardner |
Miami-Ohio |
| Jonathan Giles |
LSU |
| Marcus Green |
ULM |
| Jalen Guyton |
North Texas |
| Emanuel Hall |
Missouri |
| Justin Hall |
Ball State |
| Kelvin Harmon |
North Carolina State |
| N’Keal Harry |
Arizona State |
| Penny Hart |
Georgia State |
| Justin Hobbs |
Tulsa |
| Andy Isabella |
Massachusetts |
| Gary Jennings, Jr. |
West Virginia |
| Anthony Johnson |
Buffalo |
| Collin Johnson |
Texas |
| Diontae Johnson |
Toledo |
| KeeSean Johnson |
Fresno State |
| CeeDee Lamb |
Oklahoma |
| Michael Lawrence |
North Texas |
| Ty Lee |
Middle Tennessee |
| McLane Mannix |
Nevada |
| Scott Miller |
Bowling Green |
| Denzel Mims |
Baylor |
| Stanley Morgan, Jr. |
Nebraska |
| Kanawai Noa |
California |
| James Proche |
SMU |
| T.J. Rahming |
Duke |
| Ahmmon Richards |
Miami |
| Deebo Samuel |
South Carolina |
| David Sills, V |
West Virginia |
| Steven Sims, Jr. |
Kansas |
| Jaylen Smith |
Louisville |
| Kwadarrius Smith |
Akron |
| JD Spielman |
Nebraska |
| Cody Thompson |
Toledo |
| John Ursua |
Hawaii |
| Teddy Veal |
Louisiana Tech |
| Jamarius Way |
South Alabama |
| Nick Westbrook |
Indiana |
| Vic Wharton, III |
California |
| Malcolm Williams |
Coastal Carolina |
| Olamide Zaccheaus |
Virginia |
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InsideUSC with Scott Wolf 
Vaughn’s is better than 99.9% of those guys. The guy can catch. Also Scooter, you forgot Pittman, he is no slouch either.
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I thought the reason you posted was to make fun of David Sills being on it. But the list itself has me saying who(?) more times than an owl at a rap concert put on by said owl.
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Lee was added the day after the list came out when they realized their mistake. I guess my question would be: how many times has an athlete not included on an initial watch list won the award? Not many, I’d imagine.
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Old Trojan Never Dies,
You explained how I felt so clearly and perfectly. WHOOOOOOOO, WHHOOOOOOOOOO, WHOOOOOOOOOOOOO are on the list? I see one or two that I would give creedence to and that would be the Stanford, Cal, and ASU receivers. I know the PAC 12 is pass happy and you have to have good receivers to play in the league. That is a tribute to the PAC 12 to have 3 receivers, but there should have been more of them because of the quality of the pass game in the PAC 12 is superior to that of the other leagues.
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