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BJ Emmons Named to Reese’s Senior Bowl Watch List
8/20/2020 12:11:00 PM | Football
BOCA RATON, Fla. – BJ Emmons, a Florida Atlantic University senior running back on the Owls' football team, has earned a spot on the "2021 Reese's Senior Bowl Top 250," as announced by the Reese's Senior Bowl on Thursday.
The spot signifies that the Senior Bowl has designated Emmons as a player to watch heading into the 2020 season as a potential invitee for the prestigious all-star game.
After joining the Owls in January of 2019, Emmons carried his first Owl football for a gain of one yard in the season opener at Ohio State. He then caught a pass for a setback of two yards, but more importantly Emmons' season was also set back by a broken ankle. Everyone thought the Morganton, North Carolina native, an Athlon Sports and Phil Steele's Magazine preseason C-USA Third Team honoree, would lose the year to the injury, but he had a different mindset. Ten games (and 84 days) later, he led the Owls with 10 carries for 53 yards and two scores in a victory over UTSA, a game that secured home field advantage for the 2019 Conference USA Championship. He tallied 51 carries on the year, averaging 4.6 yards per carry, and scored six times. Emmons tallied 71 yards on 11 carries versus Southern Miss, led nine Owl ballcarriers in carries in the C-USA title game win, and led the Owls with 17 carries and 72 yards in the 2019 Cheribundi Boca Raton Bowl win over SMU. That marked the Owls' second Boca Raton Bowl win in three seasons.
Emmons' play (237 yards) will be instrumental in the 2020 running back room, a unit that returns fellow senior James Charles (413 yards), redshirt juniors Daniel Leconte (87 yards) and Tyrek Tisdale (22 yards), junior Malcolm Davidson (711 yards), sophomore Larry McCammon III (324 yards) and redshirt freshman Kelvin Dean, Jr. The returners account for 1,070 of the team's 2,324 rushing yards a year ago. The Owls also will return quarterbacks Nick Tronti and Justin Agner, who tallied a combined 236 yards on the ground a year ago and have added redshirt freshman Javion Posey and speedy true freshman Willie Taggart, Jr. to the mix.
Emmons could potentially join a list of former Owls to play in the Senior Bowl: Alfred Morris (2012), D'Joun Smith (2015) and Harrison Bryant (2020).
Highlights
The spot signifies that the Senior Bowl has designated Emmons as a player to watch heading into the 2020 season as a potential invitee for the prestigious all-star game.
After joining the Owls in January of 2019, Emmons carried his first Owl football for a gain of one yard in the season opener at Ohio State. He then caught a pass for a setback of two yards, but more importantly Emmons' season was also set back by a broken ankle. Everyone thought the Morganton, North Carolina native, an Athlon Sports and Phil Steele's Magazine preseason C-USA Third Team honoree, would lose the year to the injury, but he had a different mindset. Ten games (and 84 days) later, he led the Owls with 10 carries for 53 yards and two scores in a victory over UTSA, a game that secured home field advantage for the 2019 Conference USA Championship. He tallied 51 carries on the year, averaging 4.6 yards per carry, and scored six times. Emmons tallied 71 yards on 11 carries versus Southern Miss, led nine Owl ballcarriers in carries in the C-USA title game win, and led the Owls with 17 carries and 72 yards in the 2019 Cheribundi Boca Raton Bowl win over SMU. That marked the Owls' second Boca Raton Bowl win in three seasons.
Emmons' play (237 yards) will be instrumental in the 2020 running back room, a unit that returns fellow senior James Charles (413 yards), redshirt juniors Daniel Leconte (87 yards) and Tyrek Tisdale (22 yards), junior Malcolm Davidson (711 yards), sophomore Larry McCammon III (324 yards) and redshirt freshman Kelvin Dean, Jr. The returners account for 1,070 of the team's 2,324 rushing yards a year ago. The Owls also will return quarterbacks Nick Tronti and Justin Agner, who tallied a combined 236 yards on the ground a year ago and have added redshirt freshman Javion Posey and speedy true freshman Willie Taggart, Jr. to the mix.
Emmons could potentially join a list of former Owls to play in the Senior Bowl: Alfred Morris (2012), D'Joun Smith (2015) and Harrison Bryant (2020).
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