USC large receiver Makai Lemon has been having an unimaginable season. Via 11 video games, he leads the Energy 4 with 78 receptions for 1,124 yards and ten touchdowns. Final week, I wrote an article stating that Lemon needs to be the favourite to win the Biletnikoff Award, offered yearly to the highest move catcher within the nation.
Properly, it seems that the nation has taken discover. On Tuesday, the Biletnikoff finalists have been introduced, and Lemon was certainly one in every of them.
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Becoming a member of Lemon among the many finalists are Skyler Bell of UConn and Jeremiah Smith of Ohio State. Bell presently has higher statistics than Lemon, however has performed in opposition to a decrease degree of competitors. Smith, in the meantime, has put up worse numbers taking part in in the identical convention, so it will take a large efficiency this week in opposition to Michigan (in addition to doubtlessly within the Large Ten Championship Recreation the next week) to present him a reliable argument for the award.
The Biletnikoff Award has been offered yearly since 1994. Throughout that interval, the one Trojan to win the award is Marqise Lee in 2012. Previous to Lemon, the final USC participant to be named a finalist was Michael Pittman Jr. in 2019.
Along with the choice committee, there’s additionally a Biletnikoff Award fan vote. Followers can forged their vote for the award at this particular link.
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