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Tavon Austin named one of the top 50 college football receivers in the past 50 years

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We know he was a star at West Virginia, but where does Tavon Austin rank among the top wide receivers of the last five decades? ESPN recently ranked the top 50 college receivers of the last 50 years and Austin checked in at #37. While at WVU, he set programs records in career receptions with 288 and career receiving yards with 3,413.

While a few titles may have changed slightly over two seasons, all but one of West Virginia’s offensive assistants joined the program with Neal Brown in 2019.