Texas Tech football fans likely don’t know much about new inside receiver McLane Mannix but that could change if he becomes the type of player in Lubbock that he has been the last two years while playing for Nevada. After two standout seasons with the Wolf Pack, Mannix is now ready to take the field for the Red Raiders and he will do so as a member of the Biletnikoff Award watch list.
Given annually to the nation’s top receiver, the Biletnikoff Award is one of the most coveted individual trophies in college football. Past winners include some of the game’s all-time best receivers including Randy Moss of Marshal (1997), Larry Fitzgerald of Pitt (2003), Calvin Johnson of Georgia Tech (2006), and former Red Raider great Michael Crabtree (2007-08).