Seen 'em all – 136 FBS teams in action! In 2025, we finished with the CFP Championship game, Indiana 27 Miami 21. Now, we're up to 740 games since 1979. Capture our unique, fun, life-long adventure in my book on Amazon.com: Fifty Years of Tailgate Tales: The Good, the Fun and the Ugly. Our journey continues into the 2026 season! Click on our 2026 Schedule below to follow us to exciting, competitive clashes we'll attend this season!
Lebanon, TN – Wide receivers Carnell Tate of Ohio State and Jordyn Tyson of Arizona State both performed in front of us during the 2024 season. However, neither made our photo portfolio. Too bad. Both enter this draft among the best most likely to get selected in the First Round. On the other hand, we captured Tight Ends Kenyon Sadiq of Oregon and Eli Stowers of Vanderbilt among the four and two contests we saw their teams play in respectively play. Sadiq is featured in our first 2026 Draft post you can see here.
Indiana – our best Wide Receiver source in 2025
With Heisman QB Fernando Mendoza captured in three games, he spread his passes among several key wide-out and a Tight End entering this year’s draft. In our case, right team, right season. Our schedule featured few pass catchers that will get drafted. Hopefully some will surprise us, but we can’t say that we saw any particular wide receiver that really caught our attention this year who wasn’t a Hoosier. Below you’ll see the ones we captured on our camera.
Top Wide Receivers and Tight End captured in our photo files
Indiana Wide Receiver Omar Cooper (3) follows Charlie Becker’s block against Miami in CFP Championship. In only eight games in 2025, he caught 37 passes for 581 yards and seven TDS. Picks up yards after contact. Watch Becker for future draft considerations. Vanderbilt Tight End Eli Stowers (9) earned All-American Honors and the John Mackey Award as best TE this season. Not big for blocking prowess, he will become a top target for a wide-open pro offense. He snagged 62 passes his senior year for 769 yards and four TDs.Notre Dame WR Malachi Fields (far right) looks to pick up down field block for Jerimiyah Love against Navy in 2025. Before 2025, he transferred from UVA to ND for more exposure. Despite joining a more run-oriented offense, he gained 630 yards through the air with an impressive 17.5 yards per reception. Could be an effective wide-out at the next level. Against Illinois in September this season, WR Elijah Sarratt (13) of Indiana dominated the Illini secondary on out-patterns all day. With nine grabs, he gained 92 yards and scored twice in a 63-10 blow-out. Typical of him. In four seasons at three programs, he totaled 239 catches for 3,649 yards and 44 TDs. Look for continued success on Sundays.
Best of the FCS
Most impressive stat regarding Wide Receiver Bryce Lance (5) seen here vs. Tennessee State? He remained at North Dakota State for five years despite NIL offers from bigger schools. NDSU won the FCS championship in 2024. In the last two season, Lance made 151 receptions for 2,535 yards and 32 TDs. He will make a certain NFL team very happy that they picked him.
Lower round selections for developmental possibilities
Miami WR CJ Daniels (7) played his final season of college here following seasons at Liberty and LSU. In 2025, he caught 55 passes for 557 yards and seven TDs. A good route runner and down field blocker, a concern is the dropsies rate he had in 2023 at Liberty despite 61 snags. Has potential to become what scouts consider a viable WR2 or WR3 on Sundays.Notre Dame TE Eli Raridon escorts Jeremiyah Love down field for a long gain against Navy last November. Raridon spent his first two seasons rehabbing a knee in South Bend. In 2025, his blocking and catching capabilities placed him third among all Irish receivers with 32 receptions for 482 yards. Look for him to go in the lower rounds.Indiana TE Riley Nowakowski (37) plunges through tough Miami defense for first half score in the CFP finale, his only rushing TD of the year. In 2025 after transferring from Wisconsin, he played all 15 games for IU. He caught 32 passes for 387 yards and two TDs. Small in stature for NFL TE standards, he possesses great tools for special teams and as a situational player. Smarts and toughness come from this Second Team All-Big Ten Player in 2025.Tennessee Tight End Miles Kitselman (87) displays his blocking prowess during DeSean Bishop’s TD run against Illinois in this year’s Music City Bowl. His blocking capablity interests the pros whereas his 6’5″ 255 lb. frame offers potential to improve his receiving totals of 26 catches for 253 yards and two TDs his senior year.
Read our great history of seeing great college players who excelled in the Pros!
Click on the title about this life-long adventure: Fifty Years of Tailgate Tales: The Good, the Fun, and the Uglyon Amazon.com. Among 740 college games attended to date now, we’ve seen all 136 Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) teams play in person at least once. This tells our story! Among them, you’ll pry into collegiate lore regarding the likes of Willie Gault, Dan Marino, Randy Moss, Eli Manning, Ezekial Elliot, Joe Burrow, Lamar Jackson and many more.
Read the reviews on the book page and get your copy today. If you’re trying to follow NILs and transfer portals, read what we predicted in 2023 and more. You’ll see we know what we’re talking about. In addition, we offered solutions to issues occurring that we anticipated when we wrote this book. Get it, enjoy it, and read about the many great memories captured. Maybe these will bring back some of the same memories you encountered when we did!
