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2024 Football Roster

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Richard Acosta - UTPB Athletics

1 Jeremiah Cooley

  • Position Wide Receiver
  • Height 6-3
  • Weight 215
  • Class Redshirt Senior
  • Hometown Big Spring, Texas
  • Highschool Big Spring

Biography

Awards:
  • 2X Lone Star Conference Receiver of the Year (2023, 2024)
  • 2X First-Team All-Lone Star Conference Offense (WR) (2023, 2024)

2024 (Fifth-Year):
Named to the 2024 LSC Preseason Players to Watch list and the D2Football.com Elite 100 Watch List... Named the LSC Receiver of the Year for the second year in a row... Earned First-Team All-LSC honors for the second year in a row... Played in all 12 games... Led the Falcons receiving corps with 667 receiving yards and eight touchdowns on 49 receptions... Averaged 13.82 yards per catch with 56.42 receiving yards per game... With eight touchdowns, he was third on the team in scoring (48 points)... With 16 combined touchdown receptions over the last two seasons and 19 for his career, Cooley is second in program history in career receiving touchdowns... Led the LSC in receiving touchdowns and receptions, was tied for first in receptions per game (4.1), was fourth in receiving yards, and was fifth in receiving yards per game... In scoring, he was 10th in the conference among non-kickers at 4.0 points per game... In addition, his eight touchdowns were tied for 36th in all of NCAA Division II... Began his senior season with eight catches for 116 yards against Western New Mexico (Sept. 31)... Caught five passes for 89 yards and two touchdowns at CSU-Pueblo (Sept. 7) in the second game of the season, which put him over 1,000 yards receiving in his career (currently at 1,540 career receiving yards) and made him the first of five Falcons to reach that feat this season... Finished with four catches for 106 yards and two touchdowns at Eastern New Mexico (Nov. 9)... Had seven catches for 78 yards and two more touchdowns in the regular-season finale at Sul Ross State (Nov. 16)... In all, Cooley had four touchdowns in UTPB's first three games of the season and had four more in the final two games of the regular season.


2023 (Senior):
Played in 11 games … Caught 26 passes for 522 yards (20.08 ypc) and eight touchdowns … Had a career-high six catches vs. Western Colorado (Sept. 9) … Caught five passes for a career-high 156 yards against West Texas A&M (Sept. 23) … Had a touchdown reception in each of the first four games … Caught two touchdown passes vs. Texas College (Sept. 2) and again vs. Central Washington (Nov. 11) to claim UTPB wins its first-ever Lone Star Conference Championship… Yards per reception was third best in program history … In the LSC, led in touchdown receptions and was fifth in yards per catch … In NCAA Division II, was 28th in touchdown receptions... LSC Receiver of the Year …All-LSC first team.

2019 (First-Year):
Played in 10 games … Had 23 catches for 341 yards (14.82 ypc) and three touchdowns … Had a career-high six catches vs. West Texas A&M (Oct. 12) … Caught five passes for a season-high 100 yards and a touchdown against Eastern New Mexico (Nov. 2).

Big Springs High School:
As a senior helped the Steers win their first playoff game in five years … Had 146 receiving yards and two touchdowns in a 60-13 victory in the annual Myrle Greathouse All-Star Classic.

Personal:
Career, fourth in touchdown receptions (11).

Statistics

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Historical Player Information

  • 88

    2019Freshman

    Wide Receiver
    6'3" 180 lbs
    88
  • 4

    2023Senior

    Wide Receiver
    6'3" 215 lbs
    4
  • 1

    2024Redshirt Senior

    Wide Receiver
    6'3" 215 lbs
    1