TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - The Biletnikoff Award annually recognizes the college football season's outstanding FBS receiver. Any player, regardless of position (wide receiver, tight end, slot back, and running back) who catches a pass is eligible for the award. As such, the Biletnikoff Award recognizes college football's outstanding receiver, not merely college football's outstanding wide receiver.

Ball State’s Jayshon Jackson, Kent State’s Dante Cephas, Eastern Michigan’s Hassan Beydoun, and Northern Illinois’s Trayvon Rudolph represent the Mid-American Conference on the 2022 Biletnikoff Watch List.
 
In his first season in Muncie, Jackson made a huge impact on the Cardinals' offense after emerging as the team's top target. The senior hauled in 69 receptions for 829 yards - both team-highs - and recorded five touchdown catches.
 
Cephas finished the season with 82 catches for 1,240 yards, becoming the first Kent State wide receiver to top 1,000 yards since 1997. Cephas also finished with seven 100-yard games and nine receiving touchdowns. His receptions, yards and touchdowns were all top-three in the Mid-American Conference. He was named first-team all-conference for his stellar 2021 season.

Williams has made an immediate impact since joining the Bulls prior to the 2021 campaign. He had a team-best 64 receptions for 835 yards and two touchdowns last season, his first with the Bulls. His 64 catches tied for eighth in program history for a single season.
 
Selected to both the Athlon Sports and Phil Steele as a Preseason First Team All-MAC selection in 2022, Beydoun is coming off a historic 2021 campaign that saw him collect Second Team All-MAC honors. He set the EMU record for receptions in a season and led the MAC with 97 grabs, as he racked up 1,015 yards through the air. Beydoun's 2021 tally ranks fourth in the Eastern Michigan record book, while he also became EMU's first 1,000-yard wide out since 2004. 
 
Rudolph led NIU in 2021 with 51 receptions, 892 receiving yards and seven touchdowns. He set a new NIU and Mid-American Conference single-game record for receiving yards with 309 at Kent State on Nov. 3, 2021 on 14 catches, adding three touchdowns. Rudolph also averaged 25.1 yards per kick return, scoring on a 100-yard kickoff return against Bowling Green. He was an All-MAC selection as both a receiver and returner in 2021.
 
The semifinalists, finalists, and award recipient are selected by the highly distinguished Biletnikoff Award National Selection Committee, a group of 640 prominent college football journalists, commentators, announcers, Biletnikoff Award winners, and other former receivers.