Boston College is betting that Jaedn Skeete’s next chapter looks a lot different from the first few.
The former Catholic Memorial standout has dealt with injuries for most of his college career, which has kept his production well short of the numbers that Zay Flowers and Lewis Bond piled up in recent seasons. Flowers owns the program’s career marks for receiving yards with 3,056 and touchdown catches with 29, while Bond finished with 213 receptions, passing Flowers for the career catches record by 13. That’s the standard in the BC receiver room now, and it’s a steep one.
Still, the Eagles are counting on Skeete to help carry that group. The 6-foot-2, 200-pound redshirt junior has yet to put together a full season, but wide receivers coach Joe Dailey made it clear Thursday that Skeete has earned the right to carve out his own place.
“I’d like to say, maybe not step into the same shoes as Zay and Lewis. I’d maybe say it’s his turn to put on a pair of shoes that belong to him, and maybe leave his legacy here, put his stamp on that position group along with the other guys that we have here,” BC wide receivers coach Joe Dailey told reporters Thursday.
Skeete has shown flashes when healthy. His best season for catches came in 2024, when he had 18 receptions in eight games before a season-ending injury shut him down. A shoulder injury also derailed last season, though he did manage three touchdown catches in four games and had one of his best outings against Notre Dame, finishing with eight catches for 73 yards before the injury ended his year.
“Certainly a guy who’s a returning starter, veteran football player for us. He has been a leader for that group because he’s played the most football in that room,” Dailey said.
“So, it’s been very comforting knowing that there’s a guy that’s had to do it on a day-to-day basis for the last three years, going into his fourth. Guys have an example of what it’s supposed to be like.
… I’m excited about his progress and where he’s going to potentially be at the end of the season.”
BC isn’t asking Skeete to do it alone, either. The Eagles went after the transfer portal hard at receiver, adding Reed Swanson from Colgate, JaVaris Green from North Carolina, Jackson Wade from Florida and Landon Wright from Washington State to reshape the room.
Swanson brings the most obvious production résumé of the group. The 6-foot-6, 205-pound receiver posted 78 catches for 1,171 yards and 12 touchdowns in 23 career games at Colgate, and Dailey said he has “unlimited potential” as he adjusts to a higher level. Green, Wade and Wright arrived from bigger programs but had limited production there, while the additions as a whole changed the look of the position group.
“Brought those four guys in that can do a lot of different things and it’s changed the complexion of the entire room,” Dailey said. “We’re a faster team now, at least in the position group for certain. We have more length and there’s more diversity with everything that we have going on.”
On the other side of the ball, BC’s secondary is already getting some preseason recognition.
Safety KP Price and cornerback Max Tucker were both named Thursday to the Senior Bowl Top 300 Watch List. Price, one of the Eagles’ top players, also landed on the All-ACC preseason team as BC’s only honoree. He has started the last 25 games, piling up 179 tackles, nine pass breakups, four interceptions and a fumble recovery.
Tucker, a Hyde Park native and Catholic Memorial product like Skeete, has made 20 starts for the Eagles and has three interceptions over the last two seasons.
Liberty transfer Evan Dickens also picked up a watch-list nod, landing on the Doak Walker Award Watch List. The redshirt junior ran for 1,339 yards and 16 touchdowns last season, ranking fifth and fourth nationally in those categories. Before Liberty, Dickens spent two seasons at Georgia Tech.
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