WIDE RECEIVERS
Lettermen Returning (4): Jovon Durante (Jr.), Gary Jennings (Jr.), Marcus Simms (So.), Ka’Raun White (r-Sr.) Non-Lettermen Returning (7): Seth Aungst (r-Fr.), Dru Bowen (r-Fr.), Mitch Chugunov (r-Fr.), Jamicah Hopkins (Fr.), Alex Marenco (r-Sr.), Ricky Rogers (r-Jr.), Connor Watts (r-Fr.) Lettermen Lost (3): Shelton Gibson, Devonte Mathis, Daikiel Shorts Jr. Additions (2): Dominique Maiden (Jr.), David Sills V (Jr.) Starts Returning: Durante (8), Jennings (1), Sills V (1), White (11) Starts Lost: Gibson (13), Shorts (13), Mathis (1) • Gibson’s production will have to be replaced as he declared early for the NFL draft … he was No. 4 nationally in yards per reception (22.1) and No. 43 in all-purpose yards (124.1) … led WVU in receiving with 951 yards on 43 catches and eight touchdowns MOUNTAINEER FOO TB ALL
• Shorts Jr. also will have to be replaced … he led the receiving corps with 63 catches for 894 yards and five touchdowns
• White (6-1, 197) was the Mountaineers’ second-leading receiver with 48 catches for 583 yards and five touchdowns … he missed the final two games of the 2016 season after breaking a bone in his leg … he finished the season tied for No. 14 in the Big 12 in receptions per game, No. 15 in receiving touchdowns, No. 16 in receiving yards per game and No. 18 in total receiving yards • Durante (5-11, 164) was WVU’s fourthleading receiver with 35 catches for 331 yards and two touchdowns, and Jennings (6-1, 204) finished with 10 catches for 165 yards and two touchdowns
• Simms (6-0, 178) had six catches for 95 yards and a touchdown
• Maiden (6-5, 203) enrolled in January after finishing with 36 receptions for 480 yards and eight touchdowns in 2016 at Riverside City College
• Sills V (6-3, 201) returns to WVU as a receiver after spending one season as the quarterback at El Camino College in 2016 … As a freshman in 2015, he played receiver at WVU, finishing with seven catches for 131 yards and two touchdowns in seven games … he caught the winning catch on a 15-yard touchdown with 2:19 remaining against Arizona State in the Cactus Bowl
Ka’Raun White
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