Boise State Athletics

2023 Football Roster

Bowens, Billy Action at Wyoming 2022
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Billy Bowens HS
Jersey Number 18

Billy Bowens

  • Position:
    Wide Receiver
  • Hometown:
    Redlands, Calif.
  • Height:
    6-1
  • High School:
    Redlands East Valley HS
  • Weight:
    200
  • Class:
    Sixth Year
  • NIL Exchange:
    Billy Bowens
  • Major:
    Undeclared
CAREER HONORS
  • 2x National Football Foundation Hampshire Honor Society (2022-23, 2023-24)
  • 4x Academic All-Mountain West (Fall 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023)
 
SIXTH YEAR (2023)
Honors: National Football Foundation Hampshire Honor Society...Academic All-Mountain West.
Top Highlights: Appeared in all 14 games, making 11 starts…caught three passes for 89 yards at Memphis, including a season-long 52-yard reception (Sept. 30)…tallied three receptions for 40 yards and a touchdown at Fresno State (Nov. 4)…registered a season-high four catches for 91 yards in the MW Championship victory over UNLV (Dec. 2).
 
RS SENIOR (2022)
Honors: National Football Foundation Hampshire Honor Society...Academic All-Mountain West.
Top Highlights: Started 10 of the 13 games in which he appeared…registered 462 yards receiving on 32 receptions, marks that ranked second among Bronco receivers, and hauled in four touchdown passes…amassed a career-high 73 yards receiving at Wyoming (Nov. 19).
 
RS JUNIOR (2021)
Honors: Academic All-Mountain West.
Top Highlights: Appeared in 11 games, making two starts…recorded 140 yards receiving on 12 catches.
 
RS SOPHOMORE (2020)
Honors: Academic All-Mountain West.
Top Highlights: Appeared in six games...made his first-collegiate catch at Hawai'i, going for six yards (Nov. 21).
 
RS FRESHMAN (2019)
Top Highlights: Appeared in one game, playing against Portland State (Sept. 14).
 
FRESHMAN (2018)
Top Highlights: Appeared in three games, making one start (Oct. 19 vs. Colorado State).

HIGH SCHOOL CAREER
Three-star recruit according to 247sports and Scout (two-star Rivals)...as a senior in 2017, played in 10 games making 41 receptions for 896 total yards and 10 touchdowns...was also explosive as a kick returner, collecting 311 yards on kick returns through 10 games, finishing with 1,255 all-purpose yards and had one touchdown on a punt return, another on a kick return...as a junior in 2016 tallied an impressive 18 touchdowns in 12 games on 56 total receptions for 1,123 total yards (93.6 per game) and tallied 128 kick return yards for a total of 1,256 all-purpose yards...was named to the 2016 All-CIF Southern Section Div. 2 Offensive Team...Was named to the All-Citrus Belt League Offensive Team in 2016.
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