{"id":122870,"date":"2020-07-16T13:04:17","date_gmt":"2020-07-16T23:04:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=122870"},"modified":"2020-07-16T13:04:17","modified_gmt":"2020-07-16T23:04:17","slug":"biletnikoff-award-candidate-smart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2020\/07\/16\/biletnikoff-award-candidate-smart\/","title":{"rendered":"Football standout named to national award watch list"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/manoa-athletics-biletnikoff-smart.jpg\" alt=\"Jared Smart Biletnikoff Banner\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-122832\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/manoa-athletics-biletnikoff-smart.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/manoa-athletics-biletnikoff-smart-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/manoa-athletics-biletnikoff-smart-130x73.jpg 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/hawaiiathletics.com\/index.aspx\">University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> at M\u0101noa<\/a> football player was recently named to a watch list of 55 preseason candidates for the <a href=\"https:\/\/biletnikoffaward.com\/the-tallahassee-quarterback-club-foundation-the-creator-and-sponsor-of-the-biletnikoff-award-recognizing-the-college-football-seasons-outstanding-fbs-receiver-regardless-of-position-announces-the-2\">national Biletnikoff Award<\/a> which annually recognizes college football\u2019s most outstanding receiver. The award is sponsored by the Tallahassee Quarterback Club Foundation.<\/p>\n<p>Wide receiver <strong>Jared Smart<\/strong> was one of just four players on the roster to start every game and finished second on the team in receptions (87) and receiving yards (1,129) in 2019. He led the team with five 100-yard receiving games and ranked fifth in the Mountain West in both receptions and receiving yards per game. Smart was one of 16 players in program history to reach the 1,000-yard receiving mark in a season.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/biletnikoffaward.com\/2020-biletnikoff-award-watch-list\">View the 2020 Biletnikoff Award Watch List<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The semifinalists, finalists and award recipient are selected by the Biletnikoff Award National Selection Committee, a group of prominent college football journalists, commentators, announcers, Biletnikoff Award winners and other former receivers. The award will be presented at the Biletnikoff Award Banquet in March 2021.<\/p>\n<p>The award is named after Fred Biletnikoff, a member of the pro and college football halls of fame, who was a consensus All-America receiver at Florida State University and an All-Pro receiver for the Oakland Raiders. Biletnikoff was the Most Valuable Player of Super Bowl <abbr title=\"Roman Numeral Eleven\">XI<\/abbr>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hawaiiathletics.com\/news\/2020\/7\/16\/football-smart-among-nations-best-receiver-candidates.aspx\">For more details, visit the <abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa Athletics website.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wide receiver Jared Smart was among 55 preseason candidates for the national Biletnikoff Award which annually recognizes college football\u2019s outstanding receiver.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1362],"tags":[83,660,714,9,550],"class_list":["post-122870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics","tag-football","tag-student-recognition","tag-student-athlete","tag-uh-manoa","tag-manoa-athletics","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122870"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122870\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":122893,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122870\/revisions\/122893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}