Football
Tylan Wallace Joins 1,000-Yard Receiver Club in Defeat
The true sophomore got to 1K and has plenty of history left to accomplish.
Coming into the 2018 season there had been 15 seasons of 1,000 receiving yards or more in the 105-year history of Oklahoma State football. You are familiar with all the names, and the list got one bigger on Saturday.
- Justin Blackmon
- Rashaun Woods
- James Washington
- Dez Bryant
- Hart Lee Dykes
- Josh Stewart
- Adarius Bowman
- Marcell Ateman
All of them pros. And now Tylan Wallace has joined them. With his eight catches for 122 yards, Wallace now sits at 1,062 on the season, which is the 13th best season in school history. He still has three (and maybe four) games left. If he continues at this clip, he’ll … gulp … challenge for the third or fourth best season in OSU history.
Rank | Player | Season | Yards |
---|---|---|---|
1 | Blackmon | 2010 | 1782 |
2 | Woods | 2002 | 1695 |
3 | Washington | 2017 | 1549 |
4 | Blackmon | 2011 | 1522 |
5 | Dez | 2008 | 1480 |
6 | Dykes | 1988 | 1441 |
7 | Washington | 2016 | 1380 |
8 | Woods | 2003 | 1367 |
9 | Stewart | 2012 | 1210 |
10 | Bowman | 2006 | 1181 |
11 | Ateman | 2017 | 1156 |
12 | Washington | 2015 | 1087 |
13 | Wallace | 2018 | 1062 |
14 | Dykes | 1987 | 1050 |
15 | Woods | 2001 | 1023 |
16 | Bowman | 2007 | 1006 |
“That’s a big thing for me,” said Wallace of passing the 1,000-yard mark. “That’s one of my goals I probably had for this year was get at least 1,000 yards. I have to keep it going. We still have more games to play so I want to keep it rolling.”
Wallace has done it mostly with consistency. He has six games with 100 or more yards (including a 222-yard showing against UT), and he’s only finished with fewer than 80 yards in a game one time.
On Saturday he did it myriad ways. He took swing passes. He went deep. He hit on slants. He even threw a pass.
“I feel like [coach is] looking at different plays to draw up for us individually,” said Wallace after the game. “Throughout the season he’s been seeing what people are able to do and comes up with different plays for us.”
It’s been overshadowed by too many losses, but Wallace has been one of the brightest spots in an otherwise dim season for the Pokes. He has been their go-to guy all season, and he’s done it all with everyone knowing he’s their go-to guy (Wallace leads the Big 12 in targets).
A true sophomore with two full seasons left, he said the game has started slowing down for him. For somebody who’s on pace to challenge Justin Blackmon and James Washington in the record book, that’s a scary proposition for the rest of the Big 12.
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