Jaelen Strong Season 2012

Strong's career statistics

Overview

• Strong added to the breakout campaign in his first season as a Sun Devil with an even better second year.
• His size, strength, and soft hands combined with the ability to control his body made him one of the most dominant wide receivers in the country.
• With each jaw-dropping grab, Strong garnered national attention.
• Strong elected to forgo his senior season at Arizona State to enter the 2015 NFL Draft. 

Redshirt Junior (2014) 

• Tallied four All-American Awards, including Sporting News All-American (Second team), Sports Illustrated All-American (Second Team), CBS Sports All-American (Second Team) and ESPN.com All-American

• Named to the Phil Steele All-Pac-12 (First Team) and Phil Steele All-American (Third Team)

• Named a Biletnikoff Award Semifinalist

• Recorded 82 receptions this season, good for third in the Arizona State record books for a single-season effort.
• His 1,165 yards receiving this year place him fifth for single-season yardage marks as a Sun Devil.
• Strong recorded 157 catches over the span of his two years at ASU, which ranks him fifth in that category. 
• Finished with 10 touchdowns in 2024.

• Had a breakout first year as a Sun Devil, recording 75 receptions for 1,122 yards and seven touchdowns on his way to Second-Team All-Pac-12 Honors.
• Phil Steele First Team All-Pac-12 member.
• Named a preseason candidate for the Biletnikoff Award (nation’s most outstanding receiver) and the Maxwell Award (America's College Player of the Year) Watch Lists. 
• Led ASU in receiving yards while becoming the John Jefferson Outstanding Receiver Award winner.
• Announced to College Football News Second Team Sophomore All-America.
• Had five consecutive 100+ yard games in his first six starts.
• Became the first wide receiver in ASU history to accomplish more than one 100+ yard game in his first four starts, doing so three times in that span.
• Finished with seven 100+ yard receiving games on the season.
• Sits in fifth on ASU’s all-time single-season receptions list after just 14 games … Had a total of 47 receptions resulting in a first down.
• Accounted for 29 explosive plays (receptions over 16 yards and rushes over 12 yards), second-highest on the team.
• Aided the offense to score 91.3 percent of the time against FBS opponents in the red zone, sixth nationally.
• Part of a historic ASU offense that finished 10th nationally at 39.7 points per game and scored 556 total points, just six points behind the 1972 school record.
• Had his seventh 100+ yard receiving game of the season against Arizona (11/30) with four receptions for 142 yards and a touchdown.
• Had his sixth 100+ yard game against Oregon State (11/16), logging seven catches for 106 yards.
• Needed just three catches against Colorado (10/12) to eclipse 100 yards, finishing with 109 in the game with a touchdown.
• Had eight grabs for 136 yards and a touchdown against Notre Dame (10/5).
• Had 12 receptions and 168 yards, both career-highs, against Stanford (9/21) and his 168 yards receiving were the fifth-most in a single game in the Pac-12 Conference this season.
• Led team in receiving yards with 104 in his second career appearance for ASU against Wisconsin (9/14).
• Led the team in receiving in his first career action with six receptions for 58 yards and a touchdown against Sacramento State.
• His 24-yard touchdown grab came with a defender draped over his back as pass interference was being called.

Pierce College

• One of the nation’s most productive junior college wide receivers.
• Regarded as a four-star prospect by ESPN.
• Rated by ESPN as the No. 15 overall junior college prospect in the country and the nation’s No. 5 junior college wide receiver recruit.
• Listed by Rivals.com as the No. 49 overall junior college prospect in the country and the nation’s No. 8 wide receiver recruit.
• Caught 67 passes for 1,263 yards with 15 touchdowns in 10 games in 2012.
• Joins junior college teammate Joseph Morris as members of ASU's 2013 class.
• Sat out in 2011 and will have four years to play three at ASU starting in 2013.
• Chose ASU over reported scholarship offers from Arizona, Cincinnati, Illinois, Kansas, Miami, Mississippi, Mississippi State, Nebraska, North Carolina State, Oregon State, Purdue, South Carolina and Texas Tech.
• Coached by Efrain Martinez at Pierce College.
• Verbally committed to ASU on Christmas Day 2012.

High School

• Graduated from West Philadelphia (Pa.) Catholic High School in 2011 and had scholarship offers from Eastern Michigan, Villanova and VMI before opting to attend Pierce College.
• Had team-highs of 17 receptions for 318 yards and four touchdowns as a senior.
• Had a season-high 109 yards on three receptions with two touchdowns against Philadelphia (Pa.) Archbishop Ryan on Oct. 2, 2010.
• Caught 24 passes for 385 yards with four touchdowns as a junior in 2009.
• Posted season-bests of five receptions for 92 yards with a touchdown against Wyndmoor (Pa.) La Salle College High School on Sept. 18, 2009.
• Coached by Brian Fluck at West Catholic.