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BYU return specialist Keelan Marion stiff arms a Utah defender on his way to a 96-yard kickoff return for a touchdown in the Cougars' 22-21 win over Utah at Rice-Eccles Stadium on November 9, 2024.
Keelan Marion
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Keelan Marion Season 2024

PositionWide Receiver
Weight195 lbs
Height6-0
ClassRS-Junior
HometownAtlanta, Georgia
Previous SchoolUConn

BYU Highlights

  • First Team All-American return specialist (Walter Camp, FWAA, Pro Football Focus, CBS Sports, Phil Steele; 2024)
  • Second Team All-American return specialist (Sporting News, College Football Network; 2024)
  • Big 12 Kick Returner of the Year (College Football Network, 2024)
  • All-Big 12 First Team return specialist (College Football Network, Phil Steele; 2024)
  • All-Big 12 Second Team return specialist (Big 12 Coaches, 2024)
  • Second Team All-Big 12 all-purpose performer (AP, 2024)
  • BYU's first kickoff return specialist with two touchdowns in a season (2024) since Stacey Corley (1989)

Personal

  • Parents are Kevin & Nicole
  • Major: Geography
  • Father, Kevin, played at Stanford
  • Considers himself the best basketball player on the team

Before BYU

  • UConn transfer
  • Played at UConn from 2020-22
  • Collegiate career-long 63-yard reception (UConn, 2021)
  • In 2021, Marion started all 12 games for the Huskies as a redshirt freshman receiver, leading the team in receiving yards with 474 on 28 catches and five touchdowns
  • Appeared in four regular-season games due to injury during his 2022 campaign, averaging 22.3 yards per catch on four receptions
  • Played for head coach Christian Hunnicutt at Grayson High School in Loganville, Georgia
  • He also played one season at Palmetto Prep in Columbia, South Carolina in 2019
  • Lettered in basketball and served as a team captain while at Palmetto Prep.
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Sophomore
2023

Wide Receiver
6-0 / 200 lbs