UConn star wide receiver Skyler Bell was named a second-team Walter Camp All-American on Friday night.
The redshirt senior from the Bronx was one of 27 players selected to the second team. Twenty-five players made the first team. The Walter Camp team is the nation’s oldest college football All-America team, in its 136th year.
Bell became the fourth UConn player since the program moved to FBS in 2003 to earn All-American honors, joining former offensive lineman Christian Hayes (2022 & 2023) and running backs Jordan Todman (2010) and Donald Brown (2008).
He finished the season with 101 catches for 1,278 yards and 13 touchdowns, setting new school records for receptions and TDs. He averaged 12.7 yards per catch and 106.5 yards per game. He ranks second in the NCAA in receptions, yards, TDs, catches per game and yards per game. He led the country with seven 100-yard games this season.
Bell was also a finalist for the Biletnikoff Award and has been invited to this year’s Panini Senior Bowl and East-West Shrine Bowl. He is the 19th Husky in program history to earn an invitation to the Senior Bowl and the first UConn skill player since 2005 (Dan Orlovsky) to do so.
UConn has had 18 players earn first or second team All-American status dating back to 1955 and Bell is fifth wide receiver in program history to earn the honor, joining Carl Bond (1997), Mark Didio (1990 & 1991), Glen Antrum (1988), and Reggie Eccleston (1980).
Over the program’s history 36 players have been honored with All-American first, second team or honorable mention honors.