Courtesy of Utah State
LOGAN, Utah – Utah State’s Jalen Royals has been invited to play in the 2025 East-West Shrine Bowl it was announced on Thursday.
Royals is the 34th Aggie dating back to 1937 invited to play in the 100th East-West Shrine Bowl, which will be held on Thursday, Jan. 30, 2025. The game, which will be broadcast live on the NFL Network, will be played at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas, and kick off at 6 p.m. (MT).
Royals, a 6-foot, 205-pound senior wide receiver from Powder Springs, Ga. (Hillgrove HS/Georgia Military College) spent three seasons at Utah State (2022-24) and appeared in 32 games with 21 starts.
Royals started each of the first seven games this season before suffering a season-ending injury. During those seven games, Royals caught 55 passes for 834 yards with six touchdowns, which included four 100-yard receiving games. He also returned nine kickoffs for 184 yards.
Royals currently ranks second in the Mountain West and fourth in the nation in receiving (119.1 ypg), second in the MW and seventh in the nation in receptions (7.9 pg), second in the MW and seventh in the nation in all-purpose yards (145.9 ypg), third in the MW and 19th in the nation in receiving touchdowns with six (0.86 pg), third in the MW and 33rd in the nation in kickoff returns (20.4 ypr), and eighth in the MW in yards per reception (15.16).
For his career, Royals caught 126 passes for 1,914 yards and 21 touchdowns. He ranks tied for third all-time in school history in touchdown receptions, 12th all-time in receiving yards, 16th all-time in receptions, and fifth all-time in 100-yard receiving games with eight. Royals also had nine touchdown receptions of 50-plus yards in his career and had a touchdown catch in 13 of his last 16 games.
During the 2023 season, Royals started all 13 games and had 71 receptions for 1,080 yards and a school-record 15 touchdowns as he is just the 13th player in school history to record 1,000 receiving yards in a season. Overall, his 1,080 receiving yards are the 10th-most in a single season in school history, while his 71 receptions are tied for the 10th most and his 15 total touchdowns are tied for the eighth-most. He also led the nation with seven touchdown receptions of 50-plus yards.
Overall, Royals is the 23rd player in school history to post 100 career receptions, the 40th to have 1,000 career receiving yards and the fifth to have 20 career touchdown receptions.
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