Courtesy of Utah State
LOGAN, Utah – Former Utah State football player Jalen Royals will be playing in the 2025 Reese’s Senior Bowl in Mobile, Alabama, on Saturday, Feb. 1, at 12:30 p.m. (MT). The game will be televised live on the NFL Network.
Royals, who is the only Mountain West player on either roster for this year’s game, is the 23rd Aggie to play in the Senior Bowl and first since Jordan Love in 2019.
Royals is a member of the American team that is coached by Cleveland Browns assistant head coach Bubba Ventrone. The American squad will wear orange jerseys.
Royals, a 6-foot, 205-pound 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. He was named a College Football Network Third Team All-American and All-Mountain West First Team selection in 2023 and earned Second Team All-MW honors in 2024.
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.
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 tied for fifth all-time in 100-yard receiving games with eight. Royals 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 was just the 13th player in school history to record 1,000 receiving yards in a season. 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.
About the Reese’s Senior Bowl
The Reese’s Senior Bowl is widely regarded as the preeminent college football all-star game and the first stage in the NFL Draft process. The longest continual-running all-star game has taken place in Mobile the past 76 years. More than 900 NFL personnel, including key decision-makers from all 32 teams, and over 1100 media members from around the country were credentialed this year.
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