3 West Virginia Football Records That Might Never Be Broken
By Joshua Petry
3. Tavon Austin's Career Receiving Yards
Recent retired NFL speedster Tavon Austin holds the record for the most career receiving yards at WVU, with his mark sitting at a whopping 3,413 between 2009 and 2013 -- that's an average of 853 yards per season over a four-year stretch. Trivia time -- who was the last Mountaineer to tally more than 853 receiving yards in a season? David Sills V in 2018, who hauled in 65 receptions (5.41 per game) for a total of 986 yards.
We may never see a time like we saw during those magical years when WVU first entered the Big 12. Names like Tavon Austin, Stedman Bailey, and Geno Smith are hard to come by at any school, much less on the same team, and they fit like a glove in Dana Holgorsen's Air Raid offense.
What's even crazier is this was the days before NIL, when players just wanted to play alongside each other to try and bring their schools down that road to glory. Tavon Austin was a generational talent, that played on a once-in-a-lifetime stacked roster that the likes of Morgantown had barely seen. And it's likely his name will be etched in the record books forever due to this mark.