Brandon Johnson Season 2021

R-SENIOR (2021)
• Appeared in all 13 games, starting 12 times at wide receiver
• Led the team, ranked second in the conference, and 16th in the nation with 11 touchdown receptions, tied for the eighth most in a single season at UCF
• Second on the team with 38 receptions and 565 receiving yards, averaging 14.9 yards per catch and 43.5 yards per game
• Had a touchdown reception in 10 out of 13 games
• Earned second-team all-conference honors from Pro Football Network
• Boise State (9/2): Caught five passes for 47 yards and an 11-yard touchdown reception
• Bethune-Cookman (9/11): Had seven catches for 81 yards, including a 22-yard score
• at Louisville (9/17): Hauled in three catches for 23 yards and a 6-yard touchdown reception
• at Navy (10/2): Had 15-yard and a 23-yard touchdown receptions, finishing with four catches for 79 yards
• at Cincinnati (10/16): Had one catch, a 16-yard touchdown
• Memphis (10/22): Hauled in three catches for 25 yards, including an 11-yard touchdown reception
• at Temple (10/30): Had an 18-yard touchdown catch, totaling three receptions for 43 yards
• Tulane (11/6): Had two catches for 73 yards, a 50-yard reception and a 23-yard touchdown reception
• UConn (11/20): Matched a career high with seven receptions and set a new career best with 125 receiving yards, adding 49-yard touchdown
• South Florida (11/26): Caught one pass, a 7-yard touchdown
• Earned preseason third-team All-AAC honors from Phil Steele
• Invited to and played in the NFLPA Bowl

PRIOR TO UCF
• Comes to UCF as grad transfer from University of Tennessee
• Veteran collegiate receiver with 79 receptions for 969 yards and one score over 46 career games, including 15 starts and two career 100-yard games
• Made seven appearances as redshirt senior in 2020
• Had four catches for 40 yards vs. #6 Florida and was leading Tennessee receiver with four catches for 37 yards vs. Kentucky
• Redshirted in 2019 after playing in first four games
• Scooped up football ball after punt block to score 24-yard touchdown vs. Chattanooga in 2019
• Played in all 12 games as junior in 2018, making two starts and finishing with 14 catches for 132 yards
• Hauled in four catches for 51 yards in win over UTEP
• Named to Sept. 19 PFF College SEC Offensive Team of the Week
• Appeared in 12 games as sophomore in 2017 with seven starts, leading Vols with 482 receiving yards and tied for the team lead in receptions with 37
• Caught six passes for 107 yards against Vanderbilt 
• Set career high with seven catches for 123 yards, including 66-yard catch and run in win over UMass
• Recorded first career touchdown catch against Indiana State
• Played in nine games as freshman in 2016, recording season highs with four receptions for 64 yards against Tennessee Tech and making one catch each vs. Texas A&M and Missouri
• Had 20 receptions for 237 yards, scoring three TDs as prep senior in 2015 at American Heritage High School in Plantation, Florida
• Totaled 19 catches for 430 yards and seven TDs as junior in 2014   
• Recipient of Emerson Process Management Athletic Endowment and Jason Dwight Bailey Athletic Memorial Scholarship at Tennessee

PERSONAL
• Majoring in sociology
• Father, Charles, played with Florida Marlins (1994-1998, 2001-2002), Los Angeles Dodgers (1998), Baltimore Orioles (1999-2000), Chicago White Sox (2000), Colorado Rockies (2003-2004), and Tampa Bay Devil Rays (2005), winning four consecutive Gold Glove Awards between 1995 and 1998 and a world championship in 1997 with the Marlins
• Cousins with former All-Pro NFL wide receiver Chad Johnson
• Brother Beau is tight end at Georgia Southern
• Earned undergraduate degree in communication studies at Tennessee in December 2020