DURHAM, North Carolina - Saturday’s N.C. Central-Elon matchup this weekend has the principals necessary for a tale of two receivers. NCCU’s cast features redshirt senior Geovonie Irvine (5-7, 161), a dynamic, albeit diminutive, playmaker out of Hillside High School.
Ranked fourth all-time among NCCU receivers with 144 career catches and sixth with 1,999 receiving yards, Irvine had six grabs for 79 yards Saturday in a 54-31 season-opening win against Fayetteville State.
That included a 20-yard reception from NCCU quarterback Matt Goggans and a punt return for a touchdown. Irvine is small but played big enough to show up on Elon’s radar. “He made some plays this past Saturday,” Elon coach Jason Swepson said of Irvine.
Elon quarterback Thomas Wilson has a bigger target in senior receiver Aaron Mellette (6-4, 220), a Sanford native who topped the Football Championship Subdivision in receiving yards last year with 1,639 — 149 a game.
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