Editor's note: With the 2020 Nevada football season delayed, NevadaWolfPack.com is taking a look at the Wolf Pack program on a position-by-position basis this fall. This week's focus: receivers and tight ends.
 
It's a statistic that certainly deserves clarification, but it's a statistic nonetheless. The Nevada football team has produced a 1,000-yard receiver 20 times in its history but only five of those have come in the 21^st century after producing 12 such seasons during the 1990s alone.
 
Now, the 1990s featured the pass-happy aerial assault "Air Wolf" offense that shattered passing and receiving records left and right, while the Wolf Pack's ascension into the WAC and then the Mountain West Conference was marked by the vaunted Pistol offense scheme, that was led by a wildly efficient ground game. So the statistic is a bit misleading, but this fact remains true: Nevada has not had a 1,000-yard receiver since Rishard Matthews in 2011.
 
Heading into the 2020 season, it was certainly possible that the Wolf Pack could produce not one, but two 1,000-yard receivers this season, considering the rising productivity of senior Elijah Cooks and junior Romeo Doubs over the past two seasons. But with a reduced schedule in 2020, it would require a tremendous season to notch a 1,000 yards this year.
 
Then again, anything is possible.
 
Coming off a breakout 2018 campaign, Cooks was even better in 2019. He led the Pack with 76 receptions, 926 yards and eight TDs while earning the Wolf Pack's Outstanding Offensive Player Award. His 12.2 receptions per game were tied for fourth in the conference and his 71.2 receiving yards per game ranked seventh.
 
And as good as Cooks was, Romeo Doubs was often at the same level last year before a shoulder injury suffered at Fresno State sidelined him for the rest of the season, Doubs earned the team's Golden Helmet Award as the MVP and All-Mountain West Honorable Mention by hauling in 44 passes for 649 yards and four touchdowns in just 10 games.
 
Big things are expected from the duo as football returns in October, but that doesn't mean they won't have help. A host of young players stand poised to make their mark, including sophomores Justin Lockhart and Melquan Stovall, redshirt freshman Charles Ross, and true freshmen Isaac Jernagin, Tory Horton and Jamaal Bell.
 
Inside, the Wolf Pack has no fewer than four tight ends with good experience, including 2018 Arizona Bowl hero Reagan Roberson, and converted wide receiver Cole Turner. Junior Crishaun Lappin and talented sophomore Henry Ikahihifo round out the group.