After serving as interim wide receivers coach in 2024, James Price is elevated to overseeing the Wolf Pack wideouts full-time for the 2025 season. Price, plenty familiar with the Mountain West as a Wyoming wide receiver from 2015-18, previously worked with wide receivers at IMG Academy from 2019-21 and was an offensive graduate assistant at Kansas in 2022.
Price joined the Nevada staff in 2024 after serving the 2023 season as Director of Player Personnel at Montana State.
Last year, Price helped in the development of Wolf Pack receivers, especially in All-Mountain West seasons for Jaden Smith (62 receptions, 849 yards, seven TDs) and Cortez Braham Jr. (57 receptions, 724 yards, four TDs).
Along with the standout years from Smith and Braham, Price’s development work with Nevada’s up-and-coming wideouts was invaluable. UTEP transfer Marcus Bellon had a career year, hauling in 39 passes for 522 yards and four touchdowns, while Nate Burleson II made the first touchdown catch of his career and fellow redshirt freshman Marshaun Brown saw more time late in the season, making five catches for 62 yards, a 12.4-yards-per-catch clip.
Thanks in part to Price’s mentorship, Nevada’s receiving corps produced three members with at least 500 receiving yards for the first time since 2021, when it had four.
Prior to his season in Bozeman, Price, a standout wide receiver for Wyoming from 2015-18, worked with wide receivers at IMG Academy from 2019-21, then served as an offensive graduate assistant at Kansas in 2022.
With Montana State, Price assisted in all areas of recruiting and operations, as well as serving as an offensive analyst, assisting with the Bobcats’ gameplanning.
During his season at Kansas, Price helped the Jayhawks improve from two wins in 2021 to a six-win campaign. Kansas would reach its first bowl game since 2008, earning a trip to the Liberty Bowl where the Jayhawks faced Arkansas.
From 2019-21, Price oversaw receivers and tight ends for the IMG Academy’s varsity team. There, players under Price’s tutelage set the program’s career records for receptions, yards, and touchdowns, as well as single-season records for catches and touchdown receptions.
During his career at Wyoming, Price caught 66 passes for 905 yards and three touchdowns, averaging 13.7 yards per reception. He caught a combined 46 passes over his sophomore and junior seasons (2016-17), as the Cowboys reached a bowl game in each campaign, highlighted by a victory over Central Michigan in the 2017 Famous Idaho Potato Bowl.
