UW Hall of Famer Jovon Bouknight Joining Cowboy Football Staff

LAS VEGAS, Nev., -- Jovon Bouknight is coming home.

The former Wyoming standout will join Jay Sawvel's staff in Laramie this fall, serving as an offensive analyst and assisting with the wide receiver room.

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Bouknight, who capped his Hall of Fame playing career at UW with 250 catches for 3,626 yards and 29 touchdowns, was most recently the passing-game coordinator and wide receivers coach at Marshall.

"I think anytime an opportunity presents itself where you can go back to your alma mater and work with a great administrative/ coaching staff will be an amazing experience," Bouknight said. "The University of Wyoming has blessed me with so many memories and opportunities in life that I will forever be grateful.”

Sawvel said Bouknight will start with the program July 22. Fall training camp is scheduled to begin July 31.

The Division-I Council in June removed the cap on the number of coaches a school can employ. That ruling now allows analysts and quality control personnel to coach players on the field and in practice.

“The landscape has changed in college football,” former Wyoming head coach Craig Bohl, who is now executive director of the American Football Coaches Association and sits on the Football Bowl Subdivision oversight committee, told The Athletic. “The competitive equity has changed.”

Bouknight, a Denver product, began his coaching career in Laramie, joining Joe Glenn's staff as a graduate assistant. A year later he landed at Utah State where he was an offensive coach for 10 seasons. He then followed former Aggies head coach Matt Wells to Texas Tech and eventually Oregon before joining Mark Stoops at the University of Kentucky.

Bouknight was a 2005 Biletnikoff Trophy finalist and is still the leader in all-purpose yards (5,921) and second in receptions (259) in Wyoming history. Only Marcus Harris (4,518) and Ryan Yarborough (4,446) finished with more receiving yards. Bougknight concluded his career ranked 20th all-time in NCAA history for both career receiving yards and receptions. He's also second all-time in Mountain West history in each of those two categories.

University of Wyoming’s Top 50 Football Players

During the summer of 2021, 7220Sports.com counted down the Top 50 football players in University of Wyoming history, presented by Premier Bone & Joint Centers, Worthy of Wyoming.

The rules are simple: What was the player's impact while in Laramie? That means NFL stats, draft status or any other accolade earned outside of UW is irrelevant when it comes to this list.

This isn't a one-man job. This task called for a panel of experts. Joining 7220's Cody Tucker are Robert Gagliardi, Jared Newland, Ryan Thorburn, and Kevin McKinney.

We all compiled our own list of 50 and let computer averages do the work. Think BCS -- only we hope this catalog is fairer.

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- University of Wyoming’s Top 50 Football Players