July 25, 2007

Rice wide receiver Jarett Dillard, a pre-season All-American and returning Biletnikoff Award finalist, will be featured Wednesday afternoon on a pair of shows on the ESPN family of networks.

Dillard will be a featured guest on Wednesday's edition of "College Football LIVE", hosted by Reece Davis, Bob Griese and Mark May, as part of their series of interviews with "Heisman Hopefuls". The 30-minute show airs from 2:30-3:00 daily on ESPN. Dillard will also tape an interview with ESPN News that will run inside that channel's weekly Houston spotlight later on Wednesday.

In a breakout sophomore season in 2006, Dillard smashed the Rice receiving record book. He caught 91 passes for 1247 yards and 21 touchdowns (all season marks). He set an NCAA record by catching a TD pass in all 13 games and brings an overall streak of 15 consecutive games with a touchdown pass into the season. That streak is the second longest in NCAA history, trailing just the 18-game streak by Larry Fitzgerald of Pittsburgh.

Dillard will join George Chukwu and David Bailiff as the Rice representatives at the annual Conference USA Media Blitz, which will be held in New Orleans on July 30-31. He and the rest of his Owls teammates will report for the start of Fall Camp on Sunday, August 5, and conduct the first of their workouts the following day, leading up to the season opener with Nicholls State on Saturday, September 1.