Freddie Brown III spent eleven seasons on the staff coaching the wide receivers and was the offensive recruiting coordinator in 2021.
The 2021 fall season saw seven different receivers catch at least one pass, with Alec Holt leading the team with 22 catches for 458 yards and five touchdowns. Holt was the first receiver at Wofford with more than 400 receiving yards since Brenton Bersin in 2011. In the spring of 2021, the leading receiver was Kei’Andre Sanders with nine catches in the five games played. A total of eight different receivers had catches as the passing offense averaged 136.8 yards per game.
During the 2019 season, three players had ten or more catches, led by D’mauriae VanCleave with 23 for 362 yards and three touchdowns and T.J. Luther with 19 for 447 yards and three touchdowns. The team won the Southern Conference Championship for the third straight season and competed in the NCAA FCS Playoffs for the fourth consecutive year.
In the 2018 season, Jason Hill led the team in receiving with 26 catches for 278 yards and two touchdowns, while freshman T.J. Luther had a team-high 323 receiving yards and four touchdowns. Overall the 1,502 passing yards for the Terriers were the most since the 2008 season as the team averaged 115.5 receiving yards per game. The team won the 2018 Southern Conference Championship and reached the NCAA FCS Playoffs. During the 2017 season, R. J. Taylor was the team leader in receiving with 24 catches for 349 yards and a touchdown. Jason Hill added 17 receptions for 283 yards and a pair of touchdowns. The team averaged 84.2 passing yards per game, an increase of over 20 yards a game over the previous season. The team posted a 10-3 overall record and won the Southern Conference Championship with a 7-1 mark.
In 2016, Jason Hill led the wide receivers with 11 catches for 127 yards. Big plays were common, as the average catch was for 13.6 yards. The returners on special teams averaged 21.2 yards per kickoff return and 7.2 yards per punt return. R.J. Taylor led the team in 2015 with 14 catches for 186 yards. Overall, 14 of the 54 receptions went for 20 or more yards and the average catch was for 14.1 yards. In 2014, Will Irwin led the team with 19 catches for 289 yards and a pair of touchdowns. For the previous two seasons, Jeff Ashley was the team’s leading receiver. During the 2013 season, Ashley had 20 catches for 232 yards and a touchdown. In 2012, he had 17 catches for 301 yards and two touchdowns. His longest reception was for 71 yards at South Carolina.
During his first year on the staff, he worked with Brenton Bersin, who played several seasons as a wide receiver with the Carolina Panthers. Bersin led the team with 26 receptions for 445 yards and was tenth in the SoCon in receiving yards per game. In 2010, Brown was an assistant coach at Spartanburg High School.
As a three-year letterman at South Carolina, Brown had 38 catches for 408 yards and a touchdown at wide receiver. In the fall of 2009, he played one season of football at Liberty as a graduate student. In eleven games he had 21 receptions for 204 yards.
At Byrnes High School, he caught 68 passes for 978 yards and 14 touchdowns during his senior season. Brown played in the 2004 North-South All-Star Game. In his two previous seasons at Robinson High School in Charlotte, he caught 86 passes for 1,486 yards and 16 touchdowns. He also played basketball at Robinson High, scoring 1,269 points and earning Conference Player of the Year honors.
Brown graduated from the University of South Carolina in 2009. His father, Freddie Brown, graduated from Wofford in 1991 and also served as an assistant coach at his alma mater.
