Why I’m Building This

I’ve been a receiver for most of my life—even long after I stopped playing.

I played the position through college (Dartmouth), and then flag for the next 15 years (Orlando, Los Angeles, and Madison), and like a lot of former players, I never really stopped studying it. I’m the guy on the long TD run screaming, “but did you see 81 with the downfield block?” I’m the guy quietly whispering “hands” when he catches that ink pen rolling off his desk. I still do a little wiggle at the top of my “route” when planting to go from the kitchen to the laundry room. But the more I looked around football, the more I noticed something missing.

Quarterbacks have dedicated institutions, camps and communities built around their position. D-Linemen have a Sack Summit; there’s OL Masterminds for O-linemen. Are receivers really such divas that we can’t come together to improve each other? Other position groups have created spaces where the best current players, coaches and legends can come together to teach, compete and advance their craft.

Receivers deserve that same kind of home.

Receiver Institute was created to build it.

Not another youth football camp. Not a single annual event. A lasting institution dedicated entirely to the receiver position—from promising high school players, to college receivers preparing for what comes next, to current professionals refining their craft, to the legends whose knowledge and history should remain part of the game. From the OGs with their playing days in the rear view, to those little girls finally getting to showcase their hands in flag football. All pass catchers welcome.

Just as important, I don't believe that institution should be built around one person.

The best receiver knowledge in football is spread across thousands of coaches, players and former players. Receiver Institute is about bringing that expertise together, preserving it, sharing it and creating opportunities for one generation of receivers to help develop the next.

The goal is simple:

Give the receiver position a place of its own.

Once a receiver, always a receiver.