2023 (Redshirt Sophomore)
Enrolled at Texas State in January 2023.

PRIOR TO TEXAS STATE
Cincinnati (2021-22)
Played in 12 career games as a Bearcat … Played mostly on special teams and returning kicks … Averaged 23.8 yards per kick return, with a long of 32 yards … No career receptions … Ran a 4.31 40 in the summer of 2022 … 2022 (Redshirt freshman): Played in 11 games, nearly all of which was on special teams … Logged 25 snaps on offense and 103 on special teams … Played on punt return and punt coverage, where he logged 5 tackles (3 solo) … All 5 of his kick returns came in the Wasabi Fenway Bowl against Louisville … Totaled 119 yards on the 5 kick returns against the Cardinals (average: 23.8 yards) … Also played in 15 snaps at wide receiver in the bowl game … Also appeared at wide receiver in games against Kennesaw State (6 snaps, Sept. 10), Miami (OH) (2 snaps, Sept. 17) and Indiana (2 snaps, Sept. 24) … 2021 (Freshman): Redshirt … Did not play in any games.

High School
Composite three-star prospect ranked No. 173 nationally among wideouts and No. 180 overall in the state of Texas for his class ... Two-year letterwinner at Lebanon Trail HS (TX) … Caught 18 passes for 286 yards and 4 TDs, averaging 15.9 yards per reception in an injury-shortened senior campaign in 2020 ... Finished his junior year in 2019 with 45 catches for 641 yards and eight TDs … Also lettered in track … Finished 2nd at the 2021 Texas 5A state meet in the 100 with a time of 10.31 (+2.3 wind-aided) … Ran several sub-11.00 100 times in his senior season in 2021 … Had a PR of 21.17 in the 200 meter as a sophomore in 2019 … Originally committed to Ole Miss in the summer of 2020 before decommitting and signing with Cincinnati in Dec. 2020 … Had offers from Northwestern, Tulane, ULM, Boise State, Wyoming, UConn, Toledo, Army, Air Force, Arkansas State, Yale, Penn, Princeton, Dartmouth, among others … Was also offered by current Texas State head coach GJ Kinne out of high school when Kinne was at Hawaii.

Personal
Father, Doug, played football at Ohio State, was selected in the 2nd round of the 1981 NFL Draft by the Dallas Cowboys, and spent 5 seasons in the NFL with the Cowboys (1981-84) and Chicago Bears (1986) … Doug played in 43 career NFL games with 55 catches, 898 yards and 4 TDs … He also returned punts and kicks in the NFL … Doug also left Ohio State as the school’s all-time leading receiver in career receptions, career receiving yards, average yards per reception and career receiving TDs … Mom, Dina, is a former Dallas Cowboys cheerleader … Has one brother, Jake.

Drew Donley