Northern Illinois University Athletics

2022
•    Finished his Huskie career with at least one catch in each of the last 21 games he played.
•    Ranks tied for seventh at NIU in career catches (155).
•    Just the eighth player in school history to surpass 2,000 career receiving yards, finishing with 2,030 after totaling 33 yards on four catches in his final game.
•    Led NIU in receiving in 2022 with 45 catches for 632 yards in 11 games.
•    Earned second team All-MAC recognition from PFF.
•    Made a pair of grabs at Western Michigan for 27 yards, including his fourth TD catch of the season, from 16 yards out.
•    Caught five passes for 58 yards at Eastern Michigan.
•    Tied a season-high with seven catches at Ball State for 89 yards.
•    Led NIU with 88 receiving yards on four catches versus Vanderbilt.
•    Caught a 70-yard touchdown pass in the third quarter against the Commodores, the longest reception of his career.
•    Set a new career-high with 123 receiving yards at Tulsa on seven receptions for his fourth career 100-yard receiving game.
•    Hauled in four passes for 67 yards in the season-opener versus Eastern Illinois and had three catches for 55 yards at Kentucky.
•    Caught at least two passes in every game he played.
•    Member of the 2022 Academic All-MAC Team.

2021
•    Top possession receiver caught 41 passes for 575 yards to rank third on the team while playing in nine games and starting five.
•    Named honorable mention All-MAC by Pro Football Focus. 
•    Averaged 14.0 yards per catch and 63.9 yards per game with three touchdowns and two 100-yard receiving games. 
•    Hauled in a pair of receptions for 30 yards against Kent State in the MAC Championship Game (12-4). 
•    Made a game- and career-high 10 receptions for 89 yards in the overtime victory at Buffalo (11-17). 
•    Caught six passes for 103 yards in the win over Ball State (11-10) with a 58-yard touchdown catch for his second receiving TD of the year. 
•    Recorded his first 100-yard receiving game of the season with 114 yards, including a season-long 66-yard reception, on four catches against Maine (9-25). 
•    Tallied six catches for 72 yards against Wyoming (9-11). 
•    Accounted for NIU’s touchdown at Michigan (9-18) on a nine-yard reception.
•    Missed four consecutive games in October (EMU, Toledo, Bowling Green and CMU) and sat out the Western Michigan contest (11-23).
•    Recorded six catches for 87 yards and scored the first touchdown of the game on a five-yard pass play vs. Coastal Carolina at the Cure Bowl (12-17).
•    Served as NIU’s primary punt returner with six returns on the season and a long return of eight yards versus Ball State. 
•    Member of the 2021 Academic All-MAC team.

2020
• Played in all six games, starting four.
• Ranked fourth on the team in receiving yards (136), receptions (13) and yards per game (22.7).
• Recorded multiple catches in four games, hauling in a season-high four in back-to-back games.
• Amassed a season-high 53 yards on four receptions against Central Michigan (11-11).
• Tallied 41 yards on four catches at Ball State (11-18).
• Opened the season with 29 receiving yards and a touchdown on three receptions against Buffalo (11-4).
• Added a touchdown and 13 yards receiving on two catches at Eastern Michigan (12-12).

2019
• Played in all 12 games with 10 starts at wide receiver.
• Led NIU with 38 receptions and 531 receiving yards.
• Recorded five catches for 50 yards at Nebraska (9-14).
• Caught four passes for 69 yards against Ball State (10-5).
• Established career-highs in receptions (8) and receiving yards (118 ) at Ohio (10-12).
• Scored his lone touchdown of the season on a 10-yard pass in the fourth quarter at Miami (10-19); finished the game with six receptions for 82 yards.
• Tallied three receptions for 75 yards at Central Michigan (11-2), with a career long reception of 49 yards.

2018
• Ranked fourth on the team in catches and receiving yards in his redshirt freshman season.
• Recorded catches in eight games while serving as the Huskies’ punt returner.
• Returned 17 punts for 69 yards on the year to average 4.1 yards per return.
• Caught two passes for 30 yards in Huskies’ MAC Championship win over Buffalo (11-30) and made two catches for 22 yards in the Boca Raton Bowl game versus UAB (12-18).
• Earned his season highs of six catches for 40 yards at Florida State.
• At Eastern Michigan, tallied three catches for 15 yards and returned a season-high five punts for 44 yards.
• His 27-yard punt return at Eastern Michigan was his career-long and the Huskies’ longest since 2015.
• Made a 13-yard grab versus Toledo (11-7) for his first catch in three games.
• Made his first career catch, for 13 yards, at Iowa.

2017
• Redshirted.

High School
• Put up big numbers for the Barbs in both his junior and senior years. 
• His 121 catches for 2,337 yards and 36 touchdowns are all school records. 
• Added three kick return touchdowns and two punt return touchdowns over his final two seasons. 
• As a safety, made 12 tackles as a senior and 15 as a junior with two forced fumbles and an interception. 
• Named conference MVP, his team’s offensive player of the year, first team all-conference and first team all-area team in both his junior and senior seasons. 
• As a junior, collected honorable mention All-State recognition from the coaches association; made the Chicago Tribune All-State second team as a senior. 
• Named all-conference in basketball. 
• Named the 2016 DeKalb Daily Chronicle Athlete of the Year. 

Personal
• Born June 7 in DeKalb, Ill.
• Son of Brett and Cindy Tucker.
• Earned his bachelor's degree and is pursuing a master's in business administration. 
• His father was a four-year letterwinner in football at NIU (1985, 1987-89) who led the Huskies in pass break-ups in 1987 and in interceptions in 1988. 
• His mother, the former Cindy Hemstad, was a three-year letterwinner in gymnastics who was a member of the 1991 team that was inducted into the NIU Athletics Hall of Fame in 2013.