2019 Football Roster
Roster
August Pitre III
- Height:
- 6-2
- Weight:
- 169
- Class:
- Redshirt Freshman
- Hometown:
- Opelousas, Louisiana
- High School:
- Northwest
Honors at Rice
- C-USA Commissioner's Honor Roll (2019, 2020, 2021, 2022)
- Rice Honor Athlete 2021
2021
Posted career-highs with 31 receptions for 494 yards and three touchdowns while being limited to eight games... Led the team with an average of 15.9 yards per catch and second with an average of 61.8 yards per game... Established new career highs with nine receptions for 133 yards against WKU, his second 100-yard day of the season… Topped the mark for the first time in his career with 108 on six catches at UTSA... Opened the season with a then career-best 97 yards (including a career-long, 41-yard TD from Wiley Green) and tied his then career-high with four receptions in the opener... Has caught a touchdown pass in the opening game of the last two seasons, with his 41-yarder at Arkansas in 2021 and grabbing a three-yard score vs. Middle Tennessee in 2020 before missing the rest of the year with an injury.
2020
Hoped to build on the momentum from his redshirt freshman season, but saw those hopes stymied by an injury in the opener vs. Middle Tennessee... Hauled in a three-yard pass from Mike Collins to score the Owls' first touchdown of the year on what would be his only reception.
2019
Third on the team with 17 receptions and 144 yards as a redshirt freshman… Played in all 12 games and made five starts… Made his starting debut vs. Texas and started against UAB, UTSA, Marshall, and North Texas… First career catch came vs. Army… Top effort came vs. Wake Forest with four catches for 52 yards… The longest reception of the season was a 22-yard effort vs. Texas at NRG Stadium… Scored his first career touchdown on a three-yard toss from Wiley Green vs. UAB and the duo connected again the following week on a two-yard touchdown pass at UTSA.
2018
A member of Mike Bloomgren's first recruiting class.
Northwest High School
3A All-State for coach Chris Edwards after catching 37 passes for 891 yards and 14 touchdowns as a senior... First FBS recruit in the history of Northwest High while leading the Raiders to the quarterfinals of LHSAA Class 3A Playoffs... Caught 17 touchdown passes as a junior... Parish and district MVP and a three-time all-district selection in basketball, averaging 22 points a game while scoring over 1,200 points in his career, thanks in part to a 43-inch vertical jump... Class President, Valedictorian, and a member of the National Honor Society, BETA Club, and Poets Society.
Personal
Full name: August Pitre III... Born: April 3 at Opelousas, Louisiana... Parents: August Pitre Jr. and Ashia Collins... (two brothers, three sisters)... Rice major: English. Rice College: McMurtry
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