The numbers were fixed in Zay Jones' head before the season even began, and those numbers were so overwhelming that even his wide receivers coach at East Carolina thought they were "crazy astronomical."
On a whiteboard in Phil McGeoghan's office over the summer, Jones transcribed the figures he had written in a note to himself: 147 catches, 1,500 yards, 10 touchdowns. Beyond that, Jones wanted to be an All-American, he wanted to win the Biletnikoff Award as the best wide receiver in the country, and he wanted to break his former teammate Justin Hardy's all-time FBS record for career receptions.