As the years continued on for the Texas Tech Red Raiders and Mike Leach, we continued to see a steady stream of impressive receivers in Lubbock. And just one season after B.J. Symons was able to connect with three different receivers to where each of them compiled over 1000 yards during the 2003 season, a couple more dynamic receiving threats showed up for Texas Tech.
When looking through the Texas Tech football record book and examining the way the Red Raiders put together offenses on a year-by-year sort of basis, it’s hard not to be impressed with what Jarrett Hicks accomplished back in 2004.
And honestly, it’s hard not to be impressed specifically with the way Hicks started the 2004 season for Texas Tech. I mean, the dude was just about unstoppable through the first six games of the season.
Texas Tech football history: Jarrett Hicks was borderline unstoppable at the start of the 2004 season for the Red Raiders
Throughout the entirety of the 2004 season for Hicks, the Red Raiders were able to get a receiver who caught 76 passes for 1177 yards and scored 13 touchdowns. But during the first four weeks of the season, Hicks had over half of that yardage already compiled. Those first four games allowed Hicks to catch 33 passes for 642 yards and four touchdowns.
Against the SMU Mustangs in Dallas on September 4, Hicks caught eight passes for 150 yards and a touchdown. Then one week later, on the road at New Mexico, Hicks had nine receptions for another 150 yards and then another touchdown.
On September 18, in what was arguably his most impressive performance of the season, Hicks caught eight passes for 211 yards and another touchdown against the TCU Horned Frogs in Lubbock. To round out that quarter of the season, Hicks caught eight more passes for 131 yards and another score against Kansas on the road.
It’s not like Hicks didn’t have other impressive games throughout the season (the dude had multiple two touchdown games in the back half of the year), but that start to the year was truly remarkable and should definitely be appreciated as such.