.Maximum Olson, ESPN Team WriterSep 1, 2024, 03:19 AM ETCloseCovers the Large 12Joined ESPN in 2012Graduate of the Educational institution of NebraskaArizona pass receiver Tetairoa McMillan began his very expected junior time with a record-setting night.The preseason All-American and projected first-round draft selection put a brand-new university file along with 304 acquiring gardens and also four goals on 10 catches in the No. 21 Wildcats' 61-39 get New Mexico.The 6-foot-5, 210-pound wideout delivered the 1st 300-yard efficiency through a college receiver considering that Ohio State's Jaxon Smith-Njigba put up 347 receiving backyards versus Utah in the 2022 Flower Dish. Simply 5 other FBS recipients have exceeded 300 gardens over the past decade.In Arizona's very first activity as a participant of the Large 12, McMillan registered the second-most getting gardens in a video game in conference past history. His previous career high was actually a 266-yard game against rivalrous Arizona State last season.Editor's Picks2 RelatedMcMillan slashed on plays of 69, 17, 78 and 40 lawns and also almost possessed a fifth TD reception but was actually addressed at the 1-yard line. More than half of his receiving backyards (176) came after the catch." T-Mac is actually clearly special, man," first-year Arizona instructor Brent Brennan claimed. "He is actually only something else." McMillan missed out on opportunity this offseason while recouping from a reduced leg injury gone through in springtime technique and said it believed "amazing" to be back at work." These final four months, I've been actually grinding and all set to come back on the field," he mentioned. "Having the capacity to merely have fun with my bros again, it is actually merely an accurate benefit. Irrespective of the files, I am actually only satisfied to be back on the industry along with my bros." New Mexico stayed on top of the Wildcats throughout the initial half and also took a 24-17 lead late in the second quarter. Three plays eventually, McMillan got rid of the Lobos for a 78-yard catch as well as run down the subsidiary to tie it up.Arizona's Tetairoa McMillan ended up being the seventh FBS recipient previously years to top 300 obtaining lawns in an activity as well as additionally scored on plays of 69, 17, 78 and also 40 backyards. AP Photo/Darryl Webb" Those big nitroglycerins were actually simply astonishing," Brennan said. "He outran the whole additional on the major one down the side project. He's fantastic. He's an amazing competition, and he's likewise not happy. He was like, 'We can participate in much better.' That's what you expect." Arizona produced 627 complete yards of offense and also averaged 11 lawns every play, along with quarterback Noah Fifita tossing for 422 gardens as well as transfer managing spines Jacory Croskey-Merritt (New Mexico) as well as Quali Conley (San Jose Condition) integrating for 196 hurrying gardens and 4 scores.McMillan became one of college soccer's most prominent playmakers in 2023 along with 90 catches for 1,402 lawns (fifth most in the FBS) and also 10 touchdowns as a student on a Wildcats team that won 10 video games and also the Alamo Bowl.After Jedd Fisch and also his coaching personnel delegated manage at Washington in January, Fifita and McMillan chose to bypass the transfer portal and also stay at Arizona. The former colleagues at Servite Secondary school in Anaheim, California, desired to keep participating in with each other as well as help Brennan design a challenger." Everyone in this building, the brotherhood our team currently possessed, the society our company had actually set in listed below, our team merely didn't want to leave this property," McMillan claimed. "The legacy that our company currently had actually restarted below, our experts wanted to continue this tradition. At the end of the day, our experts concerned Tucson to become course changers. Ideally, Tucson, y' all may locate pleasure in our play.".