Awards & Honors
- 2023: Second Team All American (Bluebloods)
- 2023: All-SoCon Second-Team All-American
- 2022: Phil Steele Fourth-Team Freshman All-American
- 2022: All-SoCon Freshman All-American
- 2021: Dean's List & A.D. Honor Roll... 4.0 student in the fall
Before Arizona: In 2024 (Chattanooga), Ranked No. 4 on HERO Sports preseason list of top returning FCS wide receivers...honorable mention on Bruce Feldman's annual freaks list on the Athletic... Preseason All-America: FCS Football Central (1st team), Phil Steele (2nd) & Stats Perform (2nd)... Shrine Bowl 1000 Watch List... First team preseason All-SoCon: league & Phil Steele... In 2023 (Chattanooga), 2nd Team All-America (Bluebloods)...2nd Team All-SoCon... SoCon Offensive Player of the Week on Oct. 9 after record-setting performance against Western Carolina with 353 all-purpose yards...had an 11-catch, 231-yard, 4-touchdown performance which tied for second in TD receptions (Terrell Owens vs Marshall, 1994) and fifth in yards... Key performer playing in all 13 games with 11 starts...55 catches for 977 yards with nine TDs... Team-best 17.8 yards per catch and led in TD receptions... Team high 20 catches of 20 yards or more...more than 40 percent of the team's total of 47...long catch of 67 yards came in regular season against Furman... 100+ yards three times: 231 vs Western Carolina, 106 at North Alabama and 102 vs. Furman... 54-yard catch-and-run at Alabama last November was the longest pass play allowed by the Tide in more than a year dating back to Tennessee's Hendon Hooker's 78-yard TD pass to Jalin Hyatt on Oct. 15, 2022... 977 yards for the season tied for seventh most in a campaign all-time with Cos DeMatteo (1999)...nine TDs were 5th most to date and highest total since Json Jones' 10 in 2002... 2023 receivers room ranked 16th in the country with an 84.5 grade per PFF College. That ranked between LSU (15) and Texas (17) and was fourth among FCS programs behind North Dakota State (3), South Dakota State (5) and South Dakota (T13)... Combined with Jamoi Mayes (62-1037) & Sam Phillips (60-624) as first trio since 2004 with 600+ yards each in the same season: Alonzo Nix (819), current assistant Tyrus Ward (660) & Emanuel Hassell (647)... Most productive since 2000: Richmond Flowers (86-1035), Cos DeMatteo (75-971) & Ronnie Strickland (51-767)...that’s also the last time a trio collected 50 receptions or more each... In 2022 (Chattanooga), SoCon All-Freshman team...4th team Phil Steele Freshman All-America... Nine games played with six starts...third on the squad with 29 catches and 451 yards...second in TD receptions (3)... Five games with four or more receptions with a high of six in the comeback win at ETSU... Most yards in a game was 79 at Eastern Illinois on four catches with a score...also scored at Western Carolina.... Five receptions of 20 or more yards with three topping 50...long of 72 yards was a touchdown in the win over VMI... In 2021, Redshirt.
High School: All-region quarterback as a junior at Rockmart, ending the 2019 campaign with 1,533 yards passing, 1,150 yards rushing and 36 combined touchdowns... Played for head coach Biff Parson…led the Yellow Jackets to a 35-4 record over the last three seasons... Also competed in track & field.
Personal: Full name is Javin Lajuan Whatley… Son of Jermaine Whatley and Shareeda Dorsey... Born Nov. 24, 2002… Has nine brothers and sisters.
