MOBILE, Ala. – Eight Conference USA standouts were selected to the 2024 Reese’s Senior Bowl Watch List. The list of hopefuls for the 76^th Senior Bowl game was announced Wednesday by the organization.
 
The CUSA contingent includes a pair of high-profile quarterbacks in Liberty’s Kaidon Salter and WKU’s TJ Finley.
 
Salter is coming off a banner year that netted him CUSA MVP, CUSA Championship Game MVP and CUSA Michael L. Slive Male Student-Athlete of the Year recognition after completing 177-290 passes for 2,876 yards and 32 touchdowns while rushing for 1,089 yards and 12 touchdowns.
 
Finley joins WKU after a dominant 2023 campaign with Texas State, completing 279-414 (67.4) passes for 3,439 yards, 24 touchdowns and just eight interceptions and adding five touchdowns on the ground.
 
Three pass catchers landed on the list in MTSU wide receiver Holden Willis, Sam Houston wideout Ife Adeyi and FIU tight end Josiah Miamen.
 
Willis logged 10 starts and ended the season with 46 receptions for a team-high 697 yards and five touchdowns, all of which were career season-best marks.
 
Adeyi returns to the gridiron after suffering a season-ending injury in week three of the 2023 season and looks to build on his career tallies of 134 catches for 2,041 yards and 18 touchdowns.
 
Miamen enters year three with the Panthers and has seen action in 23 games over the past two seasons, logging 41 catches for 398 yards.
 
An elite blocking duo of Jax State’s Clay Webb and NM State’s Shiyazh Pete also graced the watch list.
 
Webb earned Second Team All-America recognition from the Associate Press and Walter Camp last fall after paving the way for the third-best rushing offense in the FBS (236.7 YPG).
 
Pete served as the blindside protector for a unit that ranked 13^th nationally in tackles for loss allowed (1.60) and 14^th in rushing yards per game (198.7).
 
UTEP bandit Maurice Westmoreland rounds out the league’s representatives. He earned First-Team All-CUSA recognition after he led the team and ranked second in the league with 7.5 sacks. He led CUSA with 64 sack yards and tied for fourth with 10.5 tackles for loss.
 
The Reese’s Senior Bowl utilizes an extensive eight-month process in selecting the players that will be invited to the annual showcase of college all-stars, beginning after the preceding year’s draft and culminating in early January with the announcement of the game’s rosters.