University of Connecticut Athletics
Skyler Bell Named Walter Camp All-American
12/12/2025 8:02:00 PM | Football
Bell Named to 2nd Team
STORRS, CT – UConn r-senior wide receiver Skyler Bell (Bronx, NY) has been named to the 2025 Walter Camp Football Foundation All-American Team announced on Friday night. Bell was named to the second team of the 136th edition of the Walter Camp All-America team, the nation's oldest college football All-America team.
Twenty-five players were selected to the first team by the 136 Football Bowl Subdivision head coaches and sports information directors. In addition, 27 players were selected to the Second Team. The team was certified by the New Haven-based accounting firm of CBIZ.
Bell is the fourth player in UConn's FBS era (2003-present) to earn All-American honors, joining former offensive lineman Christian Hayes (2022 & 2023) and running backs Jordan Todman (2010) and Donald Brown (2008).
Bell finished the season with 101 catches for 1,278 yards and 13 touchdowns, setting new school records for receptions and TDs. He averaged 12.7 yards per catch and 106.5 yards per game. He ranks second in the NCAA in receptions, yards, TDs, catches per game and yards per game. He led the country with seven 100-yard games this season.
He was named a finalist for the 2025 Biletnikoff Award and has been invited to this year's Panini Senior Bowl and East-West Shrine Bowl. He is the 19th Husky in program history to earn an invitation to the Senior Bowl and the first UConn skill player since 2005 (Dan Orlovsky) to do so.
UConn has had 18 players earn first or second team All-American status dating back to 1955 and Bell is fifth wide receiver in program history to earn the honor, joining Carl Bond (1997), Mark Didio (1990 & 1991), Glen Antrum (1988), and Reggie Eccleston (1980).
Over the program's history 36 players have been honored with with All-American first, second team or honorable mention honors.
Considered the "Father of American Football," Walter Camp introduced the play from scrimmage, set plays, the numerical assessment of goals and tries and the restriction of play to eleven men per side in 1880. Nine years later, Mr. Camp, then the Yale University head coach, selected the first-ever college football All-America team.
The Walter Camp Football Foundation – a New Haven-based all-volunteer group – was founded in 1967 to perpetuate the ideals of Camp and to continue the tradition of selecting annually an All-America team. Visit www.waltercamp.org for more information. The Foundation is a member of the National College Football Awards Association (NCFAA). Founded in 1997, the NCFAA includes college football's most prestigious awards and its 25 awards have honored more than 950 recipients dating back to 1935.
