SOUTH BEND, Ind. – Senior wide receiver Malachi Fields has been named to the 2025 Biletnikoff Award Watch List, which recognizes the nation’s outstanding college football receiver regardless of position.
2025 marks Fields’ second-straight season named to the award’s watch list. He has already been named to the 2025 Phil Steele Preseason All-America Fourth Team.
Notre Dame has had one prior winner of the Biletnikoff Award: WR Golden Tate (2009). WR Jeff Samardzija (2005, 2006) and WR Michael Floyd (2010, 2011) were also finalists for the award.
Fields transferred to Notre Dame in the summer of 2025 from Virginia. He ranks tied for seventh in the nation among all FBS players in consecutive games with a reception (27). Fields has played in 36-career games, starting 25. He has posted 129 receptions for 1,849 yards and 11 touchdowns.
Fields has posted more than 800 receiving yards in each of the past two seasons, in addition to five touchdowns in both the 2023 and 2024 seasons. In 2024, he garnered third-team All-ACC honors and fourth-team Phil Steele All-ACC honors. In 2023, he was a semifinalist for the Comeback Player of the Year Award.
His 2024 season was productive for Virginia, with several standout performances. Fields posted career highs of 11 receptions and 148 yards at Wake Forest, while he scored twice on four receptions and 65 yards at Coastal Carolina. He scored the go-ahead touchdown en route to a four-catch, 63-yard performance at Boston College, a game in which he also completed a 29-yard pass.