Elon University Athletics

Honors & Awards
-2016 CAA Football Academic All-Conference Team
-2015 CAA Football Academic All-Conference Team

2018: Appeared in 10 of Elon's 11 games, starting all of them...Caught 21 balls for 320 yards and two touchdowns...His 320 yards finished as the third-most on the team...Brought in 109 yards on four receptions on the road at No. 2 James Madison...Finished with two catches for 70 yards and a 60-yard touchdown reception against Richmond...Also hauled in a touchdown pass at Charleston Southern, catching four passes for 39 yards...Served as the president of SAAC as a senior.

2017: Started all 12 games…Caught 32 passes for 512 yards and two touchdowns…Returned 14 punts for 85 yards…Had six receptions for a 87 yards in a win at Furman…Set career bests with eight catches for 185 yards while scoring a touchdown in a win at Rhode Island…Made seven catches for 81 yards and a touchdown in the playoff game against No. 22 Furman.

2016: Saw time in seven games, making five starts…Posted 26 receptions for 282 yards…Had six receptions with 54 receiving yards at Albany…Made five grabs for a season-high 75 yards against Rhode Island…Named to the CAA Football Academic All-Conference Team.

2015: Enrolled at Elon for the spring of 2015…Appeared in all 11 games, earning nine starts…Led the squad with four receiving touchdowns…Was second on the team with 35 receptions and third on the squad with 293 receiving yards…Averaged 8.4 yards per catch…Returned eight punts for 44 yards…Averaged 20.4 yards on 12 kick returns…Posted season-highs with five catches for 54 yards, including a season-long 45-yard reception, at No. 20 New Hampshire…Caught three balls for 17 yards in his collegiate debut at Wake Forest…Had two touchdown catches in wins at Gardner-Webb and Maine…Had a season-long 31 yard kick return at Wake Forest…Named to the CAA Football Academic All-Conference Team.

Prep: Concluded his prep career ranking among North Carolina’s all-time top high school players – 3,490 receiving yards rate as the fifth-most ever in the state, his 40 receiving TDs also rate fifth and his 201 career catches rank seventh…Also appears on the state’s season top-10 lists – 1,708 receiving yards in 2013 rank as the fifth-best single-season total in state history and his 21 receiving touchdowns that same year rank sixth…Set Lake Norman records for receiving yards in a game and season, receptions in a game and season, points scored in a game, touchdown catches in a game and season…Established Iredell County marks for receiving yards in a season and career, receptions in a season and career and receiving TDs in a season and career…2014 Shrine Bowl participant…Recorded 86 catches for 1,406 yards and 16 scores as a senior…Averaged 17.1 yards per reception and 93.7 yards per game as he helped coach Rob McNeely’s program to a conference title and regional finals appearance…Team captain and offensive MVP in 2014…Claimed first-team All-Lake honors and second-team All-Charlotte Observer accolades…Twice collected all-conference, all-county and all-region distinction. 

Personal: Son of Corey and Dana Joyner…Born February 7, 1997.