Phil Lutz

Photo by: Mikey Reeves

Photo by: Mikey Reeves

Class:
Graduate Student
Hometown:
North Caldwell, N.J.
Position:
Wide Receiver
Height:
6-0
Weight:
191
High School:
West Essex
Prev School:
Tufts

HONORS AND AWARDS

2024 All-CAA Third Team (WR) selection
Named CAA Offensive Player of the Week (10/14)
2023 Fall CAA Football Commissioner's Academic Honor Roll
2022 NESCAC Offensive Player of the Year
2022 All-NESCAC First Team
2022 D3football.com Third Team All American
2022 D3football.com Region 1 Offensive Player of the Year
2022 AFCA Second Team All American
2022 New England Football Writers All-New England DII-DIII Team
2022 D3football.com First Team All Region
2021 All-NESCAC First Team
2021 D3football.com Third Team All Region
Two-time D3football.com Team of the Week
New England Football Writers' Division II-III Gold Helmet Award - Nov. 13, 2022
2022 Semifinalist for Gagliardi Trophy

2024 SEASON

All-CAA Third Team (WR) selection
Appeared and started in all games
Finished with team-highs of 45 catches for 863 yards and 11 receiving TDs
Had three games with at least 100 yards receiving
Set a UD record with TD catches in each of the first seven games of the season
Had a season-highs of seven catches for 144 yards and two TDs against Penn (9/21)
Caught six passes for 91 yards and two TDs at Monmouth (10/5)
Had five catches for 133 yards and a TD against Maine (10/12)
Had 101 receiving yards on three catches at N.C. A&T (9/14)
Had two TD catches against Campbell (11/16)
Named CAA Offensive Player of the Week (10/14)

2023 SEASON

Appeared in all 13 games, making two starts
Caught 14 passes for 208 yards and a TD
Had four catches for 56 yards and a TD against Duquesne (10/7)
Had three catches for 57 yards at Hampton (10/21)
Earned Honors on the Fall CAA Football Commissioner's Academic Honor Roll

2022 SEASON AT TUFTS

Started in all nine games as number one receiver
Named NESCAC Player of the week on November 14
Selected to D3Football Team of the Week for performance against Middlebury
Had six touchdown catches on 10 receptions for 237 yards to break the single game record in program history
Finished the year with 78 receptions for 1,221 yards and 14 touchdowns while averaging 15.7 yards per catch
14 touchdowns were both first in the NESCAC as well as fourth in the nation
Ranked second in the nation for receiving yards
Broke his own single season school records for receptions and receiving yards
Led the NESCAC in receiving yards, receptions, receiving touchdowns, receptions per game and yards per game

2021 SEASON AT TUFTS

Named to the D3football.com All-Region team
Selected All-NESCAC First Team
Broke Tufts records with 74 receptions and 1,047 yards, leading the NESCAC in both categories and becoming Tufts' first-ever 1,000-yard receiver
Ranked fifth nationally with 8.2 receptions per game and seventh with 116.3 receiving yards per game
Finished with 17 catches for 182 yards against Colby, the second-most receptions in a game in team history
Had 44 receptions (11 per game) for 503 yards (125.8 per game) during team’s four-game winning streak to close out the season
Had nine catches for 194 yards against Wesleyan, including a 61-yard touchdown
Made three receptions for 104 yards and a 47-yard touchdown against Williams
Had seven catches for 118 yards at Amherst.

2020 SEASON AT TUFTS

Season canceled due to COVID-19

2019 SEASON AT TUFTS

Made Tufts' 75-man roster as a freshman

Bio: Helped lead West Essex High School to consecutive state championships (2017-18) ... Combined for 50 receptions, 1,014 receiving yards and eight touchdowns over junior and senior seasons ... Holds the West Essex records for receiving yards in a season (795) and receptions in a season (41) ... Earned all-conference first team, all-county first team and all-state honorable mention honors ... Also played lacrosse.