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2020 Football Roster

Samori Toure
Samori Toure
Samori Toure
Samori Toure
Photo by: Tommy Martino
Samori Toure
Samori Toure
Samori Toure
Samori Toure
Samori Toure
Samori Toure
Samori Toure
Samori Toure
Samori Toure
Samori Toure
Samori Toure
Samori Toure
Samori Toure
Jersey Number 8

Samori Toure

  • Class:
    Redshirt Senior
  • Height:
    6-3
  • Weight:
    190
  • Position:
    WR
  • Hometown:
    Portland, Ore.
  • High School:
    Westview HS
2020 (R-Sr.):
• Named to the 2021 Reese's Senior Bowl Top-250 Watch List (Only Big Sky player on the list)
• Preseason All-Big Sky
• Phil Steele Preseason All-America 1st team
• Phil Steele Preseason All-Big Sky 1st team
• Athlon Sports Preseason All-American

• HERO Sports Preseason First Team All-American
• HERO Sports Preseason First Team All-Big Sky
• NFF Campbell Trophy Semifinalist

Toure enters his senior season as one of the most decorated receivers in college football. Following a record-breaking junior year, Toure starts the year as the No. 8 receiver in Montana history with 2,488 career yards, No. 11 on UM’s all-time TD catch list with 20, and No. 12 on the all-time pass reception list with 155… At the start of the season needs 533 more yards and 37 more catches to become Montana’s most prolific receiver of all-time.
 
2019 (R-Jr.): 
• SATATS FCS All-American 1st Team
• HERO Sports All-American 1st Team
• Phil Steele All-America 2nd Team
• Associated Press All-American 3rd Team
• First Team All-Big Sky
• Named UM’s co-Offensive MVP
• Earned UM’s Terry Dillon Award for the team’s “Outstanding Back or Receiver”
• Academic All-Big Sky
• Broke NFL Hall of Famer Randy Moss’ 1996 FCS Playoff record (and UM school record) for receiving yards in a game with 303 against Southeastern Louisiana
• Broke Marc Mariani’s 2009 school record for receiving yards in a season with 1,495
• Broke Joe Douglass’ 1996 school record for receptions in a season with 82
• Also broke Douglass’ 1996 school record for yards in a game (279)
• ROOT Sports Big Sky Offensive Player of the Week (11/16)
One of the top-10 receivers in all of college football, Toure led the Big Sky and was second in the FCS in receiving yards as a junior with school record 1,495 on 87 catches… His 1,495 yard total is one of the top-30 singles season performances in FCS history… He was the first Grizzly to pass the 1,000-yard receiving mark in a season since Jamaal Jones in 2015… Toure was especially productive at the end of the 2019 season, racking up 905 yards and 10 TD on 48 catches in six games… He also became the first ever Grizzly to post three touchdown catches or more in three different games in a single season with hat-tricks against Portland State, Weber State, and S.E. Louisiana… Started in all 14 contests for the Griz…  Averaged 17.2 yards per catch and 106.7 yards per game… Posted six, 100+ yard receiving games including career-high/record 303 yards on 12 catches against S.E. Louisiana… Also had 100+-yard games at South Dakota, vs Idaho State, at Portland State, and Weber State… In addition to his record 303-yard game, he also posted two more of the top-15 receiving games in UM history with 188 yards against ISU and 193 yards against Weber St…. His 12-catch game against SELA is tied for the 12th-best in UM history… Threw a 24-yard touchdown pass to tight end Colin Bingham in a 9/21 win over Monmouth.
 
2018 (R-So.): Saw action in every game for the Grizzlies this season and started in every game but one ... Totaled 37 catches for 440 receiving yards on the season. ... Caught four passes for 94 yards and a touchdown in the Griz Spring Game, including a game-long reception of 50 yards ... In the first game of the 2018 season (UNI, 9/1), Led the team in receptions with seven catches for 56 yards and a touchdown ... Continued to impress as he recorded 6 receptions (tied for game-high) vs. Sacramento State (9/22) ... Toure did his part in securing a Griz win vs. Cal Poly (9/29), recording 42 yards on 4 receptions ... Put up 67 yards on just 2 receptions with one being a 41-yard touchdown strike vs. Portland State (10/6) ... Toure recorded 105 receiving yards (season-high, 2nd most of his career) on 5 receptions in a matchup against North Dakota (10/13)

2017 (R-Fr.): Played in all 11 games ... Caught five TD passes with 553 yards on 31 receptions ... Montana's fourth-leading receiver.

2016 (Fr.): Was a redshirt