Bobby Kennedy

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Hometown
Boulder, Colo.

Alma Mater
Northern Colorado '89

Recruiting Areas
Colorado, Maryland, Texas (West Dallas-Fort Worth, West, Panhandle), Virginia, Washington D.C., West Virginia

The 2022 is the fifth at Stanford for The Krishnamurthi Wide Receivers Coach Bobby Kennedy, who has coached in 17 bowl games, including four BCS contests (two BCS championship games, two Rose Bowls and one Fiesta Bowl).

Despite injuries plaguing the Cardinal wide receiving corps, Kennedy's group was a bright spot of the Stanford offense week in and week out during the 2021 season. Brycen Tremayne scored a touchdown in each of the first five games before suffering a season-ending injury against Oregon. It was Elijah Higgins (45 receptions for 500 yards) and John Humphreys (21 receptions for 287 yards) who stepped up in Tremayne's absence to lead the Cardinal to the overtime upset of the third-ranked Ducks. 

Team captain Michael Wilson returned from an offseason injury to record 19 receptions for 185 yards in the final four games of the year.

Kennedy coached one of Stanford's deepest units in 2020, led by first team All-Pac-12 receiver Simi Fehoko, Junior Michael Wilson also earned honorable mention despite playing in just three-and-a-half games before injury. 

Fehoko became a fifth-round selection of the Dallas Cowboys in the 2021 NFL Draft.

He finished with 37 receptions for 584 yards and three touchdowns. His 584 yards led the Pac-12, as did his 97.3 yards per game. He capped off his Cardinal career with a school-record 16 receptions for 230 yards and three touchdowns, helping lead Stanford to a come-from-behind, two-overtime win at UCLA.

Wilson finished third on the team with 19 receptions for 261 yards, while adding a receiving touchdown against Colorado.

Despite a young receiving group in 2019, Kennedy's group shined. Sophomore Michael Wilson led the team with 56 catches for 672 yards and five touchdowns, while sophomore Simi Fehoko finished with 24 catches for 566 yards and six scores. Fehoko's 23.58 yards per reception were the second-most in the country and set a new school record. 

Additionally, junior WR Connor Wedington was second on the team with 51 catches for 506 yards and a touchdown, earning All-Pac-12 honorable mention for his prowess in kick returns, where he averaged 28.1 yards per return. Junior WR Osiris St. Brown had 27 catches for 263 yards and sophomore WR Brycen Tremayne, who earned a scholarship prior to the season, caught touchdowns on all three of his receptions.

Wedington was a member of the AFCA Allstate Good Works Team in 2019, given to 11 FBS players who exemplify outstanding community service.

In Kennedy's first season at Stanford, wide out JJ Arcega-Whiteside finished with the fifth-most receiving yards in a season in school history, tied a 14-year-old record with 14 touchdowns and was drafted in the second round of the 2019 NFL Draft by the Philadelphia Eagles.
 
Kennedy brought 26 years of collegiate coaching experience to The Farm. His most recent stops included four years as the wide receivers coach at Iowa (2013-16), and he held the same position at Colorado (2011-12).
 
The Hawkeyes reached a bowl game in all four years of Kennedy’s tenure, including a perfect 12-0 regular season record in 2015, when Iowa won the West Division of the Big Ten Conference, participated in the 2016 Rose Bowl and ended the season in the top-10 of the national rankings.
        
In his first season at Colorado, he helped mold senior Toney Clemons into one of the nation’s top receivers. Clemons was selected by Pittsburgh in the 2012 NFL Draft.
 
Kennedy joined the Colorado staff after spending time in Texas, where he spent seven seasons (2004-10) as wide receivers coach, the last six as the assistant recruiting coordinator. In his time at Texas, Kennedy coached in two BCS National Championship games, the 2005 Rose Bowl victory over USC when the Longhorns won the national championship, and in 2009 against Alabama.
 
Kennedy’s first season in Austin came immediately after the Longhorns had lost three wide receivers to the NFL. He proceeded to build a receiving corps that included three Biletnikoff Award candidates, including two semifinalists and one finalist.
 
Jordan Shipley and Quan Crosby both surpassed 85 receptions and 1,000 yards in 2008, becoming the 11th duo in NCAA history to each surpass 1,000 yards. In 2009, Shipley was a consensus All-American, setting Texas records for catches (116) and receiving yards (1,485), while matching the school record for receiving touchdowns (13).
 
Kennedy joined the Texas program from Washington, where he tutored wide receiver Reggie Williams to two All-America campaigns before he became the ninth overall pick in the 2004 NFL Draft. Williams set the Huskies’ single-season marks for receptions (94) and receiving yards (1,454) in 2002. He finished his career as Washington’s all-time leading receiver with 238 receptions and 3,536 yards.
 
Kennedy coached running backs at Arizona in 2001, and had a six-year tenure at Wake Forest, coaching the Demon Deacon running backs in 1999-2000 after four years (1995-98) as receivers coach.
 
Kennedy’s first full-time coaching position came at Wyoming, where he coached wide receivers in 1993-94. He tutored two extremely talented receivers in Ryan Yarborough, who was second in the NCAA in receptions in 1993, and Marcus Harris, who led the nation in receiving yards in 1994. Both Harris and Yarborough earned All-America honors.
 
Kennedy began his coaching career in the Big Ten Conference with two graduate assistant positions, coaching at Illinois (1990-91) and Penn State (1992). At Penn State, he worked with the tight ends and coached two future All-Americans in Troy Drayton and Kyle Brady.
 
Kennedy earned a political science degree from Northern Colorado in 1989, after he played quarterback for four seasons (1985-88). He began his coaching career at Boulder High School (Colo.), his alma mater, where he lettered in football and track.
 
Kennedy was born in Denver and grew up in Boulder. He is married to the former LaShonda Lawrence.