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UTEP Miners

2025 Football Roster

9 Skyler Locklear

  • Position Quarterback
  • Height 5-11
  • Weight 195
  • Class Redshirt Junior
  • Hometown Clayton, N.C.
  • High School Cleveland HS
  • Major CBBA
  • Prev School Austin Peay
  • Letters 1

Biography

Conference USA Offensive Player of the Week (11.11.24)
Manning Award "Stars of the Week" (11.11.24)
Conference USA Commissioner's Academic Honor Roll (2025)

2024 (RS SOPHOMORE)
  • Played in 10 games, making nine starts under center.
  • Led UTEP with 1,583 yards on 148-of-233 passing (63.5 percent) with 10 touchdown tosses and six interceptions.
  • Rushed for 237 yards on 80 attempts and two touchdowns.
  • Registered 32 yards on three receptions and a touchdown catch.
  • Made first collegiate start at national power Nebraska, tossing for 115 yards (11-17) with a 38-yard touchdown pass.
  • Threw for 295 yards on 22-of-29 passing, rushed for 47 yards and a touchdown, and hauled in a four-yard touchdown reception against SUU.
  • First player in program history to pass, run and catch a touchdown in one game. Became fourth player in school annals to do all three in a single season.
  • First FBS player since Dec. 5, 2015, to accomplish all three in a single contest. 
  • Threw a touchdown and rushed for another in a victory over FIU.
  • Passed for a career-high 327 yards on 28-of-33 passing with four touchdowns in a 43-35 double-overtime victory against Kennesaw State in Sun Bowl Stadium.
  • Four touchdown passes against the Owls were the most by a Miner since Sept. 27, 2014 (at Kansas State. Four touchdown passes in Sun Bowl Stadium are the most since Sept. 15, 2012 (vs. NM State). Most touchdown passes in a CUSA game since Nov. 28, 2009 (five TD passes vs. Marshall). 
  • First time since 2021 the Miners won a game with a 300+ yard passing effort.
  • 28 completions were the most by a UTEP QB since Sept. 10, 2010 (30 completions at Houston). 
  • 84.8 percent completion percentage (28-33) ranks third best on the program’s all-time top-10 list. Of the top-10 performances, 28 completions are the most on the list. 
  • Named CUSA Offensive Player of the Week on Nov. 11, 2024, following performance against Kennesaw State, and the first UTEP QB to earn the honor since Sept. 17, 2012. 
  • Honored as one of eight quarterbacks to be named Manning Award “Stars of the Week” on Nov. 11, 2024. 
  • UTEP’s 43 points versus KSU in the Sun Bowl were the most since Nov. 26, 2016 (52 vs. North Texas). 
  • Hauled in a career-long 27-yard reception at no. 10 Tennessee.
  • Threw for 177 yards, including a 30-yard touchdown toss and a career-long 69-yard pass in UTEP’s come-from-behind victory at rival NM State. 

PRIOR TO UTEP
  • Played two years at Austin Peay (2022, 2023).
  • Saw action in two contests in 2023.
  • Threw for 59 yards on 3-of-4 passing, including a 46-yard touchdown pass at Lindenwood.
  • Played in two games in 2022.
  • Completed an 11-yard pass in college debut against Presbyterian.
  • Finished prep career at Cleveland High School with 7,063 passing yards and 78 touchdowns (452-of-716 passing) with only 18 interceptions.
  • Added 1,253 yards and 28 touchdowns on the ground.
  • The Rams were 33-4 in his three seasons as QB1.
  • Led CHS to spring 201 Class 3AA State Championship Game.
  • Named to 2021 Carolina Bowl Showcase Game and Spring 2021 Eastern N.C. Football Coaches Association 3A/4A All-Area team.

Statistics

Season:
2025

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Historical Player Information

  • 9

    2024Redshirt Sophomore

    Quarterback
    5'11" 195 lbs
    9
  • 9

    2025Redshirt Junior

    Quarterback
    5'11" 195 lbs
    9