Javen Nicholas

Position:
Wide Receiver
Height:
5-9
Class:
Post Baccalaureate
Hometown:
New Orleans, La.
Prev School:
Charlotte/LSU

2026: Graduate transfer wide receiver from UNC Charlotte who spent the 2025 season with the 49ers after three seasons (2022-23-24) at LSU ... in 32 career games (11 starts), has totaled 64 receptions for 766 yards (11.97) and five TDs with an additional seven rushes for 36 yards (5.14) ... registered 2+ catches 12 times and 4+ nine times ... caught a career-high 11 passes against North Carolina in 2025 ... finished with 30+ receiving yards in nine contests, 60+ four times and 100+ twice ... crossed the 100-yard receiving mark versus North Carolina (122; 2025) and North Texas (187; 2025) ... made a career-long 64-yard catch versus the Mean Green in 2025 ... also finished with a personal-best two TDs versus North Texas and East Carolina in 2025 ... rushed a career-high two times against East Carolina in 2025 … carded a personal-best 20-yard carry against the Mean Green in 2025 … owns 30 total points from five TDs (five receiving) ... beginning as a preferred walk-on with the Tigers, helped LSU to a 29-11 overall mark, 17-7 SEC record, an appearance in the 2022 SEC Championship Game and three bowl trips with a trio of bowl victories with the 2022 Cheez-It Citrus Bowl versus Purdue, 2023 ReliaQuest Bowl versus Wisconsin and 2024 Kinder’s Texas Bowl versus Baylor.

PRIOR TO DUKE: One-year member of the program at Charlotte (2025) after spending three seasons (2022-23-24) at LSU ... in 32 career games (11 starts), has totaled 64 receptions for 766 yards (11.97) and five TDs with an additional seven rushes for 36 yards (5.14) ... registered 2+ catches 12 times and 4+ nine times ... caught a career-high 11 passes against North Carolina in 2025 ... finished with 30+ receiving yards in nine contests, 60+ four times and 100+ twice ... crossed the 100-yard receiving mark versus North Carolina (122; 2025) and North Texas (187; 2025) ... made a career-long 64-yard catch versus the Mean Green in 2025 ... also finished with a personal-best two TDs versus North Texas and East Carolina in 2025 ... rushed a career-high two times against East Carolina in 2025 … carded a personal-best 20-yard carry against the Mean Green in 2025 … owns 30 total points from five TDs (five receiving) ... beginning as a preferred walk-on with the Tigers, helped LSU to a 29-11 overall mark, 17-7 SEC record, an appearance in the 2022 SEC Championship Game and three bowl trips with a trio of bowl victories with the 2022 Cheez-It Citrus Bowl versus Purdue, 2023 ReliaQuest Bowl versus Wisconsin and 2024 Kinder’s Texas Bowl versus Baylor … prepped at St. Augustine in New Orleans … an Honor Roll student who graduated with over a 4.0 grade point average … as a senior, accumulated 1,522 all-purpose yards and 18 TDs serving as a wide receiver and return specialist … scored 4 TDs as a senior in a win over Holy Cross … recorded 8 receptions for 133 yards and returned a punt 70 yards for a TD in that game.

PERSONAL: Son of Natasha and Ken Simmons.