LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – Colorado State University Pueblo senior receiver Reggie Retzlaff (Corona, Calif./Riverside City College) is among 43 nominees for the 2024 Harlon Hill Trophy, the NCAA Division II football equivalent to the Heisman Trophy.
 
Retzlaff is one of 11 nominees from Super Region Four, which includes schools from the Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference (NSIC), the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference (RMAC), the Lone Star Conference (LSC) and the Great Northwest Athletic Conference (GNAC) make up the 33-team NCAA Super Region Four this season.

The sports information directors at the 159 NCAA Division II football playing institutions nominate and vote on the award. The 43 initial candidates will be placed on regional ballots and the top two players from each of the four NCAA regions will advance to the national ballot when regional voting concludes on Monday, December 2.
 
During the 2024 season, Retzlaff, who was named the RMAC Offensive Player of the Year, led the RMAC in both receiving touchdowns (12) and receiving yards per game (116.9) and was second in the RMAC in receiving yards (1,169), receptions per game (8.4) and all-purpose yards per game (117.2). He caught a single-season school record 64 passes for a single-season school record 1,169 yards and tied the single-season school record for touchdown receptions with 12. Entering the NCAA Playoffs, he ranks in the Top 10 in Division II in touchdown receptions, receiving yards, and receiving yards per game, while his 24 career touchdown receptions are tied for tops on the school's all-time chart.
 
On the season, Retzlaff, who was a two-time RMAC Offensive Player of the Week and the NFF Colorado Chapter Player of the Week on Sept. 10, caught at least seven passes in six games, tallied 100 or more receiving yards in a game six times, including a single-game school record 241 yards in the Pack's 35-6 season-opening win at South Dakota Mines. He also hauled in two or more touchdown catches in four games.
 
He leads all Colorado football receivers (all levels) in touchdown receptions and is second in pass-receiving yards. Retzlaff is one of two players in school history to record 1,000 or more receiving yards in a season. Recorded a team-high 19 plays of 20 or more yards on the season, including a 76-yard touchdown reception from junior quarterback Roman Fuller (Decatur, Texas/University of Tulsa) at Western Colorado, which is the longest offensive play of the season. Eight of his 12 touchdown receptions went for 20 or more yards, and he sits eighth among active Division II players with 24 career touchdown receptions and third among active Division II players in career yards per catch (17.6).
 
Retzlaff is second straight Pack player to be nominated for the Harlon Hill Trophy as current Pack quarterbacks coach Chance Fuller was nominated in 2023. CSU Pueblo Class of 2024 Hall of Fame inductee Cameron McDondle was the most recent Pack player to be selected as a finalist for the award, which he was in 2015.
 
Retzlaff is one of six receivers that have been nominated for this year's Harlon Hill Trophy, including one of two receivers nominated from Super Region Four.
 
The 43 nominees will be pared down to eight national finalists – two from each of the NCAA super regions – before a winner is announced on Friday, Dec. 20. The trophy, which began in 1986, is named for the late Harlon Hill, a University of North Alabama star who went on to fame in the NFL with the Chicago Bears. It is sponsored and presented by the Little Rock Touchdown Club and Great American Conference.

In addition to Fuller, the other nominees from the RMAC for the Harlon Hill Trophy are Western Colorado junior defensive end Ricky Freymond and Colorado School of Mines junior receiver Flynn Schiele.
 
The other nominees from Super Region Four are Eastern New Mexico senior fullback Ron Craten, Augustana senior running back Jarod Epperson, Angelo State junior quarterback Braeden Fuller, Bemidji State junior defensive end Marcus Hansen, MSU Moorhead junior quarterback Jack Strand, Central Washington senior safety Tanner Volk and Minnesota Duluth junior quarterback Kyle Walljasper. 

Central Missouri's Zach Zebrowski won the award in 2023 and is looking to become the fifth repeat winner in award history. Slippery Rock quarterback Brayden Long, Valdosta State quarterback Sammy Edwards and Volk are returning finalists from last season, while Virginia Union running back was a finalist for the award in 2022. 
 
Retzlaff helped lead the Pack football team to a 10-1 overall record and a 9-0 mark in the RMAC as the Pack earned its ninth all-time league title and its first outright RMAC title in football since 2014. The Pack earned the No. 1 seed in Super Region Four and will host Minnesota State in a second-round playoff game on Saturday, Nov. 30 in the ThunderBowl at 1:00 p.m. MT.