LANCASTER, Pa. – Colorado State University Pueblo redshirt senior receiver
Reggie Retzlaff (Corona, Calif./Riverside City College) added another postseason accolade to his tally on Monday as he was named the First-Team Offense on the 2025 D2Football.com Elite 100 Team.
Along with his First-Team selection to the D2Football.com Elite 100 Team, Retzlaff has been named to all five All-America teams as he was been named a First-Team All-America selection by the Associated Press, Don Hansen Division II Football Gazette and D2Football.com, and was a Second-Team All-America honoree by the American Football Coaches Association (AFCA) and Division II Conference Commissioners' Association (D2CCA).
Retzlaff, was named to the Second-Team Offense last season on the D2Football.com Elite 100 Team, moves up to the first team this season after repeating as both a First-Team All-Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference selection and D2CCA All-Super Region Four selection and being a repeat nominee for the Harlon Hill Trophy this season.
During the 2025 season, Retzlaff ranked second in the league in receiving yards (993) and yards per game (90.3), and led the league in receiving touchdowns (16) and receptions (72), and receptions per game (6.55). He also ranked third in scoring with an average of 8.7 points per game and fifth in all-purpose yards per game (90.3) during the 2025 season.
Retzlaff, who was named the RMAC Offensive Player of the Week and NFF Colorado Chapter Player of the Week following the Colorado School of Mines game, set the school's career marks for receptions (187), receiving yards (3,026) and receiving touchdowns (40), along with setting new single-season school records this season for receptions (68) and touchdowns (15) and had a single-game school record 14 receptions in the 2025 regular season finale against 22nd-ranked Chadron State and is second on the school's all-time scoring chart with 240 points. He recorded two or more touchdown receptions in six games and had four games this season with seven or more receptions.
Additionally, Retzlaff, led all Colorado football receivers (at all levels) in receptions, receiving yards, and receiving touchdowns. Retzlaff, who is one of two players in school history to record 1,000 or more receiving yards in a season, had a team-best 16 plays of 20 or more yards, including three touchdown receptions of 20 or more yards. At the end of the regular season, Retzlaff, who was named the 2024 RMAC Offensive Player of the Year, closed out the season as the active Division II leader in career touchdown receptions (40) and is fourth among active D-II players in career receiving yards (3,026) and is the D-II active leader in career receiving yards per game (91.7). Additionally, he is seventh among all active D-II players in career touchdowns with 40, which is fourth in the state of Colorado history. He also tallied 11 career games with 100 or more receiving yards, including a school record 241 yards in last season's opener at South Dakota Mines.
Retzlaff was one of eight players from the RMAC named to the 2025 D2Football.com Elite 100 Team and was one of two first-team selections as he was joined on the First-Team offense by Black Hills receiver TJ Chukwurah. In addition to Retzlaff and Chukwurah, Western Colorado's Ricky Freymond and Chadron State's Logan O'Brien were named to the Second-Team Defense, while Colorado School of Mines punter Lucas LeSierur was named to the Second-Team Special Teams, while Western Colorado's Drew Nash and Chadron State's Tommy Thomas were named to the Squad Offense and Fort Lewis' Jacob Penney was named to the Squad Defense.
Along with announcing the D2Football.com Elite 100 Team, the organization also named its Offensive and Defensive Players of the Year and its Coach of the Year, along with its Offensive and Defensive Coordinators for the 2025 season. Virginia Union running back Curtis Allen was named the Offensive Player of the Year, while UT-Permian Basin linebacker Tristan Exline was named the Defensive Player of the Year and Newberry's Todd Knight was named the Coach of the Year. The Offensive Coordinator of the Year was Ferris State's Steve Annese and Kutztown's Eric Fargo was named the Defensive Coordinator of the Year.