Tyler Neville
HONORS
2024 – Shrine Bowl 1,000 preseason watchlist.
AT VIRGINIA:
2024 – Recorded his first two-touchdown game of his career in 31-30 win at Wake Forest (9/7) … first Cavalier tight end with two touchdown receptions in a game since Tom Santi against Duke on Sept. 8, 2007.
PRIOR TO VIRGINIA (HARVARD)
HONORS: 2023 AFCA FCS Coaches’ First Team All-American … 2023 First Team All-Ivy League honors … 2023 Phil Steele First Team All-Ivy League selection … co-winner of Harvard football’s 2023 Coach Joseph Restic Award for leadership, scholarship and integrity. 2022 NEFW All-New England Team… 2022 First Team All-Ivy selection … 2022 Phil Steele First-Team All-Ivy League… 2022 Bluebloods First-Team All-Ivy League… New England Football Journal First-Team All-New England.
CAREER
• Played in all 30 games of his Harvard career (freshman season was canceled due to CoVID19)
• Caught 62 passes for 698 yards and eight touchdowns over the course of three seasons.
• Harvard went 22-8 in his three seasons.
• Two-time First Team All-Ivy selection at tight end.
• Harvard ranked in the top-three in rushing offense in each of his three years (led Ivy in 2023).
2023
• Caught 24 passes (second-most on team) for 283 yards (third-most on team) and four touchdowns.
• His four touchdowns led the team and were the fifth-most in the Ivy League.
• Helped block for the Ivy league’s No. 1 rushing attack (194.6 yards per game) and Ivy League rushing champion Shane McLaughlin.
• Caught a pass in nine of 10 games.
• Recorded touchdown receptions in three of the first four games (St. Thomas, Brown, Cornell). Also hauled in a touchdown catch in the 139th meeting against Yale on Nov. 18.
2022
• Played in all 10 games
• Ranked tied for first on the team in touchdowns (4), second in receptions (26) and third in yardage (302)
• Averaged 11.62 yards per reception
• Had a season-high five catches and 78 yards with one TD vs. Princeton
• Also had five receptions for 60 yards and a touchdown at Penn
• Also caught one TD pass at Cornell and vs. Yale.
2021
• Played in all 10 games
• For the season, caught 12 passes for 113 yards for an average of 11.3 yards per game.
• Grabbed first career reception for 12 yards in a win over Cornell on Oct. 6
PREP & PERSONAL
• Played at Lafayette High and started for two seasons at tight end and outside linebacker…
• Served as team captain as a senior
• Three-time all-region performer and earned recognition at two different positions as a senior
• Named to the all-district, all-state and all-757 team twice
• An accomplished three-year starter for the basketball team
• Voted to the all-district and all-region hoops team three times
• Selected to the all-state basketball team twice and was named the district player of the year and tournament MVP on two different occasions…
• Helped the Lafayette hoops squad to its first district title
• Finished his basketball career as a 1,000-point scorer
• Earned a spot on the school’s Honor Roll
• Father, Thomas, played football at the Naval Academy (1991-95)
• Brother, Trey, played football at Army from 2016-20 while current UVA special teams coordinator, Keith Gaither was on staff.