Western Carolina University

PRONUNCIATION: tuh-RON Dickens

2025 (Redshirt Sophomore): Named first-team All-Southern Conference at quarterback and the SoCon Preseason Offensive Player of the Year ... Dubbed second-team Preseason All-America by Stats Perform FCS ... Appeared on the Stats Perform FCS Preseason Walter Payton Award Watch List.

2024 (Redshirt Freshman): Played in seven games with four consecutive starts at the end of the season in place of Cole Gonzales, guiding WCU to a 3-1 record as a starter … Finished 127-for-172, completing 73.8 percent of his pass attempts, with 12 touchdown passes and three interceptions … Tossed TD passes in five of the seven games he played … Rushed for 56 yards and two scores on the season … Made his first collegiate start in the home win over Chattanooga (Nov. 2), throwing for a career-high 431 passing yards with five passing touchdowns, adding 41 rushing yards on a career-high 19 attempts and one reception for eight yards to total 480 yards of total offense … Earned his first of two Southern Conference Player of the Week honors following the Chattanooga win … Eclipsed the 400-yard passing mark in the road win at Samford (Nov. 23), completing a career-high 36 passes for 408 yards and two TDs to earn SoCon Offensive Player of the Week accolades … Selected to the SoCon All-Freshman team … Named third-team Freshman All-America by Phil Steele and was a Freshman All-America honoree by FCS Football Central by Sports Illustrated … Was a finalist for the Jerry Rice Award, finishing 15th in the final vote … Completed 7-of-12 passes for a scrimmage-best 151 yards, including a nine-yard TD passes to lead the White Team in WCU’s annual Spring Game.

2023 (Freshman): Played in two games as a reserve at quarterback as a true freshman … Finished 4-for-6 passing for 127 yards and a touchdown … Made his collegiate debut in the home win over Charleston Southern (Sept. 23) … Completed 3-of-4 passes for a career-high 91 yards through the air including a long pass of 65 yards and his first career touchdown pass of 17 yards to Ca’Lique Cunningham … Rushed six times against the Buccaneers … Completed 1-of-2 passes against ETSU (Nov. 11) for 36 yards … In WCU’s annual Spring Game, completed 4-of-10 passes for 54 yards with an interception.

Prior to Western Carolina: In 10 games, completed 137-of-212 passes (64.6%) for 2,233 yards and 22 touchdowns with just four interceptions, according to MaxPreps … Added 424 rushing yards with five touchdowns on the ground … Selected as the Florida 6A Player of the Year and the top-rated passer in Florida … Over his final two years as a prep, passed for 5,976 yards with 64 touchdowns and 12 INTs, adding a total of 911 rushing yards and 14 scores … Listed as a three-star recruit by 247Sports and a two-star recruit by Rivals.

Personal: Full name is Taron Tyger Dickens.

WCU Career-Highs:
Pass Completions - 36, at Samford (11/23/24)
Pass Attempts - 48, Chattanooga (11/2/24)
Passing Yards - 431, Chattanooga (11/2/24)
400-Yd Passing Games - 2 
Passing Touchdowns - 5, Chattanooga (11/2/24)
Rushes - 19, Chattanooga (11/2/24)
Rushing Yards - 41, Chattanooga (11/2/24)
Rushing Touchdowns - 2, at ETSU (11/9/24)