Carroll College Athletics

A 6’3”, 185-lb. split end from C.M. Russell, Daryl Wilkerson gained fame as a “big play” receiver for the Saints first NAIA play-off team. His school-record 15 career touchdown catches averaged 36 yards per score – with longs of 65, 55, 47 and 44 yards – while earning three All-Conference selections. In 1975 at DB, he posted 2 interceptions. His sophomore year, Daryl compiled 36 receptions for 610 yards and 3 TDs, and in 1977, he pulled in 19 passes for 376 yards and a pair of scores. 

Wilkerson had a banner year as a senior when he gained 690 receiving yards and raced to pay-dirt nine times. Carroll went 9-0 for the program’s fourth undefeated regular season and were ranked No. 2 in the country, before losing to McMinneville, OR, in the national playoffs. Daryl was selected 1978 All-District and NAIA D-II All-American honorable mention. He left the school with five grid records, including game receptions (8) and receiving yards (tie, 145), season touchdown catches, and lifetime yards (2067) and TD receptions. 

He also played three years of basketball on the Hilltop, scoring in double digits 12 times, with high games of 15 points and 13 rebounds. His junior season, he averaged 7.2 ppg and 4.3 rpg. At the 1979 Frontier Track championships, he earned his 8th CC letter and produced the meet’s farthest long jump of 21-feet, but scratched. Wilkerson later tried out with the NFL Denver Broncos and Seattle Seahawks, and (after a hitch in the military) CFL’s Edmonton Eskimos.