While the Slippery Rock University football team has been doing plenty of winning in recent years, it’s been doing something else as well.

SRU has been providing community sports fans with individual athletes completing major accomplishments in rather entertaining fashion.

Running back Wes Hills ran for a program-record 1,714 yards in 2018 — combining power and explosiveness — and wound up playing in the NFL with the Detroit Lions.

Defensive end Marcus Martin broke college football’s career quarterback sack record with 56— all divisions — a few years ago. He forced a fumble and returned it for a touchdown during the game in which he broke that record. He was a national finalist for the Gene Upshaw Lineman of the Year Award twice.

Quarterback Roland Rivers III shattered every Rock passing record imaginable in 2019, rushed for a bunch of yards as well, and won the Harlon Hill Trophy as the best football player in all of Division II.

Now The Rock has another player worth seeing.

Henry Litwin.

The 6-foot-1, 195-pound receiver may just be the most electrifying receiver in the country. He broke SRU single-season records in 2019 with 103 catches for 1,509 yards and 21 touchdowns.

Before anyone thinks those numbers were a by-product of Rivers throwing him the ball, Litwin opened the 2021 season Thursday night by catching nine passes for 161 yards and a touchdown. Andrew Koester is SRU’s quarterback this season.

Litwin’s 40-yard touchdown catch was made one-handed with a defender all over him.

This guy is the real deal.

Numerous NFL scouts came to SRU’s preseason camp to check him out. Shawn Lutz, The Rock head coach, says Litwin is good enough to start for teams in Division I’s power-five conferences.

He’s not exaggerating.

Litwin has clearly hit the weight room to the point where he is physically able to break tackles and run through aggressive defensive backs at the point of attack.

Besides making circus catches, he rarely drops anything.

And the guy seemingly gets open on every play.

“Our defense couldn’t contain him in camp,” Lutz admitted. “We doubled him, tripled him ... He’s just so elusive. We couldn’t stop him.”

What helps Litwin is SRU’s overall passing game. While he ranked second in all of Division II with his 1,509 receiving yards last year, teammate Jermaine Wynn Jr. was fifth with 1,339. Cinque Sweeting added 859 yards receiving.

In fact, SRU’s top four receivers — and all are back — combined for 285 catches, 4,108 yards and 48 touchdowns in 2019.

If The Rock doesn’t have the most dangerous passing attack in all of Division II this fall, I shudder to think about what the one that beats it looks like.

If you’re a football fan, this is an air game worth catching.

And Henry Litwin is at the head of its class.

John Enrietto is sports editor of the Butler Eagle