SLIPPERY ROCK — They arrived through difference circumstances.

Their production as members of the Slippery Rock University receiving corps has been unsurpassed nationally this season — and Jermaine Wynn, Jr., Henry Litwin and Cinque Sweeting are only juniors.

“None of them is very big,” SRU football coach Shawn Lutz said. “But their weight room work is incredible.

“Those guys are put together. They're fast, strong and have the best quarterback in the country getting them the ball.”

The results reflect all of that.

The 6-foot-1, 195-pound Litwin has 92 catches for 1,360 yards and 19 touchdowns. The 5-9, 185-pound Wynn has 90 catches for 1,320 yards and 15 scores. The 5-10, 195-pound Sweeting has 53 catches for 839 yards and nine TDs.

Greg Hopkins owned SRU's single-season record of 83 pass receptions in a season. He set that mark in 1994. Now Wynn Jr. and Litwin are battling each other to see which one winds up with that mark.

“Yeah, that's been kinda crazy,” Wynn Jr. said. “But it's not just us. The offensive line has to give (quarterback) Roland (Rivers III) time to throw and Roland is great at extending plays.

“We play off each other. California doubled me the whole game when we played them and the other two guys killed them. Someone has to be left in single coverage and we thrive on that.”

Wynn Jr. is a Woodland Hills High School graduate. He was only a starter his senior year, catching 18 passes as a wide receiver that season.

He caught exactly that many passes in SRU's playoff win over Shepherd two weeks ago.

“We had one of the top running backs in the country (Miles Sanders, now with the Philadelphia Eagles), so we didn't throw the ball much,” Wynn Jr. said. “I was hardly recruited by anybody.”

He wound up at Alderson-Broaddus in West Virginia, catching 28 passes for 562 yards and six touchdowns as a freshman. But the team finished 2-9.

“We lost maybe four games in my high school career,” Wynn Jr. recalled. “I didn't take to losing well. I wanted to get back closer to home, too. The opportunity arose at Slippery Rock and it worked out.”

Litwin is a Conneaut Area High School graduate who was heavily recruited by Division II schools and had a couple of preferred walk-on opportunities at Division I schools.

Mercyhurst, Seton Hill, Slippery Rock and Edinboro were among PSAC schools that recruited him out of high school.

“Slippery Rock didn't have any scholarship money to offer me and Edinboro offered me a lot,” Litwin said. “I came very close to going to Edinboro.

“I couldn't resist being part of Slippery Roock's program. I remember coming down to meet with Coach Lutz. I told him if he could give me a roster spot, I'd come play for him.”

Litwin began receiving scholarship money from SRU his sophomore year. He and Wynn Jr. were weight room partners when they arrived at The Rock.

“Thats where it all started,” Wynn Jr. said. “No one has ever pushed me in the weight room like Henry has. He's a fanatic.”

Sweeting has since made it a weight room trio as well as a receiving trio.

“First ones in there, last ones to leave,” Sweeting said of their weight room work.

A graduate of American High School in Hialeah, Fla., Sweeting attended Seton Hill University. As a sophomore running back for the Griffins last year, he rushed for 672 yards and caught passes for 165 more.

But Seton Hill didn't win and the coaching staff was fired at the end of the 2018 season.

“That freed me up to leave and I entered the transfer portal,” Sweeting said. “There were eight to 10 teams interested in me. Slippery Rock was my best option. I wanted to stay in Pennsylvania and I felt like I could contribute there.”

Upon arriving at The Riock, Sweeting was moved from running back to slotback.

“I was fine with it,” he said. “It was pretty much a natural move.”

Sweeting enters Saturday's Division II semifinal game against Minnesota State needing 161 yards to join Wynn Jr. and Litwin as 1,000-yard receivers this season.

“He deserves it,” Litwin said of Sweeting's potential 1,000-yard season. “Cinque has helped our offense open up in so many ways.”

“It'd be awesome if it happens,” Sweeting said of having three 1,000-yard receivers in the same year. “I've never heard of that happening anywhere.

“But that's in the background. It's all about getting the 'W' on Saturdays. That's first and foremost.”