Rico Flores Jr. holds the WR-Z · Starter spot in Virginia Cavaliers’s wide receiver room. Where he sits among the room’s front-line roles:

Rico Flores Jr. is a 6'2", 211-pound wide receiver from North Highlands, California, who attended Folsom High School where he recorded 201 receptions for 3,222 yards and 32 touchdowns. A consensus four-star recruit, Flores enrolled at Notre Dame in 2023, appearing in 12 games with two starts and posting 27 receptions for 392 receiving yards and one touchdown. He transferred to UCLA in January 2024, appearing in four games during his debut season with 12 catches for 187 yards and one touchdown, including a 102-yard performance against Hawai'i. In 2025 at UCLA, Flores appeared in eight of nine games, recording 26 receptions for 274 yards. Across three seasons at Notre Dame and UCLA, he totaled 65 receptions for 853 receiving yards and two touchdowns over 24 games. Flores now joins Virginia as a graduate transfer.

Notre Dame2023

UCLA2024 – 2025

Virginia2026 — present