Last edited by VirginiaBison; 08-01-2018 at 11:32 PM.
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STATS FCS All-American team is out.
Easton Stick is 2nd Team QB, SDSU QB Taryn Christian did not make 1st team QB - that was senior Devlin Hodges from Samford
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.nca...team-announced
RB Bruuuuce Anderson & S Robbie Grimsley are on the 1st team.
QB Stick, OL Tanner Volson and DE Greg Menard are on the 2nd Team.
Junior OL Zack Johnson and sophomore LB Jabril Cox are on the 3rd team
Here's the preseason all-conference defensive teams:
http://www.valley-football.org/news/...e-defense.aspx
NDSU leads the way again with 4 first teamers (Mendard, Steidl, Cox, and Grimsley) and is tied with Indiana St (who had 5 guys on the 2nd team) of all teams with 5 players represented overall (Tuzska was second team DL). 3 of the 4 starting D-line made the list and it couldn't been all 4 as Caleb Butler arguably was snubbed.
I have to say I am surprised that there are five Sycamore players on the second team given how bad they were last year and despite that level of apparent respect the conference voters have them finishing last in the conference again. You would think that a defense made up of nearly half the players being of all conference ability would get your stock up to something above last place.
I would guess that the defense was young last year and they were on the field A LOT so they had ample opportunity to rack up gaudy tackle numbers. A guy on AGS said their two 2nd team LBs are the 2nd and 3rd returning leading tacklers in the conference. I would guess that an average NDSU defender sees about half the snaps of the average ISUb defender on the year since ISUb has less depth to work with and a lot more defensive snaps to play each game.