The Big 12 Conference decided on Wednesday to postpone the league’s soccer media days until August 3, but the 2020 preseason All-Big 12 soccer team was released as scheduled on Thursday.
Texas was well represented on the annual team voted by the members of the media covering the conference. All five winners won the team of head coach Tom Herman – quarterback Sam Ehlingeroffensive lineman Samuel Cosmilinebacker Joseph Ossai and defensive backs D’Shawn Jamison and Caden Sterns – They were tied with Oklahoma for most player picks from any school in the league.
The Longhorns led the conference on preseason defense picks with Jamison and Sterns, making Texas the only school in the league with multiple defensive backs to be voted for the team (the two Oklahoma linemen on the first team offense. – Creed Humphrey and Adrian Ealy – represented the only other position group where multiple players from the same school were chosen). Sterns and Ehlinger were first-team preseason picks in 2019 (Ehlinger was an honorable mention to All-Big 12 picks by league coaches for their efforts last season) and the starting quarterback for the Longhorns leads the Texas contingent.
Ehlinger didn’t repeat as the league’s preseason offensive player of the year with this summer’s honor by going to the Oklahoma state runner Chuba Hubbard. However, Ehlinger is the media’s choice as the best Big 12 quarterback to enter his final season in Texas after a 2019 season in which he represented 4,326 yards of total offense (No. 2 in the history of school) and 39 touchdowns (No. 3 in a single total season by a Longhorn) and joined Colt McCoy (2008) as the only Texas quarterbacks to throw for more than 3,500 yards (3,663) and 30 or more touchdowns (32) in the same season.
Ehlinger is the only FBS player to record 50 touchdowns (57) and 20 touchdowns (23) in the past two seasons, and is the active leader of the FBS career in passing yards (8,870), touchdowns (57), total offense (10,400) and total touchdowns (93) and leads all active Power Five quarterbacks in rushing yards per run (1,530) and rushing touchdowns (25).
Cosmi was the only Longhorn and one of only four players in the conference (Hubbard, Humphrey and Oklahoma state wide receiver) Tylan Wallace) to be named a unanimous selection for the team. Already named a preseason All-American by the Walter Camp Football Foundation, Cosmi was an All-Big 12 second team in 2019 when he started all 13 games for Texas at left tackle after starting 13 games at right tackle as a freshman student. year of red t-shirt.
Ossai’s move to the JACK hybrid position in Chris AshThe defense could unlock the vast potential it showed last season. A 13-game starter who led the Longhorns in tackles (90), tackles to loss (13.5) and sacks (five) in 2019, Ossai’s outstanding performance was in the team’s victory at Alamo Bowl over Utah, where he earned honors. Defensive MVPs after recording nine tackles, six loss tackles and three sacks while playing a role similar to his junior role.
The 38-10 victory over the Utes was a reminder of what Sterns can do when he’s healthy. An eight-tackle performance was a satisfying finale to a season in which Sterns missed four full games due to a knee injury.
The ailment led to a perceived second-year depression for Sterns after a first-year campaign in 2018 where he was named All-American All-American, All-Big 12 First Team, Jim Thorpe Award Semifinalist and Big 12 Defensive Freshman of the Year. A 21-game starter for the Longhorns, Sterns has 14 games of five tackles or more on his career record and is tied for Chris Carter and Quandre Diggs for the school record of interceptions by a freshman (four).
Jamison made a successful transition from wide receiver in 2018 to cornerback last season, the position he was recruited to play outside of high school. In 13 games (nine starts) in 2019, Jamison scored 35 tackles, 3.5 tackles per loss, three interceptions, three pass breaks, one forced fumble, and one fumble recovery.
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Jamison also had a 71-yard punt return in the Alamo Bowl win that established a touchdown and made it to the end zone when he ran a 98-yard kickoff for a touchdown in the closing moments of a victory over Rice in the NRG. Houston Stadium. The return-to-start touchdown followed a 90-yard punt return for a touchdown Jamison recorded in a road win over the state of Kansas in 2018.
