The preseason accolades and honors are beginning to flow this summer. Athlon Sports released its preseason all-conference teams as the annual preseason magazine begins to hit newsstands, and the Big Ten preseason all-conference teams have a nice handful of Penn State players sprinkled throughout. Defense is the story of Penn State’s preseason All-Big Ten honorees from Athlon Sports with two defensive fixtures named first-team All-Big Ten for the preseason.
Defensive lineman [autotag]PJ Mustipher[/autotag] and safety [autotag]Ji’Ayir Brown[/autotag] each appeared on the preseason All-Big Ten defense first team from Athlon Sports, and cornerback [autotag]Joey Porter Jr. [/autotag]and linebacker [autotag]Curtis Jacobs[/autotag] made the second team.
In all, Penn State has eight players appearing on Athlon Sports’ four-deep All-Big Ten preseason team, with five defensive players and three offensive players. A notable exemption from the list is quarterback [autotag]Sean Clifford[/autotag], who is returning for his sixth season in Happy Valley. The preseason All-Big Ten quarterback according to Athlon Sports includes CJ Stroud of Ohio State, Aidan O’Connell of Purdue, Taulia Tagovailoa of Maryland, and Payton Thorne of Michigan State.
You can check out the entire Athlon Sports preseason All-Big Ten teams here, but below is a look at where each Penn State player landed in the preseason mix.