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Mountain West Wire Presents Its 2020 Preseason All-Mountain West Football Teams

Our staff has made its selections for the best of Mountain West football heading into the 2020 season.

Who do we expect to be the conference’s best this fall?

The status of the 2020 college football season is still very much uncertain, but that didn’t stop our staff from putting its collective heads together to create our fourth annual preseason all-Mountain West football team. If you’re interested in seeing the first three iterations, click here for the 2017 preseason selections here for 2018, and here for 2019.

This time, our all-conference roster goes four deep. We have also continued our efforts to better reflect the variety we see week in and week out throughout the conference, too:

We vote for a Defensive Flex player to better reflect that some units — like Boise State, San Diego State, and Wyoming — often operate with five defensive backs or a nickelback/linebacker hybrid in their 3-3-5 or 4-2-5.
We split our linebacker selections into two, inside and outside, as we’d previously differentiated between centers, guards and tackles on the offensive lines and between interior lineman and edge rushers on defense.
We vote for three wide receivers instead of two.

If you disagree with our choices, feel free to let us know what you’d have done differently on Twitter or Facebook.

This year’s voters: Jeremy Mauss, Collin Clovis (Boise State), Josh Fredlund (Colorado State), Matthew Kenerly (Fresno State), Brandon Blake (Nevada), Roger Holien (New Mexico), Trey Johnson (San Diego State), Logan Jones and Sam McConkie (Utah State), and Jesse Tachiquin (Wyoming).

First Team

Offense

QB – Hank Bachmeier, Boise State
RB – Xazavian Valladay, Wyoming
RB – George Holani, Boise State
WR – Warren Jackson, Colorado State
WR – Tre Walker, San Jose State
WR – Khalil Shakir, Boise State
TE – Trey McBride, Colorado State
C – Keegan Cryder, Wyoming
G – Nolan Laufenberg, Air Force
G – Solo Vaipulu, Hawaii
T – Parker Ferguson, Air Force
T – Ilm Manning, Hawaii

Note: In the interest of full disclosure, our staff originally voted Air Force quarterback Donald Hammond III as our first-selection at quarterback. Given his now-uncertain status for the upcoming season, however, we made the choice remove him.

Defense

DT – Dom Peterson, Nevada
DT – Cameron Thomas, San Diego State
DE – Keshawn Banks, San Diego State
DE – Solomon Byrd, Wyoming
OLB – Riley Whimpey, Boise State
OLB – Troy Lefeged Jr., Utah State
ILB – Demonte Meeks, Air Force
ILB – Justin Rice, Fresno State
CB – Darren Hall, San Diego State
CB – Jalen Walker, Boise State
S – Tariq Thompson, San Diego State
S – Shaq Bond, Utah State
FLEX – Kekaula Kaniho, Boise State

Special Teams

K – Brandon Talton, Nevada
P – Ryan Stonehouse, Colorado State
KR – Savon Scarver, Utah State
PR – Avery Williams, Boise State

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