Tag: FWAA All-American

Another honor for Notre Dame’s star freshman offensive lineman

Who would have thought this would have happened before the season started

Not many of us thought that offensive tackle Joe Alt would made a contribution to the team for a few years. The converted tight end from Minnesota was looked at as more of a project, but that wasn’t how it turned out to be.

After an injury to fellow classmate Blake Fisher, Alt was thrown to the wolves, but he didn’t act like a pup. Actually, once Alt was added to the starting offensive line, the run game looked like last years and the offense took off.

Already garnering multiple Freshman All-American honors, Alt received yet another one today, as he was named to the Football Writers Association of America Freshman All-American first-team.

A very bright future for Alt and the Irish offensive line over at minimum the next two seasons.

Garrett Wilson, Nicholas Petit-Frere named first-team All-American by FWAA

Congrats on an upcoming tree in Buckeye Grove for Garrett Wilson and Nicholas Petit-Frere. #GoBucks

It’s the time of year when we start to get the All-American nods coming for college football, and that generally means you’ll see a lot of scarlet and gray dripping from the lists. That is indeed the case with the Football Writers Association of America’s version, with Ohio State players Garrett Wilson and Nicholas Petit-Frere being named to their First-Team All-American squad.

Wilson caught 70 passes for 1,058 yards and 12 touchdowns during the regular season in 2021. He is part of a dynamic trio of OSU receivers and will have a good chance of being a first-round draft pick in this upcoming NFL draft.

Petit-Frere, a former 5-star recruit, started at left tackle for the first time his junior season in 2021 and helped pave the way for an OSU offense that was arguably the most dynamic in all of college football with a nation’s best 551.1 yards per game and 45.5 points per contest.

The FWAA is one of five All-American teams considered as the five publications needed to be considered for consensus All-American honors, and a Buckeye need only be on one of these lists to get a tree in Buckeye Grove. So, congrats to Petit Frere and Wilson on some landscaping in the very near future.

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