2011 All-Minnesota Team

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QB Chase Vogler - Jr. - Rosemount - UMD - 1671 yards, 12 Pass Td, 64.7%, rushing: 682 yards, 6 td
RB Marcus Sims - Jr. - Osseo - South Dakota - 660 yards, 4 td, 5.2 avg
RB Zach Zenner - Fr. - Eagan - South Dakota State - 470 yards, 3 td, 4.4 avg
WR Mike Floyd - Sr. - Cretin-Derham Hall - Notre Dame - 95 receptions, 1108 yards, 8 touchdowns
WR Devin Crawford-Tufts - Fr. - Edina - Minnesota - 8 receptions, 156 yards
TE Matt Veldman - Sr. - Becker - North Dakota State - Starting Tight End for NDSU, 22 receptions for 257 yards and 3 touchdowns, All-Missouri Valley 2nd Team
TE Colin McGarry - Sr. - Stillwater - Minnesota - 16 receptions, 120 yards, 2 touchdowns
T Trevor Olson - Sr. - Richfield - Northern Illinois - Named to preseason Rotary Lombardi and Outland Trophy watch lists, no sacks given up, All-MAC, Northern Illinois Offensive Lineman of the Year
T Ed Olson - So. - Minnesota - 2010: Started 8 games; 2011: Starter
C Mottla/Wynn - So./Sr. - Cretin Derham-Hall/Maple Grove - Minnesota
G Tommy Olson - Fr. - Mahtomedi - Minnesota - Starter
G Chris Bunders - Sr. - Osseo - Minnesota - All- Big Ten Honorable Mention

DE Broderick Binns - Sr. - Cretin-Derham Hall - Iowa - 59 tackles, 5 sacks, 12 tfl
DT Beau Allen - So. - Minnetonka - Wisconsin - 19 tackles, 4.5 tfl, 4 sacks
DT Anthony Jacobs - Sr. - Northfield - Minnesota - 26 tackles, 6 tfl , 1 sact
DE Brendan Kelly - Jr. - Holy Angels - Wisconsin - 27 tackles, 4 tfl, 3 sacks
LB Mike Rallis - Jr. - Edina - Minnesota - 83 tackles, 5 tfl, 1.5 sacks
LB Derek Earls - Sr. - Waconia - Arizona - 74 tackles, 7 tfl
LB AJ Tarpley - So. - Wayzata - Stanford - 53 tackles, 4 tfl, 1.5 sacks, 1 int
CB Marcus Williams - So. - Hopkins - North Dakota State - 40 tackles, 7 int
CB Corey Frazier - Jr. - Eden Prarie - Rice - 46 tackles, 3 tfl, 1 int
S Kim Royston - Sr. - Cretin-Derham Hall - Minnesota - 123 tackles, 3.5 tfl, 1 sack, 1 int, All-Big Ten Honorable Mention
S Shane Potter - Sr. - Becker - South Dakota - 84 tackles, 6 tfl, 1 sack, 1 int, All-Great West, South Dakota Defensive Player of the Year

K/P Foley Schmidt - Sr. - St. Thomas Academy - Dartmouth - 11-13 field goals, 23-25 extra points, long 46, All-Ivy 2nd Team, 4 year starter at kicker
RETURN Marcus Williams and Devin Crawford-Tufts


Barely missed the cut (Honorable Mention)
CB Kyle Henderson - Sr. - Armstrong - Minnesota - 65 tackles, 4 tfl, 2 sacks
DB Dominique Hawkins -Sr. - Armstrong - North Dakota - 4 year starter, 3x (all-conference assuming he's named all-conference this year), 195 career tackles, and 4 career interceptions
DE Josh Biezuns - Sr. - Prior Lake - Wyoming - 53 tackles, 4 sacks, 2 forced fumbles
T Paul Cornick - Sr. - Orno - North Dakota State - NDSU captain, 3 year starter, allowed 2 sacks, All-Missouri Valley 1st Team
CB Varmah Sonie - Jr. - Apple Valley - Northern Iowa - 62 tackles, 3.5 tfl, 3 int, 1 int return for touchdown, All-Missouri Valley 1st Team
LB Bryce McNaul - Eden Prarie - Northwestern - Sr. - 68 tackles, 4 tfl, 1 int
G Gart Heikkinen - Jr. - Duluth Central - UMD - 2010: All-NSIC second team, 2011 All-NSIC and All-Americans have yet to be released, but entered the year as a 1st team Pre-Season All-American by D2Football.com
DT Ra'Shede Hageman - So. - Minneapolis Washburn - Minnesota - 13 tackles, 3 tfl, 1 sack
CB J.J. Swain - Jr. - Holy Angels - Northern Iowa - 65 tackles, 3 tfl, 3 int
T John Hutchins - Sr. - Simley - Wyoming - 2 year starter
DT Leevon Perry - So. - St. Agnes - North Dakota State - 26 tackles, 7tfl, 3.5 sacks
WR Terrell Sinkfield - Jr. - Hopkins - Northern Iowa - 27 receptions, 458 yds, 6 TD
LB Carlton Littlejohn - Fr. - Minneapolis North - North Dakota State - 44 tackles, 3.5 tfl, 0.5 sacks, 1 INT for a touchdown
T Billy Turner - So. - Mounds View - North Dakota State
G Emmett Lynch - Jr. - Howard Lake-Waverly-Winsted - North Dakota - 2 year starter at North Dakota
LB Jordain Waiwaiole - Sr. - Spring Lake Park - Air Force - 66 tackles, 1 tfl, 0.5 sacks
LB Alex Means - Jr. - Mankato East - Air Force - 71 tackles, 9 tackles for a loss, 6 sacks, 3 forced fumbles, 2 fumbles recovered and 2 blocked kicks
C Jake Fahrenkrug - Jr. - Robbinsdale Cooper - Florida State - Starting Center for Florida State after playing at NDSU his freshman year and then going JUCO where he became 4 stars

Feel free to tell me who I missed. Seantrel Henderson and Alex Schneider did not make the list, because they missed a lot of the year with injuries.
 

I'm biased towards Mankato West, but you could make a case for Dan Dobson at QB for St. Olaf. Passed for 2063 yards and 18 TDs and ran for 431 yards and 6 TDs.

EDIT: And Andy Pfeiffer for MSU-Mankato. RB who ran for 1,229 yards and 7 TDs as a RS-Freshman.
 

Nort73 said:
I'm biased towards Mankato West, but you could make a case for Dan Dobson at QB for St. Olaf. Passed for 2063 yards and 18 TDs and ran for 431 yards and 6 TDs.
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Another MIAC quarterback I could have put on the list is St. Scholastica's Alex Thiry. He went to Braham, and is a finalist for the Gagliardi Trophy (Heisman for D3). Thiry threw for 2608 yards, 37 touchdowns, and only 3 picks.
 

John Hutchins (Simley) - I believe is starting LT for WYOMING (looking to go 8-4 and should beat CSU today).
My dad lives NW of Ft. Collins and told me that Biezuns has had a very nice year for the Pokes (again).
 

RoyalGopher said:
Another MIAC quarterback I could have put on the list is St. Scholastica's Alex Thiry. He went to Braham, and is a finalist for the Gagliardi Trophy (Heisman for D3). Thiry threw for 2608 yards, 37 touchdowns, and only 3 picks.
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WOW, that's an impressive stat line.
 


Its Matt Veldman from Becker, Minnesota not Frank, who is his cousin but redshirted this year for NDSU
 

I hate seeing all those defensive players having good years for Sconnie and others...
 

And yet another MIAC QB, Augsburg QB Marcus Brumm had a nice season as well (not to mention the last second heroics against St. Johns which almost has to qualify as "drive of the year").
 

I haven't seen him play much but watched a little bit of the UMD game and wasn't that impressed with Vogler. He threw a really bad pick on their second to last drive (they lost). But his numbers on the year, hard to argue with.

And I agree with GopherinPhilly, I didn't realize Beau Allen had 4 sacks.
 



RoyalGopher said:
Another MIAC quarterback I could have put on the list is St. Scholastica's Alex Thiry. He went to Braham, and is a finalist for the Gagliardi Trophy (Heisman for D3). Thiry threw for 2608 yards, 37 touchdowns, and only 3 picks.
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Not to be nitpicky, but St. Scholastica is not MIAC. They are D3, but they play in a much worse D3 conference, I believe it is called the UMAC.
 

Some other things that I would change:

Kyle Henderson instead of Corey Frazier.

I'd also consider:
Jordan Waiwaiole - LB - Air Force
Tim Sauer - OL - Northern Iowa
 

It would seem like Sinkfield should get the nod of Crawford-Tufts for the 2nd WR spot. Sinkfield had 19 more receptions, 300+ additional yards and 6 more TD's. Even if the level of competition is lower it would seem like that outdoes a guy who caught less the one ball per game.

Other then that I like the list.
 

Buck_Buchanan said:
John Hutchins (Simley) - I believe is starting LT for WYOMING (looking to go 8-4 and should beat CSU today).
My dad lives NW of Ft. Collins and told me that Biezuns has had a very nice year for the Pokes (again).
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For some reason I thought Hutchins already graduated.


Bob_Loblaw said:
Some other things that I would change:

Kyle Henderson instead of Corey Frazier.

I'd also consider:
Jordan Waiwaiole - LB - Air Force
Tim Sauer - OL - Northern Iowa
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Whoops. Henderson and Hageman were supposed to be on the list. I decided to have Frazier start over Henderson, and put Henderson on honorable mention. I just forgot to put Henderson and Hageman on honorable mention. By the way, when I looked, All-Conference USA hadn't been posted, but Frazier is expected to be All-C-USA. I know he was 2nd team or Honorable Mention or something last year. Waiwaiole is another guy I missed. I think I might have put him on the list last year. Just forgot about him this year.
 



1) Brendan Kelly is a Holy Angels kid - not Eden Prairie.

2) Must have been a down year for WR is Crawford-Tufts is your 1st team WR. 8 catches for 156?? A lot of WR had more than that in one game....
 

Worth a mention at least is Paul Cornick from NDSU, he is an OT from Orono, MN. Paul was first team all-MVFC and I wouldn't be surprised to see him somewhere on a FCS All-American team as well.
 

Art Vandelay said:
1) Brendan Kelly is a Holy Angels kid - not Eden Prairie.

2) Must have been a down year for WR is Crawford-Tufts is your 1st team WR. 8 catches for 156?? A lot of WR had more than that in one game....
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It was kind of a down year for WRs from MN. You'd have to either go with a freshman who had a couple nice plays in the Big 10 (DCT) or a decent WR from an FCS team. But yeah, it has been kind of a down year for WRs from MN (with the exception of Michael Floyd).
 

Art Vandelay said:
1) Brendan Kelly is a Holy Angels kid - not Eden Prairie.

2) Must have been a down year for WR is Crawford-Tufts is your 1st team WR. 8 catches for 156?? A lot of WR had more than that in one game....
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Really? Name them.
 

Fritz Waldvogel, St. Thomas at wideout

Based on just one game, Ra'shede Hageman
 

Nice job changing Frank Veldman to Matt but Matt is from Becker, MN and Frank is from Eastview. Graduated with Shane Potter who is also on your list
 

Thanks for this fun exercise; shows how much Minnesota talent is out there, much of it not here...
 


Good list

NDSU:
M Will probably the best player on that list, 7 Int's 3 return td's and is only a soph
B Turner 6 6 310 beast and is only a soph
M Veldman 6 7 245 TE with great hands, NFL draft pick this spring
P Cornick 6 5 300 OG who is all conf for 3 years

Olson, Vraa, Littlejohn , John Crockett (totino 09') are all sophomore's who will be on this list in the next year or 2.
 

lakesbison said:
Good list

NDSU:
M Will probably the best player on that list, 7 Int's 3 return td's and is only a soph
B Turner 6 6 310 beast and is only a soph
M Veldman 6 7 245 TE with great hands, NFL draft pick this spring
P Cornick 6 5 300 OG who is all conf for 3 years

Olson, Vraa, Littlejohn , John Crockett (totino 09') are all sophomore's who will be on this list in the next year or 2.
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As much as I would love for that to happen, I don't even know if he will even be invited to the combine
 

From ESPN.com's Draft Buzz section under the heading "Small School Spotlight"

North Dakota State TE Matt Veldman vs. James Madison
Veldman has a massive frame (6-6⅞ , 254) and good top-end speed for his size. He has played his way into late-round consideration by improving both as a blocker and a pass catcher this season, and his best football is still ahead of him. Veldman is currently our No. 16-ranked tight end prospect, and the arrow is pointing up.

http://insider.espn.go.com/nfl/draft...2draftbuzz1202
 

Well I would love to see that but I'm shocked he is ranked that high considered he hasn't gotten a lot of postseason award buzz or anything. And coming from a non-BCS school its usually pretty hard to get the attention without that but I really hope he gets drafted that would be really sweet
 

Garth Heikkenan (Duluth Central) from UMD should be on there. I believe this will be his 2nd year in a row as an d-2 all american at guard and is only a junior.Very athletic bigman, was also all-area as a forward in basketball at Duluth Central.
 

Great stuff.. But just an FYI, some of the kids on the list you didn't put down their current schools (Floyd is obvious, but the K/P kid I have no clue about)
 

Bryce McNaul (Eden Prairie) lb, 68 tackles for Northwestern should be 1st team.
 

RoyalGopher said:
For some reason I thought Hutchins already graduated.
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Hutchins is starting RT for the 8-4 Cowboys

Biezuns earned Second Team All-Conference honors for the second consecutive season. He led Wyoming in tackles for loss, with 9.5, and in forced fumbles, with five. He ranked No. 3 in the MW in tackles among defensive linemen this season, with 60. Biezuns ranked No. 2 in the league and No. 8 in the nation in forced fumbles. He ranked No. 7 in the conference in tackles for loss, and ranked No. 9 in sacks, with 5.0.

Best of luck to those guys as they finish their careers this Saturday vs Temple in the New Mexico Bowl.
 

lakesbison said:
Good list

NDSU:
M Will probably the best player on that list, 7 Int's 3 return td's and is only a soph
B Turner 6 6 310 beast and is only a soph
M Veldman 6 7 245 TE with great hands, NFL draft pick this spring
P Cornick 6 5 300 OG who is all conf for 3 years

Olson, Vraa, Littlejohn , John Crockett (totino 09') are all sophomore's who will be on this list in the next year or 2.
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It's not even a competition, the best player on that list is Michael Floyd. It's really not close.

I liked Marcus, I wish it would have worked out for him and the U, but c'mon.
 

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