The Athletic: College Football All America Teams at Midseason - Tyler Nubin 2nd team

[MisterGopher]

Midseason All-America teams: 50 stars of the college football season so far

Michael Penix Jr. headlines our midseason All-America teams, which feature 50 players from 34 schools.

theathletic.com

Second Team Defense & Special Teams

POS.	PLAYER	TEAM
DE	Laiatu Latu	UCLA
DE	Ashton Gillotte	Louisville
DT	Tyleik Williams	Ohio State
DT	Howard Cross III	Notre Dame
LB	Jason Henderson	Old Dominion
LB	Cedric Gray	North Carolina
LB	Payton Wilson	NC State
DB	Tyler Nubin	Minnesota
DB	Xavier Watts	Notre Dame
DB	Jaylin Simpson	Auburn
DB	Kalen King	Penn State
K	Graham Nicholson	Miami (OH)
P	Jack Bouwmeester	Utah
AP	Silas Bolden	Oregon State

 

[fmlizard]

Dragan Kesich is the best kicker in the NCAA and just needs a few more FG attempts.

The tape doesn't lie. He's a future NFL kicker. Should be first-team.

The only problem is that as I posted last season, a growing body of evidence shows that kicking the ball super deep on kickoffs actually improves opponent starting field position.

For the second straight season, the worst team at deep kickoffs (Northwestern) allows their opponents the worst starting field position. The team with the highest touchback % (Minnesota) allows the best starting field position to opponents.

 

[MNVCGUY]

Dragan Kesich is the best kicker in the NCAA and just needs a few more FG attempts.

The tape doesn't lie. He's a future NFL kicker. Should be first-team.

The only problem is that as I posted last season, a growing body of evidence shows that kicking the ball super deep on kickoffs actually improves opponent starting field position.

For the second straight season, the worst team at deep kickoffs (Northwestern) allows their opponents the worst starting field position. The team with the highest touchback % (Minnesota) allows the best starting field position to opponents.

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Kickers going to the NFL is always such a crap shoot but agree that Kesich will have a great shot at making it with his long kickoffs and so far great accuracy on FGs which has been a really pleasant surprise.

As for he kickoff thing.....I will take a sure TB nearly every time over the risk of a long return. It might give the offense slightly better starting field position but also eliminates the chance of them getting great starting field position after a long return.

 

[ChromeDomeGopher]

I’m just glad we’re kicking it in bounds now.