It’s time once again to announce our SIS College Football Preseason All-Big 10 Team. We used our all-encompassing player value stat, Total Points, along with other metrics and our scouting work as leading references in putting together our selections.
A brief explanation of Total Points:
Total Points takes nearly everything that SIS measures about a play and uses it to evaluate each player on a scale that allows you to compare them more easily. It’s always useful to be able to understand the different ways in which players can be valuable. Does he break a lot of tackles? Does he get a lot of yards after the catch? Does he make the best out of a poor offensive line? Does he get more pressures than expected? Does he break up a lot of passes? Total Points offers the opportunity to take all of those elements and get a quick picture of how well a player is performing overall.
You can learn more about Total Points and the statistics referenced within this piece here.
Here are our selections:
1st Team Offense
Position | Name | School |
QB | Drew Allar | Penn State |
RB | Jonah Coleman | Washington |
RB | Makhi Hughes | Oregon |
WR | Jeremiah Smith | Ohio State |
WR | Elijah Saratt | Indiana |
TE | Dorian Fleming | Maryland |
T | Isaiah World | Oregon |
T | Carter Smith | Indiana |
G | Olaivavega Ioane | Penn State |
G | Justin Evans | Nebraska |
C | Greg Johnson | Minnesota |
1st Team Defense
Position | Name | School |
DT | Zane Durant | Penn State |
DT | Deven Eastern | Minnesota |
EDGE | Eric O’Neill | Rutgers |
EDGE | Mikail Kamara | Indiana |
LB | Sonny Styles | Ohio State |
LB | Taariq Al-Uqdah | Washington |
CB | D’Angelo Ponds | Indiana |
CB | Davison Igbinosun | Ohio State |
CB | Xavier Scott | Illinois |
S | Caleb Downs | Ohio State |
S | Kerry Brown | Minnesota |
1st Team Specialists
Position | Name | School |
K | Dominic Zvada | Michigan |
P | Rhys Dakin | Iowa |
Returner | Kaden Wetjen | Iowa |
Drew Allar, Jonah Coleman, Jeremiah Smith, Elijah Sarratt, Makhi Hughes, Isaiah World, Olaivavega Ioane, Zane Durant, Eric O’Neill, Mikail Kamara, D’Angelo Ponds, Davison Igbinosun, Xavier Scott, Caleb Downs, Kerry Brown, Dominic Zvada, Rhys Dakin, and Kaden Wetjen all made our Preseason All-American 1st or 2nd team in an absolutely LOADED conference. The secondary is especially deep, which left no room for fellow All-American Koi Perich unfortunately.
In addition to the big names, players like Carter Smith, Justin Evans, Deven Eastern, and Sonny Styles do the little things to help their teams win, which is reflected in their Total Points. Every player on this team is Top-4 among returning Big 10 players at their respective positions.
In a conference so deep, it is worth giving a special shoutout to Dani Dennis-Sutton, Jalen St. John, and Iapani Laloulu who just missed out on the 1st Team.