FAYETTEVILLE — The awards maintain rolling in for College of Arkansas middle Ricky Stromberg.
The senior from Tulsa, Okla., a first-team All-SEC alternative by SEC coaches and the Related Press earlier this week, was introduced Wednesday because the winner of the Jacobs Blocking Trophy, which is voted on by SEC coaches and given yearly to the league’s most excellent blocker.
Stromberg, a 6-4, 313-pounder, who began all 12 video games and performed 898 snaps, has declared for the NFL Draft. Stromberg didn’t permit a sack or a quarterback hit all season and helped pave the way in which for the nation’s No. 9 speeding offense with 223.4 yards per sport.
The Jacobs Trophy originated in 1935 and was named for Dr. William P. Jacobs, the founder and president (1935-45) of Presbyterian Faculty.
Georgia’s seventh-year Coach Kirby Good, who led the Bulldogs to a 13-0 begin, the SEC championship and the No. 1 rating within the Faculty Soccer Playoffs (CFP), was voted as coach of the 12 months by his friends.
The Bulldogs pulled down two of the highest particular person awards, as kicker Jack Podlesny was chosen because the particular groups participant of the 12 months.
Tennessee quarterback Hendon Hooker was chosen because the SEC offensive participant of the 12 months after passing for 3,135 yards and 27 touchdowns to associate with 430 speeding yards and seven touchdowns and main the league in passing effectivity and complete offense.
Hooker, who suffered a torn knee ligament late within the season and can be out for the Volunteers’ matchup in opposition to Clemson within the Orange Bowl, helped Tennessee lead the nation with 47.3 factors and 538.1 yards per sport.
Alabama linebacker Will Anderson repeated because the SEC defensive participant of the 12 months. The junior leads the SEC and ranks sixth within the nation with 10 sacks. He’s seventh within the nation with 17 tackles for loss. Anderson is the primary repeat winner of SEC defensive participant of the 12 months because the award’s inception in 2003.
Podlesny leads he SEC in area objective share at 88.5% after making 23 of 26 tries. Moreover, 73 of his 91 kickoffs have been both touchbacks or honest catches.
Ole Miss tailback Quinshon Judkins was voted as SEC freshman of the 12 months. Judkins broke Ole Miss single-season data with an SEC-best 1,476 speeding yards and 16 touchdowns. He ranks third in SEC historical past for speeding yards by a freshman.
Mississippi State wideout Austin Williams was acknowledged because the SEC Scholar-Athlete of the 12 months. A two-time first-team Educational All-American, Williams has a 4.0 cumulative grade level common throughout his profession with the Bulldogs.
Good is the primary man since Alabama’s Nick Saban in 2008-09 to be named SEC coach of the 12 months in consecutive seasons. His Bulldogs tackle No. 4 seed Ohio State within the Peach Bowl, a CFP semifinal, on Dec. 31 in Atlanta.
The SEC introduced that its All-Freshman workforce can be launched immediately.