Seven Oklahoma Players Earn AP All-Big 12 Honors

With the common season within the rearview mirror, postseason awards season is in full swing with the Related Press releasing their all-conference groups on Friday.

Within the Large 12, seven Oklahoma gamers acquired choice for the all-league groups with two getting first-team honors.

Offensive sort out Anton Harrison and punter Michael Turk have been each named to the highest group whereas 5 different Sooners received second-team nods in quarterback Dillon Gabriel, working again Eric Grey, large receiver Marvin Mims, offensive sort out Wanya Morris and tight finish Brayden Willis.

Gabriel was additionally tabbed because the Large 12 Newcomer of the 12 months by the AP, simply as he was by the league’s coaches final week. He led the convention in passing yards per recreation this season with 265.9.

Turk, who was tabbed as a semifinalist for the Ray Man Award, led the Large 12 and ranked third within the nation in common punt yardage with 46.7 per kick.

Harrison and Morris fashioned a top-tier tackles duo alongside an offensive line that wound up being one of many vivid spots for Oklahoma as a crew. Each gamers have declared for the NFL Draft.

That can also be the case for Grey, who strikes to the subsequent degree after a sensational season that noticed him go for 1,364 dashing yards – the ninth-most in OU program historical past.

Mims and Willis each served as two of the very favourite targets within the passing recreation this season, with Mims rating second within the convention in receiving yards with 1,006 and Willis notching a career-high 456 yards on 35 receptions with seven touchdowns.

This extends a streak for Oklahoma in having at the least seven gamers chosen to the AP All-Large 12 groups in each single yr since 2014.