It’s time once again to announce our SIS College Football Preseason All-Big 12 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 Sam Leavitt Arizona State
RB Bryson Washington Baylor
RB Kanye Udoh Arizona State
WR Eric McAlister TCU
WR Cam Vaughn West Virginia
TE Terrance Carter Jr. Texas Tech
T Paul Rubelt UCF
T Spencer Fano Utah
G Xavier Hill Colorado
G Ben Coleman Arizona State
C Gavin Gerhardt Cincinnati

1st Team Defense

Position Name School
DT Lee Hunter Texas Tech
DT Skyler Gill-Howard Texas Tech
EDGE David Bailey Texas Tech
EDGE Nyjalik Kelly UCF
LB Isaiah Glasker BYU
LB Lander Barton Utah
CB Jontez Williams Iowa State
CB DJ McKinney Colorado
CB Keith Abney II Arizona State
S Jamel Johnson TCU
S Xavier Williams Cincinnati

1st Team Specialists

Position Name School
K Will Ferrin BYU
P Palmer Williams Baylor
Returner Jalen Moss Arizona State

Terrance Carter Jr., Paul Rubelt, Lee Hunter, Skyler Gill-Howard, Isaiah Glasker, Will Ferrin, and Jalen Moss all made our Preseason All-American 1st or 2nd team. Despite losing some talented offensive players, Arizona State figures to have another explosive offense with Sam Leavitt, Kanye Udoh, and Ben Coleman leading the way. David Bailey joins Hunter and Gill-Howard on the Texas Tech front line to form a formidable defensive front.

Each player on the team is Top-3 in Total Points among returning Big 12 players at their respective positions. The top talent is impressive as well as Carter Jr., Rubelt, Gavin Gerhardt, Hunter, Gill-Howard, Glasker, and Ferrin are Top-3 in Total Points among returning FBS players at their respective positions.