It’s time once again to announce our SIS College Football Preseason All-MAC 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 | Parker Navarro | Ohio |
| RB | Al-Jay Henderson | Buffalo |
| WR | Junior Vandeross III | Toledo |
| WR | Terry Lockett Jr. | Eastern Michigan |
| WR | Victor Snow | Buffalo |
| TE | Blake Bosma | Western Michigan |
| T | Evan Malcore | NIU |
| T | Davion Witherspoon | Ohio |
| G | Benjamin Roy Jr. | UMASS |
| G | Mickey Rewolinski | Eastern Michigan |
| C | Alex Padgett | Bowling Green |
1st Team Defense
| Position | Name | School |
| DT | Nasir Washington | Miami (OH) |
| DT | Darin Conley | Ball State |
| EDGE | Louce Julien | Toledo |
| EDGE | Roy Williams | Northern Illinois |
| LB | Red Murdock | Buffalo |
| LB | Dakota Cochran | Central Michigan |
| CB | Avery Smith | Toledo |
| CB | Tank Pearson | Ohio |
| S | Eli Blakely | Miami (OH) |
| S | Silas Walters | Miami (OH) |
| S | Braden Awls | Toledo |
1st Team Specialists
| Position | Name | School |
| K | Dom Dzioban | Miami (OH) |
| P | John Henderson | Bowling Green |
| Returner | Bryson Hammer | Toledo |
Ohio’s Parker Navarro leads the way for the offensive selections and returns to the Bobcats as one of the conference’s most efficient QB’s in 2024. Al-Jay Henderson looks to build upon his impressive 1,000 campaign for Buffalo and is joined by his teammate at WR, Victor Snow. Western Michigan TE Blake Bosma’s 23 Total Points puts him in the top 10 of returning TE’s in the country. The offensive line is bookended by OT’s Evan Malcore and Davion Washington who are both in the top 30 for Total Points Rank among all returning OT’s in the nation.
Defensively, Red Murdock returns to Buffalo after racking up 54 Total Points in 2024, which puts him in the top 5 of all returning LB’s in the country. Miami (OH) returns one the best safety duos with Eli Blakey and Silas Walters. Toledo also has a secondary duo of their own with S Braden Awls and CB Avery Smith as well.
Miami (OH) specialist Dom Dzioban had an impressive 2024 season after making the transition from punter to field goal kicker, converting on 86% of his attempts last season.
