It’s time once again to announce our SIS College Football Preseason All-Mountain West & Pac 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 Maddux Madsen Boise State
RB Floyd Chalk IV San Jose State
RB Anthony Hankerson Oregon State
WR Cade Harris Air Force
WR Nick Cenacle Hawaii
TE Matt Lauter Boise State
T Kage Casey Boise State
T Caden Barnett Wyoming
G Richard Pierce New Mexico
G AJ Vaipulu Washington State
C Costen Cooley Air Force

1st Team Defense

Position Name School
DT Payton Zdroik Air Force
DT Ben Florentine Wyoming
EDGE Nikko Taylor Oregon State
EDGE Trey White San Diego State
LB Tano Letuli San Diego State
LB Blake Fletcher Air Force
CB Al’zillion Hamilton Fresno State
CB Chris Johnson San Diego State
CB Dylan Phelps Colorado State
S Skyler Thomas Oregon State
S Ayden Hector Colorado State

1st Team Specialists

Position Name School
K Gabriel Plascencia San Diego State
P Luke Freer Air Force
Returner Abraham Williams New Mexico

The college football world is just one year away from the Pac-12 poaching many of the Mountain West teams to rebuild the once great conference, so that is the reasoning for combining these two conferences to create one preseason All-Conference Team. 

Maddux Madsen headlines the offensive team after helping lead the Boise State Broncos to the first edition of the 12-Team College Football Playoff. He is joined by his fellow teammates Kage Casey and Matt Lauter. Both Cade Harris and Floyd Chalk IV from Air Force and San Jose State return as two of the most dynamic playmakers in the conference heading into this upcoming season. 

Defensively, Fresno State’s Al’Zillion Hamilton headlines the defensive team with 56 Total Points from the 2024 season which puts him in the Top 5 of all returning cornerbacks in the nation. San Diego State looks to have a strong defense as they lead the way with 3 players selected in EDGE Trey White, LB Tano Letuli, and CB Chris Johnson.  

Abraham Williams is looking to make an impact as a returner for New Mexico this season after showing his playmaking ability in the FCS ranks at both Idaho and Weber State.