Heisman Trophy finalists Mac Jones and DeVonta Smith have been selected for The Associated Press All-America, leading a contingent of five Alabama players on the first-team offensive.
Crimson Tide runner Najee Harris, attacking Alex Leatherwood and center-back Landon Dickerson are also first-team picks. Alabama’s No. 1 has been the first team since 1980, when the AP All-America team began having two wide receivers and two runners, to place a quarterback, runner and receiver on the first team.
Corner Patrick Surtain II gives Crimson Tide six first-team picks, most of the country. No. 4 Notre Dame, Alabama’s opponent in the University Football League this weekend, features two first-team Americans on offensive guard Aaron Banks and defender Jeremiah Owusu-Koramoah.
Kyle Trask of Florida was selected second-team quarterback and Heisman teammate Trevor Lawrence of Clemson was the third-team quarterback of the AP teams released Monday. Lawrence, probably the first pick in the next NFL draft, turned AP All-America into his career for the first time.
Clemson’s No. 2, who will face Ohio State’s No. 3 in the PCP semifinals at the Sugar Bowl on Friday night, had only one other player selected for the American teams: Runner Travis Etienne turned the first team into every purpose player. The senior has been a second-team All-American for the past two seasons.
Wyatt Davis, the Ohio State Guard, is the only player to repeat as the first American of the first team after achieving it in 2020. Davis is one of the two Buckeyes of the first team along with cornerback Shaun Wade.
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The AP All-America 2020 team:
FIRST TEAM
Offense
Quarterback: Mac Jones, Junior, Alabama.
Runners: Najee Harris, senior, Alabama; Breece Hall, high school sophomore, Iowa State.
Tickets: Brady Christensen, Junior, BYU; Alex Leatherwood, senior, Alabama.
Guards – Aaron Banks, senior, Notre Dame; Wyatt Davis, junior, state of Ohio.
Center: Landon Dickerson, Senior, Alabama.
Tight end – Kyle Pitts, junior, Florida.
Receiver: DeVonta Smith, Senior, Alabama; Elijah Moore, junior, Mississippi.
Multipurpose player: Travis Etienne, senior, Clemson.
Kicker: Jose Borregales, senior, Miami.
Defense
Finish: Rashad Weaver, senior, Pitt; Tarron Jackson, senior, on the Carolina Coast.
Tickets: Daviyon Nixon, Junior, Iowa; Darius Stills, Senior, West Virginia.
Defenders: Zaven Collins, junior, Tulsa; Jeremiah Owusu-Koramoah, senior, Notre Dame; Joseph Ossai, junior, Texas.
Cornerbacks: Patrick Surtain II, junior, Alabama; Shaun Wade, senior, Ohio state.
Safety: Talanoa Hufanga, junior, Southern California; Brandon Joseph, freshman in the red shirt, Northwest.
Punter – Pressley Harvin III, Senior, Georgia Tech.
SECOND TEAM
Offense
Quarterback – Kyle Trask, Senior, Florida.
Runners: Jaret Patterson, junior, Buffalo; Javonte Williams, junior, North Carolina.
Tackles – Liam Eichenberg, Senior, Notre Dame; Christian Darrisaw, junior, Virginia Tech.
Guards – Cain Madden, junior, Marshall; Kenyon Green, sophomore, Texas A&M.
Center: Tyler Linderbaum, sophomore, Iowa.
Tight end: Hunter Long, junior, Boston College.
Receiver: Jaelon Darden, senior, North Texas; Jonathan Adams Jr., senior, in the state of Arkansas.
Multipurpose player: Kadarius Toney, senior, Florida.
Kicker – Cade York, sophomore, LSU.
Defense
Finishes: Jaelen Phillips, Senior, Miami; Patrick Jones, senior, Pitt.
Clashes: Alim McNeil, junior, North Carolina state; Haskell Garrett, senior, state of Ohio.
Defenders: Mike Rose, junior, state of Iowa; Nik Bonitto, sophomore, Oklahoma; Nick Bolton, junior, Missouri.
Cornerbacks —Three-Live Hodges-Tomlinson, sophomore, TCU; Ahmad Gardner, sophomore, Cincinnati.
Security: Trevon Moehrig, Junior, TCU; James Wiggins, senior, Cincinnati.
Pointer – Lou Hedley, Junior, Miami.
THIRD TEAM
Offense
Quarterback – Trevor Lawrence, junior, Clemson.
Runners: Michael Carter, Senior, North Carolina; Mohamed Ibrahim, junior, Minnesota.
Tickets: Darian Kinnard, Junior, Kentucky; Samuel Cosmi, junior, Texas.
Guards – Ben Cleveland, senior, Georgia; Tommy Kraemer, senior, Notre Dame.
Center: Humphrey Creed, Junior, Oklahoma.
Tight end: Charlie Kolar, junior, Iowa.
Receiver: Dyami Brown, junior, North Carolina; Ty Fryfogle, senior, Indiana.
Multipurpose player: Avery Williams, senior, at Boise State.
Kicker: Jake Oldroyd, sophomore, BYU.
Defense
Finishes: JaQuan Bailey, Senior, Iowa State; Kayvon Thibodeaux, sophomore, Oregon.
Tackles – Christian Barmore, sophomore, Alabama; CJ Brewer, senior, in Coastal Carolina.
Defenders: Zion Tupuola-Fetui, junior, Washington; Micah McFadden, junior, Indiana; Dylan Moses, senior, Alabama.
Corners: Greg Newsome, junior, northwest; Eli Ricks, freshman, LSU.
Safeties: Kyle Hamilton, sophomore, Notre Dame; Tykee Smith, sophomore, West Virginia.
Pointer – Jake Camarda, junior, Georgia.
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