SEC lands 7 players on The Sporting News All-America Team

The SEC had some familiar faces make it on The Sporting News All-America Team.

Led by Heisman Trophy winner Jayden Daniels, the SEC had 7 players make the first team. Overall, there were 16 players from the SEC honored.

Alabama led all schools with 6 players across the first- and second teams. Edge rusher Dallas Turner and cornerback Kool-Aid McKinstry were first-team selections.

Turner became the 41st player of the Nick Saban era to earn consensus All-America status Wednesday when he was named a first-team All-American.

LSU joined Michigan, Notre Dame and Iowa with a pair of first-team selections, Daniels and WR Malik Nabers.

Also on the team were Missouri RB Cody Schrader, Georgia TE Brock Bowers and Kentucky KR Barion Brown.

First-team offense
QB: Jayden Daniels, LSU
RB: Ollie Gordon II, Oklahoma State
RB: Cody Schrader, Missouri
WR: Marvin Harrison Jr., Ohio State
WR: Rome Odunze, Washington
WR: Malik Nabers, LSU
TE: Brock Bowers, Georgia
T: Olu Fashanu, Penn State
G: Cooper Beebe, Kansas State
C: Jackson Powers-Johnson, Oregon
G: Zak Zinter, Michigan
T: Joe Alt, Notre Dame

First-team defense
DL: T’Vondre Sweat, Texas
DL: Jer’Zhan Newton, Illinois
DL: Jonah Elliss, Utah
EDGE: Dallas Turner, Alabama
EDGE: Laiatu Latu, UCLA
LB: Payton Wilson, NC State
LB: Jason Henderson, Old Dominion
CB: Kool-Aid McKinstry, Alabama
CB: Cooper DeJean, Iowa
S: Xavier Watts, Notre Dame
S: Tyler Nubin, Minnesota
DB: Mike Sainristil, Michigan
ATH: Travis Hunter, Colorado
First-team specialists
K: Graham Nicholson, Miami (Ohio)
P: Tory Taylor, Iowa
PR: Zachariah Branch, USC
KR: Barion Brown, Kentucky

Keith Farner

A former newspaper veteran, Keith Farner is a news manager for Saturday Down South.