Drew's preseason All MWC picks

A week from today, the Mountain West Conference football media days will kick off at the Red Rock Resort in Las Vegas with the release of the preseason poll and the preseason all-conference team.

Coaches and two players from all nine MWC teams will be at the meetings; BYU is taking offensive tackle Matt Reynolds and safety Andrew Rich this year.

It will be Rich's second straight visit (he was there with tight end Dennis Pitta last year). BYU fans are probably hoping this will be the first of two visits for Reynolds; however, here's a strong possibility that the preseason All-American will forego his senior season and enter his name in the NFL draft next year.

I was invited to submit a ballot for the second-straight year, and now seems like a good time to fill you in on how I voted, and why, in some instances



Team Order of Finish:

1. TCU -- more than 16 returning starters are back for a team that dominated the league last year

2. Utah -- schedule, schedule, schedule. The Utes get BYU and TCU at home this year, have the offensive weapons to make some noise

3. BYU -- Cougars have a green QB, have to play at Air Force, TCU and Utah, and their confidence could be nicked by a tough non-conference schedule

4. Air Force -- Gets Utah and BYU at home, and many say this will be Falcons' best team in last 10 years

5. Wyoming

6. San Diego State

7. Colorado State

8. New Mexico

9. UNLV



Offensive Player of the Year: Andy Dalton, QB, TCU (easiest pick of the bunch)

Defensive Player of the Year: Reggie Rembert, DB, Air Force (TCU and Utah have better defenses, but Rembert will make the most plays for his team).

Special Teams Player of the Year: Jeremy Kerley, KR, TCU (another easy pick, although teams will kick away from him all year).



FIRST TEAM OFFENSE

QB -- Andy Dalton, TCU

RB -- Eddie Wide, Utah

RB -- Matt Asiata, Utah (even though he will have to share the ball with Wide; there's not a lot of other candidates around the league)

WR -- Vincent Brown, SDSU (easy pick; a gamebreaker)

WR -- Jereme Brooks, Utah (slight edge over BYU's McKay Jacobson, who'll face more double-teaming)

TE -- Eric Peltz, Colorado State (Very few other options; BYU dominates this position, but all its TEs are unproven at this point)

OL -- Matt Reynolds, BYU

OL -- Marcus Cannon, TCU

OL -- Caleb Schlauderaff, Utah

OL -- Jake Kirkpatrick, TCU

OL -- Braden Hansen, BYU



FIRST TEAM DEFENSE

DB -- Reggie Rembert, AFA

DB -- Andrew Rich, BYU

DB -- Brandon Burton, Utah

DB -- Chris Prosinski, Wyoming

DL -- Johnathan Rainey, New Mexico

DL -- Wayne Daniels, TCU

DL -- Cory Grant, TCU

LB -- Brian Hendricks, Wyomine

LB -- Tank Carder, TCU

LB -- Carmen Messina, New Mexico

LB -- Jordan Pendleton, BYU

SPECIAL TEAMS

Punter -- Briah Stahovich, SDSU

Kicker -- Joe Phillips, Utah

Returner -- Jeremy Kerley, TCU

Mars wrote:


Here's a Utah version: http://utah.scout.com/2/985368.html

CougarPeasant wrote:

Here's a Utah version: http://utah.scout.com/2/985368.html

Biased much?!!!! He could have saved us all a lot of time by just saying every :utard: player is on one of the three teams. Oh and I didn't know who Trask Iosefa was for BYU. Turns out, he's an Aztec, not a Cougar.

CougarPeasant wrote:

Here's a Utah version: http://utah.scout.com/2/985368.html

Biased much?!!!!

Lawboy wrote:
First off, 2 Ute O-lineman on the 1st team is a crime. No way does Utah have even 1 lineman good enough this year to be first team. That O-line will be a weakness for them.