Brooks, Gordon and Hampton represent three of the top five FBS leaders in rushing yards from a season ago. Gordon was first (1,732), Brooks was fourth (1,538) while Hampton ranked fifth (1,504) in the nation. The trio ranks one, two and three respectively in 2023 leaders returning to the college football ranks in 2024.

A season ago Brooks earned national recognition by being named a semifinalist for the Doak Walker and Earl Campbell Tyler Rose Awards. He was named to the All-Big 12 first team by the conference coaches and the Associated Press. Brooks became the first Red Raider running back to earn first-team All-Big 12 accolades since DeAndre Washington in 2015 and the fifth to do so in the Big 12 era.

The preseason honor Brooks received from the Walter Camp Foundation is the second honor Brooks has picked up this summer in addition to being tabbed to the 2024 Preseason All-Big 12 Football Team. Brooks will be part of a group representing Texas Tech at Big 12 Football Media Days on July 9.

2024 Walter Camp Preseason All-America Teams

FIRST TEAM OFFENSE

Wide Receiver: Tetairoa McMillan (Arizona), Emeka Egbuka (Ohio State) 

Tight End: Colston Loveland (Michigan)

Offensive Line: Clay Webb (Jacksonville State) #, Tate Ratledge (Georgia), Tyler Booker (Alabama), Will Campbell (LSU)

Center: Cooper Mays (Tennessee)

Quarterback: Carson Beck (Georgia)

Running Back: Ollie Gordon II (Oklahoma State)*, Omarion Hampton (North Carolina)*

Placekicker: Graham Nicholson (Alabama)*

 

FIRST TEAM DEFENSE

Defensive Line: James Pearce, Jr. (Tennessee), Howard Cross III (Notre Dame) #, Ashton Gillotte (Louisville) #, Tyleik Williams (Ohio State) #

Linebacker: Jay Higgins (Iowa) #, Danny Stutsman (Oklahoma) #, Jason Henderson (Old Dominion)*

Defensive Back: Xavier Watts (Notre Dame)*, Travis Hunter Jr. (Colorado), Malaki Starks (Georgia)*, Will Johnson (Michigan)

Punter: Alex Mastromanno (Florida State)

Kick Returner: Zachariah Branch (USC)#s

 

SECOND TEAM OFFENSE

Wide Receiver: Ricky White III (UNLV), Luthur Burden III (Missouri)

Tight End: Bryson Nesbit (North Carolina)

Offensive Line: Luke Kandra (Cincinnati) #, Kelvin Banks Jr. (Texas), Ajani Cornelius (Oregon), Wyatt Milum (West Virginia)

Center: Parker Brailsford (Alabama)

Quarterback: Quinn Ewers (Texas)

Running Back: Quinshon Judkins (Ohio State), Tahj Brooks (Texas Tech)

Placekicker: Andrew Borregales (Miami)

 

SECOND TEAM DEFENSE

Defensive Line: Peter Woods (Clemson), Mason Graham (Michigan), Deone Walker (Kentucky), Landon Jackson (Arkansas)

Linebacker: Harold Perkins (LSU), Barrett Carter (Clemson), Abdul Cater (Penn State)

Defensive Back: Benjamin Morrison (Notre Dame), Dillon Thieneman (Purdue), Denzel Burke (Ohio State) #, Caleb Downs (Ohio State)

Punter: James Burnip (Alabama)

Kick Returner: Jayden Harrison (Notre Dame)*

* – 2023 First Team Walter Camp All-America selection

# – 2023 Second Team Walter Camp All-America selection

 

About the Walter Camp Foundation

Walter Camp is the nation’s oldest college football All-America team and is one of five organizations utilized by the NCAA to deem its consensus All-America team.

Walter Camp, “The Father of American football,” first selected an All-America team in 1889. Camp – a former Yale University athlete and football coach – is also credited with developing play from scrimmage, set plays, the numerical assessment of goals and tries and the restriction of play to eleven men per side. The Walter Camp Football Foundation (www.waltercamp.org) – a New Haven-based all-volunteer group – was founded in 1967 to perpetuate the ideals of Camp and to continue the tradition of selecting annually an All-America team.

 

The Foundation is a member of the National College Football Awards Association (NCFAA). The NCFAA was founded in 1997 as a coalition of the major collegiate football awards to protect, preserve and enhance the integrity, influence and prestige of the game’s predominant awards. The NCFAA encourages professionalism and the highest standards for the administration of its member awards and the selection of their candidates and recipients. For more information, visit the association’s website, www.ncfaa.org

 

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