IRVING, Texas -- Twenty-one TCU football players and Head Coach Sonny Dykes have received All-Big 12 recognition in voting by the conference head coaches.
Quarterback
Max Duggan was selected as the Big 12 Offensive Player of the Year, return specialist
Derius Davis as the Special Teams Player of the Year, linebacker
Johnny Hodges as the Defensive Newcomer of the Year and Sonny Dykes was the unanimous choice for Coach of the Year.
In leading TCU to a 12-0 record, Duggan is fourth in the nation in passing efficiency with a 171.3 rating. He has accounted for 34 touchdowns on the season, including 29 scoring passes with just three interceptions. Davis is tied for the national lead with two punt returns for touchdowns, while Hodges tops TCU with 76 tackles.
With Dykes' father, Spike Dykes, being the Big 12 Coach of the Year for Texas Tech in 1996, the Dykes become just the third father-son duo in college football history, and first in the Big 12, to both be a conference coach of the year. The Dykes join Bobby Bowden (Florida State; 1993, 1997) and Tommy Bowden (Clemson, 2003) in the ACC and Kim Helton (Houston, 1996) and Tyson Helton (Western Kentucky, 2019) in Conference USA. TCU, picked to finish seventh in the preseason Big 12 poll, is 12-0 and ranked third nationally.
TCU dominated the All-Big 12 First Team with its 10 selections more than doubling the next-closest schools who had four.
TCU had seven of the 15 players on the first-team offense. Duggan and wide receiver
Quentin Johnston were two of three unanimous selections at their respective positions. Joining them on the first team were Davis as the kickoff returner/punt returner, center
Alan Ali, offensive guard
Steve Avila, place-kicker
Griffin Kell and running back
Kendre Miller. Davis was also honorable mention at wide receiver.
The Horned Frogs led the way with three players on the first-team defense with linebacker
Dee Winters and both starting cornerbacks in
Tre'Vius Hodges-Tomlinson and
Josh Newton. It was the third straight season for Hodges-Tomlinson, a Paycom Jim Thorpe Award Finalist, to be First-Team All-Big 12. Hodges was named to the second-team defense.
TCU All-Big 12 Recipients
Individual Awards
Max Duggan, Offensive Player of the Year
Derius Davis, Special Teams Player of the Year
Johnny Hodges, Defensive Newcomer of the Year
Sonny Dykes*, Coach of the Year
First Team
Alan Ali, OL
Steve Avila, OL
Derius Davis, KR/PR
Max Duggan*, QB
Tre'Vius Hodges-Tomlinson, CB
Quentin Johnston*, WR
Griffin Kell, PK
Kendre Miller, RB
Josh Newton, CB
Dee Winters, LB
Second Team
Johnny Hodges, LB
Honorable Mention
Taye Barber, WR
Millard Bradford, DB
Bud Clark, DB
Andrew Coker, OL
Brandon Coleman, OL
Derius Davis, WR
Jamoi Hodge, LB
Dylan Horton, DL
Jordy Sandy, P
Jared Wiley, TE
Alan Ali, Offensive Newcomer of the Year
Steve Avila, Offensive Lineman of the Year
Tre'Vius Hodges-Tomlinson, Defensive Player of the Year
Damonic Williams, Defensive Freshman of the Year
*Unanimous