COLUMBUS \u2014 Ohio State entered the year with one of the best rosters in all of college football. The postseason honors are reflecting that.<\/p>\n
Three Buckeyes were named to the Walter Camp All-American teams on Thursday night; two of them are first-team All-Americans from the Walter Camp Football Foundation.<\/p>\n
Center Seth McLaughlin<\/a><\/strong> and safety Caleb Downs<\/a><\/strong> are both first-team selections. Both Downs and McLaughlin transferred to Ohio State from Alabama this past offseason after starting last season for the Crimson Tide. They\u2019re now closer to becoming consensus All-American selections, which would give them a tree in Buckeye Grove.<\/p>\n Caleb Downs has 62 total tackles, 6.5 tackles for loss, three pass deflections and an interception \u2014 which came last weekend in the loss to Michigan \u2014 on the season. He also has a 79-yard punt return for a touchdown to his name this year. <\/p>\n He won the Big Ten Defensive Back of the Year award and was a finalist for the Thorpe Award \u2014 but didn\u2019t win the honor.<\/p>\n Superstar freshman wide receiver Jeremiah Smith<\/a><\/strong> is a second-team All-American selection for the Buckeyes. He finished the regular season with 57 catches for 934 yards and 10 touchdowns during his first year on campus, a remarkable stat line for a first-year receiver.<\/p>\n Smith was named the Big Ten Freshman of the Year and the Big Ten Wide Receiver of the Year last week when the league released its awards and honors.<\/p>\n On Thursday night, McLaughlin won the Rimington Trophy, given annually to the top center in college football.<\/p>\n McLaughlin became the fourth center in Ohio State history to win the award. He joins LeCharles Bentley (2001), Pat Elflein (2016) and Billy Price (2017) as Buckeyes centers to win the award, which has been given out since 2000. <\/p>\n McLaughlin beat out Cooper Mays<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0of Tennessee, whom the Buckeyes host Dec. 21 in the College Football Playoff first round, and\u00a0Jacob Gideon<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0of Western Michigan. Both of those two played in every game for their respective teams, while McLaughlin only played 10 games before his injury that he suffered the week of the Indiana game.<\/p>\n The senior center McLaughlin is also a Walter Camp First-Team All-American. The Walter Camp team is the first of the Big Five All-America teams from which consensus and unanimous All-America distinction is derived.<\/p>\n The Rimington Trophy committee uses a composite of three major All-America teams \u2014 The Walter Camp, The Sporting News and the Football Writers Association of America \u2014 to determine the winner. As the committee posted in its press release about the three finalists:<\/p>\n The post Three Buckeyes honored as Walter Camp All-American selections<\/a> appeared first on On3<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" COLUMBUS \u2014 Ohio State entered the year with one of the best rosters in all…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78021\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Ohio State center Seth McLaughlin wins Rimington Trophy<\/h2>\n