Phil Steele names Preseason All-SEC Team ahead of 2024 college football season

The SEC will be littered with stars in 2024, no doubt, and before the season gets underway here in a couple of months, it’s time to take a look at some preseason All-SEC projections.

College football magazine mogul Phil Steele is always an authority on the sport, especially when it comes to his preseason predictions. As is typically the case, for the 2024 issue, Steele extensively broke down the top players in the SEC, producing a mammoth FOUR full All-SEC teams for the 2024 season. But with 16 teams now, he had no trouble filling the spots.

So below, you can see what Phil Steele’s full set of All-SEC teams looks like for the 2024 season:

First Team

OFFENSE

QB: Carson Beck | Georgia
RB: Jarquez Hunter | Auburn
RB: Montrell Johnson | Florida
WR: Tre Harris | Ole Miss
WR: Luther Burden | Missouri
WR: Kyren Lacy | LSU
TE: Caden Prieskorn | Ole Miss
C: Parker Brailsford | Alabama
OG: Tyler Booker | Alabama
OG: Dylan Fairchild | Georgia
OT: Xavier Truss | Georgia
OT: Will Campbell | LSU

DEFENSE

DE: Nic Sourton | Texas A&M
DT: Deone Walker | Kentucky
DT: Walter Nolen | Ole Miss
DE: James Pearce | Tennessee
LB: Harold Perkins | LSU
LB: Smael Mondon | Georgia
LB: Deontae Lawson | Alabama
LB: Danny Stutsman | Oklahoma
CB: Maxwell Hairston | Kentucky
CB: Daylen Everette | Georgia
S: Billy Bowman | Oklahoma
S: Malaki Starks | Georgia

SPECIALISTS

K: Graham Nicholson | Alabama
P: Jeremy Crawshaw | Florida
KR: Barion Brown | Kentucky
PR: Keionte Scott | Auburn
LS: Hunter Rogers | South Carolina

Carson Beck leads the way and is Steele’s No. 1 Heisman contender. Of course, the rest of the first team is also littered with future first round picks like the mammoth DL for Kentucky, Deone Walker, as well as a potential top-five pick in Tennessee’s James Pearce.

The whole defense is just full of stars. Danny Stutsman is an icon on campus in Norman, Harold Landry has always been touted as one of the best all-around defensive talents in the sport, and Billy Bowman and Malaki Starks are very possible All-Americans at their spot this season.

Second Team

OFFENSE

QB: Jalen Milroe | Alabama
RB: CJ Baxter | Texas
RB: Reheim Sanders | South Carolina
WR: Antwane Wells | South Carolina
WR: Dane Key | Kentucky
WR: Dillon Bell | Georgia
TE: Rivaldo Fairweather | Auburn
C: Cooper Mays | Tennessee
OG: Tate Ratledge | Georgia
OG: Chase Bisontis | Texas A&M
OT: Kelvin Banks | Texas
OT: Armand Membou | Missouri

DEFENSE

DE: Mykel Williams | Georgia
DT: Shamar Turner | Texas A&M
DT: Tim Smith | Alabama
DE: Landon Jackson | Arkansas
LB: Triston Newson | Missouri
LB: Debo Williams | South Carolina
LB: Jamon Dumas-Johnson | Kentucky
LB: Shemar James | Florida
CB: Jason Marshall | Florida
CB: Isaiah Hamilton | Ole Miss
S: Malachi Moore | Alabama
S: Nick Emmanwori | South Carolina

SPECIALISTS

K: Bert Auburn | Texas
P: Kai Kroeger | South Carolina
KR: Kendrick Law | Alabama
PR: Isaiah Sategna | Arkansas
LS: Rocco Underwood | Florida

The quarterback selections are most interesting here with only one on each team and so many talented arms across the league. Following the perhaps controversial choice of Beck as the SEC’s QB1, Steele goes with the terrific athlete in Milroe next.

Elsewhere, South Carolina may not have Spencer Rattler any longer, but they still have plenty of weapons. The nicknamed duo of “Juice” Wells and “Rocket” Sanders gives Shane Beamer plenty to work with around a new quarterback.

Third Team

OFFENSE

QB: Quinn Ewers | Texas
RB: Justice Haynes | Alabama
RB: Gavin Sawchuk | Oklahoma
WR: KeAndre Lambert-Smith | Auburn
WR: Deion Burks | Oklahoma
WR: Squirrel White | Tennessee
TE: Oscar Delp | Georgia
C: Eli Cox | Kentucky
OG: Josh Braun | Arkansas
OG: Fabechi Nwaiwu | Oklahoma
OT: Emery Jones | LSU
OT: Austin Barber | Florida

DEFENSE

DE: Ethan Burke | Texas
DT: JJ Pegues | Ole Miss
DT: Omarr Norman-Lott | Tennessee
DE: Princely Umanmielen | Ole Miss
LB: Anthony Hill | Texas
LB: Greg Penn | LSU
LB: Deryk Jackson | Kentucky
LB: Jahdae Barron | Texas
CB: Kendell Dolby | Oklahoma
CB: Domani Jackson | Alabama
S: CJ Taylor | Vanderbilt
S: John Saunders | Ole Miss

SPECIALISTS

K: Trey Smack | Florida
P: James Burnip | Alabama
KR: Zavion Thomas | LSU
PR: Zavion Thomas | LSU
LS: Slade Roy | LSU

Quinn Ewers is one of the favorites to be the top quarterback taken off the board next spring, but he’s still just the All-SEC Third Team quarterback for Phil Steele. It’s just a tough draw in the SEC.

Ole Miss really came on strong defensively here, placing three players on the All-Defensive Third Team. Meanwhile, they also had a Second Team cornerback and a First Team defensive lineman. Don’t count out the defensive side of the ball in Oxford.

Fourth Team

OFFENSE

QB: Jaxson Dart | Ole Miss
RB: Trevor Etienne | Georgia
RB: Dylan Sampson | Tennessee
WR: Andrew Armstrong | Arkansas
WR: Isaiah Bond | Texas
WR: Nic Anderson | Oklahoma
TE: Seydou Traore | Mississippi State
C: Jake Majors | Texas
OG: Javontez Spraggins | Tennessee
OG: Hayden Conner | Texas
OT: Marques Cox | Kentucky
OT: Kadyn Proctor | Alabama

DEFENSE

DE: Johnny Walker | Missouri
DT: Nazir Stackhouse | Georgia
DT: Tonka Hemingway | South Carolina
DE: JJ Weaver | Kentucky
LB: Jalen McLeod | Auburn
LB: Langston Patterson | Vanderbilt
LB: Chris Paul | Ole Miss
LB: Daylan Carnell | Missouri
CB: Kayin Lee | Auburn
CB: Tyreek Chappell | Texas A&M
S: Jordan Castell | Florida
S: Andrew Mukuba | Texas

SPECIALISTS

K: Alex McPherson | Auburn
P: Jackson Ross | Tennessee
KR: Jalil Farooq | Oklahoma
PR: Jordan Watkins | Ole Miss
LS: Ben Anderson | Oklahoma

Poor Jaxso Dart rates as one of Phil Steele’s top-10 Heisman contenders, yet barely makes any of the four All-SEC teams despite returning for his third season as starter coming off a 10-2 regular season for the Rebels which featured losses only to Georgia and Alabama.

The Rebels also added another defensive player to the All-SEC teams, making it six total defenders from Ole Miss on the list. They may not be the leaders among total players on the All-SEC teams, but they certainly represented well.