Colin Simmons named to FWAA Freshman All-America Team
Texas freshman edge rusher Colin Simmons has been named a freshman All-American, as announced by the Football Writers Association of America on Tuesday.
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Simmons’ selection marks the fourth consecutive season in which a Texas player has been selected to the team, the first time since 2006 that the Longhorns have been represented for four or more seasons in a row.
Simmons’ freshman year was a remarkable one on the Forty Acres. The true freshman entered the school as a top-15 player in the 2024 class and made an immediate mark for the Longhorns. Simmons registered 48 tackles, 14 for loss, and nine sacks in his first collegiate season, strong enough marks to earn him the Shaun Alexander Freshman of the Year Award, given to the nation’s top freshman.
His selection might have been one of the easiest to make for the FWAA voters, as he and South Carolina’s Dylan Stewart were the only freshman edge rushers to eclipse 20 pressures, both shattering that mark with 46 and 52, respectively. Stewart, alongside Oklahoma’s Jayden Jackson and Ole Miss’s Jamarioius Brown, joined Simmons on the defensive line on the All-America team.
Simmons now joins Xavier Worthy, Kelvin Banks and Anthony Hill as the four Texas selections of the 2020s, an elite company of Longhorn legends and future first-round picks.
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Longhorns named FWAA Freshman All-Americans (17)
2024: EDGE Colin Simmons*
2023: LB Anthony Hill Jr.*
2022: OL Kelvin Banks Jr.*
2021: WR Xavier Worthy*
2018: DB Caden Sterns*
2016: OL Zach Shackelford*
2015: LB Malik Jefferson; OL Connor Williams
2011: DB Quandre Diggs*
2008: S Earl Thomas
2006: QB Colt McCoy
2005: DL Brian Orakpo
2004: DL Frank Okam*
2003: OL Justin Blalock
2002: DL Rodrique Wright*
2001: LB Derrick Johnson; K Dusty Mangum
*Denotes true freshman
2024 FWAA True Freshman All-American team
QB DJ Lagway, Florida
QB LaNorris Sellers, South Carolina
RB Ahmad Hardy, ULM
RB Bryson Washington, Baylor
WR Jeremiah Smith, Ohio State
WR Bryant Wesco Jr., Clemson
WR Ryan Williams, Alabama
TE Mason Williams, Ohio
OL Aidan Banfield, North Carolina
OL Tyler Mercer, North Texas
OL Elijah Paige, USC
OL Tyson Ruffins, Nevada
OL Jordan Seaton, Colorado
OL Josiah Thompson, South Carolina
DL Jamarioius Brown, Ole Miss
DL Jayden Jackson, Oklahoma
DL Colin Simmons, Texas
DL Dylan Stewart, South Carolina
LB Sammy Brown, Clemson
LB Isaiah Chisom, Oregon State
LB Josiah Trotter, West Virginia
CB OJ Frederique Jr., Miami
CB Ashton Hampton, Clemson
CB Leonard Moore, Notre Dame
S KJ Bolden, Georgia
S Koi Perich, Minnesota
S Zechariah Poyser, Jax State
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K Nolan Hauser, Clemson
P Rhys Dakin, Iowa
KR Samuel Singleton Jr., Florida State
PR Kam Shanks, UAB
AP Isaac Brown, Louisville
