LUBBOCK, Texas \u2014\u00a0Texas Tech football was well represented in this year’s annual Phil Steele publication, which named seven Red Raiders to its Preseason All-America Team and 18 players, and 19 total selections, to its Preseason All-Big 12 Teams.<\/p>\n
Leading the way on the All-America Team was first-team selection Terrance Carter Jr.<\/a> (TE), while A.J. Holmes Jr.<\/a> (DT), Ben Roberts<\/a> (LB), Brice Pollock<\/a> (CB) and J’Koby Williams<\/a> (all-purpose) were named second-team selections, and Sheridan Wilson<\/a> (C) and Stone Harrington<\/a> (K) earned fourth-team honors. All seven selections are returning players from Texas Tech’s 2025 Big 12 Championship team.<\/p>\n The seven preseason All-America selections are up from the two Red Raiders recognized by Phil Steele entering the 2025 season. Those honorees, Lee Hunter<\/a> and Jacob Rodriguez<\/a>, both went on to be selected in the second round of the 2026 NFL Draft.<\/p>\n Phil Steele, publisher of Phil Steele Magazine, is widely regarded as one of college football’s premier analysts. His annual publication has long been deemed the “College Football Bible” by many within the sport.<\/p>\n The official Preseason All-Big 12 Team, as voted on by media members who regularly cover the conference, will be announced in advance of Big 12 Football Media Days, scheduled for July 7-8.<\/p>\n PHIL STEELE’S 2026 PRESEASON ALL-AMERICAN TEAM Defensive All-American Team PHIL STEELE’S 2026 PRESEASON BIG 12 TEAM Second Team Third Team \u2014 TECH\u00a0\u2014<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LUBBOCK, Texas \u2014\u00a0Texas Tech football was well represented in this year’s annual Phil Steele publication, which named seven…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":337423,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-337422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=337422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337422\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/337423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=337422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=337422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=337422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nOffensive All-American Team
\nTE Terrance Carter Jr.<\/a> \u2013 First Team
\nC Sheridan Wilson<\/a> \u2013 Fourth Team<\/p>\n
\nDT A.J. Holmes Jr.<\/a> \u2013 Second Team
\nLB Ben Roberts<\/a> \u2013 Second Team
\nCB Brice Pollock<\/a> \u2013 Second Team
\n\u00a0
\nSpecial Teams All-American Team
\nAP J’Koby Williams<\/a> \u2013 Second Team
\nK Stone Harrington<\/a> \u2013 Fourth Team<\/p>\n
\nFirst Team
\nRB \u2013 Cameron Dickey<\/a>
\nTE \u2013 Terrance Carter Jr.<\/a>
\nDE \u2013 Adam Trick<\/a>
\nDT \u2013 A.J. Holmes Jr.<\/a>
\nLB \u2013 Ben Roberts<\/a>
\nLB \u2013 Austin Romaine<\/a>
\nCB \u2013 Brice Pollock<\/a>
\nK \u2013 Stone Harrington<\/a><\/p>\n
\nC \u2013 Sheridan Wilson<\/a>
\nOT \u2013 Howard Sampson<\/a>
\nDE \u2013 Trey White<\/a>
\nPR \u2013 Kenny Johnson<\/a>
\nLS \u2013 Rylan Vagana<\/a><\/p>\n
\nWR \u2013 Kenny Johnson<\/a>
\nOT \u2013 Jacob Ponton<\/a>
\nLB \u2013 John Curry<\/a>
\n\u00a0
\nFourth Team
\nOG \u2013 Jordan Church<\/a>
\nP \u2013 Will Karoll<\/a>
\nKR \u2013 J’Koby Williams<\/a><\/p>\n