10 Beavers Recognized By Pro Football Focus
CORVALLIS, Ore. – Ten Oregon State players have been recognized by Pro Football Focus, which has released its All-Pac-12 Conference Teams.
Defensive backs Jaydon Grant and Kitan Oladapo, offensive lineman Taliese Fuaga and punt returner Anthony Gould have been named first team. Offensive lineman Joshua Gray, inside linebacker Omar Speights and kick returner Silas Bolden are second teamers. Running back Damien Martinez, offensive lineman Jake Levengood and defensive lineman James Rawls are third-team selections.
Oladapo was a two-time Pac-12 Defensive Player of the Week during the regular season and is second on the team with 75 tackles. He also had 3.5 tackles for loss and 2.5 sacks. Grant is close by, finishing the regular season fourth on the team with 60 tackles, adding three interceptions. Gould is one of just four players in the nation with two punt returns for touchdowns and he leads the nation with nearly 19 yards per return.
The team's three offensive lineman recognized – Fuaga, Gray and Levengood – all started in each of the Beavers' 12 regular season games.
Speights, meanwhile, leads the Beavers with 77 tackles, adding six tackles for loss and a pass breakup. Bolden, one of the three second-teamers for the Beavers, returned 21 kickoffs for the Beavers during the regular season, and totaled 573 yards – an average of 27.3 yards per – with a season-long of 80 yards against Montana State.
Martinez, one of three OSU third-teamers, ran for six consecutive 100-yard games to close out Pac-12 play, becoming the first Beaver to do so since Steven Jackson in 2003. He has 970 yards and seven touchdowns this season. Rawls, meanwhile, has 28 tackles with a team-high nine tackles for loss and 1.5 sacks. He's also been credited with four quarterback hurries and a forced fumble.
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