Three Kentucky players, Lexington’s Jedrick Wills named to coaches’ All-SEC team
Postseason accolades continue to roll in for the University of Kentucky football team.
Lynn Bowden, Max Duffy and Logan Stenberg were selected to the All-Southeastern Conference team by a vote of the league’s 14 coaches on Tuesday.
Bowden was named to the First Team offense as an all-purpose player. Duffy and Stenberg each were named to the Second Team.
Alabama offensive tackle Jedrick Wills, who graduated from Lafayette High School in Lexington, was also named to the First Team offense.
Bowden, who was named to the Second Team last season, started UK’s final seven games at quarterback and finished as the league’s third-leading rusher with 1,235 yards on 151 carries, behind only Mississippi State’s Kylin Hill (1,347 on 235 carries) and LSU’s Clyde Edwards-Helaire (1,290 on 197 carries) in the regular season. Bowden’s 8.18 yards per carry led the SEC and were second only to Clemson’s Travis Etienne, who averaged 8.24 yards per carry, among all FBS players. The 284 rushing yards he recorded against Louisville were the second most by a UK player in history.
Stenberg, an offensive guard, was among the offensive linemen blocking for Bowden and a trio of UK running backs — Chris Rodriguez, A.J. Rose and Kavosiey Smoke — who accounted for most of Kentucky’s school-record 3,293 rushing yards in 2019. UK in consecutive weeks broke the single-game school record for rushing to end the regular season, and for the first time rushed for 500 or more yards in a game (517 against Louisville).
Duffy, a punter, led the nation in punting average with 48.6 yards per punt (2,285 total yards on 47 attempts). SEC punters accounted for four of the top five punting averages in the regular season, as Texas A&M’s Braden Mann (47.8), South Carolina’s Joseph Charlton (47.7) and Georgia’s Jake Camarda (47.4) trailed Duffy. (N.C. State’s Trenton Gill ranked fourth overall at 47.6.)
Defensive end Josh Allen, running back Benny Snell and offensive lineman Bunchy Stallings were First Team selections by the coaches last year. It is the first time since 2009-2010 that UK had at least one All-SEC First Team selection by the coaches in consecutive seasons.
This story was originally published December 10, 2019 at 11:45 AM.
