{"id":190370,"date":"2025-07-08T07:42:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-08T07:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/190370\/"},"modified":"2025-07-08T07:42:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-08T07:42:10","slug":"see-which-texas-tech-baylor-and-tcu-players-highlight-2025-preseason-all-big-12-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/190370\/","title":{"rendered":"See which Texas Tech, Baylor and TCU players highlight 2025 preseason All-Big 12 team"},"content":{"rendered":"

Going into the 2025 college football season, Texas Tech linebacker Jacob Rodriguez<\/a> will be a name to follow.<\/p>\n

The Wichita Falls native was one of multiple players with area ties listed on the 2025 preseason All-Big 12 team. Rodriguez, a senior linebacker for the Red Raiders, was also named the conference\u2019s preseason Defensive Player of the Year.<\/a><\/p>\n

Rodriguez is coming off a productive 2024 season, where he posted 127 total tackles, 11 tackles for loss, five sacks, four pass deflections and one interception.<\/p>\n

In total, Baylor<\/a> led all area programs with four preseason All-Big 12 selections. Texas Tech followed closely with three, while TCU<\/a> saw two players selected. Arizona State star Jordyn Tyson, an Allen product, also earned the preseason honor.<\/p>\n

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Here\u2019s a look at the full preseason All-Big 12 team:<\/p>\n

2025 preseason All-Big 12 team and awards<\/p>\n

Offensive Player of the Year: Arizona State QB Sam Leavitt<\/p>\n

Defensive Player of the Year: Texas Tech LB Jacob Rodriguez<\/p>\n

Newcomer of the Year: Utah QB Devon Dampier<\/p>\n

Offense<\/p>\n

QB: Sam Leavitt, Arizona State (RS-So.)<\/p>\n

RB: Bryson Washington, Baylor (RS-So.)<\/p>\n

RB: Jahiem White, West Virginia (Jr.)<\/p>\n

FB\/H-Back: Will Swanson, Kansas State (Sr.)<\/p>\n

WR: Eric McAlister, TCU (Sr.)<\/p>\n

WR: Chase Roberts, BYU (RS-Sr.)<\/p>\n

WR: Jordyn Tyson, Arizona State (RS-Jr.)<\/p>\n

TE: Joe Royer, Cincinnati (RS-Sr.)<\/p>\n

OL: Ben Coleman, Arizona State (Gr.)<\/p>\n

OL: Spencer Fano, Utah (Jr.)<\/p>\n

OL: Bryce Foster, Kansas (RS-Jr.)<\/p>\n

OL: Caleb Lomu, Utah (RS-So.)<\/p>\n

OL: Jordan Seaton, Colorado (So.)<\/p>\n

PK: Will Ferrin, BYU (RS-Sr.)<\/p>\n

PR\/KR: Josh Cameron, Baylor (RS-Sr.)<\/p>\n

Defense<\/p>\n

DL: David Bailey, Texas Tech (Sr.)<\/p>\n

DL: Dontay Corleone, Cincinnati (RS-Sr.)<\/p>\n

DL: C.J. Fite, Arizona State (Jr.)<\/p>\n

DL: Lee Hunter, Texas Tech (Sr.)<\/p>\n

DL: Domonique Orange, Iowa State (Sr.)<\/p>\n

LB: Jacob Rodriguez, Texas Tech (Sr.)<\/p>\n

LB: Austin Romaine, Kansas State (Jr.)<\/p>\n

LB: Keaton Thomas, Baylor (RS-Jr.)<\/p>\n

DB: Xavion Alford, Arizona State (RS-Sr.)<\/p>\n

DB: Bud Clark, TCU (Sr.)<\/p>\n

DB: Jeremiah Cooper, Iowa State (Sr.)<\/p>\n

DB: DJ McKinney, Colorado (Jr.)<\/p>\n

DB: Jontez Williams, Iowa State (RS-Jr.)<\/p>\n

P: Palmer Williams, Baylor (Jr.)<\/p>\n

Find more college sports coverage from The Dallas Morning News here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Going into the 2025 college football season, Texas Tech linebacker Jacob Rodriguez will be a name to follow.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":190371,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1101,9436,1554,7,49,48,4723,9,4724,4721],"class_list":{"0":"post-190370","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-football","8":"tag-article","9":"tag-baylor-bears","10":"tag-colleges","11":"tag-football","12":"tag-ncaa","13":"tag-ncaa-football","14":"tag-oklahoma-state-cowboys","15":"tag-sports","16":"tag-tcu-horned-frogs","17":"tag-texas-tech-red-raiders"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114816493158101467","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190370\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/190371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}