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An All-American Season For The Cyclones
12.31.2020 | Football
AMES, Iowa – A school-record four Iowa State football players have earned All-America accolades in 2020.
Breece Hall (RB), Charlie Kolar (TE), Mike Rose (LB) and JaQuan Bailey (DE) made All-America teams from four of the top-five award outlets: FWAA, AP, AFCA and Sporting News. The Walter Camp All-America Team will be announced on Jan. 7.
Hall is a first team All-American from every major outlet (FWAA, AP, AFCA and Sporting News) to become Iowa State's first consensus All-American since Troy Davis in 1996. If Hall makes first team from Walter Camp, he would become the school's first and only unanimous All-American.
Kolar was a second team All-American from the AFCA and Sporting News to become the first Cyclone two-time All-American since Davis in 1995 and 1996. Kolar was a Second Team All-American by the FWAA in 2019.
Hall, the Big 12 Offensive Player of the Year, is one of three finalists for the Doak Walker Award.
The Wichita, Kan., native is second in the nation in rushing (1,436) and has the nation's longest active streak for consecutive games with a rushing TD with 11.
Rose, who has started all 37 games of his career, leads the Cyclones in tackles (90), interceptions (4) and QB hurries (6). His 8.2 tackle per game average ranks fourth in the Big 12 and his 10.0 TFL is ninth-best in the league.
The Big 12 Defensive Player of the Year is tied for first nationally in interceptions among linebackers.
A native of Norman, Okla., Kolar leads all Big 12 tight ends and ranks in the top-five nationally among tight ends in receptions (39), receiving yards (538) and touchdown catches (6) in 10 games played.
Kolar, who is one of three finalists for the Mackey Award, has caught a TD pass in five of his last six games and recorded a career-high 131 receiving yards in the win against Texas.
Kolar, who has the fourth-longest reception streak in school history at 23 games, has the most career catches (101) and career touchdown catches (16) by a tight end in school history. His 1,372 career receiving yards by a tight end is six yards shy of the school mark.
Bailey is wrapping up an incredible career with the Cyclones where he owns school records in career sacks (25.5) and career TFL (44.5). Both of those totals rank in the top-three nationally, respectively, among active FBS players, and his 25.5 career sacks is eighth in Big 12 history.
The Jacksonville, Fla., native was the Cyclone leader on defense, a unit that gave up a meager 18.0 points per game excluding six non-offensive touchdowns allowed.
Bailey led all Cyclone down linemen with 38 tackles and has a team-high 13.0 TFL, which ranks fourth in the Big 12 and 14th nationally. He also tallied 7.0 sacks, the sixth-best total in the league.
Bailey is the first Cyclone defensive lineman to earn All-America accolades since Mike Stensrud in 1978.
2020 Iowa State All-America Count
Breece Hall
First Team: FWAA, AP, Sporting News, AFCA, Walter Camp, The Athletic, ESPN, CBSSports, Phil Steele
Charlie Kolar
Second Team: Walter Camp, AFCA
Third Team: AP
Fourth Team: Phil Steele
Mike Rose
First Team: The Athletic, Phil Steele
Second Team: AP, Sporting News
JaQuan Bailey
First Team: FWAA, Phil Steele
Third Team: AP
Kene Nwangwu
Fourth Team: Phil Steele
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