With the 2019 season on the horizon, our panel of our college football experts has convened to select the 2019 CBS Sports Preseason All-America team. Thirty-two of the 130 FBS teams are represented among the 54 total selections across the first and second teams listed below.
There were a stunning nine unanimous first-team selections this year with Purdue playmaker Rondale Moore picking up such honors as our all-purpose starter; he also checks in as a first-team wide receiver.
Alabama led the way with three first-team selections and seven overall. Clemson is one of six teams with two first-team picks and was second to Bama with five overall. Eight of 14 SEC teams saw at least one selection -- the most of any conference -- but while the league tied the Big Ten with nine first-team picks, it stood out with 19 overall (35.2 percent).
Nine members of our preseason All-America first team were also part of our 2018 postseason selections.
Preseason awards
Player of the Year: Trevor Lawrence, QB, Clemson
Coach of the Year: Dabo Swinney, Clemson
Selections by conference
| Conference | First team | Total selections |
|---|---|---|
SEC | 9 | 19 |
Big Ten | 9 | 11 |
| ACC | 5 | 10 |
| Pac-12 | 1 | 7 |
Big 12 | 0 | 3 |
AAC | 1 | 2 |
MWC | 1 | 1 |
| Independent | 1 | 1 |
2019 CBS Sports Preseason All-America First Team
* indicates a unanimous selection
| Offense | | | |
|---|---|---|---|
QB | Trevor Lawrence | Clemson | Sophomore |
RB | Jonathan Taylor* | Junior | |
RB | Clemson | Junior | |
WR | Jerry Jeudy* | Alabama | Junior |
WR | Rondale Moore | Purdue | Sophomore |
TE | Redshirt junior | ||
C | Wisconsin | Junior | |
OL | Junior | ||
OL | Junior | ||
OL | Senior | ||
OL | Senior | ||
| Defense | | | |
DL | Chase Young* | Junior | |
DL | Senior | ||
DL | Senior | ||
DL | Alabama | Senior | |
LB | Dylan Moses* | Alabama | Junior |
LB | Junior | ||
LB | Michigan State | Senior | |
CB | Bryce Hall* | Senior | |
CB | Senior | ||
S | Grant Delpit* | LSU | Junior |
S | Sophomore | ||
| Special teams | | | |
K | Syracuse | Redshirt sophomore | |
P | Braden Mann* | Texas A&M | Senior |
KR | Junior | ||
PR | Senior | ||
AP | Rondale Moore* | Purdue | Sophomore |
2019 CBS Sports Preseason All-America Second Team
| Offense | | | |
|---|---|---|---|
QB | Alabama | Junior | |
RB | Junior | ||
RB | Georgia | Junior | |
WR | Laviska Shenault | Junior | |
WR | Junior | ||
TE | Redshirt senior | ||
C | Redshirt sophomore | ||
OL | Alabama | Junior | |
OL | Senior | ||
OL | Clemson | Senior | |
OL | Oregon | Senior | |
| Defense | | | |
DL | A.J. Epenesa | Junior | |
DL | Clemson | Sophomore | |
DL | Senior | ||
DL | Auburn | Junior | |
LB | Clemson | Redshirt junior | |
LB | Oregon | Senior | |
LB | Sophomore | ||
CB | Junior | ||
CB | Stanford | Junior | |
S | J.R. Reed | Georgia | Senior |
S | Alabama | Junior | |
| Special teams | | | |
K | Georgia | Senior | |
P | Junior | ||
KR | Senior | ||
PR | Alabama | Sophomore | |
AP | J.J. Taylor | Redshirt junior |
