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Oklahoma's Spencer Rattler, Marvin Mims earn FWAA Freshman All-America

Rattler led all FBS freshmen with 28 touchdown passes, while Mims was among the Big 12 leaders in yards, touchdowns and punt returns
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Oklahoma's Spencer Rattler, Marvin Mims earn FWAA Freshman All-America
Oklahoma's Spencer Rattler, Marvin Mims earn FWAA Freshman All-America

For the 20th consecutive season, the Football Writers Association of American has named its college football Freshman All-America list.

And for the first time, the quarterback and top receiver play for the Oklahoma Sooners.

Spencer Rattler and Marvin Mims earned spots on college football’s preeminent Freshman All-America team on Monday.

“Perhaps in no other season have freshmen played such an important part of a college football season than in 2020,” the FWAA wrote in a press release. “Teams were constantly stretched on their depth charts and player participation varied by the day. It was a challenge that no other freshman class has had to face starting their collegiate careers in the middle of a pandemic. Their learning curve and adjustments had to come so fast, and so many delivered.”

In all, 32 freshmen earned All-America plaudits from the FWAA.

Rattler, a redshirt freshmen from Phoenix, led all FBS freshmen with 28 touchdown passes, 275.5 passing yards per game and 290.1 yards per game total offense. He finished the season with 3,031 passing yards while completing 67.5 percent of his passes with just seven interceptions.

Mims, a true freshman from Frisco, TX, led the Sooners with 37 catches. 610 receiving yards and a school freshman-record nine touchdown receptions. Mims also ranked second in the Big 12 with 162 punt return yards, and his 12.5-yard average would rank second in the conference as well. That elevated him to second on the Sooners with 808 all-purpose yards.

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John E. Hoover
JOHN E. HOOVER

John is an award-winning journalist whose work spans five decades in Oklahoma, with multiple state, regional and national awards as a sportswriter at various newspapers. During his newspaper career, John covered the Dallas Cowboys, the Kansas City Chiefs, the Oklahoma Sooners, the Oklahoma State Cowboys, the Arkansas Razorbacks and much more. In 2016, John changed careers, migrating into radio and launching a YouTube channel, and has built a successful independent media company, DanCam Media. From there, John has written under the banners of Sporting News, Sports Illustrated, Fan Nation and a handful of local and national magazines while hosting daily sports talk radio shows in Oklahoma City, Tulsa and statewide. John has also spoken on Capitol Hill in Oklahoma City in a successful effort to put more certified athletic trainers in Oklahoma public high schools. Among the dozens of awards he has won, John most cherishes his national "Beat Writer of the Year" from the Associated Press Sports Editors, Oklahoma's "Best Sports Column" from the Society of Professional Journalists, and Two "Excellence in Sports Medicine Reporting" Awards from the National Athletic Trainers Association. John holds a bachelor's degree in Mass Communications from East Central University in Ada, OK. Born and raised in North Pole, Alaska, John played football and wrote for the school paper at Ada High School in Ada, OK. He enjoys books, movies and travel, and lives in Broken Arrow, OK, with his wife and two kids.

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