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Six Oklahoma Players Earn Big 12 All-Conference Honors

The 2023 All-Big 12 football teams were announced on Wednesday afternoon with six Sooners earning a spot on either the first or second team.
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Six Oklahoma Players Earn Big 12 All-Conference Honors
Six Oklahoma Players Earn Big 12 All-Conference Honors

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On Wednesday, four Oklahoma players were named First-Team All-Big 12 Honorees, with two more players earning Second-Team All-Conference honors.

Redshirt senior quarterback Dillon Gabriel, redshirt senior wide receiver Drake Stoops, junior linebacker Danny Stutsman and junior defensive back Billy Bowman were named First-Team All-Big 12 selections with Gabriel being one of only three players in the conference to earn a unanimous nomination to the first team.

Oklahoma State running back Ollie Gordon and Texas defensive lineman T'Vondre Sweat were also unanimous selections. Gordon was named the conference's Offensive Player of the Year while Sweat won the Big 12 Defensive Player of the Year award.

Gabriel finished the 2023 regular season with 3,660 passing yards and 30 touchdowns through the air, adding 373 yards and 12 scores on the ground as well. 

With one game left this year, Stoops has recorded 880 receiving yards and 10 touchdowns this season. The Norman North (OK) product is also a finalist for the Burlsworth Trophy which is awarded to the best player in college football that started their career as a walk-on.

Despite missing half of the Sooners contest against Kansas and being sidelined for Bedlam, Stutsman has racked up 99 tackles, 16 tackles for loss, three sacks, two forced fumbles, two pass breakups and one interception that the junior linebacker returned for a touchdown against Tulsa.

Bowman has had an incredible season, leading the nation in interceptions returned for touchdowns and interception-return yards. Through 12 games, the junior from Denton, TX, has tallied 61 tackles, six interceptions, four pass breakups, three pick sixes and three tackles for loss in addition to his 238 interception-return yards.

Senior offensive lineman Andrew Raym and junior defensive lineman Ethan Downs were honored as part of the All-Big 12 Second Team. Last season, Downs was the Sooners' only representative on the All-Conference list.

In addition to the six players who made the first and second teams, Rondell Bothroyd, Isaiah Coe, Kendel Dolby, Jalil Farooq, Gavin Freeman, Tyler Guyton, McKade Mettauer, Walter Rouse, Gavin Sawchuk, Tawee Walker, Woodi Washington and Gentry Williams were named All-Big 12 Honorable Mentions.

Redshirt freshman wide receiver Nic Anderson was also named an honorable mention for the conference's Offensive Freshman of the Year award while redshirt freshman linebacker Kip Lewis was an honorable mention for the Big 12 Defensive Freshman of the Year award.

Oklahoma State head coach Mike Gundy took home the Big 12 Coach of the Year award.

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RANDALL SWEET

Randall is a recruiting analyst and staff writer at AllSooners focusing primarily on OU Football and the recruiting trail. Working as a journalist, Randall has covered the Oklahoma Sooners, the Oklahoma City Thunder, and high school sports across the state. A 2022 University of Oklahoma graduate, Randall hails from Lubbock, TX. While in college, Sweet wrote for the OU Daily in addition to working with Sooner Sports Pad and OU Nightly. Following his time at OU, Sweet served as the Communications Coordinator at Visit Oklahoma City before leaving to join the team at AllSooners. The West Texas native has bylines in the Norman Transcript and is a Staff Writer for Inside the Thunder. Randall holds a bachelor’s degree in Journalism from the University of Oklahoma in Norman, OK. 

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