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AP Rewards Trice, Odunze as First-Team All-Americans

The Huskies were two of five Pac-12 players who made the preseason list.
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AP Rewards Trice, Odunze as First-Team All-Americans
AP Rewards Trice, Odunze as First-Team All-Americans

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Further validating that it has a roster full of elite talent, the University of Washington football team on Monday placed edge rusher Bralen Trice and wide receiver Rome Odunze on the first unit of the preseason Associated Press All-America team.

The 6-foot-4, 274-pound Trice, after leading the nation with 70 quarterback pressures, and the 6-foot-3, 215-pound Odunze, coming off a 75-catch season, are two of five Pac-12 players selected to the first team of the AP listing. 

Others are USC quarterback Caleb Williams, the reigning Heisman Trophy winner; Colorado's Travis Hunter, selected as an all-purpose player; and Stanford place-kicker Joshua Karty.

Of the 27 players singled out as first-teamers, Georgia had the most selected with four, followed by Ohio State with three, while the UW, Michigan, Penn State and Iowa each had a pair.

The AP All-America teams, whether preseason or postseason, are considered the standard for college sports.

Trice, a junior from Phoenix, was one of the Pac-12's leading sack artists with 9 in 2022 and shares the edge-rusher position on the AP first team with Florida State's Jared Verse. 

Odunze, a junior from Las Vegas, teams with a pair of Ohio State players at wide receiver in Marvin Harrison Jr. and Emeka Egbuka, the latter a Steilacoom, Washington, product.

The AP second team consisted of just two Pac-12 players in USC safety Calen Bullock and Arizona wide receiver Jacob Cowling.

Also, Ohio State edge rusher JT Tuimoloau, a 6-foot-4, 270-pound junior from Edgewood, Washington, earned a second-team slot.

The preseason AP team can be accessed in this link. 

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Dan Raley has worked for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Atlanta Journal-Constitution and Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, as well as for MSN.com and Boeing, the latter as a global aerospace writer. His sportswriting career spans four decades and he's covered University of Washington football and basketball during much of that time. In a working capacity, he's been to the Super Bowl, the NBA Finals, the MLB playoffs, the Masters, the U.S. Open, the PGA Championship and countless Final Fours and bowl games.

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