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Odunze Receives 6th First-Team All-America Honor

The Sporting News is the latest to weigh on the Husky wide receiver with the highest recognition.
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Odunze Receives 6th First-Team All-America Honor
Odunze Receives 6th First-Team All-America Honor

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Another day, another first-team All-America honor for Rome Odunze.

On Wednesday, The Sporting News revealed its take on  college football's top talent and named the University of Washington's Odunze to its first unit and quarterback Michael Penix Jr. to its second team.

Odunze has now appeared as a first-teamer on six different All-America teams, previously turning up on those compiled by the Associated Press, Football Writers Association of America, Pro Football Focus, CBS Sports and The Athletic.

The 6-foot-3, 215-pound junior from Las Vegas, with his 81 catches for 1,428 yards and 13 touchdowns, finds himself in very select company at the UW — only Mario Bailey, Reggie Williams and Odunze have been Husky pass-catchers repeatedly singled out among the nation's very best.

Penix, the Heisman Trophy runner-up, has sort of been pigeonholed in terms of garnering postseason recognition, taking a backseat to LSU's Jayden Daniels on most listings, with The Sporting News no different.

This was his fifth second-team All-America reward for the 6-foot-3, 213-pound senior from Tampa, Florida, who previously was saluted by the AP, FWAA, CBS Sports and The Athletic. He was a first-teamer on the Walter Camp team.

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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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