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PFF Rewards Trice, Odunze with 1st-Team All-America Honors

Husky linebacker Edefuan Ulofoshio joins his teammates as a second-teamer.
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PFF Rewards Trice, Odunze with 1st-Team All-America Honors
PFF Rewards Trice, Odunze with 1st-Team All-America Honors

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Everyone certainly has their own opinions over who should be the nation's best college football players, but Pro Football Focus does it by the numbers.

Adding it all up, the metric-based website on Monday released its All-America Team and determined that University of Washington junior edge rusher Bralen Trice and junior wide receiver Rome Odunze were first-unit selections while senior linebacker Edefuan Ulofoshio was placed on the second team.

While his sacks were down from 9 to 5 from last season to this one, PFF took no issue with Trice's overall performance, finding other numbers that made the Husky defensive stalwart the best at what he does.

The football site considered the 6-foot-4, 274-pound pass rusher from Phoenix to be the ultimate pressure-cooker, offering the following assessment:

"After leading the nation with 70 pressures last season, Trice once again paced the FBS with 68 pressures this year. His 16 pressures against Stanford this year were also the second-most we’ve seen by a Power Five defender in a single game. The only time someone had more was Trice himself last year when he had 18 against Washington State."

Now that's pressure.

The 6-foot-3, 215-pound Odunze from Las Vegas, also named as a first-team AP All-America pickk on Monday, likewise had his own metric number that caught PFF's eye: 

"Odunze’s 1,428 receiving yards trailed only [LSU's Malik] Nabers among FBS receivers. He was a jump-ball machine, as well. The junior’s 17 contested catches were tied for the most in the country."

Curiously, PFF couldn't find stats that it found compelling enough to include Husky quarterback Michael Penix Jr. on its postseason team, choosing LSU's Jayden Daniels and Oregon's Bo Nix as its first- and second-unit QBs.

From a numbers standpoint, PFF always has been fascinated with Ulofoshio, at least when he's healthy. Following his standout performance during the COVID-shortened 2020 season, in which the Husky linebacker had 47 tackles in just four games, the PFF hailed Ulofoshio as the nation's top returning player at his position for 2021.

The 6-foot-1, 236-pound senior from Las Vegas, of course, was injured twice, had surgery each time and missed half of each of the following two seasons to fall off the map for individual honors.

However, Ulofoshio was back in the mix this fall with 83 tackles, including 6 for lost yardage and 3 sacks, plus a.45-interception return for a touchdowns, 3 pass break-ups and a forced fumble, and PFF made sure he was rewarded.

 

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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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