Calling the Hogs

UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS PRESS RELEASE

The Arkansas football team placed seven players, including four on the first team, on the Coaches All-SEC Team, as announced on Tuesday afternoon by the league office.

Senior defensive end Jake Bequette, junior quarterback Tyler Wilson and senior wide receiver Jarius Wright were selected for the first team, along with senior wide receiver/return specialist Joe Adams who was the first-team all-purpose player and return specialist. Sophomore offensive guard Alvin Bailey, junior punter Dylan Breeding and senior linebacker Jerry Franklin were on the second team.

Bequette led the Razorback defense with eight sacks and ranked second in the SEC and seventh nationally with 0.89 sacks per game (8.0 in nine games this season). Bequette is second in the SEC and seventh in the country with 0.44 forced fumbles per game. A finalist for the Lowe’s Senior CLASS Award, Bequette also added four quarterback hurries, which is tied for third on the team. For his career, Bequette leads all active SEC players and ranks third on Arkansas’ all-time career sacks list with 21.5 sacks.

One of the most dynamic players in college football, Adams leads the country with three punt return touchdowns and an average of 16.19 yards per punt return. Adams is the only player in the NCAA with rushing, receiving and multiple punt return touchdowns for 2011. Adams ranks fourth in the SEC with an average of 4.1 receptions per game and is sixth in the conference with 52.5 receiving yards per game. Adams has 159 career receptions, which ranks second on Arkansas’ all-time career receptions list.

A finalist for the Manning Award and the Johnny Unitas Golden Arm Award, Wilson was also a first-team All-SEC selection by the Associated Press, which made him the first Arkansas quarterback to be named first-team All-SEC and the Razorbacks’ first first-team all-conference quarterback since Quinn Grovey earned first-team All-Southwest Conference honors in 1988. Wilson is the second player in UA history to record 3,000 passing yards in a season. Wilson leads the SEC and ranks 14^th nationally with an average of 285.2 passing yards per game. Wilson has a passing efficiency rating of 148.66, which is second in the league and 21^st in the country. Wilson ranks second on Arkansas’ single-season completions list with 257 completions, third on the UA single-season passing yards list with 3,422 yards and fourth on Arkansas’ single-season passing touchdowns list with 22.

Wright leads the SEC with 93.5 receiving yards per game, 5.7 receptions per game and 11 receiving touchdowns. He ranks 12^th nationally in receiving touchdowns. Wright has set the UA single-season record with 63 receptions and 1,029 receiving yards during the 2011 season and has tied the Arkansas single-season record with 11 receiving touchdowns. Wright is also Arkansas’ all-time career receptions leader with 165 catches in his collegiate career. Wright set a new Arkansas single-game record with 281 receiving yards in Arkansas’ win against Texas A&M. He also tied the school single-game record with 13 receptions in the win over the Aggies.

Bailey has started all 12 games this season and all 25 in his career. He is a member of an offensive line that has blocked for an offense that has produced a 3,000-yard passer for the third straight season. Arkansas leads the SEC and ranks 13^th in the country in passing offense, averaging 307.8 yards per game, and also leads the SEC and ranks 27^th nationally with an average of 445.8 yards of total offense per game. The UA offense ranks second in school history in completions (279) and passing first downs (161), third in passing yards (3,693) and fourth in scoring (449) and touchdowns scored (56-tie).

Breeding leads the SEC and is seventh nationally with an average of 45.2 yards per punt. Breeding has 16 punts of 50 or more yards in 2011, including a career-long 70 yarder at No. 1 LSU on Nov. 25. He has placed 14 punts inside the 20-yard line with only two touchbacks. Breeding has averaged more than 40 yards per punt in each game he’s punted this season and has recorded at least one punt of 50-plus yards in nine games. Breeding ranks fifth in school history with 6,784 total career punting yards.

Franklin leads the Razorback defense and is sixth in the SEC with 93 tackles in 2011. Franklin has recorded 10.0 tackles for loss, which is second on the team and tied for 14^th in the conference. He’s tied for the team lead with five quarterback hurries. Franklin, who has started 49 games in his career and 30 straight, ranks third on UA’s all-time career tackles list with 374 stops.

The sixth-ranked Razorbacks will conclude their season on Jan. 6 in the 76^th annual AT&T Cotton Bowl Classic against Kansas State inside Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, Texas. Kickoff is set for 7 p.m. and the game will be televised on Fox.

2011 ALL-SEC FOOTBALL TEAM
(*-Ties) (Coaches could not vote for their own players)

FIRST TEAM
OFFENSE
TE - Orson Charles, Georgia

OL - Barrett Jones, Alabama
Will Blackwell, LSU
Cordy Glenn, Georgia
Alex Hurst, LSU

C - William Vlachos, Alabama

WR - Jarius Wright, Arkansas
Rueben Randle, LSU

QB - Tyler Wilson, Arkansas

RB - Trent Richardson, Alabama
Michael Dyer, Auburn

AP - *Joe Adams, Arkansas
*Chris Rainey, Florida

DEFENSE
DL - Melvin Ingram, South Carolina
Sam Montgomery, LSU
Corey Lemonier, Auburn
Jake Bequette, Arkansas

LB - Dont'a Hightower, Alabama
Courtney Upshaw, Alabama
Jarvis Jones, Georgia

DB - Mark Barron, Alabama
Tyrann Mathieu, LSU
Morris Claiborne, LSU
Bacarri Rambo, Georgia

SPECIAL TEAMS
PK - Caleb Sturgis, Florida

P - Steven Clark, Auburn

RS - Joe Adams, Arkansas

SECOND TEAM
OFFENSE
TE - Philip Lutzenkirchen, Auburn

OL - Chance Warmack, Alabama
Rokevious Watkins, South Carolina
Brandon Mosley, Auburn
*Alvin Bailey, Arkansas
*Larry Warford, Kentucky

C - Ben Jones, Georgia

WR - Da'Rick Rogers, Tennessee
Marquis Maze, Alabama

QB - Aaron Murray, Georgia

RB - Zac Stacy, Vanderbilt
* Spencer Ware, LSU
* Marcus Lattimore, South Carolina

AP - Onterio McCalebb, Auburn

DEFENSE
DL - Tim Fugger, Vanderbilt
Josh Chapman, Alabama
Fletcher Cox, Mississippi State
* Jadeveon Clowney, South Carolina
* Malik Jackson, Tennessee

LB - Danny Trevathan, Kentucky
Chris Marve, Vanderbilt
*Ryan Baker, LSU
* Jerry Franklin, Arkansas

DB - Winston Guy, Kentucky
Casey Hayward, Vanderbilt
Dre Kirkpatrick, Alabama
Brandon Boykin, Georgia

SPECIAL TEAMS
PK - Drew Alleman, LSU

P - *Dylan Breeding, Arkansas
*Brad Wing, LSU

RS – Marquis Maze, Alabama