Mountain West Wire Presents Its 2023 Preseason All-Conference Football Teams
Our staff reveals its all-conference selections for the best of Mountain West football heading into the 2023 season.
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Mountain West Wire’s 2023 preseason honors:
All-Conference Teams | Offensive Player of the Year | Defensive Player of the Year | Special Teams Player of the Year | Freshman of the Year | Newcomer of the Year | Coach of the Year | Coordinator of the Year
College football season is once again at our doorstep, so our staff here at Mountain West Wire has again put its collective heads together to create our seventh annual preseason all-Mountain West football team. If you’re interested in seeing the first six iterations, click here for the 2017 preseason selections, here for 2018, here for 2019, here for 2020, here for 2021, and here for 2022.
Much like a number of national publications, our preseason all-conference roster goes four deep. We have also continued our efforts to better reflect the variety we see week in and week out throughout the conference, too:
- We vote for a Defensive Flex player to better reflect that some units — like Boise State, New Mexico, San Diego State, and Wyoming — often operate with five defensive backs or a nickelback/linebacker hybrid in their 3-3-5 or 4-2-5.
- We split our linebacker selections into two, inside and outside, and differentiate between centers, guards, and tackles on the offensive lines and between interior linemen and edge rushers on defense.
- We vote for three wide receivers instead of two.
If you disagree with our choices, let us know what you’d have done differently on Twitter, Facebook, or Threads.
First Team
Offense
QB – Taylen Green, Boise State
RB – George Holani, Boise State
RB – John Lee Eldridge III, Air Force
WR – Tory Horton, Colorado State
WR – Justin Lockhart, San Jose State
WR – Terrell Vaughn, Utah State
TE – Mark Redman, San Diego State
C – Thor Paglialong, Air Force
G – Cade Bennett, San Diego State
G – Garrett Curran, Boise State
T – Cade Beresford, Boise State
T – Frank Crum, Wyoming
Defense
DT – Jordan Bertagnole, Wyoming
DT – Cole Godbout, Wyoming
DE – Mohamed Kamara, Colorado State
DE – DeVonne Harris, Wyoming
OLB – DJ Schramm, Boise State
OLB – Levelle Bailey, Fresno State
ILB – Easton Gibbs, Wyoming
ILB – Cody Moon, San Diego State
CB – Cam Lockridge, Fresno State
CB – Cam Stone, Hawaii
S – Jack Howell, Colorado State
S – Camby Goff, Air Force
FLEX – Ayden Hector, Colorado State
Special Teams
K – Jonah Dalmas, Boise State
P – Jack Browning, San Diego State
KR – Terrell Vaughn, Utah State
PR – Tory Horton, Colorado State
