2010 Pre-Season All-SEC Team

by Paul Grossinger

Here's SEC Sports Fan's 2010 pre-season All-SEC Football Team:


Offense:

QB: Ryan Mallett, Arkansas

McElroy will win more games but Mallett is the stud producer

RB: Mark Ingram, Alabama

Need I explain this one?

WR: Julio Jones, Alabama

The best receiver on the best team in the conference

WR: A.J. Green, Georgia

An exceptional talent

TE: D.J. Williams, Arkansas

Should be Ryan Mallett’s top target and produce accordingly

C: Mike Pouncey, Florida

Not quite his brother but close enough

G: Barrett Jones, Alabama

The gritty anchor of the conference’s best line

G: Carl Johnson, Florida

Has a new task ahead of him: protect a pocket passer

T: Clint Boling:

The conference’s most talented lineman

T: Lee Zimba, Auburn

Bigger than the school bus

Defense:

DE: Cliff Matthews, South Carolina

His team’s defensive leader

DE Marcel Daraeus, Alabama

Is he Nick Saban’s toughest lineman?

DT: Jerrell Powe, Ole Miss

Can his team find its 2008 form?

DT: Nick Fairley, Auburn

Absolutely massive, he’s like a human roadblock.

LB: Justin Houston, Georgia

The conference’s best linebacker

LB: Dont’a Hightower, Alabama

Can’t you pick any starter on the Tide? I’m half serious…

LB: Craig Stevens, Auburn

His team is a few more top recruiting years away from true glory

CB: Patrick Peterson, LSU

Leader of a tough LSU secondary

CB: Jenoris Jenkins, Florida

A stud, the fact that he is slightly undersized won’t matter until he hits the NFL

S: Charles Mitchell, Mississippi State

An unorthodox choice from a bad team, but I like his game

FS: Janzen Jackson, Tennessee

Can he play up to his talent?

K: Blair Walsh, Georgia

P: Drew Butler, Georgia

No brainers, if the rest of the Bulldogs squad was as good as its special teams, they’d go undefeated.


To read about future All-SEC'rs -- check out our 2010 All SEC Freshmen Team.

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