The SEC and Big 12 did it yesterday. Now the Big Ten is following suit.
The “it,” of course, is releasing the list of players who will attend this year’s Big Ten Football Media Days and Kickoff Luncheon, which this year will take place July 25-26 in Chicago. Along with their respective head coaches, each of the 14 teams in the conference will send three players apiece to the event.
According to the conference, the media opportunity will feature 15 returning All-Big Ten selections from last season, including six first-team honorees in Iowa’sDesmond King, Maryland’s William Likely, Michigan’s Jake Butt and Jourdan Lewis, Northwestern’s Anthony Walker Jr. and Ohio State’s Pat Elflein. Attendees who have earned second- or third-team all-conference accolades include Indiana’s Dan Feeney, Iowa’s C.J. Beathard and Josey Jewell, Michigan State’s Riley Bullough and Josiah Price, Nebraska’s Jordan Westerkamp, Northwestern’s Justin Jackson and Matthew Harrisand Ohio State’s Raekwon McMillan.
Below is the complete list of attendees:
EAST DIVISION
INDIANA
Dimitric Camiel, Sr., OL
Dan Feeney, Sr., OL*
Marcus Oliver, Jr., LB
MARYLAND
William Likely, Sr., DB*
Jermaine Carter, Jr., LB
Michael Dunn, Sr., OL
MICHIGAN
Jake Butt, Sr., TE*
Amara Darboh, Sr., WR
Jourdan Lewis, Sr., CB*
MICHIGAN STATE
Riley Bullough, Sr., LB*
Josiah Price, Sr., TE*
R.J. Shelton, Sr., WR
OHIO STATE
J.T. Barrett, Jr., QB
Pat Elflein, Sr., C*
Raekwon McMillan, Jr., LB*
PENN STATE
Brandon Bell, Sr., LB
Brian Gaia, Sr., C
Nyeem Wartman-White, Sr., LB
RUTGERS
Darius Hamilton, Sr., DT
Andre Patton, Sr., WR
Julian Pinnix-Odrick, Sr., DL
WEST DIVISION
ILLINOIS
Wes Lunt, Sr., QB
Dawuane Smoot, Sr., DE
Ke’Shawn Vaughn, So., RB
IOWA
C.J. Beathard, Sr., QB*
Josey Jewell, Jr., LB*
Desmond King, Sr., DB*
MINNESOTA
Mitch Leidner, Sr., QB
Jack Lynn, Sr., LB
Damarius Travis, Sr., S
NEBRASKA
Tommy Armstrong Jr., Sr., QB
Josh Banderas, Sr., LB
Jordan Westerkamp, Sr., WR*
NORTHWESTERN
Matthew Harris, Sr., CB*
Justin Jackson, Jr., RB*
Anthony Walker Jr., Jr., LB*
PURDUE
Ja’Whaun Bentley, Jr., LB
Jake Replogle, Sr., DT
DeAngelo Yancey, Sr., WR
WISCONSIN
Vince Biegel, Sr., LB
Dare Ogunbowale, Sr., RB
Sojourn Shelton, Sr., CB