Putting NC State’s 2018 All-ACC Selections in Perspective

The official 2018 Football All-ACC Teams were announced yesterday, and NC State led the conference with 6 players selected to the 1st team, which is the 2nd most in school history, and the most since 1992.

1992: 7
1975: 7
1972: 7
1968: 7
1966: 7
2018: 6
1978: 6
1967: 6

Redshirt Graduate Senior Ryan Finley became the 1st quarterback to earn 1st team honors at NC State since Russell Wilson did it in 2008. Finley is one of only seven NC State signal callers to make the 1st Team.

2018 – Ryan Finley
2008 – Russell Wilson
2003 – Philip Rivers
1984-85 – Erik Kramer
1975 – Dave Buckey
1963 – Jim Rossi
1960-61 – Roman Gabriel

For the 1st time in ACC history, 2 wide receivers from the same team earned 1st Team honors: Junior Kelvin Harmon and Redshirt Junior Jakobi Meyers. The last NC State wide receiver to earn 1st Team honors was Jerricho Cothcery in 2003. Harmon and Meyers are the 10th and 11th Wolfpack wide receivers to make the 1st Team.

2018 – Kelvin Harmon
2018 – Jakobi Meyers
2002-03 – Jerricho Cothcery
2000 – Koren Robinson
1997-98 – Torry Holt
1993-94 – Eddie Goines
1991 – Charles Davenport
1986,88 – Nasrallah Worthen
1972 – Pat Kenney
1967 – Harry Martell
1966 – Gary Rowe

Redshirt Graduate Senior Germaine Pratt is the first linebacker to earn 1st Team honors since Nate Irving in 2010. Pratt is the 14th Wolfpack linebacker to make the 1st Team.

2018 – Germaine Pratt
2010 – Nate Irving
2005 – Stephen Tulloch
2002 – Dantonio Burnette
2000-01 – Levar Fisher
1993-94 – Damien Covington
1992-93 – Tyler Lawrence
1992 – David Merritt
1989 – Bobby Houston
1988 – Fred Stone
1988 – Scott Auer
1983 – Vaughan Johnson
1970 – George Smith
1966 – David Everette

Redshirt Graduate Center Garrett Bradbury and Redshirt Senior Offensive Tackle Tyler Jones are only the 2nd and 3rd Wolfpack O-Lineman to earn 1st Team honors since the turn of the century. The last NC State O-Lineman to make the 1st Team was Sean Locklear in 2003.

Freshman Chris Dunn earned 2nd Team honors, and is the first Place Kicker to make an All-ACC Team since Marc Primanti in 1996. Dunn is the 8th Place Kicker in school history to make an All-ACC Team.