PFF: NC State Enters 2020 Season with 7 Preseason All-ACC Players

NC State’s 2020 football season opener against Wake Forest in Carter-Finley Stadium on September 19th is right around the corner. Earlier this summer, ProFootballFocus released their 2020 Preseason All-ACC teams, and the Wolfpack landed 7 players on the teams.

1st Team

LG Joe Sculthorpe

Sculthorpe’s pass protection still has ways to go, but his work in the run game is in college football’s upper echelon. He produced the sixth-best positively graded run-block rate among Power 5 guards in 2019, and over the last two years, the NC State guard has earned the sixth-best run-blocking grade among Power 5 guards with at least 400 snaps. (PFF)

DT Alim McNeil

You’re not going to find a more productive heads-up nose tackle both against the run and the pass than McNeil. Over 88% of his snaps in 2019 were at 0-tech, and he was one of two Power Five interior defensive linemen to produce 75.0-plus grades in both facets there. (PFF)

2nd Team 

LT Ikem Ekwonu

3rd Team

DB Tyler Baker-Williams

PK Christopher Dunn

P Trenton Gill

Honorable Mention

Center Grant Gibson

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