2017 CBS Sports Midseason All-America team: College football’s best so far – CBSSports.com

We’re seven-plus weeks into the 2017 season, which means it is the perfect time to reveal the 2017 CBS Sports Midseason All-America Team as voted on by our panel of college football analysts and insiders.

There were six unanimous selections — three on offense — with a whopping 24 different programs represented among the 28 first-team selections (one tie).
Alabama Crimson Tide
, NC State,
Ohio State Buckeyes
,
Oklahoma Sooners
and
Washington State Cougars
were the only schools to have two players chosen.

The ACC, SEC, Big Ten and Pac-12 each had five selections, with the Big 12 contributing four, and the remaining four distributed among other programs.

Nine members of our midseason team were among our 2017 CBS Sports Preseason All-America first-team selections.

2017 CBS Sports Midseason All-America Team

*  indicates a unanimous selection

Offense

QB


Baker Mayfield

Oklahoma

Redshirt senior

RB

Saquon Barkley*


Penn State Nittany Lions

Junior

RB

Bryce Love*


Stanford Cardinal

Junior

WR


James Washington
*


Oklahoma State Cowboys

Senior

WR


David Sills V


West Virginia Mountaineers

Junior

TE


Adam Breneman


Massachusetts Minutemen

Graduate

C


Bradley Bozeman

Alabama

Redshirt senior

OL


Orlando Brown

Oklahoma

Redshirt junior

OL


Quenton Nelson


Notre Dame Fighting Irish

Senior

OL


David Edwards


Wisconsin Badgers

Sophomore

OL


Cody O’Connell

Washington State

Redshirt senior

Defense

DL


Austin Bryant


Clemson Tigers

Junior

DL


Bradley Chubb


NC State Wolfpack

Senior

DL


Hercules Mata’afa

Washington State

Redshirt junior

DL


Harold Landry


Boston College Eagles

Senior

LB

Cameron Smith*


Southern California Trojans

Junior

LB


Josey Jewell


Iowa Hawkeyes

Redshirt senior

LB


Joel Lanning


Iowa State Cyclones

Redshirt senior

CB


Jalen Davis


Utah State Aggies

Senior

CB


Denzel Ward

Ohio State

Junior

S

Minkah Fitzpatrick*

Alabama

Junior

S


Armani Watts


Texas A&M Aggies

Senior

Special teams

K


Daniel Carlson


Auburn Tigers

Redshirt senior

P


Johnny Townsend


Florida Gators

Redshirt senior

KR


Darius Phillips


Western Michigan Broncos

Senior

PR

Dante Pettis*


Washington Huskies

Senior

AP Nyheim Hines NC State Junior

AP


Braxton Berrios

Miami

Senior

Correction: The initial version of this story mistakenly left out Hines as an AP selection. He and Berrios tied in voting.