DALLAS – UTSA RB Sincere McCormick and WKU WR Jerreth Sterns were each named 2021 Second-Team All-Americans by the Football Writers Association of America (FWAA), presented in partnership with the Goodyear Cotton Bowl.
McCormick, a repeat honoree on the second team, was named Conference USA’s Offensive Player of the Year for the second-straight season earlier in the week. He has rushed for 1,479 yards and 15 touchdowns on 298 carries — all UTSA records — and caught 22 passes for 184 yards in 13 games this fall. The Converse Judson High School product has topped the 100-yard mark on the ground in a program-record and league-best eight games, including rushing for 204 yards and three TDs in the 49-41 victory against WKU in the C-USA Championship Game. The All-American broke his own UTSA standard for single-game attempts with 41 for 184 yards and three scores in the 31-28 comeback win at Memphis, and he also reached the end zone three times after rushing for 113 yards in the 45-16 victory over Louisiana Tech. A semifinalist for both the Doak Walker and Earl Campbell Tyler Rose Awards, McCormick leads C-USA and ranks fifth in the FBS in rushing yards and he sits 10th nationally in rushing touchdowns.
Sterns was named the conference’s Newcomer of the Year earlier in the week after his record-setting season for the Hilltoppers. Sterns’ 137 receptions (a single-season C-USA record), 1,718 yards and 14 touchdowns led all league receivers. Sterns is the national leader in catches, receptions per game (10.6), receiving yards and receiving yards per game (132.2). Sterns, a native of Waxahachie, Texas, has 57 more catches than C-USA’s second-leading receiver and 39 more than the second-leading receiver in the FBS. Entering the Hilltoppers’ bowl game, Sterns ranks seventh in FBS history with his 137 catches, just 21 behind the record-holder Zay Jones of East Carolina (158 in 2016).
-ConferenceUSA.com-
