Three Cowboys Selected to Preseason All-Big 12 Team

A trio of Cowboys will enter the 2023 season as all-conference players.

The Big 12 released its Preseason All-Big 12 Team on Wednesday, as voted on by the media, where Brennan Presley, Collin Oliver and Kendal Daniels were all selected.

A 5-foot-8, 175-pound slot receiver from Bixby, Presley enters his senior season at Oklahoma State. In three seasons with the Cowboys, the electric Presley has caught 124 passes for 1,557 yards and 10 touchdowns. He had a career year as a junior in 2022, catching 67 passes for 813 yards and a pair of scores.

Making the move from defensive end to linebacker in 2023, Oliver was the league’s Freshman of the Year in 2021 and was an All-Big 12 Second Team selection in 2022. In two seasons in Stillwater, Oliver has 57 total tackles including 23 tackles for loss and 15.5 sacks.

A physical anomaly, Kendal Daniels enters his redshirt sophomore season listed at 6-foot-4, 213 pounds. After redshirting in 2021, Daniels burst onto the scene in 2022 with 71 tackles, 6.5 tackles for loss and three interceptions to earn the Big 12’s Freshman of the Year honors.

OSU is one of five teams with more than two players on the Preseason All-Big 12 squad. Texas leads the way with five players on the team with Kansas, Kansas State and TCU all having four players selected. UCF and Houston are the only schools without a representative.

Preseason All-Big 12

Offensive Player of the Year: Jalon Daniels, Kansas, QB
Defensive Player of the Year: Jaylan Ford, Texas, LB
Newcomer of the Year: Treshaun Ward, Kansas State, RB

Offense
QB — Jalon Daniels, Kansas
RB — Richard Reese, Baylor
RB — Devin Neal, Kansas
FB — Ben Sinnott, Kansas State
WR — Brennan Presley, Oklahoma State
WR — Xavier Worthy, Texas
WR — Jerand Bradley, Texas Tech
TE — Ja’Tavion Sanders, Texas
OL — Kingsley Suamataia, BYU
OL — Mike Novitsky, Kansas
OL — Cooper Beebe, Kansas State
OL — Kelvin Banks, Texas
OL — Zach Frazier, West Virginia
PK — Griffin Kell, TCU
KR/PR — Phillip Brooks, Kansas State

Defense
DL — Dontay Corleone, Cincinnati
DL — Ethan Downs, Oklahoma
DL — Damonic Williams, TCU
DL — Byron Murphy II, Texas
DL — Jaylon Hutchings, Texas Tech
LB — Collin Oliver, Oklahoma State
LB — Johnny Hodges, TCU
LB — Jaylan Ford, Texas
DB — T.J. Tampa, Iowa State
DB — Cobee Bryant, Kansas
DB — Kobe Savage, Kansas State
DB — Kendal Daniels, Oklahoma State
DB — Josh Newton, TCU
P — Mason Fletcher, Cincinnati