Given all the hype that this Texas football team is rolling with for the coming season, the preseason awards mostly highlighting junior quarterback Sam Ehlinger is not surprising. With Big 12 Media Days less than one week away, the votes were tallied up on July 9 to see who is thought to be the top players in this conference.
For Texas football, Ehlinger received the honors for the preseason Big 12 Offensive Player of the Year and the slotting as the quarterback on the All-Big 12 First Team. That All-Big 12 First Team also featured other top Texas football players like senior center Zach Shackelford, sophomore kicker Cameron Dicker, and sophomore safety Caden Sterns.