WACO, Texas – Three South Dakota State University football players, including two of the top receivers in program history, were named Wednesday to the 2017 America Football Coaches Association Football Championship Subdivision All-America Team.
Pacing the Jackrabbit contingent was senior tight end Dallas Goedert, who repeated as a first-team selection. During the recently completed 2017 season, Goedert finished as the team leader with 72 receptions and 1,111 receiving yards, while adding seven touchdown catches. His receiving total leads all Division I tight ends - FCS and FBS - this season.
For his career, Goedert ranked third in receptions at SDSU with 198, fourth in receiving yards with 2,988 and sixth with 21 touchdown receptions.
Goedert has been a unanimous All-America selection each of the past two seasons and has been honored as a first-team selection in 2017 by The Associated Press, Football Championship Subdivision Athletics Directors Association, Phil Steele Publications and STATS.
Senior wide receiver Jake Wieneke earned second-team recognition after tallying 65 receptions for 965 yards and tying his own school record with 16 touchdown catches. A four-time All-America honoree, the Maple Grove, Minnesota, native finished his career second in FCS history with 59 touchdown receptions and third in receiving yards with 5,157. His 288 career receptions also set SDSU and Missouri Valley Football Conference records.
Wieneke earlier earned recognition on the Phil Steele All-America Third Team.
Also earning second-team honors from the AFCA was sophomore linebacker Christian Rozeboom. The Sioux Center, Iowa, native registered a team-best 127 tackles, including 7.5 tackles for loss and a sack. He recorded 10 or more tackles in seven contests, while adding two interceptions, three fumble recoveries and a blocked kick.
Rozeboom previously was honored on All-America teams selected by Phil Steele (second team), STATS (second team) and The Associated Press (third team).
SDSU, coached by John Stiegelmeier, finished the 2017 season with a school-record 11 wins against three losses. The Jackrabbits qualified for the FCS playoffs for the sixth year in a row and reached the national semifinals for the first time.
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