Wyoming Cowboy safety Andrew Wingard received some post season recognition today, he was named to the Football Writers Association of America (FWAA)’s All-Freshman team. Wingard, the true freshman from Arvada, CO was one of six players from the Group of Five to find themselves on the team.<\/p>\n
Wingard led the Cowboys with 122 tackles this past season. That number ranked him 12th in the nation and second in the Mountain West. He averaged 10.2 tackles per game. He also averaged 6.9 solo tackles per game, good enough for fourth in the country, first in the Mountain West. He was also responsible for 7 tackles for loss and an interception.<\/p>\n
Wingard was the first freshman in Wyoming history to exceed 100 tackles in a season. Wingard was named to the 2nd team Mountain West All-Conference team.<\/p>\n
The rest of the FWAA All-Freshman team below:<\/p>\n
OFFENSE (12)<\/strong> DEFENSE (12)<\/strong> SPECIALISTS (5) HEAD COACH<\/strong> Wyoming Cowboy safety Andrew Wingard received some post season recognition today, he was named to the Football Writers Association of America (FWAA)’s All-Freshman team. Wingard, the true freshman from Arvada, CO was one of six players from the Group of Five to find themselves on the team. Wingard led the Cowboys with 122 tackles this […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[735,807,334,31,155],"class_list":["post-5790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wyoblog","tag-andrew-wingard","tag-feature","tag-mountain-west-football","tag-wyoming-cowboys","tag-wyoming-football"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wyonation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wyonation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wyonation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wyonation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wyonation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wyonation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5790\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wyonation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wyonation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wyonation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nQB \u2219 Josh Rosen, UCLA (6-4, 210, Manhattan Beach, Calif.)
\nRB \u2219 Saquon Barkley, Penn State (5-11, 222, Coplay, Pa.)
\nRB \u2219 Myles Gaskin, Washington (5-9, 192, Lynnwood, Wash.)
\nRB Mike Warren, Iowa State (6-0, 200, Lawton, Okla.)
\nWR \u2219 Penny Hart, Georgia State (5-9, 170, Buford, Ga.)
\nWR Richie James, Middle Tennessee (5-9, 171, Sarasota, Fla.)
\nWR \u2219 Calvin Ridley, Alabama (6-1, 188, Coconut Creek, Fla.)
\nOL William Clapp, LSU (6-5, 303, New Orleans, La.)
\nOL \u2219 Will Noble, Houston (6-4, 290, Leander, Texas)
\nOL \u2219 Mitch Hyatt, Clemson (6-5, 295, Suwanee, Ga.)
\nOL Max Scharping, Northern Illinois (6-6, 311, Green Bay, Wis.)
\nOL \u2219 Connor Williams, Texas (6-5, 283, Coppell, Texas)<\/p>\n
\nDE Walter Brady, Missouri (6-3, 255, Florence, Ala.)
\nDE Jaylon Ferguson, Louisiana Tech (6-5, 256, St. Francisville, La.)
\nDT \u2219 Terry Beckner Jr., Missouri (6-4, 300, East St. Louis, Ill.)
\nDT \u2219 Christian Wilkins, Clemson (6-4, 315, Springfield, Mass.)
\nLB T.J. Edwards, Wisconsin (6-1, 238, Lake Villa, Ill.)
\nLB \u2219 Dre Greenlaw, Arkansas (6-0, 222, Fayetteville, Ark.)
\nLB \u2219 Malik Jefferson, Texas (6-3, 232, Mesquite, Texas)
\nDB Marlon Humphrey, Alabama (6-1, 192, Hoover, Ala.)
\nDB Kareem Orr, Arizona State (5-11, 195, Chattanooga, Tenn.)
\nDB Jabrill Peppers, Michigan (6-1, 205, East Orange, N.J.)
\nDB \u2219 Andrew Wingard, Wyoming (6-0, 194, Arvada, Colo.)
\nDB \u2219 Jordan Whitehead, Pittsburgh (5-11, 185, Aliquippa, Pa.)<\/p>\n
\nK \u2219 Justin Yoon, Notre Dame (5-10, 185, Nashville, Tenn.)
\nP \u2219 Austin Seibert, Oklahoma (5-10, 210, Belleville, Ill.)
\nAP \u2219 Christian Kirk, Texas A&M (5-11, 200, Scottsdale, Ariz.)
\nKR \u2219 Kavontae Turpin, TCU (5-9, 152, Monroe, La.)
\nPR \u2219 Antonio Callaway, Florida (5-11, 198, Miami, Fla.)<\/p>\n
\nTom Herman, Houston
\n\u2219 Denotes true freshman<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"