Rondale Moore named a consensus All-America selection
Rondale Moore has become the first freshman in the Big Ten Conference to be named a consensus All-America selection dating back to when freshman became eligible in 1972.
Moore, who is Purdue's first consensus All-America selection since Ryan Kerrigan in 2010, was given the consensus status by the NCAA as the organization allows for tiebreaker procedures to be used for players with multiple selections by the five qualifying lists.
On Monday, Moore was named first team by the AP and FWAA. He was named second team on Tuesday by the The Sporting News. Moore was not named to the teams of the Walter Camp or the American Football Coaches Association.
By being named a consensus All-American, Moore is the first freshman in college football to be given such status since Oklahoma's Adrian Peterson earned the honor in 2004. Georgia's Herschel Walker was a true freshman consensus All-American in 1980 as well. Houston defensive tackle Ed Oliver was an AP All-American as a true freshman in 2016, but not a consensus pick.
There have been some redshirt freshman to earn consensus honors. Moore joins Andre Szmyt, a kicker from Syracuse as freshman on the 2018 AP team, but Szmyt sat out his first season with the Orange. Other notable freshman All-Americans that were all redshirts: Receiver Michael Crabtree (Texas Tech, 2007) and quarterbacks Johnny Manziel (Texas A&M, 2012) and Jameis Winston (Florida State, 2013). Also in 2007, Mizzou's Jeremy Maclin was the first freshman to be named All-American by the AP at the all-purpose position and was also a consensus All-American, but Maclin was also a redshirt.
Wisconsin's Jonathan Taylor was a second team All-American by several organizations as a true freshman 2017.
Moore, who has also been named to first team All-American teams by ESPN, Sports Illustrated and CBS Sports, was the first underclassman to be named an All-American by a major media outlet in Purdue history. CBS Sports named Moore its National Freshman of the Year earlier Wednesday afternoon.
Moore, who won the Paul Hornung Award last week and was named Freshman of the Year by the Big Ten Conference the week before, was named to the Associated Press first-team unit as an all-purpose player, and award it has been given to versatile players since 2006.
Moore finished the regular season as the nation's leader in receptions (103) and was the Big Ten's leader in receiving yards (1164) and touchdowns (12). Moore named the conference's Freshman of the Year recipient, Receiver of the Year honor and a consensus first-team All-Big Ten selection. However, while Moore also led the league in kickoff return yardage but was just eighth in yards per return.
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