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Ohio State's Jaxon Smith-Njigba Named Second-Team All-American By Sporting News

The sophomore wide receiver was the only Buckeye to be named an All-American by the outlet.

Andrew Lind

Ohio State sophomore wide receiver Jaxon Smith-Njigba was named a second-team All-American by Sporting News on Tuesday afternoon.

A sophomore from Rockwall, Texas, Smith-Njigba caught a team-leading 80 passes for 1,259 yards and six touchdowns. That includes a school single-game record 15 receptions for 240 yards and one score in the Buckeyes’ win at Nebraska on Nov. 6.

Alabama’s Jameson Williams and Pittsburgh’s Jordan Addison were the first-team wide receivers, while Smith-Njigba and Purdue’s David Bell garnered second-team honors.

Ohio State’s Chris Olave and Garrett Wilson were, of course, absent from the list despite being recognized as All-Americans by other outlets, including the Associated Press, Football Writers Association of America and the Walter Camp Football Foundation.

The only other selector that determines consensus and unanimous All-Americans is the American Football Coaches Association, which will announce its first- and second-teams on Wednesday afternoon.

So far, only Wilson and offensive tackle Nicholas Petit-Frere have been named first-team All-Americans (FWAA), which means they’ll have a tree planted in their honor at Buckeye Grove. Smith-Njigba, meanwhile, was also named a third-team All-American by the Associated Press earlier this week.

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Andrew Lind is an Ohio State beat writer and photographer at BuckeyesNow, founder of The Ohio State Uniform Database and the NCAA and NFL writer at SportsLogos.net.

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