All-America honors for WSU’s Bucannon, UW’s Sankey, ASJ


Washington State safety Deone Bucannon was named to the Associated Press’ All-America first team on Tuesday, making him the only college football player in the state to make the elite team.

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Deone Bucannon. (Getty Images)

Meanwhile, Washington running back Bishop Sankey was named to the All-America second team, and tight end Austin Seferian-Jenkins was named to the third team Tuesday.

Bucannon led the Pac-12 with 109 tackles as a senior this season, and made five interceptions as part of the Cougars’ sneaky-good defense. WSU finished the year with a 6-6 record and earned its first bowl-game berth since 2003, playing in the New Mexico Bowl this coming Saturday against the Colorado State Rams.

Sankey, in his junior year, ran for a whopping 1,775 rushing yards (good for third in the nation) on 306 carries, scoring 18 touchdowns on the ground and adding one through the air. He was a finalist for the Doak Walker Award, which goes to the nation’s top running back; Boston College’s Andre Williams won the honor last week.

As a junior, Seferian-Jenkins didn’t put up the same numbers he did last year, but was still a force in the Huskies offense for most of the 2013 season. He finished the year with 413 receiving yards on 33 catches, including seven touchdown receptions. It was his worst statistical year at Washington, after tallying 544 and 852 receiving yards his freshman and sophomore years, respectively.

Nick Eaton