THE FLATS – First-team running back Jahmyr Gibbs (Dalton, Ga./Dalton) headlines Georgia Tech’s seven representatives on Phil Steele College Football Preview’s 2021 preseason all-Atlantic Coast Conference team, which was published on Tuesday.
In addition to being tabbed as a first-team running back, Gibbs is also third-team selection as a kickoff returner. The other Yellow Jackets named to Phil Steele’s preseason all-ACC team include four more third-team honorees – junior linebacker Quez Jackson (Fort Valley, Ga./Peach County), senior offensive lineman Ryan Johnson (Brentwood, Tenn./Brentwood Academy), long snapper Cade Long (Hickson, Tenn./Baylor School) and junior defensive back Juanyeh Thomas (Niceville, Fla./Niceville) – and a pair of fourth-team picks – sophomore defensive lineman Jordan Domineck (Lakeland, Fla./George Jenkins) and junior linebacker Ayinde Eley (Olney, Md./Good Counsel).
Of Georgia Tech’s seven honorees, six have multiple seasons of eligibility remaining, highlighted by Gibbs, who enters his second freshman season after earning freshman all-America recognition last season. As a true freshman in 2020, Gibbs led Georgia Tech in all-purpose yards (968) and scoring (seven TDs) and ranked second on the team in rushing yards (460), rushing touchdowns (4), receptions (24), receiving yards (303) and touchdown receptions (3), compiling the gaudy numbers in just six-and-a-half games in 2020. He also averaged a gaudy 25.6 yards per kickoff return, which would have ranked second in the Atlantic Coast Conference and 22nd nationally if he had enough attempts to qualify for the NCAA’s official statistical rankings.
Since 2000, Gibbs is one of only seven Power Five conference players to compile 450 rushing yards, 300 receiving yards and 200 kickoff return yards in a team’s first eight games of the season, joining an elite list that includes Reggie Bush (USC – 2004), Marion Grice (Arizona State – 2013), Christian McCaffery (Stanford – 2015), Joe Mixon (Oklahoma – 2016), Saquon Barkley (Penn State – 2017) and Lynn Bowden, Jr. (Kentucky – 2019). His feat was made even more impressive by the fact that he missed the season opener at Florida State and left his final game of the season versus Duke before halftime due to injury.
2021 PHIL STEELE COLLEGE FOOTBALL PREVIEW PRESEASON ALL-ACC
First Team
RB Jahmyr Gibbs
Third Team
KR Jahmyr Gibbs
LB Quez Jackson
OL Ryan Johnson
LS Cade Long
DB Juanyeh Thomas
Fourth Team
DL Jordan Domineck
LB Ayinde Eley
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