University of Houston Athletics
Ed Oliver Named Sporting News All-American
12/11/2018 10:00:00 AM | Football
Three-time All-American earns fifth honor of 2018 season
HOUSTON – Already Houston's first three-time All-American, Ed Oliver earned a fifth All-America honor this season as the Sporting News named the junior defensive tackle to its second team Tuesday morning.
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Tuesday's honor comes one day after Oliver earned his second First Team All-America honor from the Football Writers Association of America (FWAA). He was named to the Walter Camp Football Foundation's First Team on Thursday
The Houston native earned an All-America mention from the Sporting News for a third consecutive year after earning first-team honors in 2016 and second-team honors in 2017.
Oliver also earned Second-Team honors earlier Thursday from Sports Illustrated and third-team honors from the Associated Press on Monday. It marked the third consecutive year for Oliver to earn honors from Sports Illustrated, having earned First-Team honors in 2016 and 2017.
Oliver, a consensus All-American in 2017 and the first underclassman in the history of the Outland Trophy to win the award, is one of eight from the Houston program to earn FWAA First-Team honors, and the only to do so twice.
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- First three-time All-American in Houston history.
- First player in Houston history with multiple Walter Camp All-America honors.
- Earned First-Team All-Conference honors for the third consecutive year, the first player in UH history to earn First-Team All-Conference honors three times.
- No. 5 nationally and No. 2 in The American with an average of 1.81 tackles for loss per game this season.
- Led all defensive linemen in The American with an average of 6.75 tackles per game.
- No. 6 in The American with 14.5 tackles for loss despite only playing in eight games.
- Led Houston defensive linemen with 54 tackles on the year.
- Finished the year with 54 tackles, including 14.5 tackles for loss and three sacks in only eight games. Also had two pass breakups, one forced fumble and nine quarterback hurries.
- With 54 career tackles for loss, Oliver finished third on the UH career TFLs chart and was 12 away from the Houston career record.
