I think Daniel should be the early favorite for All-Conference at QB but definitely expect Bradford and Harrell to show up in that talk. I don’t think Reesing is quite prestigious enough yet to take away any votes from Daniel other than from ku fans who wouldn’t vote for Daniel if he was running uncontested.

I do not expect Jackson or Washington to receive any pre-season attention. I’m perfectly fine with them at RB, but they won’t get attention until they prove they can take over Temple’s job.

If Maclin is left off any pre-season All-Conference lists then that list immediately becomes useless. Maclin and Crabtree are in a league of their own for WR in this conference and it isn’t close.

Coffman, in my opinion, is the best TE in the nation. Pettigrew and Beckum are more “traditional” but as I heard the guys on ESPNNews talking about yesterday (in reference to Shockey), TE is now a glamour position in the NFL because of what you can do with a good one (thank you, Tony Gonzalez). Chase Coffman is far more like the NFL TE’s that are getting pub now (Gonzalez, Shockey, Winslow Jr, Heap, Gates, etc.) than the other guys are and I think he’s going to prove to be the best receiver out of the group. Can he block? Sure he can. He’s huge, athletic, strong and aggressive. What else is there to blocking? But he won’t be a potential 1st Round pick because of his blocking, and neither will the other guys.

Not sure I see any of our OL getting a lot of pre-season attention. Brown might because of his size, but I think this unit is under the radar based on how our offense performs. Luellen and Spieker were the faces of the line last year and they’re both gone, so it won’t surprise me if the buzz around the conference is that our OL is inexperienced.

Sulak is definitely underrated. Re-watching all of my highlights from last year in order to compile preview videos for our stars, I started thinking “should I be doing on on Sulak?” He made a ton of plays a year ago! He has the best shot at pre-season accolades, I think. Hood is unknown outside of Missouri other than by those who’ve been hit by him, and Chavis is probably somewhat unknown even in our own community. People see #48 at DE and think Xzavie Jackson.

Spoon is the prototypical All-Conference player and would start for any team in the conference. I don’t expect Christopher to have any shot at this position, especially considering ku’s depth at this position. But Spoon should be almost as automatic here as Maclin is at WR.

And you’re right, William Moore is a pre-season All-American. That alone tells me all I need to know about his All-Conference credentials. Our corners, though, again I think will suffer from a perception of them not being very good. For whatever reason, I think the general feeling is that Mizzou’s defense isn’t very good and if you don’t have a good defense (perceived, anyway) then you obviously don’t have good corners. Gettis is going to be just fine, and Bridges played really well in the final quarter of the season. But Moore is probably our only one here.

There simply is not a better kicker in the conference. I won’t even listen to talk to the contrary.

Punter? Ugh. I hope we don’t punt all year. Might want to find out if Chase Patton can punt, so we can line him up back there and have him fake it at least 50% of the time.