Michigan State University Athletics
Fields Named FWAA All-American
12/12/2004 12:00:00 AM | Football
Dec. 11, 2004
ORLANDO, Fla. - Michigan State sophomore Brandon Fields, who leads the nation in punting with his 47.9-yard average, has been named to the Football Writers Association All-America Team as selected by a nationwide panel of sports writers. The 25-man team features nine players from the Big Ten Conference, including Fields.
ABC Sports introduced the FWAA All-America Team, the second-oldest continuously-published team, during its All-America Team Celebration televised Saturday, Dec. 11 from the ABC Theater at Disney-MGM Studios.
Thus far, Fields has earned first-team All-America honors from FWAA, Walter Camp and SI.com. He becomes the first Spartan punter to be named first-team All-American since Greg Montgomery in 1986-87.
Fields, a first-team All-Big Ten selection by the league's media panel and finalist for the Ray Guy Award, hit 23 punts 50 or more yards and had 13 kicks downed inside the opponent's 20-yard line.
The 6-foot-6, 234-pound Fields averaged 51.0 yards on four punts vs. Wisconsin, including a 49-yarder that went out of bounds at the Badger 4 late in the third quarter. Fields averaged 54.0 yards on three punts vs. Ohio State, including a 62-yarder in the third quarter that was downed at the OSU 1-yard line. He averaged 55.7 yards on three punts vs. Illinois, including two kicks downed inside the Illini 20. Fields averaged 53.0 yards on four punts vs. Indiana, including a season-long 65-yarder, with two kicks downed inside the Hoosier 20. He averaged 55.3 yards on six punts vs. Central Michigan, including a 62-yarder.
The Toledo, Ohio, native earned Midseason All-America honors from SI.com and Collegefootballnews.com.
His career 47.1-yard punting average ranks No. 1 on MSU's and the Big Ten's all-time lists.
A two-time Academic All-Big Ten selection, Fields sports a 3.41 grade-point average in kinesiology.
2004 FWAA ALL-AMERICA TEAM
OFFENSEQB Alex Smith (6-4, 212, Jr.), UtahRB J.J. Arrington (5-10, 210, Sr.), CaliforniaRB Adrian Peterson (6-2, 210, Fr.), OklahomaWR Braylor Edwards (6-3, 208, Sr.), MichiganWR Taylor Stubblefield (6-1, 182, Sr.), PurdueTE Heath Miller (6-5, 255, Jr.), VirginiaOL David Baas (6-5, 323, Sr.), MichiganOL Jammal Brown (6-6, 313, Sr.), OklahomaOL Alex Barron (6-6, 308, Sr.), Florida StateOL Chris Kemoeatu (6-4, 338, Jr.), UtahC Greg Eslinger (6-3, 285, Jr.), Minnesota
DEFENSEDL Dan Cody (6-5, 270, Sr.), OklahomaDL Shaun Cody (6-4, 295, Sr.), Southern CalDL Jonathan Goddard (6-0, 245, Sr.), MarshallDL Erasmus James (6-4, 283, Sr.), WisconsinDL David Pollack (6-3, 261, Sr.), GeorgiaLB Michael Boley (6-3, 228, Sr.), Southern MissLB Derrick Johnson (6-4, 230, Sr.), TexasDB Marlon Jackson (6-1, 196, Sr.), MichiganDB Carlos Rogers (6-1, 200, Sr.), AuburnDB Antrel Rolle (6-1, 202, Sr.), Miami-Fla.DB Ernest Shazor (6-4, 229, Sr.), Michigan
SPECIALISTSK Mike Nugent (5-10, 180, Sr.), Ohio StateP Brandon Fields (6-6, 234, So.), Michigan StateKR Reggie Bush (6-0, 200, So.), Southern Cal
