01-07-2025
Florida's starting center among 2025 Walter Camp Preseason First-Team All-Americans
The preseason All-American team nominations have begun to roll in, and among those that have been recently released are the 2025 Walter Camp Preseason FBS All-America Team rosters, which include a member of the Florida Gators on its First Team.
Redshirt senior center Jake Slaughter was that person and was named to the 2025 Walter Camp Preseason FBS All-America First Team alongside some of the biggest names in the collegiate ranks. He was an AP First-Team All-American, becoming just the third Gators' center to claim a first-team All-America honor from one of the five current publications for consensus and unanimous distinction while serving as a team captain.
Slaughter started all 13 games in 2024, amassing a mountain of awards, including the AP All-SEC First-Team, ESPN All-American, PFF All-American First-Team, 247Sports/CBS All-American Second-Team, CFN All-American Second-Team, Phil Steel All-American Fourth-Team and USA TODAY Sports All-SEC First-Team. He led the offensive line with 800 snaps played and owned a pass block grade of 83.9 according to PFF.
What Florida coach John Decoster says about Jake Slaughter
"The center is the most important part on the offensive line, you are the quarterback of the O-line. They have to get the Mike points right, (identifications) and protection. Just him settling into the leadership role, becoming an All-American, now he has the accolades to match it, the expectations rise," he offered.
"You always coach the best players the hardest and that raises the level of the room, so I am challenging Jake right now to take his game to the next level, especially in the run game."
Take a look below at the full roster of first- and second-team All-Americans from the upcoming 2025 season, according to the Walter Camp Award.
WALTER CAMP FIRST TEAM OFFENSE
WALTER CAMP FIRST TEAM DEFENSE
WALTER CAMP SECOND TEAM OFFENSE
WALTER CAMP SECOND TEAM DEFENSE
* 2024 First Team All-America selection
# 2024 Second Team All-America selection
Walter Camp Award history
"Walter Camp is the nation's oldest college football All-America team. Considered the 'Father of American Football', Walter Camp introduced the play from scrimmage, set plays, the numerical assessment of goals and tries and the restriction of play to eleven men per side in 1880. Nine years later in 1889, Mr. Camp, then the Yale University head coach, selected the first-ever college football All-America team.
"The Walter Camp Football Foundation – a New Haven-based all-volunteer group – was founded in 1967 to perpetuate the ideals of Camp and to continue the tradition of selecting annually an All-America team. Typically announced in early December, the Walter Camp All-America teams are selected by the FBS head coaches and sports information directors."
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