{"id":772,"date":"2008-12-22T10:14:34","date_gmt":"2008-12-22T16:14:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/homepages.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/2008\/12\/22\/pair-of-bears-earn-football-all-america-honors\/"},"modified":"2008-12-22T10:14:34","modified_gmt":"2008-12-22T16:14:34","slug":"pair-of-bears-earn-football-all-america-honors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/2008\/12\/pair-of-bears-earn-football-all-america-honors\/","title":{"rendered":"Pair of Bears earn football all-America honors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/jason-smith-dec08.jpg\" alt=\"Jason Smith\" align=\"right\" \/>A couple of weeks ago, we wrote about <a href=\"http:\/\/homepages.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/2008\/12\/12\/griffin-pawelek-lead-host-of-football-honorees\/\" target=\"_blank\">the many all-Big 12 honors<\/a> received by Baylor football players this year. This week, we&#8217;re taking it up a notch. Congratulations to 2008 all-Americans Jason Smith, a senior offensive lineman, and Robert Griffin, the Bears&#8217; freshman quarterback!<\/p>\n<p>Smith, widely considered a probable first-round pick in this spring&#8217;s NFL draft, was named <a href=\"http:\/\/baylorbears.cstv.com\/sports\/m-footbl\/spec-rel\/121308aaa.html\" target=\"_blank\">first-team all-America<\/a> by the Football Writers Association of America and <em>Phil Steele Magazine<\/em> (no relation to the Bears&#8217; former head coach there). Smith also earned third-team all-America honors from the Associated Press and Rivals.com. He is the 45th student-athlete in Baylor history to be named an all-American, and the first non-special teams player since safety Adrian Robinson in 1995.<\/p>\n<p>Griffin, the consensus Big 12 Offensive Freshman\/Newcomer of the Year, earned <a href=\"http:\/\/baylorbears.cstv.com\/sports\/m-footbl\/spec-rel\/121708aaa.html\" target=\"_blank\">Freshman All-America<\/a> recognition from four publications, including <a href=\"http:\/\/baylorbears.cstv.com\/sports\/m-footbl\/spec-rel\/121708aaa.html\" target=\"_blank\">first-team honors from <em>The Sporting News<\/em><\/a> and Rivals.com. Griffin is the third consecutive Big 12 quarterback to earn first-team All-Freshman honors from Rivals.com, following Texas\u2019 Colt McCoy and Oklahoma\u2019s Sam Bradford. (You might recognize those names from this year&#8217;s Heisman Award finalist list.)<\/p>\n<p>Sic \u2019em, Smooth and RG3!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of weeks ago, we wrote about the many all-Big 12 honors received by Baylor football players this year. This week, we&#8217;re taking it up a notch. Congratulations to 2008 all-Americans Jason Smith, a senior offensive lineman, and Robert Griffin, the Bears&#8217; freshman quarterback! Smith, widely considered a probable first-round pick in this spring&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-athletics","category-honors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}