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          Big 12 Blog

          Preseason vs. Postseason All-Big 12 team

          • ESPN.com staff
          Dec 14, 2011, 07:15 PM

          It's always fun looking back on what we thought in the preseason, and today, we'll take another look.

          Here's who made the postseason team.

          How did our All-Big 12 preseason team stack up at season's end?

          OFFENSE

          QB: Brandon Weeden, Oklahoma State

          • Led the Big 12 with 4,328 passing yards and threw 34 touchdown passes. Only the postseason All-Big 12 QB, Robert Griffin III, had more. He was named the second-team All-Big 12 QB by both the coaches and media.

          RB: Cyrus Gray, Texas A&M

          • Gray was sidelined late in the season with a stress fracture in his shoulder, but rushed for 1,045 yards and 12 touchdowns, his second consecutive 1,000-yard season. That ranked fifth in the Big 12, and Gray earned second-team All-Big 12 honors by the coaches and media.

          RB: Christine Michael, Texas A&M

          • Michael tore his ACL against Oklahoma, derailing another likely 1,000-yard season. He still rushed for 899 yards and averaged better than six yards per carry.

          WR: Justin Blackmon, Oklahoma State

          • Blackmon won his second consecutive Biletnikoff Award and earned unanimous All-Big 12 first-team honors after catching 113 passes for 1,336 yards and 15 touchdowns.

          WR: Ryan Broyles, Oklahoma

          • Broyles caught 83 passes for 1,157 yards before tearing his ACL in the ninth game of the season. He still cracked the coaches' first team and my first team, but was relegated to second team by the media.

          TE: Michael Egnew, Missouri

          • Egnew kept on keeping on, leading all Big 12 tight ends with 47 catches for 484 yards and three touchdowns, earning unanimous All-Big 12 first-team honors.

          OL: Levy Adcock, Oklahoma State

          • Adcock cracked a few All-American teams and earned unanimous All-Big 12 first-team honors.

          OL: Kelechi Osemele, Iowa State

          • Osemele landed on SI.com's All-American team and earned unanimous first-team honors.

          C: Grant Garner, Oklahoma State

          • Garner cracked SI.com's All-American team and landed on the media's first team, but was pushed to the second team by Baylor's Philip Blake on the coaches All-Big 12 teams.

          OL: Lane Taylor, Oklahoma State

          • Taylor didn't crack any All-Big 12 postseason first teams.

          OL: Elvis Fisher, Missouri

          • Fisher suffered a ruptured patellar tendon before the season and didn't play, and is waiting on an NCAA waiver for a sixth year of eligibility.

          We'll take a look at the defense later today.