Ott Adds Associated Press First-Team All-Pac-12 Honors
Pac-12 rushing leader Jaydn Ott continued to rack up the awards by being named first-team All-Pac-12 by the Associated Press after having previously been a first-team All-Pac-12 selection of the league's coaches, College Football Network and College Football News. Ott is also one of 10 finalists for the Polynesian College Football Player of the Year Award.
Below are notes on Ott with an extended bio available by clicking on his name.
Jaydn Ott, RB, 6-0, 200, So., 2nd Season At Cal
– Has rushed 229 times for 1,260 yards with 11 touchdowns on the ground (all career highs), while adding 21 receptions for 141 yards and two touchdown catches, as well as one kick return for 100 yards and one touchdown to total career highs of 1,501 all-purpose yards and 1,401 yards from scrimmage, as well as a career-high 14 touchdowns overall
– Ranks among Pac-12 and NCAA leaders in rushing yards per game (114.5, No. 1 Pac-12, No. 7 NCAA), rushing yards (No. 1 Pac-12, No. 13 NCAA), all-purpose yards per game (136.45, No. 1 Pac-12, No. 8 NCAA), total touchdowns (14, No. 2T, No. 22T NCAA), rushing touchdowns (No. 2T Pac-12, No. 35T NCAA), scoring (7.6 ppg, No. 3 Pac-12, No. 46 NCAA) and rush yards per carry (5.50, No. 6 Pac-12, No. 48 NCAA)
– His 1,000-yard rushing season is the 19th in Cal history and first since Patrick Laird in 2017 (17 Cal players have recorded 1,000 rushing yards or more in a season with Marshawn Lynch and Russell White each doing it twice)