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Chubb Selected to Participate in 2018 State Farm All-Star Football Challenge
1/29/2018 10:37:00 AM | Football
Skills Competition Returns for 20th Edition Featuring 24 of College Football’s Best Players
CHICAGO, ILL. - Bradley Chubb, a 2017 consensus All-American for the Wolfpack, will participate in the 2018 State Farm All-Star Football Challenge at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas on Friday, Feb. 2. The 20th edition of the All-Star Football Challenge will air on ESPN2 at 9 p.m. ET.Â
For the second consecutive year, the skills competition will feature 24 of college football's brightest stars divided into six teams based on their college conference. Each team will consist of four players from the same conference that will compete for conference supremacy in a series of skills competitions. The conferences represented are the ACC, the Big Ten, the Big 12, the Pac-12, the SEC, and four of the best players outside of the Power Five that will be called the "Wild Card" team.
Chubb, the 2017 ACC Defensive Player of the Year and winner of the Nagurski Trophy and Hendricks Award, will participate in an individual timed event, then finish with a full team event. Individual events in the 2018 State Farm All-Star Football Challenge include: the State Farm QB Accuracy Competition, the Edward Jones Hands Competition, the Samsung Lineman Strength Challenge and the Mercedes-Benz Obstacle Course. To conclude the program, the players will compete as teams in the State Farm Team Competition.
The following players will participate in the 2018 State Farm All-Star Football Challenge:
Team ACC
Kurt Benkert – QB – Virginia
Tremaine Edmunds – LB – Virginia Tech
Bradley Chubb – DE – NC State
Derwin James – S – Florida State
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Team Big Ten
JT Barrett – QB – Ohio State
Jerome Baker – LB – Ohio State
Sean Welsh – G – Iowa
Joshua Jackson – CB – Iowa
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Team Big 12
Nic Shimonek – QB – Texas Tech
Ogbonnia Okoronkwo – DE – Oklahoma
Orlando Brown – OT – Oklahoma
Mark Andrews – TE – Oklahoma
Team Pac-12
Josh Rosen – QB – UCLA
Uchenna Nwosu – LB – USC
Vita Vea – DT – Washington
Isaiah Oliver – CB – Colorado
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Team SEC
Danny Etling – QB – Louisiana State
Bo Scarbrough – RB – Alabama
Arden Key – DE – Louisiana State
Armani Watts – S – Texas A&M
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Team "Wild Card"
Logan Woodside – QB – Toledo
Marcus Davenport – DE – UTSA
Will Hernandez – OG – UTEP
Cedric Wilson – WR – Boise State
For the second consecutive year, the skills competition will feature 24 of college football's brightest stars divided into six teams based on their college conference. Each team will consist of four players from the same conference that will compete for conference supremacy in a series of skills competitions. The conferences represented are the ACC, the Big Ten, the Big 12, the Pac-12, the SEC, and four of the best players outside of the Power Five that will be called the "Wild Card" team.
Chubb, the 2017 ACC Defensive Player of the Year and winner of the Nagurski Trophy and Hendricks Award, will participate in an individual timed event, then finish with a full team event. Individual events in the 2018 State Farm All-Star Football Challenge include: the State Farm QB Accuracy Competition, the Edward Jones Hands Competition, the Samsung Lineman Strength Challenge and the Mercedes-Benz Obstacle Course. To conclude the program, the players will compete as teams in the State Farm Team Competition.
The following players will participate in the 2018 State Farm All-Star Football Challenge:
Team ACC
Kurt Benkert – QB – Virginia
Tremaine Edmunds – LB – Virginia Tech
Bradley Chubb – DE – NC State
Derwin James – S – Florida State
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Team Big Ten
JT Barrett – QB – Ohio State
Jerome Baker – LB – Ohio State
Sean Welsh – G – Iowa
Joshua Jackson – CB – Iowa
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Team Big 12
Nic Shimonek – QB – Texas Tech
Ogbonnia Okoronkwo – DE – Oklahoma
Orlando Brown – OT – Oklahoma
Mark Andrews – TE – Oklahoma
Team Pac-12
Josh Rosen – QB – UCLA
Uchenna Nwosu – LB – USC
Vita Vea – DT – Washington
Isaiah Oliver – CB – Colorado
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Team SEC
Danny Etling – QB – Louisiana State
Bo Scarbrough – RB – Alabama
Arden Key – DE – Louisiana State
Armani Watts – S – Texas A&M
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Team "Wild Card"
Logan Woodside – QB – Toledo
Marcus Davenport – DE – UTSA
Will Hernandez – OG – UTEP
Cedric Wilson – WR – Boise State
Players Mentioned
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