North Carolina State University Athletics
Payton Wilson Named First-Team All-American by CBS Sports
12/6/2023 11:31:00 AM | Football
RALEIGH, N.C. – NC State linebacker Payton Wilson was named a 2023 first-team All-American today by CBS Sports / 247Sports.
Wilson becomes the fourth NC State linebacker to receive All-American honors, joining Vaughan Johnson, Levar Fisher, and Nate Irving, the last Wolfpack linebacker named All-American in 2010.
It is the third straight year the Wolfpack has had a player be named to an All-American team and the first defensive player since 2020, when Alim McNeill appeared on two All-American teams.
A graduate student from Hillsborough, N.C., Wilson was named ACC Defensive Player of the Year and a finalist for three national defensive awards (Nagurski, Butkus, Bednarik).
Wilson eclipsed the 400-career tackle mark in the final week of the regular season, just one of five active FBS players to achieve the feat. Throughout his storied career for the Wolfpack, Wilson has accumulated stats that rank him inside the top 10 of active FBS players in total tackles, tackles per game, solo tackles, solo tackles per game, assisted tackles, assisted tackles-for-loss, total tackles-for-loss, and tackles-for-loss per game.
Wilson leads the ACC and ranks fifth nationally this season with 138 tackles and an average of 11.5 tackles per game and has tallied the most total tackles for a Wolfpack player in a single season since Earl Wolff had 145 in 2012.
Wilson becomes the fourth NC State linebacker to receive All-American honors, joining Vaughan Johnson, Levar Fisher, and Nate Irving, the last Wolfpack linebacker named All-American in 2010.
It is the third straight year the Wolfpack has had a player be named to an All-American team and the first defensive player since 2020, when Alim McNeill appeared on two All-American teams.
A graduate student from Hillsborough, N.C., Wilson was named ACC Defensive Player of the Year and a finalist for three national defensive awards (Nagurski, Butkus, Bednarik).
Wilson eclipsed the 400-career tackle mark in the final week of the regular season, just one of five active FBS players to achieve the feat. Throughout his storied career for the Wolfpack, Wilson has accumulated stats that rank him inside the top 10 of active FBS players in total tackles, tackles per game, solo tackles, solo tackles per game, assisted tackles, assisted tackles-for-loss, total tackles-for-loss, and tackles-for-loss per game.
Wilson leads the ACC and ranks fifth nationally this season with 138 tackles and an average of 11.5 tackles per game and has tallied the most total tackles for a Wolfpack player in a single season since Earl Wolff had 145 in 2012.
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