Peppers & Lewis win all the B1G awards; All-B1G teams

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Peppers named-

  • First Team All-B1G
  • B1G Defensive Player of the Year
  • B1G Return Specialist of the Year
  • B1G Linebacker of the Year

Lewis-

  • First Team All-B1G
  • B1G Defensive Back of the Year

Peppers is the first player since the B1G expanded its award system in 2011 to win 3 individual awards.

Here are our defensive all-B1G selections-

First Team

  • Taco Charlton
  • Chris Wormley
  • Jabrill Peppers
  • Jourdan Lewis

Second Team

  • Chris Wormley
  • Ryan Glasgow
  • Ben Gedeon
  • Channing Stribling
  • Delano Hill
  • Kenny Allen (P)

Third Team

  • Ben Gedeon

Honorable Mention

  • Matt Godin
  • Delano Hill
  • Mike McCray
  • Dymonte Thomas
  • Kenny Allen (K)

B1G Sportsmanship Honoree: Jake Butt

I think it's a freaking joke that Stribling and Glasgow did not at least get ONE First Team honor. Both are gonna be NFL draft picks. 

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I Like Burgers

November 29th, 2016 at 5:50 PM ^

Love Peppers but no way in hell is he the Big Ten linebacker of the year or the defensive player of the year... Several more deserving at LB and he's probably not even the best defender on the team. I'd give it to Taco or Lewis first.

But hey, yay for popularity contest awards.



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stephenrjking

November 29th, 2016 at 5:55 PM ^

Peppers played the whole season, in contrast with those two, and he was the lynchpin for the best defense in the conference. Yeah, Lewis and Charlton were incredible. Peppers was otherworldly and controlled what the offense did on every play.

Seriously. How often did offenses throw screens or run edge plays in his direction? There's a reason it almost never happened.

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Jason80

November 29th, 2016 at 11:08 PM ^

Ugh we will miss 26 and we will miss 8 more than 5 next year. Peppers didn't do much. I realize those 5 TFLs he managed may be what you consider otherworldly but try being objective and get over the hype. The current team and past teams have much more accomplished players that didn't get the hype in a career that he gets in a day. I just don't get it.

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Hobo5589

November 29th, 2016 at 6:41 PM ^

I would even go as far as arguing that Peppers might not be the "best" LB on this Michigan team.  While I think Peppers is very derserving but I would say that he isnt even one of the top 3 maybe even 5 defensive players on this team.  

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stephenrjking

November 29th, 2016 at 6:05 PM ^

Not sure what "production" people wanted out of him. Nobody threw against him, nobody attempted to gain the edge against him, and basically with few exceptions he made exactly the play he needed to and more every time he was in position to do so. Teams built their entire gameplans around staying out of his neighborhood. 

There's a reason that McCray had been identified as Michigan's edge weakness all year, and the reason was that nobody edged Peppers. They always went the other way. 

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turd_ferguson84

November 29th, 2016 at 6:02 PM ^

Peppers isn't even the best defensive player on this team. Lewis got robbed on defensive player of the year.

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Blue_In_Texas

November 29th, 2016 at 6:14 PM ^

Actually this may be true. It is hard to measure exactly how much a lockdown CB helps your team. Lewis essentially locked down his side the whole year. 

 

OTOH, hard to measure how much Jabrill killed spread offenses this year. Either way, both had unreal seasons. 

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Hobo5589

November 29th, 2016 at 6:43 PM ^

Well some guy named Charles Woodson was a lockdown CB who took away one side from the field and I would say that it helped the team a lot.  Haha.  

I am not a defensive coach by any means but I would guess having a CB like Lewis isnt a bad thing at all and I think people will really realize how much we miss him next year.

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Bodogblog

November 29th, 2016 at 6:43 PM ^

You had to know this would happen.  "Gritty" "throwback" "lunch pail carrying" "white guys" on the DL don't get the recognition they deserve.  

But that's OK, because they keep their nose to the grindstone and outwork their opponents to overcome their lack of elite athleticism.  Get ready to read that over and over again as the draft nears. 

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Bleedmaizeblue

November 29th, 2016 at 6:26 PM ^

So I know Jake Butt didn't really have a special year this year (great I'll get criticized for saying that smh) but honest question, does Jake Butt not deserve honorable mention? I don't watch other B1G teams so I don't honestly know how often other TEs get used.

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BoFlex

November 30th, 2016 at 2:36 AM ^

I'm honestly surprised that DPoY didn't go to Malik Hooker. I hate that team, but I can't deny that Hooker has been dominate this season. Probably the best season I've seen a safety have in a long time: 67 tackles, 5 TFLs, 1 sack, 4 PBUs, and 6 INTs (3 of them returned for pick-6s)

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