University of Delaware Athletics
Whitehead Selected to HERO Sports FCS Preseason All-American Second Team
8/11/2022 4:55:00 PM | Football
NEWARK, Del. – For the third time this summer, University of Delaware football safety Kedrick Whitehead has earned preseason All-American honors as he was named to the 2022 HERO Sports FCS Preseason All-American Second Team, as announced on Thursday.
Whitehead was previously selected to the Stats Perform FCS Preseason All-America First Team and the Athlon Sports' 2022 Preseason All-America team. He has also been named to the Buck Buchanan Award Watch List, given to the best defensive player in FCS, and was one of a league-high five Blue Hens named to the All-CAA Preseason Team.
The Middletown, Del. native is coming off a 2021 season in which he earned an All-CAA First Team selection as well as Stats Perform FCS Third Team All-America honors. Whitehead ranked second on the defense last fall with 76 total tackles and was a force in the UD secondary, breaking up eight passes and creating a turnover at Rhode Island. Whitehead finished with 1.5 TFL and had three games with at least 10 tackles, including a career-high 15 against James Madison.
Whitehead earned All-America honors for the third-straight season after being named a Stats Perform, Associated Press and Athlon Sports First Team All-American following the 2020-21 spring campaign and a HERO Sports Sophomore All-American in 2019.
The Blue & Gold, which is ranked in the top-20 of three different national preseason polls, have been picked to finish second in the CAA Preseason Poll. The Blue Hens will open the 2022 season and the Ryan Carty era on Saturday, September 3 at Navy and will play the first of six home games the following weekend when they host Delaware State to renew the Route 1 Rivalry on September 10. Kickoff at Delaware Stadium is set for 6 p.m.
Single-game tickets, as well as partial plans and individual game parking, for all six of Delaware's home games are currently on sale.
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