2022 All-America college football team
The 2022 All-America college football team includes those players of American college football who have been honored by various selector organizations as the best players at their respective positions. The selector organizations award the "All-America" honor annually following the conclusion of the fall college football season. The original All-America team was the 1889 All-America college football team selected by Caspar Whitney. The National Collegiate Athletic Bureau, which is the National Collegiate Athletic Association's service bureau, compiled, in the 1950, the first list of All-Americans including first-team selections on teams created for a national audience that received national circulation with the intent of recognizing selections made from viewpoints that were nationwide. Since 1957, College Sports Information Directors of America has bestowed Academic All-American recognition on male and female athletes in Divisions I, II, and III of the NCAA as well as National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics and NJCAA athletes, including all NCAA championship sports.
The 2022 College Football All-America Team is composed of the following College Football All-American first teams chosen by the following selector organizations: Associated Press, Football Writers Association of America, American Football Coaches Association, Walter Camp Foundation, Sporting News, Sports Illustrated, The Athletic, USA Today, ESPN, CBS Sports, College Football News, Scout.com, Athlon Sports, Phil Steele, and Fox Sports.
Currently, the NCAA compiles consensus all-America teams in the sports of Division I FBS football and Division I men's basketball using a point system computed from All-America teams named by coaches associations or media sources. Players are chosen against other players playing at their position only. To be selected a consensus All-American, players must be chosen to the first team on at least half of the five official selectors as recognized by the NCAA. Second- and third-team honors are used to break ties. Players named first-team by all five selectors are deemed unanimous All-Americans. Currently, the NCAA recognizes All-Americans selected by the AP, AFCA, FWAA, TSN, and the WCFF to determine consensus and unanimous All-Americans.
The following players were recognized as consensus All-Americans for 2022. Fourteen of them were recognized unanimously. Unanimous selections are followed by an asterisk.
Offense
Quarterback
Caleb Williams, USCRunning back
Wide receiver
- Marvin Harrison Jr., Ohio State
- Jalin Hyatt, Tennessee
- Xavier Hutchinson, Iowa State
- Charlie Jones, Purdue
Tight end
Offensive line
- Joe Alt, Notre Dame
- Steve Avila, TCU
- Cooper Beebe, Kansas State
- Paris Johnson Jr., Ohio State
- Dawand Jones, Ohio State
- Alex Palczewski, Illinois
- John Michael Schmitz, Minnesota
- Peter Skoronski, Northwestern
- O'Cyrus Torrence, Florida
- Andrew Vorhees, USC
Center
Defense
Defensive line
- Felix Anudike-Uzomah, Kansas State
- Jalen Carter, Georgia
- Isaiah Foskey, Notre Dame
- Calijah Kancey, Pittsburgh
- Tuli Tuipulotu, USC
- Jared Verse, Florida State
- Tyree Wilson, Texas Tech
Linebacker
- Will Anderson Jr., Alabama
- Jack Campbell, Iowa
- Jamon Dumas-Johnson, Georgia
- Ivan Pace Jr., Cincinnati
- Drew Sanders, Arkansas
- Nick Herbig, Wisconsin
Defensive back
- Brian Branch, Alabama
- Emmanuel Forbes, Mississippi State
- Tre Tomlinson, TCU
- Kamren Kinchens, Miami (FL)
- Kaevon Merriweather, Iowa
- Clark Phillips III, Utah
- Christopher Smith II, Georgia
- Devon Witherspoon, Illinois
- Joey Porter Jr., Penn State