Eli Stowers named Walter Camp Preseason First-Team All-American

Vanderbilt tight end Eli Stowers is in elite company. 

Stowers has been named a preseason first-team All-American by Walter Camp, the oldest college football All-American team and one of just five that the NCAA uses to determine consensus and unanimous status at the end of the year.

The Vanderbilt tight end is the most highly regarded in Vanderbilt coach Clark Lea’s tenure and has an opportunity to be Vanderbilt’s first player selected in the first round of the NFL Draft since 2008. 

Stowers caught 49 passes for 638 yards and five touchdowns in 2024 and was named First-Team All-SEC. The 6-foot-4, 225 pound tight end bypassed the NFL Draft in order to return to Vanderbilt for his senior season and his third-career season as a tight end after coming to college as a four-star quarterback. 

Here are the full All-American teams in the release.

FIRST TEAM OFFENSE

WR: Jeremiah Smith (Ohio State) #, Ryan Williams (Alabama)

TE: Eli Stowers (Vanderbilt)

OL: Spencer Fano (Utah) #, Francis Mauigoa (Miami), Kadyn Proctor (Alabama), Kage Casey (Boise

State) #

C: Jake Slaughter (Florida)

QB: Cade Klubnik (Clemson)

RB: Jeremiyah Love (Notre Dame), Nicholas Singleton (Penn State)

PK: Dominic Zvada (Michigan)

FIRST TEAM DEFENSE

DL: Dylan Stewart (South Carolina), Colin Simmons (Texas), Peter Woods (Clemson), Zane Durant

(Penn State)

LB: Anthony Hill (Texas) #, Taurean York (Texas A&M), Kyle Louis (Pittsburgh)

DB: Caleb Downs (Ohio State) *, Leonard Moore (Notre Dame), Jermod McCoy (Tennessee), D’Angelo

Ponds (Indiana)

P: Brett Thorsen (Georgia)

KR: Keelan Marion (BYU) *

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SECOND TEAM OFFENSE

WR: Jordyn Tyson (Arizona State), Elijah Sarratt (Indiana)

TE: Justin Joly (North Carolina State)

OL: Ar’maj Reed-Adams (Texas A&M), Cayden Green (Missouri), Jordan Seaton (Colorado),

Olaivavega Ioane (Penn State)

C: Logan Jones (Iowa)

QB: Sam Leavitt (Arizona State)

RB: Makhi Hughes (Oregon), Isaac Brown (Louisville)

PK: Caden Chittenden (USC)

SECOND TEAM DEFENSE

DL: Mikhail Kamara (Indiana), Dontay Corleone (Cincinnati), T.J. Parker (Clemson), Tim Keenan III

(Alabama)

LB: Jason Henderson (Old Dominion), Whit Weeks (LSU), Suntarine Perkins (Ole Miss)

DB: Michael Taaffe (Texas), Dillon Theineman (Oregon), Koi Perich (Minnesota), Isaiah Nwokobia

(SMU)

P: Ryan Eckley (Michigan State)

KR: Rayshawn Pleasant (Tulane) #