Projected Florida Gators first-round NFL Draft pick named Walter Camp preseason All-American

After a tremendous junior season, Florida Gators center Jake Slaughter has been named a Walter Camp first-team preseason All-American. The senior center is one of the best in the nation at its position and is being recognized as such.

Jake Slaughter named Walter Camp preseason All-American

It feels like a slam dunk to put Slaughter on the first team as he's arguably the best center in the country. He started all 13 games and thrived as a pass blocker, allowing just nine pressures and one sack all season. That one sack came against Ole Miss' terrifying defensive front, but he only allowed that one pressure as well.

The statement from the Walter Camp Foundation highlights their long and storied history of selecting an All-America team.

Walter Camp is the nation’s oldest college football All-America team. Considered the “Father of American Football,” Walter Camp introduced the play from scrimmage, set plays, the numerical assessment of goals and tries and the restriction of play to eleven men per side in 1880.

Nine years later in 1889, Mr. Camp, then the Yale University head coach, selected the first-ever college football All-America team.

The Walter Camp Football Foundation – a New Haven-based all-volunteer group – was founded in 1967 to perpetuate the ideals of Camp and to continue the tradition of selecting annually an All-America team.

The first team is loaded with talent with the wide receiver position stacked, as Ohio State's Jeremiah Smith and Alabama's Ryan Williams leading the way.