Big Ten Announces List of 42 Football Players To Appear At 44th Annual Kickoff Luncheon

Release from the Big Ten Conference:

The Big Ten Conference announced today the 42 players scheduled to attend the 2015 Big Ten Football Media Days and Kickoff Luncheon presented by Allstate and BMW, held Thursday and Friday, July 30 and 31, at the Hyatt Regency McCormick Place in Chicago.

The list of students scheduled to attend features 27 returning all-conference selections, including first-team honorees in Maryland’s Brad Craddock and William Likely, Michigan State’s Jack Allen and Shilique Calhoun, Minnesota’s Briean Boddy-Calhoun, Penn State’s Anthony Zettel and Rutgers’ Leonte Carroo.

Attendees who have earned second-team All-Big Ten honors include Iowa’s Austin Blythe and Drew Ott, Michigan State’s Connor Cook, Nebraska’s Nate Gerry, Ohio State’s Taylor Decker and Joshua Perry, Purdue’s Frankie Williams and Wisconsin’s Michael Caputo. Previous honorable mention all-conference honorees scheduled to appear at the event are Illinois’ Ted Karras and Mason Monheim, Indiana’s Jason Spriggs, Iowa’s Jordan Lomax, Minnesota’s Theiren Cockran, Northwestern’s Dan Vitale, Ohio State’s Adolphus Washington, Penn State’s Jordan Lucas and Angelo Mangiro, Purdue’s Robert Kugler, Rutgers’ Darius Hamilton and Wisconsin’s Joel Stave.

The program will also include recognition of 2015 Wayne Duke Postgraduate Award recipients Campbell Sode of Rutgers men’s lacrosse and Jessica Plant of Minnesota women’s swimming and diving.