COLUMBUS – Heisman Trophy finalists Justin Fields and Chase Young head an Associated Press All-Big Ten football team dominated by players from conference champion Ohio State.
Fields is the AP offensive player of the year, Young is defensive player of the year and the Buckeyes’ Ryan Day is coach of the year.
Purdue freshman David Bell was named top newcomer. Ohio State has eight players on the first team in voting by 25 media members, including running back J.K. Dobbins, guard Wyatt Davis and defensive backs Jordan Fuller and Jeff Okudah.
Wisconsin’s Jonathan Taylor is on the first team for the third straight year.
The Buckeyes are also well-represented among the finalists for the Heisman Trophy, which will be awarded Saturday to the player deemed to be the best in college football.
Fields and Young join former teammate and favorite LSU quarterback Joe Burrow, who has led the Tigers to the No. 1 seed in the College Football Playoff behind 4,715 passing yards and 48 touchdown passes.
Oklahoma’s Jalen Hurts the third QB on the list.
Burrow, an Athens native who transferred to LSU from Ohio State, was named The Associated Press college football player of the year in a landslide, the first LSU players to win the 21-year-old award.
Young and Fields were second and third in the voting.
All four players will be in the playoff later this month.