Sixteen Huskies Earn All-Pac-12; DeBoer Named Co-Coach Of The Year

First-year Washington head coach Kalen DeBoer was named the 2022 Pac-12 Co-Coach of the Year, while a total of 16 Huskies earned All-Pac-12 honors, the conference office announced today.
 
Four Huskies were named to the All-Pac-12 first team: wide receiver Rome Odunze, left guard Jaxson Kirkland, and defensive linemen Bralen Trice and Jeremiah Martin.
 
Another four Huskies earned a place on the second team: quarterback Michael Penix Jr., left tackle Troy Fautanu, safety Alex Cook and kicker Peyton Henry.
 
Eight Washington players were given honorable mention: RG Henry Bainivalu, LB Cam Bright, C Corey Luciano, WR Jalen McMillan, RB Wayne Taulapapa, DL Zion Tupuola-Fetui, LB Alphonzo Tuputala and S Asa Turner.
 
The Pac-12’s year-end honors are voted on by the conferences’ 12 head coaches.
 
DeBoer, who was hired as the Husky head coach in November of 2021 after having spent the previous two seasons as head coach at Fresno State, led the Huskies to a 10-2 overall record in 2022, an improvement of four wins over the previous season. He shared the Pac-12 Co-Coach of the Year with Oregon State’s Jonathan Smith.
 
The Huskies’ 10 wins were the most-ever at UW under a first-year head coach, and the Dawgs will look for win No. 11 at the 2022 Valero Alamo Bowl, Dec. 29 vs. Texas. DeBoer is the first UW football coach to be named the conference’s Coach of the Year since Don James in 1991.
 
Kirkland, a senior from Portland, Ore., is a three-time, first-team All-Pac-12 player, having made the team in 2020 and 2021. He also made the Associated Press’s All-Pac-12 second team in 2019. This year, he helped lead an offensive line that gave up just seven sacks all season, while leading the nation in passing offense. Kirkland is the only three-time honoree on the team this year.
 
Odunze, a sophomore from Las Vegas, Nev., was a big part of that passing offense. He set a school record with four straight 100-yard receiving games and finished the year with six 100-yard games, 71 catches, 1,088 yards and seven touchdowns.
 
Trice, a sophomore from Phoenix, Ariz., and Martin, a senior from San Bernardino, Calif., were key components of the Huskies’ strong pass rush in 2022, as the Huskies shared the conference lead in sacks per game. Martin was third in…