THE FLATS – Georgia Tech punter
Pressley Harvin III (Alcolu, S.C./Sumter) hauled in perhaps his most prestigious honor to date when he was named first-team All-America by the
Associated Press on Monday.
Harvin is the 20
th first-team AP All-American in Georgia Tech history and the first Yellow Jacket to earn the honor since defensive end Derrick Morgan in 2009. The AP has selected an All-America team every year since 1925.
Harvin leads the nation with a 48.0-yard punting average this season. To put his whopping 48.0-yard average into perspective, the margin between Harvin’s average and the third-best average in the nation (46.7 – Washington State’s Oscar Draguicevich) is the same as the margin between Draguicevich and the nation’s eighth-best average (45.4 – San Diego State’s Tanner Kuljian).
THE FLATS – Punter
Pressley Harvin III (Alcolu, S.C./Sumter) became only the second Georgia Tech football student-athlete in the last eight seasons to earn first-team all-Atlantic Coast Conference recognition when the ACC announced its 2020 all-conference teams on Tuesday morning.
In addition to Harvin being named first-team all-conference, senior linebacker
David Curry (Buford, Ga./Buford) and true freshman running back
Jahmyr Gibbs (Dalton, Ga./Dalton) received honorable-mention all-ACC recognition as a return specialist.
Harvin was a landslide selection for first-team all-ACC honors, receiving 161 total points in balloting by a voting pool that included the conference’s head coaches and selected media. Only three student-athletes in the entire league received more points than Harvin – Clemson quarterback and ACC Player of the Year Trevor Lawrence, Clemson wide receiver Amari Rodgers and North Carolina wide receiver Dyami Brown.
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THE FLATS – Georgia Tech punter
Pressley Harvin III (Alcolu, S.C./Sumter) added two more prestigious honors to a growing list of accolades on Tuesday when he was named first-team all-America by ESPN and one of three finalists for the Ray Guy Award, which is presented annually to the nation’s top punter.
Harvin is Georgia Tech’s first all-American since offensive lineman Shaq Mason received first-team honors from
USA Today in 2014. He is only the second Ray Guy Award finalist in Tech history, joining Durant Brooks, who won the award in 2007 and was a finalist in 2006.