SAN MARCOS, Texas – Pro Football Focus named six Texas State football players on its 2020 All-Sun Belt Conference teams. Marcell Barbee, Jeremiah Haydel, and Seamus O'Kelly were All-Sun Belt Second Team selections. Calvin Hill and Brendon Luper are Third-Team picks, and Dalton Cooper is an Honorable Mention selection.
 
Barbee ranks fifth nationally and second in the Sun Belt Conference with 10 touchdown receptions. He led the Bobcats with 40 receptions for 584 yards. During the 2020 season, his best game was against Arkansas State when Barbee caught six passes for 76 yards and one touchdown. He had two touchdown receptions at Boston College and 14th-ranked BYU. He had six receptions for 65 yards and one TD against Appalachian State.
 
Named an All-American returner by ESPN, Haydel ranks third nationally in combined kick return yards with 674 and is one of only two NCAA Division I FBS players to return a kickoff and punt for touchdowns. His 91-yard punt return against UTSA is the nation's longest punt return this season and came in the first game of his career in which he returned punts. The Houston native's 164 kickoff return yards against Georgia Southern were the nation's seventh-highest total and included a 97-yard return for a touchdown. Haydel ranked eighth nationally in punt returns with a 13.0 average after returning 16 punts for 208 yards. He is 23rd nationally in kickoff returns after he averaged 25.2 yards per return. He had 19 kickoff returns for 479 yards.
 
O'Kelly ranked third among Sun Belt punting leaders who had over 40 punts with an average of 41.0 yards on 57 punts. He placed 20 punts inside the 20 yard-line to rank second among Sun Belt leaders. He had six 50-yard punts, including a career-long 65-yard boot at Troy.
 
Hill averaged 5.2 yards per carry, rushed for 528 yards, and scored five touchdowns on 101 carries this season. He began the year with 100 yards rushing on 13 attempts against SMU and ran for 57 yards at Troy. Hill ran for 50 yards and a TD versus UTSA. He caught 24 passes for 173 yards out of the backfield. He had a 53-yard reception and caught three passes for 68 yards versus Coastal Carolina.
 
Luper made 67 tackles and 36 solo stops in 11 games and made five starts against SMU, Troy, BYU, Louisiana, and Arkansas State.  He broke up five passes and forced a fumble. Luper had a career-high 16 tackles against Arkansas State, tallied 11 stops versus Louisiana, and recorded nine tackles against BYU.
 
Cooper is in his first year as a starting left tackle for Texas State's offense that averaged 369.7 total yards, 27.7 points, and 131 yards on the ground. He started all 12 games.
 
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