PRINCETON, N.J. – Three Ivy League football players earned Stats Perform All-America honors Monday morning.
Princeton senior linebacker Jeremiah Tyler was named a second team all-American. Brown senior quarterback EJ Perry and Dartmouth senior linebacker Jalen Mackie earned third team all-America honors.
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The Bushnell Cup recipient for Ivy League Defensive Player of the Year, Tyler was a unanimous First Team All-Ivy selection. He finished the season with 58 tackles, including 7.0 for a loss. The Detroit product anchored the Tigers defense which ranked third in the nation in rushing defense (73.2 yards per game) and eighth in total defense (274.1 yards per game). Tyler rounded out his career with 163 tackles, including 102 solo stops.
Perry, the Bushnell Cup recipient for Ivy League Offensive Player of the Year, threw for 3033 yards and 23 touchdowns in addition to rushing for 402 yards and seven touchdowns. The Andover, Mass., native ranked third in the nation in completions per game (29.5), seventh in completion percentage (66.8), eighth in passing yards per game (303.3), eighth in total offense (343.5 yards per game) and ninth in points responsible per game (18.8). In his two seasons at Brown, Perry amassed 7113 yards of total offense, with 5981 coming through the air and 1132 on the ground.
A First Team All-Ivy honoree, Mackie led the Ivy League in tackles per game with an average of 9.6. The Miramar, Fla., native was an integral part of the Big Green defense which ranked second nationally in red zone defense (.640), sixth in scoring defense (14.7 points per game) and eighth in total defense (217.0 yards per game). Mackie entered the season with just 10 career tackles in his first two seasons. He surpassed his career mark in his first game of the season with 12 against Valparaiso and went on to finish the season with 86.