Preseason All-ACC football teams, Player of the Year revealed ahead of 2025 season

Ahead of the 2025 college football season, the preseason All-ACC team as well as the player of the year has been revealed. The Clemson Tigers lead the way with 11 overall selections.

Clemson quarterback Cade Klubnik (146 votes) earns the 2025 ACC Preseason Player of the Year honor, and is QB1 in the conference’s preseason team. The next closest was Georgia Tech’s Haynes King with nine votes. Klubnik is coming off a career-best season having led the Tigers to the ACC title in 2024 as well as a College Football Playoff berth.

With Clemson taking up nearly half of the entire field on offense and defense, the rest of the conference’s selections are as follows: Pitt (3), Duke (2), Georgia Tech (2), Louisville (2), Miami (2), SMU (2), Florida State (1), NC State (1) and Syracuse (1). Here’s how the 2025 preseason All-ACC team stacks up:

2025 All-ACC Preseason Football Team
Offense
QB: Cade Klubnik, Clemson (148)
RB: Isaac Brown, Louisville (99)
RB: Jamal Haynes, Georgia Tech (85)
WR: Antonio Williams, Clemson (143)
WR: Bryant Wesco Jr., Clemson (66)
WR: Chris Bell, Louisville (51)
TE: Justin Joly, NC State (92)
AP: Desmond Reid, Pitt (73)
OT: Francis Mauigoa, Miami (99)
OT: Blake Miller, Clemson (99)
OG: Keylan Rutledge, Georgia Tech (93)
OG: Walker Parks, Clemson (51)
C: Ryan Linthicum, Clemson (44)

Defense
DE: T.J. Parker, Clemson (152)
DE: Rueben Bain, Jr., Miami (92)
DT: Peter Woods, Clemson (142)
DT: Darrell Jackson Jr., Florida State (56)
LB: Kyle Louis, Pitt (98)
LB: Wade Woodaz, Clemson (77)
LB: Sammy Brown, Clemson (76)
CB: Avieon Terrell, Clemson (129)
CB: Chandler Rivers, Duke (106)
S: Isaiah Nwokobia, SMU (86)
S: Terry Moore, Duke (81)

Specialists
PK: Collin Rogers, SMU (67)
P: Jack Stonehouse, Syracuse (70)
SP: Desmond Reid, Pitt (68)

2025 ACC Football Preseason Player of the Year
Rank Name, Position, School
1. Cade Klubnik, QB, Clemson (146)
2. Haynes King, QB, Georgia Tech (9)
3. Kevin Jennings, QB, SMU (5)
T4. Carson Beck, QB, Miami (4)
T4. Kyron Drones, QB, Virginia Tech (4)
6. Isaac Brown, RB, Louisville (3)
T7. Quintayvious Hutchins, DE, Boston College (2)
T7. CJ Bailey, QB, NC State (2)
T7. Eli Holstein, QB, Pitt (2)
T7. Kyle Louis, LB, Pitt (2)
T7. Desmond Reid, RB, Pitt (2)
T12. Lewis Bond, WR, Boston College (1)
T12. Jamal Haynes, RB, Georgia Tech (1)