A preseason All-America first-team is out: Tyler Sash is on it but Adrian Clayborn isn't

I don't know who or what makes up nationalchamps.net, but it's been around since 1999.

I also know it has a preseason All-America team. One of its first-team defensive backs is Iowa's Tyler Sash. Heady stuff.

Adrian Clayborn, who seems to be projected as a Top 5 NFL draft pick in 2011 by more and more people, is "only" a second-team defensive lineman. I suspect he'll show up in someone else's first-team. Most of them, actually.

Big 12 players form three-fourths of the nationalchamps.net first-team defensive line. Which is weird, because I often hear it said they don't play defense in that league.

A wide receiver who Iowa fans may remember is also on the second-team. That's James Cleveland of Houston. The James Cleveland who had 36 catches for 464 yards in one season for Hawkeyes.

Cleveland had 104 catches for 1,214 yards last year for Houston. He was dismissed from Iowa's squad after his freshman season after being arrested on drug charges.