The Wolverine: Covering University of Michigan Football and Sports
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MICHIGAN FOOTBALL Pair Of Wolverines Nab Big Ten Awards F ifth-year senior left tackle Taylor Lewan, who returned to Ann Arbor for his final year of eligibility instead of declaring for the 2013 NFL Draft, won the 2013 Rimington-Pace Offensive Lineman of the Year award, defending his title from last season. The Wolverines have dominated the award recently. Before Lewan's two-year run, Michigan center David Molk won it as a fifth-year senior in 2011, on his way to the Rimington Fifth-year senior left tackle Taylor Lewan won the 2013 Rimington-Pace Offensive Lineman of the Year award, defending his title from last season. Michigan players have now won six of the last 10 Big Ten Offensive Lineman of the Year awards. PHOTO BY PER KJELDSEN Award as the nation's best center. Michigan players have won six of the last 10 Big Ten Offensive Lineman of the Year awards: David Baas in 2004, Jake Long in 2006 and 2007, Molk in 2011, and Lewan in 2012 and 2013. Sophomore Devin Funchess, who had a breakout season with 47 catches for 727 yards (15.5 yards per reception) and six touchdowns, was named the Kwalick-Clark Tight End of the Year winner. The Kwalick-Clark Tight End of the Year award began in 2011. Funchess is the first Michigan player to win it. Lewan was a unanimous first-team All-Big Ten selection by the coaches and media. The media voted Funchess first-team All-Big Ten, while the coaches gave it to Iowa's C.J. Fiedorowicz. The coaches selected Funchess to the second team. Redshirt sophomore defensive back Blake Countess, who tied Purdue's Ricardo Allen for the Big Ten lead in interceptions with six, was a first-team All-Big Ten defensive back on the media's team. The coaches named him to the second team. The coaches placed junior defensive end Frank Clark on their secondteam All-Big Ten list. He received honorable mention All-Big Ten honors from the media. Others who received honorable mention recognition from the media were: senior defensive tackle Jibreel Black, redshirt junior quarterback Devin Gardner, fifth-year senior kicker Brendan Gibbons and junior