Syracuse Football: Andre Cisco earns CFB All-American honors for 2020

Syracuse football safety Andre Cisco has earned All-American honors for the 2020 season. Here are all the details and what it means.

Are you ready for college football to return?

Well, you’ll have to wait a few more months for that, but we do have ESPN’s College football’s Way-Too-Early All-America team for 2020!

This list was released on Thursday morning and it featured some of the premier talents in college football. One name that graced the list is none other than Syracuse football safety Andre Cisco.

He was the only member of the Orange to be listed among the 26 players on the list. Chris Low of ESPN provided the details:

"“In his first season at Syracuse in 2018, Cisco became the school’s first-ever true freshman All-American and quickly established himself as one of the top safeties in college football. Now a junior, the 6-foot, 203-pound Cisco enters the 2020 season as the FBS active leader in interceptions (12) and No. 2 in passes defended per game (1.27). He has led the ACC in interceptions in each of his first two seasons, and his best may be yet to come.”"

Technically speaking Cisco has two years of collegiate eligibility remaining, but many expect Andre to forgo his senior season when decision time comes knocking a year from now.

As a freshman, he shocked the college football world by leading the nation in interceptions (7) and here locally Cisco shocked the team by earning a starting nod. We soon realized why Dino Babers put Andre into the starting lineup.

After a superstar year as a freshman, most of us assumed that Andre’s level of play would naturally regress as a sophomore. While he didn’t have as many interceptions as a sophomore (5), he still followed up with a remarkable encore season. In addition, he could’ve padded those stats but he missed three games in 2019 due to injury.

We recently spoke to an NFL Draft analyst (Mello) from the ‘Stick to Football Podcast’ and he had Andre Cisco No. 16 overall on his big board for the 2021 NFL Draft.

If Syracuse defensive lineman Alton Robinson is unable to snap the first-round drought in the 2020 NFL Draft, Andre Cisco seems destined to be a first-round pick whether that be in 2021 or 2022. The Orange haven’t had a first-round pick since 2013 (Justin Pugh, 19th overall, New York Giants).