HERO Sports FCS All-America Press Release

A pair of Eastern Washington University football players have been named to the HERO Sports FCS Preseason All-America Teams. Eric Barriere, a senior quarterback, made the First Team Offensive squad, and redshirt-sophomore kicker Seth Harrison earned a spot on the Third Team Special Teams.
 
This is the second preseason All-America honor for Barriere, who was also named to the Stats Perform FCS Preseason All-America first team. Back in July, he was named the Big Sky Conference Preseason MVP and earned a spot on the All-Big Sky Preseason Team. Barriere is also on the Walter Payton Award watchlist after finishing runner-up last season.
 
This is the first preseason honor for Harrison, who was named to the All-Big Sky Conference second team following the spring 2021 season.
 
After going 12-of-12 as a freshman, Harrison was 6-of-9 in the 2020-21 The 2018 graduate of nearby Coeur d'Alene (Idaho) High School kicked a 55-yard field goal to match the third-longest in school history and also had boots of 47 and 50 yards. He is the seventh Eagle in school history to have at least three career field goals of 47 yards or more, and just the fourth with two of at least 50 yards.
 
Barriere, who hails from Inglewood, Calif., and is a 2016 graduate from La Habra High School, was honored as a first team All-American by six different organizations at the end of the 2021 season. He was also named the FCS Offensive Player of the Year by the FCS ADA.
 
He passed for at least 300 yards in five of six regular games during the unique 2021 spring season, and had at least 400 yards of total offense in three of them. He finished ranked in the top 10 in the FCS in total offense (fifth, 369.0 per game), passing offense (fifth, 348.4), passing touchdowns (third, 19) and points responsible for (ninth, 17.4 per game). He completed 61.8 percent of his passes for 2,439 yards, 19 touchdowns and 2,583 total yards of offense. Twice he directed game-tying and game-winning scoring drives in the fourth quarter for EWU. In his illustrious career for the Eagles, he is 20-9 as a starter with an unblemished 13-0 record at home. He has racked up 10,102 yards of total offense in his career, including 8,739 through the air.
 
The Eagles are about one week into official practices for the 2021 season. They'll kickoff at UNLV on Sept. 2 in Las Vegas, Nev., at Allegiant Stadium. Tickets are on sale now for home games at Roos Field, with the first game set for Sept. 11 against Central Washington.
 
More on Seth Harrison…
 
Harrison made the first 12 field goal attempts of his career, and is now 18-of-21 for .857 accuracy which currently ranks second in school history. The career leader is Tyler McNannay, who was 11-of-12 (.917) in his two-year career from 2014-15. He is also 75-of-80 kicking extra points in his career and has a 54.5 kickoff average (eight touchbacks). Harrison became just the seventh Eagle in school history to have at least three career field goals of 47 yards or more, and just the fourth with two of at least 50 yards. There have been just 44 total field goals of 47 yards or more and 22 of at least 50 all-time at EWU.
 
More on Eric Barriere…
 
In his illustrious 38-game career, Barriere is now 20-9 as a starter, including 13-0 at home. He went over the 10,000-yard mark for total offense in his career with a current total of 10,102 – including 8,739 through the air. He ranks fifth in school history in both categories, as well as his career total of 75 TD passes. He's now fourth with 93 total touchdowns responsible for. Eastern career records in those categories are 13,308, 12,616, 110 and 121. Barriere has completed 60.3 percent of his passes in his career (646-of-1071), good for 8,739 yards, 75 touchdowns and 21 interceptions, and has rushed 287 times for 1,363 net yards and 18 more TDs. He had a passing efficiency rating of 146.9 as a sophomore, 151.6 in 2019 and a 148.1 mark in his career to currently rank fifth in school history. Barriere has surpassed the school record for rushing yards by a quarterback -- he now has 1,363 with Vernon Adams Jr. closing his career with 1,232. Eastern is 19-1 when Barriere has rushed for at least 21 yards, with the lone loss coming at Sacramento State (10/5/19) when he finished with 103. Besides the Sac State game, he's rushed for at least 98 yards on four other occasions (98/Southern Utah/2018, 99/Portland State/2018, 101/Northern Arizona/2019, 164/Cal Poly/2019). Barriere now has 10 career performances with at least 400 yards of total offense, and 19 with 300+. He also has had 13 performances with at least 300 passing yards (five with at least 400). He has now been honored six times in his career as Big Sky Conference Offensive Player of the Week, including three times in 2020-21 and twice in the 2019 season.
 
2021 EWU Preseason Honors and Rankings (as of 8/11/21)
 
Senior Co-Captains
QB Eric Barriere (3^rd Year), S Calin Criner (2^nd Year), DB Ty Graham (2^nd Year), RB Tamarick Pierce (2^nd Year), LB Jack Sendelbach (3^rd Year), OT Tristen Taylor (2^nd Year)
 
All-America
QB Eric Barriere – First Team Stats Perform
OT Tristen Taylor – Second Team Stats Perform
QB Eric Barriere – First Team Offense HERO Sports
K Seth Harrison – Third Team Special Teams HERO Sports
 
All-Big Sky Conference
QB Eric Barriere – All-Big Sky Preseason Team / Preseason Offensive MVP
OL Tristen Taylor – All-Big Sky Preseason Team
DL Mitchell Johnson – All-Big Sky Preseason Team
WR Talolo Limu-Jones – All-Big Sky Preseason Team
 
Award Watch Lists
QB Eric Barriere – Walter Payton Award
 
FCS Top 25 Preseason Rankings
19^th – Athlon Sports
16^th – HERO Sports
11^th – Stats Perform
8^th – College Football America