MANHATTAN, Kan. – Kansas State junior D.J. Reed earned two more All-America honors on Monday as he was named a Second Team All-American by the Football Writers Association of America (FWAA) and a third-teamer by the Associated Press.

Reed, who picked up Walter Camp Second Team All-America accolades last week, was honored as a kick returner by the FWAA and an all-purpose player by the AP. He is the first Wildcat to be named to the FWAA team since Tyler Lockett in 2014, while it is the second time in three years a K-State returner has picked up All-America honors from the AP (Morgan Burns, 2015).

A product of Bakersfield, California, Reed enters the bowl season second nationally in kickoff returns (35.3 yards per return) and punt returns (17.1), which includes a 99-yard kickoff-return touchdown at Kansas and a 62-yard punt return score against Central Arkansas. A 2017 First Team All-Big 12 kick returner, Reed is the first Wildcat since Terence Newman in 2002 to return have a kickoff-return touchdown and a non-blocked punt-return touchdown in the same season.

Reed enters the 2017 Cactus Bowl holding the top mark in Big 12 history in single-season kickoff-return average, while his 32.7-yard career average ranks second in school history and his punt-return average this year ranks sixth.

Kansas State takes on UCLA in the 2017 Cactus Bowl inside Chase Field in Phoenix, Arizona, on Tuesday, December 26. The game kicks off at 8 p.m. (CT) and will be televised nationally on ESPN.

— K-State Athletics —