Ten years ago, Terez Paylor coined the term “All-Juice Team,” setting forth a decade-long tradition that honored college football players for their combination of effort, attitude and performance. Amazingly, his first team didn’t have a quarterback.
The longest-running followers of this team are often surprised to hear that. But it’s true: When Terez first started his annual All-Juice Team at the Kansas City Star in 2015, it was merely a collection of 22 players he’d plucked from college football after watching endless strings of game tape and identifying something special about their game. It wasn’t until the second year of the team that Terez dialed it into a traditional format, choosing a full slate of offensive and defensive players and projecting them into where he believed they’d be selected in the NFL Draft.
Since this is a prominent anniversary for the team, we figured we’d honor Terez by making note of that first class from 2015. …