ROLLA, Mo. – With the 2019-20 athletic season completed, we want to take a look back at the past decade and determine the all-decade teams for the Miner squads during the course of the 2010s.  Today's installment in this series will look at the top football performers on the offensive side of the ball over the last decade, along with the top kicker and punter.

Individuals listed are placed at one individual position.
 

	Quarterback: Tyler Swart (2015-18) -- Swart established numerous passing records during his tenure as a Miner, completing 628 of 1,031 passes (60.9 percent) for 8,796 yards and 79 touchdowns.  A first-team All-Great Lakes Valley Conference selection and Mineral Water Bowl offensive player of the game in 2018 after throwing for a career-high 29 touchdowns, Swart recorded the highest passing efficiency rating by an S&T signalcaller during the decade at 151.3 and his total of 8,456 yards of total offense is also the most in school history.
	Running Back: Curterris Golden (2010-12) – Golden had the second-most rushing yards by a Miner during the decade with 1,205 and ran for 16 touchdowns, 14 of which came during S&T's 10-1 season in 2012 when he ran for a team-high 836 yards.  Golden was also an effective player in the passing game, catching 24 passes during that span and had one of the longest touchdown receptions in school history of 89 yards in a 2012 game against Indianapolis.
	Running Back: Deshawn Jones (Olympia Fields, IL/Rich Central) (2016-19) – Jones broke several of S&T's rushing records during his four seasons of play, setting the school's single-game, season and career records along the way.  He ran for 275 yards in a 2017 game against Saint Francis (Ill.) as part of a year in which he won the GLVC rushing title with 1,579 yards; he would finish his career with 3,493 yards and a school record 39 rushing touchdowns.  Jones earned All-America honors following his 2017 campaign and was a three-time All-GLVC selection on the field, while also earning three Academic All-America awards and being the first football player in conference history to earn the league's Paragon Award for the 2019-20 academic year.
	Wide Receiver: Logan Armontrout (Centralia, MO/Centralia) (2016-19) – Armontrout earned first-team All-GLVC honors in each of his last two seasons at S&T and was a second-team pick in 2017, as he racked up 143 receptions for 1,983 yards (both among the top seven all-time at S&T) and 17 touchdowns.  Only one receiver had more catches than Armontrout during the decade, as he wrapped up his Miner career with 49 catches for 668 yards during the 2019 season and was a critical target in the red zone.
	Wide Receiver: Braxton Graham (2015-18) – Graham ranks second on all of the career receiving and all-purpose yardage lists at S&T, as he piled up 206 receptions for 3,213 yards and 32 touchdowns.  Graham had two 1,000-yard receiving seasons as a Miner with 1,029 in 2016 and 1,105 in 2018; he was well on his way to a third before his 2017 season was derailed by a mid-season injury.   He was also a prolific kick returner for the Miners, averaging 14.7 yards per punt return in his career and taking three back for touchdowns as he accumulated 5,260 all-purpose yards in his four seasons.  Graham was a four-time All-GLVC selection and was the 2016 GLVC Special Teams Player of the Year.
	Wide Receiver: Chad Shockley (2010) – In the first year of the decade, Shockley hauled in 87 passes for a school record 1,198 yards and 10 touchdowns; his 87 receptions in just the one season were the seventh-most by a Miner over the entire 10-year span and set the S&T single-season record for receptions at that time.  Shockley earned first-team all-conference honors in the Great Lakes Football Conference, which was the Miners' league affiliation before the GLVC began sponsoring football in 2012.  Included in Shockley's record-setting season was a 199-yard receiving performance in a win over Wisconsin-LaCrosse.
	Wide Receiver: Smook Thomas (2010-12) -- Thomas caught 39 passes during his freshman season in 2009, then made 179 more catches over the next three seasons for 1,888 yards and 13 touchdowns.  Thomas broke the Miners' single-year mark for receptions by making 92 catches in 2012 in what would be the third of his three consecutive seasons in which he was a first-team all-conference selection.  In addition to his receiving numbers, Thomas accumulated 2,863 all-purpose yards during those final three years.
	Tight End: Austin Griffin (West Palm Beach, FL/Oxbridge Academy) (2016-19) – A two-time All-GLVC selection, Griffin caught 35 passes from the tight end position during his career and had six of those receptions go for touchdowns.  He had 16 receptions during the 2019 campaign with a pair of touchdown catches and averaged 15.9 yards per catch during his S&T career.
	Offense-Utility: Payton McAlister (Decatur, TX/Decatur) (2018-19) – McAlister, who transferred to S&T from Florida Tech, has been a productive player for the Miners regardless of what role he has played in.  In his two seasons as a Miner, McAlister has rushed for 770 yards and three touchdowns, while making 68 catches from out of the backfield or the slot with 10 of those receptions going for scores.  In addition, he led the Miners with 1,204 all-purpose yards during the 2019 season and recorded the third-best single game mark with 330 yards in the season finale against McKendree, including a 47-yard scoring catch to put S&T in the lead for good late in the contest.
	Center: Adam Echele (2014-17) – After converting from offensive tackle, Echele stood out for the Miners as the anchor of the offensive line during the middle of the decade.  He was a three-time All-GLVC selection at center and was a first-team pick in each of his last two years, including the 2017 campaign when the Miners racked up their highest number of offensive yards in a season in program history with 5,057.
	Guard: Josh Elam (Aledo, TX/Aledo) (2016-19) – Elam also played at multiple spots on the offensive line, but settled in at guard and was named to three All-GLVC teams at that position.  A four-year starter, Elam made the All-GLVC second team as a sophomore in 2017 and landed first-team laurels in the two seasons that followed.  He was part of an offensive unit that produced the first two 5,000-yard seasons in school history.
	Guard: Michael Underbrink (2010-12) – Underbrink earned all-conference laurels in two conferences, being named to the All-GLFC first team in 2011 and then to the first All-GLVC squad a year later.  The Miners made a big jump offensively in those two seasons, going from an average of just 283.7 yards per game in 2010 to 440.7 by his senior year; the 4,848 yards S&T accumulated that year were the second-most in school history at the time.
	Tackle: Forrestal Hickman (2011-14) -- Hickman earned All-GLVC honors in each of S&T's first three years, including first-team honors in 2014 as the Miners had two of their top 10 offensive seasons in school history and piled up 458 points in the 2012 campaign.  The 458 points were the most in S&T's modern-day history.  Following his Miner career, Hickman spent the summer of 2015 in the San Diego Chargers camp.
	Tackle: Austin Holmes (2015-18) – Holmes followed Forrestal Hickman into the role at left tackle, starting every game over his four-season career and earning a pair of All-GLVC honors along the way.   With him at the left tackle spot, the Miner offense had its two of its most productive seasons ever and over his final two years, accumulated 10,108 yards of total offense and 819 points.
	Placekicker: Ben Styron (Harrisonville, MO/Harrisonville) (2016-19) – Styron set several single season and career records during his four seasons as the Miner placekicker, finishing as the top scorer at that position in school history.  He accumulated 321 points over his career, making 177 extra points and 48 field goals, including a school 10 field goals of 40 yards or longer.  He converted 50 extra point attempts in 2019 to set that one-year mark and kicked 14 field goals during the 2018 campaign.
	Punter: Jonathan Banowetz (O'Fallon, MO/Fort Zumwalt North) (2016-19) – Banowetz took over the punting duties in his junior year and averaged 38.9 yards per punt during his final two seasons.  In 2018, he had just one touchback in 50 punts and put 13 inside the opponent's 20-yard line, then put 20 more punts inside the 20 in his senior year and forced 10 fair catches among his 44 punts on the season.  In his 94 career punts, only four of them came back out as the result of touchbacks.