December 26, 2025

Ferris State football players Tim Anderson, Justin Payoute named 2025 Water Camp Division II All-America First Team selections

Ferris State University football players Tim Anderson and Justin Payoute have been named to the 2025 Walter Camp Division II All-America First Team, adding to their already impressive lists of accomplishments.

The two players played key roles as the Bulldogs captured their fourth NCAA Division II National Championship in the last five years with a 42-21 win over Harding in the D2 title game on Dec. 20 in McKinney, Texas.

Walter Camp, "The Father of American football," first selected an All-America team in 1889 and is the nation's oldest college football All-America Team. However, this year represents only the second time in which a DII All-America squad has been chosen.

Anderson, a Construction Management major from Rochester, Michigan, and Payoute, a Criminal Justice major from Miami Gardens, Florida, were previously chosen as 2025 American Football Coaches Association Division II First Team All-Americans and also named to the Division II Conference Commissioners Association All-America First Team.

Both Anderson and Payoute were honored as All-GLIAC First Team selections this season with Anderson chosen as the GLIAC Offensive Lineman of the Year and Payoute the league's Defensive Back of the Year.

Anderson this month earned the 2025 Gene Upshaw Division II Lineman of the Year Award, presented by the Manheim Touchdown Club, given to the top lineman in the nation.

Camp, a Yale University athlete and football coach, is also credited with developing play from scrimmage, set plays, the numerical assessment of goals and tries and the restriction of play to 11 players per side.

The Walter Camp Football Foundation a New Haven, Connecticut-based all-volunteer group, was founded in 1967 to perpetuate the ideals of Camp and to continue the tradition of selecting annually an All-America team.

The Walter Camp Football Foundation is a member of the National College Football Awards Association. The NCFAA was founded in 1997 as a coalition of the major collegiate football awards to protect, preserve and enhance the integrity, influence and prestige of the game's predominant awards. The NCFAA encourages professionalism and the highest standards for the administration of its member awards and the selection of their candidates and recipients.