CHADRON, Neb. – Punter Brodie Eisenbraun earned consensus First Team All-America honors while linebacker Logan O'Brien picked up a second-team nod from the Associated Football Coaches Association (AFCA) as two sets of All-America teams were announced Wednesday.

Eisenbraun snagged the lone first-team spot for punters in both the AFCA All-America Team and the Division II Conference Commissioner's Association (D2CCA) team. Eisenbraun becomes the 21^st consensus All-American in Chadron State program history, and the first since Hunter O'Connor in 2022. 

Eisenbraun, a redshirt senior from Sturgis, S.D., and O'Brien, a redshirt senior from Kearney, Neb., are the 62^ndand 63^rd All-Americans in Chadron State football history. It is the first career All-American nods for both athletes, making them the 48^th and 49^th individual athletes from CSC football to become All-Americans.

With both Eisenbraun and O'Brien appearing on the AFCA All-America team, Chadron State has placed two players on the coaches' team for the same year for the first time ever according to all available records. The AFCA selected just one All-America team up until 2016, when they added a second team. 

Eisenbraun and O'Brien have been joined at the hip throughout this awards season, each winning an RMAC special yearly award (Special Teams Player of the Year for Eisenbraun and Defensive Player of the Year for O'Brien). The duo were also previously CSC's representatives to the D2CCA All-Region First Team. 

Both have also been named RMAC First Team All-Academic, with O'Brien winning the conference's Academic Defensive Player of the Year honor (no Academic Special Teams Player of the Year is awarded), and are each on the ballot for College Sports Communicators Academic All-America honors, which will be announced in January.

Eisenbraun can stake his claim to being Division II's best punter after the dual First Team selections. The redshirt senior ranked third in Division II and broke his own program single season record with a 44.2 yards per punt average. Eisenbraun had more punts inside the 20 (18) and fewer touchbacks (5) than both punters ahead with a higher average.

Eisenbraun is the third All-American punter in Chadron State history, joining Duane Fritz (NAIA First Team All-American in 1975) and Kevin Berg (AFCA First Team in 2009, Daktronics (now D2CCA) Second Team in 2010). 

O'Brien was a consistently dominant force, winning four RMAC Defensive Player of the Week awards over the course of the 2025 season. The linebacker's 85 tackles, 49 solo tackles and 5.5 sacks all ranked within top five of the RMAC and his 14.5 tackles for loss were tied for the league lead. 

O'Brien becomes the fifth Chadron State linebacker to earn All-America honors, joining Corey Anderson (NAIA First Team in 1990), Kevin Homer (three-time honoree in 1996, 1997 and 1999), Austin Bailey (D2Football.com Third Team in 2006) and Kevin Lindholm (awarded by three organizations in 2012). 

Chadron State is the only RMAC school with multiple AFCA selections. The conference combined for seven – CSC's two plus Black Hills State receiver TJ Chukwurah (First Team), New Mexico Highlands running back Jeffrey Jones (First Team) CSU Pueblo wide receiver Reggie Retzlaff (Second Team), Western Colorado defensive lineman Ricky Freymond (Second Team) and Colorado School of Mines long snapper Josh Hildebrand (Second Team). 

On the D2CCA team, Chukwurah repeated his first-team selection alongside Eisenbraun while Retzlaff repeated his second-team selection. Jones was also a Second Team selection by the D2CCA.