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Week Fourteen in Review

Week Fourteen of the NFL season is complete and featured a controversial long snapper penalty late in Thursday’s Steelers game against the Patriots. Steelers’ snapper Christian Kuntz was flagged for a false start penalty with about five minutes left in … Continue reading

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Shimko Wins Fifth Annual Patrick Mannelly Award

Joe Shimko of NC State became the fifth winner of the Patrick Mannelly Award on Saturday at a ceremony outside of Chicago. Shimko was voted best FBS long snapper by a close margin over Peter Bowden (Wisconsin) and Marco Ortiz … Continue reading

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Week Eight in Review

Week Eight of the NFL season is complete and, for snappers, the most notable events were various game milestones. Jon Weeks of the Texans and Morgan Cox of the Titans each played in their 200th game, while client Patrick Scales … Continue reading

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Week One in Review

Week One of the 2022 NFL Season is complete and was an eventful one for snappers and kickers. In addition to 15 missed kicks, a late game biceps injury to Bengals veteran snapper Clark Harris forced the use of a … Continue reading

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Week Five in Review

Week Five was a crazy one for kickers and missed kicks. Heading into Sunday Night Football, kickers missed 12 extra points and 12 field goals. That included an NFL record five missed field goals in the Packers win over the … Continue reading

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Week One In Review

The 2021 NFL Regular Season commenced without significant issues at the snapping position, although there will be a change next week due to injury. Camaron Cheeseman (Washington) was the only rookie snapper to debut this week, while two first year … Continue reading

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Another Challenging NFL Draft Likely for Snappers

After last year’s NFL Draft that consisted of just a few Pro Days and no rookie mini-camps or tryouts, I wrote about the particular challenges for long snappers. With this year’s Draft starting Thursday, it could be another difficult time … Continue reading

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Week Twelve in Review

Week Twelve is largely complete, as the Ravens and Steelers game has been moved to tomorrow. Due to COVID issues, it is expected that the Ravens will have Nick Moore snap in place of Morgan Cox. The Ravens are one … Continue reading

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Week Eleven in Review

Week Eleven of the NFL is done and there were more changes at the snapping position. Andrew DePaola returned to the NFL and snapped well for the Vikings. Austin Cutting had been having issues and the team signed DePaola to … Continue reading

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Additional Snapping Moves After the Draft

While the Dolphins, Raiders, Jaguars and Lions added rookie snappers after the Draft, some other snappers were let go as a result of those additions.  The Dolphins waived Taybor Pepper and the Lions did the same with James Fisher. The … Continue reading

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