2022 Division One FBS Long Snappers Chart

Posted on September 6, 2022 by longsnap

Week One of the college football season is complete and the season is off to a great start with some fantastic games and finishes.

To celebrate college football’s return, below is the annual chart containing Longsnap.com’s exclusive compilation of the long snapper for each FBS team. As usual, the list is sorted by conference and includes the snapper’s uniform number, height, weight and class year.

Note that some teams did not publish an official depth chart, while others listed two snappers or divide the punt and placement snaps between two players. In each case, best efforts were made to include the punt snapper to start the first game and the snapper that performs punt snaps is included over the short snapper.

All but one of the snappers on the 2022 Patrick Mannelly Award Watch List are listed as the starting snappers for their team and four of them (Alex Ward-UCF; Evan Deckers-Duke; Michael Vinson-Notre Dame; and Matt Hembrough-Oklahoma State) were included on the East-West Shrine Bowl 1000 List of the top NFL Draft prospects. Rex Goossen of UNLV is still recovering from a late season knee injury last year so is not the chart below, but is on both the Mannelly Award Watch List and East-WestShrine Bowl 1000 List.

If there are any significant errors or corrections, please let me know at kevingold@longsnap.com.

2022 Division One Long Snappers
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Adomitis Only Snapper Cut as Initial NFL Rosters Set

Posted on August 30, 2022 by longsnap

Today is normally an eventful one for long snappers, but this year continues to be highly unusual for snappers. Rookie Cal Adomitis was waived by the Bengals, as veteran Clark Harris beat another challenger.

It looks like Jack Coco will start the season in Green Bay as the only rookie snapper. Coco’s story is an incredible one, as he didn’t snap for Georgia Tech this past season and only did short snapping in prior years. He parlayed a Packers tryout into a training camp contract and now an NFL roster spot.

Client Liam McCullough will join Coco as the only new snappers on an NFL roster this season, as McCullough will snap for the Falcons after two seasons competing in training camp with the Raiders.

Veteran snappers Aaron Brewer (Cardinals) and Jake McQuaide (Cowboys) were also released today but due to roster space issues and both should be brought back by their teams soon.

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One Long Snapping Battle Left After Cuts to 85

Posted on August 16, 2022 by longsnap

NFL teams were required to move from 90 active players to 85 today and that deadline forced the Texans to waive recently signed snapper Harrison Elliott. That leaves the battle between veteran Clark Harris and rookie Cal Adomitis in Cincinnati as the only remaining snapping competition.

The Raiders worked out snapper Brian Khoury today in the only tryout involving a snapper.

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Snapper Signings and Tryouts as Preseason Gets Underway

Posted on August 11, 2022 by longsnap

The NFL slate of preseason games is starting and a few teams made moves and continued their evaluations in case of emergency at the snapping position.

In the past week, the Panthers waived last year’s Sixth Round pick Thomas Fletcher and the Packers did the same with Steven Wirtel, who spent the final half of last season in Green Bay.

The only team to add a snapper was the Texans, who added Harrison Elliott to the roster while Jon Weeks was out for medical reasons. Elliott is from the 2015 NFL Draft class and has prior mini-camp experience with the Broncos and Colts. With these moves, just the Bengals and Texans currently have two snappers on the roster.

The Packers and Broncos are two teams that have used the past week to evaluate other snapping options by conducting tryouts.

The Packers worked out rookie Antonio Ortiz, who signed with the Bears after rookie mini-camp before being waived, and Mitch Fraboni, who most recently snapped for Pittsburgh in the USFL.

The Broncos have worked out nine snappers in two separate workouts the past few days. The first one featured veterans Kameron Canaday, Joe Fortunato, Ryan Navarro and Matt Overton, while the most recent workout included rookies Tucker Addington, Adam Higuera, Cameron Kaye, Antonio Ortiz and Ross Reiter.

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2022 Patrick Mannelly Award Watch List Announced

Posted on August 1, 2022 by longsnap

With college football season starting soon, the Watch List for the Patrick Mannelly Award, given annually to the snapper judged to be the best among all FBS teams, was announced today.

The initial Watch List has 25 snappers, but there are others under strong consideration for the Award. I am honored to be one of the Award’s founders and look forward to this year, which will be the fourth year it is presented. Apologies to South Alabama, who are incorrectly referred to as Southern Alabama in the announcement.

Ten semi-finalists will be announced on November 14, 2022 and those names will be narrowed to three on November 28, 2022. The three finalists will be invited to a live ceremony on December 10, 2022 in Lake Bluff, Illinois where the Award will be presented. The Award benefits Bernie’s Book Bank, a non-profit organization located in Lake Bluff.

Below is the entire Watch List.

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More Snappers Let Go as Training Camps Open

Posted on July 24, 2022 by longsnap

With some NFL training camps already underway, two long snappers were waived before camps opened. Antonio Ortiz (Bears) and Ross Reiter (Patriots) were both waived after being signed as undrafted rookie free agents.

With these moves, just three clubs have two snappers in training camp. Those teams are the Panthers, Bengals and Packers.

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Snapping Update After Mini-Camps

Posted on June 20, 2022 by longsnap

With NFL teams on break until training camps open in late July, there were a few additional snapping transactions.

The Packers signed a mini-camp tryout rookie snapper, Jack Coco, to the active roster. Coco was used as Georgia Tech’s short snapper during most of his career, but did not snap this past season. He will compete with Steven Wirtel.

With the signing of Coco, five NFL teams have two snappers on the roster. The others are the Panthers, Bears, Bengals and Patriots.

At least one team brought back a rookie mini-camp tryout snapper for mandatory mini-camp, as the Ravens invited snapper Alex Matheson from Cal Lutheran for another look. In addition, the Broncos had rookie snapper Daniel Cantrell from Boise State in for a tryout. Cantrell also was a tryout snapper for the Seahawks and Raiders right after the NFL Draft. Neither snapper was signed to a contract.

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CFL Season Starts Tonight

Posted on June 9, 2022 by longsnap

The CFL returns tonight and each of the nine teams will use a Canadian snapper like prior seasons.

There has not been much change from the starting snappers from the 2021 season, as only Edmonton will have a new snapper, Peter Adjey, replacing veteran Chad Rempel.

Jorgen Has of Saskatchewan is the only CFL snapper with NFL experience having spent time with the Rams, Seahawks and Chiefs in 2013 and 2014 but never appeared in a regular season game.

BRITISH COLUMBIA 40 Tanner Doll

CALGARY 52 Aaron Crawford

EDMONTON 47 Peter Adjey

HAMILTON 58 Gordon Whyte

MONTREAL 35 Pierre Luc-Caron

OTTAWA 50 Louis-Philippe Bourassa

SASKATCHEWAN 46 Jorgen Hus

TORONTO 58 Jake Reinhart

WINNIPEG 40 Mike Benson

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Rookie Mini-Camp Long Snappers

Posted on May 17, 2022 by longsnap

This weekend, 24 NFL teams conducted rookie mini-camps and most had a long snapper invited on a tryout basis. A total of 18 teams had at least one snapper on a tryout during mini-camp, either this past weekend or the prior weekend, and a few snappers participated in more than one mini-camp.

To date, Ross Reiter (Colorado State) is the only snapper from this weekend’s tryouts to sign a contract, as he signed with the Patriots. Last week, Antonio Ortiz (TCU) signed with the Bears. They join Cal Adomitis (Pitt), who signed with the Bengals right after the Draft.

With the signings of Ortiz and Reiter from mini-camps, plus the signing of Adomitis after the Draft, four NFL teams currently have two snappers on the roster. Those teams are Carolina, Chicago, Cincinnati and New England. Rex Sunahara, who was signed by the Steelers in January, was waived last week.

Below is a chart of all the snappers in mini-camp, including Adomitis, who is the only one listed that was not originally on a tryout.

2022 Mini-Camp TryoutsDownload
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Oritz Signed by Bears after Rookie Mini-Camp Tryout

Posted on May 10, 2022 by longsnap

Antonio Ortiz, a rookie snapper from TCU, was signed by the Bears after a tryout this weekend. Ortiz, who was also scheduled to tryout for the Cowboys next weekend, was one of six tryout players signed by Chicago.

Eight teams had tryouts this past weekend, while the remaining 24 will occur this weekend. Longsnap.com is tracking all the tryouts and transactions and will provide another update after the final round of rookie mini-camps next week.

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