Week Two of the NFL season is complete and was generally a quiet one for long snappers. Three snappers had tackles in punt coverage and all three also recorded tackles in Week One.
Joe Cardona (Patriots) and Cal Adomitis (Bengals) tallied solo tackles, while Scott Daly (Bears) added an assisted tackle.
The NFL Long Snappers Chart after Week Two is below.
Week One of the 2024 NFL season is in the books. Snappers Hogan Hatten (Lions) and Evan Deckers (Bucs) has successful NFL regular season debuts.
Five snappers recorded tackles in punt coverage with Trent Sieg (Cowboys) tallying two solo stops and Joe Cardona of the Patriots adding a solo tackle and forced a fumble. Scott Daly (Bears), Cal Adomitis (Bengals) and Charley Hughlett (Browns) each had solo tackles.
There was one workout yesterday, as the Steelers had a tryout that included snappers Tucker Addington and Rex Sunahara.
The NFL Long Snappers Chart after Week One is below.
The 2024 college football season is underway so let’s take a look at 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Note that some teams still do not publish an official depth chart, while others listed two snappers or divide the punt and placement snaps between two players. Where that is the case, the chart includes the punt snapper that was listed first on the depth chart for the first game of the season.
If there are any errors or corrections, please let me know at kevingold@longsnap.com
After final roster cuts, the snapping picture for each NFL club is a bit more clear. Although there may be changes prior to kickoff next week, it looks like there will be two new snappers. Rookie Hogan Hatten won the Lions job and first-year snapper Evan Deckers will snap for the Buccaneers.
Rookies Peter Bowden (Packers) and Joe Shimko (Cardinals) were each waived in the last few weeks. Tucker Addington (Patriots), Rex Sunahara (Browns) and Cameron Lyons (Bears) were late cuts as teams got down to the 53 players. Veterans Scott Daly (Lions) and Zach Triner (Buccaneers) also were released.
Sunahara was later added to the Browns practice squad and Daly to the Bears practice squad. Daly will likely be activated for the first part of the season while client Patrick Scales recovers from injury.
Blake Ferguson of the Dolphins was technically released, but that was a procedural move to create roster space and he will snap in Miami for another season.
Longsnap.com updates will resume every Tuesday of the NFL season, including the weekly NFL Long Snapper Chart featuring snapper tackles and other statistics in punt coverage.
The first week of the NFL pre-season is complete with some significant activity at the snapping position.
Two snappers were waived and quickly re-signed. Rookie Peter Bowden (Packers) and first-year snapper Cam Lyons (Bears) were each let go by their teams and quickly returned. Bowden was let go at first for roster space and Lyons returned while client Pat Scales recovers from an injury. Both snappers remain with their teams and snapped this weekend.
Injuries to veterans Charley Hughlett (Browns) and Joe Cardona (Patriots) led each to team to workout a group of snappers and sign one weekend action. The Browns added Rex Sunahara after working out Matt Overton and Antonio Ortiz. The Patriots signed Tucker Addington, who snapped some games in New England last season after also trying out Bradey Sorenson and Alex Matheson.
One snapper, rookie Randen Plattner (Ravens), has been waived since the first pre-season game and the Steelers worked out Jake McQuade along with Matheson and Ortiz yesterday. Neither has been signed as of yet.
Veteran snapper Carson Tinker, who had a 10-year NFL career, announced his retirement from the NFL last night on Twitter. Congrats to Carson on an amazing career!
With the upcoming release of the Madden NFL 25 video game, player ratings are in the news. The ratings are based on a combination of factors, including speed, strength and agility.
Snappers are included in the game again this year, but largely listed as tight ends. The sole exception is Christian Kuntz of the Steelers, who is listed as a linebacker.
Client Patrick Scales of the Bears was featured in a humorous video this week after seeing his 31 rating. https://x.com/ChicagoBears/status/1820567228854440019
Kuntz had the highest rating of all snappers with a 56, followed by Charley Hughlett (Browns) at 53 and Andrew DePaola (Vikings) at 50.
The lowest rated snappers at 26 were Matt Orzech (Packers), Joe Cardona (Patriots), Zach Wood (Saints) and Zach Triner (Buccaneers).
Below is Longsnap.com’s exclusive compilation of Madden ratings for long snappers, ranked from highest to lowest.
The Watch List for the Patrick Mannelly Award, given annually to the long snapper judged to be the best from all FBS teams, was announced this afternoon. This is the 6th year for this prestigious Award.
There are 30 long snappers on this initial list and other snappers will be under review this college football season.
Ten semi-finalists will be announced on November 11, 2024 and those names will be narrowed to three on November 25, 2024.
Three finalists will be invited to a live ceremony on December 14, 2024 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 and is being presented by Zebra again this year.
Below is the Watch List.
It has been some time since we looked at the snapping situation up north in the CFL. With the 2024 season well underway, below are the current long snappers for each of the nine CFL teams.
One notable change this season is former NFL veteran Kyle Nelson in British Columbia. Nelson qualifies as a National player under CFL rules.
BRITISH COLUMBIA 47 Kyle Nelson
CALGARY 52 Aaron Crawford
EDMONTON 52 Luke Burton-Krahn
HAMILTON 58 Gordon Whyte
MONTREAL 50 Louis-Philippe Bourassa
OTTAWA 53 Peter Adjey
SASKATCHEWAN 46 Jorgen Hus
TORONTO 47 Adam Guillemette
WINNIPEG 40 Mike Benson
The United Football League selected its inaugural All-UFL Team and included long snapper Jordan Ober from the Michigan Panthers.
Next Sunday, the UFL championship game will feature snapper Ryan Langan (Birmingham) against Rex Sunahara (San Antonio).
With NFL mini-camps concluded, below is the latest list of signings and known tryouts. As of this evening, none of the tryout snappers have been signed.
If there are any missing tryouts, please email me at kevingold@longsnap.com
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