{"id":26981,"date":"2019-12-17T16:06:57","date_gmt":"2019-12-17T21:06:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordoncollegefootball.com\/?p=26981"},"modified":"2025-09-13T16:05:46","modified_gmt":"2025-09-13T20:05:46","slug":"australian-punter-jeremy-crawshaw-signs-with-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/2019\/12\/17\/australian-punter-jeremy-crawshaw-signs-with-florida\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian Punter Jeremy Crawshaw Signs With Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sports-reference.com\/cfb\/players\/dan-mullen-2.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dan Mullen<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordoncollegefootball.com\/2019\/10\/25\/florida-gators-2020-mock-recruiting-class\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Florida Gators<\/a> coaching staff have signed one of the top punters in the 2020 recruiting cycle. Australian punter <strong>Jeremy Crawshaw<\/strong> has signed his NLI to the University of Florida. This is a good signing for the Gators as they\u2019ll need a replacement with <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sports-reference.com\/cfb\/players\/tommy-townsend-1.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tommy Townsend<\/a><\/strong> graduating. Mullen is going an interesting route landing a punter for another country. Crawshaw is the only special teamer that the Gators will sign in their 2020 recruiting class.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: left;\">Who is Jeremy Crawshaw?<\/h3>\n<p>Crawshaw is a three-star punter out of ProKick Australia Academy in Melbourne, Australia. The Florida punter commit comes from a prestigious academy that has developed many top punters. In the academy\u2019s history, they have had five <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sports-reference.com\/cfb\/players\/ray-guy-1.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ray Guy<\/a> Award winner (Best punter in college football). Crawshaw\u2019s only offer came from the Florida Gators. He committed to the Florida Gators while he was on campus for his official visit.<\/p>\n<p>First, on the 247 Sports Composite Rankings, Crawshaw is the 2,898<sup>th<\/sup> ranked recruit and the seventh-ranked punter in the 2020 class. Comparatively, on ESPN, Crawshaw is the 13<sup>th<\/sup> ranked punter in the 2020 cycle and the #1 recruit out of Australia. Crawshaw is a 6\u20193\u201d 190-pound punter with a big leg. Being an early enrollee, Crawshaw will have the opportunity to win the starting job as a true freshman in spring camp. However, he has huge shoes to fill as he\u2019ll be replacing one of the top punters in the country in Townsend.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Jeremy Crenshaw Main Photo: File Photo: A Florida Gators logo is seen on a chair during a game against the Missouri Tigers at Memorial Stadium on November 4, 2017 in Columbia, Missouri. (Photo by Ed Zurga\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dan Mullen and the Florida Gators coaching staff have signed one of the top punters in the 2020 recruiting cycle. Australian punter Jeremy Crawshaw has signed his NLI to the University of Florida. This is a good signing for the Gators as they\u2019ll need a replacement with Tommy Townsend graduating. Mullen is going an interesting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2113,"featured_media":27155,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[4537,79,2765,244,2999,5540,126,3026,20],"class_list":["post-26981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-sec","tag-2019-national-signing-day","tag-college-football","tag-early-signing-period","tag-florida-gators","tag-florida-gators-recruiting","tag-jeremy-crawshaw","tag-ncaa","tag-ncaaf","tag-sec"],"modified_by":"Michael Kovacs, ADMIN","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2113"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26981"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77755,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26981\/revisions\/77755"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}