The situation at punter just improved for Georgia football. The Bulldogs added another graduate transfer punter. That’s two in as many years.
For the second year in a row, the Georgia football team has added a graduate transfer punter to its roster. Landon Stratton, who is graduating from Murray State, joins the Dawgs this summer. He committed to the program earlier this week.
Stratton was Murray State’s starting punter for the last three seasons where he averaged just under 42 yards per punt. There’s still some question as to whether or not Georgia will offer him a scholarship this fall but he is headed for Athens nonetheless.
Georgia landed graduate transfer punter Cameron Nizialek from Columbia prior to the 2017 season and he became one of the nation’s best punters. Now that Nizialek has exhausted his eligibility, the Dawgs need to fill a very important void on special teams.
Even after spring ball, there doesn’t appear to be a clear front-runner to handle the team’s punting duties in 2018. That was most likely a factor that attracted Stratton to join the team. Marshall Long, who enters his third season with the team in 2018, certainly is in the mix after dealing with a knee injury earlier in his career. And there have been some walk-on players who have also gotten reps this spring.
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With the addition of Stratton and highly-ranked recruit Jake Camarda (the no. 1 punter in the country for the class of 2018) both joining the team this summer, Georgia will certainly have high level of competition at punter. Competition is something coach Kirby Smart wants at every position and he’ll certainly have it at punter.