Name: Jace Christmann
Number: 47
Position: Kicker
Class: Redshirt senior
Height: 6’1″
Weight: 200 lbs
Hometown: Houston, Texas
High School: Memorial
Previous School: Mississippi State
Twitter: @jchristmann47
2020 statistics:
| XPM | XPA | XP% |
| 5 | 5 | 100 |
Overview:
Originally from Houston, Christmann was recruited to play kicker under Dan Mullen at Mississippi State in 2016. He redshirted his first year on campus but became the team’s starting placekicker his final 11 games as a redshirt freshman in 2017. He was perfect on 42 extra-point tries and was 12 of 14 on field-goal attempts for the season.
Mullen departed for Florida following the season, but Christmann retained his starting job under new coach Joe Moorhead. However, he was slightly less effective than the season before. He didn’t miss any PATs once again, but his field-goal percentage dropped to 75% on 12-of-16 kicking.
He took fewer attempts during his redshirt junior season in 2019, but he made eight of his 10 tries. However, he did have the first missed PAT in his career that season. When Moorhead was fired after the season, new coach Mike Leach decided to go in a different direction at kicker in 2020.
Christmann only appeared in three games and didn’t attempt any field goals. He attempted five PATs for the season and made all of them. With his starting job lost, Christmann entered the transfer portal after the season, ultimately rejoining the coach who recruited him at Florida.
Heading into his final season of eligibility in 2021, Christmann is the favorite to win the starting job, but he faces competition from another redshirt senior in Chris Howard, who has been the team’s backup kicker for a while now and impressed starting in place of Evan McPherson against Missouri last season.
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