The best reactions after the Bengals made their second pick in the sixth round of the 2023 NFL draft.
The Cincinnati Bengals drafted a punter in the sixth round of the 2023 NFL draft — but it goes so far beyond that.
As onlookers pointed out after the pick was announced, Robbins had a mustache worth admiring at one point. And the impending battle between Robbins and Drue Chrisman in Bengals training camp is officially a Michigan vs. Ohio State one.
In all seriousness, Robbins was an excellent value for the Bengals as they only used an extra selection acquired in a trade down. And they needed to upgrade at the position after Chrisman’s struggles last year, so the reactions were overwhelmingly positive.
Instant analysis after the Bengals add to the roster for the second time in the sixth round of the 2023 NFL draft.
The Cincinnati Bengals finally drafted a punter, using an extra sixth-round pick acquired via trade with the Kansas City Chiefs to select Michigan’s Brad Robbins.
Robbins, a native of Westerville, Ohio, had an average hangtime of 4.29 seconds over his last two years with less than 20 percent of those attempts actually getting returned.
That’s a stark contrast to Drue Chrisman, whose biggest problem last season — and especially in the AFC title game, as fans might recall — was getting hangtime on his punts.
Still, there’s a give-and-take thing going on with Robbins as he gets ready to fight for a roster spot, as noted by NFL.com’s Lance Zierlein:
Finesse punter who will be much better at pinning opponents near their own end zone than bailing his team out with power. He punts with much better hang-time than we are used to seeing from college punters and landed nearly half of his punts inside the 20-yard line in 2022.
Second #Michigan player picked by the Bengals this draft! #GoBlue
The Michigan football special teams dynamic duo is off the board.
Kicker Jake Moody made waves by being selected at No. 99 by the San Francisco 49ers in the third round of the 2023 NFL draft. While Moody was widely expected to be among the first kickers taken in the NFL draft, there were questions about where Brad Robbins would go or if he would be an undrafted free agent.
However, the Ohio native will return to his home state and reteam with several former Wolverines. The Westerville native was picked by the Cincinnati Bengals in the sixth round of the 2023 NFL draft with the 217th pick. He’ll join fellow 2023 draftee DJ Turner as well as safety Dax Hill and running back Chris Evans with the Bengals.
In 2022, Robbins had 43 punts for 1,818 yards, an average of 42.28 yards per punt. He averaged 46.33 yards per punt in 2021 and 45.26 yards per punt in 2020.
Robbins came aboard in 2017 and supplanted incumbent Will Hart despite it being Robbins’ freshman season. He was injured the following year, but again usurped Hart in 2019.
The Bengals have made their second pick in the sixth round of the 2023 NFL draft.
The Cincinnati Bengals used their second pick in the sixth round of the 2023 NFL draft on Michigan punter Brad Robbins.
It seemed inevitable the Bengals would use a pick on a punter this year after Drue Chrisman’s struggles this past season.
Robbins, from Westerville Ohio, was something of a hangtime specialist in college, which is exactly where the Bengals had major issues last season.
Cincinnati acquired this pick from the Kansas City Chiefs by trading down a handful of spots in the third round the day prior. Earlier in the sixth, they drafted Princeton wideout Andrei Iosivas, their second pick at the position of Day 3 and the third straight offensive player after loading up on defense over the first two days of the draft.
A Michigan player voiced his support for his Michigan State counterpart in his pursuit of a national award:
A Michigan football player gave his Michigan State counterpart a strong advertisement and words of support in pursuit of a major award.
Bryce Baringer is a finalist for the Ray Guy award, given to the nation’s top college football punter. Baringer has made a strong push for the award.
Michigan punter Brad Robbins took to Twitter to voice his support for Baringer, stating how good a story Baringer’s career is and that fans should vote for him.
“For those of you who don’t know Bryce Baringer, I’d read his story and vote for him, true inspiration to young guys everywhere! This man OWNS adversity!”
For those of you who don’t know Bryce Baringer, I’d read his story and vote for him, true inspiration to young guys everywhere! This man OWNS adversity! https://t.co/ESRS7Ao3AB
Contact/Follow us @The SpartansWire on Twitter, and like our page on Facebook to follow ongoing coverage of Michigan state news, notes, and opinion. You can also follow Cory Linsner on Twitter @Cory_Linsner.
For the last 364 days, we heard every excuse in the book about Michigan football’s 2021 win over Ohio State:
It was snowy
The players had the flu.
The team was young.
Well, on Saturday, with a revenge-seeking Buckeye squad, none of those excuses fly.
The weather was in the mid-50s in Columbus. The team was healthy (in terms of illness). Michigan apparently hadn’t played anybody. The Wolverines were playing without their best, most crucial player. And they increased the victory margin from 15 to 22, on the road, in a game where everyone and their brother was picking OSU.
One Wolverine took notice over the last year, and unleashed a gem once the clock hit zero.
Michigan beat Ohio State, 45-23, and punter Brad Robbins, an Ohio-native who’s been on the team since 2017, wondered aloud what the so-called ‘Buckeye Nation’ will come up with now.
– Weather was nice – We were taken seriously – They didn’t have the flu
Assuredly, they’ll point to TreVeyon Henderson and Miyan Williams being banged up, as if Blake Corum and Donovan Edwards weren’t. Corum carried the ball twice before leaving the game, and he was 70% of Michigan’s offensive production through Week 12. They’ll point to the loss of Jaxon Smith-Njigba, as if they haven’t played all year essentially without him, much like Michigan with Ronnie Bell.
They’ll point to other things, no doubt. But one thing that isn’t in doubt? Michigan has now won The Game two years in a row and has bragging rights for yet another year.
It’s one of the best shows on TV! #TedLasso #GoBlue
ANN ARBOR, Mich. — As Michigan football punter Brad Robbins walked up to the podium for his media availability on Tuesday evening, he wore a shirt emblazoned with the handwritten word, ‘believe,’ on a yellow background with tape around the edges. Any fan of the AppleTV+ show ‘Ted Lasso’ would recognize it instantly.
Robbins is a fan of the popular TV show about an American football coach who leaves his old life behind to coach an English Premier League soccer team, AFC Richmond. The main tenets of the show are kindness, leadership, empathy, and in the second season, the titular character, Ted Lasso — played by Jason Sudeikis — working through mental illness while he struggles with his divorce and his father’s much earlier suicide.
The sixth-year punter in Ann Arbor can relate to Sudeikis’ character and uses it as inspiration for who and what he wants to be for the Michigan football team, as well as helping him get through some of his own struggles.
“That’s one of the shows I watched in the offseason,” Robbins said. “I’m a big mental health advocate. And, I really enjoyed that show, it kind of took me through some tough times. And the way he coaches and the way he approaches the game is very much somebody I want to emulate.
“Being an older guy on the team, bringing experience, bringing consistency, dependability, anything I can do to help the team, that’s who I want to be, who I want to emulate.”
Of those who count themselves as fans, Michigan football’s Jim Harbaugh is one of them.
“It’s absolutely the best show on TV,” Harbaugh told WXYZ’s Brad Galli. “It’s right up there with — I’d put it up there with The Rockford Files, it’s that good. It’s the best show. If you haven’t watched that show — I watch it sometimes two or three times.”
So what makes it so good in Harbaugh’s eyes?
“Some of the the — it’s just so true, it’s just so real,” “Some of the lines, the dart scene — c’mon! There’s probably 50 more. Not as good as that!”
‘Ted Lasso’ currently has two seasons, with season three still in production. As for Robbins and Michigan, their next showing will take place on Saturday when the Wolverines host Hawaii for Week 2 of the 2022 college football season.
Puede que no haya muchos momentos memorables en el partido inicial de Michigan contra Colorado State. Los Wolverines llegaron como favoritos por 30.5 puntos y mantuvieron un increíble 72 por ciento de todas las apuestas en el juego, así como el 91 …
Puede que no haya muchos momentos memorables en el partido inicial de Michigan contra Colorado State. Los Wolverines llegaron como favoritos por 30.5 puntos y mantuvieron un increíble 72 por ciento de todas las apuestas en el juego, así como el 91 por ciento del dinero apostado, de acuerdo con Action Network.
El hecho que Michigan tomara una ventaja de 23-0 antes de la pausa, confirmó lo que muchos estaban esperando. Pero lo mejor de la primera mitad fue cortesía del pateador de los Wolverines Brad Robbins — y no por algo que hubiera hecho en el campo, sino por el absolutamente increíble bigote que ocultaba bajo el casco.
En cuanto el pateador se quitó el bigote, los fans del futbol colegial se volvieron locos.
Top three NFL draft-eligible punters in the Big Ten for 2022 #GoBucks #B1G
It is never too early to talk about the NFL Draft, and one of the less celebrated, but still very important positions in the game of football is the punter position. Despite popular belief, specialists are vital for victory and a strong punter can be a main factor in the win column.
It is likely, not surprising that a team as old school as Iowa has the best punter and they have a strong history of pumping out strong punters like Reggie Roby. Michigan also has an insanely strong special teams along with Minnesota. That’s enough talk about the list, let’s dive in.
Special teams is often an unheralded aspect of college football, but to prove its importance, look no further as to when it goes wrong.
Such was the case that allowed Michigan football punter Brad Robbins to get his first opportunity to begin with, as incumbent Will Hart was struggling in 2017. That allowed Robbins to get in for Purdue game in Week 4 in his freshman season.
Robbins was dealt an injury which precluded him from the 2018 season, which meant that Hart had to take the reins, and he did so admirably. The two battled again in his 2019 return, with Hart maintaining his position as the starter. However, in 2020, Hart got off to a rocky start, which allowed Robbins to step in once again to reclaim the starting punter role.
Hart transferred and Robbins excelled as the primary punter. As one of the Big Ten’s best, he often flipped the field, and he’ll be doing so once again, as he announced a return for his sixth year on Monday.
Robbins also had a donation set in 2021 where if he met certain criteria — either length or distance or pinning within the opponent’s 20-yard line, he would donate a certain amount of money to a charity benefitting his mentor’s battle against cancer. Unfortunately, his mentor passed away this fall from the disease.
With his return in 2022, this will be Robbins’ final year of eligibility.
