Joseph Davidson

Liberty

Sep 13 (Sat)

5 p.m.

Photo by: BGSU Marketing and Communications

Position:
Punter
Height:
6-7
Weight:
220
Class:
Redshirt Freshman
Hometown:
Findlay, Ohio
High School:
Findlay

2017: CoSIDA Second Team Academic All-American and First Team Academic All-District … Semifinalist for the Ray Guy Award, awarded to the nation’s best collegiate punter … MAC Distinguished Scholar-Athlete and Academic All-MAC … Invited to East-West Shrine Game following the conclusion of the season … First Team All-MAC … Named a candidate for the Senior CLASS Award … Played in all 12 games for the Falcons … averaged 44.0 yards on 60 punts … Net punting average of 42.3 yards was among the best in the country … Recorded 10 punts of 50+ yards, including a season best 65-yarder at Middle Tennessee … Downed 28 punts inside the 20-yard line with just two touchbacks … Rushed for 14 yards on a fake punt against Kent State … Averaged 46.5 yards on six punts against South Dakota … Against Ohio, dropped four of his five punts inside the 20-yard line with two 50-yard punts.

2016: First Team Academic All-American and Academic All-District after carrying a 3.94 grade point average with a double major in finance and mathematics into the season … First Team All-MAC … Named Fourth Team All-American by Phil Steele … MAC Distinguished Scholar-Athlete and Academic All-MAC … Played in all 12 games as the team’s punter … Named a semifinalist for the Ray Guy Award, given to the top punter in the country … Punted 61 times at an average of 45.8 yards per punt, best in the MAC and fifth in the country … Net punting average of 43.1 yards ranked second in the country … Had a season-long punt of 82 yards, tied for the longest in the country this year … Had just three touchbacks, compared to 19 punts of 50 or more yards and 21 downed inside the 20 … Also took a fake punt on fourth-and-22 at Toledo for a 24 yard rush and a first down … Named Ray Guy Award National Punter of the Week after averaging 47.4 yards per punt over eight punts against Memphis and posting a 46.9 net punting average. Also had two 60-yard punts and dropped five inside the 20 in the contest … Averaged 59.7 yards on three punts, with a long of 79 yards, at Ohio. Was named MAC East Special Teams Player of the Week after that performance … Two of those three punts were 50+ yards against Ohio and two were downed inside the 20 … Also named MAC East Special Teams Player of the Week after the Toledo game when he averaged 44.1 yards on seven punts, including the 24-yard fake punt. Four of those punts were downed inside the 20 … Had three punts of 50 or more yards against both Ohio State and Middle Tennessee … Put five punts inside the 20 against both Memphis and Akron.

2015: Named first team All-MAC at punter after averaging 46.0 yards per punt attempt … earned second team Capital One Academic All-America … also named Academic All-MAC and MAC Distinguished Scholar Athlete, the league’s most prestigious academic honor … of his 54 punts on the season, only four went four touchbacks … landed 16 inside the 20 and had 17 punts of over 50 yards … had a season-long 73 yard punt in the GoDaddy Bowl against Georgia Southern … named MAC East Special Teams Player of the Week on two occasions … first in a win at Maryland (Sept. 12), when he punted three times for an average of 50.0 yards per punt … the second time in a shutout win at Kent State, where he punted four times for an average of 52.5 yards per punt … averaged more than 50.0 yards per punt in four different contests … had two punts of more than 70 yards.

2014: Played in all 14 games for the Falcons as punter … set school records with 82 punts for 3,497 yards … was twice named MAC East Special Teams Player of the Week … first on Sept. 22 after punting a career-high 11 times for 496 yards (45.1 yards per punt) in a loss at Wisconsin … the second time on Nov. 17 after punting six times for 249 yards (41.5 avg.) against Kent State … averaged 60.5 yards per punt against Ball State, including a 78-yard punt … averaged 48.7 and 47.1 yards per punt, respectively, in the season’s final two games against Northern Illinois and South Alabama … had 14 punts of 50-or-more yards on the season … downed 24 punts inside the 20 … had just three touchbacks … named Academic All-MAC … was named a MAC Distinguished Scholar Athlete.

2013: Redshirted.

High School: Is a 2013 graduate of Findlay High School ... coached by Mark Ritzler ... team captain ... as a senior earned second-team all-state as a defensive back and third-team all-state as a punter ... also earned Academic All-Ohio that same year ... added first-team all-conference and first-team all Northwest Ohio in 2012.

Personal: Full Name is Joseph Bradley Davidson … born Nov. 22, 1994 … son of Jim and Wendy Davidson … has one brother and one sister … double majoring in business finance and mathematics with a specialization in actuarial sciences.