BREAKING RECOGNITION: Michigan State’s Ryan Eckley Earns Prestigious Preseason All-American Honors from Walter Camp Football Foundation
EAST LANSING, Mich. – Michigan State redshirt junior punter Ryan Eckley has been named a second-team preseason All-American by the Walter Camp Football Foundation.
Eckley led the Big Ten and ranked among the national leaders last season with his 47.9-yard average, which tied for the third-best average in MSU single-season history. A two-time Ray Guy Award Watch List honoree, Eckley has earned second-team All-Big Ten honors the past two seasons. He also ranked second in the Big Ten with 20 punts of 50-plus yards.
As a redshirt freshman in 2023, Eckley garnered Freshman All-America accolades after ranking second in the Big Ten and eighth in the FBS with his 46.8-yard punting average. In addition, he ranked second in the Big Ten in 50-plus yard punts (24) and fourth in punts inside the 20 (23).
A two-year letterwinner, Eckley has a career punting average of 47.2 yards per punt (99 punts for 4,677 yards), which would rank No. 1 in school history (current record: Bryce Baringer, 46.0 avg.). Eckley has booted 44 punts 50-plus yards (44 percent) and also has five career punts of 60-plus yards.
