Cincinnati’s special teams unit has something old and something new in 2021.
Incoming freshman Mason Fletcher, a extremely tall and extremely thin punter from Australia, looks to be the lead man on fourth down. Fletcher replaces fellow Australian James Smith, the net average king of the AAC in recent years. Fletcher is a product of the same pipeline as his predecessor—an outfit called Prokick Australia which is led by Nathan Chapman and John Smith.
Fletcher’s recruiting tape impresses, with all kinds of boomers that make it obvious why he was the consensus number 6 punter in the 2021 recruiting class.