The Minnesota Golden Gophers will take on the Golden Gophers of Minnesota in a spring game showdown tonight at 6 p.m. at TCF Bank Stadium, weather permitting. Leading up to the game, we’ll be taking a look at the outlook for each position group.
Ryan Santoso, the Gophers’ starting kicker from 2014-15 and their starting punter from 2016-17, is gone. He leaves Minnesota with the fourth-best punt average in program history and a career total of 144 punts, 29 field goals, and 176 point-after attempts.
That leaves a single punter left on the roster: Redshirt junior Jacob Herbers, who has only seen the field up to this point as the holder on field goals and point-after attempts.