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Class of 2017 punter Cody Gronewold commits to Northwestern

Class-of-2017 punter Cody Gronewold has committed to Northwestern as a preferred walk-on, he announced on Twitter following Northwestern’s 21-7 loss to Wisconsin.

Very excited to announce that I have committed to play football at Northwestern University! Extremely happy to be in the Big Ten!! #B1GCats pic.twitter.com/u1oAf4OaYz

— Cody Gronewold (@codygronewold) November 5, 2016

Gronewold is ranked as the 35th-best punter in his class by Kohl’s Kicking Camps. Here’s what Kohl’s has to say about the 6-foot-3, 172-pounder from Lincoln Northeast High School in Lincoln, Nebraska:

“Gronewald’s most recent Kohl’s Camp was the NSC in July of 2016.