Mississippi State specialist announces he is transferring to Florida
Jace Christmann began his college career playing for Dan Mullen at Mississippi State. He has now decided to end it playing for Mullen at Florida.
The MSU transfer kicker announced Friday, via his Twitter account, that he is heading to Gainesville. Christmann entered the transfer portal earlier this week.
Christmann began his Mississippi State career as a walk-on in 2016, redshirting that fall. He earned SEC All-Freshman recognition in 2017, Mullen’s final season at MSU.
Christmann played in 41 games over the last four seasons, going 32-of-40 on field goals and becoming the school’s career leader in PATs made with 123.
Florida was in the market for a new kicker after Evan McPherson decided to forego his senior season and enter the 2021 NFL Draft.
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— Jace Christmann (@jchristmann47) January 15, 2021
Christ, Man, this is good news.
That’s great news!
A very average kicker. That’s why Brandon Ruiz beat him out at State this year. When BR announced he was coming back, Jace knew he wouldn’t see the field for State barring an injury. Good luck to the young man.
He hated relegation. Mooving on up.
Shank you very much.
Kicker is one of those positions you take for granted until you don’t have one.
We never have taken any kicker for granted at UGA. They score points for you. Bama has in the past, but Reichard may be the best kicker they’ve had in a very long time.
It wasn’t too long ago at Florida had open tryouts for kicker, and even extra points were a crapshoot. So it has been nice having a string of kickers you can have reasonable confidence in making field goals.