WACO, Texas – Texas A&M punter Braden Mann was named to the American Football Coaches Association All-America First Team to become Texas A&M’s 10th unanimous All-American and the first since Myles Garrett in 2016.
Mann joins John Kimbrough, John David Crow, Ed Simonini, Robert Jackson, Marcus Buckley, Dat Nguyen, Luke Joeckel and Jake Matthews as Aggies who have been bestowed unanimous All-Americans as selected by the AFCA, Associated Press, Football Writers Association of America, The Sporting News and Walter Camp Foundation.
Mann currently leads the FBS with a 51.15 punting average and is nearly a yard ahead of LSU’s Chad Kessler’s NCAA and SEC record mark of 50.28 set in 1997. The Ray Guy Award winner has already set two NCAA records as he broke the single-game gross punt average mark at 60.8 on five boots at No. 1 Alabama and has unleashed 14 60-yard punts, shattering Wake Forest’s Ryan Plackemeier’s record set in 2005.
Texas A&M returns to action December 31 at 6:30 p.m. as the Aggies take on North Carolina State at the TaxSlayer Gator Bowl in Jacksonville, Fla.
