 Dave Zastudil in action against the 49ers. |
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| Cleveland Browns — No. 15 | |
| Punter | |
| Date of birth: October 26, 1978 | |
| Place of birth: Bay Village, Ohio | |
| Height: 6 ft 5 in (1.96 m) | Weight: 227 lb (103 kg) |
| Professional debut | |
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| 2002 for the Baltimore Ravens | |
| Career history | |
| College: Ohio | |
| NFL Draft: 2002 / Round: 4 / Pick: 112 | |
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| Career highlights and awards | |
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| Selected NFL statistics (through Week 17 of the 2008 NFL season) |
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| Punts | 532 |
| Punt Yards | 22,637 |
| Punting Yard Average | 42.6 |
| Stats at NFL.com | |
David Michael Zastudil[1] (born October 26, 1978[2] in Bay Village, Ohio) is an American football punter who currently plays for the Cleveland Browns of the National Football League; he wears the number 15.[1] Zastudil played collegiately at Ohio, and was drafted in the fourth round of the 2002 NFL Draft by the Baltimore Ravens.
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High school career
Zastudil attended Bay High School in Bay Village, Ohio,[1] where he played quarterback, punter and placekicker and helped to lead his team to an 8–2 record during his senior year.[1] During his junior year, he was practicing punts on the sidelines during one of the games when he accidentally kicked the ball off the the top bar on the net. The ball ricocheted into a cheerleaders face. She suffered a broken nose and a black eye. As a senior, Dave passed for 806 yards and accumulated 2,282 yards throughout his career.[1] He averaged 40.7 yards per kick as a senior punter with a long punt of 67 yards;[1] he also made 19 consecutive point-after attempts, made six field goals with a long field goal of 42 yards and averaged 57 yards per kickoff.[1] He was selected twice as an all-state and all-conference punter,[1] and made the all-district team as a kicker and the all-conference team as a quarterback.
College career
Dave graduated from Bay Village High School and attended Ohio University, where he led the Bobcats and the Mid-American Conference in punting for four straight years.[1] As a senior, Zastudil was selected as a first-team All-American by Football News and the Football Writers Association of America, and was selected as a second-team All-American by the Associated Press.[1] He was also a first-team All-Mid-American Conference selection and the MAC's special teams co-player of the year, after leading the MAC in punting four times.[1] During his senior year, Zastudil punted 50 times for 2,280 yards with a 45.6-yard average,[1] with 16 of those punts having come from inside the 20 yard line, seven touchbacks and a long punt of 74 yards.[1]
As an underclassman, Zastudil was a first-team All-Mid American Conference selection as a junior (averaging 44.3 yards per punt), sophomore (43.2 yards per punt) and freshman (45.3 yards per punt).[1] As a sophomore, he was the MAC special teams player of the year and the first-team All-MAC punter after leading the conference in punting.[1] As a freshman, he was also named to the All-America team.[1]
Zastudil also set the school record for the longest punt with a 75-yard punt against the Akron Zips.[1] Dave graduated from Ohio with a double major in finance and marketing.[1]
NFL career
After graduating from Ohio University, Zastudil was eligible for the 2002 NFL Draft. He was one of only two punters taken during the draft,[3] and was drafted in the fourth round with the 112th pick overall by the Baltimore Ravens.[3]
Zastudil has played in all but three games during his professional career;[1] he missed those three games in 2004 after suffering a shoulder injury.[1] On March 12, 2006, Zastudil was signed by the Cleveland Browns to the terms of a five-year contract,[4] replacing lackluster punter Kyle Richardson. Throughout his career, Zastudil has punted 532 times for 22,637 yards with an average of 42.6 yards per punt.
Career statistics
| Year | Punting | Kickoffs | ||||||||||||
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| G | GS | No. | YDS | AVG | LNG | In20 | TB | BLKD | No. | YDS | AVG | TB | ||
| 2002 | Baltimore Ravens | 16 | 0 | 81 | 3368 | 41.6 | 61 | 31 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 128 | 64.0 | 0 |
| 2003 | Baltimore Ravens | 16 | 0 | 89 | 3649 | 41.0 | 67 | 21 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2004 | Baltimore Ravens | 13 | 0 | 73 | 2948 | 40.4 | 61 | 26 | 12 | 0 | 1 | 54 | 54.0 | 0 |
| 2005 | Baltimore Ravens | 16 | 0 | 84 | 3653 | 43.5 | 60 | 11 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 16 | 16.0 | 0 |
| 2006 | Cleveland Browns | 16 | 0 | 81 | 3563 | 44.0 | 61 | 28 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2007 | Cleveland Browns | 12 | 0 | 49 | 2046 | 41.8 | 64 | 14 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2008 | Cleveland Browns | 16 | 0 | 75 | 3410 | 45.5 | 65 | 23 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Totals | 105 | 0 | 532 | 22637 | 42.6 | 67 | 154 | 54 | 3 | 4 | 198 | 49.5 | 0 | |
Personal
He is married the former Jenn Willis on April 9, 2005
References
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t "Cleveland Browns – Players – Dave Zastudil". http://www.clevelandbrowns.com/team/player.php?id=486. Retrieved on 2007-04-30.
- ^ NFL profile on CBSSports
- ^ a b "Draft History – 2002". http://www.nfl.com/draft/history/years/2002. Retrieved on 2007-04-30.
- ^ "Browns sign punter Zastudil". http://www.clevelandbrowns.com/article.php?id=5214. Retrieved on 2007-04-30.
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