91 Drue Chrisman

Drue Chrisman Ohio State
Name
Drue Chrisman
Nationality
usaUnited States
Position
P
Height
6'3"
Weight
200
Birthday
7/7/1997
Hometown
Lawrenceburg, IN
High School
Cincinnati LaSalle
Past Teams
Ohio State
Seasons
2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020

Defensive Stats

SeasonTeamGKOsKO YdsKO AvgKO TBKO OBPtPt YdsPunt AvgTBI20Pt Blkd
2017Ohio State14NANANANANA51225644.24250
2018Ohio State14NANANANANA61263643.21291
2019Ohio State14NANANANANA46203744.38180
2020Ohio State7521543.00027121645.02110
Total-49521543001858145015831

Major: Grad (2020), Consumer Sciences and Family Services (2019), Undeclared (2017-18)

Weight: 222 (2020), 220 (2019), 215 (2018), 212 (2017), 200 (2016)

2020: Enters his senior year as one of the top punters in the Big Ten and nationally … his career average of 43.9 yards per punt ranks fifth in OSU history … has placed 72 punts inside the 20, third most in program history.

2019: His 44.3 yards per punt helped OSU rank No. 3 in the Big Ten in net punting … booted a season-long 61-yard punt vs. Michigan … landed three of his five punts inside the 20 yard line against Northwestern … completed a 21-yard pass on a fake punt in the second quarter of the Big Ten Championship Game vs. Wisconsin … honorable mention All-Big Ten and OSU Scholar-Athlete … proposed to his now-fiance – Avery Eliason – at halftime of the 2019 spring game in Ohio Stadium. Drue set it up by acting as the holder in a field goal kicking contest with Avery taking a turn. She was stopped, though, and still on one knee, Chrisman proposed.

2019 Media Guide: Dru Chrisman is one of the top punters in the nation and should contend for the national Ray Guy Award and the Big Ten’s Eddleman-Fields punter of the year award … sporting a career 43.7-yard average, which is fifth-best in Ohio State history, Chrisman keyed Ohio State to the No. 1 ranking in the Big Ten in net punting in 2018 with an average of 41.6 yards, a figure that was sixth-best nationally … he earned third-team all-Big Ten honors and was a semifinalist for the Ray Guy Award for the second consecutive season … earned Ray Guy national punter of the week honors after averaging 47.9 yards off nine punts in the come-from-behind win, in bonkers white-out conditions, at Penn State … was even better in the win at Michigan State, dropping all five of his second half punts inside of the Spartan 6 yard line, and directly leading to nine Ohio State points, in the fist-fight in the frost won by a foot, 26-6 … Chrisman landed 29 punts inside of the 20, the second-most in school history, and now has 54 such punts to rank sixth in school history in that category … 15 of his 29 punts last season were downed inside of the 10.

2018 Media Guide: Dru Chrisman is set to be Ohio State’s punter for a second consecutive season … in 2017, as a red-shirt freshman, he was a Ray Guy Award semifinalist and the third-team all-Big Ten punter after averaging 44.2 yards per punt to rank second in the Big Ten Conference and 14th nationally … he had 25 punts downed inside the 20, 15 over 50 yards … his net average of 41.1 helped the Buckeyes lead the Big Ten and rank ninth nationally … did not have a game where he averaged less than 45 yards per punt through the last five games of the season (all wins), and included was a personal best 48.5-yard day vs. Michigan State.

2017 Media Guide: Drue Chrisman is a second-year freshman who is expected to be the Buckeyes’ punter this season after red-shirting the 2016 season as a true freshman … he is an OSU Scholar-Athlete who is exploring majors in the area of management and industry.

2016 Media Guide: Drue Chrisman will continue the OSU kickers’ clique of 90-something jersey numbers by wearing No. 91 for the Buckeyes this season … he was considered the No. 1 punter prospect in this recruiting class with 247Sports ranking him No. 1, the prestigious Kohl’s kicking and punting organization ranking him No. 1 (out of 81 punters) and Scout ranking him No. 2 … he had an impressive list of scholarship offers, including Florida State, UCLA and BYU in addition to Ohio State.

High School: Averaged 46.4 and 43.0 yards per punt during the 2015 and 2014 seasons for LaSalle, respectively … the Lancers, his high school team coached by Jim Hilvert, won back-to-back Division II Ohio state championships those seasons as well … named first-team Division II all-state by the Associated Press as a senior after earning second-team honors all-state honors in 2014 … first-team all-Greater Catholic League … named all-USA Ohio by USA Today … a U.S. Army All-American … named all-district three times … was 38-40 on extra points as a senior and kicked a game-winning, 41-yard field goal with 10 seconds to play to help LaSalle defeat Colerain, 39-36, in a key game.

Personal: Is the son of Sheila and Travis Chrisman … “world-renown” bottler flipper.