SMU adds former Texas punter Ryan Bujcevski to roster
SMU added former Texas punter Ryan Bujcevski to the 2022 football roster listed on the website, confirming On The Pony Express’ report earlier this year that he’d head to Dallas.
Using the connection special teams coordinator Craig Naivar has to Texas, SMU landed the Australian punter. In his collegiate career, he has punted 134 times for 5,559 yards, averaging 41.5 yards per punt.
Ryan Bujcevski was Texas’ starting punter during the entire 2018 season and much of 2019 and 2020. However, season-ending injuries cut his 2019 and 2020 seasons short. He didn’t appear in a game in 2021 and was honored on Senior Day this fall. He’ll have two years of eligibility remaining.
Bujcevski will compete with players like 2022 signee Collin Rogers, sophomore Brendan Hall and freshman Michael Tadros for punting duties. Matt Fraanje, who saw action in six games last year, is no longer on the roster.
SMU begins fall camp on August 4, marking the first camp under new head coach Rhett Lashlee. Running backs coach Khenon Hall said earlier this summer that the players have bought in at a high level.
“It’s going really good. I think the guys are taking on the personality of our coaches, the systems that coach Lashlee and coach Symons are bringing on,” Hall told On The Pony Express. “I think they’re locked in, they’re focused, they’re working hard, they’re working with a purpose. The program that coach Griz has put in place, you can see that it pays off, their bodies are starting to change and just their mindset in itself of a finishing mindset right now because of the last two years they’ve come up short. You can tell that they’re working with a chip on their shoulder.”
