{"id":181900,"date":"2025-10-01T06:31:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T06:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/181900\/"},"modified":"2025-10-01T06:31:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T06:31:08","slug":"from-perth-to-buffalo-mitch-wishnowsky-gets-nfl-recall-with-afc-no-1-seed-bills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/181900\/","title":{"rendered":"From Perth to Buffalo: Mitch Wishnowsky gets NFL recall with AFC No.1 seed Bills"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Buffalo Bills<\/a> will debut their third punter of the season, turning to Australian veteran Mitch Wishnowsky after Cameron Johnston’s ankle injury.<\/p>\n

Johnston, injured against the Saints when a defender crashed into him mid-punt, was placed on injured reserve.<\/p>\n

Enter\u00a0Wishnowsky, a Perth native with six years of NFL experience. He spent his entire career with the San Francisco 49ers<\/a> until earlier this season.<\/p>\n

MORE:\u00a0Aussie NFL wrap-up Week 4<\/a><\/p>\n

The Aussie special teamer has built a reputation for having a massive boot and surgical placement, often burying opponents inside their own 20-yard-line.<\/p>\n

His journey is as unlikely as it is inspiring. Once a tradie installing glass, Wishnowsky found the gridiron through Victoria’s ProKick Academy.<\/p>\n

The 33-year-old\u00a0 developed his kicking abilities for both the Santa Barbara City Vaqueros and Utah Utes programs.<\/p>\n

Wishnowsky\u00a0was then drafted with the\u00a0110th overall pick in the 2019 draft to the 49ers, where he played in Super Bowl LIV in his first season.<\/p>\n

In 2022, he led the league by dropping more than half his punts inside the 20, an efficiency matched by very few specialists.<\/p>\n

Wishnowsky briefly spent time on the Commanders practice squad at the beginning of the 2025 campaign.<\/p>\n

Now joining the Bills, who have struggled for stability at the position, he will have the chance to play a major role on the best team currently in the AFC through four weeks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Buffalo Bills will debut their third punter of the season, turning to Australian veteran Mitch Wishnowsky after…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":181901,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[559],"tags":[64,63,593,85],"class_list":["post-181900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181900\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/181901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}