{"id":370706,"date":"2025-12-25T09:49:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-25T09:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/370706\/"},"modified":"2025-12-25T09:49:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-25T09:49:07","slug":"which-australians-are-playing-in-the-nfl-on-christmas-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/370706\/","title":{"rendered":"Which Australians are playing in the NFL on Christmas Day?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the regular season winds down, the NFL has shot for the stars, scheduling three games on Christmas Day in 2025.<\/p>\n<p>As it stands, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/au\/nfl\/denver-broncos\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Denver Broncos<\/a> are the only team featuring on Christmas that will appear in the playoffs.<\/p>\n<p>However, that does mean Aussie punter Jeremy Crawshaw will have all eyes on him as the Broncos looks towards a Super Bowl push.<\/p>\n<p>The Sporting News\u00a0looks at which Australians could be playing on Christmas Day in 2025.<\/p>\n<p>MORE:\u00a0<a target=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/au\/nfl\/news\/2026-nfl-draft-order-giants-raiders\/abe05eb6af85c6194d97bd80\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Updated 2026 NFL Draft order: Giants, Raiders on pace to claim top selections after Week 16<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Jeremy Crawshaw\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>For the first time since 2015, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/au\/nfl\/kansas-city-chiefs\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kansas City Chiefs<\/a> will not win the AFC West division, and as it stands, the 12-3 Denver Broncos look set to take their spot.<\/p>\n<p>Aussie punter Jeremy Crawshaw has played a role for the Broncos as one of the league&#8217;s best punters.<\/p>\n<p>Crawshaw is third in the NFL this season in net punting yards, and also has the second-longest punt of any player in the league this season, with a 76-yard punt coming in week nine against the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/au\/nfl\/houston-texans\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Houston Texans<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Crawshaw has been delivering the Broncos good field position all season, and will be hoping to do the same on Christmas as his team looks to wrap up their division.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As the regular season winds down, the NFL has shot for the stars, scheduling three games on Christmas&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":151086,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[559],"tags":[64,63,593,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-370706","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-nfl","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370706","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=370706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370706\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/151086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}