{"id":467458,"date":"2026-02-09T00:38:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T00:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/467458\/"},"modified":"2026-02-09T00:38:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T00:38:11","slug":"who-is-michael-dickson-australian-seattle-seahawks-punter-stats-from-super-bowl-lx-every-punt-stats-highlights-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/467458\/","title":{"rendered":"Who is Michael Dickson, Australian Seattle Seahawks punter stats from Super Bowl LX, every punt, stats, highlights, contract"},"content":{"rendered":"

Michael Dickson is looking to become just the second Australian to play in and win a Super Bowl as his Seattle Seahawks face the New England Patriots<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Dickson, who signed a four-year, $16.2 million ($A23m) contract extension in 2025 which made him the highest-paid punter in the NFL, first started his path towards Super Bowl LX<\/a> when he realised his AFL dream was slipping away and instead decided to try his hand at punting. <\/p>\n

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Dickson impressed Prokick co-founder Nathan Chapman enough to be invited to train with the program fulltime in Melbourne, where he worked dilligently to perfect his craft before earning a surprise call-up to play at the University of Texas \u2014 one of college football\u2019s most prestigious programs.<\/p>\n

From there, Dickson overcame a shaky first season with the Longhorns to finish his college football career as a cult hero, earning MVP honours in the Texas Bowl. <\/p>\n

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He was then drafted in the fifth round of the 2017 draft after the Seahawks traded up to take the Australian punter. It was a contentious move at the time, but one that paid off in a big way \u2014 and the rest is history.<\/p>\n

\u201cI reckon sometimes we pinch ourselves just to go \u2018Hey, what have we done, what have we been a part of?\u2019,\u201d Chapman said of his involvement in Dickson\u2019s rise through Prokick.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ll continue to work at giving more guys opportunities at the college level and there will still be a flourish of Prokick players going through the NFL, which is great.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut he\u2019s one of the modern-day heroes. We\u2019ve got six-odd players in the NFL right now and he also sets the benchmark to be the top of that in terms of his statistics.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen people come down it doesn\u2019t take much to say, \u2018Do you know Michael Dickson?\u2019 He is the poster boy of the punting world.\u201d<\/p>\n

Follow along for live updates on every punt and big play from Michael Dickson in the Super Bowl. Can\u2019t see the blog? Click here!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Michael Dickson is looking to become just the second Australian to play in and win a Super Bowl…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":467459,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[559],"tags":[64,63,593,85],"class_list":["post-467458","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\/467458","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=467458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467458\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/467459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=467458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=467458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=467458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}