Australian punters have enjoyed great success in the NFL for more than 20 years, with Michael Dickson playing a major role in the Seattle Seahawks\u2019 Super Bowl victory over the New England Patriots last month.<\/p>\n
Dickson is the highest paid punter in the NFL. In 2025, he signed a four-year deal with Seattle worth $US16.2 million ($22.9 million).<\/p>\n
Burton will be 27 at the end of his Bulldogs\u2019 deal, and the money to be made in the NFL would far outstrip his current $800,000-a-year contract.<\/p>\n
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Lachlan Galvin was impressive in the first game of the year.Credit: Getty Images<\/p>\n
Burton, Lachie Galvin and Bailey Hayward were all impressive in the Bulldogs\u2019 spine in the win over the Dragons, with Galvin laying on the first try with a lovely flat pass that put Jacob Preston into open space.<\/p>\n
There is a lot of pressure on Galvin this year after he was criticised for some of his performances in the back half of last season following his messy exit from Wests Tigers.<\/p>\n
Burton knows he and Galvin can be \u201cdangerous\u201d with a bit more work improving their combination.<\/p>\n
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\u201cWhen Lachie is running the ball, and all our spine is taking the line on, we\u2019re dangerous,\u201d Burton said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think he didn\u2019t overplay his hand; he just did his role.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey were sending a lot of traffic down his way, and he was handling that. He\u2019s worked really hard on his defence in the off-season. It\u2019s good to show that he can handle himself.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think people forget he\u2019s still 20 years old. He\u2019s still got a long way to go.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think now we\u2019ve got more time together, it\u2019s only the start.<\/p>\n
\u201cI feel like when we get back, and we work on our combination a bit more, we\u2019re going to be dangerous.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cI don\u2019t know about [being a place kicker]; it would be as a punter. \u201cIt\u2019s a massive sport.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":512967,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[559],"tags":[64,63,593,85],"class_list":["post-512966","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\/512966","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=512966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512966\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/512967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=512966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=512966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=512966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}