{"id":439950,"date":"2026-01-31T01:39:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T01:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/439950\/"},"modified":"2026-01-31T01:39:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T01:39:07","slug":"long-snapper-jack-treutelaar-commits-to-michigan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/439950\/","title":{"rendered":"Long snapper Jack Treutelaar commits to Michigan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/teams\/michigan-wolverines\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Michigan<\/a> picked up another special teams commitment Friday afternoon from Jack Treutelaar, a class of 2026 long snapper from\u00a0\u00a0Libertyville, Illinois. He announced his pledge to the Wolverines on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>Treutelaar also held an offer from Toledo. Listed at 6-1, 220 pounds, the newest Michigan pledge is a 4.5-star prospect with Rubio Long Snapping and the No. 19-ranked senior at his position.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTreutelaar brings a great personality to the field and is the type of Long Snapper coaches will appreciate both on and off the field,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rubiolongsnapping.com\/player-rankings\/jack-treutelaar\/2026\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">his bio says.<\/a> \u201cWhen Jack is on, he is very on\u2014snapping with college-level speed and showing flashes of big-time potential. As his confidence and consistency continue to build, there\u2019s no doubt he can flat out dominate his class and beyond. He\u2019s got the tools, the mindset, and the attitude to do something special.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s the second high school specialist pledge of the class, joining kicker Jacob Baggett. He fills the spot in the class left by Colton Dermer, who flipped to Georgia after the coaching change. Kohl\u2019s kicking also wrote a positive evaluation of the future Wolverine. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cTreutelaar has shown at multiple Kohl\u2019s Snapping Camps that he has the potential to be one of the best in his class,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kohlskicking.com\/player-profiles\/jack-treutelaar\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">His bio on Kohl\u2019s Kicking reads<\/a>. \u201cHe recently competed at the Kohl\u2019s Midwest Showcase where he was consistently around the target. Treutelaar finished the day with an average snap time of .69 seconds and excelled during the live snap portion of camp. He has everything you look for in a snapper and as he continues to put it all together he will see his snapping take that next big leap.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Special teams coordinator Kerry Coombs also brought in a quartet of special teams transfers during this recent portal window\u2014 Pittsburgh kicker Trey Butkowski, Marshall long snapper Gavin Magorien, UNLV punter Cam Brown and Pittsburgh long snapper Nico Crawford.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Michigan picked up another special teams commitment Friday afternoon from Jack Treutelaar, a class of 2026 long snapper&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":439951,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[399,398,396,397,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-439950","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-ncaa","10":"tag-ncaa-football","11":"tag-ncaafootball","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=439950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439950\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/439951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=439950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}