Cameron Johnston

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Cameron Johnston
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Johnston with the Pittsburgh Steelers in 2025
Personal information
Born: (1992-02-24) 24 February 1992 (age 33)
Geelong, Victoria, Australia
Height:5 ft 11 in (1.80 m)
Weight:194 lb (88 kg)
Career information
Position: Punter
High school: St Joseph's College
(Newtown, Victoria)
College: Ohio State (2013–2016)
NFL draft: 2017: undrafted
Career history
Career highlights and awards
Career NFL statistics as of 2024
Punts:447
Punting yards:21,132
Punting average:47.3
Longest punt:74
Inside 20:183
Stats at Pro Football Reference   OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg

Cameron Johnston (born 24 February 1992) is an Australian professional American football punter. He played college football for the Ohio State Buckeyes. He formerly played Australian rules football and was a member of the Melbourne Football Club in 2011. He has also played for the Philadelphia Eagles and Houston Texans.

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Early life and Australian rules career

Johnston is from Geelong, Victoria, Australia, and attended high school at St Joseph's College. He played for the Geelong Falcons in the under-18 TAC Cup before being drafted to the Melbourne Football Club with the 63rd selection in the 2011 AFL rookie draft. [1] [2] A midfielder, Johnston spent the 2011 season playing for the Casey Scorpions, Melbourne's affiliate team in the Victorian Football League (VFL). However, he managed only six games for Casey's senior team, instead spending most of the season in the VFL reserves (a third-tier competition). [3] Johnston was delisted by Melbourne at the season's end. [4]

College career

After failing at his AFL ambitions, Johnston signed up with ProKick Australia in 2012, an academy headed by Nathan Chapman for Australian players looking to pursue a career in the United States. [1] In 2013, he secured a full scholarship with Ohio State. [5] As a freshman, Johnston led all Big Ten Conference punters with a 44.0 per punt average and ranked 16th-best nationally. He was named a second-team Freshman All-American by College Football News later that year. In his final three years at OSU, he was part of the 2014 national championship team, earned second and first-team honors in his junior and senior years respectively, and was named Eddleman-Fields Big Ten Punter of the Year. He also ranked academically in the Big Ten his final two years. [6]

NFL career

Pre-draft measurables
HeightWeightArm lengthHand span 40-yard dash 10-yard split20-yard split
5 ft 11+1⁄4 in
(1.81 m)		194 lb
(88 kg)		31 in
(0.79 m)		9 in
(0.23 m)		4.92 s1.73 s2.85 s
All values from NFL Combine [7]

Philadelphia Eagles

Johnston in a game against the Washington Redskins in 2019 Cameron Johnston 2019 (cropped).jpg
Johnston in a game against the Washington Redskins in 2019

Johnston signed with the Philadelphia Eagles as an undrafted free agent on 11 May 2017. [8] [9] [10] He was waived on 2 September 2017. [11] He signed a reserve/future contract with the Eagles on 3 January 2018. [12]

On 1 September 2018, Johnston made the Eagles 53-man roster for the 2018 season. [13] He made his NFL debut in the 2018 season opener against the Atlanta Falcons and had six punts for 313 net yards in the 18–12 victory. [14] His first season as the team's starting punter ended with Johnston recording 61 total punts for 2,937 yards. His longest kick of the season was 68 yards and he punted within the 20 yard line 24 (39.34%). [15]

The following season, Johnston punted 71 times for 3,292 yards. [15]

On 24 March 2020, Johnston was re-signed to a one-year, $660,000 contract by the Eagles.In 2020, he punted for 3,318 yards, his highest with Philadelphia. [15] He was not re-signed following the season.

Houston Texans

Johnston signed with the Houston Texans on March 30, 2021. [16] He led the league in punting yards (4,108) and total punts (88) during the 2021 season. [17]

On August 25, 2023, Johnston pulled a calf muscle. The Texans signed undrafted rookie Ty Zentner to handle punting duties while Johnston recovered. [18] On August 31, Johnston was placed on injured reserve. [19] He was activated on October 7. [20]

Pittsburgh Steelers

On March 19, 2024, Johnston signed a three-year, $9 million contract with the Pittsburgh Steelers. [21] He suffered a season-ending knee injury in Week 1 and was placed on injured reserve on September 10. [22]

Johnston was released by the Steelers on August 25, 2025 after losing the starting punter job to Corliss Waitman. [23]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 Former Melbourne Demon Cameron Johnston takes a punt on American football, Sydney Morning Herald, 8 January 2015
  2. ↑ "Aussie punter and draft prospect Cameron Johnston survives intense NFL Combine". FoxSports.com. 7 March 2017.
  3. ↑ Cameron Johnston (No.52), MelbourneFC.com.au, 12 October 2011
  4. ↑ From Melbourne rookie list to NFL punter, AFL.com.au, 30 April 2017
  5. ↑ THE TALENTED MR JOHNSTON, AFLPA, 3 September 2013.
  6. ↑ "Cam Johnston OSU bio".
  7. ↑ "2017 NFL Draft Scout Cameron Johnston College Football Profile". DraftScout.com. Retrieved 8 November 2023.
  8. ↑ "Check Out The Full Rookie Camp Roster". PhiladelphiaEagles.com. 11 May 2017. Archived from the original on 16 February 2018. Retrieved 27 June 2017.
  9. ↑ Seger, Eric (29 April 2017). "Ohio State Punter Cameron Johnston Signs Free Agent Contract with The Philadelphia Eagles". ElevenWarriors.com. Retrieved 30 May 2017.
  10. ↑ Chassen, Alexis (9 May 2017). "Eagles UDFA Profile: Cameron Johnston is consistent and versatile". Bleeding Green Nation. Retrieved 9 October 2024.
  11. ↑ "Eagles Announce 17 Roster Moves To Get Down To 53 Players". PhiladelphiaEagles.com. 2 September 2017. Archived from the original on 5 September 2017. Retrieved 9 September 2017.
  12. ↑ McPherson, Chris (3 January 2018). "Roster Moves: Eagles Sign Four Players To Reserve/Futures Contracts". PhiladelphiaEagles.com. Archived from the original on 9 April 2018. Retrieved 4 January 2018.
  13. ↑ "NFLAustralia on Twitter".
  14. ↑ "Aussie rookie's 'absolute bomb' stuns NFL". WWOS. Retrieved 1 October 2018.
  15. 1 2 3 "Cameron Johnston Career Stats". ESPN. 18 August 2025. Retrieved 18 August 2025.
  16. ↑ "Houston Texans Transactions (3-30-2021)". HoustonTexans.com. 30 March 2021. Retrieved 30 March 2021.
  17. ↑ "2021 NFL Punting". Pro-Football-Reference.com. Retrieved 3 December 2024.
  18. ↑ "Texans' Cameron Johnston: Tweaks calf". CBS Sports . 25 August 2023. Retrieved 11 September 2023.
  19. ↑ "Houston Texans Transactions (8-31-2023)". HoustonTexans.com. 31 August 2023. Retrieved 2 February 2025.
  20. ↑ "Houston Texans Transactions (10-7-2023)". HoustonTexans.com. 7 October 2023. Retrieved 2 February 2025.
  21. ↑ Varley, Teresa (19 March 2024). "Johnston signed to three-year contract". Steelers.com. Retrieved 2 June 2024.
  22. ↑ Simmons, Myles (9 September 2024). "Report: Steelers P Cameron Johnston suffered season-ending knee injury". Pro Football Talk. NBC Sports.
  23. ↑ Varley, Teresa (25 August 2025). "Steelers make additional roster moves". Steelers.com.
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