Brett Kern life and biography

PRO:
Brett Kern is a strong-legged punter that has shown a keen ability to down his kicks inside the opponents’ 20-yard line. He enters the 2010 season looking to solidify his position in Tennessee after joining the team midway through the 2009 season off waivers from Denver.

CAREER HIGHLIGHTS:
• In 2009, Kern’s combined average of 45.5 yards per punt with the Titans and Broncos ranked eighth in the NFL. He also downed a combined 27 punts inside the opponents’ 20-yard line.
• In 2008, Kern ranked fifth in the league with a 46.7-yard punting average and was named to the All-Rookie team by Pro Football Weekly/PFWA and the Sporting News.

TITANS TIDBITS:
• Kern’s father, Cal, owns a collegiate baseball team in Niagara Falls, N.Y. called the Niagara Power. The team plays in the New York Collegiate Baseball League and has had a player from Lipscomb (Nashville) University the past two seasons. The summer of 2010 marks the club’s fourth season.
• Kern is an avid golfer that sports a 1 handicap. He picked the game up late in his high school years and caddied for three summers at Inverness Golf Club while in college. The course is located in Toledo, Ohio and has hosted PGA and NCAA Championships.

CAREER TRANSACTIONS:
• The Grand Island, N.Y., native was orginally signed by the Denver Broncos as a rookie free agent on April 28, 2008.
• Clamied by the Titans off waivers from the Broncos on Oct. 27, 2009.

COLLEGE:
• Played 47 career games at the University of Toledo, punting 189 times for 7,994 yards (42.3 avg.) with 59 punts placed inside the 20-yard line.
• Ranked second in the nation in gross punting average (46.1 yds., 52 punts for 2,399 yards) and was a finalist for the Ray Guy Award (nation’s best punter) as a senior.
• Earned third team All-America honors as a senior as the only player from the Mid-American Conference to receive Associated Press All-America honors.
• Named Mid-American Conference’s Special Teams Player of the Year as a senior.
• Earned a bachelor’s degree in geography from Toledo and posted a 3.38 grade point average while earning CoSIDA second-team academic all-district recognition as a senior.

PERSONAL:
• Married to Tiffany Kern and the couple has a son, Bryce Jeremiah.
• Was a two-time first-team all-state selection at Grand Island High School in Grand Island, N.Y., and averaged 39 yards per punt as a senior and 42.5 yards per punt as a junior.
• Also played basketball and was a long jumper and high hurdler on the track team in high school.
• Born Brett Alan Kern on Feb. 17, 1986, in Grand Island, N.Y.

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