Chad Stephen Kessler (born June 24, 1975) is a former

American football American football (referred to simply as football in the United States and Canada), also known as gridiron, is a team sport played by two teams of eleven players on a rectangular field with goalposts at each end. The offense, the team wi ...

punter who played college football at

Louisiana State University Louisiana State University (officially Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College, commonly referred to as LSU) is a public land-grant research university in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The university was founded in 1860 nea ...

and attended

Lake Mary High School Lake Mary High School is a public high school located in Seminole County, Florida, operating under Seminole County Public Schools. It was opened in 1981. Campus Lake Mary High School was the fourth high school in Seminole County, opening for the ...

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. He was a consensus All-American in 1997. Kessler was named first-team All- SEC in 1995 and 1997. He was also a member of the

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of the

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. He now is an Ear, Nose and Throat doctor. His family includes; wife and three children. Kessler's 50.28-yard single-season punting average from his 1997 LSU season was the SEC and NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision record until it was broken by Texas A&M punter

Braden Mann Braden Mann (born on November 24, 1997) is an American football punter and kickoff specialist for the New York Jets of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football at Texas A&M. During his junior season, he received unanimo ...

in 2018.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Kessler, Chad Living people 1975 births Players of American football from Orlando, Florida American football punters LSU Tigers football players All-American college football players Lake Mary High School alumni