Pronunciation
JAM-uh-sun SHE-un
After Cal
– Selected by the Winnipeg Blue Bombers with the eighth overall pick of the 2023 Canadian Football League's Global Draft
– Participated in Cal’s Pro Day and went through a position workout in front of NFL scouts
– Declared his intentions to enter the 2023 NFL Draft on December 1, 2022
Sheahan's Cal Career Game Highs
Punts: 11 (at Arizona, 2021)
Punting Yards: 518 (at Arizona, 2021)
Punting Average: 49.8 (vs. UC Davis, 2022)
Long Punt: 65 (vs. UC Davis, 2022)
Opponents’ Fair Catches: 5 (three times, last at Arizona, 2021)
Inside 20-Yard Line Punts: 3 (three times, last vs. Stanford, 2022)
50+ Yard Punts: 3 (six times, last at Oregon State, 2022)
Blocked Punts: 1 (at Oregon State, 2020)
Tackles: 1 (twice, last vs. Nevada, 2021)
Cal Career (2020-22)
– Played in 28 career games and averaged 43.51 yards per punt that is third on Cal's all-time list with his 141 punts covering 6135 yards while forcing opponents into 59 fair catches, pinning them inside their 20-yard line 34 times and recording 28 punts of 50+ yards
– Registered a career-high 45.1 yards as a 2022 senior that was 0.5 yards behind the single-season school record of 45.6 established by Bryan Anger in 2010 while his 65 punts, 2934 punting yards, pinning opponents inside their 20-yard line on 21 occasions and 20 punts of 50 or more yards are also career bests
– Also attempted his first career kickoff as a 2022 senior with an unsuccessful onside try going 13 yards before being recovered by USC
– Forced opponents into a career-high 27 fair catches as a 2021 senior
– Had two career tackles with one as a 2020 junior at Oregon State and another as a 2021 senior against Nevada
– Holder on all 38 field goal and 73 extra-point attempts from 2020-22
Senior (2022)
– A second-team All-Pac-12 selection in a vote of the league's coaches as well as of the Associated Press and Pro Football Focus
– Played in all 12 games and ranked second in the Pac-12 and 15th nationally with a 45.1 yards per punt average that was just 0.5 yards per punt below Bryan Anger's school-record 45.6 in 2010 and fourth all-time on Cal's all-time single-season list with 20 of his 65 punts traveling 50 or more of the 2934 total yards accumulated including a career-long 65-yarder against UC Davis, while forcing 21 fair catches and pinning opponents inside their 20-yard line on 21 occasions, with all of the season-long numbers career bests other than fair catches
– Responsible for Cal breaking a single-season team record with a 45.5 average yards per punt that was the same as his individual number without having any punts blocked and making all 65 punts on the campaign
– Also attempted his first career kickoff with an unsuccessful onside try going 13 yards before being recovered by USC
– Holder on all 18 field goal and 32 extra-point attempts
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UC Davis (W, 34-13) – 5 punts, 249 yards, 49.8 ypp, 65 long, 1 fair catch, 2 inside 20, 3 50+ yards ... career-high yards per punt ... career-long punt ... career-high-tying 50+ yard punts
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UNLV (W, 20-14) – 4 punts, 186 yards, 46.5 ypp, 50 long, 2 touchbacks, 2 fair catches, 1 inside 20, 1 50+ yards
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at Notre Dame (L, 17-24) – 6 punts, 297 yards, 49.5 ypp, 54 long, 1 touchback, 1 fair catch, 1 inside 20, 3 50+ yards ... career-high-tying 50+ yard punts
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Arizona (W, 49-31) – 4 punts, 170 yards, 42.5 ypp, 49 long, 2 fair catches, 2 inside 20
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at Washington State (L, 9-28) – 9 punts, 399 yards, 44.3 ypp, 51 long, 1 touchback, 2 fair catches, 3 inside 20, 3 50+ yards ... career-high-tying inside 20 and 50+ yard punts
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at Colorado (L, 13-20, OT) – 4 punts, 190 yards, 47.5 ypp, 54 long, 1 touchback, 2 inside 20, 3 50+ yards ... career-high-tying 50+ yard punts
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Washington (L, 21-28) – 6 punts, 250 yards, 41.7 ypp, 57 long, 4 fair catches, 2 inside 20
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Oregon (L, 24-42) – 5 punts, 215 yards, 43.0 ypp, 52 long, 2 fair catches, 1 50+ yards
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at USC (L, 35-41) – 5 punts, 206 yards, 41.0 ypp, 43 long, 2 fair catches, 2 inside 20; 1 unsuccessful onside kickoff attempt that went 13 yards before being recovered by USC
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at Oregon State (L, 10-38) – 6 punts, 291 yards, 48.5 ypp, 53 long, 1 fair catch, 1 inside 20, 3 50+ yards ... career-high-tying 50+ yard punts
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Stanford (W, 27-20) – 6 punts, 266 yards, 44.3 ypp, 56 long, 2 fair catches, 3 inside 20, 2 50+ yards
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UCLA (L, 28-35) – 5 punts, 216 yards, 43.2 ypp, 52 long, 3 fair catches, 2 inside 20, 1 50+ yards
– A member of the Ray Guy Award preseason watch list for the first time in his career
Senior (2021)
– Played in all 12 games and averaged 43.1 yards per punt that is 10th on Cal's all-time single-season list on 53 punts for 2284 yards while forcing opponents into a career-high 27 fair catches and pinning them inside their 20-yard line on 10 occasions with only two touchbacks, and had a long punt of 64 yards among his seven punts of 50 or more yards
– Holder on all 15 field goal and 31 extra-point attempts
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Nevada - 5 punts, 199 yards (39.8 ypp), 49 long, 2 fair catches
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at TCU - 6 punts, 262 yards (43.7 ypp), 50 long, 3 inside 20, 1 50+ yards, 5 fair catches ... career-high-tying fair catches
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Sacramento State - 2 punts, 87 yards (43.5 ypp), 46 long, 1 fair catch
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at Washington - 2 punts, 77 yards (38.5 ypp), 39 long, 1 inside 20, 2 fair catches
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Washington State - 6 punts, 261 yards (43.5 ypp), 51 long, 2 inside 20, 1 50+ yards, 4 fair catches
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at Oregon - 4 punts, 171 yards (42.8 ypp), 47 long, 1 inside 20, 4 fair catches
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Colorado - 5 punts, 187 yards (37.4 ypp), 43 long, 1 touchback, 1 fair catch
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Oregon State - 3 punts, 133 yards (44.3 ypp), 48 long, 1 fair catch
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at Arizona - 11 punts, 518 yards (47.1 ypp), 57 long, 2 inside 20, 3 50+ yards, 5 fair catches ... career highs punts and punt yards ... career-high-tying 50+ yard punts and fair catches ... one punt shy of Cal's single-game school record of 12 co-held by Gary Fowler (vs. Indiana, Sept. 27, 1969) and Nick Harris (at Illinois, Sept. 16, 2000) ... 17 punt yards shy of Cal's single-game school record of 535 by Fowler against Indiana on the same date as his 12 punts ... nominated for Pac-12 Special Teams Player of the Week
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at Stanford - 1 punt, 36 yards (36.0 ypp), 36 long
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at UCLA - 4 punts, 182 yards (45.5 ypp), 64 long, 1 touchback, 1 50+ yards, 1 fair catch
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USC - 4 punts, 171 yards (42.8 ypp), 51 long, 1 inside 20, 1 50+ yards, 1 fair catch
Junior (2020)
– Played in all four games off the bench of a season shortened by COVID-19
– Attempted all 24 of the team's punts although one that was blocked was credited to the team
– Averaged 39.9 yards per punt on 23 punts for 917 yards while forcing opponents into 11 fair catches and pinning them inside their 20-yard line 13 times without a touchback and blasting four punts of 50+ yards
– Punted seven times for 295 yards and a 42.1 average with a long of 48 against Oregon, while pinning the Ducks inside their own 20-yard line twice and forcing them into a pair of fair catches
– Punted six times both against Stanford (245 yards, 40.8 avg) and in the season-opener at UCLA (238 yards, 39.7 avg), forcing both opponents into four fair catches, while adding a punt of 50 yards against the Cardinal, as well as a long of 45 against UCLA and pinning the Bruins inside their 20-yard line once
– Punted four times for 139 yards (34.8 avg) with one fair catch at Oregon State and also had one punt blocked that he recovered at the Cal 14-yard line and led to the Beavers' game-winning touchdown with 4:25 remaining in the contest, as well as one tackle
– Holder on all 15 field goal (4-5) and PAT (9-10) attempts
– One of nine scholarship players who were mid-year enrollees in January and participated with the team during spring ball that was also shortened to four practices along with incoming freshmen Jaden Casey, Muelu Iosefa, Everett Johnson, Mason Mangum, Trey Paster, Jaedon Roberts and Isaiah Young, as well as junior college transfer Sami Nazzal
Australian Rules Football
– Reached the second-highest level of Australian Rules Football as a member of the Essendon Victorian Football League squad and was selected the team’s top first-year player in 2018
– Played previously with teams in Strathfieldsave and Bendigo
– Won a local senior football championship in the Bendigo Football League in 2017
– Captain of the Under-16 All-State team in Victoria in 2016
Geelong Grammar School (Class Of 2015)
– On a sports scholarship for football and cricket
Other
– Born May 17, 1997
– Son of Norman and Julie Sheahan
– Had never played in a competitive American football game prior to his arrival at Cal for the 2020 season
– Graduated from Cal in May of 2022 with a bachelor’s degree in interdisciplinary studies and currently pursuing a master's degree at Cal in education
Last Updated
July 4, 2023
