CFL: 4th season

Stamps: 4th season

Games played through 2024

Regular season: 65

Playoffs: 3

Grey Cup: 0

Acquired

Selected in the first round (seventh overall) of the 2021 global draft and signed on May 11, 2021.

2024

(Calgary) Grace played all 18 games and punted 102 times for 4,688 yards, an average of 46.0 yards per kick, with seven punt singles. He shared the CFL lead with eight punts that pinned opponents inside the 10-yard line. He had a long of 81 yards – also a career best – and a net punting average of 34.7 yards. Grace also served as the holder on place kicks.

2023

(Calgary) Grace was the punter for all 18 of Calgary’s regular-season games. He was the league leader with 12 punts that pinned the opponents inside their own 10-yard line and was also top three in the CFL in gross punting average (47.2 yards) and net punting average (36.6). Grace had a total of 122 punts for 5,761 yards and five singles. His season long was a 77-yard punt in Week 2 at Ottawa. In the Western Semi-Final at BC, Grace had two punts for 85 yards.

2022

(Calgary) Grace played 15 regular-season games and earned West Division and league all-star honours after leading the CFL in both punting average (48.2 yards) and net punting average (39.6). He missed the first three games of the season due to a groin injury. Grace punted 82 times for 3,951 yards, had a season long of 77 yards and pinned the opposition inside its own 10-yard line on four occasions. In Week 21 against Saskatchewan, he raced down the field to recover one of his punts to set up a Stampeders touchdown. Grace also served as the holder on field goals and extra points. Grace was in uniform for the Western Semi-Final and averaged 41.3 yards on four punts.

2021

(Calgary) Grace was a West Division all-star after playing all 14 games and leading the CFL with a net punting average of 41.5 yards. His gross average on 78 punts was 45.6 yards, his longest punt was 63 yards and he had eight punts that pinned opponents inside their own 10-yard line. Grace also served as the holder for all-star kicker Rene Paredes. In the Western Semi-Final, he punted three times for a gross average of 44.7 yards and added one single.

Notable

First game: Aug. 7, 2021, vs Toronto

West Division all-star: 2021, 2022

CFL all-star: 2022

League leader: Net punting average in 2021 and 2022

College

Grace played three seasons (2017-19) at Arkansas State and in 37 career games with the Red Wolves, he punted 178 times for a 42.1-yard average. His longest punt travelled 75 yards and he also had 42 punts of at least 50 yards and 75 punts inside the opponent’s 20-yard line. In 2017, he became the first player in Arkansas State history to be a semifinalist for the Ray Guy Award as the nation’s top punter and was named first-team all-Sun Belt Conference in 2019.

Personal

Grace grew up playing Australian rules football at Warwick Senior High School in Perth and graduated from Arkansas State with a degree in exercise science.