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<h1 align="right" style="text-align:right"><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">BAYLOR ATHLETICS COMMUNICATIONS – Sept. 15, 2025<o:p></o:p></span></b></h1>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:black">Baylor FB’s Palmer Williams Earns Big 12 Special Teams Player of the Week<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">Williams 50-plus yard punts snag his first Big 12 weekly honor<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText"><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">For more information contact: </span></b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">Max Calderone, 254-265-1639,
</span><a href="mailto:Max_Calderone@Baylor.edu"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">Max_Calderone@Baylor.edu</span></a><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">; Brent Ingram, 210-845-8651,
</span><a href="mailto:Brent_Ingram@Baylor.edu"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">Brent_Ingram@Baylor.edu</span></a><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">; Josie Hutton; 254-709-7720,
</span><a href="mailto:Josie_Hutton@Baylor.edu"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">Josie_Hutton@Baylor.edu</span></a><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">; or Matt Roberts, 254-227-2280,
</span><a href="mailto:WM_Roberts@Baylor.edu"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">WM_Roberts@Baylor.edu</span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoBodyText"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">IRVING, Texas –</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif"> For the second week in a row, Baylor football has claimed a Big 12 Special Teams
Player of the Week honor with junior punter Palmer Williams being recognized for his Saturday’s performance.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">In BU’s dominant 42-7 win over Samford, the Ray Guy Award Watch List recipient put up four punts for 194 yards. Of his four punts, two landed inside the 20 and two sailed for
50-plus yards, with a long of 59 yards, the longest punt Williams has sent since versus TCU last season (11/02/24). Williams averaged 48.5 yards per punt on Saturday.
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<p class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">Williams, a Preseason First-Team All-Big 12 nominee by Athlon and Phil Steele, has 31 career 50-plus yard punts and needs just two more to enter the top 10 in program history.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">This is the first time since the 2019 season that the Bears have earned a Big 12 Special Teams Player of the Week in back-to-back weeks.
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<p class="MsoBodyText"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">WHAT’S NEXT<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">Williams and the Bears prepare to open their Big 12 conference season by hosting Arizona State on Saturday, Sept. 20.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="layout-grid-mode:both"><b><span style="font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:#0F5C1A">Josie Hutton</span></b><span style="font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:black"> | Associate Director of Athletics Communications (MBB, FB, MTEN) <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="layout-grid-mode:both"><span style="font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:black">Department of Athletics | Baylor University<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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