2025 Football Roster
Jersey Number 40
Keelan Crimmins
- Position:
- P
- Class:
- Senior
- Height:
- 6-3
- Weight:
- 230
- Major:
- Education Policy, Organization, & Leadership
- Hometown:
- Spotswood, Australia
- High School:
- Victoria University
- Prev School:
- Purdue
 2024 All-Big Ten |
2025 Senior
- 148 punts for 1,539 yards (44.0 average)
- Ranks among Big Ten leaders in total punt yardage (1,539, 9th) and total punts (25, 10th)
- Season-long 60-yard punt in Illini win at Duke (9/6/25)
- Season average of 44.0 yards per punt on pace to tie for sixth in Illinois program history
- Athlon Preseason All-Big Ten Fourth Team
- Phil Steele Preseason All-Big Ten Fourth Team
- Transferred to Illinois with one year of eligibility remaining, as the NCAA initially granted him three years when he first moved to the United States and attended Mississippi State
2024 Junior (Purdue)
- All-Big Ten Honorable Mention (Coaches and Media)
- Played in all 12 games
- 64 punts for 2,871 yards (44.9 yards per punt) on the season
- 17 punts inside the 20 and 14 punts of 50+ yards
- Ranked 13th in the nation and third in the Big Ten in yards per punt (44.9)
- No. 2 single-season punting average in Purdue history (44.9)
- Ray Guy Award Watch List
2023 Sophomore (Mississippi State)
- SEC Fall Academic Honor Roll
- Played in all 12 games
- 49 punts for 2,003 yards (40.9 yards per punt) on the season
- 13 punts inside the 20 and only nine punts were returned
- Punted for a career-high 326 yards, the seventh-most in an Egg Bowl by a Mississippi State player, against Ole Miss (11/23/23)
- Season-best punt of 55 yards against Kentucky (11/4/23)
- Ray's 8 Punters of the Week at Arkansas (10/21/23)
Australia
- Ranked as the No. 7 punter recruit
- No. 3-ranked punter out of Prokick Australia
- Played Australian rules football for the Western Jets Under-18 squad
- Also played cricket in Australia
Personal
- Born February 21, 2001
- Majoring in education policy, organization & leadership (Master's)
- Graduated in 2021 from Victoria College in Australia with a degree in eduational studies
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