William Wagner

Class:
Graduate Student
Position:
LS
Height:
6-2
Weight:
245
Hometown:
Alpharetta, Ga.
High School:
Alpharetta

At Michigan
• Patrick Mannelly Award Finalist (2024)
• All-Big Ten honoree (first team, coaches, honorable mention, media, 2024)
• Big Ten Distinguished Scholar (2024)
• Two-time Academic All-Big Ten honoree (2021-22-24)
• Five-time letter winner (2020-21-22-23-24)
• Appeared in 53 games as the team's long snapper

Graduate Student (2024)
• Started all 13 games at long snapper on punts, field goals and PATs; handled 22 field goal tries, 26 PATs, 54 punts, and made one tackle to earn his fifth varsity letter
• Patrick Mannelly Award Finalist
• Shared Special Teams Player of the Week for his performance at Ohio State
• Handled all snaps, long and short, against Fresno State (Aug. 31), Texas (Sept. 7), Arkansas State (Sept. 14), USC (Sept. 21), Minnesota (Sept. 28), Michigan State (Oct. 26), Oregon (Nov. 2), Northwestern (Nov. 23), Alabama in the ReliaQuest Bowl (Dec. 31), at Washington (Oct. 5), at Illinois (Oct. 19), at Indiana (Nov. 9), at Ohio State (Nov. 30)
• Credited with a solo tackle in punt coverage at Indiana (Nov. 9)

Graduate Student (2023)
• Appeared in all 15 games as the team's long snapper on punts, field goals, and PATs; handled snaps for 21 field goals, 65 PATs, and 53 punts to earn his fourth varsity letter
• Part of a kicking battery that scored 119 points, seventh-most in single-season history at Michigan; part of a stretch of 13 straight made field goals (tied-fourth-longest streak, Michigan history)
• Handled all snaps for long and short against ECU (Sept. 2), UNLV (Sept. 9), Bowling Green (Sept. 16). Rutgers (Sept. 23), Purdue (Nov. 4), Ohio State (Nov. 25), at Nebraska (Sept. 30), at Minnesota (Oct. 7), at Penn State (Nov. 11), at Maryland (Nov. 18). against Iowa in the Big Ten Championship (Dec. 2), against Alabama in the Rose Bowl/CFP Semifinal (Jan. 1), against Washington in the CFP National Championship Game (Jan. 8)
• Handled all snaps but one, long and short, against Indiana (Oct. 14), at Michigan State (Oct. 21)

Senior (2022)
• Started five games at long snapper to earn his third varsity letter
• Handled all snapping duties against Colorado State (Sept. 3), Hawaii (Sept. 10), UConn (Sept. 17), Maryland (Sept. 24)
• Handled snapping duties for three of four PATs and all four punts at Iowa (Oct. 1)

Junior (2021)
• Appeared in all 14 games as the team's starting long snapper to earn his second varsity letter
• Named Co-Special Teams Player of the Week for his performance at Nebraska
• Handled all snaps against Western Michigan (Sept. 4), Washington (Sept. 11), Rutgers (Sept. 25), Northwestern (Oct. 23), Indiana (Nov. 6), Ohio State (Nov. 27), Iowa in the Big Ten Championship Game (Dec. 4), at Wisconsin (Oct. 2), at Nebraska (Oct. 9), at Michigan State (Oct. 30), at Penn State (Nov. 13), and at Maryland (Nov. 20)
• Snapped for punts and field goals, helping the U-M battery go 9-9 on PATs against Northern Illinois (Sept. 18), one shy of tying the single-game program record
• Handled all special teams snaps against Georgia in the Capital One Orange Bowl/CFP Semifinal (Dec. 31)

Sophomore (2020)
• Appeared in all six games as the team's starting long snapper to earn his first varsity letter
• Started and handled snaps against Michigan State (Oct. 31), Wisconsin (Nov. 14), Penn State (Nov. 28), at Minnesota (Oct. 24), at Indiana (Nov. 7), at Rutgers (Nov. 21)

Freshman (2019)
• Did not see game action

Prep
• Attended Alpharetta High School (2019)
• National Honor Society member
• Participant in the Young Men's Service League
• Four-year scholar athlete at Alpharetta

Honors and Rankings
• Ranked No. 14 in the nation by Kohl's long snapping
• Rubio long snapping Top-12 honoree
• Special Teams Player of the Year at Alpharetta (2018)
• First team All-State honoree
• First team All-Region
• First team All-Fulton County

Personal
• Son of Lee and Michelle Wagner
• Brother, Michael, played football at Mercer (2012-17)
• Graduated from the School of Engineering with a major in Mechanical Engineering
• Pursuing a Master's degree in Manufacturing Mechanical Engineering at U-M