National Football Foundation

The son of College Football Hall of Fame Georgia Bulldog Kevin Butler, Drew Butler has created his own legacy between the hedges with an impactful career in the classroom, community and on the gridiron. He is Georgia's 12th NFF National Scholar-Athlete.

Hailing from Duluth, Ga., Butler was a CoSIDA/ESPN First Team Academic All-American in 2010, and a CoSIDA/ESPN First Team Academic All-District selection in 2009. A four-time SEC Academic Honor Roll honoree, he has qualified for the Athletic Director's Honor Roll every semester during his college career, as well as the President's List, the Dean's List and the Academic Round Table. He also claimed a Ramsey Academic Scholarship and a HOPE Scholarship.

In his first season as the team's full-time punter in 2009, Butler won the Ray Guy Award as the nation's top punter by averaging a nation's best 48.1 yards on 56 punts while pinning 19 attempts inside the 20-yard line. A consensus First Team All-American, he became just the third Bulldog to lead the country in punting, and his 48.1-yard average was the nation's best since Travis Dorsch of Purdue averaged 48.4 yards per punt in 2001. In 2010, Butler was named a Second Team All-American by the Associated Press while averaging 44.5 yards per punt on 50 attempts with 19 downed inside the 20. This season, the Ray Guy Award Watch List member ranks eighth nationally and first in the SEC with a 46.1 yard average on 26 punts for the 22nd-ranked 5-2 Bulldogs. A member of Georgia's All-Decade Team, Butler is the nation's active career leader with an average of 46.1 yards per punt.

A team captain for special teams in 2010, Butler is also a Unity Council member on the team. He regularly volunteers at the Bulldogs Battling Breast Cancer annual golf tournament, Habitat for Humanity, the Boys and Girls Club and Camp Sunshine. He also serves as a reader at several Athens-area elementary schools and works with the local service group Camp Kudzu. Butler was signed by the Pittsburgh Steelers as an undrafted free agent after the 2012 NFL Draft and booted 77 punts for 3,374 yards (43.8 average) as a rookie, including a league-high 79-yard punt. In 2014, as a member of the Arizona Cardinals, he recorded 79 punts for 3,328 yards (42.1 average).