Riders Make Two Selections in the 2023 Global Draft

May 2, 2023 - Canadian Football League (CFL)
Saskatchewan Roughriders News Release

The Saskatchewan Roughriders have selected two prospects in the 2022 CFL Global Draft:

- Adam Korsak (Punter - Australia) - first round, third overall

- Habakkuk Baldonado (DL - Italy) - second round, 12th overall ‚

Korsak (6'0-185) is coming off a sensational senior season at Rutgers where he was named the 2022 Ray Guy Award winner for the best punter in the nation. The Australian led a unit that held opponents to minus 11 return yards, best in the nation, with just one positive return against over 75 attempts. He pinned a national-best 32 punts inside the 20 and ranked third overall in net punting (43.57) and punted 14 balls 50 or more yards. For his efforts he also took home First Team All-America (Sporting News) and Third Team All-America (Phil Steele) honours and was invited to the Senior Bowl. He ends his collegiate career as the NCAA all-time leader in punting attempts (349) and yardage (15,318).

He has been highly decorated over his career, earning 12 All-Big Ten honours, eight team honours - including spending three years as Team Captain, and twice being named Special Teams MVP.

Over five seasons as Scarlet Knight Korsak played 58 games and made 349 punt attempts for 15,318 yards, a 43.9-yard average punt, pinned 145 punts inside the 20-yard line and booted 63 punts more 50+ yards including a career long of 79 and set the NCAA record in net punting in 2021 at 45.25 yards.

Baldonado (6'5-260) spent five collegiate seasons (2018-22) at the University of Pittsburgh seeing action in 40 games. The native of Rome, Italy recorded 99 tackles, 22.5 tackles for loss, 15 sacks, two pass knockdowns, one forced fumble, two fumble recoveries and one punt block. ‚ ‚

In the 2021 season, Baldonado led the Panthers with nine sacks and earned Second-Team All-ACC Honours. ‚ ‚ ‚

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