BIOGRAPHY
Mitch Wishnowsky was born on March 3rd, 1992, in Gosnells, Australia. He is a punter in the NFL.
Wishnowsky had grown up playing Australian rules football. Wishnowsky continued to play a flag version of the sport alongside several friends, one of whom had a connection to Prokick Australia, a training center in Melbourne that converts Australian rules players into gridiron football punters. He left his job and moved across the country in 2013 to enroll in Prokick, spending a year there. By that time, Utah had brought in earlier Prokick graduate Tom Hackett and were pleased enough with him that they reached an agreement with Prokick director Nathan Chapman to leave a scholarship open for Wishnowsky once Hackett's Utah career ended after the 2015 season.
Since Wishnowsky needed time to secure NCAA eligibility, he enrolled in and punted for Santa Barbara City College in 2014, and redshirted in 2015, remaining in Santa Barbara to complete his associate's degree and conserve NCAA eligibility. He transferred to Utah and played for three seasons. He was unanimously named to the College Football All-America Team as a result of his successful sophomore season. He also won the Ray Guy Award and was a unanimous All-American as a sophomore in 2016.
Wishnowsky was drafted in the fourth round by the San Francisco 49ers with the 110th overall pick in the 2019 NFL Draft. Wishnowsky signed a four-year contract with the 49ers on 30 April 2019.
On 16 September 2022, Wishnowsky signed a four-year, $13 million contract extension with the 49ers.
