Cal’s touted long snapper with Power 5 polish
In the 2026 season, Jordan Franke enters Cal as a redshirt junior long snapper with a strong specialist pedigree, having been ranked a 5-star snapper and the No. 26 long snapper nationally in the 2023 class by Rubio Long Snapping[1]. He’s listed at 5-10 and 205 pounds, and Cal’s roster notes his South Carolina transfer background, which usually signals a player who has already been through a higher-pressure developmental path[1]. Long snappers don’t rack up box-score glamour, but Franke’s value is in consistency, clean operation, and special-teams reliability—the kind of quiet detail that keeps games from getting weird[1][2].
