McNeese’s Trent Baker: a polished long snapper with verified special-teams pedigree
Trent Baker enters McNeese as a long snapper with a legit specialist resume: he was a 2024 Kohl’s top-10 snapper and, in high school, earned first-team District 10-5A honors in 2023 plus honorable mention all-state recognition[2][6]. McNeese’s 2025 preseason chart listed him in the long-snapper mix, which signals he’s competing for real special-teams value rather than just taking up roster space[11]. He doesn’t come with box-score fireworks—long snappers rarely do—but his appeal is reliability, clean technique, and the kind of under-the-radar consistency coaches love[1][6][11].
