{{short description|Australian gridiron football player (born 1996)}} {{Use Australian English|date=January 2022}} {{Use dmy dates|date=January 2022}} {{Infobox CFL biography |name=Cody Grace |team=Edmonton Elks |image=2024, 24, Cody Grace.jpg |image_upright=1 |caption=Grace with the Calgary Stampeders in 2024 |status=6-game injured list |import=Global |position1=Punter |birth_date={{birth date and age|1996|3|19|df=yes}} |birth_place=Perth, Western Australia, Australia |number=24 |college=Arkansas State |high_school=Warwick Senior High |Height_ft=6 |Height_in=1 |Weight_lbs=228 |CFLDraftedYear=2021G |CFLDraftedRound=1 |CFLDraftedPick=7] |playing_years1={{CFL Year|2021|2024}} |playing_team1=Calgary Stampeders |playing_years2={{CFL Year|2025}}–present |playing_team2=Edmonton Elks |career_highlights= * CFL All-Star ({{CFL Year|2022}}) * 2× CFL West All-Star ({{CFL Year|2021}}, {{CFL Year|2022}}) * First-team All-Sun Belt (2019) * Second-team All-Sun Belt (2018) |CFL=cody-grace/166174/ }} '''Cody Grace''' (born 19 March 1996) is an Australian professional Canadian football punter for the Edmonton Elks of the Canadian Football League (CFL).
==Early life== Grace grew up in Perth, Western Australia, where he attended Warwick Senior High School and played Australian rules football.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.stampeders.com/2021/04/15/stampeders-select-four-2021-global-draft/|title=STAMPEDERS SELECT FOUR IN 2021 GLOBAL DRAFT|work=stampeders.com|date=15 April 2021|access-date=28 July 2023}}</ref>
==College career== Grace played college football for the Arkansas State Red Wolves from 2017 to 2019.<ref name=State>{{cite web|url=https://astateredwolves.com/sports/football/roster/cody-grace/4189 |title=Cody Grace |publisher=Arkansas State Red Wolves |access-date=9 January 2022}}</ref><ref name=CGYbio>{{cite web|url=https://www.stampeders.com/players/cody-grace/166174/ |title=Cody Grace |publisher=Calgary Stampeders |access-date=9 January 2022}}</ref>
==Professional career==
===Calgary Stampeders=== Grace was drafted in the first round, seventh overall by the Calgary Stampeders in the 2021 CFL global draft and signed with the team on 11 May 2021.<ref name=signed>{{cite web|url=https://www.cfl.ca/2021/05/11/stamps-sign-1st-round-global-pick-cody-grace/ |title=Stamps sign 1st round Global pick Cody Grace |publisher=Canadian Football League |date=11 May 2021}}</ref> Following 2021 training camp, he won the job as the team's punter and played in his first career professional game on 7 August 2021, against the Toronto Argonauts.<ref name=CGYbio/> He played in 14 regular season games and had 78 punts with a 45.6-yard average.<ref name=CGYbio/> He was named a CFL Western All-Star at the end of the year and became the first Global player to win the award.<ref name="divstars">{{cite web|title=2021 CFL Division All-Stars Unveiled |url=https://www.cfl.ca/2021/11/24/2021-cfl-division-stars-unveiled/ |publisher=Canadian Football League | date=24 November 2021}}</ref>
===Edmonton Elks=== Grace joined the Edmonton Elks in free agency on February 12, 2025.
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==External links== * [https://www.stampeders.com/players/cody-grace/166174/ Calgary Stampeders bio] *{{commonscatinline}}
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