Article: PACKERS NOTES; Punters looking for a leg up; Ryan, DeBauche in battle for position

Green Bay -- Away from the team and certainly away from onlookers, there is a quiet punters duel developing in Green Bay.

For the last two months, third-year Green Bay Packers punter Jon Ryan and rookie free agent Ken DeBauche have been working exclusively with long snappers Thomas Gafford and J.J. Jansen in front of special teams coaches Mike Stock and Shawn Slocum. Punting before practice, or after workouts on Ray Nitschke practice field, Ryan seems to enjoy little security in the fact that he has 153 punts in experience over the free agent from Wisconsin.

So like everywhere else -- except maybe kicker Mason Crosby -- there is competition at punter.

"I think they wouldn't have him here if ...

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