Arizona State will have a new punter in 2019, with returning starter Michael Sleep-Dalton planning to transfer out of the program.

Sleep-Dalton, a fifth-year senior and former junior college transfer who has handled ASU’s punting duties the past two seasons, told Sun Devil Source on Friday that he is in the NCAA’s transfer portal and is intending to move on to a new school for his final season in college. As a graduate student, Sleep-Dalton will be immediately eligible to play in 2019.

A native of Australia, Sleep-Dalton played Australian rules football before moving to the United States and beginning his collegiate career at City College of San Francisco, where he became the top-ranked junior college punter in the country in the 2016 recruiting class.

After backing up future NFL punter Matt Haak during a redshirt 2016 season, Sleep-Dalton battled injuries as a starter in 2017, averaging fewer than 40 yards per kick while pinning just 17 of 62 attempts inside the 20. Last season, Sleep-Dalton upped his average to 43.8 per kick and stuck 19 of 59 inside the 20.

As he departs, however, his replacement may already be in the program.

In 2019, the Sun Devils could turn punting duties over to redshirt sophomore Michael Turk, a former transfer from Lafayette College who sat out the 2018 season per NCAA rules. During his freshman season at the FCS program, Turk averaged 42.7 yards per kick while placing 18 of 67 inside the 20. He also recorded 18 kicks of 50-plus yards in the 2017 season and earned second-team all-conference honors in the Patriot League.

A native of Dallas, Texas, Turk is the nephew of former 19-year NFL veteran punter Matt Turk and 15-year NFL veteran offensive lineman Daniel Turk.

Turk, who is listed at 6-foot-1, 220 pounds, is currently a walk-on but could be put on scholarship with Sleep-Dalton leaving the program. In addition to Turk, the Sun Devils’ online 2019 roster includes two other punters, redshirt junior walk-on and former Scottsdale Community College transfer Kevin Macias as well as redshirt sophomore walk-on Matthew Bazarevitsch, neither of whom have attempted a competitive kick at the NCAA level.

During Sleep-Dalton’s two years as the starter, ASU ranked seventh in 2017 and fourth in 2018 in average yards per punt in the Pac-12.