2013 College Fair Catch Percentage Leaders

The share of a punter's punts that the returner fair caught instead of running back. Public play-by-play does not record hang time, so the fair-catch rate is the best available stand-in: a punt that hangs long enough for the coverage team to arrive leaves the returner no choice but to wave for a fair catch.

Higher usually means better hang time, though a returner who is no threat also calls for more fair catches. College punts whose play text does not say how they ended are left out of the count. In 2013, Tyler Wedel (74.2%) led college football punters in fair catch percentage, ahead of Sean Covington (72.7%) and Bradley Pinion (71.1%). 121 punters qualify (minimum 30 punts). The median qualified punter had 37.2%.

Final 2013 regular-season numbers, updated October 23, 2026.

Rk	Player	Team	FC %	Punts	Avg	Net	In 20	In 20 %	TB %	Points
1	Tyler Wedel	Northern Illinois	74.2%	46	40.8	39.5	15	32%	2%	−4.9
2	Sean Covington	UCLA	72.7%	48	41.8	40.5	18	38%	6%	+6.1
3	Bradley Pinion	Clemson	71.1%	53	39.5	39.4	26	49%	0%	+0.3
4	Anthony Fera	Texas	66.7%	68	40.6	39.3	28	42%	4%	+3.8
5	Alex Butterworth	Penn State	65.9%	51	39.2	37.6	19	37%	8%	−3.6
6	Riley Dixon	Syracuse	63.6%	71	42.1	41.0	26	37%	6%	−4.9
7	Jaron Bentrude	Utah State	63.2%	70	39.5	38.1	31	44%	7%	+2.4
8	Ben Rhyne	Stanford	61.9%	47	42.1	41.7	19	40%	2%	+3.6
9	David Baska	Air Force	61.5%	48	39.5	37.4	14	28%	6%	−7.3
10	Cameron Johnston	Ohio State	58.3%	44	43.5	42.8	28	65%	5%	+14.4
11	Alejandro Maldonado	Oregon	56.7%	38	40.1	39.1	11	28%	0%	−5.1
12	Richie Leone	Houston	56.5%	63	43.1	42.3	35	56%	5%	+18.0
13	Garrett Swanson	Fresno State	55.6%	45	42.8	41.9	17	38%	4%	+6.5
14	Anthony Melchiori	Kent State	54.2%	35	44.5	42.8	17	49%	9%	+9.1
15	Hendrix Brakefield	Western Kentucky	52.6%	31	39.4	39.4	15	48%	0%	−3.5
16	Kyle Brindza	Notre Dame	52.0%	42	41.3	39.7	7	17%	7%	−2.2
17	Kristian Stern	UTSA	51.7%	50	40.4	39.0	13	25%	4%	−6.9
18	Drew Kaser	Texas A&M	51.7%	44	47.4	44.2	18	41%	16%	+10.1
19	Joel Alesi	San Diego State	51.4%	52	39.5	38.7	17	33%	4%	−5.0
20	Chris Ayers	Florida International	51.4%	50	35.4	35.1	7	14%	2%	−19.3
21	Steven Clark	Auburn	51.1%	50	42.5	40.9	20	40%	8%	+8.2
22	Cole Leininger	California	51.0%	69	42.9	41.7	18	26%	3%	+1.0
23	Cayle Chapman-Brown	New Mexico State	50.0%	71	43.6	42.0	25	35%	6%	+3.0
24	Sean Kelly	Florida Atlantic	50.0%	72	42.7	41.3	27	39%	7%	+11.1
25	Keith Kostol	Oregon State	50.0%	49	40.6	38.0	21	42%	10%	−5.2
26	Mark Krause	Kansas State	50.0%	47	41.3	39.6	18	38%	9%	+1.9
27	Alexander Kinal	Wake Forest	49.2%	86	39.7	38.3	29	34%	7%	−10.3
28	Ethan Perry	TCU	49.2%	80	40.3	39.3	32	40%	5%	+4.5
29	Brandon Williams	Northwestern	48.9%	58	36.0	34.3	17	29%	9%	−14.1
30	Cole Wagner	UConn	48.8%	71	39.8	39.0	21	30%	4%	−10.1
31	Nick O'Toole	West Virginia	48.8%	73	44.1	42.7	26	36%	7%	+10.9
32	Travis Coons	Washington	48.7%	56	40.7	40.5	21	38%	2%	+6.1
33	Spencer Roth	Baylor	48.6%	45	46.1	43.4	14	31%	13%	+12.6
34	Kaleb Smith	Oklahoma State	48.1%	72	39.4	37.4	26	36%	10%	−4.8
35	Nate Freese	Boston College	46.5%	70	42.0	39.4	27	39%	13%	+2.7
36	Alex Tardieu	Army	45.7%	51	37.3	36.6	11	22%	4%	−13.4
37	Austin Barnes	Eastern Michigan	45.5%	50	39.7	37.1	13	31%	14%	−7.8
38	Jed Barnett	Oklahoma	45.2%	59	41.6	40.0	25	42%	8%	+1.9
39	Scott Garber	South Alabama	45.2%	51	40.7	39.5	18	35%	6%	−1.9
40	Will Johnson	Texas State	45.2%	41	44.0	41.5	20	50%	13%	+7.3
41	Erich Toth	Indiana	44.7%	52	40.6	39.4	19	37%	6%	+0.7
42	Ryan Johnson	Louisville	44.4%	39	41.2	38.6	13	33%	13%	+3.1
43	Alec Vozenilek	Virginia	43.8%	85	41.2	39.6	21	25%	8%	−6.5
44	Kris Albarado	USC	43.1%	75	37.1	36.0	31	41%	5%	−9.5
45	Mike Ruggles	UTEP	42.1%	56	40.0	38.8	16	29%	5%	−4.1
46	Matt Yoklic	Pittsburgh	41.5%	66	43.1	39.8	21	31%	14%	−1.0
47	Zach Paul	Akron	41.3%	65	42.9	40.5	17	26%	12%	−4.4
48	J. Schroeder	Western Michigan	40.8%	77	39.7	38.1	23	30%	8%	−6.6
49	Tyler Hull	South Carolina	40.6%	43	38.0	37.6	11	26%	2%	−8.2
50	Peter Picerelli	Tulane	40.5%	73	40.8	38.4	24	34%	7%	−1.4
51	Mike Bowlin	Washington State	40.0%	50	39.1	38.8	17	35%	0%	−14.6
52	Cason Beatty	Florida State	40.0%	36	40.8	39.7	14	39%	6%	−5.8
53	Nick Marsh	Rutgers	39.6%	62	40.3	37.4	23	37%	15%	−4.5
54	Blake Macek	North Texas	38.5%	60	40.8	38.8	24	40%	10%	+1.9
55	Tyler Sarrazin	Southern Miss	38.5%	44	39.4	38.5	8	18%	5%	−11.7
56	Colter Johnson	Massachusetts	38.3%	69	37.3	36.1	17	25%	6%	−21.3
57	Paul Layton	Temple	38.2%	61	42.8	41.8	26	43%	5%	+10.1
58	Matt Hubbard	Georgia State	37.9%	78	42.0	39.6	17	21%	11%	−3.4
59	Connor Kornbrath	Iowa	37.5%	58	39.9	39.4	27	47%	3%	+1.3
60	Drew Meyer	Wisconsin	37.5%	53	38.6	37.5	19	36%	6%	−8.1
61	Nathan Renfro	Maryland	37.2%	68	40.9	38.1	24	35%	13%	−2.4
62	Ben Skaer	New Mexico	37.0%	47	45.8	44.1	19	40%	9%	+10.2
63	Paul Jones	Arkansas State	37.0%	38	38.3	35.7	16	42%	13%	−2.8
64	Mattias Ciabatti	South Florida	36.6%	73	40.2	38.3	21	30%	9%	−9.0
65	Alex Garoutte	Arizona State	36.4%	33	38.4	37.7	14	42%	3%	−1.3
66	Jamie Keehn	LSU	36.4%	33	39.3	38.1	12	36%	6%	−0.7
67	Dalton Parks	Tulsa	35.9%	66	39.5	39.4	18	29%	0%	−20.8
68	Landon Foster	Kentucky	35.7%	68	41.3	39.5	16	24%	9%	−6.5
69	Cody Webster	Purdue	35.6%	70	43.5	42.9	25	37%	1%	+9.6
70	Matt Wile	Michigan	35.5%	56	40.6	39.9	16	29%	4%	−9.9
71	Peter Mortell	Minnesota	35.3%	56	42.9	40.8	18	32%	11%	−1.5
72	Chase Tenpenny	Nevada	35.1%	59	44.5	41.3	24	41%	12%	+3.9
73	Christian Brinser	Missouri	34.9%	61	41.0	39.4	23	38%	8%	+2.5
74	Pat O'Donnell	Miami	34.4%	47	47.3	43.9	17	36%	17%	+12.4
75	James Farrimond	Rice	34.3%	64	42.4	40.0	16	25%	13%	−0.4
76	Grant Venham	Ohio	34.2%	50	37.8	36.0	15	30%	8%	−11.8
77	Daniel Cadona	Louisiana	34.2%	46	41.8	39.2	15	33%	13%	+1.9
78	Mike Sadler	Michigan State	34.0%	70	42.3	40.3	31	45%	10%	+4.2
79	Vince Penza	Toledo	33.3%	44	40.8	40.0	22	51%	5%	−1.1
80	Darragh O'Neill	Colorado	32.6%	66	40.5	39.1	28	42%	6%	−1.2
81	Wil Baumann	NC State	32.6%	67	42.1	40.1	22	33%	10%	−0.7
82	Hunter Mullins	UAB	32.1%	51	43.1	40.0	20	39%	16%	+10.9
83	Sean Poole	Georgia Tech	32.0%	39	42.8	41.3	13	33%	8%	−0.8
84	Will Scott	Troy	31.7%	56	44.5	43.1	22	39%	7%	+11.1
85	Austin Rehkow	Idaho	31.6%	75	47.8	46.0	31	45%	9%	+29.6
86	Hayden Hunt	Colorado State	31.4%	64	42.0	41.0	20	32%	5%	−4.7
87	Tom Hackett	Utah	30.9%	76	43.4	41.8	29	38%	8%	+16.2
88	A.J. Hughes	Virginia Tech	30.8%	69	44.5	42.2	26	38%	12%	+9.6
89	Tom Hornsey	Memphis	29.5%	62	45.2	43.3	30	48%	7%	+13.3
90	Cody Mandell	Alabama	29.2%	35	47.5	42.8	15	42%	17%	+12.8
91	Tyler Williams	Marshall	29.0%	49	42.5	40.9	11	22%	8%	+3.5
92	Justin Manton	UL Monroe	28.8%	80	45.8	42.6	27	34%	14%	+16.5
93	Tyler Campbell	Ole Miss	28.6%	46	44.7	40.5	15	33%	20%	−1.4
94	Kirby Van Der Kamp	Iowa State	28.1%	84	41.6	39.7	32	38%	10%	+7.1
95	Pablo Beltran	Navy	28.0%	38	42.0	39.4	13	34%	13%	−0.6
96	Tyler Grassman	Buffalo	27.9%	68	40.1	39.2	28	41%	4%	−0.4
97	Ryan Erxleben	Texas Tech	27.3%	47	44.2	41.7	13	27%	13%	−0.9
98	Trent Tignor	East Carolina	27.3%	42	42.7	39.9	10	26%	16%	−2.4
99	Drew Riggleman	Arizona	27.0%	54	40.4	38.9	20	37%	7%	+0.1
100	Sam Foltz	Nebraska	26.0%	64	41.9	40.0	17	27%	9%	−1.4
101	Sam Irwin-Hill	Arkansas	25.9%	46	44.3	43.9	22	48%	2%	+5.4
102	Josh Davis	Middle Tennessee	25.7%	62	41.9	39.9	27	44%	10%	−1.8
103	Logan Yunker	UNLV	25.7%	59	42.1	39.8	18	31%	12%	−6.7
104	Logan McPherson	Louisiana Tech	25.0%	63	38.0	38.0	21	33%	0%	−6.1
105	Scott Harding	Hawai'i	25.0%	56	40.2	40.2	22	39%	0%	+6.7
106	Michael Palardy	Tennessee	24.4%	63	44.5	42.5	35	56%	10%	+16.0
107	Caleb Houston	UCF	23.8%	37	42.4	40.2	13	38%	15%	+5.7
108	Scott Arellano	BYU	23.1%	74	41.6	38.5	26	41%	15%	+3.0
109	Richie Hogan	Central Michigan	23.1%	51	43.9	42.4	20	39%	8%	+7.8
110	Kyle Schmidt	Ball State	22.6%	42	40.9	39.9	16	38%	5%	−2.1
111	Trevor Pardula	Kansas	22.4%	84	43.7	42.0	29	35%	8%	+6.3
112	Brian Schmiedebusch	Bowling Green	21.9%	44	39.8	37.6	19	43%	11%	+2.0
113	Tommy Hibbard	North Carolina	21.4%	61	42.9	40.9	22	36%	10%	+9.4
114	Zac Murphy	Miami (OH)	21.2%	79	46.6	43.1	20	26%	13%	+2.3
115	Harrison Waid	San José State	19.2%	48	43.4	40.9	12	25%	13%	−9.2
116	Will Monday	Duke	17.8%	69	42.7	40.9	25	36%	9%	+9.4
117	Justin DuVernois	Illinois	17.2%	51	41.1	40.8	15	31%	2%	−2.1
118	Taylor Hudson	Vanderbilt	16.7%	48	42.9	41.8	15	31%	4%	−3.4
119	Mike Loftus	SMU	11.1%	32	40.2	36.9	5	15%	13%	−16.7
120	Jake Medlock	Florida International	8.3%	37	42.5	41.1	11	31%	6%	+2.1
121	Ethan Wood	Wyoming	7.7%	69	42.0	39.3	25	37%	12%	−1.8

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