2017 College Punts Downed Percentage Leaders

The share of punts a member of the kicking team stopped or touched before they could roll into the end zone. It is a control and coverage stat as much as a leg stat.

Downed punts are rare, so one or two change the percentage. In 2017, Colten Rastetter (44.9%) led college football punters in punts downed percentage, ahead of Charlie Scott (39.5%) and Jake Julien (39.4%). 125 punters qualify (minimum 30 punts). The median qualified punter had 20.7%.

Final 2017 regular-season numbers, updated October 23, 2026.

Rk	Player	Team	Downed %	Punts	Avg	Net	In 20	In 20 %	TB %	FC %	Points
1	Colten Rastetter	Iowa	44.9%	49	38.4	37.5	10	20%	0%	14%	−10.0
2	Charlie Scott	Air Force	39.5%	41	42.1	39.1	14	34%	0%	24%	−1.8
3	Jake Julien	Eastern Michigan	39.4%	33	42.3	39.6	9	26%	6%	3%	+1.3
4	Jamie Sackville	SMU	39.2%	53	40.8	38.6	21	40%	6%	16%	+1.1
5	Corey Fatony	Missouri	38.8%	50	44.5	41.8	23	46%	8%	31%	+13.7
6	Yannis Routsas	UTSA	37.8%	47	41.6	39.6	29	62%	9%	27%	+6.4
7	Jack Sheldon	Central Michigan	37.1%	72	43.6	38.5	26	36%	10%	7%	+1.7
8	Blake Patterson	TCU	34.5%	30	41.3	39.6	10	33%	7%	31%	+0.6
9	Tyler Sumpter	Troy	34.0%	53	40.2	36.0	16	32%	6%	23%	−12.9
10	Joseph Davidson	Bowling Green	34.0%	60	44.0	42.4	27	47%	3%	25%	+16.9
11	Will Gleeson	Ole Miss	33.3%	51	41.5	40.2	23	45%	2%	46%	+7.1
12	Nick Porebski	Oregon State	32.7%	49	38.5	37.5	12	24%	2%	37%	−7.9
13	Joseph Charlton	South Carolina	32.6%	47	44.3	41.1	11	23%	9%	24%	+7.0
14	Caleb Lightbourn	Nebraska	32.0%	59	42.1	39.7	24	41%	7%	32%	+3.9
15	Alex Starzyk	Temple	32.0%	52	40.3	34.9	21	39%	13%	26%	−4.1
16	Zachary Block	Tulane	31.7%	52	39.6	36.6	15	33%	9%	29%	−2.3
17	Matt Bonadies	Middle Tennessee	31.4%	53	39.2	37.5	12	23%	9%	41%	−9.6
18	Kyle DeWeen	Buffalo	30.2%	56	40.6	37.9	21	38%	5%	32%	−1.0
19	Joel Whitford	Washington	29.7%	37	41.4	39.2	15	41%	5%	27%	+1.4
20	Sam Loy	Vanderbilt	29.0%	64	40.2	36.5	17	27%	6%	27%	−11.5
21	Logan Tyler	Florida State	29.0%	65	43.2	39.1	21	34%	6%	29%	+3.4
22	Kyle Sweet	Washington State	29.0%	32	38.4	36.6	6	19%	6%	16%	−9.4
23	Adam Nunez	TCU	28.3%	61	39.3	36.5	31	50%	6%	40%	−2.4
24	Zac Everett	Southern Miss	28.3%	60	40.5	38.6	21	35%	5%	26%	+2.6
25	Jonny Linehan	BYU	28.3%	59	42.9	41.9	28	47%	3%	26%	+11.9
26	Cody Grace	Arkansas State	28.2%	44	40.9	40.8	25	57%	0%	49%	+8.0
27	Mac Loudermilk	UCF	28.2%	41	39.5	38.3	24	59%	0%	54%	+4.7
28	Mitch Wishnowsky	Utah	27.9%	46	44.2	42.6	18	39%	7%	35%	+11.7
29	Drue Chrisman	Ohio State	27.9%	44	44.0	41.4	18	41%	7%	40%	+7.6
30	Derrick Mitchell	Western Michigan	27.0%	65	42.4	39.6	32	49%	6%	11%	+5.4
31	Logan Cooke	Mississippi State	26.1%	48	42.8	40.5	21	44%	8%	39%	+8.2
32	Ryan Stonehouse	Colorado State	25.7%	38	46.8	41.3	19	49%	16%	11%	+5.0
33	Austin Seibert	Oklahoma	25.7%	36	42.6	37.8	11	31%	8%	40%	−4.5
34	Michael Farkas	Ohio	25.5%	54	40.4	37.9	17	35%	4%	36%	+2.4
35	Matt Panton	Kentucky	25.5%	57	42.7	40.5	20	35%	5%	27%	+4.8
36	Kaare Vedvik	Marshall	25.5%	53	44.4	40.8	24	45%	13%	27%	+14.4
37	Bailey Cate	Old Dominion	25.4%	66	40.5	38.0	22	33%	5%	35%	−5.8
38	Matt Ference	Northern Illinois	25.4%	78	41.2	38.1	31	40%	10%	21%	−0.8
39	Marcus Ripley	Texas State	24.6%	81	42.4	38.5	27	38%	7%	23%	+0.3
40	Hunter Niswander	Northwestern	24.6%	63	42.9	39.9	21	33%	5%	28%	+5.5
41	Jake Collins	Western Kentucky	24.5%	52	39.9	36.8	19	37%	8%	20%	−3.4
42	Blake Gillikin	Penn State	24.5%	50	43.2	40.0	27	53%	6%	29%	+9.6
43	Bailey Flint	Toledo	24.3%	39	37.1	35.6	17	44%	8%	41%	−1.8
44	Anthony Lotti	Wisconsin	24.0%	51	40.3	37.4	25	48%	4%	28%	+2.6
45	Jake Hartbarger	Michigan State	23.9%	67	42.0	38.3	29	43%	16%	30%	+7.2
46	Blake Johnson	Arkansas	23.6%	59	38.6	37.6	18	31%	5%	40%	−4.1
47	Will Spiers	Clemson	23.3%	60	40.8	36.7	28	47%	7%	38%	−1.6
48	Tim Zaleski	Wyoming	23.3%	81	39.4	37.4	28	35%	5%	30%	−0.6
49	Kyle Kramer	Miami (OH)	23.0%	64	40.5	38.8	28	44%	8%	30%	−5.4
50	A.J. Cole III	NC State	22.6%	53	43.8	37.9	23	43%	8%	26%	−5.8
51	Ryan Santoso	Minnesota	22.2%	66	43.0	38.5	19	29%	14%	29%	+6.1
52	Alex Kinney	Colorado	22.2%	56	43.8	41.1	28	50%	4%	35%	+10.4
53	Dylan Klumph	California	22.0%	46	43.0	38.5	12	26%	7%	20%	−0.2
54	Stone Wilson	Florida International	21.7%	50	41.8	37.9	20	40%	12%	33%	−2.3
55	Connor Martin	Baylor	21.6%	39	40.3	39.1	12	31%	3%	24%	−2.0
56	James Smith	Cincinnati	21.4%	64	42.0	41.4	25	39%	0%	45%	+10.1
57	Ryan Anderson	Rutgers	21.3%	79	44.4	38.9	21	27%	13%	13%	+0.3
58	Corey Bojorquez	New Mexico	21.3%	67	47.3	42.1	33	49%	18%	31%	+17.3
59	Sterling Hofrichter	Syracuse	21.2%	57	43.2	41.4	22	39%	7%	46%	+8.4
60	Matt Flynn	Georgia Southern	21.0%	66	40.2	36.6	15	23%	9%	35%	−11.8
61	Nick Gasser	Akron	20.8%	78	41.9	36.8	26	33%	4%	31%	−14.2
62	Nathan Snyder	Ball State	20.8%	50	37.3	31.6	14	29%	6%	25%	−32.0
63	Colin Downing	Iowa State	20.7%	62	40.3	38.7	27	46%	5%	38%	+3.8
64	Tyler Newsome	Notre Dame	20.7%	59	43.5	37.9	16	27%	7%	29%	−1.7
65	Owen White	Navy	20.6%	39	41.2	38.6	13	38%	6%	24%	+1.1
66	Mike Knoll	Boston College	20.5%	73	40.2	37.4	36	49%	5%	26%	−0.8
67	Cade Coffey	Idaho	20.3%	66	44.6	36.7	27	41%	11%	13%	−12.2
68	Oscar Bradburn	Virginia Tech	20.0%	63	42.5	40.1	27	43%	10%	50%	+11.2
69	Sam Geraci	Louisiana	20.0%	64	40.7	39.2	24	42%	7%	45%	+5.3
70	Shane Tripucka	Texas A&M	19.7%	76	46.1	43.3	26	34%	8%	43%	+25.4
71	Michael Dickson	Texas	19.4%	73	48.4	44.8	35	49%	11%	39%	+36.8
72	Zach Von Rosenberg	LSU	19.4%	33	43.3	42.1	12	36%	3%	45%	+7.6
73	Cole Moos	Kansas	19.2%	83	39.6	35.3	24	29%	4%	26%	−29.9
74	Brad Robbins	Michigan	19.2%	58	40.9	36.9	24	42%	7%	35%	−5.6
75	Dane Roy	Houston	19.1%	53	41.6	38.8	23	44%	10%	40%	+2.2
76	Michael Carrizosa	San José State	19.1%	73	45.6	41.3	31	42%	7%	28%	+10.0
77	Payton Theisler	New Mexico State	18.8%	69	41.5	38.5	18	26%	6%	19%	−1.3
78	Pressley Harvin III	Georgia Tech	18.8%	50	44.1	39.7	21	42%	2%	27%	+5.3
79	Brady Farlow	Louisiana Tech	18.8%	36	37.6	35.5	7	19%	3%	34%	−10.6
80	Thomas Bennett	Tulsa	18.6%	61	42.3	36.8	17	28%	8%	14%	−8.9
81	Lester Coleman	Virginia	18.3%	71	44.0	38.1	31	43%	11%	20%	−7.8
82	Haydon Whitehead	Indiana	18.2%	85	40.7	38.0	29	35%	6%	34%	+2.4
83	Joe Schopper	Purdue	18.2%	67	40.2	37.3	28	44%	5%	49%	+0.4
84	Harrison Heim	UL Monroe	18.0%	58	41.9	37.4	23	40%	9%	26%	−1.0
85	Derek Adams	Kent State	17.9%	79	43.6	40.5	22	28%	11%	29%	+8.8
86	Ryan Rickel	Florida Atlantic	17.8%	46	42.6	41.0	16	36%	2%	42%	+8.0
87	Zach Feagles	Miami	17.6%	68	38.1	37.1	27	40%	4%	49%	−3.9
88	Jake Bailey	Stanford	17.6%	53	45.1	42.5	25	48%	6%	35%	+14.4
89	Wade Lees	Maryland	17.5%	64	39.2	37.4	17	27%	3%	48%	−12.7
90	Xavier Subotsch	App State	16.7%	52	39.8	35.9	19	37%	10%	35%	−6.2
91	Austin Parker	Duke	16.4%	61	42.0	36.6	11	18%	15%	26%	−2.9
92	Dom Maggio	Wake Forest	16.1%	64	43.9	38.2	21	33%	9%	27%	−2.3
93	Stefan Flintoft	UCLA	15.7%	52	42.8	38.8	18	35%	2%	41%	−0.3
94	Austin Barnes	East Carolina	15.6%	50	44.0	39.4	17	35%	12%	29%	+0.8
95	Alan Luna	UTEP	15.4%	79	44.1	39.3	28	36%	9%	23%	+3.1
96	Tom Sheldon	North Carolina	15.4%	45	45.8	42.5	15	34%	5%	36%	+6.4
97	Brett Graham	UConn	15.3%	63	38.8	37.3	23	37%	3%	31%	−2.1
98	Stan Gaudion	Hawai'i	15.1%	58	42.1	38.8	20	34%	2%	25%	−9.8
99	Corliss Waitman	South Alabama	14.7%	70	45.2	42.5	28	40%	6%	40%	+13.0
100	Trevor Daniel	Tennessee	14.7%	70	47.5	43.3	31	44%	7%	21%	+20.6
101	Blake Cusick	Fresno State	14.6%	64	42.4	37.2	20	32%	13%	35%	+1.0
102	Evan Rabon	Coastal Carolina	14.5%	56	43.3	39.9	20	36%	5%	33%	+5.4
103	Arthur Hart	Charlotte	14.5%	85	43.5	39.5	24	28%	12%	36%	+2.4
104	Reid Budrovich	USC	14.3%	49	42.5	37.5	19	38%	6%	31%	−2.6
105	JK Scott	Alabama	14.3%	42	43.4	40.9	24	56%	7%	55%	+12.9
106	Zach Sinor	Oklahoma State	13.9%	36	43.0	38.1	8	22%	14%	39%	0.0
107	Aaron Dalton	Utah State	13.8%	67	41.7	38.5	21	31%	12%	38%	+2.1
108	Jonathan Hernandez	South Florida	13.8%	58	43.2	36.9	14	23%	17%	29%	−2.9
109	Dominic Panazzolo	Texas Tech	13.7%	55	42.0	39.6	14	25%	4%	43%	+0.7
110	Aidan Marshall	Auburn	13.5%	38	39.4	34.1	9	24%	8%	43%	−5.2
111	Quinn Skillin	Boise State	13.5%	36	40.6	38.2	18	47%	8%	35%	+7.4
112	Nick Walsh	Kansas State	13.5%	54	43.7	40.0	23	43%	11%	38%	+10.2
113	Ryan Winslow	Pittsburgh	13.2%	57	44.5	38.7	20	35%	9%	40%	−5.2
114	Johnny Townsend	Florida	12.9%	64	47.5	41.5	29	45%	8%	18%	+11.2
115	Logan Laurent	Massachusetts	12.5%	65	42.6	34.3	19	30%	9%	14%	−15.4
116	Joel Dixon	UAB	12.3%	60	41.3	35.7	14	23%	8%	25%	−9.7
117	Adam Stack	Oregon	12.2%	54	38.0	35.7	18	33%	6%	37%	−10.0
118	Michael Sleep-Dalton	Arizona State	12.1%	59	39.8	36.3	18	30%	2%	21%	−10.3
119	Billy Kinney	West Virginia	11.7%	61	40.0	35.9	20	33%	7%	43%	−12.2
120	Quinton Conaway	Nevada	11.6%	48	39.6	36.6	9	18%	2%	53%	−12.6
121	Jack Fox	Rice	11.1%	57	44.2	37.2	17	30%	13%	31%	−5.0
122	Blake Hayes	Illinois	10.7%	77	42.0	40.2	31	40%	3%	19%	+8.3
123	Mason King	Louisville	10.5%	39	44.1	39.9	8	20%	5%	24%	+0.6
124	Brandon Heicklen	San Diego State	9.6%	57	38.4	34.5	19	33%	5%	42%	−12.7
125	Cameron Nizialek	Georgia	8.2%	49	44.5	41.8	23	47%	6%	51%	+9.3

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