2018 College Punts Downed Leaders

A downed punt is one a member of the kicking team stops or touches to keep it from rolling into the end zone.

It is a coverage and control stat as much as a leg stat. In 2018, Jack Sheldon (21) led college football punters in punts downed, ahead of Nick Gasser (21) and Quinton Conaway (21). 192 punters qualify.

Final 2018 regular-season numbers, updated October 23, 2026.

Rk	Player	Team	Downed	Punts	Avg	Net	In 20	In 20 %	TB %	FC %	Points
1	Jack Sheldon	Central Michigan	21	89	40.4	35.5	20	22%	3%	17%	−23.5
2	Nick Gasser	Akron	21	75	39.4	36.9	20	27%	5%	14%	−13.0
3	Quinton Conaway	Nevada	21	53	43.2	41.1	17	32%	6%	15%	+2.6
4	Yannis Routsas	UTSA	20	75	43.0	39.9	30	39%	5%	22%	+5.7
5	Wade Lees	Maryland	20	67	40.9	39.2	29	43%	3%	41%	+5.6
6	Rhett Almond	BYU	20	54	40.3	39.4	20	38%	2%	24%	+2.2
7	Clayton Stewart	Texas State	19	69	37.9	34.4	23	33%	6%	22%	−6.1
8	Kyle Thompson	Kansas	19	69	43.3	39.4	26	37%	10%	17%	+5.2
9	Jack Fox	Rice	18	80	45.5	40.6	30	37%	16%	23%	+11.1
10	Blake Cusick	Fresno State	18	62	42.1	40.5	32	52%	6%	29%	+11.7
11	Tyson Dyer	New Mexico	17	74	44.3	40.2	24	32%	8%	13%	+11.7
12	Alex Rinella	Western Kentucky	17	63	38.2	35.2	25	37%	6%	45%	−13.5
13	Brandon Heicklen	San Diego State	17	63	42.1	39.6	28	44%	2%	30%	+10.2
14	Davan Dyer	Louisiana Tech	17	58	41.1	38.2	22	38%	7%	33%	−2.3
15	Bailey Flint	Toledo	17	56	40.5	38.5	25	44%	4%	35%	−1.1
16	Kyle Corbett	Charlotte	17	55	41.0	34.8	8	16%	4%	17%	−19.4
17	Colten Rastetter	Iowa	17	46	39.6	36.5	20	43%	4%	9%	−7.0
18	Jake Julien	Eastern Michigan	16	66	43.6	38.1	23	35%	9%	16%	+4.1
19	Joe Doyle	Tennessee	16	66	41.0	39.1	25	38%	9%	38%	+7.1
20	Magill Bauerle	Georgia Southern	16	44	38.9	37.5	16	30%	4%	40%	+0.3
21	Brandon Wright	Georgia State	16	51	48.2	42.7	22	45%	8%	4%	+9.5
22	Logan Tyler	Florida State	15	82	43.2	38.3	17	21%	6%	28%	0.0
23	Adam Korsak	Rutgers	15	78	42.7	40.5	24	31%	4%	19%	+7.2
24	Payton Theisler	New Mexico State	15	74	40.5	34.3	18	24%	10%	21%	−20.3
25	Jake Collins	Northwestern	15	72	40.7	38.0	28	39%	6%	36%	+5.8
26	Jonn Young	East Carolina	15	71	40.1	36.9	16	23%	3%	35%	−9.0
27	Jamie Sackville	SMU	15	67	39.7	37.9	22	33%	5%	30%	+0.2
28	Corliss Waitman	South Alabama	15	67	41.7	38.1	16	25%	5%	40%	−4.8
29	Adam Williams	Memphis	15	50	42.9	37.3	19	37%	10%	30%	−3.0
30	Matt Bonadies	Middle Tennessee	15	52	41.5	38.8	23	46%	6%	40%	+2.9
31	Corey Fatony	Missouri	15	47	44.0	40.5	24	51%	6%	14%	+3.7
32	Mitchell Crawford	UTEP	14	72	39.8	37.3	20	28%	4%	31%	−2.4
33	Dom Maggio	Wake Forest	14	71	41.4	38.8	26	37%	4%	39%	−0.6
34	Grant Carlson	Boston College	14	68	40.0	37.0	27	41%	3%	25%	−0.3
35	Hayes Hicken	UNLV	14	65	43.8	39.1	20	30%	5%	17%	+1.6
36	Trent Schneider	South Florida	14	68	42.6	37.5	15	24%	14%	24%	−0.8
37	Robert LeFevre	Marshall	14	59	40.8	37.6	24	41%	7%	26%	+3.0
38	Dominic Panazzolo	Texas Tech	14	52	42.1	40.1	23	44%	8%	34%	+9.8
39	Tyler Sumpter	Troy	14	51	44.8	41.9	15	29%	8%	30%	+14.1
40	Quinn Skillin	Boise State	14	45	39.0	32.9	20	43%	13%	36%	−6.8
41	Matt Ference	Northern Illinois	13	83	40.1	37.6	35	42%	8%	23%	+3.5
42	Kirk Christodoulou	Pittsburgh	13	68	41.6	37.8	20	29%	4%	17%	−6.4
43	Aidan Alves	Liberty	13	66	37.0	33.7	25	37%	6%	35%	−11.9
44	Connor Bowler	Temple	13	52	42.4	36.9	20	38%	12%	23%	−3.9
45	Drue Chrisman	Ohio State	13	53	43.3	42.6	27	53%	2%	41%	+12.3
46	Tucker Day	Mississippi State	13	41	38.2	37.0	14	34%	0%	44%	−6.5
47	George Georgopoulos	Massachusetts	13	39	39.1	36.2	7	18%	0%	18%	−10.0
48	Mason King	Louisville	12	64	40.6	36.5	22	32%	3%	36%	−9.4
49	Kyle Kramer	Miami (OH)	12	65	41.9	38.5	36	55%	9%	32%	+4.0
50	Oscar Bradburn	Virginia Tech	12	65	42.2	39.2	23	35%	6%	44%	+5.8
51	Evan Finegan	Buffalo	12	50	42.1	37.4	13	25%	8%	26%	−3.9
52	Grant Tinnerman	Bowling Green	12	35	37.0	36.8	6	17%	0%	14%	−4.4
53	Bryce Crawford	San José State	11	65	44.2	40.0	20	31%	9%	15%	−1.0
54	Steven Coutts	California	11	63	41.8	39.1	32	51%	3%	29%	+7.7
55	Sterling Hofrichter	Syracuse	11	61	43.3	39.3	28	46%	7%	36%	+4.7
56	Blake Gillikin	Penn State	11	60	43.1	37.7	20	33%	15%	21%	+5.1
57	Cody Grace	Arkansas State	11	58	40.3	40.0	22	38%	2%	52%	+4.2
58	Mitch Wishnowsky	Utah	11	54	45.1	41.3	21	38%	7%	39%	+10.8
59	Arryn Siposs	Auburn	11	47	44.1	42.2	20	36%	7%	42%	+14.3
60	James Smith	Cincinnati	11	54	47.0	45.1	26	48%	2%	35%	+26.0
61	Will Spiers	Clemson	11	55	39.6	36.9	15	28%	7%	39%	−7.5
62	Max Duffy	Kentucky	11	51	44.8	40.2	26	51%	4%	25%	+5.1
63	Tommy Townsend	Florida	11	50	45.1	42.0	23	47%	6%	45%	+12.7
64	Lester Coleman	Virginia	11	47	42.1	39.7	20	43%	11%	24%	+7.9
65	Adam Nunez	TCU	11	35	38.6	35.9	16	46%	11%	23%	+0.3
66	Matt Naranjo	Bowling Green	11	31	41.2	40.3	9	29%	3%	13%	+2.3
67	Ryan Bujcevski	Texas	10	58	40.2	37.4	18	32%	2%	28%	−5.5
68	Joe Schopper	Purdue	10	56	43.1	40.7	24	44%	4%	46%	+9.1
69	Alvin Kenworthy	North Texas	10	50	42.4	38.5	22	43%	10%	41%	+0.4
70	Jacob Herbers	Minnesota	10	51	41.2	41.0	20	39%	0%	51%	+7.4
71	Charles Ouverson	Coastal Carolina	10	49	43.2	40.3	13	27%	8%	36%	+3.6
72	Rhys Byrns	Louisiana	10	46	40.1	37.0	19	40%	2%	43%	−7.0
73	Mac Loudermilk	UCF	10	41	42.6	37.9	15	38%	8%	21%	+0.2
74	Zac Everett	Southern Miss	10	33	38.8	37.3	14	35%	8%	22%	−0.1
75	Patrick LeCorre	Ball State	10	39	39.7	37.5	12	31%	5%	25%	−1.3
76	Pressley Harvin III	Georgia Tech	10	31	44.3	40.8	12	39%	6%	17%	+5.4
77	Austin Parker	Duke	9	65	41.4	37.7	25	38%	6%	39%	−5.2
78	Ryan Stonehouse	Colorado State	9	65	48.3	38.3	16	25%	13%	11%	+1.0
79	Reid Budrovich	USC	9	58	39.4	35.5	18	32%	4%	33%	−10.2
80	Reid Bauer	Arkansas	9	56	38.9	36.9	13	23%	2%	39%	−6.7
81	Michael Sleep-Dalton	Arizona State	9	53	43.7	37.5	20	38%	11%	31%	−0.9
82	Drew Galitz	Baylor	9	50	42.5	39.4	19	37%	6%	45%	+4.8
83	Nick Mihalic	Western Michigan	9	50	37.9	34.3	11	22%	10%	33%	−16.4
84	Parker Thome	Vanderbilt	9	49	45.1	40.0	19	39%	12%	28%	+10.7
85	Blake Maimone	Oregon	9	39	42.7	40.5	17	44%	8%	39%	+6.6
86	Sebastian Riella	Florida Atlantic	9	38	38.1	34.8	5	14%	0%	31%	−14.2
87	Tyler Hunt	Michigan State	9	36	40.1	37.0	15	42%	6%	28%	−1.1
88	Isaac Armstrong	Nebraska	9	32	43.6	39.9	9	27%	9%	23%	+3.9
89	Jack Spicer	Miami	9	29	37.1	33.9	10	36%	0%	25%	−7.3
90	Zachary Block	Tulane	9	29	38.4	34.0	13	48%	15%	27%	+4.0
91	Blake Hayes	Illinois	8	62	43.6	36.6	25	39%	8%	13%	−4.6
92	Luke Magliozzi	UConn	8	63	42.9	39.3	26	41%	3%	29%	+5.6
93	Bailey Cate	Old Dominion	8	53	40.2	37.7	19	35%	9%	43%	+2.5
94	Owen White	Navy	8	53	41.6	38.5	20	38%	0%	15%	+1.0
95	Haydon Whitehead	Indiana	8	51	40.0	37.0	19	37%	6%	40%	+0.4
96	Jared Porter	UL Monroe	8	50	42.6	37.1	12	24%	6%	36%	−7.1
97	Corey Dunn	Iowa State	8	50	40.0	37.9	20	40%	2%	25%	−0.9
98	Zach Von Rosenberg	LSU	8	50	45.6	44.0	17	35%	2%	49%	+11.1
99	Davis Price	Colorado	8	48	38.4	37.2	22	47%	0%	48%	−3.5
100	Clayton Howell	App State	8	46	43.2	41.5	14	30%	2%	42%	+4.1
101	A.J. Cole III	NC State	8	40	41.3	38.8	20	47%	9%	34%	−0.3
102	Billy Kinney	West Virginia	8	36	41.1	38.1	13	36%	6%	36%	+0.8
103	Derek Adams	Kent State	8	31	40.2	33.9	9	29%	3%	13%	−17.5
104	Jake Bailey	Stanford	7	59	44.0	39.9	26	44%	17%	30%	+17.1
105	Stefan Flintoft	UCLA	7	56	45.8	37.9	17	30%	11%	29%	−1.8
106	Dane Roy	Houston	7	55	42.3	40.4	24	44%	2%	42%	+5.2
107	Mac Brown	Ole Miss	7	48	41.3	37.0	15	31%	8%	36%	−3.0
108	Stan Gaudion	Hawai'i	7	42	40.6	38.9	12	29%	0%	18%	−5.1
109	Taylor Hintze	Utah State	7	40	39.6	38.5	9	23%	5%	30%	+0.6
110	Matthew Trickett	Kent State	7	35	38.7	35.6	13	37%	3%	35%	−10.5
111	Andrew David	TCU	7	29	37.0	34.5	6	21%	7%	34%	−8.5
112	Austin Seibert	Oklahoma	7	29	41.1	39.0	8	28%	7%	38%	−1.1
113	Zach Feagles	Miami	7	30	38.9	36.5	13	45%	3%	21%	−2.1
114	Charlie Scott	Air Force	7	25	39.0	33.9	8	30%	12%	40%	−3.9
115	Skyler DeLong	Alabama	7	16	34.4	34.4	5	31%	0%	38%	−6.0
116	Kyle Greenwell	UAB	6	56	40.3	37.7	17	30%	7%	43%	−1.0
117	Thomas Bennett	Tulsa	6	53	46.6	40.0	13	25%	11%	12%	−5.7
118	Tyler Newsome	Notre Dame	6	45	44.4	38.6	16	36%	16%	24%	−1.8
119	Dylan Klumph	Arizona	6	44	42.2	39.1	16	36%	5%	32%	+2.0
120	Michael Farkas	Ohio	6	42	43.1	40.0	16	39%	7%	43%	−0.2
121	Will Hart	Michigan	6	39	47.6	39.9	17	44%	23%	8%	+7.5
122	Oscar Draguicevich III	Washington State	6	40	46.0	41.3	12	32%	14%	25%	+3.6
123	Tim Zaleski	Wyoming	6	36	38.8	36.4	12	33%	8%	20%	−0.1
124	Anthony Lotti	Wisconsin	6	28	39.1	34.0	12	43%	14%	29%	−5.1
125	Chris Robison	Florida Atlantic	6	6	54.7	54.7	6	100%	0%	0%	+4.8
126	Daniel Rodriguez	Oregon State	5	55	41.9	39.9	12	22%	0%	51%	+2.6
127	Hunter Lent	North Carolina	5	50	39.9	39.1	17	34%	0%	27%	+3.3
128	Braden Mann	Texas A&M	5	47	51.1	44.9	21	45%	19%	22%	+26.2
129	Joseph Charlton	South Carolina	5	43	44.8	41.8	16	36%	5%	44%	+9.9
130	Joel Whitford	Washington	5	28	41.6	36.6	10	36%	7%	29%	−1.7
131	Caleb Lightbourn	Nebraska	5	24	41.6	33.3	2	8%	4%	17%	−16.7
132	William Przystup	Michigan State	5	20	39.7	36.6	7	35%	10%	15%	−4.7
133	Jake Verity	East Carolina	5	13	36.3	34.9	6	46%	0%	9%	−1.5
134	Josh Growden	LSU	5	14	35.6	32.2	9	75%	8%	42%	+0.4
135	Ryan Wright	Tulane	4	43	44.1	39.4	12	32%	13%	43%	+0.3
136	Zach Sinor	Oklahoma State	4	26	45.5	40.5	7	27%	8%	23%	+2.4
137	Dontae Crow	Wyoming	4	24	42.8	38.1	5	21%	8%	33%	−2.7
138	Nick Schrage	Army	4	22	41.9	39.5	4	18%	0%	29%	−1.7
139	Andrew Hicks	Kansas State	4	17	44.0	36.5	4	20%	5%	50%	−4.7
140	Tom Snee	Oregon	4	17	35.2	31.3	7	39%	0%	56%	−5.3
141	Brian Papazian	San José State	4	15	38.1	32.7	11	73%	27%	29%	+1.5
142	Ryan Galovich	Wyoming	4	13	37.9	31.8	7	54%	15%	18%	−2.2
143	Zach Potter	Army	4	10	30.5	30.5	9	90%	0%	38%	+0.1
144	Stone Wilson	Florida International	3	37	43.9	38.6	15	38%	8%	44%	+1.9
145	Jake Camarda	Georgia	3	38	43.2	37.4	11	30%	22%	35%	−0.5
146	Devin Anctil	Kansas State	3	27	43.6	39.9	10	37%	11%	26%	+6.8
147	Alex Kinney	Colorado	3	16	41.9	40.9	8	50%	0%	21%	+3.2
148	Bryce Baringer	Michigan State	3	15	32.4	30.5	5	33%	7%	33%	−5.9
149	Grant Urenovitch	Kent State	3	10	34.1	31.5	1	10%	0%	0%	−5.8
150	Kody Schexnayder	Mississippi State	3	9	36.1	35.1	1	11%	0%	44%	−1.7
151	Woody Barrett	Kent State	3	4	27.5	27.5	2	50%	0%	0%	−0.9
152	Jarret Doege	Bowling Green	3	3	27.3	27.3	3	100%	0%	0%	+0.3
153	Matt Hockett	Oklahoma State	2	22	42.5	39.7	8	36%	9%	55%	+3.1
154	Mike Bernier	Alabama	2	21	37.9	35.5	5	26%	5%	42%	−3.4
155	Race Porter	Washington	2	17	42.3	31.6	6	33%	18%	6%	−5.5
156	Jake Koehnke	Air Force	2	17	41.6	37.7	4	24%	12%	40%	+1.6
157	Tyler Flathau	Southern Miss	2	9	35.8	35.8	0	0%	0%	33%	−2.5
158	Zach Lee	Utah State	2	9	32.7	30.4	3	33%	11%	38%	−3.8
159	Bernardo Rodriguez	Kansas State	2	5	36.4	31.6	2	25%	25%	25%	−1.4
160	Danny Jones	BYU	2	7	37.6	37.6	2	29%	0%	29%	−2.3
161	Brady Farlow	Louisiana Tech	2	5	35.8	35.8	2	40%	0%	20%	−1.2
162	Isaiah Green	Marshall	2	4	26.8	21.8	3	75%	25%	25%	−0.2
163	Jackson Vansickle	Charlotte	2	4	36.8	31.8	0	0%	25%	25%	−1.4
164	Matthew Phillips	Arkansas	2	4	38.0	38.0	0	0%	0%	50%	−0.9
165	Ty Gangi	Nevada	2	4	39.0	39.0	4	100%	0%	33%	+1.1
166	Riley Neal	Ball State	2	3	40.3	33.7	2	67%	33%	0%	+0.4
167	Connor Allen	Wisconsin	1	22	37.5	32.9	7	32%	5%	43%	−8.8
168	Travis Reynolds	Massachusetts	1	15	37.8	34.4	5	33%	13%	43%	−2.3
169	Ben Scruton	Hawai'i	1	7	37.9	36.6	0	0%	0%	67%	−1.7
170	Blake Johnson	Arkansas	1	7	30.4	17.1	3	43%	0%	29%	−7.0
171	Jake Hartbarger	Michigan State	1	6	48.8	44.3	2	33%	0%	17%	+1.6
172	Xavier Subotsch	App State	1	5	33.8	33.6	3	60%	0%	40%	0.0
173	Aaron Peart	Liberty	1	4	29.8	24.8	1	25%	25%	25%	−2.0
174	Jake Stone	South Florida	1	4	41.3	30.5	2	50%	25%	0%	+0.2
175	Luke Loecher	Oregon State	1	3	37.3	28.0	1	25%	0%	0%	−2.1
176	Luke Shiflett	Middle Tennessee	1	4	35.5	33.3	3	75%	0%	50%	−1.0
177	Matthew Stephenson	Middle Tennessee	1	4	38.5	38.5	3	75%	0%	50%	+0.5
178	Daniel Jones	Duke	1	2	27.0	27.0	2	100%	0%	0%	+0.2
179	Jake Glatting	Arizona	1	2	37.5	37.5	2	100%	0%	50%	+0.1
180	Jake McClure	Oklahoma State	1	2	53.0	54.0	1	50%	0%	0%	+1.7
181	Joe Rivera	Iowa State	1	2	38.0	38.0	0	0%	0%	0%	−0.5
182	Nate Stanley	Iowa	1	2	30.5	30.5	2	100%	0%	0%	+0.3
183	Trevor Denbow	SMU	1	2	41.5	39.5	1	50%	0%	0%	+0.2
184	Alex Thomson	Marshall	1	1	31.0	31.0	1	100%	0%	0%	+0.2
185	Ben Hicks	SMU	1	1	48.0	48.0	1	100%	0%	0%	+0.5
186	Chase McLaughlin	Illinois	1	1	32.0	32.0	1	100%	0%	0%	+0.2
187	Daniel Brown	Nevada	1	1	34.0	34.0	0	0%	0%	0%	−0.5
188	Dylan Brown	New Mexico State	1	1	58.0	58.0	1	100%	0%	0%	+1.3
189	Jake Luton	Oregon State	1	1	33.0	33.0	1	100%	0%	0%	+0.3
190	James Fonseca	Akron	1	1	43.0	43.0	1	100%	0%	0%	+0.4
191	Tommy DeVito	Syracuse	1	1	37.0	37.0	1	100%	0%	0%	+0.3
192	Zac Thomas	App State	1	1	39.0	39.0	1	100%	0%	0%	+0.2

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