2020 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 2020, Griffin Fleming (64.5%) led college football punters in fair catch percentage, ahead of Jordy Sandy (62.5%) and Tom Hutton (61.5%). 73 punters qualify (minimum 30 punts). The median qualified punter had 34.4%.

Final 2020 regular-season numbers, updated October 23, 2026.

Rk	Player	Team	FC %	Punts	Avg	Net	In 20	In 20 %	TB %	Points
1	Griffin Fleming	Southern Miss	64.5%	36	39.5	39.1	10	28%	0%	−3.0
2	Jordy Sandy	TCU	62.5%	57	41.0	38.9	27	47%	5%	+6.1
3	Tom Hutton	Oklahoma State	61.5%	54	40.5	39.2	27	51%	6%	+5.3
4	Haydon Whitehead	Indiana	61.1%	36	42.4	40.4	10	28%	8%	+5.4
5	Kirk Christodoulou	Pittsburgh	54.9%	53	44.5	43.1	23	43%	2%	+14.3
6	Nik Constantinou	Texas A&M	54.8%	31	40.3	39.2	14	45%	6%	+6.0
7	Lou Hedley	Miami	54.5%	46	47.3	45.4	15	34%	2%	+17.4
8	Tyler Sumpter	West Virginia	51.5%	33	40.3	39.0	14	42%	6%	−0.6
9	Derek Adams	Northwestern	48.7%	40	41.5	38.9	15	38%	10%	+0.5
10	James Smith	Cincinnati	48.4%	32	43.8	40.7	20	65%	3%	+8.7
11	Jack Brooks	South Alabama	47.6%	43	41.7	37.8	11	25%	5%	−4.6
12	Jake Camarda	Georgia	46.7%	31	47.9	44.6	16	52%	16%	+11.8
13	Anthony Beck II	Georgia Southern	46.5%	44	42.0	37.9	14	32%	9%	+1.2
14	Alex Mastromanno	Florida State	45.7%	35	43.5	40.5	10	29%	3%	−0.4
15	Pressley Harvin III	Georgia Tech	45.5%	45	48.0	44.8	20	44%	7%	+15.8
16	Grant McKinniss	Missouri	43.2%	39	43.1	40.3	14	37%	8%	+4.7
17	Reeves Mundschau	Oklahoma	42.9%	36	38.9	36.4	11	30%	3%	−8.4
18	Adam Korsak	Rutgers	42.6%	48	42.9	42.6	23	48%	0%	+10.6
19	Issac Power	Baylor	41.2%	54	40.6	36.6	16	29%	7%	−7.3
20	Kyle Greenwell	UAB	41.2%	41	42.5	40.3	15	34%	2%	+4.3
21	Austin McNamara	Texas Tech	41.0%	41	46.3	40.0	13	32%	10%	+5.9
22	Tyson Dyer	New Mexico	40.0%	34	40.4	38.5	11	32%	0%	−3.2
23	Oscar Bradburn	Virginia Tech	39.4%	37	43.0	39.8	11	30%	16%	+5.8
24	Jordan Stout	Penn State	38.7%	33	41.5	38.8	10	30%	3%	−0.5
25	Zach Von Rosenberg	LSU	38.6%	59	43.9	42.0	29	49%	3%	+10.6
26	Andrew Osteen	UCF	38.2%	35	44.3	41.5	9	26%	6%	+3.7
27	Paxton Brooks	Tennessee	37.5%	49	43.6	41.8	22	45%	8%	+12.0
28	Kai Kroeger	South Carolina	36.1%	39	43.3	38.1	11	29%	5%	−2.8
29	Stephen Kotsanlee	Utah State	36.1%	37	40.7	40.4	18	49%	0%	+2.3
30	Adam Williams	Memphis	35.9%	41	42.6	40.0	13	32%	7%	+2.6
31	Jay Bramblett	Notre Dame	35.9%	39	42.2	41.2	12	31%	3%	+5.2
32	Daniel Davies	Navy	35.7%	44	37.1	34.7	9	20%	5%	−19.6
33	Tory Taylor	Iowa	35.5%	40	44.1	42.9	20	50%	3%	+10.4
34	Matthew Hayball	Florida Atlantic	35.5%	40	44.5	39.8	17	49%	3%	−1.9
35	Xavier Subotsch	App State	35.5%	32	42.3	41.4	12	38%	3%	+4.1
36	Max Duffy	Kentucky	34.4%	37	45.8	42.4	13	35%	3%	+11.4
37	Tommy Heatherly	Florida International	34.4%	32	44.4	42.3	11	34%	9%	+5.2
38	Harrison Smith	Vanderbilt	34.1%	46	41.0	37.4	19	42%	2%	−6.0
39	Lachlan Wilson	Tulsa	33.3%	39	43.1	36.5	14	36%	8%	−4.0
40	Adam Stack	Hawai'i	33.3%	37	43.8	38.1	10	27%	0%	−4.8
41	Charles Ouverson	Coastal Carolina	32.1%	33	40.2	37.2	19	59%	3%	−0.4
42	Ivan Mora	Wake Forest	31.4%	36	40.9	38.1	14	39%	11%	+0.4
43	Trenton Gill	NC State	31.3%	49	44.8	39.8	18	37%	12%	+7.4
44	Matt Ference	Northern Illinois	31.3%	30	43.0	40.1	12	38%	3%	−3.0
45	Laine Wilkins	Houston	31.0%	31	41.2	40.0	15	48%	6%	+0.2
46	Nash Griffin	Virginia	30.8%	42	42.4	39.7	12	29%	10%	+1.3
47	Bryce Baringer	Michigan State	30.6%	37	43.6	36.4	10	28%	8%	−6.3
48	Ryan Hanson	Arkansas State	28.9%	41	40.6	38.7	12	30%	3%	−3.9
49	Reis Vernon	Kansas	28.9%	38	37.8	31.6	7	18%	3%	−23.4
50	Blake Hayes	Illinois	28.6%	42	43.8	40.6	16	38%	2%	+2.2
51	Joe Rivera	Iowa State	28.6%	42	40.8	35.1	14	33%	10%	−10.6
52	Seamus O'Kelly	Texas State	28.3%	57	40.9	38.8	22	39%	2%	+1.3
53	Luke Elzinga	Central Michigan	28.1%	33	43.2	40.8	15	47%	6%	+6.5
54	Ben Kiernan	North Carolina	27.6%	30	43.7	39.9	17	57%	0%	+4.0
55	Will Spiers	Clemson	26.8%	42	43.5	38.7	19	45%	7%	0.0
56	Kyle Ulbrich	Middle Tennessee	26.2%	43	43.8	40.0	15	35%	12%	+3.7
57	Daniel Sparks	UL Monroe	25.9%	30	44.6	36.0	6	19%	7%	−11.8
58	Nickolas Null	Wyoming	25.9%	29	38.7	36.1	6	20%	3%	−8.1
59	Nolan Cooney	Syracuse	25.7%	74	44.8	41.5	25	34%	4%	+12.0
60	Jacob Barnes	Louisiana Tech	25.6%	44	37.2	35.3	10	23%	5%	−8.5
61	Porter Wilson	Duke	23.9%	53	42.9	41.1	20	40%	4%	+5.5
62	Reid Bauer	Arkansas	23.5%	39	43.5	38.0	13	34%	8%	−2.3
63	Rhys Byrns	Louisiana	23.5%	34	43.9	40.1	14	41%	6%	+3.1
64	Ryan Bujcevski	Texas	23.1%	39	43.3	37.1	16	39%	0%	−8.1
65	Adam Barry	Temple	23.1%	40	44.0	40.0	18	45%	5%	−4.5
66	Grant Carlson	Boston College	21.6%	43	42.4	39.4	14	36%	8%	−0.7
67	Zach Harding	Army	20.6%	37	42.8	40.3	16	43%	5%	+5.7
68	Michael Hayes II	Georgia State	18.2%	47	40.4	38.1	10	21%	2%	−4.2
69	John Haggerty	Western Kentucky	17.6%	53	46.0	41.7	20	38%	8%	+1.7
70	Lucas Dean	UTSA	15.9%	55	46.3	40.3	25	53%	4%	+4.4
71	Ryan Wright	Tulane	10.9%	49	45.0	41.2	15	32%	6%	+8.0
72	Trent Schneider	South Florida	10.7%	32	41.3	34.0	8	26%	6%	−11.7
73	Bernardo Rodriguez	North Texas	10.0%	32	43.8	39.7	9	28%	13%	+4.1

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