2021 College Punts Out of Bounds Leaders

A punt out of bounds cannot be returned and stops the clock. Punters aim for the sideline near the opponent's end zone.

Some are chosen, some are mistakes. In 2021, Charlie Mendes (17) led college football punters in punts out of bounds, ahead of Josh Smith (16) and Andrew Stokes (14). 144 punters qualify.

Final 2021 regular-season numbers, updated October 23, 2026.

Rk	Player	Team	OOB	Punts	Avg	Net	In 20	In 20 %	TB %	FC %	Points
1	Charlie Mendes	Rice	17	59	42.7	36.9	17	27%	8%	12%	−12.7
2	Josh Smith	Kent State	16	51	36.4	35.0	15	29%	6%	38%	−12.3
3	Andrew Stokes	South Florida	14	56	39.0	36.3	18	33%	4%	27%	−20.9
4	Blake Hayes	Illinois	13	68	45.1	43.3	35	53%	3%	33%	+12.8
5	Ryan Sanborn	Stanford	13	60	43.3	37.3	21	36%	7%	27%	−2.6
6	Reis Vernon	Kansas	12	49	40.4	35.4	11	22%	4%	38%	−22.4
7	Luke Elzinga	Central Michigan	11	50	41.1	37.7	20	40%	8%	33%	−4.9
8	Harrison Smith	Vanderbilt	10	73	42.5	38.6	17	23%	4%	30%	−7.4
9	Josh Carlson	New Mexico State	10	71	41.5	38.2	20	29%	4%	40%	−6.4
10	James Evans	Indiana	10	69	41.9	38.4	15	22%	6%	28%	−8.8
11	Matt Naranjo	Bowling Green	10	65	41.6	38.1	21	32%	6%	5%	−9.9
12	Reid Bauer	Arkansas	10	53	43.2	39.7	13	24%	6%	44%	−3.6
13	Ty Zentner	Kansas State	9	39	44.3	40.5	19	49%	10%	31%	+4.0
14	Adam Korsak	Rutgers	8	70	45.9	45.3	38	54%	0%	49%	+21.5
15	Oscar Chapman	Auburn	8	51	44.8	42.6	22	43%	8%	51%	+10.9
16	Tom Snee	Oregon	8	41	42.8	38.7	17	41%	8%	26%	+3.1
17	Matt Araiza	San Diego State	7	76	51.4	44.6	38	48%	19%	17%	+26.2
18	Ivan Mora	Wake Forest	7	47	43.7	40.6	17	37%	4%	36%	+2.7
19	Lucas Dean	UTSA	7	44	45.4	43.1	21	48%	5%	31%	+7.7
20	Ben Kiernan	North Carolina	7	40	43.3	37.3	12	29%	5%	38%	−11.0
21	Michael Turk	Oklahoma	7	33	51.3	44.9	14	41%	12%	23%	+5.6
22	Ryan Hanson	Arkansas State	6	68	44.0	42.1	23	35%	2%	43%	+6.3
23	Porter Wilson	Duke	6	61	44.8	41.0	23	38%	5%	29%	+3.9
24	Kyle Ulbrich	Middle Tennessee	6	62	44.5	39.6	25	42%	8%	30%	+0.9
25	Lachlan Wilson	Tulsa	6	59	46.0	40.0	23	40%	14%	33%	+3.4
26	Bailey Flint	Toledo	6	57	40.0	36.4	20	36%	9%	41%	−15.3
27	Bryce Baringer	Michigan State	6	56	48.6	43.8	19	34%	14%	22%	+8.5
28	George Georgopoulos	Massachusetts	6	64	44.8	41.6	20	38%	2%	14%	0.0
29	Carson King	Fresno State	6	52	41.6	39.3	24	46%	6%	37%	−0.9
30	Ethan Duane	Old Dominion	6	54	39.6	37.0	17	33%	4%	32%	−8.3
31	Race Porter	Washington	6	53	48.5	42.8	20	42%	6%	23%	+9.6
32	Jeremy Crawshaw	Florida	6	46	44.0	39.8	20	43%	13%	45%	+5.2
33	Julian Diaz	Nevada	6	45	44.3	41.2	11	26%	7%	30%	+1.2
34	Charles Ouverson	Coastal Carolina	6	38	37.2	36.2	13	34%	5%	42%	−5.1
35	Tom Hutton	Oklahoma State	5	66	42.2	40.4	27	41%	9%	52%	+6.5
36	Trenton Gill	NC State	5	65	44.4	41.7	36	55%	8%	44%	+7.4
37	David Shanahan	Georgia Tech	5	61	41.5	35.6	19	31%	13%	30%	−14.1
38	Avery Atkins	LSU	5	59	42.4	38.7	20	34%	5%	45%	−4.5
39	Kyle Ostendorp	Arizona	5	58	49.2	44.0	19	33%	19%	19%	+18.6
40	Kai Kroeger	South Carolina	5	57	42.8	39.8	25	44%	4%	43%	+1.9
41	Kyle Greenwell	UAB	5	57	43.0	39.1	17	30%	11%	48%	−1.4
42	Kirk Christodoulou	Pittsburgh	5	53	41.1	38.5	24	45%	9%	47%	+1.7
43	Nik Constantinou	Texas A&M	5	51	46.6	43.3	23	44%	4%	39%	+15.0
44	Dom Dzioban	Miami (OH)	5	49	39.0	36.8	17	35%	0%	44%	−3.8
45	Jake Julien	Eastern Michigan	5	46	45.9	43.6	14	30%	11%	50%	+6.4
46	Grant McKinniss	Missouri	5	48	41.4	38.7	28	62%	0%	41%	−4.0
47	Issac Power	Baylor	5	44	46.2	42.9	18	41%	14%	41%	+15.0
48	Eddie Czaplicki	Arizona State	5	42	43.3	40.1	19	45%	7%	32%	+8.1
49	Jack Brooks	South Alabama	5	53	43.2	39.3	12	29%	5%	33%	−0.5
50	Austin McNamara	Texas Tech	5	38	48.4	43.9	17	45%	13%	54%	+15.0
51	Zach Harding	Army	5	35	44.1	40.5	16	46%	11%	31%	+5.9
52	Ian Hawkins	Syracuse	5	26	37.2	32.6	5	19%	4%	29%	−11.4
53	Jamieson Sheahan	California	4	53	43.1	41.6	14	26%	4%	60%	−2.5
54	Cesar Barajas	Louisiana Tech	4	54	41.5	37.9	25	47%	4%	41%	−3.5
55	Michael Hayes II	Georgia State	4	56	42.0	38.4	15	28%	9%	29%	−4.0
56	Andy Vujnovich	Wisconsin	4	46	45.8	41.3	17	36%	6%	30%	+3.4
57	Riley Riethman	Navy	4	44	42.7	37.7	12	27%	5%	19%	−8.5
58	Brad Robbins	Michigan	4	43	46.4	44.1	16	38%	7%	43%	+11.9
59	Joe Doyle	Memphis	4	41	46.0	40.9	18	43%	10%	32%	+7.7
60	Jacob Finn	Virginia	4	41	44.2	40.4	12	29%	7%	29%	+0.4
61	Jake Camarda	Georgia	4	40	47.1	41.4	14	35%	15%	28%	+0.5
62	Paxton Brooks	Tennessee	4	39	44.2	42.2	17	44%	8%	66%	+2.2
63	Jesse Mirco	Ohio State	4	29	42.3	41.5	17	61%	0%	36%	+5.3
64	Archer Trafford	Mississippi State	4	21	42.4	37.8	7	33%	5%	30%	−2.2
65	Tucker Day	Mississippi State	4	17	39.7	32.6	2	12%	6%	36%	−14.1
66	Aaron Rodriguez	New Mexico	3	81	42.8	39.3	18	23%	9%	40%	−1.0
67	Tory Taylor	Iowa	3	76	45.9	41.6	36	47%	15%	30%	+13.1
68	Will Hart	San José State	3	67	44.4	41.6	31	46%	10%	40%	+7.3
69	Mason Hunt	Southern Miss	3	71	43.6	39.7	22	33%	6%	48%	+4.9
70	Alex Mastromanno	Florida State	3	61	42.7	40.9	18	30%	0%	63%	−1.5
71	Joe McFadden	UConn	3	61	39.8	38.1	13	21%	2%	33%	−13.2
72	Jordan Stout	Penn State	3	62	46.5	45.0	35	57%	5%	42%	+22.6
73	Seamus O'Kelly	Texas State	3	60	38.4	37.1	20	33%	2%	53%	−8.8
74	Joshua Sloan	UTEP	3	60	40.2	37.2	23	40%	7%	43%	−8.2
75	Ryan Stonehouse	Colorado State	3	58	50.9	41.8	25	45%	20%	11%	+5.5
76	Bernardo Rodriguez	North Texas	3	56	42.9	37.2	16	30%	9%	9%	−7.8
77	Matthew Shipley	Hawai'i	3	55	41.5	37.5	18	33%	8%	55%	−8.2
78	Robert LeFevre	Marshall	3	53	40.3	38.7	18	34%	4%	44%	−2.5
79	Jay Bramblett	Notre Dame	3	51	44.1	41.3	16	31%	6%	37%	+2.6
80	Nathan Snyder	Ball State	3	52	42.7	41.7	23	45%	4%	63%	+5.0
81	Evan Silva	UNLV	3	52	40.2	37.0	16	33%	4%	46%	−10.1
82	Ryan Wright	Tulane	3	51	47.5	44.8	16	33%	10%	49%	+15.0
83	Matt Ference	Northern Illinois	3	45	44.4	37.0	9	20%	13%	29%	−8.7
84	James Burnip	Alabama	3	42	39.1	36.8	16	37%	0%	40%	−7.2
85	Ryan Rehkow	BYU	3	39	48.7	42.7	16	41%	15%	26%	+6.4
86	William Przystup	Nebraska	3	31	43.4	39.1	6	19%	10%	26%	−6.3
87	Colin Goodfellow	Kentucky	3	31	46.0	41.3	11	35%	16%	29%	+2.1
88	Charles Bein	Air Force	3	25	39.6	37.9	13	52%	4%	40%	−1.9
89	Aidan Alves	Liberty	3	19	41.7	37.0	9	47%	5%	38%	+1.0
90	Kellen Grave de Peralta	Navy	3	4	34.8	34.8	0	0%	0%	0%	−2.2
91	Tommy Heatherly	Florida International	2	75	46.9	39.8	26	38%	18%	16%	+0.1
92	Devyn McCormick	UL Monroe	2	69	41.2	37.8	25	38%	6%	37%	−2.7
93	Andrew Osteen	UCF	2	66	41.1	38.7	19	29%	2%	43%	−6.1
94	Adam Barry	Temple	2	63	42.0	37.2	16	25%	2%	44%	−15.6
95	Derek Adams	Northwestern	2	58	41.5	38.0	17	29%	0%	51%	−13.6
96	Peter Moore	Virginia Tech	2	59	45.1	40.3	24	41%	10%	39%	+2.4
97	Ralph Fawaz	Wyoming	2	55	42.4	39.6	21	38%	2%	38%	−3.6
98	Jonn Young	East Carolina	2	48	43.0	40.5	19	40%	4%	55%	+3.9
99	Mark Vassett	Louisville	2	47	41.6	39.7	19	41%	2%	50%	+2.9
100	Nick Haberer	Washington State	2	45	42.7	38.3	15	33%	7%	50%	−4.3
101	Mark Crawford	Minnesota	2	44	41.6	40.6	21	48%	2%	36%	+6.3
102	Ethan Slike	Akron	2	49	43.0	39.7	12	28%	2%	28%	−6.6
103	Jordy Sandy	TCU	2	43	43.3	41.8	12	28%	7%	61%	+2.0
104	James Williams	Syracuse	2	40	38.4	35.1	9	23%	0%	31%	−11.8
105	Mac Brown	Ole Miss	2	38	44.0	39.4	15	39%	16%	35%	+6.2
106	Jackson Baltar	Buffalo	2	28	39.5	35.7	6	21%	4%	27%	−11.5
107	Luke Loecher	Oregon State	2	28	47.7	42.8	14	48%	7%	38%	+3.5
108	John Haggerty	Western Kentucky	2	30	48.3	40.4	14	50%	4%	30%	+1.3
109	Colton Spangler	Maryland	2	27	45.1	40.9	1	4%	7%	31%	+1.1
110	Max Morgan	Liberty	2	25	42.9	39.7	8	32%	4%	35%	+2.2
111	Cameron Peasley	Utah	2	24	41.1	39.3	7	29%	4%	32%	−3.2
112	Corey Dunn	Iowa State	2	20	40.6	33.8	8	38%	5%	24%	−5.6
113	Matt Fraanje	SMU	2	9	37.3	36.3	3	30%	20%	0%	−0.4
114	Charlton Butt	UNLV	2	6	38.0	33.5	1	17%	0%	0%	−4.1
115	Drew Plitt	Ball State	2	2	37.5	37.5	2	100%	0%	0%	+0.5
116	Anthony Beck II	Georgia Southern	1	64	45.0	42.0	26	41%	3%	47%	+10.7
117	Will Spiers	Clemson	1	58	42.1	39.4	28	47%	3%	43%	+2.8
118	Matthew Hayball	Florida Atlantic	1	61	45.7	42.1	31	53%	10%	36%	+4.4
119	Laine Wilkins	Houston	1	55	42.3	39.9	22	40%	7%	44%	−0.3
120	Rhys Byrns	Louisiana	1	54	46.2	44.0	25	47%	6%	38%	+11.4
121	Grant Carlson	Boston College	1	52	44.2	39.3	22	42%	8%	26%	+1.5
122	Cameron Dicker	Texas	1	47	46.8	44.1	13	27%	6%	44%	+13.4
123	Lou Hedley	Miami	1	49	44.7	43.0	21	44%	2%	38%	+9.0
124	Xavier Subotsch	App State	1	48	40.8	39.4	26	55%	2%	48%	+1.6
125	Tyler Sumpter	West Virginia	1	45	43.6	39.8	14	31%	13%	31%	+1.1
126	Ben Griffiths	USC	1	44	45.0	41.1	17	40%	12%	55%	+5.9
127	Bailey Rice	Charlotte	1	40	42.2	40.6	15	38%	5%	48%	+1.8
128	Jack Ansell	Purdue	1	39	37.9	34.9	11	28%	0%	48%	−11.4
129	Brendan Hall	SMU	1	36	41.7	36.2	10	28%	3%	44%	−6.6
130	Luke Akers	UCLA	1	34	43.1	37.1	6	19%	23%	35%	−1.2
131	Anthony Pecorella	Maryland	1	28	44.0	37.1	12	41%	18%	30%	+1.9
132	Haydn Kerr	UConn	1	19	36.2	34.2	10	53%	5%	47%	−4.5
133	Daniel Cerni	Nebraska	1	16	36.9	27.6	4	25%	25%	36%	−9.6
134	Carson Bay	Air Force	1	12	41.0	41.1	5	42%	0%	29%	+1.6
135	George Georgeopoulos	Massachusetts	1	11	40.5	41.3	2	18%	0%	10%	−2.2
136	Lucas Borrow	Ball State	1	7	39.1	39.1	4	57%	0%	60%	+0.5
137	Brendan Cropsey	Purdue	1	5	38.4	37.5	3	50%	0%	33%	+0.2
138	Cameron Shook	Iowa State	1	6	36.7	32.7	0	0%	0%	40%	−3.5
139	Duke Paane	Navy	1	5	35.8	29.2	1	17%	0%	60%	−4.8
140	Kolby Morgan	Tennessee	1	4	38.5	38.5	1	25%	0%	50%	−1.0
141	Kyle Romenick	Akron	1	2	50.0	50.0	0	0%	0%	50%	+1.4
142	Colby Barker	Syracuse	1	1	8.0	8.0	0	0%	0%	0%	−2.6
143	J.Velarde	Marshall	1	1	36.0	36.0	0	0%	0%	0%	−0.3
144	Jayden de Laura	Washington State	1	1	28.0	28.0	1	100%	0%	0%	+0.2

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