2022 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 2022, Jack Bouwmeester (69.0%) led college football punters in fair catch percentage, ahead of Daton Montiel (65.3%) and Jordy Sandy (63.8%). 127 punters qualify (minimum 30 punts). The median qualified punter had 35.7%.

Final 2022 regular-season numbers, updated October 23, 2026.

Rk	Player	Team	FC %	Punts	Avg	Net	In 20	In 20 %	TB %	Points
1	Jack Bouwmeester	Utah	69.0%	34	38.9	38.0	13	41%	3%	+0.1
2	Daton Montiel	Florida International	65.3%	69	42.1	40.2	20	29%	4%	−1.5
3	Jordy Sandy	TCU	63.8%	52	39.6	37.9	16	31%	6%	+0.1
4	Josh Carlson	New Mexico State	60.0%	56	40.5	39.3	16	29%	0%	+3.7
5	Bernardo Rodriguez	North Texas	59.5%	49	40.6	39.0	22	44%	0%	−0.6
6	Jon Sot	Notre Dame	59.1%	45	43.2	40.7	20	44%	4%	+9.2
7	Luke Larsen	East Carolina	58.8%	44	40.4	37.5	17	39%	7%	−1.3
8	Danny Longman	Boston College	54.5%	61	40.9	39.7	17	27%	0%	+1.3
9	Oliver Straw	West Virginia	54.5%	49	42.5	41.3	19	39%	4%	+4.1
10	James Ferguson-Reynolds	Boise State	54.3%	59	42.5	39.2	22	40%	5%	+5.5
11	Tom Foley	Northern Illinois	54.3%	47	40.8	38.4	16	33%	2%	−11.3
12	Oscar Chapman	Auburn	52.9%	57	43.8	42.5	21	38%	4%	+13.6
13	Casey Glover	Tulane	52.6%	44	41.6	38.5	17	39%	16%	+3.8
14	Colin Goodfellow	Kentucky	51.7%	33	40.8	36.9	11	32%	3%	−1.9
15	Ivan Mora	Wake Forest	51.7%	33	42.6	39.1	13	38%	3%	+2.5
16	Seamus O'Kelly	Texas State	51.6%	73	40.5	37.7	17	24%	7%	−7.1
17	Brett Thorson	Georgia	51.5%	33	44.9	41.0	18	55%	3%	+3.7
18	Clayton Howell	App State	51.3%	43	38.8	36.4	12	28%	12%	−4.4
19	Nick Haberer	Washington State	50.0%	54	41.8	40.4	20	38%	2%	+5.0
20	Brad Robbins	Michigan	50.0%	38	42.0	41.5	18	47%	0%	+9.9
21	Ryan Bujcevski	SMU	50.0%	36	43.8	40.9	13	36%	8%	+4.1
22	Adam Korsak	Rutgers	49.2%	75	44.0	43.4	35	50%	3%	+17.8
23	Sami Sir	Bowling Green	49.0%	68	38.5	37.1	15	23%	5%	−15.7
24	Bailey Rice	Charlotte	48.3%	46	42.7	39.3	17	38%	7%	−0.4
25	Aadyn Sleep-Dalton	USC	48.3%	30	40.3	37.8	10	33%	0%	−2.2
26	George Caratan	UConn	48.1%	61	40.3	38.2	18	31%	2%	−5.1
27	Joe Doyle	Memphis	47.6%	45	46.7	39.8	15	33%	13%	+1.4
28	Austin McCready	Louisiana Tech	46.9%	34	40.6	37.0	6	17%	3%	−11.7
29	Billy Boehlke	Army	46.4%	43	38.3	35.6	8	19%	7%	−9.5
30	Austin McNamara	Texas Tech	46.2%	49	44.4	39.6	17	35%	6%	−0.4
31	Shane McDonough	NC State	46.2%	40	41.4	36.9	13	33%	5%	−0.4
32	Mason Hunt	Southern Miss	45.8%	66	42.4	38.5	29	43%	12%	+5.9
33	Hugh Robertson	Illinois	45.2%	55	39.0	36.4	18	33%	7%	−8.8
34	Luke Elzinga	Central Michigan	45.0%	55	42.7	39.9	26	47%	7%	+2.7
35	Paxton Brooks	Tennessee	44.8%	30	39.0	38.3	11	37%	3%	0.0
36	Evan Crenshaw	Coastal Carolina	44.7%	47	38.7	36.2	9	20%	2%	−11.9
37	Ty Zentner	Kansas State	44.2%	54	44.7	42.2	27	50%	9%	+10.1
38	Nik Constantinou	Texas A&M	43.3%	62	41.7	40.5	27	44%	2%	+9.1
39	Aaron Rodriguez	New Mexico	43.2%	81	44.2	40.4	26	33%	8%	+12.6
40	Nick Mihalic	Western Michigan	43.1%	71	41.4	37.1	14	20%	10%	−0.4
41	Lucas Borrow	Ball State	42.9%	66	41.4	38.5	28	44%	9%	−5.1
42	Aidan Alves	Liberty	42.2%	56	41.4	38.1	22	42%	4%	+0.1
43	Porter Wilson	Duke	41.9%	42	42.3	39.8	15	39%	5%	+5.4
44	Mark Crawford	Minnesota	41.7%	40	40.3	38.1	15	38%	8%	+3.7
45	Tyler Perkins	Iowa State	41.5%	50	42.2	41.2	21	42%	4%	+7.6
46	Noah Gettman	Akron	41.3%	53	41.4	36.5	13	21%	8%	−12.2
47	Mason Fletcher	Cincinnati	41.3%	56	46.6	44.8	31	56%	4%	+21.2
48	Ryan Sanborn	Stanford	40.8%	57	41.7	39.1	20	35%	0%	+2.6
49	Matt Freem	Nevada	40.8%	50	41.6	39.0	16	30%	2%	+3.5
50	Jonathon Batzke	Toledo	40.0%	62	39.4	37.2	12	20%	3%	−13.5
51	Jack Stonehouse	Missouri	40.0%	47	42.3	38.9	17	37%	9%	+2.1
52	Tom Ellard	Western Kentucky	40.0%	42	42.5	40.2	19	46%	2%	+1.3
53	Travis Benham	San José State	40.0%	36	41.5	36.9	17	47%	17%	+2.1
54	James Burnip	Alabama	39.5%	39	42.8	39.1	13	33%	5%	+5.1
55	Peter Moore	Virginia Tech	38.5%	73	41.7	40.2	24	33%	6%	+0.1
56	Josh Smith	Kent State	38.5%	43	40.3	38.6	14	33%	0%	−3.0
57	Jeremy Crawshaw	Florida	37.9%	31	46.8	43.5	14	45%	3%	+3.4
58	Jesse Mirco	Ohio State	37.2%	44	45.6	41.5	20	45%	16%	+7.2
59	Jack Wilson	Ohio	37.1%	38	37.1	35.0	18	47%	5%	−0.7
60	Joshua Sloan	UTEP	36.7%	45	43.3	38.3	16	36%	9%	−1.7
61	John McConnell	Marshall	36.5%	64	39.2	36.2	26	41%	10%	−7.8
62	Jay Bramblett	LSU	36.2%	47	44.2	39.3	19	40%	9%	+4.5
63	Sam Clark	James Madison	35.7%	50	43.2	39.2	18	36%	8%	+3.6
64	Luke Loecher	Oregon State	35.7%	33	45.4	40.9	11	33%	6%	+5.7
65	Mitch McCarthy	UCF	35.3%	36	43.0	39.6	15	42%	0%	+1.3
66	Brian Buschini	Nebraska	34.9%	68	44.0	39.9	16	24%	9%	+5.0
67	Mackenzie Morgan	Temple	34.8%	58	40.0	38.7	18	33%	2%	−3.8
68	Jamieson Sheahan	California	34.5%	65	45.1	40.1	25	38%	8%	+5.4
69	Ethan Duane	Old Dominion	34.4%	68	43.1	41.2	31	46%	4%	+15.6
70	Daniel Trejo	Texas	34.1%	40	41.6	39.8	11	26%	5%	−0.8
71	Jack Browning	San Diego State	33.3%	65	45.6	42.5	31	52%	7%	+18.1
72	Mike Rivers	Troy	33.3%	56	42.0	38.8	26	50%	6%	−1.9
73	Carson King	Fresno State	33.3%	48	41.9	39.1	13	28%	6%	−3.5
74	Ryan Rehkow	BYU	32.3%	36	44.8	41.3	14	39%	8%	+6.4
75	Max Fletcher	Arkansas	32.3%	32	37.6	32.9	13	41%	3%	−11.2
76	Tory Taylor	Iowa	31.8%	74	45.1	41.2	37	50%	15%	+19.2
77	Lachlan Wilson	Tulsa	31.8%	58	43.8	39.2	26	45%	0%	−4.7
78	Marshall Nichols	UNLV	31.8%	59	42.5	39.1	18	32%	4%	−3.1
79	Dom Dzioban	Miami (OH)	31.7%	71	41.9	40.3	29	44%	5%	+7.9
80	Conor Hunt	Rice	31.6%	42	41.3	36.8	13	33%	5%	−5.6
81	CJ Kolodziey	Massachusetts	31.3%	81	36.4	34.3	19	24%	6%	−26.5
82	Matthew Shipley	Hawai'i	31.3%	63	40.7	36.6	19	31%	10%	−6.5
83	Fraser Masin	Ole Miss	30.8%	38	41.6	39.3	13	33%	5%	−0.3
84	Sam Vander Haar	Pittsburgh	30.8%	30	39.1	36.3	13	42%	3%	−3.7
85	Michael Turk	Oklahoma	30.0%	60	46.7	43.1	22	37%	15%	+9.1
86	Michael Hayes II	Georgia State	30.0%	57	42.0	39.7	16	30%	4%	+2.2
87	Clayton Stewart	Wyoming	29.8%	69	44.3	37.9	20	29%	13%	−4.0
88	Issac Power	Baylor	29.4%	37	42.1	38.1	14	38%	11%	−1.2
89	Lucas Dean	UTSA	29.0%	38	45.1	41.6	17	47%	8%	+10.7
90	Luke Akers	Northwestern	28.9%	45	41.0	37.2	13	30%	7%	−8.6
91	Barney Amor	Penn State	28.3%	50	43.9	40.6	19	39%	6%	+5.0
92	James Evans	Indiana	27.9%	75	44.3	40.1	31	41%	3%	+1.5
93	Tom Hutton	Oklahoma State	27.9%	44	43.8	36.3	19	40%	2%	−6.0
94	Trent Carrizosa	Colorado	27.9%	46	40.9	36.9	14	30%	0%	−12.2
95	Max Von Marburg	Syracuse	27.5%	48	40.8	36.8	8	17%	7%	−11.5
96	Eddie Czaplicki	Arizona State	27.1%	50	46.0	39.4	18	37%	10%	−2.1
97	Jack Ansell	Purdue	26.8%	49	42.7	39.2	14	29%	10%	+7.6
98	Riley Thompson	Florida Atlantic	26.7%	61	45.4	42.4	25	44%	5%	+3.2
99	Jack Brooks	South Alabama	26.2%	51	41.8	38.5	17	33%	6%	−6.3
100	Riley Riethman	Navy	26.2%	45	43.8	39.0	12	26%	7%	+0.7
101	Colton Spangler	Maryland	26.0%	52	44.9	42.3	19	37%	6%	+11.1
102	Paddy Turner	Colorado State	25.0%	66	39.1	37.6	15	23%	2%	−8.3
103	Rhys Byrns	Louisiana	25.0%	49	44.3	40.8	14	29%	8%	+4.3
104	Stephen Kotsanlee	Utah State	24.5%	62	43.8	40.1	22	35%	13%	+9.4
105	Ryan Hanson	Arkansas State	24.4%	48	43.7	40.8	19	40%	4%	+1.3
106	Devyn McCormick	UL Monroe	24.0%	60	43.9	36.6	17	29%	7%	−17.3
107	Bryce Baringer	Michigan State	23.9%	51	48.8	45.5	22	43%	8%	+22.0
108	Aidan Swanson	Clemson	23.7%	59	42.3	38.2	18	31%	2%	−8.2
109	Kyle Greenwell	UAB	23.7%	43	45.5	39.1	13	30%	14%	+0.6
110	Andy Vujnovich	Wisconsin	23.4%	56	43.6	39.3	21	39%	7%	+0.4
111	George Georgopoulos	Mississippi State	23.3%	31	40.1	37.9	12	39%	3%	−2.9
112	Ben Kiernan	North Carolina	22.7%	46	46.7	42.4	18	39%	4%	+4.2
113	Alex Mastromanno	Florida State	22.2%	32	41.8	39.3	17	52%	9%	+5.6
114	Kyle Ulbrich	Middle Tennessee	22.0%	60	46.2	41.8	28	47%	12%	+12.0
115	Reis Vernon	Kansas	20.8%	35	39.9	36.1	11	31%	9%	−9.5
116	Lou Hedley	Miami	20.5%	47	45.3	42.6	24	51%	6%	+12.8
117	Matthew Hayball	Vanderbilt	20.0%	59	45.4	37.8	21	36%	3%	−6.1
118	Mark Vassett	Louisville	19.6%	50	44.6	40.8	20	40%	8%	+5.8
119	Daniel Sparks	Virginia	19.0%	47	45.8	38.5	15	32%	11%	+0.9
120	Carson Bay	Air Force	19.0%	29	38.6	34.5	11	37%	10%	−7.5
121	Anthony Venneri	Buffalo	18.2%	33	41.7	37.6	10	29%	14%	−4.4
122	Anthony Beck II	Georgia Southern	17.5%	47	42.5	37.8	16	36%	7%	−3.6
123	Laine Wilkins	Houston	17.1%	37	44.4	41.7	11	30%	5%	+2.5
124	Kai Kroeger	South Carolina	17.0%	52	46.8	43.5	29	56%	10%	+16.0
125	David Shanahan	Georgia Tech	13.4%	73	43.5	33.2	13	17%	8%	−31.8
126	Mitchell Tomasek	Eastern Michigan	12.9%	46	44.1	40.0	18	44%	15%	+3.4
127	Kyle Ostendorp	Arizona	10.3%	35	44.2	38.4	11	32%	9%	−3.9

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