Where Do You Stack Up?

Enter your numbers. Find out what level they play at.

These are the benchmarks college programs actually evaluate specialists against, built from more than 600,000 NFL, NCAA and high school kicks and punts on TrackMan. Most kickers have never seen them. The full standards tables are here.

How to read this

These are destinations, not grades. The levels describe what a specialist looks like at the level he wants to reach — NFL, Power 4, D1, D2/D3. Sitting below a line at sixteen is not a problem. Not knowing where the line is, is.

Your weakest number is the one that matters. College staffs recruit the floor, not the ceiling. A kicker with an NFL ball speed and a D2 height at the line of scrimmage is a kicker who gets blocked.

Field goal and kickoff ball speed are different measurements. Grade every kick against the line for its own drill — a 72 mph field goal and a 72 mph kickoff are not the same thing.

Be careful what you are chasing on punts. A 50-yard punt with 4.0 hang is worse than a 40-yard punt with 5.0. The first hands the most electric athlete on the other team space and time. Distance impresses people. Hang time wins the down.

Where the numbers come from

Every session at 4th Down University runs on TrackMan, and every rep is reviewed on film the same day. That is how these numbers get produced honestly — electronically, on a real field, across enough reps to show the spread rather than the best one.

Hand timing is why so many quoted snap and operation numbers are inflated. A stopwatch plus human reaction has been flattering specialists for years, mostly for recruiting. Very few snappers are genuinely under 0.8 seconds from 15 yards, and fewer still are under 0.8 with great location.