Eli
Mercer.
Distance and placement tell different stories. Look at both sides of the punt.
Fictional player and performance. Stats, charts, splits, and logs use the same sample appearances; shared totals match the team roster. Sample weeks are illustrative, not a live schedule. Player game logs allocate season totals across sample opponents; they are not the team’s game boxscores.
A season moves one game at a time.
Headline: combined selected games. Line: three-appearance rolling values, using earlier games for context where available. Rates use combined counts; no attempts displays “—”.
Every special-teams opportunity.
47across the sample
Punts attempted. Each bar is one appearance; workload describes opportunity, not a performance grade.
Put the splits side by side.
Gross punt average · combined counts
| Split | GP | PUNTS | PUNT YDS | GROSS AVG |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home | 6 | 24 | 1,046 | 43.6 |
| Away | 6 | 23 | 1,003 | 43.6 |
The numbers, in full context.
| Week | Opponent | PUNTS | PUNT YDS | GROSS AVG | IN20 | TB |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12 | @GT | 3 | 131 | 43.7 | 1 | 0 |
| 11 | vsULM | 5 | 218 | 43.6 | 2 | 0 |
| 10 | @UL | 2 | 87 | 43.5 | 0 | 1 |
| 09 | vsWSU | 4 | 174 | 43.5 | 1 | 0 |
| 08 | @BSU | 5 | 218 | 43.6 | 2 | 0 |
| 07 | vsUNM | 2 | 87 | 43.5 | 0 | 1 |
| Full sample season | 47 | 2,049 | 43.6 | 13 | 4 | |
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