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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.
57across 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 | 32 | 1,412 | 44.1 |
| Away | 6 | 25 | 1,102 | 44.1 |
The numbers, in full context.
| Week | Opponent | PUNTS | PUNT YDS | GROSS AVG | IN20 | TB |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12 | @NEB | 4 | 176 | 44.0 | 1 | 0 |
| 11 | vsILL | 6 | 265 | 44.2 | 2 | 0 |
| 10 | @PITT | 3 | 132 | 44.0 | 1 | 0 |
| 09 | vsDUKE | 5 | 221 | 44.2 | 2 | 0 |
| 08 | @TROY | 7 | 309 | 44.1 | 2 | 0 |
| 07 | vsJMU | 3 | 132 | 44.0 | 1 | 0 |
| Full sample season | 57 | 2,514 | 44.1 | 18 | 2 | |
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