Career Honors:
-2020 All-CAA Football First Team
-2016 CAA Football Academic All-Conference Team
Personal: Son of Tom and Ellen Stephenson…Brother Will punted at North Carolina State University and fellow CAA Football program Delaware…Born July 22, 1998.
2020-21: Named first team All-CAA Football punter after leading the league in the majority of the punting categories, posting a 43.4 average on his 30 punts, accumulating 1,301 yards...Finished ranked 10th overall in the nation in punting average...Had five punts of 50 yards or more with a season-long 66-yarder at No. 20 Richmond on March 27...Had seven punts downed inside the 20.
2019:Â Handled punting duties in all 11 games...Punted 55 times for 2,293 yards to average 41.7 yards per kick, the sixth-best mark in the CAA and 29th-best in the country...Finished with 16 punts inside the 20 and 10 boots of 50-plus yards...Had a season-long 57-yard punt and four inside the 20 against No. 2 James Madison...Also finished with an average of 50.3 yards per punt against Richmond and kicked three punts 50-plus yards at Wake Forest.
2018: Punted in all 11 games on the season...Averaged 40.0 yards per punt on 54 punts...His 40.0 yards per punt ranked fifth best in the CAA in 2018...Placed 18 punts inside the 20...Averaged 45.6 yards per punt on seven punts with a long of 56 against USF while placing two kicks inside the 20...Averaged 45.5 yards per punt against No. 20 Towson with a season-long kick of 67 yards and three kicks inside the 20...His 67-yard punt against the Tigers marked the longest by a CAA punter in 2018.
2017: Saw action in all 12 games…Averaged 39.7 yards on 68 punts…Had 13 punts of 50 or more yards and placed 21 punts inside the 20…Averaged 39.6 yards on nine punts in his collegiate debut at Toledo…Had a long punt of 54 yards in a win over No. 19 Albany…Had three punts of 50 or more yards, including matching a long of 54 yards, in a victory at Rhode Island…Averaged 50.0 yards on four punts that were all placed from the 11-yard line or better in a win at No. 13 Villanova…Booted a career-long punt of 60 yards against No. 1 James Madison.
2016: Redshirted…Named to the CAA Football Academic All-Conference Team.
Prep: Four-time special teams player of the week honoree for coach Rodney Sink’s program…CAP 8 honorable mention selection…Member of the Beta Club and the Varsity Letterman’s Club…Recipient of the Lamp of Knowledge Award.
