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Last season, the Tennessee Titans found a special teams star in the making in punter Ryan Stonehouse, who had a record-setting season as a rookie despite going undrafted.
This year, the Titans are hoping to have luck on their side once again as they opted not to select a kicker in the later rounds and instead took their chances on the talented and productive kicker out of Texas Tech, Trey Wolff, who is competing with 2022 UDFA Caleb Shudak for the starting job.
This was a rather interesting choice for the team since they just parted ways with a kicker in Randy Bullock, whose biggest issue was his average leg strength, which often prevented the team from attempting longer field goals.
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Wolff only attempted two field goals of that distance during his entire college career. His average leg strength also showed up on kickoffs, where Wolff produced a touchback on approximately 54 percent of his kicks in 2022, which led to an average kickoff grade of 73.7, per Pro Football Focus.
The Texas Tech product has also struggled with his accuracy at times. For the most part, Wolff’s career numbers progressively get worse the further he goes from the goalposts.
Since the start of 2019, Wolff was perfect a 19-of-19 on kicks that ranged between 20-29 yards, while also making a respectable 78.6 percent (11-of-14) of his kicks on attempts that range between 30-39 yards.
However, the former Red Raider only made about 63 percent of his career attempts that were beyond 40 yards (12-of-19), which includes a rather concerning percentage of 58.8 between 40-49 yards.
Surprisingly, he was a perfect two-for-two on his field goal attempts that were from 50-plus yards out, both of which occurred in 2022, a season in which he set a career-high field goal grade of 89.0, per PFF.
In total, Wolff connected on 42-of-52 career attempts, and 107-of-110 PATs, totaling 233 points over 45 career games as a Red Raider.
Wolff ended his collegiate career as one of eight kickers in program history to make 40 or more field goals in a career, which subsequently led to him finishing ninth in program history for most points scored (233).
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