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Blake Gillikin

Punter, Arizona Cardinals · #12.

Player facts

Team: Arizona Cardinals
Position: Punter
Number: 12
Born: Jan 21, 1998 (age 28)
Birthplace: Smyrna, GA, USA
Height: 6' 2"
Weight: 196 lbs
College: Penn State
Experience: 7 seasons
Status: Active

Stats

Among the NFL leaders, 2026 Regular Season:

7th in punt yards 1141

2026 Punting

	PUNTS	AVG	LNG	YDS	TB	TB%	IN20	IN20%	ATT	YDS	AVG	NET
Regular Season	25	45.6	63	1,141	3	12.00	7	28.00	13	132	10.2	38.0
Last 5 Games	25	46.8	63	1,141	3	18.33	7	28.60	13	132	10.2	40.4
Career	296	48.2	77	14,273	19	6.42	106	35.81	138	1,355	9.8	43.6

Recent games

Date	Opponent	Result	PUNTS	AVG	LNG	YDS	TB	TB%	IN20	IN20%	ATT	YDS	NET
Sun, Oct 11	vs DET	L 45-21	5	46.8	54	234	0	0.00	0	0.00	4	69	33.0
Sun, Oct 4	@ NYG	L 36-24	6	43.2	52	259	0	0.00	1	17.00	4	27	38.7
Sun, Sep 27	@ SF	L 36-30	4	50.3	63	201	1	25.00	2	50.00	2	7	48.5
Sun, Sep 20	vs SEA	L 31-7	7	41.3	49	289	0	0.00	3	43.00	3	29	37.1
Sun, Sep 13	@ LAC	W 26-14	3	52.7	61	158	2	66.67	1	33.00	0	0	52.7

Last 5 games. Click a game for its box score.

About

Blake Thomas Gillikin (born January 21, 1998) is an American professional football punter for the Arizona Cardinals of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Penn State Nittany Lions.

Gillikin is second in NFL history in yards per punt (48.32).

From Wikipedia’s article on Blake Gillikin, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.¹

Background

Early life

A former resident of Smyrna, Georgia, Gillikin helped lead The Westminster Schools to its first GHSA Football Class AAA Georgia State Championship since 1978 in 2015, and was rated as a five-star punter and a five-star kicker by Kohl's Kicking Camp.

College career

A four-year starter at Penn State, Gillikin is ranked No. 2 on Penn State's career punting average charts (43.03 avg.) He landed 53 career punts downed inside the opponent's ten-yard line (seven in 2016, 18 in 2017, 12 in 2018, 15 in 2019) and is the only player in program history with seven punts of 65 or more yards. Gillikin is second all time in net punting yards in school history behind Jeremy Kapinos. In 2019, Gillikin averaged 42.2 yards per punt as was selected All-Big Ten Conference honorable mention by the conference coaches and media. Was also selected for the CoSIDA Academic All-American first-team.

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