Player Dossier

2008-2011

Cincinnati

Shane Popham

P • 5'11" • Crestview Hills, KY, USA

Impact contributor

Shane Popham shows a productive multi-phase profile across the tracked sample.

Usage / Role

Role sample still building

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Impact Production

Production sample still building

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Reliability

100

Regular contributor with several takeover games

lowhigh

Star Power

85

Elite ceiling indicators

limitedstar

Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by Season Value: 2008 Postseason · Wake Forest

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Snapshot

Career Teams
2
Unique Seasons
4
Program Path
Wake Forest • Cincinnati
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: Navy

Player Story

Shane Popham built his college career from 2008 through 2011 as a punter from Crestview Hills, KY wearing No. 29, spending time with Cincinnati and Wake Forest. The clearest part of Shane Popham's career was his...

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Shane Popham, P. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2008 Postseason · Wake Forest. Shane Popham shows a productive multi-phase profile across the tracked sample.

Quick Answers

Shane Popham quick answers

Latest team and position
Cincinnati · P
Career Touchdowns
0
Tracked sample
4 unique seasons · 5 entries · 35 games
Best season
2008 Postseason · Wake Forest
Top game
Navy
Latest roster
No. 29 · Class 2011

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesTDPrimaryOverall
2008 PostseasonWake Forest900100
2008 Regular SeasonWake Forest900100
2009 Regular SeasonWake Forest1200100
2010 Regular SeasonWake Forest1200100
2011 Regular SeasonCincinnati200100

Related Context

Shane Popham is listed as a P for Wake Forest and Cincinnati. Detailed college production data is limited on CFB Track.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2008 Postseason

Wake Forest paired 0 primary output with — efficiency.

Supporting note

2009 Regular Season role shape

impact-led usage with — efficiency.

Supporting note

Career value stayed steady

2011 Regular Season tracked close to the prior stop by season value score.

Supporting note

Multi-stop career journey

Production spans 2 team stops, with role shifts visible across Wake Forest, Cincinnati.

Supporting note

Peak game by takeover score: Duke

Win with a strong all-around stat line. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.

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2009 Regular Season · Wake Forest

Games

12

Primary Metric / G

0

Efficiency

Usage

Consistency

100

Best Game by takeover score

Duke

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Game-by-Game Trend

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Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. Baylor: 0. Stanford: 0. Elon: 0. Boston College: 0. NC State: 0. Maryland: 0. Clemson: 0. Navy: 0. Miami: 0. Georgia Tech: 0. Florida State: 0. Duke: 0

Volume vs Efficiency

Each dot is a game. Farther right means the player carried more of the workload, and higher means they were more efficient with those chances.

Scatter view is hidden because this season does not have enough game-to-game variety yet.

Split Comparison

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Wins0 · Games = 5 · +0 vs Losses
Losses0 · Games = 7 · +0 vs Wins

Game Log

Dense stat lines with inline explanations and season-linked highlights.

12 games

Featured metric

Touchdowns

Top game by takeover score

Duke

Best efficiency game

— vs Duke

Result
Sat 11/28@ DukeW 45-34
Sat 11/14vs Florida StateL 28-41
Sat 11/7@ Georgia TechL 27-30
Sat 10/31vs MiamiL 27-28
Sat 10/24@ NavyL 10-13
Sat 10/17@ ClemsonL 3-38
Sat 10/10vs MarylandW 42-32
Sat 10/3vs NC StateW 30-24
Sat 9/26@ Boston CollegeL 24-27
Sat 9/19vs ElonW 35-7
Sat 9/12vs StanfordW 24-17
Sat 9/5vs BaylorL 21-24

Player Story

Shane Popham story

Shane Popham built his college career from 2008 through 2011 as a punter from Crestview Hills, KY wearing No. 29, spending time with Cincinnati and Wake Forest. The clearest part of Shane Popham's career was his field-position work: 179 punts and 6,846 punting yards across 35 career games in the available record. His largest box-score season came in 2010 with Wake Forest. Those numbers show where he fit, how often the ball or action found him, and how his role developed over time.

Special-teams careers depend on repeatable opportunity, not just one highlight. With 35 career games in the available record, his career has enough shape to show both opportunity and production across Cincinnati and Wake Forest.

The arc is straightforward: Shane Popham moved through the depth chart, found a larger role, and turned that opportunity into production that can be understood through standard football numbers.

Career Arc

Track team changes, role shifts, and season-to-season movement.

  1. 1

    Wake Forest

    2008-2010

    Opening stop

  2. 2

    Cincinnati

    2011

    Final stop

Season Value Progression

20082008200920102011
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2008 PostseasonWake Forest0
2008 Regular SeasonWake Forest00
2009 Regular SeasonWake Forest00
2010 Regular SeasonWake Forest00
2011 Regular SeasonCincinnati00

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

@ Navy

Week 1 · W 29-19 · Postseason

Win with a strong all-around stat line.

0

Touchdowns

0 takeover

0 primary-metric impact.

#2

vs Vanderbilt

Week 14 · W 23-10

0

Touchdowns

0 takeover

Win with a strong all-around stat line.

0 primary-metric impact.

#3

vs Boston College

Week 13 · L 21-24 · Conference game

0

Touchdowns

0 takeover

Loss with a strong all-around stat line.

0 primary-metric impact.

#4

@ NC State

Week 12 · L 17-21 · Conference game

0

Touchdowns

0 takeover

Loss with a strong all-around stat line.

0 primary-metric impact.

#5

vs Virginia

Week 11 · W 28-17 · Conference game

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Touchdowns

0 takeover

Win with a strong all-around stat line.

0 primary-metric impact.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2008 Postseason · Wake Forest

0 primary output · efficiency · usage

100

#2

2008 Regular Season · Wake Forest

100

0 primary · efficiency · usage

#3

2009 Regular Season · Wake Forest

100

0 primary · efficiency · usage

Milestones

0

Impact games

0

Splash games

0

10+ tackle games