Player Dossier

2015-2019

Michigan State

Jake Hartbarger

P • 6'4" • 194 lbs • Waterville, OH, USA

Impact contributor

Jake Hartbarger 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

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Star Power

87

Elite ceiling indicators

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Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by Season Value: 2015 Postseason · Michigan State

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Snapshot

Career Teams
1
Unique Seasons
5
Program Path
Michigan State
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: Alabama

Player Story

Jake Hartbarger built his college career from 2015 through 2019 as a punter from Waterville, OH wearing No. 5, spending time with Michigan State. The clearest part of Jake Hartbarger's career was his field-position...

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Recruit Profile

Class 2014 · Rating 0.8353

Anthony Wayne · Whitehouse, OH

Committed To
Michigan State
Commit Date
Jan 1, 2014

Jake Hartbarger, P. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2015 Postseason · Michigan State. Jake Hartbarger shows a productive multi-phase profile across the tracked sample.

Quick Answers

Jake Hartbarger quick answers

Latest team and position
Michigan State · P
Career Touchdowns
0
Tracked sample
5 unique seasons · 8 entries · 54 games
Best season
2015 Postseason · Michigan State
Top game
Alabama
Recruit profile
3-star · Anthony Wayne · Michigan State
High school pipeline
Anthony Wayne · 7 FBS recruits · 0 drafted players
Latest roster
No. 5 · Senior

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesTDPrimaryOverall
2015 PostseasonMichigan State1400100
2015 Regular SeasonMichigan State1400100
2016 Regular SeasonMichigan State1200100
2017 PostseasonMichigan State1300100
2017 Regular SeasonMichigan State1300100
2018 Regular SeasonMichigan State200100
2019 PostseasonMichigan State1300100
2019 Regular SeasonMichigan State1300100

Related Context

Jake Hartbarger played P for Michigan State. Across 5 tracked seasons, Jake Hartbarger recorded -28 rushing yards and 1 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2019 with Michigan State.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2015 Postseason

Michigan State paired 0 primary output with — efficiency.

Supporting note

2019 Postseason role shape

impact-led usage with — efficiency.

Supporting note

Career value stayed steady

2019 Regular Season tracked close to the prior stop by season value score.

Supporting note

Peak game by takeover score: Wake Forest

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

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2019 Postseason · Michigan State

Games

13

Primary Metric / G

0

Efficiency

Usage

Consistency

100

Best Game by takeover score

Wake Forest

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Game-by-Game Trend

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Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. Wake Forest: 0. Tulsa: 0. Western Michigan: 0. Arizona State: 0. Northwestern: 0. Indiana: 0. Ohio State: 0. Wisconsin: 0. Penn State: 0. Illinois: 0. Michigan: 0. Rutgers: 0. Maryland: 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 = 7 · +0 vs Losses
Losses0 · Games = 6 · +0 vs Wins

Game Log

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

13 games

Featured metric

Touchdowns

Top game by takeover score

Wake Forest

Best efficiency game

— vs Wake Forest

Result
Fri 12/27@ Wake ForestW 27-21
Sat 11/30vs MarylandW 19-16
Sat 11/23@ RutgersW 27-0
Sat 11/16@ MichiganL 10-44
Sat 11/9vs IllinoisL 34-37
Sat 10/26vs Penn StateL 7-28
Sat 10/12@ WisconsinL 0-38
Sat 10/5@ Ohio StateL 10-34
Sat 9/28vs IndianaW 40-31
Sat 9/21@ NorthwesternW 31-10
Sat 9/14vs Arizona StateL 7-10
Sat 9/7vs Western MichiganW 51-17
Fri 8/30vs TulsaW 28-7

Player Story

Jake Hartbarger story

Jake Hartbarger built his college career from 2015 through 2019 as a punter from Waterville, OH wearing No. 5, spending time with Michigan State. The clearest part of Jake Hartbarger's career was his field-position work: 249 punts, 10,554 punting yards, and 8 punts inside the 20 across 54 career games in the available record. His largest box-score season came in 2017 with Michigan State. 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. His career also includes 1 tackle, giving the story more than a single-category snapshot. With 54 career games in the available record, his career has enough shape to show both opportunity and production across Michigan State.

The arc is straightforward: Jake Hartbarger 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

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    Michigan State

    2015-2019

    Opening stop

Season Value Progression

20152015201620172017201820192019
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2015 PostseasonMichigan State0
2015 Regular SeasonMichigan State00
2016 Regular SeasonMichigan State00
2017 PostseasonMichigan State00
2017 Regular SeasonMichigan State00
2018 Regular SeasonMichigan State00
2019 PostseasonMichigan State00
2019 Regular SeasonMichigan State00

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

@ Alabama

Week 1 · L 0-38 · Postseason

Loss with a strong all-around stat line.

0

Touchdowns

0 takeover

0 primary-metric impact.

#2

@ Iowa

Week 14 · W 16-13 · Conference game

0

Touchdowns

0 takeover

Win with a strong all-around stat line.

0 primary-metric impact.

#3

vs Penn State

Week 13 · W 55-16 · Conference game

0

Touchdowns

0 takeover

Win with a strong all-around stat line.

0 primary-metric impact.

#4

@ Ohio State

Week 12 · W 17-14 · Conference game

0

Touchdowns

0 takeover

Win with a strong all-around stat line.

0 primary-metric impact.

#5

vs Maryland

Week 11 · W 24-7 · Conference game

0

Touchdowns

0 takeover

Win with a strong all-around stat line.

0 primary-metric impact.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2015 Postseason · Michigan State

0 primary output · efficiency · usage

100

#2

2015 Regular Season · Michigan State

100

0 primary · efficiency · usage

#3

2016 Regular Season · Michigan State

100

0 primary · efficiency · usage

Milestones

0

Impact games

0

Splash games

0

10+ tackle games