Player Dossier

2014-2020

UNLV

Hayes Hicken

PK • 6'2" • 245 lbs • Salt Lake City, UT, USA

Impact contributor

Hayes Hicken 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

85

Elite ceiling indicators

limitedstar

Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by Season Value: 2016 Regular Season · Utah

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Snapshot

Career Teams
2
Unique Seasons
7
Program Path
Utah • UNLV
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: UCLA

Player Story

Hayes Hicken built his college career from 2014 through 2020 as a placekicker from Salt Lake City, UT wearing No. 19, spending time with UNLV and Utah. The clearest part of Hayes Hicken's career was his...

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Hayes Hicken, PK. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2016 Regular Season · Utah. Hayes Hicken shows a productive multi-phase profile across the tracked sample.

Stat Footprint

Career production snapshot

Rushing yards
14

Quick Answers

Hayes Hicken quick answers

Latest team and position
UNLV · PK
Career Touchdowns
0
Tracked sample
7 unique seasons · 7 entries · 26 games
Best season
2016 Regular Season · Utah
Top game
UCLA
Latest roster
No. 19 · Senior

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesTDPrimaryOverall
2014 Regular SeasonUtah000-
2015 Regular SeasonUtah000-
2016 Regular SeasonUtah100100
2017 Regular SeasonUtah100100
2018 Regular SeasonUNLV1200100
2019 Regular SeasonUNLV1200100
2020 Regular SeasonUNLV000-

Related Context

Hayes Hicken played PK for Utah and UNLV. Across 7 tracked seasons, Hayes Hicken recorded 14 rushing yards and 7 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2018 with UNLV.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2016 Regular Season

Utah paired 0 primary output with — efficiency.

Supporting note

2018 Regular Season role shape

impact-led usage with — efficiency.

Supporting note

Career value cooled off

2020 Regular Season fell back from the prior stop by season value score.

Supporting note

Multi-stop career journey

Production spans 2 team stops, with role shifts visible across Utah, UNLV.

Supporting note

Peak game by takeover score: Nevada

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

Analysis workspace

Season Workbench

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Season Explorer

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2018 Regular Season · UNLV

Games

12

Primary Metric / G

0

Efficiency

Usage

Consistency

100

Best Game by takeover score

Nevada

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Game-by-Game Trend

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Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. USC: 0. UTEP: 0. Prairie View A&M: 0. Arkansas State: 0. New Mexico: 0. Utah State: 0. Air Force: 0. San José State: 0. Fresno State: 0. San Diego State: 0. Hawai'i: 0. Nevada: 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.

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Split Comparison

Compare how this player performed across different situations. "Games" shows how many matchups are included in each split.

Wins0 · Games = 4 · +0 vs Losses
Losses0 · Games = 8 · +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

Nevada

Best efficiency game

— vs Nevada

Result
Sun 11/25vs NevadaW 34-29
Sun 11/18@ Hawai'iL 28-35
Sun 11/11@ San Diego StateW 27-24
Sun 11/4vs Fresno StateL 3-48
Sat 10/27@ San José StateL 37-50
Sat 10/20vs Air ForceL 35-41
Sat 10/13@ Utah StateL 28-59
Sat 10/6vs New MexicoL 14-5011414014
Sat 9/22@ Arkansas StateL 20-27
Sun 9/16vs Prairie View A&MW 46-17
Sun 9/9vs UTEPW 52-24
Sat 9/1@ USCL 21-43

Player Story

Hayes Hicken story

Hayes Hicken built his college career from 2014 through 2020 as a placekicker from Salt Lake City, UT wearing No. 19, spending time with UNLV and Utah. The clearest part of Hayes Hicken's career was his field-position work: 131 punts, 5,708 punting yards, and 21 punts inside the 20 across 26 career games in the available record. His largest box-score season came in 2018 with UNLV. 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 14 rushing yards and 7 tackles, giving the story more than a single-category snapshot. With 26 career games in the available record, his career has enough shape to show both opportunity and production across UNLV and Utah.

The arc is straightforward: Hayes Hicken 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

    Utah

    2014-2017

    Opening stop

  2. 2

    UNLV

    2018-2020

    Final stop

Season Value Progression

2014201520162017201820192020
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2014 Regular SeasonUtah0
2015 Regular SeasonUtah00
2016 Regular SeasonUtah00
2017 Regular SeasonUtah00
2018 Regular SeasonUNLV00
2019 Regular SeasonUNLV00
2020 Regular SeasonUNLV00

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

@ UCLA

Week 8 · W 52-45 · Conference game

Win with a strong all-around stat line.

0

Touchdowns

0 takeover

0 primary-metric impact.

#2

@ Washington

Week 12 · L 30-33 · Conference game

0

Touchdowns

0 takeover

Loss with a strong all-around stat line.

0 primary-metric impact.

#3

vs Nevada

Week 13 · W 34-29 · Conference game

0

Touchdowns

0 takeover

Win with a strong all-around stat line.

0 primary-metric impact.

#4

@ Hawai'i

Week 12 · L 28-35 · Conference game

0

Touchdowns

0 takeover

Loss with a strong all-around stat line.

0 primary-metric impact.

#5

@ San Diego State

Week 11 · W 27-24 · 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

2016 Regular Season · Utah

0 primary output · efficiency · usage

100

#2

2017 Regular Season · Utah

100

0 primary · efficiency · usage

#3

2018 Regular Season · UNLV

100

0 primary · efficiency · usage

Milestones

0

Impact games

0

Splash games

0

10+ tackle games