Player Dossier

2017-2020

Pittsburgh

Alex Kessman

PK • 6'3" • 190 lbs • Clarkston, MI, USA

Impact contributor

Alex Kessman 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: 2017 Regular Season · Pittsburgh

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Snapshot

Career Teams
1
Unique Seasons
4
Program Path
Pittsburgh
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: Miami

Player Story

Alex Kessman built his college career from 2017 through 2020 as a placekicker from Clarkston, MI wearing No. 97, spending time with Pittsburgh. The clearest part of Alex Kessman's career was his special-teams...

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Recruit Profile

Class 2016 · Rating 0.7667

Clarkston · Clarkston, MI

Committed To
Pittsburgh
Commit Date
Jan 1, 2016

Alex Kessman, PK. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2017 Regular Season · Pittsburgh. Alex Kessman shows a productive multi-phase profile across the tracked sample.

Quick Answers

Alex Kessman quick answers

Latest team and position
Pittsburgh · PK
Career Touchdowns
0
Tracked sample
4 unique seasons · 6 entries · 50 games
Best season
2017 Regular Season · Pittsburgh
Top game
Miami
Recruit profile
2-star · Clarkston · Pittsburgh
High school pipeline
Clarkston · 15 FBS recruits · 1 drafted player
Latest roster
No. 97 · Senior

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesTDPrimaryOverall
2017 Regular SeasonPittsburgh1200100
2018 PostseasonPittsburgh1400100
2018 Regular SeasonPittsburgh1400100
2019 PostseasonPittsburgh1300100
2019 Regular SeasonPittsburgh1300100
2020 Regular SeasonPittsburgh1100100

Related Context

Alex Kessman played PK for Pittsburgh. Across 4 tracked seasons, Alex Kessman recorded 3 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2019 with Pittsburgh.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2017 Regular Season

Pittsburgh paired 0 primary output with — efficiency.

Supporting note

2019 Postseason role shape

impact-led usage with — efficiency.

Supporting note

Career value stayed steady

2020 Regular Season tracked close to the prior stop by season value score.

Supporting note

Peak game by takeover score: Eastern Michigan

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

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2019 Postseason · Pittsburgh

Games

13

Primary Metric / G

0

Efficiency

Usage

Consistency

100

Best Game by takeover score

Eastern Michigan

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Game-by-Game Trend

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Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. Eastern Michigan: 0. Virginia: 0. Ohio: 0. Penn State: 0. UCF: 0. Delaware: 0. Duke: 0. Syracuse: 0. Miami: 0. Georgia Tech: 0. North Carolina: 0. Virginia Tech: 0. Boston College: 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

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Wins0 · Games = 8 · +0 vs Losses
Losses0 · Games = 5 · +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

Eastern Michigan

Best efficiency game

— vs Eastern Michigan

Result
Fri 12/27@ Eastern MichiganW 34-30
Sat 11/30vs Boston CollegeL 19-26
Sat 11/23@ Virginia TechL 0-28
Fri 11/15vs North CarolinaW 34-27
Sat 11/2@ Georgia TechW 20-10
Sat 10/26vs MiamiL 12-16
Fri 10/18@ SyracuseW 27-20
Sun 10/6@ DukeW 33-30
Sat 9/28vs DelawareW 17-14
Sat 9/21vs UCFW 35-34
Sat 9/14@ Penn StateL 10-17
Sat 9/7vs OhioW 20-10
Sat 8/31vs VirginiaL 14-30

Player Story

Alex Kessman story

Alex Kessman built his college career from 2017 through 2020 as a placekicker from Clarkston, MI wearing No. 97, spending time with Pittsburgh. The clearest part of Alex Kessman's career was his special-teams scoring: 341 kicking points, 68 made field goals on 95 attempts, and 134 extra points across 50 career games in the available record. His largest box-score season came in 2019 with Pittsburgh. 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 3 tackles, giving the story more than a single-category snapshot. With 50 career games in the available record, his career has enough shape to show both opportunity and production across Pittsburgh.

The arc is straightforward: Alex Kessman 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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    Pittsburgh

    2017-2020

    Opening stop

Season Value Progression

201720182018201920192020
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2017 Regular SeasonPittsburgh0
2018 PostseasonPittsburgh00
2018 Regular SeasonPittsburgh00
2019 PostseasonPittsburgh00
2019 Regular SeasonPittsburgh00
2020 Regular SeasonPittsburgh00

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

vs Miami

Week 13 · W 24-14 · Conference game

Win with a strong all-around stat line.

0

Touchdowns

0 takeover

0 primary-metric impact.

#2

@ Virginia Tech

Week 12 · L 14-20 · Conference game

0

Touchdowns

0 takeover

Loss with a strong all-around stat line.

0 primary-metric impact.

#3

vs North Carolina

Week 11 · L 31-34 · Conference game

0

Touchdowns

0 takeover

Loss with a strong all-around stat line.

0 primary-metric impact.

#4

vs Virginia

Week 9 · W 31-14 · Conference game

0

Touchdowns

0 takeover

Win with a strong all-around stat line.

0 primary-metric impact.

#5

@ Duke

Week 8 · W 24-17 · 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

2017 Regular Season · Pittsburgh

0 primary output · efficiency · usage

100

#2

2018 Postseason · Pittsburgh

100

0 primary · efficiency · usage

#3

2018 Regular Season · Pittsburgh

100

0 primary · efficiency · usage

Milestones

0

Impact games

0

Splash games

0

10+ tackle games