Player Dossier

2015-2018

Utah

Matt Gay

PK • 6'0" • 230 lbs • Orem, UT, USA

Impact contributor

Matt Gay 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

89

Elite ceiling indicators

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Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by Season Value: 2017 Postseason · Utah

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Snapshot

Career Teams
1
Unique Seasons
4
Program Path
Utah
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: West Virginia

Player Story

Matt Gay built his college career from 2015 through 2018 as a placekicker from Orem, UT wearing No. 97, spending time with Utah. The clearest part of Matt Gay's career was his special-teams scoring: 253 kicking...

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NFL Draft

Draft Year
2019
Selection
Round 5 · Pick 7
Overall
No. 145
NFL Team
Tampa Bay Buccaneers

Matt Gay, PK. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2017 Postseason · Utah. Matt Gay shows a productive multi-phase profile across the tracked sample.

Quick Answers

Matt Gay quick answers

Latest team and position
Utah · PK
Career Touchdowns
0
Tracked sample
4 unique seasons · 6 entries · 27 games
Best season
2017 Postseason · Utah
Top game
West Virginia
NFL Draft
2019 · Round 5 · Pick 7 · Tampa Bay Buccaneers
Latest roster
No. 97 · Senior

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesTDPrimaryOverall
2015 Regular SeasonUtah000-
2016 Regular SeasonUtah000-
2017 PostseasonUtah1300100
2017 Regular SeasonUtah1300100
2018 PostseasonUtah1400100
2018 Regular SeasonUtah1400100

Related Context

Matt Gay played PK for Utah. Across 4 tracked seasons, Matt Gay recorded 1 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2018 with Utah.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2017 Postseason

Utah paired 0 primary output with — efficiency.

Supporting note

2018 Postseason role shape

impact-led usage with — efficiency.

Supporting note

Career value stayed steady

2018 Regular Season tracked close to the prior stop by season value score.

Supporting note

Peak game by takeover score: Northwestern

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

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2018 Postseason · Utah

Games

14

Primary Metric / G

0

Efficiency

Usage

Consistency

100

Best Game by takeover score

Northwestern

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Game-by-Game Trend

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Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. Northwestern: 0. Weber State: 0. Northern Illinois: 0. Washington: 0. Washington State: 0. Stanford: 0. Arizona: 0. USC: 0. UCLA: 0. Arizona State: 0. Oregon: 0. Colorado: 0. BYU: 0. Washington: 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 = 9 · +0 vs Losses
Losses0 · Games = 5 · +0 vs Wins

Game Log

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

14 games

Featured metric

Touchdowns

Top game by takeover score

Northwestern

Best efficiency game

— vs Northwestern

Result
Tue 1/1vs NorthwesternL 20-31
Sat 12/1@ WashingtonL 3-10
Sun 11/25vs BYUW 35-27
Sat 11/17@ ColoradoW 30-7
Sat 11/10vs OregonW 32-25
Sat 11/3@ Arizona StateL 20-38
Sat 10/27@ UCLAW 41-10
Sun 10/21vs USCW 41-28
Sat 10/13vs ArizonaW 42-10
Sun 10/7@ StanfordW 40-21
Sat 9/29@ Washington StateL 24-28
Sun 9/16vs WashingtonL 7-21
Sat 9/8@ Northern IllinoisW 17-6
Fri 8/31vs Weber StateW 41-10

Player Story

Matt Gay story

Matt Gay built his college career from 2015 through 2018 as a placekicker from Orem, UT wearing No. 97, spending time with Utah. The clearest part of Matt Gay's career was his special-teams scoring: 253 kicking points, 55 made field goals on 64 attempts, and 85 extra points across 27 career games in the available record. His largest box-score season came in 2017 with Utah. 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 27 career games in the available record, his career has enough shape to show both opportunity and production across Utah.

The arc is straightforward: Matt Gay 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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    Utah

    2015-2018

    Opening stop

Season Value Progression

201520162017201720182018
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2015 Regular SeasonUtah0
2016 Regular SeasonUtah00
2017 PostseasonUtah00
2017 Regular SeasonUtah00
2018 PostseasonUtah00
2018 Regular SeasonUtah00

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

@ West Virginia

Week 1 · W 30-14 · Postseason

Win with a strong all-around stat line.

0

Touchdowns

0 takeover

0 primary-metric impact.

#2

vs Colorado

Week 13 · W 34-13 · Conference game

0

Touchdowns

0 takeover

Win with a strong all-around stat line.

0 primary-metric impact.

#3

@ Washington

Week 12 · L 30-33 · Conference game

0

Touchdowns

0 takeover

Loss with a strong all-around stat line.

0 primary-metric impact.

#4

vs Washington State

Week 11 · L 25-33 · Conference game

0

Touchdowns

0 takeover

Loss with a strong all-around stat line.

0 primary-metric impact.

#5

vs UCLA

Week 10 · W 48-17 · 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 Postseason · Utah

0 primary output · efficiency · usage

100

#2

2017 Regular Season · Utah

100

0 primary · efficiency · usage

#3

2018 Postseason · Utah

100

0 primary · efficiency · usage

Milestones

0

Impact games

0

Splash games

0

10+ tackle games