Player Dossier

2020-2025

Sam Houston

RJ Lopez

PK • 5'11" • 175 lbs • Huntington Beach, CA, USA

Impact contributor

RJ Lopez 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: 2020 Regular Season · UCLA

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Snapshot

Career Teams
3
Unique Seasons
6
Program Path
UCLA • Purdue • Sam Houston
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: Arizona State

Player Story

RJ Lopez built his college career from 2020 through 2025 as a placekicker from Huntington Beach, CA wearing No. 37, spending time with Purdue, Sam Houston, and UCLA. The clearest part of RJ Lopez's career was his...

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Recruit Profile

Class 2020 · Rating 0.79

Mission Viejo · Mission Viejo, CA

Committed To
UCLA
Commit Date
Jan 1, 2020

RJ Lopez, PK. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2020 Regular Season · UCLA. RJ Lopez shows a productive multi-phase profile across the tracked sample.

Quick Answers

RJ Lopez quick answers

Latest team and position
Sam Houston · PK
Career Touchdowns
0
Tracked sample
6 unique seasons · 6 entries · 15 games
Best season
2020 Regular Season · UCLA
Top game
Arizona State
Recruit profile
2-star · Mission Viejo · UCLA
High school pipeline
Mission Viejo · 62 FBS recruits · 2 drafted players
Latest roster
No. 37 · Senior

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesTDPrimaryOverall
2020 Regular SeasonUCLA100100
2021 Regular SeasonUCLA100100
2022 Regular SeasonUCLA100100
2023 Regular SeasonUCLA800100
2024 Regular SeasonPurdue000-
2025 Regular SeasonSam Houston400100

Related Context

RJ Lopez played PK for UCLA, Purdue, and Sam Houston. Across 6 tracked seasons, RJ Lopez recorded 3 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2020 with UCLA.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2020 Regular Season

UCLA paired 0 primary output with — efficiency.

Supporting note

2025 Regular Season role shape

impact-led usage with — efficiency.

Supporting note

Career value is trending up

2025 Regular Season improved on the prior stop by season value score.

Supporting note

Multi-stop career journey

Production spans 3 team stops, with role shifts visible across UCLA, Purdue, Sam Houston.

Supporting note

Peak game by takeover score: New Mexico State

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

Analysis workspace

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2025 Regular Season · Sam Houston

Games

4

Primary Metric / G

0

Efficiency

Usage

Consistency

100

Best Game by takeover score

New Mexico State

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Game-by-Game Trend

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Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. UNLV: 0. Western Kentucky: 0. Hawai'i: 0. New Mexico State: 0

Volume vs Efficiency

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Split Comparison

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First Half0 · Games = 2 · +0 vs Second Half
Second Half0 · Games = 2 · +0 vs First Half

Game Log

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

4 games

Featured metric

Touchdowns

Top game by takeover score

New Mexico State

Best efficiency game

— vs New Mexico State

Result
Fri 10/3@ New Mexico StateL 10-37
Sun 9/7@ Hawai'iL 20-37
Sat 8/30vs UNLVL 21-38
Sat 8/23@ Western KentuckyL 24-41

Player Story

RJ Lopez story

RJ Lopez built his college career from 2020 through 2025 as a placekicker from Huntington Beach, CA wearing No. 37, spending time with Purdue, Sam Houston, and UCLA. The clearest part of RJ Lopez's career was his special-teams scoring: 64 kicking points, 9 made field goals on 17 attempts, and 37 extra points across 15 career games in the available record. His career also includes 3 tackles, giving the story more than a single-category snapshot. That gives RJ Lopez's career enough real context without stretching the story beyond the available production.

Career Arc

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

  1. 1

    UCLA

    2020-2023

    Opening stop

  2. 2

    Purdue

    2024

    Transition stop

  3. 3

    Sam Houston

    2025

    Final stop

Season Value Progression

202020212022202320242025
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2020 Regular SeasonUCLA0
2021 Regular SeasonUCLA00
2022 Regular SeasonUCLA00
2023 Regular SeasonUCLA00
2024 Regular SeasonPurdue00
2025 Regular SeasonSam Houston00

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

@ Arizona State

Week 14 · W 25-18 · Conference game

Win with a strong all-around stat line.

0

Touchdowns

0 takeover

0 primary-metric impact.

#2

vs California

Week 13 · W 42-14 · Conference game

0

Touchdowns

0 takeover

Win with a strong all-around stat line.

0 primary-metric impact.

#3

vs Stanford

Week 9 · W 38-13 · Conference game

0

Touchdowns

0 takeover

Win with a strong all-around stat line.

0 primary-metric impact.

#4

vs Colorado

Week 9 · W 28-16 · Conference game

0

Touchdowns

0 takeover

Win with a strong all-around stat line.

0 primary-metric impact.

#5

@ Stanford

Week 8 · W 42-7 · 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

2020 Regular Season · UCLA

0 primary output · efficiency · usage

100

#2

2021 Regular Season · UCLA

100

0 primary · efficiency · usage

#3

2022 Regular Season · UCLA

100

0 primary · efficiency · usage

Milestones

0

Impact games

0

Splash games

0

10+ tackle games