Player Dossier

2022-2025

Penn State

Riley Thompson

P • 6'1" • 230 lbs • Melbourne, VIC, Australia

Impact contributor

Riley Thompson 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: 2022 Regular Season · Florida Atlantic

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Snapshot

Career Teams
2
Unique Seasons
4
Program Path
Florida Atlantic • Penn State
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: Western Kentucky

Player Story

Riley Thompson built his college career from 2022 through 2025 as a punter from Melbourne, VIC wearing No. 95, spending time with Florida Atlantic and Penn State. The clearest part of Riley Thompson's career was his...

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Riley Thompson, P. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2022 Regular Season · Florida Atlantic. Riley Thompson shows a productive multi-phase profile across the tracked sample.

Quick Answers

Riley Thompson quick answers

Latest team and position
Penn State · P
Career Touchdowns
0
Tracked sample
4 unique seasons · 6 entries · 40 games
Best season
2022 Regular Season · Florida Atlantic
Top game
Western Kentucky
Latest roster
No. 95 · Senior

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesTDPrimaryOverall
2022 Regular SeasonFlorida Atlantic1200100
2023 PostseasonPenn State1300100
2023 Regular SeasonPenn State1300100
2024 PostseasonPenn State1500100
2024 Regular SeasonPenn State1500100
2025 Regular SeasonPenn State000-

Related Context

Riley Thompson is listed as a P for Florida Atlantic and Penn State. Detailed college production data is limited on CFB Track.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2022 Regular Season

Florida Atlantic paired 0 primary output with — efficiency.

Supporting note

2024 Postseason role shape

impact-led usage with — efficiency.

Supporting note

Career value cooled off

2025 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 Florida Atlantic, Penn State.

Supporting note

Peak game by takeover score: Notre Dame

Loss 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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2024 Postseason · Penn State

Games

15

Primary Metric / G

0

Efficiency

Usage

Consistency

100

Best Game by takeover score

Notre Dame

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Game-by-Game Trend

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Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. Notre Dame: 0. Boise State: 0. SMU: 0. West Virginia: 0. Bowling Green: 0. Kent State: 0. Illinois: 0. UCLA: 0. USC: 0. Wisconsin: 0. Ohio State: 0. Purdue: 0. Minnesota: 0. Maryland: 0. Oregon: 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 = 12 · +0 vs Losses
Losses0 · Games = 3 · +0 vs Wins

Game Log

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

15 games

Featured metric

Touchdowns

Top game by takeover score

Notre Dame

Best efficiency game

— vs Notre Dame

Result
Fri 1/10vs Notre DameL 24-27
Wed 1/1@ Boise StateW 31-14
Sat 12/21vs SMUW 38-10
Sun 12/8@ OregonL 37-45
Sat 11/30vs MarylandW 44-7
Sat 11/23@ MinnesotaW 26-25
Sat 11/16@ PurdueW 49-10
Sat 11/2vs Ohio StateL 13-20
Sat 10/26@ WisconsinW 28-13
Sat 10/12@ USCW 33-30
Sat 10/5vs UCLAW 27-11
Sat 9/28vs IllinoisW 21-7
Sat 9/21vs Kent StateW 56-0
Sat 9/7vs Bowling GreenW 34-27
Sat 8/31@ West VirginiaW 34-12

Player Story

Riley Thompson story

Riley Thompson built his college career from 2022 through 2025 as a punter from Melbourne, VIC wearing No. 95, spending time with Florida Atlantic and Penn State. The clearest part of Riley Thompson's career was his field-position work: 162 punts, 7,242 punting yards, and 60 punts inside the 20 across 40 career games in the available record. His largest box-score season came in 2022 with Florida Atlantic. 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. With 40 career games in the available record, his career has enough shape to show both opportunity and production across Florida Atlantic and Penn State.

The arc is straightforward: Riley Thompson 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

    Florida Atlantic

    2022

    Opening stop

  2. 2

    Penn State

    2023-2025

    Final stop

Season Value Progression

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SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2022 Regular SeasonFlorida Atlantic0
2023 PostseasonPenn State00
2023 Regular SeasonPenn State00
2024 PostseasonPenn State00
2024 Regular SeasonPenn State00
2025 Regular SeasonPenn State00

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

vs Western Kentucky

Week 13 · L 31-32 · Conference game

Loss with a strong all-around stat line.

0

Touchdowns

0 takeover

0 primary-metric impact.

#2

@ Middle Tennessee

Week 12 · L 21-49 · Conference game

0

Touchdowns

0 takeover

Loss with a strong all-around stat line.

0 primary-metric impact.

#3

@ Florida International

Week 11 · W 52-7 · Conference game

0

Touchdowns

0 takeover

Win with a strong all-around stat line.

0 primary-metric impact.

#4

vs UAB

Week 9 · W 24-17 · Conference game

0

Touchdowns

0 takeover

Win with a strong all-around stat line.

0 primary-metric impact.

#5

@ UTEP

Week 8 · L 21-24 · Conference game

0

Touchdowns

0 takeover

Loss with a strong all-around stat line.

0 primary-metric impact.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2022 Regular Season · Florida Atlantic

0 primary output · efficiency · usage

100

#2

2023 Postseason · Penn State

100

0 primary · efficiency · usage

#3

2023 Regular Season · Penn State

100

0 primary · efficiency · usage

Milestones

0

Impact games

0

Splash games

0

10+ tackle games