Usage / Role
—
Role sample still building
lowfeatured
Player Dossier
2011-2014Penn State
Sam Ficken
PK • 6'2" • Valparaiso, IN, USA
Impact contributor
Sam Ficken shows a productive multi-phase profile across the tracked sample.
Impact Production
—
Production sample still building
lowelite
Reliability
100
Regular contributor with several takeover games
lowhigh
Star Power
85
Elite ceiling indicators
limitedstar
Career Arc
Value trend by season
Best season by Season Value: 2011 Regular Season · Penn State
1112131414
Snapshot
- Career Teams
- 1
- Unique Seasons
- 4
- Program Path
- Penn State
- Peak Game
- Peak game by takeover score: Eastern Michigan
Player Story
Sam Ficken built his college career from 2011 through 2014 as a placekicker from Valparaiso, IN wearing No. 97, spending time with Penn State. The clearest part of Sam Ficken's career was his special-teams scoring:...
Read the story2★
- Committed To
- Penn State
- Commit Date
- Jan 1, 2011
Sam Ficken, PK. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2011 Regular Season · Penn State. Sam Ficken shows a productive multi-phase profile across the tracked sample.
Quick Answers
Sam Ficken quick answers
- Latest team and position
- Penn State · PK
- Career Touchdowns
- 0
- Tracked sample
- 4 unique seasons · 5 entries · 40 games
- Best season
- 2011 Regular Season · Penn State
- Top game
- Eastern Michigan
- Recruit profile
- 2-star · Valparaiso · Penn State
- High school pipeline
- Valparaiso · 5 FBS recruits · 0 drafted players
- Latest roster
- No. 97 · Class 2014
Season Ledger
Crawlable season-by-season stats
| Season | Team | Games | TD | Primary | Overall |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 Regular Season | Penn State | 3 | 0 | 0 | 100 |
| 2012 Regular Season | Penn State | 12 | 0 | 0 | 100 |
| 2013 Regular Season | Penn State | 12 | 0 | 0 | 100 |
| 2014 Postseason | Penn State | 13 | 0 | 0 | 100 |
| 2014 Regular Season | Penn State | 13 | 0 | 0 | 100 |
Related Context
Keep exploring Sam Ficken
Sam Ficken is listed as a PK for Penn State. Detailed college production data is limited on CFB Track.
Player insights
Lead takeaway
Best season by value score: 2011 Regular Season
Penn State paired 0 primary output with — efficiency.
Supporting note
2014 Postseason role shape
impact-led usage with — efficiency.
Supporting note
Career value stayed steady
2014 Regular Season tracked close to the prior stop by season value score.
Supporting note
Peak game by takeover score: Boston College
Win with a strong all-around stat line. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.
Analysis workspace
Season Workbench
Filter the strongest season sample, inspect game-level shape, and then drop into the full log without losing the story of the year.
Season Explorer
Understand the selected season before dropping into the full game log.
2014 Postseason · Penn State
Games
13
Primary Metric / G
0
Efficiency
—
Usage
—
Consistency
100
Best Game by takeover score
Boston College
Hover a point or expand a game row to keep the active game context visible here.
Active game
Hover over a point
Hover or select a game to keep its context visible here without the page shifting around.
Game-by-Game Trend
Follow how the selected stat changes from one game to the next. Spikes mark standout outings, while dips show quieter weeks.
Chronological game order.
Game by game trend chart. Boston College: 0. UCF: 0. Akron: 0. Rutgers: 0. Massachusetts: 0. Northwestern: 0. Michigan: 0. Ohio State: 0. Maryland: 0. Indiana: 0. Temple: 0. Illinois: 0. Michigan State: 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
Compare how this player performed across different situations. "Games" shows how many matchups are included in each split.
Wins0 · Games = 7 · +0 vs Losses
Losses0 · Games = 6 · +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
Boston College
Best efficiency game
— vs Boston College
| Result | ||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sat 12/27 | vs Boston College | W 31-30 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Sat 11/29 | vs Michigan State | L 10-34 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Sat 11/22 | @ Illinois | L 14-16 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Sat 11/15 | vs Temple | W 30-13 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Sat 11/8 | @ Indiana | W 13-7 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Sat 11/1 | vs Maryland | L 19-20 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Sun 10/26 | vs Ohio State | L 24-31 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Sat 10/11 | @ Michigan | L 13-18 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Sat 9/27 | vs Northwestern | L 6-29 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Sat 9/20 | vs Massachusetts | W 48-7 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Sun 9/14 | @ Rutgers | W 13-10 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Sat 9/6 | vs Akron | W 21-3 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Sat 8/30 | @ UCF | W 26-24 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
Player Story
Sam Ficken story
Sam Ficken built his college career from 2011 through 2014 as a placekicker from Valparaiso, IN wearing No. 97, spending time with Penn State. The clearest part of Sam Ficken's career was his special-teams scoring: 271 kicking points, 54 made field goals on 75 attempts, and 109 extra points across 40 career games in the available record. His largest box-score season came in 2014 with Penn State. 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 Penn State.
The arc is straightforward: Sam Ficken 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
Penn State
2011-2014
Opening stop
Season Value Progression
20112012201320142014
| Season | Team | Primary | Efficiency | Usage | Delta |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 Regular Season | Penn State | 0 | — | — | — |
| 2012 Regular Season | Penn State | 0 | — | — | 0 |
| 2013 Regular Season | Penn State | 0 | — | — | 0 |
| 2014 Postseason | Penn State | 0 | — | — | 0 |
| 2014 Regular Season | Penn State | 0 | — | — | 0 |
Signature Performances
Top Games
#1 Featured game
vs Eastern Michigan
Week 4 · W 34-6
Win with a strong all-around stat line.
0
Touchdowns
0 takeover
0 primary-metric impact.
#2
@ Temple
Week 3 · W 14-10
0
Touchdowns
0 takeover
Win with a strong all-around stat line.
0 primary-metric impact.
#3
vs Indiana State
Week 1 · W 41-7
0
Touchdowns
0 takeover
Win with a strong all-around stat line.
0 primary-metric impact.
#4
vs Wisconsin
Week 13 · W 24-21 · Conference game
0
Touchdowns
0 takeover
Win with a strong all-around stat line.
0 primary-metric impact.
#5
vs Indiana
Week 12 · W 45-22 · 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
2011 Regular Season · Penn State
0 primary output · — efficiency · — usage
100
#2
2012 Regular Season · Penn State
100
0 primary · — efficiency · — usage
#3
2013 Regular Season · Penn State
100
0 primary · — efficiency · — usage
Milestones
0
Impact games
0
Splash games
0
10+ tackle games
Next best actions
Keep exploring Sam Ficken
Move from the player story into the game log, career arc, team context, and video shelf.